Okay, so I realize that Discovery Channel’s Man vs Wild is supposed to be more of a “Let me show you hypothetical situations in wilderness and how to survive them” and it’s not really trying to compete with Survivorman. Even so, finding out that his “Dangerous” situations are just a few hundred yards away from what seems like a well traveled highway just kinda puts a damper on his badassness.
It’s for this reason that I like Survivorman’s Les Stroud much more than Bear Grylls. He doesn’t have a camera crew or anything, he just gets dropped off somewhere for 7 days and he has to survive on his own. He doesn’t set up situations for him to look badass while doing it. He’s just badass by nature and there just happens to be a camera at hand.