About this season
Ray Mears has spent his life developing a brand of survival skills he calls Wilderness Bushcraft, a philosophy that humans should live closer to nature, as the Bushmen do. In Extreme Survival he demonstrates his wilderness skills and shares amazing tales of survival from some of the world's most menacing environments.
Episodes (6)
1. The Sahara Desert
Aired 2 February 2000
Ray explores the extreme environment of the Sahara Desert and tells the inspirational tale of the wartime RAF pilot who survived for 18 days in the desert by drinking radiator fluid from wrecked tanks and vehicles, only to be captured one mile from British lines.
2. The Rocky Mountains
Aired 2 February 2000
Ray visits America's Rocky Mountains.
3. Australlian Outback
Aired 2 February 2000
Ray treks deep into the Australian outback and tells a cautionary tale about two Austrian tourists who lost their lives, but tragically might have survived if they had better understood what they were getting into and how best to handle possible emergencies.
4. Military Survival
Aired 2 February 2000
Ray takes a slightly different look at survival in this episode - instead of being stranded in the wilderness, he follows 20 RAF recruits as they endure a grueling survival training course.
5. Mountains
Aired 2 February 2000
Ray looks at the incredible story of a US Air Force pilot who managed to keep himself and his son alive in a freezing blizzard for ten days before they were finally rescued.
6. Desert Island Survival
Aired 2 February 2000
Marooned on a desert island in the Philippines, where coconuts supply liquid to drink and fish can be cooked in a hot-rock oven, Mears finds that many WWII airmen who bailed out over the jungle islands were not so fortunate - and died through lack of survival training.