He first traverses lava fields, which catch his boots on fire, then heads into the jungles of Hawaii. Made up of an expanse of solidified lava which stretches for 33,000 acres, this environment is one of the world's most inhospitable. Grylls is dropped by helicopter at the top of Mount Kilauea. Bear Grylls parachutes in and demonstrates specialty survival techniques. 120 million people visit every year, thousands becoming stranded.
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He encounters snakes, mosquitoes and dangerous river currents.īear Grylls shows viewers how to survive the Alps, Europe's greatest mountain range. He climbs down a waterfall using a vine, and floats down a river to the ocean on a raft he crafts out of balsawood to demonstrate how someone lost in the jungle can make it to civilization. He's careful about the water he drinks, but gets violently ill anyway. Grylls parachutes into a Costa Rican rainforest in the Osa Peninsula, with only his knife and a canteen. He also explains how to use the flow of rivers as tools to find civilization. Lastly, he demonstrates how to escape from quicksand before swimming across the Colorado River. He battles dehydration by soaking his t-shirt in urine, and eats two raven eggs, one raw. On his way out, he must avoid the danger of grizzly bears, jump 70 feet into a river, and abseil down a cliff.īear Grylls is dropped by a helicopter into the Moab Desert in Utah in almost 45 degree temperatures, with nothing but a knife, a canteen, and a flint. Bear Grylls gets dropped in the middle of the Canadian Rocky Mountains in British Columbia and must find his way back to civilization.