Les Stroud vs Bear Grylls

[LucyDuke]

Les Stroud is a Canadian survival expert who produced [wiki]Survivorman[/wiki].

Bear Grylls is an English "adventurer, writer, and television presenter" (wikipedia) who hosted [wiki]Man vs. Wild[/wiki].

Who is awesomer?


No downtown option because obviously downtown is awesomer than both of them.

 

[jtb1127]

I'll vote Les Stroud because his show was on first.

 

[MjM]

I can't vote.

 

[LucyDuke]

I can't vote.

I screwed up. I reported the first post and asked a mod to add the poll. (Public, dear mod that may be reading this first instead.)

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Bear Grylls had a scandal where he checked into expensive hotels overnight whilst doing "survival". So the other dude wins.

Ray Mears can probably beat them both though.

 

[Miles Teg]

Les Stroud is a thousand times awesomer than Bear Grylls. Why?

Except for footage of him arriving at his new setting, and being retrieved at the end of the week, the content of each episode is taped entirely by Stroud himself using several DV cameras that he must carry with him everywhere that he goes (he later switched to a number of HDV cameras.) The burden of having to carry, place, and retrieve the camera equipment for each shot adds to the challenge and difficulty of each survival situation, and in several episodes Stroud chooses to leave a camera behind, videotaping him as he departs the area (the camera is retrieved later), and in one episode taking place in the Amazon, Stroud is forced to flee his camp and abandon all but two of his cameras due to fear of a stalking jaguar. His camera and audio gear typically weigh about 50 pounds (23 kg) in total.

Grylls was shown trying to lasso "wild" mustang in the Sierra Nevada that were in fact tame and had been hired from a trekking station nearby.

A scene where a crew member wore a bear suit to simulate a bear attack due to inability finding a tame bear.

A scene where Grylls was purported to have escaped from an active volcano by leaping across lava, avoiding poisonous sulphur dioxide gas, was actually enhanced with special effects, using hot coal and smoke machines.

Similarly, another episode gave viewers the impression that Grylls "was a 'real life
Robinson Crusoe' stuck on a desert island", while in reality he was on an outlying part of the Hawaiian archipelago and retired to a motel at night.

 

[Quackers]

Bear Grylls served in the SAS and was the youngest Briton of his time to climb Mt Everest. Watch Bear Grylls; programme, fine he sleeps in a hotel at night..but honestly is sleeping in the jungle that difficult or adventerous or manly? He still makes his own shelter/bed. And he bit a snake's head off!
A snakes head!
I can't really comment on Stroud.

..and the suggestion Ray Mears could beat both of them is absurd All he did was run around the new forest rubbing twigs together to make a fire, he is too much of a pounce to compete with either of'em

 

[Luckymoose]

I vote Bear Grylls cause he climbed Mt. Everest after breaking his back in a parachute failure.

 

[NovaKart]

I've never heard of either of them but Bear Grylls from the photos seems more likely to strip for the camera so I'd vote for him. He does have a really stupid name though.

Biting a snake's head off doesn't impress me. I mean it's just like those sideshow geeks that used to bite the heads off chickens. My stepfather said that his father used to do this whiplash thing with snakes he caught that would make their heads snap off. Anyway, Ozzby Osbourne has the biting heads off of animals thing done already.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Did you know the origin of the word "geek" was from a circus entertainer who bites the heads off animals?

 

[NovaKart]

Yes, that's why I mentioned it. I think they were normally chickens. The good old days when the circus was actually edgy.

 

[Quackers]

Well to be precise, he didn't bite the snake's head off. He placed the snake's head in his mouth bite down on it's neck and pulled the rest of the snake with his arm - breaking it's neck and instantly killing it. Before wrapping it around his neck to eat later lol

 

[Skwink]

Miles made me lose respect for Bear.

 

[bhsup]

Neither. Jim Bridger would pwn both of them.

 

[LucyDuke]

Remember - the question isn't who has a better show (obvious answer), but who is awesomer.

 

[Quackers]

Link to video.

2:15 onwards thats pretty badarse

 

[NovaKart]

It looks like besides the backpack he's wearing what in America we call a fanny pack, but I couldn't tell for sure.

 

[NovaKart]

Do you think some of their docos are like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Link to video.

 

[Moss]

Moderator Action: Poll added per request.

 

[civ_king]

I've never heard of either of them but Bear Grylls from the photos seems more likely to strip for the camera so I'd vote for him. He does have a really stupid name though.

Biting a snake's head off doesn't impress me. I mean it's just like those sideshow geeks that used to bite the heads off chickens. My stepfather said that his father used to do this whiplash thing with snakes he caught that would make their heads snap off. Anyway, Ozzby Osbourne has the biting heads off of animals thing done already.

He is likelier, but I find Les Stroud manlier and more badass