Host Bear Grylls parachutes alone into a desolate area of the Rocky Mountains equipped with only the clothes on his back to show you how to survive.

Bear is stranded in Utah's Moab Desert, where he must find his way back to civilization through a maze of canyons, avoiding rattlesnakes and quicksand, carrying only his water bottle, a knife and a flint.

Bear Grylls, equipped only with a knife and a water bottle, tries to survive in the Costa Rican rain forest after parachuting onto the Osa Peninsula. He survives swarms of insects, poisonous snakes, dense jungle and mangrove swamps.

Bear Grylls, carrying only a knife, water bottle, cup and flint, skydives into the Alps, where he builds a shelter made of snow and explains how to survive falling through the ice into a frozen lake.

On Mount Kilauea, an active volcano, Bear climbs down a rope from a helicopter and demonstrates how to create a gas mask, escape from a moving lava flow, find water in a lava tube and get honey from a bee's nest.

In the Sierra Nevada's, Bear uses his knowledge of Native American survival techniques to build a shelter, calm wild horses and find food.

Bear parachutes into the Kenyan savannah from a hot-air balloon, where he finds himself surrounded by dangerous animals, including rhinos, lions, leopards, elephants and cape buffalo. He builds a tent from natural materials (thorny acacia tree branches with a tarp on top) and traps small birds and a crab for food.

In the Chugach Mountains of Alaska, Bear has only a bottle of water, a knife and a flint as he travels down mountain slopes, over glaciers and through bear-infested forests, navigating a small boat through treacherous ice floes.

Bear Grylls is cast adrift in the Pacific Ocean, surviving coral reefs, deadly rip currents, battering surf and sharks.