Man v Wild or Survivor Man?

[everman]

Haven't really seen MvW, but Survivorman is a great show. Him eating raw seal meat straight from the dead seal with that family like a pack of wolves was really...strange.

 

[Sex Smurf]

But who actually carries around their own 50lbs of cameras across the frozen glaciers or through the desert? I want to see a wacked out commando pissing on his head and drinking elephant dung!

Both are unrealistic but I give the stick throwing rabbit killing raw zebra eating Brit the vote.

 

[2Dead]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Balt
I like them both, but if I were stranded with one of them I'd prefer Les.

Bear uses his athleticism to get himself out of bad situations he's put himself into. He does stuff that would get the average person killed.

Les is more deliberate and careful.

Agreed. They're both good shows...but Les is the guy I'd want with me.

I really don't think Bear would do the crazy sh|t he does if he:
a) Didn't have a camera crew that would obviously rescue him if he was really screwed
b) Actually wanted to survive

Even if the camera crew doesn't give him any food or anything...they're still there. The group will help scare away bears and to some extent keep his moral up. And he knows if he really fvcks up the camera crew will immediately save him and toss the footage on a blooper reel.

Les not only has to survive, all on his own, while working "without a net"...but he has to lug all that damn camera equipment around himself. He doesn't do sh|t like scale a running waterfall because he knows if he breaks his leg he's probably fvcked. He's gotta be careful because there isn't a lot of room to screw up.

Both good shows though. That pacific island one with Bear was awesome though...he built a really awesome raft with just junk on the island.

Seriously. In one episode, Les was in the Arctic with seal meat while it was Polar Bear migration season and they would eat seals. He had to bring a gun with him just in case. He told a story of an Inuit hunter that killed 2 Polar Bears not to far away and the 2nd was within a few feet from the hunter by the time it dropped. Then he went to sleep. Alone.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: TrandM

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Balt
I like them both, but if I were stranded with one of them I'd prefer Les.

Bear uses his athleticism to get himself out of bad situations he's put himself into. He does stuff that would get the average person killed.

Les is more deliberate and careful.

Agreed. They're both good shows...but Les is the guy I'd want with me.

I really don't think Bear would do the crazy sh|t he does if he:
a) Didn't have a camera crew that would obviously rescue him if he was really screwed
b) Actually wanted to survive

Even if the camera crew doesn't give him any food or anything...they're still there. The group will help scare away bears and to some extent keep his moral up. And he knows if he really fvcks up the camera crew will immediately save him and toss the footage on a blooper reel.

Les not only has to survive, all on his own, while working "without a net"...but he has to lug all that damn camera equipment around himself. He doesn't do sh|t like scale a running waterfall because he knows if he breaks his leg he's probably fvcked. He's gotta be careful because there isn't a lot of room to screw up.

Both good shows though. That pacific island one with Bear was awesome though...he built a really awesome raft with just junk on the island.

Seriously. In one episode, Les was in the Arctic with seal meat while it was Polar Bear migration season and they would eat seals. He had to bring a gun with him just in case. He told a story of an Inuit hunter that killed 2 Polar Bears not to far away and the 2nd was within a few feet from the hunter by the time it dropped. Then he went to sleep. Alone.

That was a good episode. I remember he woke up one morning with a line of polar bear tracks like 12ft from where he was sleeping.