Season 4

1. Arctic Circle

2009-08-12 · 45m

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

2. Alabama

2009-08-19 · 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.

3. Vietnam

2009-08-26 · 45m

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

4. Texas

2009-09-02 · 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.

5. Alaska

2009-09-09 · 45m

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

6. Pacific Island

2010-01-06 · 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.

7. China

2010-01-13 · 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.

8. Big Sky Country

2010-01-20 · 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.

9. Guatemala

2010-01-26 · 45m

10. Urban Survivor

2010-02-03 · 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.

11. North Africa

2010-02-17 · 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.