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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Man vs. Wild Season 5 Episode 6 - Extreme Desert
    6.8/10(50 votes)

    #1 - Extreme Desert

    S5:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Man vs. Wild Season 5 Episode 3 - Canadian Rockies
    6.9/10(53 votes)

    #2 - Canadian Rockies

    S5:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Man vs. Wild Season 6 Episode 2 - Cape Wrath, Scotland
    6.9/10(49 votes)

    #3 - Cape Wrath, Scotland

    S6:E2

    In Scotland off the rugged coast of Cape Wrath, Bear is dropped into open ocean. After getting ashore, he realises he's on an island and must swim to the mainland. Bear fashions a wetsuit from a seal's hide to withstand the frigid crossing. Well into the trek, he is forced to turn back as an incoming estuary tide nearly cuts him off. After he makes it to dry land, Bear has a close call with the steep treacherous Scottish rock terrain

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Man vs. Wild Season 6 Episode 6 - Global Survival Guide
    6.9/10(44 votes)

    #4 - Global Survival Guide

    S6:E6

    Bear Grylls travels the world to give you the best tips and techniques so you can survive wherever you're stranded. From skin diving without a mask in the tropics, to finding water in the desert, this is the best of Bear's never before seen footage.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Man vs. Wild Season 5 Episode 5 - Fan vs. Wild
    7.1/10(62 votes)

    #5 - Fan vs. Wild

    S5:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Man vs. Wild Season 6 Episode 4 - Borneo Jungle
    7.1/10(60 votes)

    #6 - Borneo Jungle

    S6:E4

    In Borneo, Bear heads directly into the wild jungles. Without a place to land his helicopter, he is forced to rappel into the treetops. As the heli peels away, Bear is 100 feet up in the canopy. After finding his way down to the jungle floor, Bear tackles raging waters, big mudslides and deep caves as he fights his way through this impenetrable place.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Man vs. Wild Season 5 Episode 4 - Republic of Georgia
    7.3/10(51 votes)

    #7 - Republic of Georgia

    S5:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Man vs. Wild Season 6 Episode 3 - Norway: Edge of Survival
    7.3/10(65 votes)

    #8 - Norway: Edge of Survival

    S6:E3

    Bear and his team are in Norway. Armed with the latest technology they'll be creating the harshest conditions possible while sensors monitor how Bear copes trying to survive in one of the world's most beautiful but wettest countries.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Man vs. Wild Season 7 Episode 3 - Iceland: Fire and Ice
    7.3/10(71 votes)

    #9 - Iceland: Fire and Ice

    S7:E3

    Bear returns to Iceland to demonstrate the challenge of surviving its many pitfalls. His trek begins on an ice cap covering an active volcano, where food sources are scarce and travels down towards a civilization with swollen rivers between him and safety.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Man vs. Wild Season 5 Episode 2 - Northern Australia
    7.4/10(60 votes)

    #10 - Northern Australia

    S5:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Man vs. Wild Season 2 Episode 7 - Bear Eats
    7.5/10(86 votes)

    #11 - Bear Eats

    S2:E7

    In this special film Bear Grylls takes us to nature's kitchen. It seems nothing--except maybe the fat of on a camel's hump--is beyond Bear Grylls.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Man vs. Wild Season 3 Episode 4 - South Dakota
    7.5/10(66 votes)

    #12 - South Dakota

    S3:E4

    Grylls is dropped on a granite peak in the Black Hills where he is caught in a thunder storm with inadequate shelter. Down in the plains Grylls encounters a herd of Bison before entering the desolate area known as the Badlands.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Man vs. Wild Season 3 Episode 5 - Belize
    7.5/10(56 votes)

    #13 - Belize

    S3:E5

    Grylls heads to the jungle where he tackles a boa constrictor, he gets stuck over raging waters, and then he takes to the trees.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Man vs. Wild Season 3 Episode 6 - Yukon
    7.5/10(64 votes)

    #14 - Yukon

    S3:E6

    Grylls wraps up warm as he heads to the frozen wastelands of North Canada. He goes underground to search an abandoned mine, and he takes to some fast moving water.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Man vs. Wild Season 6 Episode 1 - Arizona Sky Islands
    7.5/10(59 votes)

    #15 - Arizona Sky Islands

    S6:E1

    In Arizona, Bear transforms into a one man high speed glider with a cutting edge wingsuit and flies into the Arizona Sky Islands. Bear shows viewers how to find water in the parched desert landscape, builds a sand-buggy from a wrecked aircraft and crosses heart-stopping rock drops.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Man vs. Wild Season 6 Episode 5 - Malaysian Archipelago
    7.5/10(55 votes)

    #16 - Malaysian Archipelago

    S6:E5

    Bear Grylls is dropped in an archipelago of islands off the coast of Borneo. Fighting dense jungle and scaling towering escarpments, Bear struggles to find freshwater. In his search for food, he tries to spear fish at depths of 20ft and traps a wild boar.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Man vs. Wild Season 2 Episode 6 - Andes Adventure
    7.6/10(85 votes)

    #17 - Andes Adventure

    S2:E6

    In Patagonia, Grylls skins a hare, scales a cliff, tracks a puma, drinks dirty water, and crosses the Perito Moreno glacier, a vast frozen labyrinth of ice caves and crevasses.

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  18. Man vs. Wild Season 4 Episode 2 - Alabama
    7.6/10(77 votes)

    #18 - Alabama

    S4:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Man vs. Wild Season 7 Episode 4 - Red Rock Country
    7.6/10(52 votes)

    #19 - Red Rock Country

    S7:E4

    Bear Grylls -- lasso in hand -- crosses a raging river and descends rock pinnacles in Utah.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Man vs. Wild Season 1 Episode 2 - Moab Desert
    7.7/10(137 votes)

    #20 - Moab Desert

    S1:E2

    Bear Grylls is dropped by a helicopter into the Moab Desert in Utah in almost 45 degree temperatures, with nothing but a knife, a canteen, and a flint. He battles dehydration by soaking his t-shirt in urine, and eats two raven eggs, one raw. Lastly, he demonstrates how to escape from quicksand before swimming across the Colorado River. He also explains how to use the flow of rivers as tools to find civilization.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Man vs. Wild Season 1 Episode 5 - Hawaii – Mount Kilauea
    7.7/10(119 votes)

    #21 - Hawaii – Mount Kilauea

    S1:E5

    Grylls is dropped by helicopter at the top of Mount Kilauea. Made up of an expanse of solidified lava which stretches for 33,000 acres, this environment is one of the world's most inhospitable. He first traverses lava fields, which catch his boots on fire, then heads into the jungles of Hawaii. Grylls uses a kukui nut torch to explore a lava tube and finds water, then uses smoke to placate a bee hive to get honey. Ultimately, he finds the sea (and people) by following seabirds.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Man vs. Wild Season 1 Episode 6 - Sierra Nevada
    7.7/10(129 votes)

    #22 - Sierra Nevada

    S1:E6

    Grylls parachutes into the Sierra Nevadas, simulating the situation of the hundreds of hikers who become stranded there each year. Equipped with a knife and a canteen, Grylls travels through the alpine, woodland and chaparral areas of the mountains. He unsuccessfully tries to tame a wild horse, and eats a live snake. Using techniques gleaned from the Mono Indians, he brushes his teeth with a manzanita leaf. Most of the ground he covers is traversed by river, using a raft held together by grape vine.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Man vs. Wild Season 1 Episode 8 - European Alps
    7.7/10(120 votes)

    #23 - European Alps

    S1:E8

    Grylls parachutes into the French Alps with a knife, a canteen, a cup and a flint, taking the parachute with him. He demonstrates how to survive falling into a frozen lake, how to build a snow shelter, and how to use a self arresting device to stop from plummeting into a crevasse. He also eats maggots and uses them to catch a trout. He performs a Tyrolean traverse and makes himself a pair of snow shoes out of young trees and parachute lines.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Man vs. Wild Season 2 Episode 4 - Jungle (2)
    7.7/10(90 votes)

    #24 - Jungle (2)

    S2:E4

    Survival techniques for Panama's mangrove swamps and jungle.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Man vs. Wild Season 4 Episode 1 - Arctic Circle
    7.7/10(82 votes)

    #25 - Arctic Circle

    S4:E1

    Grylls goes to the Arctic Circle, where he encounters a frozen waterfall, wild reindeer and some of the coldest conditions on the planet.

    Director:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Extreme Desert" is the worst rated episode of "Man vs. Wild". It scored 6.8/10 based on 50 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/2/2009. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Canadian Rockies".