Man vs. Wild

In the vastness of the Sahara desert and the terrifying beauty of towering sand dunes, Bear Grylls tackles extreme survival challenges to get out alive, even when it means eating one of the world's deadliest scorpions.

In the Sahara desert, Bear Grylls meets with people from the nomadic Berber tribes, who have lived in the desert for thousands of years and share some of their most extreme survival techniques with him.

Bear Grylls tackles some extreme survival challenges and some grisly eats in the lethal mangroves and infamous viper pits of Panama to demonstrate how to get out alive.

In Panama, the searing heat and humidity of the jungle sorely tests Bear Grylls as he tackles plunging waterfalls and mudslides and forages for food. He also learns some of the legendary survival techniques of the Embera tribe.

After parachuting into the Southern Patagonian Ice Field -- one of the largest expanses of ice in the world -- Bear Grylls tackles some extreme survival challenges and wild weather in the icy wilderness.

Bear Grylls shares how to survive the grueling conditions of Patagonia in South America. After parachuting onto a windblown steppe where there is little to eat and almost no shelter, he spends the night in freezing conditions.

Bear knows that to survive in the wilderness he has to put food prejudices to the side. If it can save his life, he will eat it! Bear heads to nature's kitchen and shares what's on the menu in the world's most remote places.

Bear Grylls parachutes into the Siberian tundra, one of the coldest and harshest places on earth, where he must survive extreme challenges. Battling temperatures of minus 30 degrees, he must find shelter and food before night falls.

Bear is airlifted into the treacherous Sayan mountains in Siberia. He learns some survival techniques from the Tuvans: yak herders and cold-climate experts descended from Genghis Khan who have lived there for 20,000 years.

Bear Grylls shares how to survive in one of the hottest, emptiest and driest places on earth: Namibia. Bear eventually meets up with the masters of desert survival, the San Bushmen, who reveal their secrets for survival.

Bear ventures into the landlocked country of Zambia in Southern Africa. He demonstrates how to survive some of the world's biggest rapids, and then faces wild animals, difficult terrain and intense heat and humidity.

Bear Grylls goes into the Pacific Ring of Fire as he takes on a week of challenges in an area devastated by the 2004 tsunami. He is dropped into the Indian Ocean and has to survive on a deserted island with no running water.

Bear Grylls must navigate his way out of the Pacific Ring of Fire's petrified swamps devastated by the 2004 tsunami. He has to use all of his survival skills and ingenuity to survive the grueling terrain.