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7 Entrepreneurial Secrets of Survivorman
J. Timothy King Tue 25 Sep 2007 15:14
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Les Stroud is Survivorman. If you don’t watch the show, you may have seen ads for it on the Discovery Channel.
Les Stroud is a documentary filmmaker and survivalist. In each episode of Survivorman, he strands himself in a remote location, away from civilization, and survives for 7 days. All the while, he documents his experience, so we can see how he survived in each of the various situations he sticks himself in. In recent episodes:
- He makes his way across the Labrador tundra with no one but a team of sled dogs to keep him company.
- His hot air balloon is downed in the African Plains, and he needs to meet his “rescue team” on the plateau in 7 days.
- He is “lost” on Taroka Arm, in Alaska, about 100 miles south of Anchorage. (But try to calculate driving directions!)
There are two reasons I watch Survivorman. (Read more…)
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