Les Stroud

Les Stroud is a survival expert, filmmaker, and musician from Canada. Survivorman is a Discovery Channel wilderness survival docuseries that he created and hosts.

What is Les Stroud’s age?

Les Stroud was born on October 20, 1961, in Mimico, Ontario, Canada. Les is 59 years old at the time of this writing. He went to Mimico High School in his hometown and Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, for his Music Industry Arts program.

Net Worth and Career

Les Stroud began working at the music video station MuchMusic in Toronto after finishing his music degree at Fanshawe, and he also wrote songs for the Canadian new wave band New Regime.

Stroud became a guide with Toronto’s Black Feather Wilderness Adventures and led canoe trips into the Ontario wilderness after becoming dissatisfied with his behind-the-scenes duties. The trip not only paved the way for his future job, but it also introduced him to his future wife.

Les Stroud in Survivorman(SOURCE: Real World Survivor)
Stroud trained under David Arama and became a full-time survival expert. Stroud founded Wilderness Voice, an outdoor educational institution, and Wilderness Spirit Productions, a media firm, with his wife by his side.

Les began appearing on Discovery Canada episodes such as One Week in the Wilderness and Winter in the Wilderness. Les Stroud’s efforts attracted enough attention from higher-ups to warrant a Survivor-style show in which he survives in difficult conditions with limited equipment.

Since then, he’s appeared on shows like Survive This!, Beyond Survival with Les Stroud, Survivorman Ten Days, and SOS Island, among others.

Stroud continues to pursue his musical career while working as a survival expert and filmmaker. He is most known for forming the supergroup Les Stroud and the Pikes with Canadian rock band The Northern Pikes, and releasing one EP with the band, Long Walk Home, in 2007.

Stroud has a net worth of $5.5 million as of February 2021, according to celebritynetworth.com.