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I don't think people are giving this show a fair chance or fair reviews. They claim it's fake but have no real proof. Where's the proof? Because of edited sections?? How does that make it fake?? ALL shows are like that. It's something that has to be done. This is definitely one of the best shows on TV anymore. I refer you to The Kardasians (sp?), Honey Boo boo, Dance Moms (more the bad attitudes on that one. I actually love watching the girls dance but their moms..*shudder* I couldn't take them anymore) if you like those shows fine but USA is better in my opinion. These guys are professionals in what they do, Military include despite not really have taken on this type of ground before. I don't see anyone like that agreeing to do a fake show. Especially when they absolute loooove what they do for a living. I'm surprised people haven't claims the two injuries on the shows are fake too. And fellow Ladies, good looking and funny guys, that alone is a good reason to watch. WATCH it for yourself and don't get pulled in by the 'fake' claims and refuse to watch. Especially since 'everyone' watches fake shows all the time and never have a fake complex about them.

I realize reality shows are scripted, but this one is disingenuous and insulting to real outdoorsmen. In one episode the "mountaineers" catch a 200 pound halibut from over 100 feet underwater with nothing more than a fishing line and an old wood ski. I'm an outdoorsman, an avid fisherman, and I've been halibut fishing off the coast of Alaska when I was in the US Navy. A fish that size would be difficult to catch, let alone reel in, even with all the down-riggers we had on our boat. I once caught a 30 lb. Salmon while fishing Lake Superior as a teenager and it took me over an hour to reel him in on a pretty nice "big water" rod & reel. I'm insulted that they act like this guy reeled that fish in with his hands. An episode or so later one of the teams fashioned a "gun" from a shotgun shell and a snowshoe in order to kill a squirrel. A firing pin needs to precisely hit the primer in order for it to fire (I was a Gunner's Mate in the Navy prior becoming a SAR Swimmer). No way they were able to line that up. Again insulted! Then it's the ridiculous photo-shop that was done in the second to the last episode when the military guys are going down the glacier luge. Finally there is the last episode where "coincidentally" all three teams converge at the river at the same exact time at the same exact spot 15 hours into the journey (ideal if you're the cameraman). Then, somehow, even though a military guy capsized and was stranded up-river for well over an hour while the endurance team was paddling down river, the military guys caught up with them and all three teams made it to the base of the "volcano" at the same exact time. You couldn't script it any better even if you scripted.... wait a minute, we've been bamboozled!

I realize the producers don't care because I actually watched the whole season, but it truly became something my wife and I watched as a comedy to make fun of more than there was any suspense or like these guys were in actual danger. My wife would say (sarcastically) "oh my god, do you think he's going to make it?" and I'd laugh because at the most perilous moments, in the most treacherous conditions, the cameraman and the boom- mic guy seemed to be able to endure just fine. One time the endurance guys were baffled at how they could cross the raging river, I said to my wife "why don't they just ask the cameraman, who is clearly standing on the other side of the river filming, how he got over there!" Most often the camera man was filming from in front of the team while these "Endurance Athletes", "Mountaineers", "Woodsman" and "Military" guys struggled up the hill or down a ravine or across a river.

You know who is the Ultimate Alaskan Survivor? It's not the Military Team, or the Endurance Athletes, or the Mountaineers, or the Woodsmen! It's the cameraman and the boom-mic guy!

I told my wife I'd love to offer up a reward for these four groups to do this again, for real, without a dead halibut being put on a line, without photo-shopped pack-rafts going down a luge or without a Kodiak Bear charging a bird on a branch that they simulate to seem as if the bear was going after one of the guys about 200 yards further down the river.

I do see Dallas Seavey won the 2014 Iditarod. Nice to see him actually win something real! I'm not saying these guys aren't fit and didn't get a workout during the show, but it's a bit like watching Pro Wrestling. You might be the Ultimate Alaskan Survivor, but that's like saying you're the WWF Heavyweight Champion of the World. The only difference (Dallas) is you didn't get paid millions and didn't have to do it in your underwear.

P.S. As a SAR Swimmer (Search and Rescue) in the US NAVY… FACT: it takes a bit more than 10 minutes to recover from stage-1 hypothermia fellas. All I'm saying is the demographic your gearing your show towards are people like me (outdoors guys/gals). Remove the BS and silliness from it and it would have actually been a pretty entertaining show.

The first season was quite enjoyable, until you realize it's all fake. People can't hike the distances announced in such a short period of time, they don't have that many close encounters with bears, they don't paddle down a glacier stream and stop a couple of meters before a moulin... The worst was the 2nd season, with soldiers lying through their teeth "I'm doing it for my country" yeah right... mountaineers claiming you have to respect the wilderness, while they're doing a blatant staged show, acting as if they ignored danger and all, taking ridiculous routes and risks, not eating enough... Tyler's disappearance was pathetic, with hours in freezing water (allegedly of course) and a "lucky" (staged) rescue. This kind of show is dangerous : it makes young people think you can survive by being absolutely reckless in the wilderness, all these guys are Bear Grylls on steroids, and there's NO warning telling people to not reproduce this, that this is staged and over the top. They could have done a good show by making it 100% real, instead they chose the showy fake entertainment path. Just by looking at Alaskan maps you can see the distances announced are fake, and when danger arise, the cameramen stay still, clearly in the know that this was gonna happen, as it's scripted. Please avoid watching this, or we'll have countless clones, and uneducated kids and teens will try to replicate this and many accidents will occur...

The first episode looks really promising.. until several situations that seems totally staged/fake like when the cowboy fired his gun to a fish (obviously a dead fish) in the boat etc. These things made me question whether or not the show misleads its viewers like some of the other survival shows have been known to do.

This doubt about the reality presented in the show disappointed me because I had high expectation on this show. And while many things on television are misleading, if not straight lies, it's nice sometimes to think that someone is different than all the rest. From what I found, I no longer trust the show.

Wow...i watched half an episode of this garbage and i cant get those precious minutes of my life back to do more constructive things with my time like start a cult, put lit cigarettes out on the back of my neck or the very least inject black tar heroin directly into my testicles i don't think its scripted its more like the thought process of each person on the show thinks to themselves "what would make for dramatic TV? I know I'm gonna slip into water for a fee feet and act like I've been in subzero temperature water for 45 minutes" and yet every person has the same thought process its like an LSD ridden hive mind has taken over the airwaves of America

I loved the first season of Ultimate Survival Alaska and I was very excited about watching season 2.

I was extremely disappointed because from the get go it is painfully obvious that the trials and tribulations that the competitors face are ridiculously scripted. The teams consist of new members such as Military and Woodsmen, but there are return characters with Marty, Dallas, and Tyler. Everyone on the show displays "amazing luck" in their travels including, finding a resident of the Alaskan wilderness who, out of the kindness of his heart, offers Marty and his team a raft for them to travel down the river with ease. Another "lucky find" comes when the Woodsmen stumble upon a canoe that just happens to be in perfect condition and big enough for all three of the team mates. The last straw for me was when Marty and his team happened to "find" hiking gear that was conveniently left at the summit of the mountain they were having trouble traversing. The gear included crampons, old styled snowshoes, and boots. I was insulted that the creators of the show think their audience is that dim witted to believe that these scenarios are factual. Do not get sucked in to this ridiculous "reality" show as it is all scripted and has about as much reality as an episode of "The Office".