The BEST episodes directed by Stephen Shearman

Pacific Island
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8.23
84 votes

#1 - Pacific Island

Man vs. Wild - Season 4 - Episode 8

Grylls is on a deserted Panamanian island; he creates fresh water and chooses to use tribal fishing techniques before battling the sea on a makeshift raft. Later in the episode he gives himself an enema in order to stay hydrated on the open seas.

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Ring of Fire: Castaway (2)
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7.57
51 votes

#2 - Ring of Fire: Castaway (2)

Man vs. Wild - Season 2 - Episode 11

Dropped by helicopter, Grylls has to survive on a remote island located in Indonesia. He hunts for stingrays and land crabs while drinking whatever fresh clean rain water he may get. In the end he builds a small raft out of drift wood of bamboo and heads to the sea.

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Ring of Fire: Jungle Swamp (1)
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7.47
53 votes

#3 - Ring of Fire: Jungle Swamp (1)

Man vs. Wild - Season 2 - Episode 10

Grylls battles the fierce swamps in Sumatra, Indonesia. As he struggles to keep dry and avoid trench foot, he runs into several types of wildlife, including lizards and the deadly mangrove snake.

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Republic of Georgia
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7.45
140 votes

#4 - Republic of Georgia

Man vs. Wild - Season 5 - Episode 4

Grylls lands in the snow-capped Caucasus Mountains of the Georgian Republic by driving a snowmobile out the back of a hovering helicopter. He ziplines across a river, camps among wolves and trudges through swampy wetlands.

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Cape Wrath, Scotland
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7.30
170 votes

#5 - Cape Wrath, Scotland

Man vs. Wild - Season 6 - Episode 2

In Scotland off the rugged coast of Cape Wrath, Bear is dropped into open ocean. After getting ashore, he realises he's on an island and must swim to the mainland. Bear fashions a wetsuit from a seal's hide to withstand the frigid crossing. Well into the trek, he is forced to turn back as an incoming estuary tide nearly cuts him off. After he makes it to dry land, Bear has a close call with the steep treacherous Scottish rock terrain

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Extreme Desert
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7.23
109 votes

#6 - Extreme Desert

Man vs. Wild - Season 5 - Episode 6

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.

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Romania
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7.00
29 votes

#7 - Romania

Man vs. Wild - Season 3 - Episode 11

Grylls heads to Transylvania where he takes on a bear and dangerous water channels.

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Texas
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6.76
144 votes

#8 - Texas

Man vs. Wild - Season 4 - Episode 4

In Western Texas, Grylls falls to earth from an upturned biplane into the parched Chihuahuan Desert; he traverses deep gorges, locates an oasis and takes on a diamond back rattlesnake.

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