No doubt you've seen his survival skills put to the test as he found himself dropped into various remote locales each week of his three seasons on the Discovery series "Survivorman."

Premiering this Friday, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m. EST, "Beyond Survival" features Canadian adventurer/musician/survivalist Les Stroud living with various indigenous tribes in some of the most remote locations around the globe.

We spoke with Stroud about his new series and asked him for the lowdown on five cultures that routinely face the harshest of living circumstances and how he adapted to the native way of survival.

1. Vedda -- Sri Lanka
Population: Less than 2,000
"I say this in the show, but the Vedda run the risk of totally assimilating, even though in their culture they've forbidden cell phones, electricity and televisions. Yet modern civilization is all around them while their culture is sort of held up in a museum/park area, and if you can hear what I'm getting at -- and I say this in the show too -- they run the risk of becoming a human petting zoo. It's very sad to see it. Nevertheless, when I went with them out into the jungle, we fished with natural poisons and they're almost naked and barefoot doing it. You can't fake that. That's totally authentic."

2. Hewa -- Papua New Guinea
Population: 2,000
"I think they actually have one of the more perfect situations, where they're so remote and isolated, yet they're not unknowledgeable about the modern world because miners and missionaries have gone in there. So, they are aware of another world beyond their own.

"Yet they still have arrows meant for humans and they still hunt in the frost and have dogs that they use to catch rats. I did an incredible ceremony with them that involved pulling the bones of an ancestor out of the ground, which has never before been photographed or even seen by an outsider before."
3. Inuit -- Pond Inlet, Canadian Arctic
Population: 1,300
"I'll give a nod to the Inuit in terms of 'Beyond Survival' because they are modern -- they have television sets and cell phones and laptops and feather pillows. Yet when you go live with them up at Pond Inlet, they still kill over a hundred seals a year -- each individual hunter -- and they still live off the land in a very big way. But they've also been able to take the best of the new world and blend it in with their passion for preserving their original lifestyle. They've really created, in some ways, a success story."


4. Mentawai -- Indonesia
Population: 64,000
"I've got a few tattoos to show for my time spent with them, done with needle and stick. They're very much animists and they live very close to the land. But as with all of these cultures they live in a nexus between modern civilization and their primitive world. The Mentawai have assimilation going on all around them but they're still in the jungle hunting monkeys with poison arrows. They are a fascinating culture, and they're very big on tattoos."
5. Huaorani -- Amazon
Population: 2,500
"The Huaorani are similar to the Mentawai in that they are also animists, which means that they believe that everything -- not just humans -- has a spirit. They also hunt monkeys and tapirs, using blowguns. Tribes like the Huaorani are living on a knife's edge, where what we've learned in 8,000 years they're going to have to learn in eight. It's hard on them, but they have these beautiful cultures they're holding onto."