Man vs. Wild
Bear Grylls travels the world in search of challenges to his survival skills.
Genre: Adventure, Reality-TV
Cast:Bear Grylls , Chris Kratt , Will Ferrell , Joe Rest , Sean Lacoste , Jake Gyllenhaal , Dan Etheridge , Simon Reay , Dave Pearce , Duncan Gaudin , Narendra Modi
S1.E1 ∙ The Rockies
Bear Grylls gets dropped in the middle of the Canadian Rocky Mountains near Canadian Border and must find his way back to civilization. On his way out, he must evade the danger of grizzly bears, jump 70 feet into a river, and abseil down a cliff.
S1.E2 ∙ Moab Desert
The Moab Desert in Utah is one of the top extreme sports destinations in the United States, with more than a million visitors each year. But sweltering temperatures and deadly predators can make it very dangerous. Bear is dropped into the desert to demonstrate how a lost hiker can make it back to civilization, with merely a bottle of water, a knife and a flint. On his journey, he travels down a maze of narrow canyons, stumbles upon rattlesnakes, and escapes quicksand, showing viewers how to survive in one of the harshest environments on the planet.
S1.E3 ∙ Costa Rican Rainforest
Each year, 500,000 Americans visit Costa Rica to explore some of the world's most amazing and environmentally significant wilderness preserves. Last year alone, more than 50 visitors had to be rescued by the Red Cross. Bear sets out on an incredible jungle adventure as he parachutes into the rain forest of Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula to demonstrate how someone lost in the jungle can make it out alive. His journey takes him up 100-foot trees and down waterfalls that descend more than 120 feet. He encounters snakes, mosquitoes and dangerous river currents, while searching for food and water and setting up camp.
S1.E4 ∙ Alaskan Mountain Range
Thousands of skiers, snowboarders and mountain climbers visit Alaska each year in search of virgin snow, and hundreds of people end up lost in the wilderness. Armed with only a bottle of water, a knife and a flint, Bear's challenge is to make it to the coast from where he hopes to find signs of civilization. During his journey, he travels down extreme mountain slopes, over glaciers and through bear-infested forests, and navigates a small boat through treacherous ice floes. Bear shows viewers what it takes to survive in one of the coldest environments on earth.
S1.E5 ∙ Hawaii: Mount Kilauea
Bear abseils from a helicopter onto Mount Kilauea, an active Hawaiian volcano, so he must tread with unusual caution, given the barren, brittle soil of molted lava, at places even breaking over hot magma, which makes his shoes catch fire, and use his t-shirt as 'gas mask' for sulfuric fumes. Descending into a crater is perilous, sharp-edged and yields very little. After descending the mountain slope, Bear heads into the pristine surrounding jungle. Grylls makes a traditional kukui nut torch to explore a lava tube and finds water, then uses smoke to placate a bee hive to get honey. Ultimately, he follows seabirds to find the coast and people.
S1.E6 ∙ Sierra Nevada
Bear enjoys a risky parachute jump into California's largest, rough and varied mountain range, landing in a lake and hastily stripping to his boxers and improvising fire to avoid hypothermia as the nights are freezing. Using techniques of local Indian tribe, he climbs a tree for orientation, works his way down a peek and crosses changing terrain, through dizzying cliffs, satisfies his hungry self with the little food he can catch, like small snakes and a stick-stunned rabbit, always racing the clock for food and shelter by daylight. Having crossed the forest and nasty shrubs of the 'chaparral', he reaches the mighty river Colorado, builds a raft and finds it a poor match for the rapids, yet perseveres.
S1.E7 ∙ African Savannah
A parachute from hot air balloon brings team Bear to Masai country in northern Kenya, a savanna favorite with safari tourists. Bear shows how dangerous getting behind there can be, say as your vehicle breaks down, and how to survive and seek rescue. Starting on the arid plain, Bear treats his graze wounds with medicinal aloe vera, navigates by the sky and shows healthy respect for both elements, notably the scorching heath and a volcano, and the mighty wildlife, especially big cats, elephants, rhinoceros, and when he must cross a river the crocodiles and hippopotamuses which infest it. After sleepless -wild sounds haunted- night barricaded by thorny branches in a cave, he eats whatever he can find, and out of potable water, as even the river bed is utterly dry apart from stinking pools, drinks even the brown drip from elephant dung.
S1.E8 ∙ European Alps
Every year, 120 million people ski and climb the 80,000 square miles of the Alps, Europe's greatest mountain range. Unfortunately, every year hundreds of people die enjoying this beautiful wilderness because they're unable to survive the potentially fatal conditions at heights sometimes reaching 15,000 feet. Armed with a knife, a water bottle, a cup and a flint, Bear parachutes into the Alps to demonstrate vital survival skills. From a radical new technique to save lives in crevasse zones to building a snow shelter and showing viewers how to escape from a fall into a frozen lake, Bear puts his own skills to the test in this ultimate survival challenge.
S1.E9 ∙ Desert Island
Bear shows the challenges of stranding on an uninhabited minor Hawaiian island, as after shipwreck, albeit parachuted. He explores it for food, other resources, a suitable shelter, a signal fire, rain collection. Spear fishing and diving are very hard, the yield modest. So he builds a raft and sets out in high sea, despite the risks including thirst, hunger, sunburn -despite self-made skin protection- and a hungry tiger shark.
S1.E10 ∙ Everglades
This premiere episode finds host Bear Grylls stranded in the swamps of the Florida Everglades, where each year at least 60 tourists need to be rescued. With more than a million alligators, thousands of snakes and even black bears roaming these waterlogged lands, the area has more than its share of hazards. Bear demonstrates how to keep alligators at bay, deal with vicious razor-sharp grass and find stomach-churning food that will keep you alive if you find yourself stranded in this beautiful but dangerous destination.
S1.E11 ∙ Iceland
While hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Iceland every year to witness freezing glaciers, steaming geothermal areas and huge black sand deserts, more than a thousand visitors find themselves requiring a rescue. Adventurer Bear Grylls demonstrates how to make a snow cave, find water in deep tunnels and avoid frostbite in this Arctic environment. Because finding food is a problem in this climate, Bear is forced to eat a sheep's eyeball and catch a ptarmigan (a wild bird). He also has to deal with blizzards and 50 mph winds as he attempts to reach safety.
S1.E12 ∙ Mexico
After sky-diving down, Bear crosses the vast, scorching-hot Mexican Copper canyon, south of the US border. Bear finds the dehydrating heat by day -and icy nights- his greatest challenge while climbing up and down high, steep, unpredictable cliffs. The arid land, surprisingly varied with volcanic hot springs, waterfalls and a glacier, offers little water and sustenance, so he must filter unpolluted pools or finds steaming water and eat what he can catch, like fat grubs and tail-removed scorpions. Exploring a cave with a self-made torch, Bear braves his animal phobia, bats, and is delighted to find a river section with fish he can catch by hand after building primitive rock dams at both sides.
S1.E13 ∙ Kimberley, Australia
Even by Australian Outback standards, Kimberley is a vast and desolate wasteland, home to an inhospitable wildlife with a record concentration of poisonous species. Bear braves it, paying due tribute to traditional Aboriginal survival skills, showing how stranded tourists may still hope to get out alive. Even he wrestles with the scorching heat, leaving most of the and dry and very hard to find water or food, so you can't be picky, eating anything not dangerous and drinking what you can, even recycling your own filtered fresh urine. After a storm in a hastily improvised shelter, Bear heads for the marshy lands near the coast, with a healthy respect for crocodiles, the sweet water being dangerous enough, but seaworthy 'salties' are believed to bite harder the tyrannosaurus, and aggressive in breeding season like then, yet Bear must prepare to wade or dive croc-infested, murky waters.
S1.E14 ∙ Ecuador
Bear starts a testing journey trough tropical Ecuador paragliding down in the Andes, then works his way down into the Amazon jungle, trying to follow the course of water gradually swelling into a mighty stream, passing a cave requires getting over his aversion from bats. Wildlife is abundant, yet food not so easy to get, even if you know some local tribal techniques. He eats both a crucifix spider and giant larvae for the protein, making him all the more happy when a self-made bow and arrow allow him to fish-hunt in pools, for piranhas who aren't numerous enough to be dangerous, yet tasty. A bamboo bridge he constructs crashes to useless rubble, for lack of a canoe he braves the rapids on a tree trunk.
S1.E15 ∙ Scotland
Bear is dropped in the Scottish Highlands, the wildest UK region, notably Cairngorm National Park, every year still quite risky for its many tourists. The unforgiving winter elements scourge Bear with icy wind, cold and precipitation, so he must regularly seek shelter in between threading carefully on snow, ice, slippery moss and sliding pebbles or dealing with snowy slopes with avalanche risk, a rotting deer carcass is inedible but can be skinned for a coat, alas too heavy to carry long. Food and potable water are scares, so he purifies with moss and sets rabbit snare traps yielding a glorious meal. Bear strips to his boxers to keep his clothes dry when he must cross water, notably the murky marshes which can act as quicksand.
S2.E1 ∙ Sahara
In the sun-scorched Sahara Desert, Grylls uses survival tactics of the indigenous people, including eating a scorpion and a sandfish. He also explains how to escape from quicksand.
S2.E2 ∙ Desert Survivor
Bear befriend a group of nomads in the Moroccan Sahara and shares some of the secrets of these masters of desert survival. As a going away gift he receives a goat skin water bottle made from a goat he helped skin.
S2.E3 ∙ Panama
Lost in the Panamanian rain forest Bear finds his bearings and navigates to his prearranged helicopter pick up point. Along the way he turns geological obstacles to his advantage and points out unexpected dangers and benefits. Then Bear demonstrates the difficulty of navigating a mangrove swamp.
S2.E4 ∙ Jungle
Bear joins a group of natives in a blow gun hunt in the Panamanian rain forest and manages to bag an iguana himself. Then, as he climbs into the mountains, he demonstrates some beneficial plants and a fishing technique.
S2.E5 ∙ Patagonia
On a glacier in Patagonia Bear reveals some of the hidden dangers that make arctic survival so difficult and demonstrates how to build a snow cave to weather storms and frigid nights.
S2.E6 ∙ Andes Adventure
Bear traverses a glacier in the Andes exploring the hidden dangerous and gets naked to warm up. The he parachutes into the extremely dry but still cold Patagonian Steppe for some rock climbing and puma tracking
S2.E7 ∙ Bear Eats
Bear finds the most disgusting bad-tasting things in the world to eat to stay alive.
S2.E8 ∙ Zambia
Bear hazards the treacherous rapids and terrain surrounding the Zambezi river not wanting to risk still water for fear of crocodiles. But the bush contains it's own dangers.
S2.E9 ∙ Namibia
Bear is dropped off the Skeleton Coast in Namibia. After a day and night on the beach he heads inland across 60 miles of desert in a search for water. Meeting up with a group of San Bushmen he hunts porcupine.
S2.E10 ∙ Jungle Swamp
Bear traverses a swamp and jungle in the Sumatra rain forest. Naturally he chose the rainy season but he finally manages to find some good eating.
S2.E11 ∙ Castaway
Bear explores a tiny deserted island near Sumatra. Despite the idyllic appearance, Bear struggles to find food and especially water. Unable to find adequate water, he builds a raft to escape.
S2.E12 ∙ Siberia
Dropped in the wilderness, Bear searches for the Trans-Siberian Railroad in the bitter cold of Siberia.
S2.E13 ∙ Land of Ice
Bear is air lifted into the treacherous Sanyan mountains in Siberia. Bear meets the Tuvans; yak herder descended from Genghis Khan who have lived there for 20,000 years, and learns some survival techniques from these cold climate experts.
S3.E1 ∙ Baja Desert
In Baja Bear tries his hand at snare hunting. But what will he do when he catches a skunk. The bees and rattlesnakes aren't too friendly either.
S3.E2 ∙ The Deep South
Bear bumps into alligators, snakes, catfish and a nutria or two in a Louisiana swamp. But that's OK because they're might good eating.
S3.E3 ∙ Ireland
Dropped off the Irish coast, Bear endeavors to scale the rock cliffs. That accomplished, he has more trouble once he clears the cliffs. But the occasional sheep helps.
S3.E4 ∙ South Dakota
Bear tackles not one but three nasty environments; the Black Hills, the Bad Lands and the Great Plains.
S3.E5 ∙ Bear's Essentials
A clip-show from previous "Man vs. Wild" episodes, highlighting important survival techniques.
S3.E6 ∙ Belize
Bear Grylls is in the jungles of Belize where he plays Tarzan in the trees, comes face to face with a 9 foot boa constrictor and is left hanging by his fingertips over a raging white-water river.
S3.E7 ∙ Yukon
Dropped on a mountain plateau, Bear descends to a glacier then squeezes through an ice cave to escape. Unable to handle frigid river rapids he comes upon an abandoned mine and attempts to use it as a short cut though the mountains.
S3.E8 ∙ Oregon
Only Bear would pole vault down a rocky cliff and over river rapids. But he takes time later on for a dip in the ice cold water of the Snake River and a frozen lake.
S3.E9 ∙ Dominican Republic
Bear builds his most ambitions raft yet to ride across 5 miles of open ocean. Then he attempts some overly ambitious climbs and meets some not to friendly critters; a giant centipede and a tarantula.
S3.E10 ∙ Turkey
Bear Grylls heads for Turkey; from the freezing mountain tops to the lifeless Steppes, Bear battles white water rapids, takes on 100 foot climbs and confronts the locals; poisonous snakes and death stalker scorpions.
S3.E11 ∙ Romania
Bear Grylls enters the heart of Dracula country; forest of Transylvania, where he encounters steep ravines, cavernous underground water systems, and comes face to face with a large adult brown bear.
S3.E12 ∙ Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide: Part One
From falling into the ice of Siberia, to battling sharks to make it off a desert island in Indonesia and skinning and eating snakes in the mangroves of Panama, Bear offers you a guide to survival for the most dangerous of places.
S3.E99 ∙ Man vs. Wild: The Will Ferrell Special
Will Farrell suffers along with Bear in the bitter cold of the arctic and participates in Bear's crazy dangerous time saving methods and exotic cuisine.
S4.E1 ∙ Arctic Circle
Bear hunts and kills a reindeer in the Arctic. But before he can eat any of it, it turns into more of a liability than a salvation. And he can't seem to stay out of the ice cold water.
S4.E2 ∙ Alabama
In Alabama Bear rides river rapids in yet another sinking raft. But it's the wild pig he snares that is almost more than he can handle. Then it off to the swamp where Bear get stuck in the mud before facing a forest fire.
S4.E3 ∙ Vietnam
Bear traverses the rocky terrain of Vietnam including river rapids and waterfalls while following a river in Vietnam. Along the way he stares down a cobra, feeds some leaches and pursues his least favorite animal, bats.
S4.E4 ∙ Texas
Bear finds an oasis in the Chihuahuan Desert but not before a near death experience crossing a gorge on a single rope bridge secured only by a make-shift grappling hook. Then it's on to the Rio Grande River if he can make it down a rock face.
S4.E5 ∙ Alaska
Bear hikes in Alaska as summer approaches and the glacial ice is unstable. He nearly falls into swollen river rapids when his log bridge collapses. Eventually he reaches the coast and tries to paddle out into the shipping lanes on an improvised raft. Of course the raft starts to since so Bear tries to jump on an iceberg hoping to snag a fishing trawler as it goes by.
S4.E6 ∙ Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide: Part Two
In his ultimate survival guide Bear goes back to basics, to show you how to find water food and shelter; everything you need to make it home in one piece.
S4.E7 ∙ The Inside Story
Bear introduces his crew including his courageous cameraman who follows him everywhere. Bear also describes some of the unexpected challenges he encountered.
S4.E8 ∙ Pacific Island
Bear demonstrates island survival but still decides to head to sea on a makeshift raft after gathering supplies. He ends up island hopping until he finds an inhabited island.
S4.E9 ∙ China
Bear does all his usual acrobatics while suffering through Typhon Parma in China including swinging on a vine, monkey climbing over a gorge and cliff diving.
S4.E10 ∙ Big Sky Country
Bear para-glides into the Montana Rockies. After risking his life climbing down a water fall on a rotten old log and rope ladder that is a bit too short he tries to cross a lake on a holey canoe using a make shift kite and manages to make it part way. Surviving these exploits he finds an unstable rock wall to climb, a collapsing mine to explore and a chasm to jump over. Then it gets really dangerous before getting absolutely crazy.
S4.E11 ∙ Guatemala
Bear drops in on a volcano in Guatemala. He wisely decides to vacate the area but his route out is just as dangerous.
S4.E12 ∙ Urban Survivor
In a simulated urban disaster, Bear navigates abandoned buildings, roof tops and sewers and finds it as hard to find clean drinking water as in the desert.
S4.E13 ∙ Shooting Survival
Survival takes a look behind the scenes and introduces the experts that keep Bear alive and make the show possible. In conjunction with clips of past highlights the crew explains the challenges and surprises they encountered.
S4.E14 ∙ North Africa
In the North African Sahara, Bear gets creative finding water. He treks to the coast, catches an octopus, makes shelter with acacia trees, and eats a stomach-turning bug burger breakfast of locusts and moths.
S4.E15 ∙ Bear's Top 25 Man Moments
Bear's all man and to prove the point we have selected 25 of his most masculine moments, from wild leaps into the unknown to improvised insect feasts.
S5.E1 ∙ Western Pacific
Bear gets dropped off shore in the shark infested waters of a deserted island new Papua New Guinea and wisely swims for shore. But he doesn't have the sense to stay on land and instead crosses a sand reef to another island and enjoys an all too close encounter. But that doesn't stop him from trying to catch a shark bare handed. Then Bear attempts another ill considered crossing to another island on one of his suspect rafts.
S5.E2 ∙ Northern Australia
Bear takes a rather uneventful walkabout in northern Australia with an occasional snake, worm or spider for a snack. Then there's the crocodiles.
S5.E3 ∙ Canadian Rockies
Since Bear survived the worst his crew could do to him in the desert they're going to treat him to simulated disasters in arctic conditions including being buried by an avalanche, a blizzard, immersion in an icy lake, and sliding down a hill out of control. One of these stunts leads to injuries.
S5.E4 ∙ Georgia-Eastern Europe
Bear is dropped off in the mountains of Georgia on a snowmobile which he soon buries in deep snow. Heading down hill he performs his customary aerobatics this time riding a zip line over a torrent. Then he builds a seaworthy canoe of reeds to ride down stream and out to sea.
S5.E5 ∙ Fan vs. Wild
Bear invites two fans of "Man vs. Wild" to join him on one of his weekly excursions.
S5.E6 ∙ Extreme Desert
Bear's crew does their best to kill him as they simulate some perilous situations in the Mojave Desert including a sand storm and a flash flood. Barely perturbed, Bear goes looking for some scorpions, rattlesnakes and coyotes to play with before an invigorating rock climb.
S5.E7 ∙ Behind the Wild
Ever wonder who films Bears leaping from helicopters, crossing crocodile infested rivers, sliding down ice falls and generally risk life and limb? In this behind the scenes look you get the chance to meet the team and see how they stay in one piece!
S6.E1 ∙ Arizona Sky Islands
After jumping from a helicopter in a wing suit Bear finds himself in the Arizona dessert. There he finds the water tastes better filtered through his sock or a straw stuffed with grass or charcoal. Cruising across the desert in a make-shift sail cart (until he crashes of course) Bear heads for the for the mountains where he finds lots more ways to defy death with parachute cord such as a hanging bivouac and swinging from a cliff.
S6.E2 ∙ Cape Wrath, Scotland
Bear is in Scotland off the coast around Cape Wrath. Spotting a dead seal on the rocks, Bear fashions a wetsuit from its hide and faces a chilly swim. He has a close call with a deadly rock fall before making camp in an old, upturned boat.
S6.E3 ∙ Norway Edge of Survival
Bear and his team are in Norway. Armed with the latest technology they'll be creating the harshest conditions possible while sensors monitor how Bear copes trying to survive in one of the world's most beautiful but wettest countries.
S6.E4 ∙ Borneo Jungle
After being lowered from a helicopter and climbing down form the jungle canopy, Bear makes a torch to explore a cave in hopes of finding a stream. But mountain streams have waterfalls which mean more dangerous descents. Then the rain starts and the stream becomes a torrent but it's the road back to civilization.
S6.E5 ∙ Malaysian Archipelago
Bear Grylls is dropped into a remote archipelago of islands off the coast of Borneo. From the moment he swims ashore Bear is fighting impenetrable jungle, scaling escarpments and navigating inhospitable swamps in his search for freshwater. Desperate for food Bear has no choice but to try and spear fish in the shallows at night. The struggle to survive continues as he tries to catch fish by free diving to depths of 20ft and on land Bear has to use all his skills to drive wild boar into his trap. But will he find the ultimate key to his survival a freshwater source?
S6.E6 ∙ Global Survival Guide
Bear Grylls travels the world to give you the best tips and techniques so you can survive wherever you're stranded. From skin diving without a mask in the tropics, to finding water in the desert, this is the best of Bear's never before seen footage.
S7.E1 ∙ Men vs. Wild with Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal is Bear's latest guest/victim but he proves to be a willing participant in every dangerous or revolting activity Bear can dream up to challenge Jake's acrophobia. He and Bear are lowered from a helicopter into a frozen wilderness in Iceland. There, Bear lowers Jake into an ice hole, then has him explore an ice cave and investigate a rotting carcass. Back up top Jake gets to eat a worm, wade across a glacier fed river, dig out a snow shelter by hand and crawl cross a gorge on a rope. Then it's a windy ride home dangling on a rope from a rescue helicopter.
S7.E2 ∙ New Zealand: South Island
A goof is said by Bear Grylls right near the end where he has been heading west across New Zealand. Bear says that if he keeps going west he will hit Argentina. That is wrong as it would be Australia.
S7.E3 ∙ Iceland: Land of Fire and Ice
Bear traverses Iceland's glaciers where he encounters freezing ice crevasses, boiling mud pits, frigid rivers and volcanic steam vents. But there's no getting around that it's cold so Bear builds a hot tub and strips down for a soak. All warmed up it's time for a walk in the rain and a climb down a waterfall.
S7.E4 ∙ Utah: Red Rock Country
Oops, Bear forgot his parachute and the pilot doesn't want to stop so Bear has to climb out of his DC-3 as it touches down on the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah. There he descends cliffs, unstable slopes and a maze of slot canyons. But Bear's oft sought river road proves to be his greatest challenge on this excursion.
S7.E5 ∙ New Zealand: Land of the Maori
On New Zealand's North Island Bear finds no shortage of water and wildlife for food but it is by no means safe or friendly. Still, he has fun navigating waterfalls and river gorges including some cliff diving and chilly swims.
S7.E6 ∙ Working the Wild
Bear Grylls takes the viewer behind the scenes to meet the crew that follows his every step. Whether he's jumping from helicopters or eating the unimaginable, the camera is never far away from the action. Now the crew gets to tell their side of the story.
