About this season
Bear strands himself in popular wilderness destinations where tourists often find themselves lost or in danger.
Episodes (11)
1. Arctic Circle
3.8Aired 12 August 2009 • 45 min
Grylls goes to the Arctic Circle, where he encounters a frozen waterfall, wild reindeer and some of the coldest conditions on the planet.
2. Alabama
3.2Aired 19 August 2009 • 45 min
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.
3. Vietnam
5.5Aired 26 August 2009 • 45 min
Grylls demonstrates what it was like for soldiers who had to survive in the jungles of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.
4. Texas
5.5Aired 2 September 2009 • 45 min
In Western Texas, Grylls falls to earth from an upturned biplane into the parched Chihuahuan Desert; he traverses deep gorges, locates an oasis and takes on a diamond back rattlesnake.
5. Alaska
5.5Aired 9 September 2009 • 45 min
Grylls returns to the wilderness of Alaska to survive the dangerous terrain of the Last Frontier.
6. Pacific Island
5.5Aired 6 January 2010 • 45 min
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.
7. China
5.5Aired 13 January 2010 • 45 min
Bear does all his usual acrobatics while suffering through Typhon Parma in China including swinging on a vine, monkey climbing over a gorge and cliff diving.
8. Big Sky Country
5.5Aired 20 January 2010 • 45 min
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.
9. Guatemala
5.5Aired 26 January 2010 • 45 min
10. Urban Survivor
5.5Aired 3 February 2010 • 45 min
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.
11. North Africa
5.5Aired 17 February 2010 • 45 min
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.