in my opinion, Dick Proenneke is an incredibly manly man.
For those of you unfamiliar with him, he lived alone in the Alaskan wilderness for 31 years with no electricity or running water. He built a log cabin which he lived in year-round, all by hand, with hand tools. A sea plane would drop him un-gatherable resources like sugar, milk and eggs, but thats the only human contact he had.
He hunted and fished and survived off the land, his own mind and bare hands.
Oh, did I mention he lived there from the time he was 51 until he was 82? He didn't leave Alaska until he believed he was dying. He moved to California and died 3 years later.
If you are interested, watch Alone in the Wilderness. He filmed it all himself, and it's mostly about him building his camp and surviving there in the early years. seeing him get through the first winter and build his cabin is jaw-dropping.
He was the fucking man.