Survivorman

From Sri Lanka's beginnings 2500 years ago, the island was populated by tens of thousands of demons, some spreading disease and chronic afflictions through possession.

Cultural survival often requires traditions, rituals, and rites of passages, but sometimes it can depend on none of those.

In approximately 3,000 BC, the fields of the Sahara transformed slowly into desert.

Never before photographed or filmed, Stroud returns to the wilds of Papa New Guinea with special permission to travel three arduous days on foot through the jungle to carry out the 'Cumoutin' ceremony himself with the guidance of the Hewa.

After many days journey on rough, dirt-red roads Les will finally reach the first tribe: the Antandroy.

Stroud journeys to the top of Baffin Island in rural Nunavut, Canada: the arctic.

Les travels by plane, bus, boat and, finally foot to reach the Huacharia Tribe - a tribe that still hunts with bow and arrow, collects wild mushrooms, snails, insects, worms, plants, fruits, and other natural resources safe for human consumption and jungle survival.

Stroud travels to Zululand to meet with a Sangoma, a female African Shaman, to experience the rite of passage known as scarification.

Les and crew climb to 16,000 ft up dangerous Mt. Sinkara to join 80,000 Indigenous Andeans as they make their yearly pilgrimage to the holy site of Qollorit'i.

The Mentawai Islands lie to the West of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean. Les begins at the island of Siberut.