The season 3 opener finds Bear dropped in Baja, Mexico, as he is challenged to survive in the desert, including being blinded by bee stings and a face to face meeting with a deadly rattlesnake.

Bear slogs through the Deep South in the US, into the swamps where he fights an alligator and drives a knife into its spinal cord to eat it's tail, handles venomous snakes and catches a catfish in his bare hands. Lastly he travels a path of destruction which Hurricane Katrina left behind.

Bear must climb a 2000 foot high cliff and remove himself from a peat bog after digging up dead sheep to eat while stranded in Ireland's rugged western coast. He also faces hypothermia after being washed from his shelter by a storm.

Bear heads to the jungles of Belize, where he'll face a dangerous white water river and a 9 foot boa constrictor.

In Oregon, Bear Grylls manages to catch and cook his less-than-tasty dinner in the pitch black.

The host heads to Dominican Republic and its wilderness as he braves Hell's Canyon, encountering steep cliffs, frozen lakes and the rapids of Snake River.

While in Turkey the host is challenged by poisonous snakes, scorpions, climbs up the side of steep cliff's and hazardous white water rapids.

Bear takes on steep ravines, cavernous water systems and an adult brown bear while visiting the spooky Transylvania in Romania.

Bear offers a survival guide to the most dangerous places, from falling into the Siberian ice, to battling sharks to make it off of an Indonesian deserted island, plus skinning and eating snakes while in Panama's mangroves.