Man vs. Wild: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Man vs. Wild Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Sahara
Nov 8, 2007 · 45 min
In the sun-scorched Sahara Desert, Grylls uses survival tactics of the indigenous people, including eating a scorpion and a sandfish. He also explains how to escape from quicksand.
Desert Survivor
Nov 15, 2007 · 45 min
In the desert, Grylls offers tips on skinning and disemboweling a dead camel for water.
Panama (1)
Nov 22, 2007 · 45 min
Grylls travels to Panama, where he travels in the equatorial heat through mangrove swamps and rain forest, and endures more than 100 mosquito bites and one painful snake bite.
Jungle (2)
Nov 29, 2007 · 45 min
Survival techniques for Panama's mangrove swamps and jungle.
Patagonia
Dec 6, 2007 · 45 min
Grylls parachutes into Patagonia, the southernmost tip of South America, where he first encounters a vast ice field, then forages in a beech forest, wades through a frozen bog and
Andes Adventure
Dec 13, 2007 · 45 min
In Patagonia, Grylls skins a hare, scales a cliff, tracks a puma, drinks dirty water, and crosses the Perito Moreno glacier, a vast frozen labyrinth of ice caves and crevasses.
Bear Eats
Dec 20, 2007 · 45 min
In this special film Bear Grylls takes us to nature's kitchen. It seems nothing--except maybe the fat of on a camel's hump--is beyond Bear Grylls.
Zambia
May 1, 2008 · 45 min
Bear Grylls ventures into the landlocked country of Zambia in Southern Africa. Before heading into the bush, he shows you how to survive some of the world's biggest rapids.
Namibia
May 9, 2008 · 45 min
Grylls parachutes into the heart of the Namib desert. He eats a puff adder and encounters the indigenous bushmen.
Jungle Swamp (1)
May 15, 2008 · 45 min
Grylls battles the fierce swamps in Sumatra, Indonesia. As he struggles to keep dry and avoid trench foot, he runs into several types of wildlife, including lizards and the deadly
Castaway (2)
May 22, 2008 · 45 min
Bear Grylls spends a week showing how to survive the challenges of the Pacific Ring of Fire. He is dropped into petrified swamps devastated by the 2004 Tsunami and has to navigate
Siberia (1)
May 29, 2008 · 45 min
With temperatures dipping to -50°C, Grylls has to keep warm before hypothermia sets in. He uses snares to catch his food, and a fire to keep warm. He puts up a scenario for the gre
Land of Ice (2)
Jun 5, 2008 · 45 min
Grylls is in Siberia, learning survival techniques from the Tuvans and, eating raw yak liver as well as drinking its blood for food.