Survivorman

From the Devil Dancers on the coast of Sri Lanka Les travels to the interior to survive with a group of people who have only been living out of caves since the mid 80s, the Vedas.

Les will learn how to make shelter of braided palm leaves and machete shorn wood, find fresh water, and catch sea cucumbers.

Les will learn the delicate and deadly art of poison arrow hunting, track porcupine, hike the great sand dunes of the Kalahari, and gather honey from desert bees.

Les will participate in the full honouring ceremony, including ingesting Betelnut before a village of 800 locals.

Les will participate in a trance that’s induced by smoking a plant mixture made from ramy (sap from Canaria spp.), mixed with ombi (cattle) fat.

Les will raft, trek and, slice into the heart of the Peruvian jungle, learning the secrets of this rare ecosystem from the jungle’s very secret keepers themselves.

Stroud travels to Zululand to meet with a Sangoma, a female African Shaman, to experience the rite of passage known as scarification.

Les and crew climb to 16,000 ft up dangerous Mt. Sinkara to join 80,000 Indigenous Andeans as they make their yearly pilgrimage to the holy site of Qollorit’i.

Les begins at the island of Siberut. He journeys nine hours upriver by boat, eventually trekking by foot into the heart of the island, arriving at the Mentawai tribe.