'Survivorman' or 'Man v Wild': Who 'wins'?

give me survivorman anyday. not only does les do all his own camera work...he doesn't stay in hotels! its a known fact that when bear was supposed to be roughing it and surviving, he was staying in hotels around the world. in one episode where "bear" built a raft...it was really done by production assistants first and then disassembled so it would look like he did it. and when "bear" tried to lasso a wild horse...they weren't wild; they were brought it just for the shot. did i say give me survivorman? better yet, give me a tom brown book anyday.

which one has rthe british/ aussie type accent?

Don't let Les fool you, he has a support staff just like Bear. Unlike Bear they are not filming everything. They stay out of sight and are for rescue in case of emergency just like Bears.
I prefer Bear's because he doesn't whine as much and provides some better information & tips than Les.
However... I wouldn't have either one of the crazy SO*'s jobs even if they offered the hotel and support staff.

It's hard work lugging a camera and gear around while trying to get shots. To do all that while you're trying to survive completely alone, I wouldn't make it 2 days.

Anyone can crawl through mud and eat grubs while a photog shoots it. Try walking up a steep hill, then walk back down to gather your camera and gear that was shooting that scene, and walk back up the steep hill again. All that with nothing more than a few berries and drops of water to keep you going.

Man vs Wild is by far better because it's more realistic. A crew can stage anything. A guy alone is a lot harder to fake.

MY VOTE GOES TO MAN V WILD.

Bear has the Brit 'accent'. Les is the 'whiner'.

When Bear was 'surviving' in the Alps, he, or his 'survival expert', made a HUGE goof by MISidentifying a native tree as a PINE tree. I'm not sure what it was, but it most definitely WAS NOT a pine tree.

When Bear was 'surviving' in the Icelandic Artic Circle, he surprised me by ABANDONING a perfectly edible sheep, after only taking enough meat for one meal....then bemoaning his lack of food later in the program...

I like watching both shows, but if I had to choose one it would be Man vs. Wild

I'd LOVE to see a face-off between the two: Start at point 'A' (say an abandoned whaling station in the Antartic), travel to point 'B' (scientific research station in the Antartic). All they have are the clothes on their back, a Bic and a pocket knife.

Man vs. Wild

Anybody that will drink the liquid from elephant poo gets my vote.

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Originally posted by adamryan1121:
give me survivorman anyday. not only does les do all his own camera work...he doesn't stay in hotels! its a known fact that when bear was supposed to be roughing it and surviving, he was staying in hotels around the world. in one episode where "bear" built a raft...it was really done by production assistants first and then disassembled so it would look like he did it. and when "bear" tried to lasso a wild horse...they weren't wild; they were brought it just for the shot. did i say give me survivorman? better yet, give me a tom brown book anyday.

I heard about that too. But still he is a hardcore brother you know that. Look at his resume. I'm still for surivorman though since I found out that. Just not the same watching it after I found out he sleeps in hotels.

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Originally posted by dogsoldier0513:
Bear has the Brit 'accent'. Les is the 'whiner'.

When Bear was 'surviving' in the Alps, he, or his 'survival expert', made a HUGE goof by MISidentifying a native tree as a PINE tree. I'm not sure what it was, but it most definitely WAS NOT a pine tree.

When Bear was 'surviving' in the Icelandic Artic Circle, he surprised me by ABANDONING a perfectly edible sheep, after only taking enough meat for one meal....then bemoaning his lack of food later in the program...

He also faked up his bow-and-arrow fishing for piranha in the Ecuadorian rainforest. After several misses, he nailed a little fish and retrieved it, impaled on the arrow. The fish was a cichlid, a family that does not include pirhanas (piranhas are characins), but he acted as though it were a piranha and then the camera supposedly zeroed in on the same fish, and showed the head and teeth of an actual piranha. This was bad biology and bad film-making. But overall, I still like Man vs. Wild. The camera crew ought to get more credit, though, since they often are in front of Bear as he makes his way through dangerous terrain, meaning that they also made it and did it before he did.

I was very disappointed that Bear stays in hotels. That's sissy.

following bear's advice will get you killed. aside from the previously mentioned staged segments of mvw, the " wild" horses he tried to tame had shoes on, there was a rope in the waterfall he climbed, he wore a lifejacket when swimming the whitewater,match heads in the fire tinder, the list goes on. if you want to survive listen to les.

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Originally posted by NashBama:
It's hard work lugging a camera and gear around while trying to get shots. To do all that while you're trying to survive completely alone, I wouldn't make it 2 days.

Anyone can crawl through mud and eat grubs while a photog shoots it. Try walking up a steep hill, then walk back down to gather your


camera and gear that was shooting that scene, and walk back up the steep hill again. All that with nothing more than a few berries and drops of water to keep you going.

Man vs Wild is by far better because it's more realistic. A crew can stage anything. A guy alone is a lot harder to fake.

how is mvw more realistic?

Survivorman.

did anyone see the one where bear thought a grizzly was stalking his camp? he took off running through the woods camaraman in tow. did he actually think he could outrun a grizzly?

dog les may whine but thats only because he is doing it for real, only eating and drinking what we see, unlike your boy bear .
les lived in the canadian wilderness for a year with only primitive tools, that qualifies him as a survival expert in my book.

I like Les. He's whinier. Obviously more realistic. I'd be whining like heck.

I was married to one of those little "ex-Green Beret-I-still-wear-my camo and I-eat-live-chickensto-survive" goobers. Maybe so, but a sinus infection makes them babies.

I've noticed that Ron Hood has been a consultant on one of the above-mentioned programs. He knows his stuff.

http://www.survival.com/