In cold river vally, a former Eagle Scout, a tech-obsessed New Yorker and a man handicapped by a rare bone disease must build "super shelters," start fire from a fire piston and tinder fungus, and eat big beetles, then one is rushed to the hospital.

Survival expert Creek Stewart teaches men with sedentary lifestyles how to cope with extreme conditions during a week in the wilderness in this series, which begins with three friends from Los Angeles who learn how to build a wickiup shelter; start and maintain a fire; snare a rabbit for food; and, if necessary, how to go it alone, all in severely low temperatures.

Three men learn how to survive in a pine forest by building a shelter out of pine needles; mastering a difficult method of starting a fire; eating reindeer moss; making rose-hip tea; and setting a trap for quail.