Hazen Audel of Spokane is host of the National Geographic television program Survive the Tribe. (National Geographic Channels)
"Survive the Tribe" TV filming crews explored six remote corners of the world during the National Geographic Channel series' first season in 2014. (Molly Quinn / The Spokesman-Review)
Mpagas, Kenya: Hazen Audel and a San bushmen warrior herding cattle. (Alex Parkinson / National Geographic Channels)
Mpagas, Kenya: Hazen Audel and a San bushmen warrior herding cattle. (Alex Parkinson / National Geographic Channels)
Mpagas, Kenya: Hazen Audel and a San bushmen warrior herding cattle. (Alex Parkinson / National Geographic Channels)
Mpagas, Kenya: Hazen Audel with San bushmen holding a honeycomb they harvested from a beehive. (Alex Parkinson / National Geographic Channels)
Mpagas, Kenya: Hazen Audel holding a honeycomb he harvested from a beehive, and taking a few stings from the bees. (Alex Parkinson / National Geographic Channels)
Molaa, Reef Islands, Solomon Islands: Hazen Audel and the Molaa and Malapu people closing in the net trap for fish. (Samantha Tollworthy / National Geographic Channels)
Molaa, Reef Islands, Solomon Islands: Hazen Audel swimming underwater in search for food. (Rory McGuinness / National Geographic Channels)
Molaa, Reef Islands, Solomon Islands: Hazen Audel working on his dug out canoe. (Samantha Tollworthy / National Geographic Channels)
Molaa, Reef Islands, Solomon Islands: Hazen Audel paddling in his dug out canoe. (Laurence Hamilton Baillie / National Geographic Channels)
Kangiqsujuac, Northern Quebec, Canada: Hazen Audel paddles through semi frozen sea ice looking for seals. (Alex Holden / National Geographic Channels)
Kangiqsujuac, Northern Quebec, Canada: Hazen Audel with a sled dog. (Jackie Forster / National Geographic Channels)
Kangiqsujuac, Northern Quebec, Canada: Hazen Audel practices throwing the Inuit seal harpoon. (Alex Holden)
Kangiqsujuac, Northern Quebec, Canada: Hazen Audel looks for shellfish to eat under the frozen sea. (Toby Wilkinson / National Geographic Channels)
Bayan Olgii, Mongolia: Hazen Audel with Mongolian Kazakh Ozat and his Son. On horse back, in traditional dress, leading Bactran camels. (Samantha Tollworthy)
Bayan Olgii, Mongolia: Hazen Audel holding a golden eagle. (National Geographic Channels)
Bayan Olgii, Mongolia: Hazen Audel with locals using a golden eagle to hunt predators. (National Geographic Channels)
Bayan Olgii, Mongolia: Hazen Audel holding a female golden eagle. (Laurence Hamilton Baillie)
Location: Nhoma Village, Namibia, South Africa: Hazen, Touka, Mosse and Jonas with bow and arrows. (Jackie Forster / National Geographic Channels)
Location: Nhoma Village, Namibia, South Africa: Hazen, Touka, Mosse, Joseph and Jonas with bow and arrows. (Jackie Forster / National Geographic Channels)
Location: Nhoma Village, Namibia, South Africa: Hazen, Touka and Jonas cooking porcupine. (Jackie Forster / National Geographic Channels)
Location: Bameno, Ecuador: Huaorani children fishing in the jungle (Laurence Hamilton Baillie / National Geographic Channels)
Location: Bameno, Ecuador: Hazen Audel shares a meal of fish with a Huaorani child in the jungle. (National Geographic Channels)
Bameno, Ecuador: Hazen Audel displays his fascination with spiders, including tarantulas, in the jungle. (Jose Luis Macerola Pacha / National Geographic Channels)
Location: Bameno, Ecuador: A tribesman teaches Hazen Audel to hunt with a blowgun in the jungle. (Samantha Tollworthy)
Bameno, Ecuador: Presenter Hazen Audel looking to camera in a boat with the Huaorani. (Samantha Tollworthy / National Geographic Channels)
Hazen Audel grinds a piece of iron sculpture he made in his part-time occupation as a commercial artist. (The Spokesman-Review)
Hazen Audel shared his knowledge of flora and fauna with the Spokane Mushroom Club during an outing in the years he taught High School Science at Ferris High School. (Spokane Mushroom Club)
Audel says he's living a rich cultural stew as he travels to the remote niches of the world to film Survive the Tribe. (National Geographic Channels)
High school science teacher, survival instructor, naturalist and artist Hazen Audel is spotlighting the skills of indigenous people in remote niches of the world for the National Geographic Channel TV series, Survive the Tribe. The Sunday Outdoors story by S-R Outdoors Editor Rich Landers describes how Audel's childhood fascination with snakes and spiders put the Spokane native on the path to hunting with bald eagles in Mongolia, dodging stampeding elephants in Kenya, hunting with blowguns in the jungle of Ecuador and learning to spear seals from a kayak in the icy waters of Nunavik. This photo gallery offers a glimpse of the life Audel calls "a rich cultural stew of outdoor adventure."