Man vs. Wild

Bear Grylls heads for the icy wastes of the Arctic Circle, where he tackles a frozen waterfall, hunts wild reindeer and battles against some of the coldest conditions on the planet.

Bear Grylls is deep in the back-woods of Alabama, where he tackles freezing white-waters and a vicious wild boar, braves a raging forest fire and gets trapped without light deep in the heart of an enormous limestone cave.

Deep in the heart of Vietnam, Bear Grylls encounters blood-sucking leeches and a deadly spitting cobra, eats a forest scorpion and avoids a violent mountain river flood as he tangles with the worst the jungle can throw at him.

In Western Texas, Bear falls to earth from an upturned bi-plane, to lock horns with the parched Chihuahuan Desert; he traverses deep gorges, locates an oasis and takes on a diamond back rattlesnake.

Bear Grylls is in the wilds of Alaska where he ice-hops onto a glacier, is left hanging by his fingertips over a forest waterfall and narrowly avoids getting crushed between an iceberg and his rescue vessel.

The Man vs. Wild crew who follow Bear Grylls on his travels across the globe share how it feels to follow in his footsteps and reveal just how they survive alongside him.

On a deserted Panamanian island, Bear Grylls creates critical fresh water and uses tribal techniques to fish before taking his chances at sea on a homemade raft.

Bear Grylls takes on Southern China in the aftermath of a typhoon. He tackles swollen rivers, climbs limestone gorges, is attacked by stinging ants, and uses ancient tribal techniques to catch bats for food.

Bear Grylls takes on Big Sky Country -- paragliding above the Rockies, traversing vast gullies, and making the most of abandoned debris before making his great escape on a moving train.

Bear Grylls rappels onto a live volcano in Guatemala, navigates a waterfall in an underground cave, creates a nest to safely sleep in but gets an unwelcome bed buddy, and encounters ancient Mayan ruins.

In a special edition of Man vs Wild, Bear Grylls finds himself in a new kind of jungle -- a concrete jungle. Bear uses the same wilderness survival techniques to stay alive in a city post-disaster.

The stalwart crew behind Bear Grylls' amazing adventures share how they fearlessly -- and sometimes fumblingly -- go to extremes to film Bear trekking to the ends of the earth.

In the North African Sahara, Bear gets creative finding water. He treks to the coast, catches an octopus, makes shelter with acacia trees, and eats a stomach-turning bug burger breakfast of locusts and moths.