6.8/1038 votesLoading...#1 - Global Survival Guide
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 3/24/2011
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.
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6.9/1043 votesLoading...#2 - Cape Wrath, Scotland
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 2/24/2011
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
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7.0/1046 votesLoading...#3 - Canadian Rockies
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 6/1/2009
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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7.0/1042 votesLoading...#4 - Extreme Desert
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 9/2/2009
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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7.1/1055 votesLoading...#5 - Fan vs. Wild
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 6/5/2009
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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7.1/1054 votesLoading...#6 - Borneo Jungle
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 3/10/2011
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.
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#7 - Republic of Georgia
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 6/1/2009
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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7.3/1059 votesLoading...#8 - Norway: Edge of Survival
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 3/3/2011
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.
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7.3/1064 votesLoading...#9 - Iceland: Fire and Ice
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 7/24/2011
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.
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7.5/1079 votesLoading...#10 - Andes Adventure
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/13/2007
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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7.5/1081 votesLoading...#11 - Bear Eats
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/20/2007
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.
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7.5/1061 votesLoading...#12 - South Dakota
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/10/2008
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.
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7.5/1050 votesLoading...#13 - Belize
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 12/11/2008
Grylls heads to the jungle where he tackles a boa constrictor, he gets stuck over raging waters, and then he takes to the trees.
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7.5/1058 votesLoading...#14 - Yukon
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 1/18/2009
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.
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7.5/1051 votesLoading...#15 - Northern Australia
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 6/1/2009
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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#16 - Arizona Sky Islands
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 2/17/2011
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.
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7.5/1050 votesLoading...#17 - Malaysian Archipelago
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 3/17/2011
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.
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#18 - Costa Rican Rain Forest
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/17/2006
Grylls parachutes into a Costa Rican rainforest in the Osa Peninsula, with only his knife and a canteen. He's careful about the water he drinks, but gets violently ill anyway. He climbs down a waterfall using a vine, and floats down a river to the ocean on a raft he crafts out of balsawood to demonstrate how someone lost in the jungle can make it to civilization. He encounters snakes, mosquitoes and dangerous river currents.ve swamps.
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#19 - Hawaii – Mount Kilauea
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/30/2006
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.
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#20 - Sierra Nevada
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/8/2006
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.
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7.6/1070 votesLoading...#21 - Alabama
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 8/19/2009
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.
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7.6/1046 votesLoading...#22 - Red Rock Country
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 8/11/2011
Bear Grylls -- lasso in hand -- crosses a raging river and descends rock pinnacles in Utah.
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#23 - Moab Desert
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/8/2006
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.
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7.7/10104 votesLoading...#24 - Mexico
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/29/2007
In Mexico, Grylls must find his way out of Copper Canyon, and his only supplies are a water bottle, a flint and a knife. He demonstrates how to build a simple compass and climb sheer cliffs safely. For shelter, he uses ancient caves and makes fire with a traditional "fire saw." Grylls also demonstrates techniques for finding scorpions or grubs and fishing without a rod or line.
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7.7/1092 votesLoading...#25 - Patagonia
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 12/6/2007
Grylls parachutes into Patagonia, the southernmost tip of South America, where he first encounters a vast ice field, then forages in a beech forest, wades through a frozen bog and swims through icy water.
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The Worst Episodes of Man vs. Wild
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Bear strands himself in popular wilderness destinations where tourists often find themselves lost or in danger.
Genres:Action & AdventureDocumentary
Network:Discovery
Worst Episodes Summary
"Global Survival Guide" is the worst rated episode of "Man vs. Wild". It scored 6.8/10 based on 38 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/24/2011. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Cape Wrath, Scotland".