List of Man vs. Wild episodes
The following is a list of episodes for the Discovery Channel survival television series Man vs. Wild.
Episodes
Season 1
| # | Title | Survival expert(s) | Original airdate | |||
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| 0 | "The Rockies" | [edit] | October 27, 2006 | |||
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Bear parachutes into the Rocky Mountains. | ||||||
| 1 | "Moab Desert" | Terry Moore | November 10, 2006 | |||
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Bear Grylls is dropped by a helicopter into the Moab Desert with nothing but a knife, a canteen, and a flint. He battles dehydration by soaking his headgear (a t-shirt) in urine, and eats two raven eggs, one raw. Lastly, Bear demonstrates how to escape from quicksand before swimming across the Colorado River. | ||||||
| 2 | "Costa Rican Rainforest" | Jorge Salaverri Henriquez | November 17, 2006 | |||
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Bear parachutes into a Costa Rican rainforest, but continues with only his knife and a canteen. He's careful about the water he drinks, but gets violenty ill anyways: Bear speculates it's because of something he touched. He climbs down a waterfall using a vine, and floats down a river to the ocean on a raft he crafts out of balsawood. | ||||||
| 3 | "Alaskan Mountain Range" | Tim Smith | November 24, 2006 | |||
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Bear is dropped on a mountin in Alaska, with skis and his usual gear. He demonstrates Glissading as he traverses snow and glaciers, and climbs down a 200 ft. waterfall. Bear catches a salmon, which he eats raw, and appropriates a skiff from an abandoned lodge. The skiff sinks, but he reaches the shore and is spotted by a ship. | ||||||
| 4 | "Hawaii: Mount Kilauea" | Jack Lockwood | December 1, 2006 | |||
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Bear is dropped by helicopter at the top of Mount Kilauea. He first traverses lava fields, which catch his boots on fire, then heads into the jungles of Hawaii. Bear uses a kukui nut torch to explore a lava tube and find water, then uses smoke to placate a bee hive and get honey. Ultimately, he finds the sea (and people) by following sea birds. | ||||||
| 5 | "Sierra Nevada" | Mark Wienert | December 8, 2006 | |||
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Bear parachutes into the Sierra Nevadas, simulating the situation of a stranded hiker. He attempts (unsuccessfully) to tame a wild horse, and eats a raw 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. | ||||||
| 6 | "African Savannah" | Phil West | December 15, 2006 | |||
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Bear parachutes into Northern Kenya. He comes into close contact with lions, elephants and rhinos, being carefull not to get too close. Bear demonstrates squeezing water from elephant dung and how to find people in Africa. In most areas, one follows a river downstream, but in Africa people are found upstream. | ||||||
| 7 | "European Alps" | Mac MacKay | December 22, 2006 | |||
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Bear parachutes into the French Alps with a knife and canteen, taking the parachute with him. He demonstrates how to survive falling into a frozen lake and how to use a self arresting device to stop from plummeting into a crevise, by doing both himself. He also eats maggots and uses them to catch a trout. He also performs a Tyrolean traverse. | ||||||
| 8 | "Hawaii: Desert Island" | Mark Wienert | December 29, 2006 | |||
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Bear is dropped by helicopter into the water near a desert island. He demonstrates long distance swimming and coconut harvesting. Bear builds a bamboo raft to look for ships, and is surrounded by tiger sharks. He fishes off his raft using a fish bone hook, and shows how to signal a ship using the reflection produced by his polished knife. | ||||||
Season 2
| # | Title | Survival expert(s) | Original airdate | |||
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| 9 | "Everglades" | Kris Thoemke | June 15, 2007 | |||
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Bear drops into Florida's Everglades, where he trudges through the swamp and shows how to construct shelter, get out of a muddy sinkhole, avoid alligators and rattlesnakes, and eat frogs and turtles. | ||||||
| 10 | "Iceland" | Thor Kjartansson, Sigrun Nikulasdottir, Jon Gauti Jonsson | June 22, 2007 | |||
| 11 | "Mexico: Copper Canyon" | David Holladay | June 29, 2007 | |||
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In Mexico, Bear must find his way out of Copper Canyon, and his only supplies are a water bottle, a flint and a knife. | ||||||
| 12 | "Kimberly, Australia" | Nick Vroomans | July 6, 2007 | |||
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In Kimberly, Australia, Bear faces extreme heat, poisonous snakes and the ever present danger of dehydration. Survival tips include how to forage for food, build a shelter and extreme measures to avoid dehydrating. | ||||||
| 13 | "Ecuador" | Hazen Audel | July 13, 2007 | |||
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Bear Grylls offers survival tips in the Ecuadorian jungle. | ||||||
| 14 | "Scotland: Cairngorms" | [edit] | July 20, 2007 | |||
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None. | ||||||