Seasons & episodes

S3 · E7Oregon 2009-01-25 · 45 min＋

Grylls takes on the deepest river based canyon, Hell's Canyon and the dangerous Snake River.

S3 · E8Dominican Republic 2009-02-01 · 45 min＋

Grylls has some tips on how to survive the hurricane season and he also eats a cooked tarantula to survive. He tells us about the hairs on the tarantula's back legs and how they defend themselves using the hairs.

S3 · E9Turkey 2009-02-08 · 45 min＋

Grylls heads to Turkey where he deals with dangerous animals and he also takes to the water.

S3 · E10Romania 2009-02-15 · 45 min＋

Grylls heads to Romania where he takes on a bear and dangerous water channels.

S4 · E1Arctic Circle 2009-08-12 · 45 min＋

Grylls goes to the Arctic Circle, where he encounters a frozen waterfall, wild reindeer and some of the coldest conditions on the planet.

S4 · E2Alabama 2009-08-19 · 45 min＋

Grylls wrestles a pig, squeezes through some tight spots, and survives a forest fire in the swamps of Alabama. It is revealed that Grylls broke his shoulder while in Antarctica two months previously.

S4 · E3Vietnam 2009-08-26 · 45 min＋

Grylls demonstrates what it was like for soldiers who had to survive in the jungles of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.

S4 · E4Texas 2009-09-02 · 45 min＋

In Western Texas, Grylls falls to earth from an upturned biplane into the parched Chihuahuan Desert; he traverses deep gorges, locates an oasis and takes on a diamond back rattlesnake.

S4 · E5Alaska 2009-09-09 · 45 min＋

Grylls returns to the wilderness of Alaska to survive the dangerous terrain of the Last Frontier.

S4 · E6Pacific Island 2010-01-06 · 45 min＋

Grylls is on a deserted Panamanian island; he creates fresh water and chooses to use tribal fishing techniques before battling the sea on a makeshift raft. Later in the episode he gives himself an enema in order to stay hydrated on the open seas.

S4 · E7China 2010-01-13 · 45 min＋

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 · E8Big Sky Country 2010-01-20 · 45 min＋

Grylls takes on Big Sky Country. He paraglides above the Rockies, traverses vast gullies, and makes the most of abandoned debris before making his great escape on a moving train.

S4 · E9Guatemala 2010-01-26 · 45 min＋

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S4 · E10Urban Survivor 2010-02-03 · 45 min＋

Grylls is in a post-disaster urban city scenario and he must survive. His thirst to live and survival techniques modified for a city environment keep him alive in a concrete wasteland in Gdynia, Poland.

Grylls crosses the Sahara desert to the North Africa coast, where he catches an octopus, fashions a shelter out of acacia trees and dines on moths and locusts.

S5 · E1Western Pacific 2009-06-01 · 45 min＋

Grylls is on a desert island, south of Papua New Guinea. He wades across a shark-infested tidal channel, climbs crumbling volcanic cliffs, leaps over a 100-foot death drop, and constructs a bamboo windsurfer to make his escape.

S5 · E2Northern Australia 2009-06-01 · 45 min＋

In Australia's Northern Territory, Grylls must rely on many of the skills honed by the Aboriginal people to survive in this sweltering landscape dominated by crocodiles.

S5 · E3Canadian Rockies 2009-06-01 · 45 min＋

While in the Canadian Rockies, Grylls is buried alive in an avalanche, swims long distance beneath an ice-covered lake, and is airvac-ed to the hospital when an icy glissade goes horribly wrong.

Grylls lands in the snow-capped Caucasus Mountains of the Georgian Republic by driving a snowmobile out the back of a hovering helicopter. He ziplines across a river, camps among wolves and trudges through swampy wetlands.

S5 · E5Fan vs. Wild 2009-06-05 · 45 min＋

Grylls takes two fans into the Canadian wilderness for their ultimate survival challenge. They face their fears head on, trek down dangerous glaciers and across a frigid glacial river, build a rustic shelter, and try to swallow typical Grylls fare.

In the Mojave Desert Grylls puts himself in the path of a man-made sandstorm, takes on the full force of a man-made flash flood and HALO jump from 30,000 feet. His body is pushed to the limit as the temperature soars from minus 40 to 110 degrees.

In Arizona, Bear transforms into a one man high speed glider with a cutting edge wingsuit and flies into the Arizona Sky Islands. Bear shows viewers how to find water in the parched desert landscape, builds a sand-buggy from a wrecked aircraft and crosses heart-stopping rock drops.

S6 · E2Cape Wrath, Scotland 2011-02-24 · 45 min＋

In Scotland off the rugged coast of Cape Wrath, Bear is dropped into open ocean. After getting ashore, he realises he's on an island and must swim to the mainland. Bear fashions a wetsuit from a seal's hide to withstand the frigid crossing. Well into the trek, he is forced to turn back as an incoming estuary tide nearly cuts him off. After he makes it to dry land, Bear has a close call with the steep treacherous Scottish rock terrain

S6 · E3Norway: Edge of Survival 2011-03-03 · 45 min＋

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.