| EPISODE | DESCRIPTION |
| Man-Vs-Wild-Season-01-Episode-01-Rockies | 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. |
| Man-Vs-Wild-Season-01-Episode-02-Moab-Desert | 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. |
| Man-Vs-Wild-Season-01-Episode-03-Costa-Rican-Rain-Forest | 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. |
| Man-Vs-Wild-Season-01-Episode-04-Alaskan-Mountain-Range | 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. |
| Man-Vs-Wild-Season-01-Episode-05-Hawaii-Mount-Kilauea | 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. |
| Man-Vs-Wild-Season-01-Episode-06-Sierra-Nevada | In the Sierra Nevada's, Bear uses his knowledge of Native American survival techniques to build a shelter, calm wild horses and find food. |
| Man-Vs-Wild-Season-01-Episode-07-African-Savannah | 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. |
| Man-Vs-Wild-Season-01-Episode-08-European-Alps | 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. |
| Man-Vs-Wild-Season-01-Episode-09-Desert-Island | Bear Grylls is cast adrift in the Pacific Ocean, surviving coral reefs, deadly rip currents, battering surf and sharks. |