Discovery Channel's Survivorman Takes Living Off The Land To The Extreme

CEBU, Philippines - Les Stroud, better known as Survivorman, has survived black bears in Alaska, explored the scorching sands of the Kalahari, ventured into the densest parts of the Amazon, and even nearly collapsed due to heatstroke. After risking life and limb throughout the first two seasons, Les is back for more survival challenges in season three of “SURVIVORMAN”. Will it get easier for the bona fide survival expert? Probably not. Find out what obstacles, challenges, and harsh environments Les Stroud will be up against on brand new episodes of “SURVIVORMAN”, premiering every Monday at 10:00 pm, starting this July. Encores Saturdays at 9:00 pm.

With no food, no water, and no shelter, “SURVIVORMAN” Les must rely on his years of training, raw instincts and sheer will to survive alone for seven days in the world’s harshest environments. Les not only needs to survive for a week with few supplies but he has to film everything himself, lugging over fifty pounds of camera gear everywhere he goes. Follow wilderness and hard-knock survivor Les as he travels the world from the Canadian Rockies to the Artic tundra, and roughs it out in no-man’s land. 

In the latest season of “SURVIVORMAN”, among the inhospitable environments that Les finds himself in are the rugged Sierra Nevada, unforgiving Australian outback, and cannibalistic Papua New Guinea. Can Les make it through the week relying purely on his wits and tenacity? Or will the third season finally do him in?

Les started his film career in the 1980s as a music video producer for MuchMusic, a Canadian music video channel. As he stared out the window of an office into an urban alleyway, Les itched to escape to the wilderness.

In 1987, Les made a break for it and spent the next seven years traveling Canada as a canoe guide and wilderness instructor. He developed his own outdoor company called Wilderness Voice (still in operation) and paddled numerous Canadian rivers as a whitewater guide for Black Feather Wilderness Adventures.

After Les met his partner in life, Sue Jamison, also an outdoor enthusiast and photographer, the two spent an entire year living in the remote boreal forest of northern Ontario. They lived as if it were 500 years ago — no matches, no metal and no tent — just a stone axe and their knowledge of traditional bush survival. Les filmed the entire adventure, eventually releasing the odyssey as a one-hour documentary called “SNOWSHOES AND SOLITUDE.” 

In addition to being an award-winning filmmaker, Les is also a recording and touring musician. Whether marooned on a tropical shoreline or deposited onto searing desert sands, Les takes living off the land to the extreme.