Season One
1. Rocky Mountains - Pilot - (October 27, 2006):
Bear 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 into a river, and abseil down a cliff.
2. Moab Desert – (November 10, 2006):
Bear Grylls demonstrates how to survive a situation like that of someone who got lost in the desert. He is left in the harsh Moab Desert in Utah, in 110 degree temperatures, and goes about finding food, water, shelter and shows how to use the flow of rivers as tools to find civilization.
3. Costa Rican Rain Forest – (November 17, 2006):
Bear parachutes into the Osa Peninsula to demonstrate how someone lost in the jungle can make it to civilization. He encounters snakes, mosquitoes and dangerous river currents, while searching for food and water and setting up camp.
4. Alaskan Mountain Range – (November 24, 2006)
5. Mount Kilauea - Hawaii (December 1, 2006)
6. Sierra Nevada – (December 8, 2006)
7. African Savanna – (December 15, 2006):
Bear skydives into North Kenya to face the dangerous landscape of African brushland. He encounters lions, elephants and hyenas on his trek to find civilization.
8. European Alps – France (December 22, 2006)
9. Deserted Island – (December 29, 2006):
Bear emulates what it would be like to be stranded on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. He demonstrates how to make shelter, find food, get hydrated and ultimately, after resources run out, to make a raft and try to be rescued on the high seas.
[edit] Season Two [4]
1. Everglades - (June 15, 2007):
Bear Grylls gets stranded in the swamps of the Florida Everglades, where each year at least 60 tourists need to be rescued. With more than a million alligators, thousands of snakes and even black bears roaming these waterlogged lands, the area has more than its share of hazards. Bear demonstrates how to keep alligators at bay, and deal with vicious razor-sharp grass,.
2. Iceland - (June 22, 2007):
Adventurer Bear Grylls demonstrates how to make a snow cave, find water in deep tunnels, and avoid frostbite in this Arctic environment. Because finding food is a problem in this climate, Bear is forced to eat a sheep's eyeball and catch a ptarmigan. He also has to deal with blizzards and 50 mph winds as he attempts to reach safety.
3. Mexico (June 29, 2007):
Bear Grylls demonstrates how to build a simple compass and climb sheer cliffs safely in Copper Canyon. For shelter, he uses ancient caves and makes fire with a traditional "fire saw." Bear also offers important techniques for finding scorpions or grubs and fishing without a rod or line.
4. Kimberley, Australia - (July 6, 2007)
Bear travels to Australia’s Kimberly region, which is roughly the size of California and a mixture of huge scrub deserts, dry riverbeds and red sandstone cliffs full of deep gorges. Bear puts himself in the position of a lost tourist to demonstrate how to prevent sunstroke, find bush tucker and explain why drinking your own urine could save your life. He also identifies what you can eat in the outback. During his journey, Bear builds a shelter in the middle of a lightning storm and confronts Australia's deadly saltwater crocodiles.
5. Ecuador - (July 13, 2007)
Bear paraglides onto the edge of the Andes and follows rivers into the jungle -— bringing him face to face with huge colonies of spear-nosed bats, giant weevil grubs and vicious 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.
6. Scotland - (July 20, 2007)
Bear Grylls shows how to navigate the Cairngorms region using ice formations and moss growth, and tests snow slopes for avalanche potential. He uses moss to purify water and skins a red deer for shelter. For food, he traps and cooks a rabbit. Bear crosses deep marshes that can swallow a person and uses fallen trees to cross ravines.
[edit] Survival techniques
Grylls demonstrates escaping from quicksand.
Grylls demonstrates escaping from quicksand.
* Glissading down a glacier using a broken ski pole
* Using trousers as a flotation device by tying off the leg holes to trap air
* Climbing up a tree to survey the land
* Hunting a rabbit with a throwing stick
* Soaking his shirt in urine and using it as a headdress to cool down in the desert
* Crawling over two ropes suspended above a deep chasm (Tyrolean traverse), with only improvised safety equipment (paracord wrapped around rope and secured to parachute harness)
* Making scrambled raven eggs by cracking the egg open onto a flat rock in the desert heat
* Rubbing feces on his face to prevent sunburn
* Drinking water squeezed from elephant dung
* Using a length of knotted rope (weighted down at one end with his pack) as a self arresting device to stop from falling down into a crevasse.
* Climbing up a knotted rope using Prusik loops
* Using a hammerstone to make a disc knife from flint
* Making a pair of snow shoes from branches and parachute cords
* Removing clothes to swim more easily, or to prevent hypothermia while wet in cold climates
* Making a torch from kukui nuts
* Fashioning a raft from bamboo and palm fronds
* Using coconut oil to avoid sunburn and dehydration from sea spray
* Using a scratch-built fishing rod to catch a surgeonfish while adrift
* Using aloe leaves on a cut
* Tying shoelaces together for a foothold to climb an otherwise unclimbable tree
* Scavenging and eating the raw flesh of a zebra carcass
* Calming bees with smoke to take a honeycomb
* Using sheep fat to make a torch
* Filtering water with his t-shirt
* Drinking his own urine to stay hydrated