Anyone who watched survivorman probably knows that les strous has a new show where he lives with natives for a few days and survive together with them.

Anyway i saw a episode yesterday where he lived with some natives in peru and the show ended with him drinking their sacred medicine containing the vine of the soul and chakruna together with 10 other additives.

They never mentioned the word aya or dmt but it was obvious what they were up to


Really nice to see stuff like this on discovery.

oh what? I love that show! I need to see that episode.

If you know where to get it, please let us know

found this clip..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJYiiLi-CRo

Very good. I've always really liked him and his show. I like how they summed up the positive use of the substance without actually saying it's ayahuasca.

Oh excellent. Right down my ally.
Reminds me of Bruce Parry's "Going Tribal" where he snorts Virola snuff with Yanomame indians, takes Iboga with Gabon Shamans and lives with Anutan islanders.
I'll have to check it out. I really recommend you to check Bruce Parry's Going Tribal too, in case you haven't seen it.

That episode was such a copout! He spends a huge amount of the time talking about how shamen have done various things to try to help him achieve trance and commune with the spirit world in his explorations. Then he works with these people and they gather the plants for the brew. I distinctly hear someone say something like extra or more or strong chaliponga or something.

Anyway, the time finally comes and he drinks the brew. He clearly goes into a trance, we go to commercial and the end credits are running with him saying something happened and he couldn't even begin to explain what it was!

God forbid he mention ayahuasca or the incredibly deep and old traditions behind it. God forbid he admit that he tranced and tripped. I respect that he cannot describe it. Still the whole thing left me feeling cold and more than a bit irritated. Typical copout.

I agree it was a huge anticlimax but the fact that it was even in the episode was nice.

Haven't seen this show but the Survivorman show was absolute fake crap.

This sounds interesting. You can also watch it online here.

Edit: removed inappropriate material.

How is it a cop out? So what if he didn't mention it by name? He mentioned that he was taking a sacred medicine in a healing ritual. Would it have somehow been better if he said "I'm tripping on Ayahuasca!"

I honestly don't see why anyone would be irritated after watching..

Despite some of the negative opinions here, I really like Les Stroud. I watched a lot of his Survivorman series, his Off The Grid show, and even some of the Survive This show he did. I respect him and have actually learned some things from watching him. I'll definitely have to check out this episode where he drinks the brew!

I'm telling you man the Survivorman show was fake all through. I know guy's that worked on one of the shows and it's bullshit. Between shots where he should be somewhere in the middle of nowhere he's chillin in a fancy hotel and then the animals he's supposed to have caught in some traps just come from the supermarket.

Are you sure he doesnt mean bear grills? cause it´s widely known his show is scripted.

Les strous is probably as real as you can get without risking youre life completely.

Oh yeah I'm sorry I meant that guy hehe
Haven't seen the other one. Should maybe check him out. So he's the real deal?

But there's one more survivor dude that's even worse than Bear Grills. Don't remember his name or show. Not worth it to remember.

I even enjoy Bear Grylls "Man vs. Wild". He may have some people there with him to help him, but he does some crazy stuff on that show. He takes way more risks than Les, jumping off things, swinging from branches, he's a right crazy bastard

I'm not sure, because the guy I'm thinking of is more like Steve Irwin. But I've seen some things he did and he's crazy too Walking around barefoot everywhere. I watched a show where he climbed a mountain barefoot, it was insane.

Rob Bredl, "The Barefoot Bushman"

+1

Watch here

Found this on discovery.com


Episode 7: THE HUACHARIA OF THE AMAZON

Deep in the Amazon forests of Peru, live indigenous cultures that have been hidden from modern civilization for hundreds of years. Les travels by plane, bus, boat, and finally on foot to reach the Huacharia Tribe: a deeply spiritual people whostill hunt with bow and arrow, and gather wild mushrooms, snails, insects, worms, plants, and fruits for food and survival. Huacharia allow Les to join their daily ceremonies honoring the elements: from gentle water ceremonies, to ingesting the rare and purifying Ayahuasca plant. Les will raft, trek and machete his way into the heart of the Peruvian jungle, learning the secrets of this rare ecosystem from the jungle's very secret-keepers themselves.

Rob dredl, - never wears shoes and catches crocs barefoot...

Les Stroud, - actually films his shows himself, but is a safe version of all the others out there. He doesnt do things that could break a leg or a bone like Grylls does, because he knows that one twisted ankle or broken leg means death in the wild..

Austin Stevens- Complete mad man when it comes to snakes. Finds Anacondas so he can let them wrap their bodies around him and almost kill him, and then fights his way out of the snakes grasp. All for fun..




Bear Grylls... Has a crew of 10, helicopter, several safety teams carrying all his luggage and extra stuff he wont leave home without. You will see him go to sleep in a shelter he made, and wake up there.. But they turn the camera off and he spends his nights in a hotel.

I am a survival specialist, I was trained by the same man who trains fighter pilots to stay alive if they get shot down, (family friend, started doing public classes). And I quote him by saying "if you were to follow Bear Grylls advice and not have 13 years of special forces training you will most likely fall and break your neck or a bone and die alone out in the wilderness".



So happy to see Stroud taking Ayahuasca, even more happy to see he has a new show.


Also, if anyone wants to know why survivorman is no longer having new episodes being made, its because Les' wife did not want him out there alone anymore because its far more dangerous without a film crew to bail your ass out.