The BEST episodes of Man vs. Wild

#1 - Everglades

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/15/2007

Bear drops into the Florida Everglades where he slogs through the swamps, offering survival tips while dodging alligators and rattlesnakes, and dining on frogs and turtles.

#2 - Pacific Island

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/6/2010

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.

#3 - Turkey

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/9/2009

Grylls heads to Turkey where he deals with dangerous animals and he also takes to the water

#4 - Malaysian Archipelago

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/17/2011

Bear Grylls is dropped in an archipelago of islands off the coast of Borneo. Fighting dense jungle and scaling towering escarpments, Bear struggles to find freshwater. In his search for food, he tries to spear fish at depths of 20ft and traps a wild boar.

#5 - Dominican Republic

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/2/2009

Grylls has some tips on how to survive the hurricane season and he also eats a tarantula to survive

#6 - Fan vs. Wild

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/5/2009

Grylls takes two fans into the Canadian wilderness for their ultimate survival challenge. They face their fears head on, trek down dangerous glaciers and across a frigid glacial river, build a rustic shelter, and try to swallow typical Grylls fare.

#7 - Behind the Wild

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/22/2010

#8 - North Africa

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/17/2010

Grylls crosses the Sahara desert to the North Africa coast, where he catches an octopus, fashions a shelter out of acacia trees and dines on moths and locusts.

#9 - Iceland: Fire and Ice

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/25/2011

Bear returns to Iceland to demonstrate the challenge of surviving its many pitfalls. His trek begins on an ice cap covering an active volcano, where food sources are scarce and travels down towards a civilization with swollen rivers between him and safety.

#10 - The Rockies

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/10/2006

Host Bear Grylls parachutes alone into a remote area of the Rocky Mountains equipped with only the clothes on his back.

#11 - Men vs. Wild with Jake Gyllenhaal

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/11/2011

In this episode, Bear is joined by movie star Jake Gyllenhaal as he attempts to find his way out of the Icelandic wilderness, doing (and eating) whatever they have to to survive.

#12 - Land of the Maori

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/19/2011

Over 100 people drown each year in New Zealand, and Bear must cross a raging river on a tree trunk to head toward civilization. On his journey to safety he runs out of water, is forced to climb up active volcanic ranges and scale down a waterfall.

#13 - Kimberly, Australia

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/6/2007

In Kimberly, Australia, Bear faces extreme heat, poisonous snakes and the ever present danger of dehydration. Survival tips include how to forage for food, build a shelter and extreme measures to avoid dehydrating.

#14 - Urban Survivor

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/2010

Grylls is in a post-disaster urban city scenario and he must survive. His thirst to live and survival techniques modified for a city environment keep him alive in a concrete wasteland in Gdynia, Poland.

#15 - Sahara

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/9/2007

In the sun-scorched Sahara Desert, Grylls uses survival tactics of the indigenous people, including eating a scorpion and a sandfish. He also explains how to escape from quicksand.

#16 - Republic of Georgia

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/1/2009

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.

#17 - Desert Survivor

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/16/2007

In the desert, Grylls offers tips on skinning and disemboweling a dead camel for water.

#18 - Baja Desert

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/6/2008

Grylls must cross blistering desert and barren salt plains in Mexico's Baja peninsula. While collecting honey Grylls is stung by a bee and his face becomes severely swollen, nearly blinding him.

#19 - Arctic Circle

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/12/2009

Grylls goes to the Arctic Circle, where he encounters a frozen waterfall, wild reindeer and some of the coldest conditions on the planet.

#20 - Patagonia

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/7/2007

Grylls parachutes into Patagonia, the southernmost tip of South America, where he first encounters a vast ice field, then forages in a beech forest, wades through a frozen bog and swims through icy water.

#21 - African Savannah

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/15/2006

Bear parachutes into the Kenyan savannah from a hot-air balloon, where he finds himself surrounded by dangerous animals, including rhinos, lions, leopards, elephants and cape buffalo. He builds a tent from natural materials and traps small birds for food.

#22 - Arizona Sky Islands

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/17/2011

In Arizona, Bear transforms into a one man high speed glider with a cutting edge wingsuit and flies into the Arizona Sky Islands. Bear shows viewers how to find water in the parched desert landscape, builds a sand-buggy from a wrecked aircraft and crosses heart-stopping rock drops.

#23 - Andes Adventure

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/14/2007

In Patagonia, Grylls skins a hare, scales a cliff, tracks a puma, drinks dirty water, and crosses the Perito Moreno glacier, a vast frozen labyrinth of ice caves and crevasses.

#24 - Cape Wrath, Scotland

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/24/2011

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

#25 - Vietnam

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/26/2009

Grylls demonstrates what it was like for soldiers who had to survive in the jungles of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.