Bear vs Les

They are two completely different shows. First off, both are for entertainment. Neither are really lost or in any grave danger what so ever. But I'm surprised to see this many Bear "haters". Like to the point of him jumping the the ice water naked. Being that seems to be the most popular example to why Bear sucks. People say it was just purely a "stunt", but Bear did point out that in some cases if you had to cross a frozen lake and fell in. He gave key pointers before and after he jumped in how to survive it. Such as rubbing your body with snow...which being in the U.S. Army is true, it does absorb moisture. He also does mention, even though he was naked, that if you did fall in clothed, to remove and dry(obviosuly creating a fire) your clothes instead of carrying on with below freezing gear on.

Sometimes I think people watch Man vs Wild with ear plugs in. Because EVERYTHING he does he usually if not always explains why he is doing and why it may need to be done in a real scenario. Because that is what the show is, its like an instructional video on survival techniques. While Surviorman tries to replicate real scenarios and show how to survive them.

If Bear wanted to I guess he could go just show these survival techniques through demonstration in his backyard...but that wouldn't be to entertaining or TV worthy now would it? As for him flipping into bodies of water, give the man a break. I'm pretty sure its for his own entertainment then yours, just like Les haters get on him for his harmonica.