Arctic Circle

S04 E01 • Wednesday, Aug 12, 2009 • Aug 12 • 45m

Grylls goes to the Arctic Circle, where he encounters a frozen waterfall, wild reindeer and some of the coldest conditions on the planet.

Alabama

S04 E02 • Wednesday, Aug 19, 2009 • Aug 19 • 45m

Grylls wrestles a pig, squeezes through some tight spots, and survives a forest fire in the swamps of Alabama. It is revealed that Grylls broke his shoulder while in Antarctica two months previously.

Vietnam

S04 E03 • Wednesday, Aug 26, 2009 • Aug 26 • 45m

Grylls demonstrates what it was like for soldiers who had to survive in the jungles of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.

Texas

S04 E04 • Wednesday, Sep 2, 2009 • Sep 2 • 45m

In Western Texas, Grylls falls to earth from an upturned biplane into the parched Chihuahuan Desert; he traverses deep gorges, locates an oasis and takes on a diamond back rattlesnake.

Alaska

S04 E05 • Wednesday, Sep 9, 2009 • Sep 9 • 45m

Grylls returns to the wilderness of Alaska to survive the dangerous terrain of the Last Frontier.

Pacific Island

S04 E06 • Wednesday, Jan 6, 2010 • Jan 6 • 45m

Grylls is on a deserted Panamanian island; he creates fresh water and chooses to use tribal fishing techniques before battling the sea on a makeshift raft. Later in the episode he gives himself an enema in order to stay hydrated on the open seas.

China

S04 E07 • Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010 • Jan 13 • 45m

Bear does all his usual acrobatics while suffering through Typhon Parma in China including swinging on a vine, monkey climbing over a gorge and cliff diving.

Big Sky Country

S04 E08 • Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010 • Jan 20 • 45m

Grylls takes on Big Sky Country. He paraglides above the Rockies, traverses vast gullies, and makes the most of abandoned debris before making his great escape on a moving train.

Guatemala

S04 E09 • Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010 • Jan 26 • 45m

Urban Survivor

S04 E10 • Wednesday, Feb 3, 2010 • Feb 3 • 45m

Grylls is in a post-disaster urban city scenario and he must survive. His thirst to live and survival techniques modified for a city environment keep him alive in a concrete wasteland in Gdynia, Poland.

North Africa

S04 E11 • Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 • Feb 17 • 45m

Grylls crosses the Sahara desert to the North Africa coast, where he catches an octopus, fashions a shelter out of acacia trees and dines on moths and locusts.