Episode Guide

Sahara
Parachuting into the Sahara, one of the hottest place on earth, Bear uses his skills and adopts little known techniques used by indigenous tribes to survive. From urinating on his t-shirt to keep cool, to eating a camel spider, a deadly scorpion and raw goat's testicles, Bear demonstrates how to avoid dehydration, hunger and heat-stroke. Then, with a stomach full of Saharan delicacies, Bear follows a camel train to the deadly desolation of the salt pans.  There is no food and no water but plenty of mirages to trick the mind. His biggest test yet is something he's heard from the Berber tribesmen - he must skin and disembowel a dead camel to get water from its rumen, food from the carcass, warmth from the skin and a shelter for the night.

Panama
Bear Grylls tackles the deadly mangroves of Panama as he parachutes into crocodile and shark infested water in the first of this two part programme. Using vines he drops into the Camino Reale viper pits where he will face one of his biggest fears in the pitch black cavern. With no food or water he has to use what he can find for nourishment and it is the local wildlife he turns to; including longhorn beetles and crab. Bear uses his own well honed skills as well as knowledge gained from local tribes to show how to survive in such a challenging and hostile place. 

Patagonia
This time, Bear parachutes on to a treacherous ice field in Southern Patagonia – one of the largest expanses of ice in the world. He demonstrates the survival techniques needed to withstand avalanches and hangs in the jaws of an ice crevasse.  To escape a snowstorm, Bear takes shelter for the night in a snow cave, before paragliding spectacularly from the mountain range, into the beech forest below. Picking his way through the challenging terrain of the Patagonian tundra, Bear grubs around for worms and beetles to eat. He tackles a frozen bog and attempts to sail a makeshift raft across an icy lake.

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, building a snow shelter to survive alpine storms, 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. 

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 rainforest of Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula to demonstrate how someone lost in the jungle can make it back to civilization. His journey takes him up 100-foot trees and down waterfalls that descend more than 120 feet.  Along the way, he encounters snakes, mosquitoes and dangerous river currents while searching for food and water and setting up camp. 

Moab Desert in Utah   
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 a 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.

Sierra Nevada  
Every year, four million hikers and climbers are drawn to the majestic mountain ranges of the Sierra Nevada, one of the greatest mountain ranges in the country. With more than 400 miles of terrain and mountain peaks reaching 14,000+ feet high, the Sierras are breathtaking. But this spectacular wilderness is deceptively dangerous; hundreds of people become stranded there each year. One wrong turn can turn into a struggle to stay alive. Bear shows viewers how to survive in the Sierra’s three major mountainous regions: alpine, woodlands and chaparral.  He parachutes into an alpine lake, free climbs down steep cliffs, and rafts down white-water rapids. Utilizing his knowledge of American Indian survival techniques, Bear builds shelters, calms wild horses, and finds food.

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. Bear’s challenge is to make it back to the chair lifts equipped with only his skis, a bottle of water, a knife and a flint.  During his journey, he travels down extreme mountain slopes, over glaciers, 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 the planet.

Hawaii– Mount Kilauea 
The Big Island of Hawaii is home to the world’s most active volcano, Mount Kilauea. Since 1992, it has been in a state of constant eruption, spitting out clouds of poisonous sulphuric gasses from the soil. Here, the landscape is denuded of plant life, devoid of water, and few animals are ever seen. Beneath the unstable surface lies a river of molten rock boiling at temperatures above 2000 degrees.  Surrounding this volcanic landscape is a dense rain forest which offers environmental relief, but features dangers of its own. To demonstrate the skills necessary to survive, Bear skydives into this treacherous expanse and demonstrates how to create a gas mask, escape from a moving lava flow, make a fire from a smoldering tree and kill a mongoose using a ricin-poisoned blow dart.

African Savannah – Kenya 
More than 100,000 Americans visit Kenya each year in search of a safari. But what they don’t know about life in the wild can kill them. Bear surveys the Kenyan landscape from a hot air balloon, from which he parachutes down onto the arid plain. Upon hitting the ground, Bear is immediately surrounded by dangerous animals, including rhinoceros, lions, leopards, elephants, and buffalo. Traveling across the African plains, Bear demonstrates how to build a tent from natural materials, trap small birds, and maneuver through dense riverbank vegetation to reach his eventual rescue

Hawaii  - Desert Island
When people fantasize about being stranded on a desert island, they never realize how inhospitable that climate can be. The feelings of isolation, vulnerability and hunger soon kick in, making it essential to know how to survive.  Equipped with just a handful of supplies, Bear parachutes on to one of Hawaii’s 130 uninhabited surrounding islands, evading toxic coral, highly poisonous jellyfish, and sharks as he swims to shore. Bear demonstrates how to survive as he spears fish, collects rainwater, builds a shelter, and plans his escape from one of man’s most dangerous destinations.