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Man vs. Wild Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - The Rockies

First aired: Oct/27/2006

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



2 :01x02 - Moab Desert, Utah

First aired: Nov/10/2006

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.



3 :01x03 - Costa Rican Rainforest

First aired: Nov/17/2006

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.



4 :01x04 - European Alps

First aired: Nov/24/2006

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



5 :01x05 - Hawaii - Mount Kilauea

First aired: Dec/01/2006

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.



6 :01x06 - Sierra Nevada

First aired: Dec/08/2006

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



7 :01x07 - African Savannah

First aired: Dec/15/2006

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.



8 :01x08 - Alaskan Mountain Range

First aired: Dec/22/2006

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.



9 :01x09 - Hawaii - Desert Island

First aired: Dec/29/2006

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



10 :01x10 - Everglades

First aired: Jun/15/2007

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.



11 :01x11 - Iceland

First aired: Jun/22/2007

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.



12 :01x12 - Mexico

First aired: Jun/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. Included: how to build a compass; catching and eating scorpions; basics of fire-making; fishing without a line.



13 :01x13 - Kimberly, Australia

First aired: Jul/06/2007

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.



14 :01x14 - Ecuador

First aired: Jul/13/2007

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



15 :01x15 - Scotland

First aired: Jul/20/2007

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



16 :01x16 - Never Before Seen

First aired: Jul/20/2007

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.



Bear's Mission Everest

First aired: Nov/09/2007



17 :02x01 - Sahara (1)

First aired: Nov/09/2007

Bear Grylls heads out into the Sahara desert where he must survive in a world of towering sand dunes and extreme conditions.



18 :02x02 - Desert Survivor (2)

First aired: Nov/16/2007

Bear Grylls survives in the hottest place on earth where he must skin and disembowel a camel for food, water and shelter.



19 :02x03 - Panama (1)

First aired: Nov/23/2007

Bear tackles the lethal mangroves and infamous viper pit that exist in Panama, in a test of extreme survival and eats some grisly items to demonstrate how to stay alive.



20 :02x04 - Jungle (2)

First aired: Nov/30/2007

The conclusion of the visit to Panama finds Bear Grylls handling mangrove swamps and jungles.



21 :02x05 - Patagonia (1)

First aired: Dec/07/2007

Bear is off to Patagonia, at the tip of South America where he parachutes near a vast field of ice, forages in a beech forest, goes wading in a frozen bog and swims in icy water.



22 :02x06 - Andes Adventure (2)

First aired: Dec/14/2007

While in Patagonia, Bear skins a hare, then scales a cliff, tracks down a puma, drinks from dirty water and crosses the Perito Moreno glacier, which is a vast frozen labyrinth of ice caves and crevasses.



23 :02x07 - Bear Eats

First aired: Dec/21/2007

Bear shows us that not much is on his list as inedible in nature, except maybe the fat of a camel's hump.



24 :02x08 - Zambia

First aired: May/02/2008

Bear heads out to Zambia in Southern Africa, where he will show you how to survive the world's biggest rapids, and next will head into the bush.



25 :02x09 - Namibia

First aired: May/09/2008

Bear Grylls shows us Namibia, one of the hottest and driest places in the world. He soon meets with the San Bushmen, masters of desert survival and gets a lesson on how to survive there.



26 :02x10 - Jungle Swamp

First aired: May/16/2008

Bear takes on a week of challenges in an area around the Pacific Ring of Fire and the 2004 Tsunami. He must survive a week of challenges after being dropped into the Indian Ocean and then onto a deserted island with no running water.



27 :02x11 - Castaway

First aired: May/23/2008

Bear continues his second week in Indonesia, the site of a devastating tsunami in 2004 by sleeping in the trees and navigating across waterfalls walking along sheer cliffs.



28 :02x12 - Siberia

First aired: May/30/2008

Bear parachutes into one on the coldest and harshest areas on earth, the Siberian tundra, where he will test himself against extreme challenges. Living in temperatures of minus 30 degrees, he must locate shelter before night falls.



29 :02x13 - Land of Ice

First aired: Jun/06/2008

In the final episode of season four, Bear heads to the Siberian tundra and the Sayan Mountains. Also included is a look at the survival skills used by the Tuvans, yak herders which are Genghis Khan's decedents, who are experts in surviving in cold climates.



30 :03x01 - Baja Desert

First aired: Aug/06/2008

The season 3 opener finds Bear dropped in Baja, Mexico, as he is challenged to survive in the desert, including being blinded by bee stings and a face to face meeting with a deadly rattlesnake.



31 :03x02 - The Deep South

First aired: Aug/13/2008

Bear slogs through the Deep South in the US, into the swamps where he fights an alligator, handles venomous snakes and catches a catfish in his bare hands. Lastly he travels a path of destruction which Hurricane Katrina left behind.



32 :03x03 - Ireland

First aired: Sep/03/2008

Bear must climb a 2000 foot high cliff and remove himself from a peat bog after digging up dead sheep to eat while stranded in Ireland's rugged western coast. He also faces hypothermia after being washed from his shelter by a storm.



33 :03x04 - South Dakota

First aired: Sep/10/2008

Bear heads to South Dakota where he visits three of their wilderness areas, the Black Hills, the Great Plains and the Badlands.



34 :03x05 - Bear's Essentials

First aired: Sep/17/2008

Bear gives a list of his essentials needed for survival which are good for many environments, including deserts, jungles, swamps and icy mountain tops.



35 :03x06 - Belize

First aired: Jan/12/2009

Bear heads to the jungles of Belize, where he'll face a dangerous white water river and a 9 foot boa constrictor.



36 :03x07 - Yukon

First aired: Jan/19/2009

Bear takes a dangerous white water ride and explores the depths of an abandoned gold mine while in Canada's frigid Yukon territory.



37 :03x08 - Oregon

First aired: Jan/26/2009

Bear Grylls heads to Oregon where he must catch and cook his dinner in the dark.



38 :03x09 - Dominican Republic

First aired: Feb/02/2009

The host heads to Oregon and its wilderness as he braves Hell's Canyon, encountering steep cliffs, frozen lakes and the rapids of Snake River.



39 :03x10 - Turkey

First aired: Feb/09/2009

While in Turkey the host is challenged by poisonous snakes, scorpions, climbs up the side of steep cliff's and hazardous white water rapids.



40 :03x11 - Romania

First aired: Feb/16/2009

bear takes on steep ravines, cavernous water systems and an adult brown bear while visiting Transylvania in Romania.



41 :03x12 - Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Part One

First aired: Feb/23/2009

Bear offers a survival guide to the most dangerous places, from falling into the Siberian ice, to battling sharks to make it off of an Indonesian deserted island, plus skinning and eating snakes while in Panama's mangroves.



Will Ferrell Special

First aired: Jun/02/2009
Guest star: Will Ferrell (Himself)

Bear and actor Will Ferrell make a trek to the frigid north of Sweden, teaching him survival skills along the way.



43 :04x01 - Arctic Circle

First aired: Aug/12/2009

Bear heads to the Arctic Circle as he challenges an icy waterfall, hunts for wild reindeer and contends with some of the coldest conditions on earth.



44 :04x02 - Alabama

First aired: Aug/19/2009

Bear heads to Alabama where he meets up with a wild boar, contends with a forest fire, fends off the freezing white water rapids and take a dark journey through a limestone cave.



45 :04x03 - Vietnam

First aired: Aug/26/2009

Bear heads to Vietnam where he confronts a spitting cobra, blood-sucking leeches, endures a flood and eats a forest scorpion.



46 :04x04 - Texas

First aired: Sep/02/2009

Bear heads to the Chihuahuan Desert in Western Texas, where he'll test his survival skills against such creatures as a diamondback rattlesnake.



47 :04x05 - Alaska

First aired: Sep/09/2009

Bear heads back to a Alaska to challenge a glacier, hangs by his fingertips from a forest waterfall and is nearly crushed between an iceberg and his rescue craft.



48 :04x06 - Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Part Two

First aired: Sep/16/2009

Bear takes on some of the world's most dangerous snakes, uses his own finger for bait to catch catfish, and meets tribes who tackle the toughest of terrains, eats raw goat testicles and hunts down some porcupines.



49 :04x07 - The Inside Story

First aired: Sep/23/2009

The crew discuss what it's like following around Bear as they document his adventures and share his experiences during the making of the series.



50 :04x08 - Pacific Island

First aired: Jan/06/2010

While on a Panamanian island, Bear Grylls must create fresh water and fish for food.



51 :04x09 - China

First aired: Jan/13/2010

Bear Grylls heads to Southern China following a typhoon where he must forge swollen rivers, climb gorges and is attacked by stinging ants.



52 :04x10 - Big Sky Country

First aired: Jan/20/2010

Bear Grylls takes on Big Sky Country -- paragliding above the Rockies, traversing vast gullies, and making the most of abandoned debris before making his great escape on a moving train.



53 :04x11 - Guatemala

First aired: Jan/27/2010

Bear 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.



54 :04x12 - Urban Survivor

First aired: Feb/03/2010

In a special edition of Man vs Wild, Bear Grylls finds himself in a new kind of jungle -- a concrete jungle. Bear uses the same wilderness survival techniques to stay alive in a city post-disaster.



55 :04x13 - Shooting Survival

First aired: Feb/10/2010

Go behind the scenes of Man vs Wild. Meet Bear's stalwart crew and follow along as they go to extremes to fearlessly -- and sometimes fumblingly -- film Bear trekking to the ends of the earth.



56 :04x14 - North Africa

First aired: Feb/17/2010

In the North African Sahara, Bear gets creative finding water. He treks to the coast, catches an octopus, makes shelter with acacia trees, and eats a stomach-turning bug burger breakfast of locusts and moths.



Bear's Top 25 Man Moments

First aired: Jun/19/2010

Go inside Bear's Top 25 Man vs Wild moments.



58 :05x01 - Western Pacific

First aired: Aug/11/2010

Bear Grylls is marooned on a desert island somewhere 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.



59 :05x02 - Northern Australia

First aired: Aug/18/2010

Bear Grylls skydives from a wartime cargo plane into Australia's Northern Territory. He will rely on many of the survival skills honed by the aboriginal people who live in Arnhemland to survive in this sweltering landscape where 100,000 crocodiles rule.



60 :05x03 - Canadian Rockies

First aired: Aug/25/2010



61 :05x04 - Georgia-Eastern Europe

First aired: Sep/01/2010



62 :05x05 - Fan vs. Wild

First aired: Sep/08/2010



63 :05x06 - Extreme Desert

First aired: Sep/15/2010



64 :05x07 - Behind the Wild

First aired: Sep/22/2010



65 :06x01 - Arizona Sky Islands

First aired: Feb/17/2011



66 :06x02 - Cape Wrath, Scotland

First aired: Feb/24/2011



67 :06x03 - Norway: Edge of Survival

First aired: Mar/03/2011



68 :06x04 - Borneo Jungle

First aired: Mar/10/2011



69 :06x05 - Malaysian Archipelago

First aired: Mar/17/2011



70 :06x06 - Global Survival Guide

First aired: Mar/24/2011



71 :07x01 - Men vs Wild with Jake Gyllenhaal

First aired: Jul/11/2011



72 :07x02 - New Zealand: South Island

First aired: Jul/18/2011



73 :07x03 - Iceland: Fire and Ice

First aired: Jul/25/2011



74 :07x04 - Red Rock Country

First aired: Aug/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!



75 :07x05 - Land of the Maori

First aired: Aug/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.



76 :07x06 - Working the Wild

First aired: Aug/26/2011

Spotlighting the camera crew as they follow Bear on his adventures in this behind-the-scenes look at the reality series.