#1
S3E11
Romania
Grylls heads to Romania where he takes on a bear and dangerous water channels.
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#2
S3E99
Man vs. Wild: The Will Ferrell Special
Will Farrell suffers along with Bear in the bitter cold of the arctic and participates in Bear's crazy dangerous time saving methods and exotic cuisine.
#3
S1E9
Desert Island
Grylls is kicked out by helicopter into the water near a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. He demonstrates long distance swimming, shelter building and coconut harvesting. Grylls 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.
#4
Turkey
S3E10
#5
Men vs. Wild with Jake Gyllenhaal
S7E1
#6
Big Sky Country
S4E10
#7
Working the Wild
S7E6
#8
Iceland
S1E11
#9
Sahara
S2E1
#10
Jungle Swamp
S2E10
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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.
#74
Global Survival Guide
S6E6
#73
Cape Wrath, Scotland
S6E2
#72
Canadian Rockies
S5E3
#71
Borneo Jungle
S6E4
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