Les Stroud - SurvivorMan: Season 1 (2005)

Survivalist Les Stroud places himself in unique survival situations. In each challenge he demonstrates how one might survive alone in a remote location with minimal supplies until being rescued. Finding food, water, and materials to make fire and shelter pose the main challenge of each episode. Les not only needs to survive for a week with no supplies, but he must film everything himself, dragging 50 pounds of camera gear and batteries every inch of the way. Armed with a unique one-person camera rig and an abundance of wry humor, Les documents his struggles to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in climates as diverse as the Costa Rican rainforest, Georgia swampland, high Sonoran desert and Arctic ice floes.

01 "Canadian Boreal Forest" April 06, 2005
Les Stroud simulates becoming stranded after a canoeing accident in a Northern Ontario forest.

02 "Arizona Desert" April 13, 2005
A broken down dirt bike provides the scenario for surviving in the Sonoran Desert.

03 "Costa Rica" April 20, 2005
Marooned on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, Les must survive on a tropical beach and in dense jungle.

04 "Georgia Swamp" April 27, 2005
Les is stranded in the swamplands of Georgia's Altamaha River Basin.

05 "Canadian Arctic" May 04, 2005
Les must survive after his snowmobile breaks down in the Canadian arctic, near Pond Inlet.

06 "Mountain" May 11, 2005
Hiking gone wrong leads to a week in the Canadian Rockies.

07 "Canyonlands" May 18, 2005
A broken bicycle strands Les in the Utah canyons.

08 "Plane Crash" May 25, 2005
Les simulates survival as a plane crash survivor in Temagami, Ontario in the winter, simulating a broken arm.

09 "Lost at Sea" June 01, 2005
Les must survive on a raft in the middle of the ocean near Belize for several days in temperatures of 102 °F (39 °C), then washes ashore on an uninhabited island.

10 "Behind the Scenes" June 08, 2005
Les presents clips and outtakes from the previous nine survival episodes