The Island with Bear Grylls UK

In the ultimate survival experiment, Bear Grylls abandons 14 British men on a remote desert island in the Pacific with just the clothes they stand up in and a few basic tools.

Bear Grylls abandons 14 ordinary British women on a remote, uninhabited pacific island, left with just the clothes they stand up in and a few basic tools. They’re given no food and just a day’s supply of drinking water.

Just five days in and the group has reached breaking point. The island has been battered by a series of torrential storms, and without a decent shelter the men have barely slept.

The women are desperately dehydrated and separated, after an expedition party crossed the island to find a permanent camp - and got hopelessly lost while returning to the others.

In this episode the men face a life and death struggle with the island's most fearsome predator.

The survival mantra goes: You can survive 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food, so finding something to drink is these women’s number one priority.

It’s four days since then men trapped and killed a crocodile, and they haven’t been able to repeat their success.

The extreme conditions on the island are taking their toll on the 11 remaining women and they are now on the brink of starvation.

As the group approaches the four week mark of the experiment, the 10 remaining women are entering dangerous medical territory.

The women are starving as they enter their sixth and final week on The Island. Having plundered all the resources in the vicinity of their beach, the group are now looking to the ocean to sustain them.

The women are starving as they enter their sixth and final week on The Island. Having plundered all the resources in the vicinity of their beach, the group are now looking to the ocean to sustain them.

In this final episode, after five weeks on the island, the men are struggling to find enough to eat as the island's already depleted resources fail to deliver the coconuts and limpets that have become their staple diet.

In this special episode Surviving The Island, Bear returns to meet the men and women who made it through the experiment and sees first hand how they managed to survive for the past six weeks.