Plunge into more extreme adventures with Bear Grylls this February with a new season of MAN VS. WILD. Discovery Channel announces an action packed marathon of new episodes of its No. 1 rated series MAN VS. WILD to air every night at 9 pm, starting February 7th. Each of the new episodes presents Grylls with challenges in the wilderness unlike ever before - from being buried alive in an avalanche to escaping a deserted island on a bamboo windsurfer to scavenging for and eating raw insects and fish.
The avid fans of Bear Grylls can catch his extreme adventures on MAN VS. WILD, to air every night at 9 pm, beginning February 7th on Discovery Channel.Itairs in the channel's breathtaking programmeband ULTIMATE DISCOVERY.
Commenting on the programme, Rahul Johri, Senior Vice President and General Manager - India, Discovery Networks Asia - Pacific said, "MAN VS. WILD is one of the most successful and well received programmes of Discovery Channel. Bear Grylls is no stranger to extremes. MAN VS. WILD host and survival expert Bear Grylls shows viewers how to survive the toughest and most forsaken environments by putting himself in the position of a stranded castaway. Using his specialist survival techniques, he attempts to navigate his way through these environments and make it out alive."
In the new season, Grylls travels to remote locales around the globe, including Australia's northern territory, the Republic of Georgia's Caucasus Mountains, a deserted island south of Papua New Guinea, the snowfields of the Canadian Rockies, and others, sharing invaluable survival strategies all along the way. The new premieres include a special MAN VS. WILD episode - titled Fan Vs. Wild - in which Grylls takes two viewers along with him for the first time on the series to experience extreme survival firsthand.
Along the way, he braves the biting cold, treks through desolate deserts, encounters dangerous predators, and for food he has to make do with whatever he can catch or find - dead or alive!
SOME FACTS FROM THE SERIES
Bear Grylls' Shocking New Menu
• Desperate for food, Bear attempts to catch a shark with his bare hands.
• Bear eats a stomach-churning bug burger breakfast made of locust and moths.
• Bear eats into a termite nest and almost makes his mouth a breeding ground.
• To escape the heat Bear uses his own urine to keep cool.
Bear Grylls' Life On The Edge
• Bear demonstrates his survival skills in Northern Australia battling 100,000 crocodiles which sit firmly at the top of the food-chain.
• Tumbling out of a plane at 30,000 feet, he lands on the Mojave Desert where the temperature is a searing110 degrees and finds himself in the path of a hurricane force sandstorm.
• Bear camps on a dry river bed - one of his worst decisions and lands up facing a huge flash flood which traps him amongst rattlesnakes.
• Bear risks his life and limbs climbing crumbling volcanic cliffs and leaping over a 100 foot death drop on a dangerous desert island in Papua New Guinea.
Bear Grylls' Top 25 Moments
• Go inside Bear's Top 25 Man Vs. Wild moments, a countdown of his 25 all-time favourite moments.
• These moments were the toughest tests that nature had to offer and pushed Bear's mind and body to the absolute limit.
• Whether it was a brutal reminder of the power of water in Vietnam or it was a magic moment in creating fire in Texas or landing down on an active volcano in Guatemala they all make it to the list of Bear's Top 25 Moments.
Fan vs Wild
• Bear has made it through challenges in the sort of places one wouldn't last a day without the right survival skills, but this time Bear is not alone.
• Out of millions of the show's most hardcore fans, two have made the cut to face their fears head on and put their hearts, backs and stomachs to the test.
• Now Bear's going to show them what it takes to really survive in the wild. These two wilderness rookies will have to learn quickly and dig deep, to make it throughthis life-changing mission.
• Their journey begins with an unforgettable fast rope from a helicopter onto a 10,000 feet mountain peak. They then slide through a snowfield before reaching a glacier, covered in a minefield of crevasses. Exhausted and hungry, they build a shelter and prepare and cook food bushman style.
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