About this season
Ed Stafford takes on a series of head-to-head challenges against some of the biggest names in survival, risking life, limb, and reputation along the way. Over miles of hostile terrain in Asia, Ed and his opponents will face high stakes survival challenges as they race to reach a predetermined extraction point, in a bid to prove they are top of their game and be the first man out.
Episodes (6)
1. Ed Vs Will Lord
7.0Aired 24 April 2020 • 43 min
Ed faces his old bushcraft teacher, Will Lord, in Bashan, central China. Both without a knife, they must navigate huge cliffs and Asia's largest bamboo forest.
2. Ed Vs Josh James
7.0Aired 8 May 2020 • 43 min
Ed takes on the 'Kiwi bushman', Josh James, in the Three Parallel Rivers plateau of Yunnan Province. Josh draws on his Maori-heritage to make fire in the mountains.
3. Ed Vs Ky Furneaux
7.0Aired 22 May 2020 • 43 min
4. Ed Vs Matt Wright
7.0Aired 29 May 2020 • 43 min
5. Ed Vs Hakim Isler
7.0Aired 15 May 2020 • 43 min
Ed takes on ex-PSYOPS marine and real-life ninja, Hakim Isler, in the Zoige Marshes of Sichuan Province. The unforgiving wetland tests their willpower to the max.
6. Ed Vs Xinlei Wu
7.0Aired 1 May 2020 • 43 min
Ed faces former French Foreign Legion desert specialist, Xinlei Wu, in the Aksai Desert of north-west China. They encounter huge sand dunes and rock-valley mazes.