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Man vs. Wild is a television series on Discovery Channel in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. The show is called Born Survivor in parts of Europe, including the UK, where it was originally broadcast by Channel 4, but latterly moved to Discovery Channel UK. In Africa, Asia and eastern parts of Europe, it is titled Ultimate Survival and again, broadcast by Discovery Channel. In Bulgaria, the show is called Оцеляване на Предела, which is a translated title to Ultimate Survival.
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Series overview[edit]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 15 | March 10, 2006 | July 20, 2007 | |
| 2 | 13 | November 9, 2007 | June 6, 2008 | |
| 3 | 12 | August 6, 2008 | February 23, 2009 | |
| 4 | 14 | August 12, 2009 | February 17, 2010 | |
| 5 | 7 | August 11, 2010 | September 22, 2010 | |
| 6 | 6 | February 17, 2011 | March 24, 2011 | |
| 7 | 6 | July 11, 2011 | November 29, 2011 | |
Nov 02, 2007 Man vs. Wild is a television show on Discovery Channel where an ex British Soldier named Bear Grylls teaches different survival techniques to use under various scenarios which usually begin with one being stranded in what they believe to be miles from any form of civilization. Sims 2 play free online. Bear Grylls travels around the globe to find the most dangerous tourist locations and environments, in order to show us how to survive in them. With his simple survival techniques and his.
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Season 1 (2006–2007)[edit]
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Survival expert(s) | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 'The Rockies' 'Pilot' | Mike Warner | Ron Hood & Mike Johnston | March 10, 2006 | |
| Bear Grylls gets dropped in the middle of the Canadian Rocky Mountains in British Columbia and must find his way back to civilization. On his way out, he must avoid the danger of grizzly bears, jump 70 feet into a river, and abseil down a cliff. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | 'Moab Desert' | Dominic Stobart | Terry Moore | November 10, 2006 | |
| Bear Grylls is dropped by a helicopter into the Moab Desert in Utah in almost 45 degree temperatures, with nothing but a knife, a canteen, and a flint. He battles dehydration by soaking his t-shirt in urine, and eats two raven eggs, one raw. Lastly, he demonstrates how to escape from quicksand before swimming across the Colorado River. He also explains how to use the flow of rivers as tools to find civilization. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | 'Costa Rican Rainforest' | Chris Richards | Jorge Salaverri Henriquez | November 17, 2006 | |
| Grylls parachutes into a Costa Ricanrainforest in the Osa Peninsula, with only his knife and a canteen. He's careful about the water he drinks, but gets violently ill anyway. 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. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | 'Alaska' | Scott Tankard | Tim Smith | November 24, 2006 | |
| Grylls 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. He catches a salmon, which he eats raw, and finds a skiff from an abandoned lodge. The skiff sinks, but he reaches the shore and is spotted by a ship. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | 'Mount Kilauea' | Dominic Stobart | Jack Lockwood | December 1, 2006 | |
| Grylls is dropped by helicopter at the top of Mount Kilauea. Made up of an expanse of solidified lava which stretches for 33,000 acres, this environment is one of the world's most inhospitable. He first traverses lava fields, which catch his boots on fire, then heads into the jungles of Hawaii. Grylls uses a kukui nut torch to explore a lava tube and finds water, then uses smoke to placate a bee hive to get honey. Ultimately, he finds the sea (and people) by following seabirds. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | 'Sierra Nevada' | Wayne Derrick | Mark Wienert | December 8, 2006 | |
| Grylls 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, Grylls travels through the alpine, woodland and chaparral areas of the mountains. He unsuccessfully tries 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. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | 'African Savannah' | Marc Westcott | Phil West | December 15, 2006 | |
| Grylls parachutes into Northern Kenya. He comes into close contact with lions, elephants, and rhinoceros, being careful not to get too close. Grylls demonstrates squeezing water from elephant dung and how to find people in Africa. Bear observes the deadly puff adder. In most areas, one follows a river downstream, but in Africa people are found upstream. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | 'European Alps' | Matt Dickinson | Mac MacKay | December 22, 2006 | |
| Grylls parachutes into the French Alps with a knife, a canteen, a cup and a flint, taking the parachute with him. He demonstrates how to survive falling into a frozen lake, how to build a snow shelter, and how to use a self arresting device to stop from plummeting into a crevasse. 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. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | 'Desert Island' | Graham Strong | Mark Wienert | December 29, 2006 | |
| Grylls is kicked out by helicopter into the water near a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. He demonstrates long distance swimming, shelter building and coconut harvesting. Grylls 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. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | 'Everglades' | Scott Tankard | Kris Thoemke | June 15, 2007 | |
| Grylls 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 sawgrass, get out of a muddy sinkhole and avoid alligators and rattlesnakes. He eats frogs and cooks a turtleSeminole-style. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | 'Iceland' | Tony Lee | Thor Kjartansson & Sigrun Nikulasdottir & Jon Gauti Jonsson | June 22, 2007 | |
| Grylls 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. He demonstrates how to make a snow cave, find water in volcanic lava tubes and avoid frostbite. To find food in this subarctic environment, Grylls scavenges a sheep for its eyeballs and mutton fat, and catches a ptarmigan. He demonstrates with his shoelaces the boiling of the eyeballs and mutton in the geysers, to save digestion energy and disinfect the scavenged food. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | 'Mexico' | Scott Tankard | David Holladay | June 29, 2007 | |
| In Mexico, Grylls must find his way out of Copper Canyon, and his only supplies are a water bottle, a flint and a knife. He 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.' Grylls also demonstrates techniques for finding scorpions or grubs and fishing without a rod or line. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | 'Kimberley, Australia' | Alexis Girardet | Nick Vroomans | July 6, 2007 | |
| In the Kimberley region of Australia, an area with a mixture of huge scrub deserts, dry riverbeds and red sandstone cliffs full of deep gorges, Grylls 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 one's own urine can prevent death from dehydration. During his journey, Grylls observes saltwater crocodiles and endures a lightning storm. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | 'Ecuador' | Matt Dickinson | Hazen Audel | July 13, 2007 | |
| Grylls paraglides onto the edge of the Andes and follows rivers into the Ecuadorian jungle, is attacked by huge colonies of spear-nosed bats, and observes giant weevil grubs and piranhas. He 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. | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | 'Scotland' | Clare Dornan | Lawrence Clark | July 20, 2007 | |
| 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, he traps a rabbit and cooks it to demonstrate how to prepare it. Grylls also crosses deep marshes and uses fallen trees to cross ravines. | ||||||
Season 2 (2007–2008)[edit]
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Survival expert(s) | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1 | 'Sahara' (Part 1) | Tony Lee | Kevan Palmer & Authentic Morocco | November 9, 2007 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 17 | 2 | 'Desert Survivor' (Part 2) | Tony Lee | Kevan Palmer & Authentic Morocco | November 16, 2007 | |
| In the desert, Grylls offers tips on skinning and disemboweling a dead camel for water. | ||||||
| 18 | 3 | 'Panama' (Part 1) | Justin Kelly | Richard Cahill & Luis Puleio | November 23, 2007 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 19 | 4 | 'Jungle' (Part 2) | Justin Kelly | Richard Cahill & Luis Puleio | November 30, 2007 | |
| Survival techniques for Panama's mangrove swamps and jungle. | ||||||
| 20 | 5 | 'Patagonia' (Part 1) | Carl Hindmarch | Daniel Gomez | December 7, 2007 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 21 | 6 | 'Andes Adventure' (Part 2) | Carl Hindmarch | Daniel Gomez | December 14, 2007 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 22 | 7 | 'Bear Eats' | TBA | TBA | December 21, 2007 | |
| Grylls offers tips on dining in the wild, with some unusual offerings that are not necessarily palatable. | ||||||
| 23 | 8 | 'Zambia' | Chris Richards | Andrew Wood | May 2, 2008 | |
| Grylls drops into the mighty Zambezi river, in the Second Gorge below Victoria Falls. He encounters elephants, hippos and crocodiles. He eats a maggot and tells viewers that sleeping next to baboons scares away predators. | ||||||
| 24 | 9 | 'Namibia' | Chris Richards | Andrew Wood | May 9, 2008 | |
| Grylls parachutes into the heart of the Namib desert. He eats a puff adder and encounters the indigenous bushmen. | ||||||
| 25 | 10 | 'Jungle Swamp' (Part 1) | Stephen Shearman | Andrew Wood | May 16, 2008 | |
| 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. He also comes across the bright blue Lake Kaca in the middle of the Kerinci Seblat National Park. | ||||||
| 26 | 11 | 'Castaway' (Part 2) | Stephen Shearman | Andrew Wood | May 23, 2008 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 27 | 12 | 'Siberia' (Part 1) | Tony Lee | Lena Yakovleva & Sergey Gluhov | May 30, 2008 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 28 | 13 | 'Land of Ice' (Part 2) | Tony Lee | Lena Yakovleva & Sergey Gluhov | June 6, 2008 | |
| Grylls is in Siberia, learning survival techniques from the Tuvans and, eating raw yak liver as well as drinking its blood for food. | ||||||
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Season 3 (2008–2009)[edit]
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Survival expert(s) | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 1 | 'Baja Desert' | David O'Neil | Stani Groeneweg | August 6, 2008 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 30 | 2 | 'The Deep South' | Nicholas While | Jeff Galpin | August 27, 2008 | |
| Grylls enters the swamps of Louisiana where he kills an alligator with a knife, avoids venomous snakes, and catches a catfish with his bare hands | ||||||
| 31 | 3 | 'Ireland' | Scott Tankard | Andrew Wood | September 3, 2008 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 32 | 4 | 'South Dakota' | Chris Richards | Stani Groeneweg | September 10, 2008 | |
| 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. He demonstrates skills used by the Lakota Indians. | ||||||
| 33 | 5 | 'Bear's Essentials' | N/A | N/A | September 17, 2008 | |
| A clip-show from previous Man vs Wild episodes highlighting important survival techniques. | ||||||
| 34 | 6 | 'Belize' | Nick White | Stani Groeneweg | January 12, 2009 | |
| Grylls heads to the jungle where he tackles a boa constrictor, he gets stuck over raging waters, and then he takes to the trees. | ||||||
| 35 | 7 | 'Yukon' | Nick White | Andrew Wood | January 19, 2009 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 36 | 8 | 'Oregon' | Chris Richards | Stani Groeneweg | January 26, 2009 | |
| Grylls takes on the deepest river based canyon, Hell's Canyon and the dangerous Snake River. | ||||||
| 37 | 9 | 'Dominican Republic' | Carl Hindmarch | Andrew Wood | February 2, 2009 | |
| Grylls has some tips on how to survive the hurricane season and he also eats a cooked tarantula to survive. He tells us about the hairs on the tarantula's back legs and how they defend themselves using the hairs. | ||||||
| 38 | 10 | 'Turkey' | Andrew Barron | Andrew Wood | February 9, 2009 | |
| Grylls heads to Turkey where he deals with dangerous animals and he also takes to the water. | ||||||
| 39 | 11 | 'Romania' | Stephen Shearman | Andrew Wood | February 16, 2009 | |
| Grylls heads to Romania where he takes on a bear and dangerous water channels. | ||||||
| 40 | 12 | 'Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Special Part 1' | N/A | N/A | February 23, 2009 | |
| Grylls offers tips for surviving in some of the world's most unforgiving places. | ||||||
Season 4 (2009–2010)[edit]
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Survival expert(s) | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 1 | 'Arctic Circle' | Andrew Barron | Andrew Wood | August 12, 2009 | |
| Grylls goes to the Arctic Circle, where he encounters a frozen waterfall, wild reindeer and some of the coldest conditions on the planet. | ||||||
| 42 | 2 | 'Alabama' | Nick White | Stani Groeneweg | August 19, 2009 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 43 | 3 | 'Vietnam' | Sid Bennett | Andrew Wood | August 26, 2009 | |
| Grylls demonstrates what it was like for soldiers who had to survive in the jungles of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. | ||||||
| 44 | 4 | 'Texas' | Stephen Shearman | Stani Groeneweg | September 2, 2009 | |
| In Western Texas, Grylls falls to earth from an upturned biplane into the parched Chihuahuan Desert; he traverses deep gorges, locates an oasis, eats a lizard and takes on a diamond back rattlesnake. | ||||||
| 45 | 5 | 'Alaska' | Nick White | Ross Bowyer | September 9, 2009 | |
| Grylls returns to the wilderness of Alaska to survive the dangerous terrain of the Last Frontier. | ||||||
| 46 | 6 | 'Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide Special Part 2' | N/A | N/A | September 16, 2009 | |
| 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 world's toughest terrains, eats raw goats testicles in the Sahara, and hunts porcupines. | ||||||
| 47 | 7 | 'The Inside Story' | N/A | N/A | September 23, 2009 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 48 | 8 | 'Pacific Island' | Stephen Shearman | Ross Bowyer | January 6, 2010 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 49 | 9 | 'China' | Graham Strong | Andrew Wood | January 13, 2010 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 50 | 10 | 'Big Sky Country' | Konrad Begg | Stani Groeneweg | January 20, 2010 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 51 | 11 | 'Guatemala' | Alexis Girardet | Ross Bowyer | January 27, 2010 | |
| Grylls rappels onto a live volcano in Guatemala, navigates a waterfall in a cave, creates a nest to safely sleep in but gets an unwelcome bed buddy, and encounters ancient Mayan ruins. | ||||||
| 52 | 12 | 'Urban Survivor' | Nick White | Andrew Wood | February 3, 2010 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 53 | 13 | 'Shooting Survival' | Ben Holder | N/A | February 10, 2010 | |
| Behind the scenes with Grylls's crew. | ||||||
| 54 | 14 | 'North Africa' | Nick Fletcher | Ross Bowyer | February 17, 2010 | |
| 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 (2010)[edit]
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Survival expert(s) | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 | 1 | 'Western Pacific' | Nick White | Stani Groeneweg | August 11, 2010 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 56 | 2 | 'Northern Australia' | David O'Neil | Ross Bowyer | August 18, 2010 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 57 | 3 | 'Canadian Rockies' | Scott Tankard | Andrew Wood | August 25, 2010 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 58 | 4 | 'Georgian Republic' | Stephen Shearman | Andrew Wood | September 1, 2010 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 59 | 5 | 'Fan vs. Wild' | Hugh Ballentyne | Ross Bowyer | September 8, 2010 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 60 | 6 | 'Extreme Desert' | Stephen Shearman | Ross Bowyer | September 15, 2010 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 61 | 7 | 'Behind The Wild' | Ben Duncan | N/A | September 22, 2010 | |
| Bear's crew give us another behind the scenes peek at how Bear's adventures are filmed. | ||||||
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Season 6 (2011)[edit]
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Survival expert(s) | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62 | 1 | 'Arizona Sky Islands' | David Holroyd | Ross Bowyer | February 17, 2011 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 63 | 2 | 'Cape Wrath' | Stephen Shearman | Stani Groeneweg | February 24, 2011 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 64 | 3 | 'Norway: Edge of Survival' | Ben Duncan | Andrew Wood | March 3, 2011 | |
| 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. | ||||||
| 65 | 4 | 'Borneo Jungle' | David Johnson | Stanislaw Groeneweg | March 10, 2011 | |
| 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. He also eats a snake and builds a nest like Borneo's famous orangutans. | ||||||
| 66 | 5 | 'Malaysia Archipelago' | Hugh Ballantyne | Andrew Wood | March 17, 2011 | |
| 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 30ft and traps a wild boar. | ||||||
| 67 | 6 | 'Global Survival Guide' | N/A | N/A | March 24, 2011 | |
| 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 (2011)[edit]
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Survival expert(s) | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68 | 1 | 'Men vs. Wild With Jake Gyllenhaal' | Andrew Wood | David Johnson | July 11, 2011 | |
| Bear brings along actor Jake Gyllenhaal, to test how he measures up to unpredictable and unforgiving Mother Nature. Jake will go where Bear goes and eat whatever Bear eats, if he's going to cope with some of the worst conditions known to man. | ||||||
| 69 | 2 | 'New Zealand: South Island' | Matt Brandon | Andrew Wood | July 18, 2011 | |
| In this episode 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. | ||||||
| 70 | 3 | 'Iceland: Land Of Fire And Ice' | Ben Duncan | Andrew Wood | July 25, 2011 | |
| Bear Grylls is dropped on an ice cap covering an active volcano. In blizzard conditions he struggles to make headway, and the barren land offers little food. Can he reach civilization when faced with swollen river crossings and ever present flash floods? | ||||||
| 71 | 4 | 'Utah: Red Rock Country' | Nick White | Ross Bowyer | August 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! | ||||||
| 72 | 5 | 'New Zealand: Land Of The Maori' | Stephen Shearman | Ross Bowyer | August 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. | ||||||
| 73 | 6 | 'Working The Wild' | N/A | N/A | November 29, 2011 | |
| Bear Grylls takes the viewer behind the scenes to meet the crew that follows his every step. Whether he's jumping from helicopters or eating the unimaginable, the camera is never far away from the action. Now the crew gets to tell their side of the story. | ||||||
Special episodes[edit]
| Special No. | Title | Survival expert(s) | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 'Bear's Mission Everest Special' | N/A | September 11, 2007 | |
| In this special, Bear attempts his most daring mission to date when he tries to fly a paramotor glider over the world's highest mountain. | ||||
| 2 | 'Arctic Tundra' | Andrew Wood | June 2, 2009 | |
| 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. | ||||
| 3 | 'Bear's Top 25 Man Moments' | N/A | June 19, 2010 | |
| 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. | ||||
| 4 | 'Man vs. Wild with Bear Grylls and Prime Minister Modi' | N/A | August 12, 2019 | |
| Grylls appeared with Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in a special episode shot in the India's Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand. The episode was showcased in more than 180 countries across the world on the Discovery, Inc. network.[1] | ||||
References[edit]
- ^'PM Modi to discuss wildlife issues in Discovery's 'Man vs Wild' episode'. Business Standard. Press Trust of India. July 29, 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
External links[edit]
- List of Man vs. Wild episodes on IMDb
- List of Man vs. Wild episodes at TV.com
- List of Man vs. Wild episodes at TV Guide
- List of Man vs. Wild episodes at Moviefone
| Man vs. Wild | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | 'Born Survivor: Bear Grylls Ultimate Survival' |
| Starring | Bear Grylls |
| Narrated by | Bear Grylls |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 73 (+10 specials) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Diverse Productions |
| Distributor | Discovery Communications |
| Release | |
| Original network | Discovery Channel |
| Original release | March 10, 2006 – November 29, 2011 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | You vs. Wild |
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Man vs. Wild,[1] also called Born Survivor: Bear Grylls,[2]Ultimate Survival,[3][4]Survival Game,[5]Real Survival Hero or colloquially as simply Bear Grylls in the United Kingdom, is a survival television series hosted by Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel. In the United Kingdom, the series was originally shown on Channel 4, but later series were broadcast on Discovery Channel UK. The series was produced by British television production company Diverse Bristol. The show was first broadcast on 10 November 2006 after airing a pilot episode titled 'The Rockies' on 10 March 2006.
In a special first aired on 2 June 2009, Will Ferrell joined Grylls on a survival trip to Northern Sweden.[6] Grylls also said he has been approached about doing a Man vs. Wild urban disaster 3-D feature film, an idea he said he would 'really like to do.'[7]Ben Stiller also signed on for an episode later in the year.[8] Grylls signed on to showcase urban survival techniques in a new Discovery show called Worst-Case Scenario, which premiered on 5 May 2010 on the network.[9] In March 2012, Discovery Channel terminated its contract with Grylls due to contract disputes, effectively cancelling the series. On 10 Apr. 2019 Netflix brought Bear Grylls back to wilderness by You vs. Wild which contains 8 episodes.[10]
- 2Episodes
- 4Criticism and response
Background[edit]
The general format of each episode is the premise that Grylls is left stranded in a region with his film crew. The episode documents his efforts to survive and find a way back to civilization, usually requiring an overnight shelter of some kind. Mostly there are wild terrains – jungles, forests or similar non-urban areas. But in special episodes, like that in Shipyard Gdynia,[11] there are industry areas located in cities. Grylls also tells about successful and failed survivals in the particular area which he is in.
Each episode takes about 7–10 days to shoot. Before each show the crew does about a week of reconnaissance, followed by Grylls doing a flyover of the terrain. Grylls then undergoes two days of intensive survival briefings. 'I spend two days on location prior to dropping in – I go through all the safety and comms briefing as well as being briefed on local conditions, and flora and fauna by local rangers and a local bushcraft expert.' He is followed on the program by a cameraman and a sound engineer.[12] Directors oversee location filming and the final edit of each program. Season One directors included Dominic Stobart, Scott Tankard and Mark Westcott. Grylls said, 'I suppose [sic] to bear in mind that this is a worst-case scenario show, and therefore, of course things have to be planned. Otherwise, it would just be me in the wild and nothing happening, you know, 'cause textbook survival says you land, you get yourself comfortable, you wait for rescue, you don't do anything. It would be a very boring show. The show is how to deal if you fall into quick sand, if you get attacked by an alligator, if you have to make a raft. I get a really good briefing before we go. I know there's a big river there, there's gonna be a great cliff climb there, there's loads of snakes in those rocks, watch out for an alligator. So I do have a good idea of 80 percent of what's gonna happen.' Furthermore, contrary to onscreen presentation, his movements are rarely from Point A to Point B: 'We plan it, if we're doing different locations, sometimes we'll have to do a whole crew move and get a helicopter. Again, we're talking huge distances sometimes. So we'll use helis when we have to. They'll go out three weeks ahead of me, and go, 'That bit's no good. Those rapids we thought are gonna be good are boring, but down there, it's great.'[13]In April 2008, Grylls and Discovery released a book that includes survival tips from the TV show. In June 2009, Grylls had a special co-host, actor Will Ferrell in episode 41. This season 5 premiere episode was called Men vs. Wild.[6]
In July 2011, Grylls had a special co-host, actor Jake Gyllenhaal in the season 7 premiere of the show on the Discovery Channel; they travelled through Iceland. In the UK, this episode was aired as a special in 2014, under the Bear's Wild Weekend banner.
In March 2012, Discovery Channel terminated its contract with Grylls due to contract disputes.[10]
Episodes[edit]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 15 | March 10, 2006 | July 20, 2007 | |
| 2 | 13 | November 9, 2007 | June 6, 2008 | |
| 3 | 12 | August 6, 2008 | February 23, 2009 | |
| 4 | 14 | August 12, 2009 | February 17, 2010 | |
| 5 | 7 | August 11, 2010 | September 22, 2010 | |
| 6 | 6 | February 17, 2011 | March 24, 2011 | |
| 7 | 6 | July 11, 2011 | November 29, 2011 | |
Special India episodes[edit]
In August 2019, Bear Grylls appeared with Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi in a special episode shot in the India's Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand. The episode was showcased in more than 180 countries across the world on the Discovery, Inc. network.[14]
Regional variations[edit]
The show is called Man vs Wild in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and India. The show does, however, go by different names in other parts of the world. In the United Kingdom, where the show originates, it is called Born Survivor: Bear Grylls and is broadcast on the Discovery Channel.[15] It is also known as Ultimate Survival in other countries. Grylls' books have also been published under the Born Survivor name in the UK.[16] These variations run basically the same format as Man vs Wild however there are some differences between them. The opening animation/narrative is also different as Grylls introduces the show with 'Hello and welcome to Born Survivor, I'm Bear Grylls and I'm in England where I'm going to show you what it takes to get out alive'. There are also a few differences in what he does during the shows however the names of the episodes are generally the same. The release date of new episodes also varies slightly as they cannot normally be arranged to show at exactly the same time due to schedules and time differences.
Criticism and response[edit]
Criticism[edit]
In 2006, a Born Survivor crew member admitted that some scenes in episodes were misleading, indicating to viewers that Grylls was stranded in the wild alone when he was not.[17] The issue of scenes being manipulated was also raised by Mark Weinert, a U.S. survival consultant. One example he gave was of a raft allegedly being put together by team members before being taken apart so Grylls could be filmed building it. Other scenes that have been criticised include:
- Grylls was shown trying to lasso 'wild' mustang in the Sierra Nevada that were in fact tame and had been hired from a trekking station nearby.[18]
- A scene filmed for another show in which a crew member wore a bear suit to simulate a bear attack due to the inability to find a tame bear.[19]
- A scene where Grylls was purported to have escaped from an active volcano by leaping across lava, avoiding poisonous sulphur dioxide gas, was actually enhanced with special effects, using hot coal and smoke machines.[20][21]
- Similarly, another episode gave viewers the impression that Grylls 'was a 'real life Robinson Crusoe' stuck on a desert island,' while in reality he was on an outlying part of the Hawaiian archipelago and retired to a motel at night.[18][22]
Show's response to criticism with changes[edit]
In response to these early criticisms, Discovery and Channel 4 aired re-edited versions of some episodes, removing elements that were too planned, with a fresh voice-over and a preceding announcement pointing out that some situations are 'presented to Bear to show the viewer how to survive'. However, five of the most controversial Season 1 episodes were never re-released after editing and are no longer available on DVD from Discovery. These are The Rockies, Moab Desert, Costa Rican Rain Forest, Mount Kilauea (Hawaii) and Desert Island (Hawaii). [23]
Following criticism in the media in July 2007 about elements of the show's first season, British Channel 4 temporarily suspended the show's second season for a few weeks, promising clarification and transparency in the production and editing of the show.[24] The channel responded to criticism of the show by pointing out that Grylls conducted all of his own stunts, many of which put him in dangerous conditions, and that the show was not a documentary, but a 'how-to' guide to 'basic survival techniques in extreme environments.'[18] The channel issued a statement saying that:
The programme explicitly does not claim that presenter Bear Grylls' experience is one of unaided solo survival. For example, he often directly addresses the production team, including the cameraman, making it clear he is receiving an element of back-up.[25]
The Discovery Channel also responded to the criticism by announcing that future airings would be edited (including a disclaimer at the beginning of each episode) so as not to imply to viewers that Grylls was left alone to survive during production of the show. Since then, Grylls has stated on camera when he has received assistance in order to demonstrate survival tactics or when he is exiting the setting for a period of time due to safety concerns. Grylls also tells the cameras filming behind the scenes footage how the film crew sometimes assists him in filming certain sequences.[26][27][28][29]The Discovery Channel in the UK has also edited out certain scenes of Grylls killing animals that he has captured for food. The Discovery Channel also released behind the scenes footage showing how sequences of Man Vs. Wild are filmed. In the footage, while setting up a scene, each production crew member is introduced and their role is briefly explained, including a safety consultant who served in the Royal Marines. During the scenes, Grylls tells how each crew members' role ensures his safety while he explains survival tactics. The footage includes open discussion over safety and other precautions.
On August 3, 2007, Grylls posted on his blog that the 'press accusations of motels and stagings in the show that have been doing the rounds, all I can say is they don't always tell the full story, but that's life and part of being in the public eye I guess.'[30] In response to allegations of spending nights in local hotels as opposed to staying in the shelters built during filming, Grylls clarifies in an article in the December 3 issue of People magazine that:
Episodes take about ten days to tape, explains Grylls: 'The night stuff [shown on camera] is all done for real. But when I’m not filming I stay with the crew in some sort of base camp.' Episodes now clarify when Grylls gets support from his crew and when situations are staged, 'We should have done that from the start,' he says. 'The more you see, the more real it feels.'[31]
The new shows and DVDs contain a notice stating that Grylls will receive help from the camera crew on occasion, that he will in certain situations use provided safety equipment to minimize risks, and that he will sometimes deliberately put himself in perilous situations to demonstrate survival techniques. Grylls is specifically credited as 'Presenter' to highlight his role in presenting survival techniques to the viewer. In March 2012, Discovery channel terminated relationship with 'Man vs. Wild' star Bear Grylls. 'Due to a continuing contractual dispute with Bear Grylls, Discovery has terminated all current productions with him,' a network spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter.
See also[edit]
- Extreme Survival, a British survival-themed series hosted by Ray Mears.
- Survivorman, a Canadian survival-themed series hosted by Les Stroud.
- Dual Survival, an American survival-themed series in which two people go into the wild and survive together
References[edit]
- ^'Bear Grylls' Official Site: Latest News'. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
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- ^'Born Survivor: Bear Grylls – Discovery Channel'. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ^'Ultimate Survival: Discovery Channel' (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2008-06-09. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ^'TV Schedule: Discovery Channel – Ultimate Survival/Man vs. Wild' (in Dutch and English). Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ^'ディスカバリーチャンネル'. Retrieved 2011-06-25.
- ^ ab'Will Ferrell'. Archived from the original on 2009-06-11. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2009-06-09. Retrieved 2009-06-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^'Ben Stiller To Appear On 'Man Vs. Wild' - Starpulse.com'. starpulse.com.
- ^'Bear Grylls' Worst Case Scenario : Discovery Press Web'. press.discovery.com.
- ^ abGuthrie, Marisa (March 13, 2012). 'Discovery Terminates Relationship With 'Man vs. Wild' Star Bear Grylls (Exclusive)'. The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
- ^Polska, Wirtualna. 'Wirtualna Polska - Wszystko co ważne - www.wp.pl'. kultura.wp.pl.
- ^Discovery.com – Filming infoArchived 2009-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^Bear Grylls wants to take Jennifer Lopez and Tom Hanks into the wild, Entertainment Weekly, 2009-06-24
- ^'PM Modi to discuss wildlife issues in Discovery's 'Man vs Wild' episode'. Business Standard. Press Trust of India. July 29, 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^'Born Survivor:Bear Grylls on the Discovery Channel'. 2010-01-14.
- ^'Bear Grylls:Born Survivor Books'. 2010-01-14.
- ^Deacon, Michael, 'How a 19th-century Scot conquered the Outback'Telegraph.co.uk, 30 May 2008
- ^ abcGreenhill, Sam (2007-07-23). 'How Bear Grylls the Born Survivor roughed it – in hotels'. Mail Online. London. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^'Latest TV fake scenes: 'Grizzly attack' on survival show was man in fancy-dress bear costume'. dailymail.co.uk.
- ^Booth, Robert, and Gadher, Dipesh, '‘Coal tipped into volcano’ for fake Grylls film'TimesOnline.co.uk, 12 August 2007
- ^'Bear Grylls 'faked toxic volcanic fumes with a smoke machine' in new Born Survivor fake row'DailyMail.co.uk, 12 August 2007
- ^Booth, Robert, 'TV 'survival king' stayed in hotels'TimesOnline.co.uk, 22 July 2007
- ^Man vs. Wild: Collection 1 DVDArchived 2011-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^'Grylls series 'to be transparent'BBC.co.uk, 24 July 2007
- ^Survival show faces 'fake' claim, BBC News Online, Monday, 23 July 2007
- ^'Discovery 'Man vs. Wild' not so rough after all?'. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- ^'Survival show faces 'fake' claim'. BBC News. 2007-07-23. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- ^Kaplan, Don (2007-07-24). 'GRYLLS' THRILLS BOGUS: EXPERT'. New York Post. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- ^''Wild' Series to Be 'Transparent' to Viewers'. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- ^Sahara Filming Update, Bear's Blog, August 3, 2007
- ^http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,20170833,00.html, Dodd, Johnny. 'Man vs Wild's Bear Grylls: A Force of Nature'. People Magazine. December 3, 2007
External links[edit]
Man Vs Wild All New Episodes
- Man vs. Wild on IMDb