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22 Episodes 2010 - 2010
Episode
Sun, May 26, 2024 60 mins
Episode 1
Mon, Mar 7, 2022 60 mins
Stroud heads to Zululand to discover indigenous cultural and survival practices. Then, he goes to South America to immerse in the indigenous culture of the Zulus.
Episode 2
Mon, Mar 14, 2022 60 mins
Stroud meets with an African Shaman to experience the rite of passage known as scarification. A female African Shaman puts Stroud through a series of rituals to determine where his inner ailments lie.
Episode 3
Mon, Mar 21, 2022 60 mins
Les Stroud goes deep into the Kalahari Desert with the San people.
Episode 4
Mon, Mar 28, 2022 60 mins
Les participates in the San Kalahari ritual of the trance dance. The Kalahari San practices the ritual of the trance dance as a direct communion to the spirit world.
Episode 5
Mon, Apr 4, 2022 60 mins
Les Stroud lives with the Sea Bajau people who call the waters of Borneo home. Les explores the spiritual, cultural and physical survival of the Bajau. They belong to no country, their allegiance to the sea. They have called the waters of Borneo home for over 200 years and they live, eat and socialize entirely in a small boat or small ocean stilted hut. Les fishes and makes shelter of braided palm leaves and machete shorn wood.
Episode 6
Mon, Apr 11, 2022 60 mins
Les Stroud discovers the dangerous art of compression diving with the Sea Bajau people.
Episode 7
Mon, Apr 18, 2022 60 mins
Les Stroud journeys to the coast of Sri Lanka to explore survival methods post-Tsunami, including the famed "stick fishing" where Stroud learns to build and stand and fish from a single pole over the ocean.
Episode 8
Mon, Apr 25, 2022 60 mins
No Westerner has ever been filmed participating in the ancient ritual known as the Devil Dance. Thought to both ward off evil spirits and create a link between worlds, the all-night healing ceremony involves masked dancers imitating demons.
Episode 9
Mon, May 2, 2022 60 mins
Stroud is in Papua New Guinea to meet the Hewa.
Episode 10
Mon, May 9, 2022 60 mins
Stroud ventures into territory so remote, the first airstrip was not cleared until 1992.
Episode 11
Mon, May 16, 2022 60 mins
Stroud bears 20-foot swells in a handmade boat of the Antandroy fishermen of Madagascar.
Episode 12
Mon, May 23, 2022 60 mins
Four Shamans of the Antanosy tribe initiate Stroud into a sacred ceremony in the remote village of Tsihalagna. The Shamans, or "Ombiasas," guide Les as he enters a trance-state induced by smoking a plant mixture.
Episode 13
Mon, May 30, 2022 60 mins
Starting out on Baffin Island in rural Nunavut, Canada, Stroud visits the small Inuit community called Pond Inlet. By integrating modern technologies with ancient practices, the Inuit have managed to maintain their culture in the punishing environment.
Episode 14
Mon, Jun 6, 2022 60 mins
As ice slowly recedes from the North, the Inuit diet of seal and arctic charr is being threatened.
Episode 15
Thu, Jun 9, 2022 60 mins
Episode 16
Mon, Jun 13, 2022 60 mins
In the Amazon forests of Peru, Stroud learns the plant medicine of the Huacharia Tribe, an indigenous culture that still embraces ancient practices.
Episode 17
Mon, Jun 20, 2022 60 mins
The Huacharia craft arrows by hand in preparation for a fishing excursion in the Peruvian jungle.
Episode 18
Tue, Jun 21, 2022 60 mins
"Mother Earth" is honored via a yearly pilgrimage with descendents of the Inca. Joining 80,000 indigenous Andeans making a pilgrimage to the holy site of Qollorit'i, 16,000 ft up Mt. Sinkara, Les has been granted a welcome by the Ukukus, the Spiritual Warriors of the Inca Tradition. Traveling to the summit at 17,000 ft, he'll be the first Westerner and only person in history to film the ancient Inca rituals performed by over 200 Ukuku on the edge of the glacial sheet.
Episode 19
Mon, Jul 4, 2022 60 mins
Stroud and Ukuku warriors survive a night on the glacial edge to appease the spirits.
Episode 20
Mon, Jul 11, 2022 60 mins
Stroud learns of the connection the Mentawai have to their environment and to honoring it.
Episode 21
Mon, Jul 11, 2022 60 mins
Living with Mentawai for eight days, Les prepares to hunt with a bow and poison arrow. Being tattooed by a Shaman using traditional techniques allows him to prove his intention and commune with animal spirits.