They actually bit pretty quick, so once I was able to get it on television, it changed everything and ended up starting the entire genre of survival TV. My plan originally was just to make a high-quality, DIY, home video-type series, but I eventually decided to try my hand at pitching it to a television network instead.
LES SHROUD SURVIVORMAN TV
You mentioned home videos and the lack of a market for survival videos, so I can't imagine you started off with a hit TV series. I saw a need-I saw a need to display survival skills on film and not only teach but entertain people through my experiences, so I started applying what I knew from the wilderness and my time as an entertainer. People either didn't know what they were doing or it was poorly shot, which are both death rattles for anything that people want to watch. There were home videos, but they were pretty lame and pathetic. I used to work on music television for a while and that job gave me skills such as editing and camerawork, so it wasn't too long after I got into doing survivalism that I realized how there was virtually no film work at all that showed real survivalism to its fullest. When did you first start filming your own treks into the wild?Ĭoming from a background of music and performing, I never lost that desire to be a performer and to entertain people.
Once I went through that, it was like a marriage made in heaven. I didn't even know what that meant-I just came up with that phrase in my head, but I started looking around and I found a course on survivalism. I just thought it was the coolest thing.Įventually, at some point in my mid-20s, I decided that I really wanted to go for a wilderness adventure. Because of that, I've been in and out of music since then, but back when I was a kid, I used to watch a lot of videos of Jacques Cousteau and I had this strong desire to one day be a National Geographic photographer. I think I always wanted to escape, but as I got older, I discovered how much I loved rock and roll and that's what I did for a long time. You know, I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin and Styx, smoking pot, and drinking beer… the regular stuff back then. Les Stroud: My upbringing was in a west-end suburb of Etobicoke. How did you go from the urban life to building fires in the wild? According to the internet, you were born in Toronto-Mimico of all places. Now, nine weeks later, he spoke to VICE about his past as a pot-smoking rocker, the creation of Survivorman, and his vision for the future.
Stroud tore multiple muscles and broke a few ribs in the crash, which effectively ended all filming for the new season.
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