The BEST episodes of Man vs. Wild season 5

#1 - 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.

#2 - Behind the Wild

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

#3 - 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.

#4 - Extreme Desert

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/2/2009

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.

#5 - Canadian Rockies

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/1/2009

While in the Canadian Rockies, Grylls is buried alive in an avalanche, swims long distance beneath an ice-covered lake, and is airvac-ed to the hospital when an icy glissade goes horribly wrong.

#6 - Western Pacific

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

Grylls is on a desert island, south of Papua New Guinea. He wades across a shark-infested tidal channel, climbs crumbling volcanic cliffs, leaps over a 100-foot death drop, and constructs a bamboo windsurfer to make his escape.

#7 - Northern Australia

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/1/2009

In Australia's Northern Territory, Grylls must rely on many of the skills honed by the Aboriginal people to survive in this sweltering landscape dominated by crocodiles.