The great debate - Les Stroud or Bear Grylls?

Who has the more entertaining and/or useful show?

It's not even a debate. Les Stoud actually teaches you how to survive. Bear teaches you how to die in the wilds in a blaze of glory.

The one with military experience.

Bear Grylls because he drank his own urine out of a rattlesnake skin.

And I havent head of the other guy.

Bear Grylls because he drank his own urine out of a rattlesnake skin.

And I havent head of the other guy.

TheHighWind

Fail

Stroud because he wears a bandana everywhere he goes.

Les Stroud all the way. He stays out there for 7 days by himself and lugs all the camera gear. He doesn't have extra camera guys assisting him. He actually teaches you something and doesn't just run around like a monkey doing things you are not supposed to dowhile trying to survive.Grylls is only in there for a day max and has been accused of staying at a hotel during his filmings.

Les Stroud, because he actually survives by himself, carries all the equipment with him, and you know, actually teaches you how to survive.

Les. Also the guys from Dual Survival are also better than Bear.

Les. Also the guys from Dual Survival are also better than Bear.

Tweetie-Pot

Entertaining-Bear Grylls. The show is not made to be accurate, but adventurous and dramatic. I like the show, I just wish it would drop all pretense of being a legitimate survival show and quit giving people horrible advice. Useful-Survivorman. Poor guy has to survive on his own and lug around camera equipment. What he does is more helpful and accurate. If you actually wanted to survive in the wild, you should probably read a book.Got_to_go

These are basically my exact thoughts.

I like both shows, but Man vs. Wild really should not be passing itself off as a serious survival guide.

As a backpacker I have learned a few things from Survivorman, but it mostly just gives one a general idea of what to do, because to really learn this stuff would require studying and practice identifying safe plants, building traps, collecting water, building fires, etc. You can't learn from watching a show.

Bear Grylls is the more entertaining hover Les Stroud is more useful, practical, and realistic. Doing the things Bear would want you to do would be impossible for the average person and would likely get them killed or injured.

Les. Also the guys from Dual Survival are also better than Bear.

Tweetie-Pot

Ahaha, yeah I was going to say Bear Grylls and those 2 guys from Dual Survival are the best.

[QUOTE="TheHighWind"]

Bear Grylls because he drank his own urine out of a rattlesnake skin.

And I havent head of the other guy.

Necrifer

Fail

Stroud because he wears a bandana everywhere he goes.

It's not even a debate. Les Stoud actually teaches you how to survive. Bear teaches you how to die in the wilds in a blaze of glory.

Pirate700

Les. Also the guys from Dual Survival are also better than Bear.

Tweetie-Pot

Also this, Dual Survival is pretty new, but I love it!

[size=11]Bear Grylls' show is more exciting, but Les Stroud's show was much more authentic. [/size]msudude211

Yeah, pretty much this.

It's not even a debate. Les Stoud actually teaches you how to survive. Bear teaches you how to die in the wilds in a blaze of glory.

Pirate700

This is no debate. This is like asking if someone perphers Coke or a card-board cutout in the shape of a Coke can (not even a bottle!)

Les Stroud teaches and is realistic his disconnection sometimes bordering on lunicy. When there's desolation or tension in that show it's palpable. Bear Grylls does none of that.
Les Stroud even does all the filming himself while he survives and it comes out more artisticly than Bear's show. Now that's an epic fail if ever I heard one :P

Les. Also the guys from Dual Survival are also better than Bear.

Tweetie-Pot

If Price and Soap had a son he would look like the guy on the right. He and his B.A American Indian companion would travel the world showing everyone how to kick natures butt.

Bear Grylls. While I agree that Les Strouds advice is more useful to the average person, everything on Man v Wild will have use depending on the situation. A lot fo the information is similar to what is found in books like the SAS survival guide howver the show is made in such a way that I think it is meant to be more entertaining as well. That and it's awesome watching Bear eat some crazy stuff.

We have this "great debate" all the time :roll:

Anyway, for entertainment value, Les wins imo. For usefulness, Bear.

Bear is more awesome, but yea I think no one can do his techniques.