Info : In each episode of Ultimate Survival, adventurer Bear Grylls strands himself in popular wilderness destinations where tourists often find themselves lost or in danger. Once there he finds his way back to civilization, demonstrating local survival techniques ? and biting into gut-wrenching eats ? along the way.
SEASON 1 Quote:S01E01 - The Rockies
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
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
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 - Alaskan mountain range
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.
S01E05 - Hawaii - Mount Kilauea
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
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
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 - European Alps
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
Bear Grylls is cast adrift in the Pacific Ocean, encountering coral reefs, rip currents, relentless surf and sharks.Code:
SEASON 2 Quote:S02E01 - Everglades
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.
S02E02 - Iceland
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.
S02E03 - Mexico
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.
S02E04 - Kimberly, Australia
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.
S02E05 - Ecuador
Bear Grylls offers survival tips in the Ecuadorian jungle. Included: building a bamboo bridge; making a bow and arrow; determining which plants are poisonous.
S02E06 - Scotland
Bear offers survival tips in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park. Included: using moss to purify water; skinning a deer; cooking a rabbit.Code:SEASON 3Quote:S03 special - Bear's mission Everest
Grylls travels to the Himalayas where he attempted to fulfill a dream: to fly a powered paraglider higher than Mount Everest.
S03E01 - Sahara
Bear Grylls heads out into the Sahara desert where he must survive in a world of towering sand dunes and extreme conditions.
S03E02 - Desert survivor
Bear Grylls survives in the hottest place on earth where he must skin and disembowel a camel for food, water and shelter.
S03E03 - Panama
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.
S03E04 - Jungle
The conclusion of the visit to Panama finds Bear Grylls handling mangrove swamps and jungles.
S03E05 - Patagonia
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.
S03E06 - Andes adventure
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.
S03E07 - Bear eats
Bear shows us that not much is on his list as inedible in nature, except maybe the fat of a camel's hump.Code:SEASON 4Quote:S04E01 - Zambia
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.
S04E02 - Namibia
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.
S04E03 - Jungle swamp
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.
S04E04 - Castaway
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.
S04E05 - Siberia
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.
S04E06 - Land of ice
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.Code:SEASON 5Quote:S05E01 - Baja Desert
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.
S05E02 - The Deep South
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.
S05E03 - Ireland
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.
S05E04 - South Dakota
Bear heads to South Dakota where he visits three of their wilderness areas, the Black Hills, the Great Plains and the Badlands.
S05E05 - Bear's essentials
Bear gives a list of his essentials needed for survival which are good for many environments, including deserts, jungles, swamps and icy mountain tops.
S05E06 - Belize
Bear heads to the jungles of Belize, where he'll face a dangerous white water river and a 9 foot boa constrictor.
S05E07 - Yukon
Bear takes a dangerous white water ride and explores the depths of an abandoned gold mine while in Canada's frigid Yukon territory.
S05E08 - Oregon
Bear Grylls heads to Oregon where he must catch and cook his dinner in the dark.
S05E09 - Dominican Republic
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.
S05E10 - Turkey
While in Turkey the host is challenged by poisonous snakes, scorpions, climbs up the side of steep cliff's and hazardous white water rapids.
S05E11 - Romania
bear takes on steep ravines, cavernous water systems and an adult brown bear while visiting Transylvania in Romania.
S05E12 - Bear's ultimate survival guide, part 1
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.Code:
SEASON 6Quote:S06E01 - Arctic circle
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.
S06E02 - Alabama
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.
S06E03 - Vietnam
Bear heads to Vietnam where he confronts a spitting cobra, blood-sucking leeches, endures a flood and eats a forest scorpion.
S06E04 - Texas
Bear heads to the Chihuahuan Desert in Western Texas, where he'll test his survival skills against such creatures as a diamondback rattlesnake.
S06E05 - Alaska
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.
S06E06 - Bear's ultimate survival guide, part 2
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.
S06E07 - The inside story
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.
S06E08 - Pacific island
While on a Panamanian island, Bear Grylls must create fresh water and fish for food.
S06E09 - China
Bear Grylls heads to Southern China following a typhoon where he must forge swollen rivers, climb gorges and is attacked by stinging ants.
S06E10 - Big sky country
Bear takes to the skies over the Rockies, and uses debris to his advantage in order to survive.
S06E11 - Guatemala
Bear goes over and under as he lands on a volcano and takes on an underground waterfall, before checking out some Mayan ruins.
S06E12 - Urban survivor
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.
S06E13 - Shooting survival
Once again the shows goes behind the scenes, this time to see through the eyes of the crew that travels with Bear.
S06E14 - North Africa
Bear feasts on insects and has a close encounter with an octopus as he makes his way across the Sahara Desert to get to the African coastline.Code:
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