The Best Episodes of Man vs. Wild Season 5

#1 Fan Favorite
8.0/10(67 votes)
#1 - Western Pacific
S5:E16/1/2009
Grylls is on a desert island, south of Papua New Guinea. He wades across a shark-infested tidal channel, climbs crumbling volcanic cliffs, leaps over a 100-foot death drop, and constructs a bamboo windsurfer to make his escape.
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7.4/10(60 votes)
#2 - Northern Australia
S5:E26/1/2009
In Australia's Northern Territory, Grylls must rely on many of the skills honed by the Aboriginal people to survive in this sweltering landscape dominated by crocodiles.
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6.9/10(53 votes)
#3 - Canadian Rockies
S5:E36/1/2009
While in the Canadian Rockies, Grylls is buried alive in an avalanche, swims long distance beneath an ice-covered lake, and is airvac-ed to the hospital when an icy glissade goes horribly wrong.
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7.3/10(51 votes)
#4 - Republic of Georgia
S5:E46/1/2009
Grylls lands in the snow-capped Caucasus Mountains of the Georgian Republic by driving a snowmobile out the back of a hovering helicopter. He ziplines across a river, camps among wolves and trudges through swampy wetlands.
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7.1/10(62 votes)
#5 - Fan vs. Wild
S5:E56/5/2009
Grylls takes two fans into the Canadian wilderness for their ultimate survival challenge. They face their fears head on, trek down dangerous glaciers and across a frigid glacial river, build a rustic shelter, and try to swallow typical Grylls fare.
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6.8/10(50 votes)
#6 - Extreme Desert
S5:E69/2/2009
In the Mojave Desert Grylls puts himself in the path of a man-made sandstorm, takes on the full force of a man-made flash flood and HALO jump from 30,000 feet. His body is pushed to the limit as the temperature soars from minus 40 to 110 degrees.
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