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Survival expert Les Stroud journeys around the globe to unearth the secrets of how remote Indigenous tribes have lived in the wild for thousands of years. Les travels to places such as Madagascar and the Kalahari Desert to learn new survival skills from the few remaining Indigenous tribes around the world. Increasingly under threat, the traditional way of life for these tribes is changing quickly.

In the Amazon forests of Peru, Stroud learns the plant medicine of the Huacharia Tribe.
Les is soon considered a “traveling shaman” as he undergoes a ritualist tattoo ceremony.
Les is the first Westerner to participate in the San Kalahari ritual of the trance dance.
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Stroud and Ukuku warriors survive a night on the glacial edge to appease the spirits.
In the Amazon forests of Peru, Stroud learns the plant medicine of the Huacharia Tribe.
Stroud participates in a sacred ritual led by Shamans of the Antanosy tribe of Madagascar.
Ice-fishing and seal meat help sustain the Inuit; Stroud joins in the icy search for food.
Stroud lives among the Inuit of the Arctic where temperatures can drop to below -40c.
“Pachamama” or Mother Earth is honored with descendents of the Inca.
In the Amazon forests of Peru, Stroud learns the plant medicine of the Huacharia Tribe.
Les Stroud travels deep into the Kalahari Desert to live with the San people.
Les Stroud learns the dangerous art of compression diving with the Sea Bajau people.
Les is the first Westerner to participate in the San Kalahari ritual of the trance dance.
Stroud meets an African Shaman to experience the rite of passage known as scarification.
Stroud travels to Zululand to explore indigenous cultural and survival practices.
Les Stroud lives with the Sea Bajau people who call the waters of Borneo home.
Les is soon considered a “traveling shaman” as he undergoes a ritualist tattoo ceremony.
Stroud learns of the connection the Mentawai have to their environment and to honoring it.
Stroud journeys to survive alongside men once believed to be half-human and half-demon.
Stroud’s in Papua New Guinea meeting the Hewa- a name literally translated as the savages.
Stroud bears 20-foot swells in a handmade boat of the Antandroy fishermen of Madagascar.
Stroud embeds with the people he calls “the strongest case of a vanishing culture.”
Stroud ventures into territory so remote, the first airstrip was not cleared until 1992.