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.

Last Updated: 11/13/2024Network: DiscoveryStatus: Ended
Everglades
star
8.65
98 votes

#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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Hawaii - Desert Island
star
7.91
46 votes

#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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Iceland
star
7.74
35 votes

#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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Alaskan Mountain Range
star
7.72
40 votes

#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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Kimberly, Australia
star
7.65
93 votes

#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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Mexico
star
7.60
43 votes

#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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The Rockies
star
7.56
156 votes

#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.

Directors: Mike Warner
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African Savannah
star
7.50
138 votes

#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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Ecuador
star
7.39
90 votes

#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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Moab Desert, Utah
star
7.26
146 votes

#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.

Directors: Dominic Stobart
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Sierra Nevada
star
7.11
109 votes

#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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Costa Rican Rainforest
star
7.08
166 votes

#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.

Directors: Chris Richards
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European Alps
star
7.01
239 votes

#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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Hawaii - Mount Kilauea
star
6.99
87 votes

#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.

Directors: Dominic Stobart
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Scotland
star
6.83
54 votes

#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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