Bear Grylls: Breaking Point Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Water

43 mins

New Yorker Ray and Ugur from Holland are both terrified of water. Can Bear Grylls help them to overcome their fears in the fast-flowing waterways of the Mexican jungle?

Episode 2

Picky Eaters

Episode 3

Rats and Spiders

43 mins

Bear sets out to the South American jungle with a pair of young men eager to overcome their crippling fears of critters. Arachnaphobic Essex carpenter Joe, who wants to set a fear-free example for his beloved kid sons, is aired with Neo from Soweto (South Africa), whose manly status is affected by his 'girlish' fear of rats. The boys stand by each-other on the first day, without Bear, facing a spider web concentration first, then sleeping in hammocks in a dirty, rat-infested camp. Next day, Bear arrives to force them facing fears gradually, which Joe does extremely well with a tarantula, unlike Neo with a local giant rat-like rodent. Then the trio descends into a huge 'devil cauldron' sinkhole, which even local tribes avoid due to the abundant creepy wildlife, warned there's no 'safe' way out back up.

Episode 4

Heights

44 mins

Bear Grylls is heading sky-high into the Italian Dolomites, and he's not stopping until he's made Joe and Claire confront the fears that are ruining their lives.

Episode 5

Claustrophobia

43 mins

Bear Grylls meets two men who spend their lives avoiding confined spaces and takes them deep down into the most frightening caves he can find. Mark, 33, almost died when he was buried alive by sand as a teenager. Mike, 46, from the Bronx, New York City, was accidentally imprisoned in a fairground ride dangling almost 20 metres off the ground, and now fears being trapped so much that he can't even hug his wife. Bear has a plan to help them face their worst fears and hopefully overcome them

Episode 6

Trees and Insects

43 mins

Bear takes to the Latin American jungle with two sufferers of unrelated phobias, both motivated by their families. The Polish young man fears bugs excessively, by gradually gathers the courage to face even tarantulas. The African woman however somehow got paranoid about tress, so badly she even hesitates to grab a dead trunk to literally save her life.