Fri, Jun 15, 2007
This premiere episode finds host Bear Grylls 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, deal with vicious razor-sharp grass and find stomach-churning food that will keep you alive if you find yourself stranded in this beautiful but dangerous destination.
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Fri, Jun 22, 2007
While hundreds of thousands of tourists visit Iceland every year to witness freezing glaciers, steaming geothermal areas and huge black sand deserts, more than a thousand visitors find themselves requiring a rescue. 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 (a wild bird). He also has to deal with blizzards and 50 mph winds as he attempts to reach safety.
Fri, Jun 29, 2007
After sky-diving down, Bear crosses the vast, scorching-hot Mexican Copper canyon, south of the US border. Bear finds the dehydrating heat by day -and icy nights- his greatest challenge while climbing up and down high, steep, unpredictable cliffs. The arid land, surprisingly varied with volcanic hot springs, waterfalls and a glacier, offers little water and sustenance, so he must filter unpolluted pools or finds steaming water and eat what he can catch, like fat grubs and tail-removed scorpions. Exploring a cave with a self-made torch, Bear braves his animal phobia, bats, and is delighted to find a river section with fish he can catch by hand after building primitive rock dams at both sides.
Fri, Jul 6, 2007
Even by Australian Outback standards, Kimberley is a vast and desolate wasteland, home to an inhospitable wildlife with a record concentration of poisonous species. Bear braves it, paying due tribute to traditional Aboriginal survival skills, showing how stranded tourists may still hope to get out alive. Even he wrestles with the scorching heat, leaving most of the and dry and very hard to find water or food, so you can't be picky, eating anything not dangerous and drinking what you can, even recycling your own filtered fresh urine. After a storm in a hastily improvised shelter, Bear heads for the marshy lands near the coast, with a healthy respect for crocodiles, the sweet water being dangerous enough, but seaworthy 'salties' are believed to bite harder the tyrannosaurus, and aggressive in breeding season like then, yet Bear must prepare to wade or dive croc-infested, murky waters.
Fri, Jul 13, 2007
Bear starts a testing journey trough tropical Ecuador paragliding down in the Andes, then works his way down into the Amazon jungle, trying to follow the course of water gradually swelling into a mighty stream, passing a cave requires getting over his aversion from bats. Wildlife is abundant, yet food not so easy to get, even if you know some local tribal techniques. He eats both a crucifix spider and giant larvae for the protein, making him all the more happy when a self-made bow and arrow allow him to fish-hunt in pools, for piranhas who aren't numerous enough to be dangerous, yet tasty. A bamboo bridge he constructs crashes to useless rubble, for lack of a canoe he braves the rapids on a tree trunk.
Fri, Jul 20, 2007
Bear is dropped in the Scottish Highlands, the wildest UK region, notably Cairngorm National Park, every year still quite risky for its many tourists. The unforgiving winter elements scourge Bear with icy wind, cold and precipitation, so he must regularly seek shelter in between threading carefully on snow, ice, slippery moss and sliding pebbles or dealing with snowy slopes with avalanche risk, a rotting deer carcass is inedible but can be skinned for a coat, alas too heavy to carry long. Food and potable water are scares, so he purifies with moss and sets rabbit snare traps yielding a glorious meal. Bear strips to his boxers to keep his clothes dry when he must cross water, notably the murky marshes which can act as quicksand.
Fri, Nov 23, 2007
Lost in the Panamanian rain forest Bear finds his bearings and navigates to his prearranged helicopter pick up point. Along the way he turns geological obstacles to his advantage and points out unexpected dangers and benefits. Then Bear demonstrates the difficulty of navigating a mangrove swamp.