Hey everyone,

Here's a newsletter I received from Les's website about the Survivorman Series. Great Letter can't wait to see what he does next.

Well my staff have been asking me to do a blog to give my heartfelt perspective on the Survivorman series so here goes....NO I DIDNT QUIT! like the 200 headlines read.....i NEVER quit......that said I have slept on rocks and snow and in the mud 25 times without food 7 days X 25 times and i am feeling the results of it all....i dearly love what i created....Survivorman!!....but i am not a one trick pony...i love variety....and i love thinking outside the box...after all that is how Survivorman was created....i saw a void.....of course i am not quitting!! but i AM morphing...growing...developing new and even more powerful work - i am seeing the void again.....Survivorman was just the beginning.....and hey - look at it this way....I am changing and morphing and progressing what i do (including Survivorman) well beyond itself and into something new without ever 'jumping the shark!'.....if you love or even like my work...if you have caught the moments with the wink in my eye...if you have gasped when i was up against it....if you have felt vicariously the struggles i have faced....then catch your breath....and get ready....there's more to come....through seven years of producing this show you - the viewers - have constantly bolstered me up - and challenged me to do better and for that i am eternally grateful.....the doors are open all over the place for me folks.....think: more world adventures filmed with whatever has become my 'style'...more large scale music and film concert presentations....more books and articles.....thank you all so very much for inspiring ME.....i have been down at times during the making of this series and it has always been a perfectly timed veiwer fan mail that lifted me up and kept me going.....thank you.....now get ready....for what comes next!

This is such great and Awesome news.Thank you for posting this. I look forward to His next shows.

I'll look forward to whatever he hosts or produces. I hope we get to see a little more about what he called "adventure racing" in the Amazon episode.

Um...I don't think this was from Les. i? Its I...unless Les can't really spell...you made this.

god bless Les

Man vs Wild is entertainment, not education.

Bear does the dumbest things. Things that any 12 year old boy scout knows is wrong. The only worry is that some people might follow his approach when actually in those kinds of situations.

For example, what you would really do is be very careful,... not leap over boulders, climb dangerous and slippery cliffs, spend hours making creaky rafts that are impossible to steer and easily come apart.

You don't go out into an iceberg laced fiord on a raft made from rusty oil drums (Gee, what happened, it sank!)

You don't hug a rough barked tree and slide down it (Ouch!)

You don't leap 50 feet into a pool where you have no idea of the depth. Shall I go on?

First of all, you avoid risks. Second, you conserve energy. So you might not want to spend several hours gathering branches to make a lean-to. And you might not take the time and energy to climb a mountain to "get the lay of the land". Or swim down a cold raging river because it "is faster than walking".

Please dont try this stuff on your own ventures. Just watch it as entertainment.

Oh, yea, and when he gets in those tough spots, the real jock is the cameraman, who is following right along through all the danger with a heavy camera and taking all kinds of great footage of this clown! He is the real hero. Incredible!

But for the real thing, look at Les Stroud on Survivorman. Not as flashy, but very very genuine. He never takes on any unnecessary risk. And he goes out ALONE and does his own camera work!

Les, It's great to see you did not quit for one thing your show was anything but dull,I love the show that showed your house and how green it was Less the only thing you leave in the woods are foot prints, thanks for the great show ---Mike