I remember watching this as a kid eating junk food watching him eat bugs thinking to myself "I can totally survive" with a mouth full of cookies 🤣🤣🤣 I know better now
Same. My first time watching these in 15 years, and with a totally different mindset now. His patience and stamina while filming and surviving is superhuman.
i did that thing too but i wasnt too confident as i had gotten lost on a mountain before but now i can probably survive as i have done lots of primitive technology training i know how to find water and what to do if this happens
If you're hungry, you can do it. I ate half a dozen grasshoppers just to win a $20 bet. Of course I took off their heads, wings/wing covers, and their legs. Not sure if I could eat a witjuty grub without roasting it first though.
@@lesleyj.stroud1713 dude I watched you when this show came on the science channel. You started my love for survival. It’s been gosh idk how many years and I still re watch this episodes. You’re the man!
I love how much education he delivers in this series. About survival, obviously, but also about animal and plant life and indigenous people who lived in the areas he's surviving in.
I met Les at a gas station when I was driving through Canada. I didn’t know who he was, but the gas station attendant said it was “Survivorman”. I thought maybe just some dude who lived off the land in that town. We had a funny conversation about Bear Grylls (whom was big at the time). Totally cool dude and down to earth. Now 13 years later, I’m watching his show to learn how to survive in my own state lol!
I grew up watching Les on the Discovery Channel. Really sparked my love for the outdoors and "survival" as skillset. Seems like a awesome guy off camera as well!
Today my life changed! I found out that Les Stroud, the man! Had a youtube channel and had uploaded his content there as well! I really enjoyed watching Les on TV with my dad and brother, and now I get to share him and this really cool show that both teaches and demonstrates amazing skills and the natural beauty of the world around us! Thank you Les!
I'm pleasantly surprised as well! This is such a great resource. As an arizona local, I'd love to see him do this same challenge in the summer. He mentions that the daytime temps are getting to 80 or 90 degrees. That's February/April weather. It still gets frosty at night, so you can get water from the very air. In the summer, it gets 120F at daytime, and *maybe* dips down to 100F at night. How would the Survivor Man deal with midnight heat-stroke? Even at night you can't do any *real* work during the summer months.. I think he'd have died, or at least failed to get to his extraction point, requiring emergency evac after the 7 days
@@Grimpy970 I think he'd rather live. He did one desert challenge where it got up to 100 degrees every day and he had like 10 gallons of water and it was still brutal. Arizona in summer can get over 120 in the right places that's deadly
I love that you uploaded these for people to watch during the pandemic. Seriously! It’s so good. I live out in Arizona, actually- I remember when you first released this years ago, me and my brother must have watched this a dozen times to prepare for a camping trip we never took. ... maybe it’s time to take that trip. I look forward to your podcast !
Les let me just say you are the true man when it comes to survival shows. You really focus on realistic survival situations and priorities instead of pulling off wild and dangerous stunts to wow the camera. Hell you even film it all by yourself completely isolated to authenticity in the wild. I fell in love with these episodes since high school. Always a blast to watch. Its always so exciting when you find food and water and build elaborate shelters.
Imagine getting stuck in a survival situation with him. One night, you wake up to the sound of his narration... "The way to eat these guys... What you wanna do is wait until he falls asleep. Then, you can cut his throat."
I would love to see Survivorman come back after the pandemic ends, When I was 7 this show came out and I was desperately trying to be just like Survivorman. I watched Les Stroud and Bear Grylls on TV every night it was on and waited for every season of both, but Survivorman was all I listened to when it came to survival- the equivalence to the Bible can only be done with Survivorman. I even tried making my own Survivorman movies in the basement of my grandparents cabin- I loved Survivorman from Season 1 I hope to see him go again, I wouldn’t mind even watching all the Bigfoot Survivorman’s just as long as I can see Les on a regular basis😊❤️
@@gazbo81 SOME stuff he does is over played or put on yes, but he was in the SAS and his show isn't a show of him surviving in the wild so much, but him telling you how to, majority things he does still real and would work in real survival situations, hardly makes him a fraud I think
i know this comment is 8 months old but les is an old man now lol, saw him do an interview recently and he's really put on the years! of course he still looks extremely fit but idk if surviving 7 days alone in the wild would be in his best interest any more
You're a living legend Less. I used to watch these with my old man. Brings me back to the good old days. Thanks for uploading these im sure everyone appreciates it as much as i do! :)
That needle and thread from the agave is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. I hope one day, I get put in a situation in which I survive healthy, but have the chance to use stuff I’ve learned from you.
I recently moved to New Mexico, in the Chihuahuan Desert. I remembered you had an episode in the Sonoran Desert and I'm so glad I found your channel. You're an amazing person and a real mensh for uploading all of this content
les it's because of your show that i knew when I stayed at the grand canyon in a tent on a road trip i did a few years back that Id need winter clothing. 96 during the day, got into the 30s at night
@@JordanMSeverns lol yeah if I had a crew with me at all times and was able to sleep in hotels when the camera wasn’t running, I’d be up for anything to. You need to remember that everything Les does, he’s doing himself, Bear Grylls is as fake as they come, the only thing real about that guy is the fact that he was in the military, doing things for shock factor is not survival it’s entertainment.
As far as I know there wasn't a "personal" grudge between Les and Bear Grylls. However, I'm not sure if it will be in Season 1 but when Les does a long "walking away from the camera" shot he exclaims in the commentary that he had to come back for the camera. Something that Grylls guy never had to do. I am Canadian and it's a joy to see "young" Les in this First season of Survivorman all over again.
Man I was pumped with anticipation on every new Survivorman episode when it came out. Even though I already loved being in outdoors doing photography, hiking, camping or nature watching, Les and show got me excited to head back out in nature.
I live in the desert I've lived here for almost 32 years I've seen a lot of really harsh dry desert and I've seen some beauty little Oasis that is utterly amazing Arizona has such diverse climate High Desert low desert but it definitely deserves respect
i live in Tucson and have run face to face with Peccaries/Javelinas countless times and every time they just stopped, looked at me for a second and then went on their way. i have never been "chased". Now if you are walking with a dog, then they can get aggressive but if you are by yourself they will leave you alone. they will also snap their jaws as a warning if you are disturbing them. its a sound that you can feel in your chest that's like smacking two big blocks of wood together.
Watching these videos over the pandemic 😷 we face right now. It brings back memories of me and my dad sitting in the living room on weeknights and weekends, TV set to science channel or the discovery channel on cable and watching this I actually was trying to take notes in my small notebooks that I wasn’t using in school. My dad and I enjoyed these videos, I hated how he keep saying next camping trip he making me eat a bug like Lee did. I freaked out going,” no gross! You can eat the bugs I looking for plants and fruits from trees that won’t kill me that I can eat.” We would just end up laughing in the end. Wow, I can’t even believe I been watching these kind of videos for 20-21 years of my life. I still have wonderful memories of these videos from my childhood. But now I watching them on my own, my dad and I have not gotten along for a while and well bitter sweet memories right now. Yet I am Thankful these video were aired on tv and saved here on this RU-vid channel. Now I am never without my survivor man videos and my memories. Take care everyone and stay safe out there. “ let’s enjoy life!”- (Pitbull 2010)
This brings back so many memories from my childhood. Thank you Les for allowing me to relieve my childhood during these strange times. Stay same from the coronavirus everyone.
I remember watching this when it was brand new thinking "thank goodness this is the farthest thing from Bear Grills!" I was hooked from the first episode!
@@leoarmitage908 no it definitely was stealing lol he literally took the entire idea besides being all alone but your right it is educational but still took the idea from Les
Moved to Phoenix and love to watch him master the desert in his second episode is amazing. He’s on my tv all day every day. Tv worth watching instead of shit and garbage normally on.
I definitely appreciate these old episodes.. you never know when you're going to need skills like this.. especially with the way things that are going right now.. I think soon here quite a few of us are going to be heading for the hills literally..
La la la la la la la la . La la la la la la la After nine days desert sand turn to sea. The desert is ocean with it life underground. Hehe 🙃 I got the song reference hehe 🙃 Take care everyone and stay safe out there.
Watching these again after some years - still love em. :) Also great for refreshing some knowledge, tomorrow we're heading out into the mountains at some 38+ Celsius. :)
So very nice to watch these and they are so helpful. This is becoming a lost knowledge that is so dangerous to lose. Thank you Les for keeping such useful and applicable information alive and well.
Big fan of the Survivorman show!! But....Personally, as someone who lives in AZ, a more realistic scenario of the Sonoran Desert would have been summer when temperatures are in 100+ degrees not winter at 70+ degrees. Les was truthfully about what season it was which why I love his shows. Thanks for teaching us how to survive!
Honestly, i think he got the lucky draw being dropped in AZ in the winter, because if he did do this episode during the summer, there would 100% definitely be more early/late day than mid-day shots. I mean shit, it hit 110+ a few years in a row.
@@hmmmmmmm69 It's all planned in advance. You think he'd go into the desert in over 100 degree temps? I don't. And he knew that water source was there. It's a show. No way he survived on 4 grasshoppers and a scorpion, raw 1 at that lol
I respect Les, but this episode had me rolling my eyes as an AZ native. If he did this episode in July, he'd be trying to deal with 125f during the day and 120f at midnight.
Never heard about les until I saw the gq thing about rating the survival scenes in movies lol. I do live in uk though and it's all bear grills over here well it used to be anyway
I've tried many times to start a fire with a hand drill and not managed to do anything but blacken a bit of wood. It's definitely way more difficult than it looks.
I’ve been binge watching for the last 3-4 days. I’m in AZ so when I went from most popular to oldest videos I came Arizona. Of course I’m going to watch. Loving all the informative tips. Tips? Not the right word. Arizona is deadly in the summertime. You can run out of gas or your battery can die on the side of the road in July with hundreds of cars passing you bye..Cell phone is dead three cops have passed you but no one has stopped you are hot and thirsty you are now on the verge of dehydration why won’t anyone stop and help because it’s too damn hot!! Now imagine being in the desert where there is no traffic and there are no police officers ignoring you.. you’re not very far from civilization but because you decided to take the ATV out to target practice in the desert only 25-50 miles in the dead of summer ( you are now at risk ) It happens it happens a lot people go out for a little joy ride and the heat overcomes all things practical. The Arizona desert is so dangerous because we live so close to it so people don’t go out prepared. Families will travel 25- 75 miles with their guns and ATVs thinking they will be home by 6 PM. There is a story of a mom son and boyfriend who went to the desert just for a little joy ride. That joyride turned out to be hell! Like I said they were only 50 miles from civilization. Unfortunately when you are dehydrated and began to hallucinate and there is absolutely zero shade and it’s 118° out by day and cold at night and prepared with zero shelter 🤦🏻♀️ it’s not good folks. The one thing I have learned from every survival instructor that I have watched on RU-vid is always be prepared unfortunately this threesome was not prepared. They made it out alive but 💩
This episode was always one of my favorites growing up in Arizona. A lot of this stuff has stuck in the back of my mind any time I go out camping years later!
Hey quick tip for anyone eating cactus fruits from the wild. Burn the Glochids off. If your foraging bring a plumbing torch, and if your surviving usa flaming stick lol.
I had some fun times out in that desert we didn’t do any survival stuff and it didn’t matter we had good times miss that place I still have family n friends there so a return trip is possible
