The WORST episodes of Ed Stafford: First Man Out
Every episode of Ed Stafford: First Man Out ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Ed Stafford: First Man Out!
Expect blood, tears and heart-in-mouth action as explorer Ed Stafford takes on the best explorers in the world in a battle across Discovery's screens in order to be the First Man Out - a show in which survival is only half the battle.
#1 - Ed vs Xinlei Wu
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/27/2020
Ed faces former French Foreign Legion desert specialist, Xinlei Wu, in the Aksai Desert of north-west China. They encounter huge sand dunes and rock-valley mazes.
#3 - Ed vs Ness Knight
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/2023
Valley of the Gods - Ed Stafford goes up against his son's godmother, Ness Knight, a renowned explorer and survival specialist, across the deadly Valley of the Gods
#4 - Ed vs The Wild Twins
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/9/2023
Ed Stafford competes against two challengers, Amber and Serena Shine, in Kenya's Rift Valley where they discover all sorts of wild animals blocking their path.
#5 - Ed vs Sun Lingye
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/2/2023
Ed Stafford tests his body's ultimate limits as he races against medic and ultra-marathon runner Sun Lingye across the arduous mountain terrains of Taiwan.
#7 - Ed vs Donny Dust
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/2023
Ed Stafford is joined by Donny Dust, a former US Marine intelligence officer and primitive skills expert, in a race across the wild Amazon jungle.
#8 - Ed vs Matt Graham (Grudge Match)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/2023
Ed invites ultramarathon runner Matt Graham back to see if Ed can reclaim his pride after Matt left him in his dust in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.
#9 - Ed Vs Ky Furneaux
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/7/2020
Ed neemt het in de Zoige-moerassen in de Chinese provincie Sichuan op tegen ex-PSYOPS-marinier Hakim Isler. In de moerassen wordt hun wilskracht danig op de proef gesteld.
#10 - Ed vs Matt Wright
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/21/2020
Ed challenges Matt "The Juggernaut" Wright in the Wanshan Archipelago off the coast of southern China. They race to secure islands that can provide raft-building materials but storms come in and Ed has to face his fear of deep water.
#12 - Ed vs Hakim Isler
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/20/2020
Ed takes on ex-PSYOPS marine and real-life ninja, Hakim Isler, in the Zoige Marshes of Sichuan Province. The unforgiving wetland tests their willpower to the max.
#14 - Ed vs Will Lord
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/6/2020
Ed faces his old bushcraft teacher, Will Lord, in Bashan, central China. Both without a knife, they must navigate huge cliffs and Asia's largest bamboo forest.
#15 - India
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/7/2019
Ed Stafford has bitten off more than he thinks he can chew by racing serving Royal Air Force survival instructor John Hudson across the top of the monster mountains of the Himalayas.
#16 - Palau
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/28/2019
Ed Stafford goes up against primitive skills expert Cat Bigney in a race across the stunning but deadly island paradise of Palau in the South Pacific.
#18 - Mongolia
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/14/2019
Mongolia's Gobi desert is the setting for the ultimate survival race as Ed Stafford is paired against survival supremo and famed endurance athlete Matt Graham.
#19 - Kazakhstan
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/7/2019
Ed Stafford finds himself marooned in a never-ending natural maze as he flies to Kazakhstan to take on ex-South Korean special forces soldier Khen Rhee.