I do a lot of outdoor adventuring and Grylls is a joke. Most of the stuff he does is the dumbest call, worst advice, or just outright unnecessarily stupid. When he does something that actually is valid, you can tell it’s his first time because it’s done so badly and he misses the obvious stuff.
No idea who Survivorman is, but I assume just another TV celebrity that’s found a niche.
I saw an episode where he decided to climb up onto some train tracks when he was lost and like headed into a tunnel. They “assumed” there were no trains and then it came last second and they were running and barely made it.
Survivorman is Les Shroud and he is the real deal. He was a survival expert long before he started to make TV. His whole deal is he just gets dumped somewhere, along with a shitload of camera gear. Then he has to walk out, often walking parts twice to go pick up his cameras.
It’s more about nature with Les and not so much about the surviving part. He does explain a lot about what to do and what not to do, but being in nature and being a part of nature is a large aspect of his show. It isn’t sensationalized, the dangers are never overstated. And he usually has a satphone on him and an agreed time and location for extraction. But he is actually out there for a week all on his own and not like most shows where the crew just drives to a location to shoot a scene and then go back to the hotel later.
Aye, that’s the mentality to have. You are under nature’s thumb so you work with her, not try survive or fight her.
I might check this guy out. Some of the most impactful “survival” methods are very simple things. It’s more about doing these things as you go so you aren’t ever in a survival situation and you can actually spend a long time out there by just being respectful and aware of your situation and environment.
Really?
I do a lot of outdoor adventuring and Grylls is a joke. Most of the stuff he does is the dumbest call, worst advice, or just outright unnecessarily stupid. When he does something that actually is valid, you can tell it’s his first time because it’s done so badly and he misses the obvious stuff.
No idea who Survivorman is, but I assume just another TV celebrity that’s found a niche.
Survivorman is the man Bear Grylls wishes he were.
He records his survivals alone without a camera crew and doesn’t do stupid performative shit like Grylls
I saw an episode where he decided to climb up onto some train tracks when he was lost and like headed into a tunnel. They “assumed” there were no trains and then it came last second and they were running and barely made it.
I think it’s obvious bullshit.
Wait I found the clip: https://youtu.be/5jjpRIMn1mM
Why would you ever waste energy doing this in a real situation and it’s obviously staged or edited heavily to me.
Survivorman is Les Shroud and he is the real deal. He was a survival expert long before he started to make TV. His whole deal is he just gets dumped somewhere, along with a shitload of camera gear. Then he has to walk out, often walking parts twice to go pick up his cameras.
It’s more about nature with Les and not so much about the surviving part. He does explain a lot about what to do and what not to do, but being in nature and being a part of nature is a large aspect of his show. It isn’t sensationalized, the dangers are never overstated. And he usually has a satphone on him and an agreed time and location for extraction. But he is actually out there for a week all on his own and not like most shows where the crew just drives to a location to shoot a scene and then go back to the hotel later.
Aye, that’s the mentality to have. You are under nature’s thumb so you work with her, not try survive or fight her.
I might check this guy out. Some of the most impactful “survival” methods are very simple things. It’s more about doing these things as you go so you aren’t ever in a survival situation and you can actually spend a long time out there by just being respectful and aware of your situation and environment.