2019
Having lived and helped build a long house for the Melanesian Salgon people on Gaua island, in northern Vanuata (New Hebrides), Hazen returns to join the warriors on traditional boar hunt for a newborn's baptism ceremony. Its' a long voyage to the interior on the other side of the island, which surrounds a still-active volcano. He starts off rowing along the coast, where he proves himself as spear fisher, then must hack through dense jungle, mindful of many dangerous creatures, like venomous snakes, and scraping by food, even when he has to climb a cathedral-size tree to gather two dove eggs, and improvising fire and shelter. He must paddle again on the lake surrounding the volcano, which he must climb as the ancestral hunting grounds are surrounding it. He joins the men, who hand him a bamboo spear to help drive a wild boar along a steep slope into a leaves-covered pit they dug, then it's killed by spears and he's delegated to collect their game prize and bring it to the village for the ceremony.
2018
(DESERT WARRIORS) Hazen returns to the Rendille tribal village where he learned their camel nomad skills and sets out to collect one from the herdsmen camping out way in the Kenyan desert. He avoids creepy critters like the camel spider and snakes, find someone beat him at harvesting honey from wild bees and digs for water. He crosses crocodile-infested Lake Turkana in a canoe. Having passed a strange stones site, he finds the herdsmen not at the corral he expected and much join them elsewhere, then camps with them, fearing scorpions and lions after the animals. He manages to return with one camel, enough for a hungry village to feast on.
2018
(EXTREME FORRESTS) Hazen demonstrates the very different skills he learned and some of the extreme forest environments tribes from several previous episodes had to adapt to. In Mexico, the Raramundi become unsurpassed runners in Copper Canyon, a mountainous system that is steep, dry, hot, easy to get lost in and full with venomous wildlife. The Canadian Cree deal by dogsled and snowshoes with herding caribou in Arctic conditions, where life nearly dies out among the trees. The Lao Loum in the Mekong jungle can only cover distances by raft on the wild river.
2019
(EXTREME tropical ISLANDS) Siome 45000 islands worldwide are challenging to survive on, not least because of isolation, generally focused on fishing. On the Solomons, Hazen learns first how to stock up on land by climbing for coconuts and catching the giant coconut crab with pincers that crack even such had nuts. Then he joins a village community using vines in the coastal reef to gradually close in fish, which can then be scooped up by net. Finally he sets out by ax-crafted canoe, having helped make one, to fish for sharks in open water. From a tiny island off Sulawesi (Indonesia), he learns the Bajou 'sea nomad' ways, including free diving, treating a foot wound from shore mangroves and scavenging in shallow water, aware of dangerous stingray and octopus, and finally takes to the ocean for big fish. Finally the Tao, native people on tiny island off Taiwan, teach him about crafting their sublime canoe and using it to hunt ocean fish.
2018
(EXTREME DESERTS) Hazen learned from experienced tribes how to survive in various desert types. Like the Hima in the Namib, the oldest desert, he concentrates on hunting. The Aboriginal tribe of Arrernte and the wildlife in the scorching central Outback deal masterly with droughts up to seven years, even manage regeneration by controlled bush fire, while expertly gathering like their women and hunting like their men, yet Hazen decides against killing a juvenile monitor. The Samburu in Kenya live from their cow herds, drinking milk and blood, which he finds hard to harvest as the neck must be arrow-pierced each time, and dodging dangerous wildlife like lions and elephants. Finally the Sahara, the largest desert, requires the skill of the Berbers and the moody camel as perfectly adapted mount. All have nasty critters, like spiders and scorpions, and even more edible bugs.
2018
(Extreme Jungles) The Siberut Mentawai teach him hunting with dogs on wild pigs - Hazen needs the skills learned among the cannibal Yimas tribe in the northern jungle of Papua New Guinea an solo expedition from their village to that of a neighboring clan, former enemies and cannibals, over the rough river to their lake. He must steer the hand-cut single tree-canoe standing with one foot on an edge, in the scorching sun. He makes a fire painstakingly and builds a camp to stand a nocturnal drench, constantly visited by creepers, but his drifting funnel catches only one fish, his wild pig trap didn't snap in time. He needs a warrior-worthy gift for the chief to be safely welcomed, but fails to find a crocodile egg and the crocodile hunters party his joins doesn't catch a 'salty', the top predator, but he gets the local, larger piranha-cousin. The Embera in Panama's super-dense Darien Gap jungle also expertly uses rafts. The Huarani in Ecuador's Amazonia welcome rain to harvest honey and are masters with the blowgun to shoot even the most agile monkey.
2018
(EXTREME MOUNTAINS) On the Tibetan highland part of the Himalaya, the isolated Loba people showed Hazen how to survive despite extreme height and temperatures, making best use of yaks as mount, food, fuel, taking a herd to capital Lo Mantang. In northern Tanzania, Hazen learned to live among dangerous wildlife Massai style, on a traditional pilgrimage, to sacrifice goat meat up a high volcano passed elephants, lions. In the Western Monglian Altai mountains, the native Kazahks teach Hazen the art of (fur) hunting with golden eagles, and how to train these mighty birds of prey.
2018
(EXTREME PLAINS) In northern Canada, the Inuit (Eskimo) people showed Hazen how to survive despite extreme temperatures, making best use of dog sleds. In Namibia, Hazen learned to live among the San, who teach him to art of hunt by pursuit on foot. In the Artic north of Scandinavia, the native Nordi Sami (Laps) teach Hazen all about herding reindeer.