List of Man vs. Wild episodes

Man vs. Wild is a television series on Discovery Channel in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. The show is called Born Survivor in parts of Europe, including the UK, where it was originally broadcast by Channel 4, but latterly moved to Discovery Channel UK. In Africa and Asia, it is titled Ultimate Survival and again, broadcast by Discovery Channel. In Bulgaria, the show is called Оцеляване на Предела, which is a translated title to Ultimate Survival.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
	1	15	March 10, 2006	July 20, 2007
	2	13	November 9, 2007	June 6, 2008
	3	10	August 6, 2008	February 16, 2009
	4	11	August 12, 2009	February 17, 2010
	5	6	August 11, 2010	September 22, 2010
	6	6	February 17, 2011	March 24, 2011
	7	5	July 11, 2011	November 29, 2011

Episodes

Season 1 (2006–2007)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Survival expert(s)	Original air date
1	1	"The Rockies" "Pilot"	Mike Warner	Ron Hood & Mike Johnston	March 10, 2006
Bear Grylls gets dropped in the middle of the Canadian Rocky Mountains in British Columbia and must find his way back to civilization. On his way out, he must avoid the danger of grizzly bears, jump 70 feet into a river, and abseil down a cliff.
2	2	"Moab Desert"	Dominic Stobart	Terry Moore	November 10, 2006
Bear Grylls is dropped by a helicopter into the Moab Desert in Utah in almost 45 degree temperatures, with nothing but a knife, a canteen, and a flint. He battles dehydration by soaking his t-shirt in urine, and eats two raven eggs, one raw. Lastly, he demonstrates how to escape from quicksand before swimming across the Colorado River. He also explains how to use the flow of rivers as tools to find civilization.
3	3	"Costa Rican Rainforest"	Chris Richards	Jorge Salaverri Henriquez	November 17, 2006
Grylls parachutes into a Costa Rican rainforest in the Osa Peninsula, with only his knife and a canteen. He's careful about the water he drinks, but gets violently ill anyway. He climbs down a waterfall using a vine, and floats down a river to the ocean on a raft he crafts out of balsawood to demonstrate how someone lost in the jungle can make it to civilization. He encounters snakes, mosquitoes and dangerous river currents.
4	4	"Alaskan Mountain Range"	Scott Tankard	Tim Smith	November 24, 2006
Grylls is dropped in the Chugach Mountains in Alaska, with skis and his usual gear. He demonstrates Glissading as he traverses snow and glaciers, and climbs down a 200ft (61m) waterfall. He catches a salmon, which he eats raw, and finds a skiff from an abandoned lodge. The skiff sinks, but he reaches the shore and is spotted by a ship.
5	5	"Mount Kilauea"	Dominic Stobart	Jack Lockwood	December 1, 2006
Grylls is dropped by helicopter at the top of Mount Kilauea. Made up of an expanse of solidified lava which stretches for 33,000 acres, this environment is one of the world's most inhospitable. He first traverses lava fields, which catch his boots on fire, then heads into the jungles of Hawaii. Grylls uses a kukui nut torch to explore a lava tube and finds water, then uses smoke to placate a bee hive to get honey. Ultimately, he finds the sea (and people) by following seabirds.
6	6	"Sierra Nevada"	Wayne Derrick	Mark Wienert	December 8, 2006
Grylls parachutes into the Sierra Nevadas, simulating the situation of the hundreds of hikers who become stranded there each year. Equipped with a knife and a canteen, Grylls travels through the alpine, woodland and chaparral areas of the mountains. He unsuccessfully tries to tame a wild horse, and eats a live snake. Using techniques gleaned from the Mono Indians, he brushes his teeth with a manzanita leaf. Most of the ground he covers is traversed by river, using a raft held together by grape vine.
7	7	"African Savannah"	Marc Westcott	Phil West	December 15, 2006
Grylls parachutes into Northern Kenya. He comes into close contact with lions, elephants, and rhinoceros, being careful not to get too close. Grylls demonstrates squeezing water from elephant dung and how to find people in Africa. Bear observes the deadly puff adder. In most areas, one follows a river downstream, but in Africa people are found upstream.
8	8	"European Alps"	Matt Dickinson	Mac MacKay	December 22, 2006
Grylls parachutes into the French Alps with a knife, a canteen, a cup and a flint, taking the parachute with him. He demonstrates how to survive falling into a frozen lake, how to build a snow shelter, and how to use a self arresting device to stop from plummeting into a crevasse. He also eats maggots and uses them to catch a trout. He performs a Tyrolean traverse and makes himself a pair of snow shoes out of young trees and parachute lines.
9	9	"Deserted Island"	Graham Strong	Mark Wienert	December 29, 2006
Grylls is kicked out by helicopter into the water near a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. He demonstrates long distance swimming, shelter building and coconut harvesting. Grylls builds a bamboo raft to look for ships, and is surrounded by tiger sharks. He fishes off his raft using a fish bone hook, and shows how to signal a ship using the reflection produced by his polished knife.
10	10	"Everglades"	Scott Tankard	Kris Thoemke	June 15, 2007
Grylls drops into the swamps of Florida's Everglades, where at least 60 tourists need to be rescued each year. He trudges through the swamp and shows how to construct shelter, deal with razor-sharp sawgrass, get out of a muddy sinkhole and avoid alligators and rattlesnakes. He eats frogs and cooks a turtle Seminole-style.
11	11	"Iceland"	Tony Lee	Thor Kjartansson & Sigrun Nikulasdottir & Jon Gauti Jonsson	June 22, 2007
Grylls parachutes into the extreme landscape of Iceland, the site of vicious blizzard, 50 mph (80 km/h) winds, icy glacial waters, boiling hot mud and volcanic springs. He demonstrates how to make a snow cave, find water in volcanic underground tunnels and avoid frostbite. To find food in this subarctic environment, Grylls scavenges a sheep for its eyeballs and mutton fat, and catches a ptarmigan. He demonstrates with his shoelaces the boiling of the eyeballs and mutton in the geysers, to save digestion energy and disinfect the scavenged food.
12	12	"Copper Canyon"	Scott Tankard	David Holladay	June 29, 2007
In Mexico, Grylls must find his way out of Copper Canyon, and his only supplies are a water bottle, a flint and a knife. He demonstrates how to build a simple compass and climb sheer cliffs safely. For shelter, he uses ancient caves and makes fire with a traditional "fire saw." Grylls also demonstrates techniques for finding scorpions or grubs and fishing without a rod or line.
13	13	"Kimberley, Australia"	Alexis Girardet	Nick Vroomans	July 6, 2007
In the Kimberley region of Australia, an area with a mixture of huge scrub deserts, dry riverbeds and red sandstone cliffs full of deep gorges, Grylls faces extreme heat, poisonous snakes and the ever present danger of dehydration. Survival tips include how to forage for food (bush tucker), build a shelter and how to prevent sunstroke. He explains why he believes drinking one's own urine can prevent death from dehydration. During his journey, Grylls observes saltwater crocodiles and endures a lightning storm.
14	14	"Ecuador"	Matt Dickinson	Hazen Audel	July 13, 2007
Grylls paraglides onto the edge of the Andes and follows rivers into the Ecuadorian jungle, is attacked by huge colonies of spear-nosed bats, and observes giant weevil grubs and piranhas. He builds a bamboo bridge and a bow and arrow to successfully catch fish, but it doesn't always go his way and he's forced to ride the rapids of the Amazon on a single tree trunk.
15	15	"Cairngorms"	Clare Dornan	Lawrence Clark	July 20, 2007
Grylls shows how to navigate the Cairngorms region in extreme weather using ice formations and moss growth, and how to test snow slopes for avalanche potential. He uses moss to purify water and skins a red deer for shelter. For food, he traps a rabbit and cooks it to demonstrate how to prepare it. Grylls also crosses deep marshes and uses fallen trees to cross ravines.

Season 2 (2007–2008)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Survival expert(s)	Original air date
16	1	"Sahara" (Part 1)	Tony Lee	Kevan Palmer & Authentic Morocco	November 9, 2007
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.
17	2	"Desert Survivor" (Part 2)	Tony Lee	Kevan Palmer & Authentic Morocco	November 16, 2007
In the desert, Grylls offers tips on skinning and disemboweling a dead camel for water.
18	3	"Panama" (Part 1)	Justin Kelly	Richard Cahill & Luis Puleio	November 23, 2007
Grylls travels to Panama, where he travels in the equatorial heat through mangrove swamps and rain forest, and endures more than 100 mosquito bites and one painful snake bite.
19	4	"Jungle" (Part 2) "Panama" (Part 2)	Justin Kelly	Richard Cahill & Luis Puleio	November 30, 2007
Survival techniques for Panama's mangrove swamps and jungle.
20	5	"Patagonia" (Part 1)	Carl Hindmarch	Daniel Gomez	December 7, 2007
Grylls parachutes into Patagonia, the southernmost tip of South America, where he first encounters a vast ice field, then forages in a beech forest, wades through a frozen bog and swims through icy water.
21	6	"Andes Adventure" (Part 2)	Carl Hindmarch	Daniel Gomez	December 14, 2007
In Patagonia, Grylls skins a hare, scales a cliff, tracks a puma, drinks dirty water, and crosses the Perito Moreno glacier, a vast frozen labyrinth of ice caves and crevasses.
22	7	"Bear Eats"	TBA	TBA	December 21, 2007
Grylls offers tips on dining in the wild, with some unusual offerings that are not necessarily palatable.
23	8	"Zambia"	Chris Richards	Andrew Wood	May 2, 2008
Grylls drops into the mighty Zambezi river, in the Second Gorge below Victoria Falls. He encounters elephants, hippos and crocodiles. He eats a maggot and tells viewers that sleeping next to baboons scares away predators.
24	9	"Namibia"	Chris Richards	Andrew Wood	May 9, 2008
Grylls parachutes into the heart of the Namib desert. He eats a puff adder and encounters the indigenous bushmen.
25	10	"Ring of Fire" (Part 1) "Castaway" (Part 1)	Stephen Shearman	Andrew Wood	May 16, 2008
Grylls battles the fierce swamps in Sumatra, Indonesia. As he struggles to keep dry and avoid trench foot, he runs into several types of wildlife, including lizards and the deadly mangrove snake. He also comes across the bright blue Lake Kaca in the middle of the Kerinci Seblat National Park.
26	11	"Ring of Fire" (Part 2) "Castaway" (Part 2)	Stephen Shearman	Andrew Wood	May 23, 2008
Dropped by helicopter, Grylls has to survive on a remote island located in Indonesia. He hunts for stingrays and land crabs while drinking whatever fresh clean rain water he may get. In the end he builds a small raft out of drift wood of bamboo and heads to the sea.
27	12	"Siberia" (Part 1)	Tony Lee	Lena Yakovleva & Sergey Gluhov	May 30, 2008
With temperatures dipping to -50°C, Grylls has to keep warm before hypothermia sets in. He uses snares to catch his food, and a fire to keep warm. He puts up a scenario for the great dangers to walk over a frozen lake, and how to survive without drowning and/or before hypothermia sets in.
28	13	"Siberia" (Part 2)	Tony Lee	Lena Yakovleva & Sergey Gluhov	June 6, 2008
Grylls is in Siberia, learning survival techniques from the Tuvans and, eating raw yak liver as well as drinking its blood for food.

Season 3 (2008–2009)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Survival expert(s)	Original air date
29	1	"Baja Desert"	David O'Neil	Stani Groeneweg	August 6, 2008
Grylls must cross blistering desert and barren salt plains in Mexico's Baja peninsula. While collecting honey Grylls is stung by a bee and his face becomes severely swollen, nearly blinding him.
30	2	"The Deep South"	Nicholas While	Jeff Galpin	August 27, 2008
Grylls enters the swamps of Louisiana where he kills an alligator with a knife, avoids venomous snakes, and catches a catfish with his bare hands
31	3	"Ireland"	Scott Tankard	Andrew Wood	September 3, 2008
Grylls jumps from a boat a kilometre off the west coast of Ireland. He travels down the coast before turning inland to cross the bogs. Here he retrieves a sheep carcass from a bog whose skin he uses as a sleeping bag (sheeping bag), a waterproof sack, and a flotation device.
32	4	"South Dakota"	Chris Richards	Stani Groeneweg	September 10, 2008
Grylls is dropped on a granite peak in the Black Hills where he is caught in a thunder storm with inadequate shelter. Down in the plains Grylls encounters a herd of Bison before entering the desolate area known as the Badlands. He demonstrates skills used by the Lakota Indians.
33	5	"Belize"	Nick White	Stani Groeneweg	January 12, 2009
Grylls heads to the jungle where he tackles a boa constrictor, he gets stuck over raging waters, and then he takes to the trees.
34	6	"Yukon"	Nick White	Andrew Wood	January 19, 2009
Grylls wraps up warm as he heads to the frozen wastelands of North Canada. He goes underground to search an abandoned mine, and he takes to some fast moving water.
35	7	"Oregon"	Chris Richards	Stani Groeneweg	January 26, 2009
Grylls takes on the deepest river based canyon, Hell's Canyon and the dangerous Snake River.
36	8	"Dominican Republic"	Carl Hindmarch	Andrew Wood	February 2, 2009
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.
37	9	"Turkey"	Andrew Barron	Andrew Wood	February 9, 2009
Grylls heads to Turkey where he deals with dangerous animals and he also takes to the water.
38	10	"Romania"	Stephen Shearman	Andrew Wood	February 16, 2009
Grylls heads to Romania where he takes on a bear and dangerous water channels.

Season 4 (2009–2010)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Survival expert(s)	Original air date
39	1	"Arctic Circle"	Andrew Barron	Andrew Wood	August 12, 2009
Grylls goes to the Arctic Circle, where he encounters a frozen waterfall, wild reindeer and some of the coldest conditions on the planet.
40	2	"Alabama"	Nick White	Stani Groeneweg	August 19, 2009
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.
41	3	"Vietnam"	Sid Bennett	Andrew Wood	August 26, 2009
Grylls demonstrates what it was like for soldiers who had to survive in the jungles of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.
42	4	"Texas Desert"	Stephen Shearman	Stani Groeneweg	September 2, 2009
In Western Texas, Grylls falls to earth from an upturned biplane into the parched Chihuahuan Desert; he traverses deep gorges, locates an oasis, eats a lizard and takes on a diamond back rattlesnake.
43	5	"Alaska"	Nick White	Ross Bowyer	September 9, 2009
Grylls returns to the wilderness of Alaska to survive the dangerous terrain of the Last Frontier.
44	6	"Panama"	Stephen Shearman	Ross Bowyer	January 6, 2010
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.
45	7	"China"	Graham Strong	Andrew Wood	January 13, 2010
In Southern China Grylls arrives in the aftermath of a tropical typhoon. He tackles swollen rivers, scales slippery limestone faces, avoids disaster with stinging ants, and utilizes ancient tribal techniques to catch bats for food.
46	8	"Big Sky Country"	Konrad Begg	Stani Groeneweg	January 20, 2010
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.
47	9	"Guatemala"	Alexis Girardet	Ross Bowyer	January 27, 2010
Grylls rappels onto a live volcano in Guatemala, navigates a waterfall in an underground cave, creates a nest to safely sleep in but gets an unwelcome bed buddy, and encounters ancient Mayan ruins.
48	10	"Urban Survivor"	Nick White	Andrew Wood	February 3, 2010
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.
49	11	"North Africa"	Nick Fletcher	Ross Bowyer	February 17, 2010
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.

Season 5 (2010)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Survival expert(s)	Original air date
50	1	"Western Pacific"	Nick White	Stani Groeneweg	August 11, 2010
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.
51	2	"Northern Australia"	David O'Neil	Ross Bowyer	August 18, 2010
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.
52	3	"Canadian Rockies"	Scott Tankard	Andrew Wood	August 25, 2010
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.
53	4	"Georgian Republic"	Stephen Shearman	Andrew Wood	September 1, 2010
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.
54	5	"Fan vs. Wild"	Hugh Ballentyne	Ross Bowyer	September 8, 2010
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.
55	6	"Extreme Desert"	Stephen Shearman	Ross Bowyer	September 15, 2010
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.

Season 6 (2011)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Survival expert(s)	Original air date
56	1	"Arizona Sky Islands"	David Holroyd	Ross Bowyer	February 17, 2011
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.
57	2	"Cape Wrath"	Stephen Shearman	Stani Groeneweg	February 24, 2011
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.
58	3	"Norway: Edge of Survival"	Ben Duncan	Andrew Wood	March 3, 2011
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.
59	4	"Borneo Jungle"	David Johnson	Stanislaw Groeneweg	March 10, 2011
In Borneo, Bear heads directly into the wild jungles. Without a place to land his helicopter, he is forced to rappel into the treetops. As the heli peels away, Bear is 100 feet up in the canopy. After finding his way down to the jungle floor, Bear tackles raging waters, big mudslides and deep caves as he fights his way through this impenetrable place. He also eats a snake and builds a nest like Borneo's famous orangutans.
60	5	"Malaysia Archipelago"	Hugh Ballantyne	Andrew Wood	March 17, 2011
Bear Grylls is dropped in an archipelago of islands off the coast of Borneo. Fighting dense jungle and scaling towering escarpments, Bear struggles to find freshwater. In his search for food, he tries to spear fish at depths of 30ft and traps a wild boar.
61	6	"Global Survival Guide"	N/A	N/A	March 24, 2011
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.

Season 7 (2011)

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Survival expert(s)	Original air date
62	1	"New Zealand: South Island"	Matt Brandon	Andrew Wood	July 18, 2011
Bear Grylls must fling himself out of a plane and parachute to safety to reach this remote area. Crossing the country's highest mountain range and starting a fire in a waterlogged forest are just some of the unpredictable things he faces in this terrain.
63	2	"Iceland: Land Of Fire And Ice"	Ben Duncan	Andrew Wood	July 25, 2011
Bear Grylls is dropped on an ice cap covering an active volcano. In blizzard conditions he struggles to make headway, and the barren land offers little food. Can he reach civilization when faced with swollen river crossings and ever present flash floods?
64	3	"Utah: Red Rock Country"	Nick White	Ross Bowyer	August 12, 2011
Bear Grylls is in red rock country - southern Utah. Armed only with a lasso, he descends a rock pinnacle and gets trapped in a narrow gorge. Crossing an arid wilderness, he's left hanging 100 ft above a ravine. And Bear's craziest airplane stunt ever!
65	4	"New Zealand: Land Of The Maori"	Stephen Shearman	Ross Bowyer	August 19, 2011
Over 100 people drown each year in New Zealand, and Bear must cross a raging river on a tree trunk to head toward civilization. On his journey to safety he runs out of water, is forced to climb up active volcanic ranges and scale down a waterfall.
66	5	"Working The Wild"	N/A	N/A	November 29, 2011
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.

Special episodes

Special No.	Title	Survival expert(s)	Original air date
1	"Bear's Mission Everest Special"	N/A	September 11, 2007
In this special, Bear attempts his most daring mission to date when he tries to fly a paramotor glider over the world's highest mountain.
2	"Bear's Essentials"	N/A	September 17, 2008
A clip-show from previous Man vs Wild episodes highlighting important survival techniques.
3	"Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Special Part 1"	N/A	February 23, 2009
Grylls offers tips for surviving in some of the world's most unforgiving places.
4	"Arctic Tundra"	Andrew Wood	June 2, 2009
This episode features Will Ferrell in a special titled Men vs. Wild, where Ferrell tags along with Grylls as they journey through the frozen wilderness of Sweden. The episode is a tie-in to help promote Ferrell's new movie, Land of the Lost.
5	"Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Special Part 2"	N/A	September 16, 2009
In his ultimate survival guide Grylls takes on dangerous snakes, fishes for catfish using his finger as bait and joins tribes who survive in the worlds toughest terrains, eats raw goats testicles in the Sahara, and hunts porcupines.
6	"Man vs. Wild: The Inside Story"	N/A	September 23, 2009
The Man vs. Wild crew who follow Grylls on his travels across the globe, tell how it feels to follow in his footsteps and reveal just how they make Man vs. Wild.
7	"Shooting Survival"	N/A	February 10, 2010
Behind the scenes with Grylls's crew.
8	"Bear's Top 25 Man Moments"	N/A	June 19, 2010
Grylls reveals his top 25 moments -- he sleeps in a camel in the northern Sahara and takes on a risky drop off onto an active volcano in Guatemala.
9	"Behind The Wild"	N/A	September 22, 2010
Bear's crew give us another behind the scenes peek at how Bear's adventures are filmed.
10	"Iceland"	Andrew Wood	July 11, 2011
Bear brings along actor Jake Gyllenhaal, to test how he measures up to unpredictable and unforgiving Mother Nature. Jake will go where Bear goes and eat whatever Bear eats, if he's going to cope with some of the worst conditions known to man.

References

External links

• List of Man vs. Wild episodes at the Internet Movie Database
• List of Man vs. Wild episodes at TV.com
• List of Man vs. Wild episodes at TV Guide