Bear Grylls vs. Les Stroud

[Juan_Bottom]

Well Les has to be there for seven days. Bear is usually there for at most 3 days.

That's what helps the argument for Bear. The "goal" of the show is to get back to civilization somehow, not just hang out; and he shows how to find the best way to do it.

He also shows you how along the way, if you happen to come across a dead Yak, you can eat its eyeballs......

But in real-life survival, the experts always tell you to stay put. Rescuers search the area that you were last heard from, and expand outward. But if you leave, and are far enough away, it will take rescuers longer to find you. So, because you left, you may have forced yourself to eat eyeballs.

[AndrewLC]

Well Les has to be there for seven days. Bear is usually there for at most 3 days.

That's what helps the argument for Bear. The "goal" of the show is to get back to civilization somehow, not just hang out; and he shows how to find the best way to do it.

He also shows you how along the way, if you happen to come across a dead Yak, you can eat its eyeballs......

But in real-life survival, the experts always tell you to stay put. Rescuers search the area that you were last heard from, and expand outward. But if you leave, and are far enough away, it will take rescuers longer to find you. So, because you left, you may have forced yourself to eat eyeballs.

Yeah, but that doesn't always work, and they usually give up after a week or two

[Juan_Bottom]

Well Les has to be there for seven days. Bear is usually there for at most 3 days.

That's what helps the argument for Bear. The "goal" of the show is to get back to civilization somehow, not just hang out; and he shows how to find the best way to do it.

He also shows you how along the way, if you happen to come across a dead Yak, you can eat its eyeballs......

But in real-life survival, the experts always tell you to stay put. Rescuers search the area that you were last heard from, and expand outward. But if you leave, and are far enough away, it will take rescuers longer to find you. So, because you left, you may have forced yourself to eat eyeballs.

Yeah, but that doesn't always work, and they usually give up after a week or two

Yeah, well, how many stories you here where not staying put works? Not many, cauze they never make it back. If you don't know what you're doing, you need to stay put.

[wcaclimbing]

Les wins by a mile.
Bear has his own camera crew following him.
Les's show is actually kinda realistic, cause he really is alone for all that time.

[Iz Man]

But in real-life survival, the experts always tell you to stay put. Rescuers search the area that you were last heard from, and expand outward. But if you leave, and are far enough away, it will take rescuers longer to find you. So, because you left, you may have forced yourself to eat eyeballs.

I understand that; but if you parachuted out of a plane above the middle of the Sahara with only a canteen & a knife............ you stay put and you're dead.

Unless a Yak comes along.....

[2dimes]

There you go. That's exactly why they tell boy scouts to be prepared.

Look after your ELT, keep your rations and flares current, and bring some simple tools. If your survival kit is a canteen and a knife then you should learn how to eat elephant droppings, camel nuts and assorted eyeballs I guess.

[Hologram]

If I were stuck in the middle of nowhere with one of these men, I would choose Mr. Grylls, hands down. As far as the tv show goes, though, I'm gonna have to give it to Les because he's out in the middle of nowhere with nobody. Bear does a lot of badass things, sure, but he's got a camera crew and someone to save him if he's in any real danger of dying or hurting himself badly.

[Bavarian Raven]

as for the climbing everest, hasn't an 80 year old and a blind man also climbed everest....

[frogger4]

I would go with Les, mainly because on Survivor Man, he actually films it himself. Who knows how much the camera crew help out bear grills