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Survivorman - Stuck in Africa

Survivorman - Stuck in Africa

Survivorman - Stuck in Africa - (02:59)

Survivorman takes an inventory of available items from his crashed hot air balloon. Les Stroud and the making of Survivorman

  • Added: 03-Jul-2008
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" Here we go. Day 2 in Africa. It's a long uphill climb to the plateaus, so obviously, I can't carry the basket with me, but there's a lot inside of it that I can use. What's left is a small bottle of water, my multi-tool. In this area, they called it the panga machete. I also got myself an air horn. That will hopefully at least freak out the odd lion if he wants to come in close, and lastly, I figured if I'm gonna have to get in the real up close hand-to-hand combat with a 750-pound lion, I might as well have some kind of advantage, so I asked for and picked up a big old belt knife. Now that's a knife. Well, crash landing in a hot air balloon at least leaves you with a number of supplies that come with the balloon. The basket itself has given me a fantastic shelter and it is full of a treasure trove of supplies that I can use, just a whole rack of cables and rope and wires and rubbing. It's gonna be just fantastic. This hot air balloon came with its own first aid kit. There wasn't much in it, just a few Band-Aids and some medication. Believe it or not, simply combining some basic medications will give me an edge on survival. I'm not really certain what it is I'm doing here. Maybe this will work. Just a ton of rope come out of this balloon. This is good. This is really good. Plan is, to make myself a hammock. It may seem like such a small thing, but having the knowledge of various rope knots can greatly improved my chances of survival when coping with a situation like this. I now have a hammock. Before I go anywhere, one thing I could and should do while I'm here immediately is set myself up with a sort of a protective pole walking stick and I can even maybe lash on my knife and turn this into a real protective spear. So the point here is I want to extend my reach with this knife. That formidable spear."

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