to death. They get all excited when they find a grub which sustains them for 12 days. Lame. Best one I’ve seen is the ‘Out of the Wild:Alaska’ which they had to go three months, finding and hunting enough food to actually survive.

I don’t count Man vs Wild because, although he snares reindeer to feast on, the show is an admitted set up, he does a segment then retires to the nearest Resort for the night.

I saw one episode of alone and it had a guy who was lonely and crying the whole show. Maybe I just caught a bad episode.

Any other survival shows, documentaries etc that you’d recommend that actually shows successfully surviving, even thriving, instead of pretty much just slowly dying in misery?