Man vs. Wild

Season 5

2009 · 6 episodes · 4h 30m in all · 5.5/10

Episodes

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   1. Western Pacific

   1 Jun 2009 · 45 min · 5.5/10

   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.

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   2. Northern Australia

   1 Jun 2009 · 45 min · 5.5/10

   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.

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   3. Canadian Rockies

   1 Jun 2009 · 45 min · 5.5/10

   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.

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   4. Republic of Georgia

   1 Jun 2009 · 45 min · 5.5/10

   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.

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   5. Fan vs. Wild

   5 Jun 2009 · 45 min · 5.5/10

   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.

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   6. Extreme Desert

   2 Sept 2009 · 45 min · 5.5/10

   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.