Survivorman

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Survival Man - Adventure Wilderness ( Original title: Survivorman ) is a documentary series Survival of Canadian production, broadcast in Canada on the Outdoor Life Network OLN, in Germany on DMAX and internationally on the Discovery Channel. It been three seasons aired with four special programs.

The title of the program refers to Les Stroud, Canadian protagonists of the series. Stroud is a survival expert who uses his knowledge in the series to different places around the world alone for seven days without a camera team and with only minimal equipment to survive, its only permanent equipment are a harmonica and a multi -function tool. Stroud carries the time required to movies about 25kg heavy camera equipment alone and turns all the scenes themselves this kind of movies differentiates the series from other survival items that must invariably a production team accompanied the survival experts. In order necessary to achieve his team, Stroud has a satellite phone with me. After Stroud's statements have led to many episodes in which the devices were not working and he was completely on his own. Also it seemed to know that he and his rescue team were cut from a rescue and had to be picked up by a helicopter.

Stroud broke the filming after the conclusion of the third season since the shooting and the films were an excessive physical load alone. However, a series was announced by one-hour special broadcasts, where Stroud held a week now spends ten days of wilderness on its official website. The first edition was broadcast on June 30, 2012 OLN.

Content

In each episode, Les Stroud puts in a special survival situation. The aim is to demonstrate how one can survive alone in various areas of the world with minimal equipment and food for several days until his rescue. Stroud this simulated situations can fall into the tourist or lost travelers and are not set to the appropriate time for a survival situation. Here are building a hideaway, finding food and water, as well as the lighting of a fire without the customary auxiliaries such as a lighter central elements of each episode.

According to the official website of the series which broadcasts specifically show also mistakes and failures on the part of Les Stroud, such as the wrong estimate of the weather, failures when lighting fires or foraging, to make it clear that in a real survival situation, nothing runs perfectly. Stroud reported here also open in front of the camera about his discontent with his current situation, however, always remains calm, which is a further important point in survival under extreme conditions, as he himself points out.

Apart from the physical stress Stroud is confronted with the psychological stresses as the above failures, but also isolation, loneliness, injury and exhaustion. This he commented in the episodes usually with a close-up of himself and makes jokes occasionally or are based on his situation Survival Tips. Also Stroud misused often the things in his environment, such as flashlights, a bike, a snowmobile or a plane wreck, in order to draw a practical benefit for him.

Typically, you can Stroud before his travels by local survival experts advise, in order to survive in extreme areas such as the Arctic or the African desert can. So he gains information about the flora and fauna of the region and how he might find food sources. This knowledge gives Stroud in the episodes and shows which things are edible and how they can be prepared. Here Stroud warns against using these tricks only in actual survival situations in order to preserve the nature. He often complains about the world encountered garbage or stresses that he uses live animals reluctant as a food source, but in some situations this is indispensable.

According to reports, Les Stroud's Survival Tips already many people who helped in real survival situations.

Recordings

Apart from the shooting in his suspension as well as the uptake by a rescue team, Les Stroud filmed all the scenes and even without a camera team. He used this many DV cameras (later HDV cameras ), which he himself bears. The load, which is exposed to Stroud, while he sets up the camera for each scene, turns, breaks down again and brings with him, presents for each survival situation is an additional difficulty, causing him to occasionally leave also cameras that later the film crew be picked up again. The camera luggage usually weighs around 25 kilograms and provides with its high weight load a dar. During a "Behind -the- Scenes " episode Stroud explained that the setting up and collecting the cameras stressful about 65 percent of his time.