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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Rockies

    • March 10, 2006
    • Discovery

    Host Bear Grylls parachutes alone into a remote area of the Rocky Mountains equipped with only the clothes on his back.

  • S01E02 Moab Desert, Utah

    • November 10, 2006
    • Discovery

    Bear is stranded in Utah's Moab Desert, where he must find his way back to civilization through a maze of canyons, avoiding rattlesnakes and quicksand, equipped with only a bottle of water, a knife and a flint.

  • S01E03 Costa Rican Rainforest

    • November 17, 2006
    • Discovery

    Bear Grylls, equipped only with a knife and a water bottle, tries to survive in the Costa Rican rain forest after parachuting onto the Osa Peninsula. He faces swarms of insects, poisonous snakes, dense jungle and mangrove swamps.

  • S01E04 European Alps

    • November 24, 2006
    • Discovery

    Bear Grylls, outfitted with only a knife, water bottle, cup and flint, parachutes into the French Alps, where he builds a snow shelter and explains how to survive a fall into a frozen lake.

  • S01E05 Hawaii - Mount Kilauea

    • December 1, 2006
    • Discovery

    On Mount Kilauea, an active volcano, Bear climbs down a rope from a helicopter and demonstrates how to create a gas mask, escape from a moving lava flow, find water in a lava tube and get honey from a bee's nest.

  • S01E06 Sierra Nevada

    • December 8, 2006
    • Discovery

    In the Sierra Nevada's, Bear uses his knowledge of Native American survival techniques to build a shelter, calm wild horses and find food.

  • S01E07 African Savannah

    • December 15, 2006
    • Discovery

    Bear parachutes into the Kenyan savannah from a hot-air balloon, where he finds himself surrounded by dangerous animals, including rhinos, lions, leopards, elephants and cape buffalo. He builds a tent from natural materials and traps small birds for food.

  • S01E08 Alaskan Mountain Range

    • December 22, 2006
    • Discovery

    In the Chugach Mountains of Alaska, Bear has only a bottle of water, a knife and a flint as he travels down mountain slopes, over glaciers and through bear-infested forests, navigating a small boat through treacherous ice floes.

  • S01E09 Hawaii - Desert Island

    • December 29, 2006
    • Discovery

    Bear Grylls is cast adrift in the Pacific Ocean, encountering coral reefs, rip currents, relentless surf and sharks.

  • S01E10 Everglades

    • June 15, 2007
    • Discovery

    Bear drops into the Florida Everglades where he slogs through the swamps, offering survival tips while dodging alligators and rattlesnakes, and dining on frogs and turtles.

  • S01E11 Iceland

    • June 22, 2007
    • Discovery

    Bear braces for the cold of Iceland, offering survival tips that include how to build a snow cave, live through a blizzard and avoid frostbite, and forage for food.

  • S01E12 Mexico

    • June 29, 2007
    • Discovery

    In Mexico, Bear must find his way out of Copper Canyon, and his only supplies are a water bottle, a flint and a knife. Included: how to build a compass; catching and eating scorpions; basics of fire-making; fishing without a line.

  • S01E13 Kimberly, Australia

    • July 6, 2007
    • Discovery

    In Kimberly, Australia, Bear faces extreme heat, poisonous snakes and the ever present danger of dehydration. Survival tips include how to forage for food, build a shelter and extreme measures to avoid dehydrating.

  • S01E14 Ecuador

    • July 13, 2007
    • Discovery

    Bear Grylls offers survival tips in the Ecuadorian jungle. Included: building a bamboo bridge; making a bow and arrow; determining which plants are poisonous.

  • S01E15 Scotland

    • July 20, 2007
    • Discovery

    Bear offers survival tips in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park. Included: using moss to purify water; skinning a deer; cooking a rabbit.

Season 2

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Bear's Mission Everest Special

    • September 11, 2007
    • Discovery

    In this special, Bear attempts his most daring mission to date when he tries to fly a paramotor glider over Mt Everest, the world's highest mountain.

  • S02E01 Sahara

    • November 9, 2007
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S02E02 Desert Survivor

    • November 16, 2007
    • Discovery

    In the desert, Grylls offers tips on skinning and disemboweling a dead camel for water.

  • S02E03 Panama

    • November 23, 2007
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S02E04 Jungle

    • November 30, 2007
    • Discovery

    Survival techniques for Panama's mangrove swamps and jungle.

  • S02E05 Patagonia

    • December 7, 2007
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S02E06 Andes Adventure

    • December 14, 2007
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S02E07 Bear Eats

    • December 21, 2007
    • Discovery

    Grylls offers tips on dining in the wild, with some unusual offerings that are not necessarily palatable.

  • S02E08 Zambia

    • May 2, 2008
    • Discovery

    Grylls drops into the mighty Zambezi river.

  • S02E09 Namibia

    • May 9, 2008
    • Discovery

    Grylls parachutes into the heart of the Namib desert.

  • S02E10 Ring of Fire: Jungle Swamp (1)

    • May 16, 2008
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S02E11 Ring of Fire: Castaway (2)

    • May 23, 2008
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S02E12 Siberia (1)

    • May 30, 2008
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S02E13 Siberia: Land of Ice (2)

    • June 6, 2008
    • Discovery

    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

  • S03E01 Baja Desert

    • August 6, 2008
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S03E02 The Deep South

    • August 27, 2008
    • Discovery

    Grylls enters the swamps of Louisiana where he kills an alligator with a knife, and catches a catfish with his bare hands

  • S03E03 Ireland

    • September 3, 2008
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S03E04 South Dakota

    • September 10, 2008
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S03E05 Bear's Essentials

    • September 17, 2008
    • Discovery

    A clip-show from previous Man vs Wild episodes highlighting important survival techniques.

  • S03E06 Belize

    • January 12, 2009
    • Discovery

    Grylls heads to the jungle where he tackles a boa constrictor, he gets stuck over raging waters, and then he takes to the trees.

  • S03E07 Yukon

    • January 19, 2009
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S03E08 Oregon

    • January 26, 2009
    • Discovery

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

  • S03E09 Dominican Republic

    • February 2, 2009
    • Discovery

    Grylls has some tips on how to survive the hurricane season and he also eats a tarantula to survive

  • S03E10 Turkey

    • February 9, 2009
    • Discovery

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

  • S03E11 Romania

    • February 16, 2009
    • Discovery

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

  • S03E12 Bears Ultimate Survival Guide Part One

    • February 23, 2009
    • Discovery

    Grylls offers tips for surviving in some of the world's most unforgiving places.

Season 4

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Sweden with Will Ferrell

    • June 2, 2009
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S04E01 Arctic Circle

    • August 12, 2009
    • Discovery

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

  • S04E02 Alabama

    • August 19, 2009
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S04E03 Vietnam

    • August 26, 2009
    • Discovery

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

  • S04E04 Texas

    • September 2, 2009
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S04E05 Alaska

    • September 9, 2009
    • Discovery

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

  • S04E06 Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Part Two

    • September 16, 2009
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S04E07 The Inside Story

    • September 23, 2009
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S04E08 Pacific Island

    • January 6, 2010
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S04E09 China

    • January 13, 2010
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S04E10 Big Sky Country

    • January 20, 2010
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S04E11 Guatemala

    • January 27, 2010
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S04E12 Urban Survivor

    • February 3, 2010
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S04E13 Shooting Survival

    • February 10, 2010
    • Discovery

    Behind the scenes with Grylls's crew.

  • S04E14 North Africa

    • February 17, 2010
    • Discovery

    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

  • SPECIAL 0x3 Bear's Top 25 Man Moments

    • June 19, 2010
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S05E01 Western Pacific

    • June 1, 2009
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S05E02 Northern Australia

    • June 1, 2009
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S05E03 Canadian Rockies

    • June 1, 2009
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S05E04 Republic of Georgia

    • June 1, 2009
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S05E05 Fan vs. Wild

    • June 5, 2009
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S05E06 Extreme Desert

    • September 2, 2009
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S05E07 Behind the Wild

    • September 22, 2010
    • Discovery

Season 6

  • S06E01 Arizona Sky Islands

    • February 17, 2011
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S06E02 Cape Wrath, Scotland

    • February 24, 2011
    • Discovery

    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

  • S06E03 Norway: Edge of Survival

    • March 3, 2011
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S06E04 Borneo Jungle

    • March 10, 2011
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S06E05 Malaysian Archipelago

    • March 17, 2011
    • Discovery

    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 20ft and traps a wild boar.

  • S06E06 Global Survival Guide

    • March 24, 2011
    • Discovery

    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

  • S07E01 Men vs. Wild with Jake Gyllenhaal

    • July 11, 2011
    • Discovery

    In this episode, Bear is joined by movie star Jake Gyllenhaal as he attempts to find his way out of the Icelandic wilderness, doing (and eating) whatever they have to to survive.

  • S07E02 New Zealand South Island

    • July 18, 2011
    • Discovery

    This week Bear braves the remote wilderness of New Zealand's South Island, crossing the country's tallest mountains and attempting to start a fire with wood that is soaking wet.

  • S07E03 Iceland: Fire and Ice

    • July 25, 2011
    • Discovery

    Bear returns to Iceland to demonstrate the challenge of surviving its many pitfalls. His trek begins on an ice cap covering an active volcano, where food sources are scarce and travels down towards a civilization with swollen rivers between him and safety.

  • S07E04 Red Rock Country

    • August 12, 2011
    • Discovery

    Bear treks through Southern Utah's Red Rock Country.

  • S07E05 Land of the Maori

    • August 19, 2011
    • Discovery

    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.

  • S07E06 Working in the Wild

    • August 26, 2011
    • Discovery

    Bear Grylls takes the viewer behind the scenes to meet the crew that follow his every step through the world’s wildest environments.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x4 Never Before Seen

    • July 20, 2007
    • Discovery

    Bear gets up close and personal with sharks in the Pacific, where he also must deal with rip currents and pounding surf. Included: previously unseen footage and new survival techniques.

  • SPECIAL 0x5 Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls and Prime Minister Modi

    • August 12, 2019
    • Discovery

    The plot was to get Modi safely across a shallow river without being attacked by any tiger, crocodile, snake or elephant (whilst his security staff stayed close behind but out of view of the cameras.