Well in Survivorman I've seen the most unrealistic things ever...

In an episode where he is in a a snowed down forest, he finds a crashed PLANE...in the middle of no where.

If i get lost i will take his advice and try to find a small plane too, with all the stuff i need in it

have they dropped him in Compton or Detroit Ghettos yet?

that'll quickly define it's authenticity.

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come on there is no way that survivor man is all alone. Your telling me that he carries all that equpiment with him all the time. And then on some shots he is walking out of a place or moving on, walks about 200 yards to set up 3 cameras, then walks back the 200 yrds, acts like he is just now moving for the shot, and then walks back to pick up the cameras? There is no way when he is tired from "surviving" that he does all that extra work having only having ate a few bugs and a frog. And this happens every show, numerous times. And in the everglades episode he is on his raft and there are shots of him being taking down the river at a fast pace and there are shots from land. So he does the repeted task but paddles back up stream to get his equpiment that he went down stream in the first place to set up? No way!! just watch and you will see what i am talking about. They are both great shows but go to bear's website, his offical, he is a bad ass no matter how extream his show is. My money is always on Man Vs Wild because he uses the extream survival. He even says only an experianced person should try this.

As they are both survival shows i don't think that its fair to say which one is better than the other. I feel that Survivorman is a little bit more real and Man vs. Wild is a little more scripted, that however doesn't take away from the fact that they are both put into dangerous situations and they survive in said situations.

And even though Bear does have a camera crew and support crew when he needs them, so does Les.

The "base camp" for Les is a few miles away and he has a radio that he keeps with him at all times. And Les has to report in at least once a day. I know this is because of safety, but I don't think it's fair to say that Survivorman is better or worse then Man vs. Wild.

They are both great shows and I enjoy watching both of them, well Man vs. Wild now since Survivorman got cancelled. That's my opinion on the whole thing.