garcia_later t1_is09j18 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 11:11 AM

This isn’t specifically helpful but all this talk about Instagram fantasy vs reality reminded me for some reason that a good example of this is that bear grills on that show would make it look like he was roughing it and then him and his producers would pack it up and go to a hotel and order room service. Image vs reality.

robzilla71173 t1_is0shta wrote on October 12, 2022 at 1:59 PM

Les Stroud for the win all day long.

Regular_Sample_5197 t1_is0vxpd wrote on October 12, 2022 at 2:23 PM

Yeah, I think was the only one of those guys that actually came the closest to actually surviving. That’s why he did way less “risky” things than Bear did. People would say that Les’s show was “boring”. Yeah, there’s a reason for that…he didn’t have a massive support crew with him.

robzilla71173 t1_is0z5nx wrote on October 12, 2022 at 2:46 PM

As he pointed out in an interview once, he also has to go twice as far because he has to keep going back to pick up his camera after the shot. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Gryll's because he's just fun. Tea on top of a balloon canopy dressed as Lord Admiral Nelson? That's a guy you party with. But certainly Les was the more sensible of the two when it came to surviving. Nobody really drinks water out of elephant dung if they intend to stay healthy. That's something you do because you know you'll be back in town close to a hospital after the shoot is over.