Episodes List

Ep.1 Arctic Circle

Air Date: 2009-08-12

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

Ep.2 Alabama

Air Date: 2009-08-19

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.

Ep.3 Vietnam

Air Date: 2009-08-26

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

Ep.4 Texas

Air Date: 2009-09-02

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.

Ep.5 Alaska

Air Date: 2009-09-09

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

Ep.6 Pacific Island

Air Date: 2010-01-06

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.

Ep.7 China

Air Date: 2010-01-13

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.

Ep.8 Big Sky Country

Air Date: 2010-01-20

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.

Ep.9 Guatemala

Air Date: 2010-01-26

Ep.10 Urban Survivor

Air Date: 2010-02-03

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.

Ep.11 North Africa

Air Date: 2010-02-17

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.