Survivorman | Mexico Part 1 | Les Stroud 

from kid to adult, these have always been awesome to watch.

This episode actually saved my life... I was stuck in Thailand as my fishing boat got stuck on a reef and had to wait 3 days before someone saw my signal fire. That destillery was a god send and I learned it from you. Thank you Les for saving my life.

finally legal survivorman uploads no more voice distortions best thing that ever happend! the man himself uploading it!

I always felt bad about watching bootlegged episodes. I'm so glad to see you uploading this to RU-vid Les. Can't wait to support your next project!

Mr Stroud is a Class Act! Several years ago, maybe circa 2016-2017, I was lucky enough to have a random encounter with Les. He wasn't supposed to be where I was working that day but because of an alternate location issue, he and his film crew were pointed to the facility in which I just happened to be that day installing security apparatus, access control, cameras etc. When it came to Les's attention that I was a huge fan and wanted to meet him, he accommodated immediately, stopping what he was doing just to come meet, shake my hand, and allow me a photo opp with him! I'm still a huge fan and still cherish my photo of Les Stroud in pink scrubs (not kidding) and myself!

This dude helped shape my childhood and learning to respect and understand nature

There's something satisfying about watching this while drinking ice water and eating snacks while les is starving and dehydrated.

Love how ethical Les is. He returned the little clams even though he was hungry, putting the environment first. He's the best there is

The effort this dude puts in is remarkable - the long-distance camera shots, that he is a writer, creator, musician, his wish to teach his skills and putting himself in danger. I am glad I understand it now.

The secret to bend copper without kinks is to fill the tube with fine sand. This allows the copper to bend and keep it's shape. I have been watching Les Stroud since I was a boy and you are a true hero sir. You have in all probability saved countless lives. Keep teaching, we all have more to learn.

I've been watching Les and Survivorman for years. The Survivorman series were actually very helpful to me with issues due to depression. They always motivated me to get up and get busy and active...

beautifull thing is,while we as people have endured and aged,survivorman episodes have remained timeless and epic.

That water distillery is one of the coolest survival skills Ive seen, Im shocked it wasnt used more often in history or in survival situations. Its relatively simple, effective and most of the materials are reasonably common on any coast

Surviving solo sounds hard enough, not to mention the added complication of filming every single thing you do. What a legend

Having grown up in the city, this series sparked my interest in the outdoors as a kid, and that set me on a path to eventually become a geologist, spending all my free time in the bush. Thanks mate for inspiring so many of us, and doing it without needing to be needlessly sensational. It’s incredibly refreshing to have a series like this that is genuinely educational.

Les is a genius! The way he made that contraption to collect water. He truly is a "survivorman".

when i first saw Survivorman i thought:"Finally a real Survival TV Show with no BS in it!" Thanks Les for puttin´ yourself in Danger for us!

I'll never forget being a kid and waiting for the australian outback episode to release on TV back in the day...one of the few things my father and I could bond over, and honestly helped fuel my love for hiking and the outdoors in general. Thanks for everything Les!

Well I'll add my comment in case you ever see this Les. You inspired me as a small 12 year old Boy Scout to dive deep into the rabbit hole of backpacking, survival, hunting, search and rescue which led to becoming a medic and working at a hospital. I used to watch your seasons 1 and 2 all the time cause they were taped on my parents DVR. You also inspired an obsession with starting fires alternatively. I will always start a fire with a flint. You're the man. My childhood best friend and I still talk about your shows. We're going to get out this season to a really rugged area of Colorado 🤘🏻 we won't be surviving just backpacking 😅

Ive been 650 to 780 lbs the last thirty years watching Les has rekindled my passion of being in the woods on survival trips. I started a diet a couple months ago and im down to 575 lbs and loseing im sticking with it. Im 63 and I know i got enough years left to make a few trips. When i was younger i did several month long survival trips took a 22 with 3 bullets a hatchet a army sleeping bag and a pocket knife and a small bag of salt thats it. My dad would drop me off in a 3000 acre hunting lease. No cell phones no way of getting in touch with anyone.

I love it when Les finds food. It always looks better than anything in a gourmet restaurant.

When you want to bend a copper pipe without tools and not kink it, fill the pipe with sand before you bend it. :)

I remember being 8 or 9 and meeting Les in the Bahamas before he went off to Mexico, it was one of the coolest parts of my childhood and I still have the signed poster!

Imagine Trying to Survive and Film at the same time, He's a true Survivor.

Hey Les, pro tip from 1 fellow Canadian to another. When you are trying to bend soft piping or tubing, fill it completely with sand prior to bending and try your best to plug the ends. The sand inside provides support and completely eliminates kinking. I actually have done this for work (we actually use lead ingots instead of sand. We would pour molten lead into straight sections of tubing, let it cool and solidify, then proceed to make extremely tight radius 180° bends. Once the bending is done, we would elevate the bend, apply direct flame heat, and watch the molten lead run out the tube end into a collection container) Sand is often used on larger diameter piping when mandrel bending is impractical.

My man is stranded on a desert island and eats more exotic than I do, gotta love Les.

“This is gonna be good or it’s gonna make me incredibly sick.” - me to my 12th shot of Crown.

I can watch Les Stroud for hours, they are the best. Hope he continues to make more

Wow Les you mimic a coyote really well, my cats FREAKED out and started looking around, growled and ran under my bed!

I never skip an add on this man because he deserves every penny they will give him

thanks for all you do les, we recorded and watched all these together as a family. great memories

That moment when u discover a great show on youtube Any one else binge watching these everyday?

Les spends a week on a sunny island eating grilled squid and shellfish and gets paid because he is a beast

Cant wait to get home from work and drink a beer while watching you do your thing Les! Thanks for working overtime for all of us 🤘

(chemical engineer here)- next time you do a distillation, if you can spare some rags, get them wet and wrap them around the copper pipe. it will be much more effective at condensing the water than air cooling(high surface area, and high contact time) and should yield more water per day as less is lost as water vapor :)

Les stroud made me want to get out and be around nature.... spending 12 years in the us navy being around machines and nothing but water, this show i always bought before going underway to give me a connection with nature! Thanks les!

me and my papa would watch this guy every night when i was like 10 much love from us! :)

You can watch all the other survival shows but none compare to Les Stroud. The real deal!

Les Stroud has such a cool voice when he's doing the speech-overs. He should be a voice actor.

I grew up in an Italian American family. Every year, we had the 7 fish dinner on Christmas Eve. It was my chore to clean and prep the calamari for dinner. Those squid I had to deal with were much smaller than what Les encountered. We ate the entire thing. I miss those days. Lol So happy that Survivorman is now accessible to all. Brings back many memories! Thanks, Les, for all the entertainment and education over the years!

Just having the will to survive must be challenging I can't imagine when your not properly hydrated... thanks survivor man for posting these videos

You ever wonder how many lives Les has helped save with this knowledge being taught to so many?

I used to watch Survivorman with my father all the time before he passed away when I was 17. Les is one the few people I've always admired. Thanks man.

I've been watching Les since I was a kid... always trying out some of his techniques while camping.. I Love this guy

That whole squid is edible, with the exception of the beak and the innards

The one guy that's kept all of us pocket survivalists going through covid! Big thanks from me mate 👍 🙏 👌 p.s should also include dave paulides! Show him some love in these troubled times please! ❤

The service you're doing here by releasing these videos is invaluable! Thank you so much for what you do!

I loved this episode watching him make the makeshift still. It's such a simple idea, boil the water and collect the clean steam to drink, but if you've ever made a still or any other seemingly simple device at home in the garage maybe as an experiment or whatever, you realize how insanely complicated a very simple thing becomes when you don't have the proper tools and equipment.

These old episodes are great material to catch up on, I love all of this. The subscriber number could sky rocket with new material, bring it back!!!

We all totally appreciate you doing this for our viewing pleasure Les, Thank you

I loved this show when it came out in the 00s. Les seems like the real deal. No ego. He just does what he needs to do to survive and we’re lucky enough to be along for the ride.

I watch these with my daughters. They’ve learned a lot about resourcefulness and resilience, and how to prioritize. Thanks, Les!

One of the worst feelings in the world is knowing that you should throw up but fighting not to!

The Survivorman 10 Days series has always been one of my favourites. I especially liked the bit where you responsible clamming, as well as the bit where you find the squid. Luck works in weird ways sometimes!

Les has eaten all sorts of things, but I never would have imagined squid to be on the list of things he hasn't. Also I always find it funny that he eats things raw, gets sick, then in another episode, eats something raw and gets sick again.

I am in heaven. Easily my favorite content creator,....ever has a RU-vid channel. Thanks for all the years of awesome Les!!!

One of my favorite episodes all time. Cant wait for part 2

Thanks from the bottom of my heart Les. Your films have helped get me through the monotony of this difficult time. Hopefully one day we will see a new season of survivorman too, I'm sure everyone on here wants that just as much as I do. Much love from the UK to you and your family Les 👍 Ben

My family and I love Les Stroud he is the real deal an amazing person👍👍❤️

People think you can’t learn from RU-vid or Discovery channel, but from Les!, you gotta watch everything to the Bone!, and know each and everything of what’s poisonous and dangerous while staying alive in the wilderness, thanks to him and other outdoorsmen who have survived, we can survive too!..

I'm sure the 10 day survivals are a lot harder on you but I sure enjoy the more in-depth 2-part episodes that come out of them.

Les was the first vlogger. This guy is a pioneer.

As a kid I used to watch these episodes and as a young man I catch something new almost every time I re watch. Not to mention the commentary series

As an adult now I love having a weekend off work. Having a couple edibles and watching some survivor man. Good times good times

This ranks right there with finding lost treasure!

When Survivorman becomes Mythbusters while still being Survivorman

Lee still love you to this day❤❤❤ i would watch these as a kid, i’m still watching them as an adult. my comfort show

Brotha you’ve taught me how to survive around the world where I’ve never been. Expanding my imagination and providing good wholesome entertainment. No bs like some we won’t name....thanks for the shows can’t believe your available to watch on RU-vid!!!!

Les, this is one of the best episodes I’ve had the opportunity to watch - compelling. The oysters and the illness you experienced is something I’m familiar with and I’ll not eat them again without steaming or outright cooking them over a fire. You can almost always eat fresh caught fish raw but shellfish is another story as you well know. That was scary when you almost lost your fire. This is why I’m such a huge fan - its life or death and not scripted.

I’m so happy you put your videos up on here for us all to enjoy. Thank you.

Can you do a one month challenge if you haven't already? Or perhaps have a location that you revisit and update your camp as it goes along? Im just curious to see how youd show us a more long term survival scenarios. I think that would be super fun to watch. I again wanted to say thank you for uploading all this content for all of us to enjoy super nostalgic. I watched you all the time when i was a kid.

This is the man who started it all.

You know it’s a good episode when you get the shits just watching😎

It's so great to hear and see from Les again,me and dad grew up on him

I’ve watched this show since I was a kid and just find out even my wife watched this as a kid too. This made me realize how big this show was.

Squid and octopus are so good. The best part, to me, are when the tentacles get super charred at the tips so I started salivating during the cooking.

Les is always more Respect. Northern Ontario. 🇨🇦

I check every hour for new content from Les, this is such a great gift on a Friday!!! Thanks Les!!

Been watching you for years, best of the best... you are the real deal, love that you do this on your own. No fake bs and hyper actions like someone else we know. Thanks Les, keep.doing what you do and I will keep watching you.

Les stroud is a national treasure, protect him at all costs.

Best survival show ever made. I absolutely love Les !!

Thanks @Les Stroud for uploading this - definitely making a 21-day quarantine easier!!

This is still some of the most enlightening television I've ever seen

I've never seen Les find food sooner than like day 5, so happy for him and his seafood feast

All he needed is a bottle of Tabasco sauce to go with the calamari’s😁

The best survival show made and I'm able to binge watch it is awesome.

I met Les Stroud and got my harmonica signed! Probably the greatest accomplishment of my life

Love rewatching all his videos right before spring starts. Gets me motivated for my solo camping seasons.

These uploads make my week Les, thank you so much for sharing this on such an open platform. Been my favorite since I watched your shows in outdoor education 15 years ago ♡

Thank you Les for the new content. You have always been my favorite survival expert.

As a retired Merchant Marine Engineer, I automatically liked this episode. Especially how to make an evaporator. However, you never revealed how much salt water you needed; or the fact that drinking distilled water only poses risks.

I have watched since elementary school. As an adult I'm a fan. I will always be a fan

If those Oysters were really on Mangrove roots then they could've absorbed a lot of the Iron-heavy tannins that Mangroves typically have.

This 10 day series is Great. Thanks for uploading this Les.

Les, I promise you we would not mind sitting through the ads for you man. You blessed us as starry eyed kids, and now you've let us reminisce. Thank you❤

Absolutely love these shows.

Thank you Les. Making lockdown easier every week, living vicariously through your videos

“This is going to be good, or itll make me violently sick one or the other.”😂😂😂😂 miss this guy

So happy to see these videos here on yt, so sad at the waste of squid. Really good episode

I can't believe you threw away good Calamari lol!!