Survivorman — Season 1
Les faces an extraordinary challenge in season one: a relentless week spent battling some of Earth’s most extreme environments. From the sweltering heat of the Costa Rican jungle to the biting cold of the Arctic Circle, he then endures the parched expanse of the Sonora Desert before finally confronting the dangers lurking within Georgia's alligator-filled wetlands – all in just seven days.
The Boreal forest of Northern Canada sprawls across an immense wilderness, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is a land of moose and beaver, laced with rivers and lakes, where the frost retreats for just three months each year. …
The Sonoran Desert of the southwestern United States stretches across roughly 120,000 square miles. It’s an arid landscape, appearing desolate with searing daytime heat that gives way to freezing temperatures overnight. Out on the open expa…
Escape to Costa Rica—a world utterly removed from the familiar: vibrant rainforests meet secluded tropical shores. Stranded on the Osa Peninsula, Les "Survivorman" Stroud has just a handful of items to sustain him for the next seven days: s…
The swamplands of Georgia’s Altamaha River Basin embody every expectation of a primordial bog: damp and foreboding, teeming with unseen life and, inevitably, alligators. It is into this environment that Les Stroud will plunge, enduring seve…
Pond Inlet, situated in the far north of Baffin Island, presents a landscape among the most demanding on Earth. More than 700 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, it lies within a realm of constantly moving sea ice, where polar bears hunt…
Les was deposited by the Canadian Mountain Air Rescue Service onto a snow-covered peak in the Canadian Rockies. They would return for him in seven days. Until then, he was entirely alone, sharing this landscape with grizzlies, cougars, and …
The fiery red landscapes of Utah's canyonlands possess a beauty matched only by their harshness. Much like the desperate outlaws of bygone days who were said to consume their own horses in this desolate region, Stroud will dismantle his mou…
Deep within the isolated, snow-choked forests of Northern Ontario, a wrecked aircraft rests beside a frozen lake. It bears no living souls. Yet, this plane did not fall here; it has been lowered by helicopter—a deliberate placement offering…
Venturing "off the land" takes on an entirely new dimension as Les Stroud embarks on a week adrift at sea. With no provisions beyond a bare minimum of equipment, he will be set loose in an inflatable life raft just off the coast of Belize. …
Here are selected scenes and behind-the-scenes moments from the preceding nine episodes of survival challenges.
