| # |
Title |
Survival expert(s) |
Original airdate |
|
| 1.1 |
"The Rockies" |
Ron Hood |
October 27, 2006 |
| Bear (Edward Grylls) gets dropped in the middle of the Rocky Mountain ranges and must find his way to civilization. On his way out, he must evade the danger of grizzly bears, jump 30 feet (9.1 m) into a river, and abseil down a cliff. |
| 1.2 |
"Moab Desert" |
Terry Moore |
November 10, 2006 |
| Bear Grylls is dropped by a helicopter into the Moab Desert in Utah in 110 degree temperatures, with nothing but a knife, a canteen, and a flint. He battles dehydration by soaking his headgear (a t-shirt) in urine, and eats two raven eggs, one raw. Lastly, Bear demonstrates how to escape from quicksand before swimming across the Colorado River. Bear shows how to use the flow of rivers as tools to find civilization. |
| 1.3 |
"Costa Rican Rainforest" |
Jorge Salaverri Henriquez |
November 17, 2006 |
| Bear parachutes into a Costa Rican rainforest in the Osa Peninsula, but continues with only his knife and a canteen. He's careful about the water he drinks, but gets violenty ill anyway. Bear speculates it's because of something he touched. 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. |
| 1.4 |
"Alaskan Mountain Range" |
Tim Smith |
November 24, 2006 |
| Bear 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. Bear catches a salmon, which he eats raw, and appropriates a skiff from an abandoned lodge. The skiff sinks, but he reaches the shore and is spotted by a ship. |
| 1.5 |
"Hawaii: Mount Kilauea" |
Jack Lockwood |
December 1, 2006 |
| Bear is dropped by helicopter at the top of Mount Kilauea. Made up of an expanse of solidified lava which stretches for 33,000 acres (130 km²), this environment is one of the world's most inhospitable. One tourist a week is rescued from its lava fields. He first traverses lava fields, which catch his boots on fire, then heads into the jungles of Hawaii. Bear uses a kukui nut torch to explore a lava tube and find water, then uses smoke to placate a bee hive and get honey. Ultimately, he finds the sea (and people) by following sea birds. |
| 1.6 |
"Sierra Nevada" |
Mark Wienert |
December 8, 2006 |
| Bear 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. Bear travels through the alpine, woodland and chaparral areas of the mountains. He attempts (unsuccessfully) 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. |
| 1.7 |
"African Savannah" |
Phil West |
December 15, 2006 |
| Bear parachutes into Northern Kenya. He comes into close contact with lions, elephants, hyenas and rhinos, being careful not to get too close. Bear demonstrates squeezing water from elephant dung and how to find people in Africa. In most areas, one follows a river downstream, but in Africa people are found upstream. |
| 1.8 |
"European Alps" |
Mac MacKay |
December 22, 2006 |
| Bear parachutes into the French Alps with a knife and canteen, a cup and a flint to make fire, taking the parachute with him. He demonstrates how to survive falling into a frozen lake, how to building a snow shelter, and how to use a self arresting device to stop from plummeting into a crevise, by doing both himself. 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. |
| 1.9 |
"Hawaii: Desert Island" |
Mark Wienert |
December 29, 2006 |
| Bear is dropped by helicopter into the water near a desert island in the Pacific Ocean. He demonstrates long distance swimming, shelter building and coconut harvesting. Bear 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. In reruns of this episode Bear admits to receiving help in building the raft. |
| # |
Title |
Survival expert(s) |
Original airdate |
|
| 2.1 |
"Everglades" |
Kris Thoemke |
June 15, 2007 |
| Bear 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 grass, get out of a muddy sinkhole, avoid alligators and rattlesnakes. He eats frogs and cooks a turtle Seminole-style. |
| 2.2 |
"Iceland" |
Thor Kjartansson, Sigrun Nikulasdottir, Jon Gauti Jonsson |
June 22, 2007 |
| Bear 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. Bear Grylls demonstrates how to make a snow cave, find water in volcanic underground tunnels, avoid frostbite. To find food in this subarctic environment, Bear scavenges a sheep for its eyeballs and mutton/fat, and catches a ptarmigan. Bear demonstrates with his shoelaces the boiling of the eyeballs and mutton in the geysers, to save digestion energy and disinfect the scavenged food. |
| 2.3 |
"Mexico: Copper Canyon" |
David Holladay |
June 29, 2007 |
| In Mexico, Bear must find his way out of Copper Canyon, and his only supplies are a water bottle, a flint and a knife. Bear 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." Bear also demonstrates techniques for finding scorpions or grubs and fishing without a rod or line. |
| 2.4 |
"Kimberly, Australia" |
Nick Vroomans |
July 6, 2007 |
| In the Kimberly region of Australia, an area with a mixture of huge scrub deserts, dry riverbeds and red sandstone cliffs full of deep gorges, Bear 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 ones own urine can prevent death from dehydration. During his journey, Bear observes saltwater crocodiles and endures a lightning storm. |
| 2.5 |
"Ecuador" |
Hazen Audel |
July 13, 2007 |
| Bear paraglides onto the edge of the Andes and follows rivers into the Ecuadorian jungle, observing huge colonies of spear-nosed bats, giant weevil grubs and piranhas. Bear 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. |
| 2.6 |
"Scotland: Cairngorms" |
Lawrence Clark |
July 20, 2007 |
| Bear 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, instead of trapping a rabbit and cooking it, new narration says he "didn't catch a rabbit" but will demonstrate how to prepare it. Also, in new narration, Bear briefly admits that he won't be sleeping in the shelter he is about to build. Bear crosses deep marshes and uses fallen trees to cross ravines. |
| # |
Title |
Survival expert(s) |
Original airdate |
|
| 3.1 |
"Sahara" |
|
November 9, 2007 |
|
Part 1 of 2. In the sun-scorched Sahara Desert, Bear Grylls uses survival tactics of the indigenous people,
including eating a scorpion. Also: how to escape from quicksand. |
| 3.2 |
"Desert Survivor" |
|
November 16, 2007 |
| Part 2 of 2. In the desert, Bear Grylls offers tips on skinning and disemboweling a dead camel for water. |
| 3.3 |
"Panama" |
|
November 23, 2007 |
|
Part 1 of 2. Bear travels to Panama, where he travels in the equatorial heat through mangrove swamps and
jungle, and endures more than 100 mosquito bites and one painful snake bite. |
| 3.4 |
"Jungle" |
|
November 30, 2007 |
| Part 2 of 2. Survival techniques for Panama's mangrove swamps and jungle. |
| 3.5 |
"Patagonia" |
|
December 7, 2007 |
| Part 1 of 2. Bear 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. |
| 3.6 |
"Andes Adventure" |
|
December 14, 2007 |
| Part 2 of 2. In Patagonia, Bear 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. |
| 3.7 |
"Bear Eats" |
|
December 21, 2007 |
| Bear Grylls offers tips on dining in the wild, with some unusual offerings that are not necessarily palatable. |
| # |
Title |
Survival expert(s) |
Original airdate |
|
| 4.1 |
"Zambia" |
|
May 2, 2008 |
| Bear drops into the mighty Zambezi river. |
| 4.2 |
"Namibia" |
Andrew Wood |
May 9, 2008 |
| Bear parachutes into the heart of the Namib desert. |
| 4.3 |
"Ring of Fire, Part 1" |
Andrew Wood |
May 16, 2008 |
| Bear battles the fierce swamps in Sumatra, Indonesia. As he struggles to keep dry and avoiding trench foot he runs into several types of wild life, including lizards and the deadly Mangrove snake. |
| 4.4 |
"Ring of Fire, Part 2" |
Andrew Wood |
May 23, 2008 |
| Dropped by helicopter Bear has to survive on an 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 Bear builds a small raft out of drift wood of bamboo and heads to the sea. |
| 4.5 |
"Siberia, Part 1" |
|
May 30, 2008 |
| With tempratures reaching up to -50°C, Bear has to keep warm before hypothermia sets in. He uses snares to catch his food with, and a fire to keep the warmth. He puts up an scenario for the great dangerous to walk over an frozen lake, and how to survive without drowning and/or before hypothermia sets in. |
| 4.6 |
"Siberia, Part 2" |
|
June 6, 2008 |
| Bear continuous his survival in Siberia, learning survival techniques from the Tuvans. Eating raw yak liver aswell as drinking its blood. |
