The BEST episodes of Man vs. Wild season 1
Every episode of Man vs. Wild season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Man vs. Wild season 1!
MAN VS. WILD brings seasoned adventurer Bear Grylls face to face with the grueling task of navigating remote locations, sharing invaluable survival strategies along the way.
#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.
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#2 - Hawaii - Desert Island
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/29/2006
Bear Grylls is cast adrift in the Pacific Ocean, encountering coral reefs, rip currents, relentless surf and sharks.
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#3 - Iceland
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/22/2007
Bear braces for the cold of Iceland, offering survival tips that include how to build a snow cave, live through a blizzard and avoid frostbite, and forage for food.
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#4 - Alaskan Mountain Range
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/22/2006
In the Chugach Mountains of Alaska, Bear has only a bottle of water, a knife and a flint as he travels down mountain slopes, over glaciers and through bear-infested forests, navigating a small boat through treacherous ice floes.
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#5 - 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.
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#6 - Mexico
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/29/2007
In Mexico, Bear must find his way out of Copper Canyon, and his only supplies are a water bottle, a flint and a knife. Included: how to build a compass; catching and eating scorpions; basics of fire-making; fishing without a line.
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#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
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#9 - Ecuador
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/13/2007
Bear Grylls offers survival tips in the Ecuadorian jungle. Included: building a bamboo bridge; making a bow and arrow; determining which plants are poisonous.
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#10 - Moab Desert, Utah
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/10/2006
Bear is stranded in Utah's Moab Desert, where he must find his way back to civilization through a maze of canyons, avoiding rattlesnakes and quicksand, equipped with only a bottle of water, a knife and a flint.
#11 - Sierra Nevada
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/8/2006
In the Sierra Nevada's, Bear uses his knowledge of Native American survival techniques to build a shelter, calm wild horses and find food.
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#12 - Costa Rican Rainforest
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/17/2006
Bear Grylls, equipped only with a knife and a water bottle, tries to survive in the Costa Rican rain forest after parachuting onto the Osa Peninsula. He faces swarms of insects, poisonous snakes, dense jungle and mangrove swamps.
#13 - European Alps
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/24/2006
Bear Grylls, outfitted with only a knife, water bottle, cup and flint, parachutes into the French Alps, where he builds a snow shelter and explains how to survive a fall into a frozen lake.
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#14 - Hawaii - Mount Kilauea
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/1/2006
On Mount Kilauea, an active volcano, Bear climbs down a rope from a helicopter and demonstrates how to create a gas mask, escape from a moving lava flow, find water in a lava tube and get honey from a bee's nest.
#15 - Scotland
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/20/2007
Bear offers survival tips in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park. Included: using moss to purify water; skinning a deer; cooking a rabbit.
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