who is better at surviving out in the wilderness?

[brainhulk]

Bear Grylls of Man vs Wild

or Dave Canterbury and Cody Lundin of Dual Survival

or Les Stroud of Survivorman

 

[zinfamous]

I'm sure they are all quite good at it.

 

[bignateyk]

Cody is pretty crazy. He also seems to be pretty smart. The fact that he never wears shoes ups his game in my opinion.

 

[xanis]

Bear Grylls is weaksauce, he's only doing it for the entertainment and he's got a camera crew with them. The Dual Survival guys have a camera crew too, except it's twice as bad and the one is a weird hippy. I think Les Stroud of Survivorman is the real(est) deal of the bunch.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Les Stroud is probably better at it. Bear Grylls is way more fun to watch. I don't even know who those other guys are.

 

[Bateluer]

Anyone who doesn't say Les Stroud, is a fool.

 

[bignateyk]

Les Stroud is probably better at it. Bear Grylls is way more fun to watch. I don't even know who those other guys are.

The one is a crazy hippy and the other one is ex military. I enjoy watching dual survival more simply because they fight like a married couple. Cody always wins the arguments too, so that makes him the woman of the pair.

 

[Texashiker]

I have to admire Les Stroud the most for packing all of his own camera equipment around.

All of the others have camera crews that go with them.

 

[SP33Demon]

Cody and Dave, 2 minds > 1. Plus Cody is hardcore, he won't drink water for 3 days at a time, keeps cool in the desert by pissing on a shirt and putting it over his head, and picking food to eat out of elephant sht ("they only digest 50% of what they eat!). Not to mention he walks barefoot wherever he goes.

 

[Miramonti]

2 minds is easier than one as well.

 

[zinfamous]

I bet this guy would make them all look like amateurs:

 

[Scotteq]

I'm not going to knock anyone's skills because not only do I have nothing past Boy Scouts/casual camping, but also I have no real idea of the extent of these guys' respective training and experience... Save that it all far exceeds my own.

Bear is fit, a good looking guy, and eats disgusting stuff for the cameras. He also has a crew following him around setting up pretty blatant examples for him to talk about. Bonus points for jumping out of aircraft. Big minus points for doing stupid shit "by himself" so he can look good on TV.

Dave Canterbury and Cody Lundin... I think the network was looking for "The Odd Couple".... and got it. Kind of entertaining... Kind of annoying. Big Points because they're smart enough to not be alone.


Les Stroud...




...is probably the guy walking out of the Jungle/woods at the end of the day, tho.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Cody is pretty crazy. He also seems to be pretty smart. The fact that he never wears shoes ups his game in my opinion.

The fact that he never wears shoes means he's the first to get a horrible infection in his feet, imo.

The thing about Les is he's not putting forth a 'character'. He's putting out the whole "be smart, conserve food and energy" strategy. Here's how to survive in a more realistic survival situation. He tries to give you options such that you're not even in the position to drink your own pee, for example.

I'm sure Cody would actually wear shoes were he out in a real survival situation. Bear wouldn't do the absolutely ridiculous shit he does either.

There is a very valid reason Les quit after a couple seasons, and the others are able to keep going. Real survival is fucking hard.

 

[TheNinja]

Probably SurvivorMan

 

[BurnItDwn]

Probably Les Shroud, but I dunno

Never heard of Dave Canterbury and Cody Lundin.
I suppose it's probably easier for 2 people to survive vs 1 person, but Les Shroud looks to be pretty damn impressive.

 

[Powermoloch]

2 is better than one ?

 

[edro]

les ftw

 

[Elias824]

Les Stroud had to quit his show because he said it would kill him if he kept doing it. Bear is just a bitch that likes to show off, I do enjoy dual survival but sometimes it seems pretty planned. There is another show with an Australian guy and his wife that is decent as well.

 

[spaceman]

les

 

[Texashiker]

It seems to me that the only people on the pole are from US broadcast.

If we wanted to include Ray Mears, then it would be a split decision between Ray Mears and Les Stroud.

One thing that I really like about Ray Mears, is how laid back he seems. His voice is very calm, and he does not go into all of this primitive survival stuff. One episode Ray goes out on a hunting trip and kills some kind of deer with a rifle.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Absolutely Les. I hope you all realize that he's the only one actually doing real, unscripted wilderness survival in his shows...

Every episode is literally him struggling to survive and film himself at the same time. Need a shot of himself climbing up a mountain? Climb up the mountain, set up the camera, climb down, then climb up again within view of the camera.

If anything, he does 3 times the legwork of anyone else, is in an actual survival situation, and has to carry all his camera shit. By himself.

 

[DrPizza]

So Les carries his camera stuff. That's not a survival skill - that's cinematic skill. It doesn't mean that he's better at the critical things - shelter, fire, water, food. It shouldn't give any extra credibility to his survival skills. As far as survival skills, Les would be dead in a month. He screws up left and right (and admits it when he does.) When he puts himself in survival situations, he often has zero idea of what the hell he's doing; he just seems to be winging it a significant portion of the time. i.e. he tried to build an igloo with no clue how to do so. Don't you think that if you were going to be a survivalist in an area where building an igloo might be important for shelter, and you were doing a show on it, that you might actually know how to do it?

Bear has a camera crew. Bear shows how to survive in specific dramatic situations. So what if he stays at a luxury 4 star resort at night. At least he KNOWS what to do. Shelter, fire, water, food. Les seems to suck at #4. Big time. But, knowing that your crew is going to pick you up after 7 days means that you don't have to work hard for 7 days to find enough food to keep going; you suffer from hunger for a few days, boost your ratings, and somehow people on online forums argue that even though you would have starved to death, you're a better survivor.

 

[FDF12389]

Dave Canterbury and Cody Lundin

 

[El Guaraguao]

Bear. Because he drinks his own piss.

 

[0roo0roo]

he called her nancy...
and got them to drink his sock water