Season 5

Man vs. WildSeason 5

2009
6 Episodes

Episodes

Western Pacific
S05E01
5.5

Western Pacific

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.

01 Jun 200945m
Northern Australia
S05E02
5.5

Northern Australia

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.

01 Jun 200945m
Canadian Rockies
S05E03
5.5

Canadian Rockies

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.

01 Jun 200945m
Republic of Georgia
S05E04
5.5

Republic of Georgia

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.

01 Jun 200945m
Fan vs. Wild
S05E05
5.5

Fan vs. Wild

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.

05 Jun 200945m
Extreme Desert
S05E06
5.5

Extreme Desert

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.

02 Sept 200945m