Plot Synopsis

MOUNTAIN MEN follows three men who live off the grid -- and off the land -- in different wilderness areas of the United States, where ancient survival skills can mean the difference between life and death. Plus, they must race against time to obtain the food and supplies they'll need to make it through the brutal winter months ahead, where staying alive is a full-time job. For more than 25 years, Eustace Conway has lived off the land deep at the western edge of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, where dangers like mudslides, falling trees, ravaging weather and hungry bears are a fact of life. Plus, he does his own lumbering, tanning, and blacksmithing, subsisting solely on what he can grow, fish or hunt, and hosts interns who want to learn the old ways of living with nature in a self-sustaining society. For Tom Oar, it takes him a whole year to prepare for the seven-month-long winters on the Yaak River in Montana, where he needs to chop some 700 square feet of wood to heat his home and find enough food to last the long, unrelenting winter. Plus, he must keep a vigilant eye out for aggressive grizzlies, mountain lions, and wolves, while his wife Nancy is concerned that they'll be forced to give up the life they love and move to Florida with his kids if his health or hers should fail. Meanwhile, Marty Meierotto is piloting his bush plane in search of animal pelts to make a living in the northern range of Alaska, where he must cut and gather enough wood to survive to survive an Arctic winter that can reach 60 degrees below zero. Plus, he lives off mountain sheep and caribou -- if the wolves and bears don't get him first -- with his wife Dominique and their daughter Noah in his primitive one-room log cabin 200 miles from civilization.