Why are they acting as if he's alone?

I like the show as well and I can see your point that it comes off weird, but the problem with MvW is that they tried to sell off Bear as if he was alone, but in reality he wasn't... Now with all of the edited advice it comes off weirder.

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I can't wait for Michael Bay to direct Care Bears. Using real bears so it can be more realistic.

A person would have to be retarded to think he was ever alone.

they're acting as if he's alone because it's 1 man vs. nature. He's tell you how to deal with something if you're caught in a survival situation.

You basically asked a question and kind of answered it yourself...

DO YOU ACTUALLY WATCH IT?

Disclaimer states.. "Occasions are sometimes presented to Bear to demonstrate survival techniques.."

Of course some of its staged, would you want any sort of money to put your life in danger, just to show other people how survuve?

No. You wouldn't.

Watch Survivorman, sometimes he walks past a camera by about 40-50 feet..
Is he really alone? otherwise why would he walk past just to go back 40 feet to pick up the camera?

Man vs Wild is by far superior, camera crew or not.

Well its safe to assume that he has a screw who are properly Gd up and well supplied.

The shows is as fake as it is simply down to them having to not only drag the crew around but also the safety backups they need.

Bear can probably survive as well as he shows, but its also something thats extremely risky.

What's up with all the animosity in the responses? It's not "retarded" to think that someone would do this show alone. As a matter of fact, Les Stroud does "Survivor Man" alone. He is his own cameraman, director, cinematographer etc. That's why I have a lot more respect for Les. He IS risking his life to make his show more realistic. He has a crew stationed somewhere in the area, but he is still on his own for a while if anything bad happens. The fact that Bear always has a crew following him doesn't make the show less fun, but it does make it more about ENTERTAINING an audience with a flamboyant show because the danger isn't really there- his crew can save him in split second.

As dr. House often says: Are you an idiot? Of course, he's not alone, but...this is a show, that counts on realism, so what do you expect? Every time he climbs up a mountain or jumps into a muddy swamp to say: Oh, I forgot, my camera man is here with me and so are 10 other guys? What are you, a morron? One time only Bear mentioned the crew he takes with him - he was in a desert, I can't recall was it Sahara or some other desert, but he said that a few members of the crew got a sun stroke, so they had to be collected by a hellicopter. So that's it, you cannot expect him to say: Hey, here we are, a bunch of guys, eating beans and saussages around the fire - that's a show about man defeating the nature, or more likely working his way out with nature's only help. So the crew must be shadowed in order to keep the reality in the show. And once more: are you an idiot???

I actually have more respect for that guy who did that show, "Alone in the Wild" where you could see how things in wildlife REALLY is and being ALONE....you could how he deteriorates healthwise and even mentally you can see depression sink in.he was supposed to stay 3 months and lasted 50 days. While the likes of Bear has the whole Discovery team watching his back.