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Man vs. Wild Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2007 - 2008
Episode 1
Sahara
Fri, Nov 9, 200744 mins
Parachuted, Bear ventures into the scorching Sahara desert from the Anti-Atlas mountain range in southern Morocco and combines his survival skills with local Berber tribe traditions. He limits water loss by improvising a turban and recuperates his t shirt-filtered urine while eating the little he can catch, from a scorpion to a spider, sand-fish and a snake. Bear demonstrates the painful climbing of date palms and the digging for water, even how to escape from surprising quicksand.
Episode 2
Desert Survivor
Fri, Nov 16, 200744 mins
Bear continues his Saharan adventure over the Moroccan border in the Atlas foothills. he enjoys Berber hospitality and learns some of their millennial survival tricks. He adopts their all but picky diet, including such stomach-turning 'delicacies' as goat bollocks, beetles, viper, frog and fat from the hump of a dead old camel he received as their parting gift. He scares off predators by urinating and gets thirsty enough to drink the stomach fluid of the camel. The scorching heat and tricky terrain, with rocky cliffs and endless sand pans tests even his endurance grimly.
Episode 3
Panama
Fri, Nov 23, 200744 mins
Lost in the Panamanian rain forest Bear finds his bearings and navigates to his prearranged helicopter pick up point. Along the way he turns geological obstacles to his advantage and points out unexpected dangers and benefits. Then Bear demonstrates the difficulty of navigating a mangrove swamp.
Episode 4
Jungle
Fri, Nov 30, 200744 mins
On the Caribbean coast, Bear had another Panamanian adventure. The jungle tribe of Embera are utter specialists in survival, dealing with both wildlife and humans, from conquistadors to modern pirates. A young chief, his father and son teach bear the use of bows and blowpipes with frog poison darts. Bear sets out into the dense jungle and marshland, which pose challenges but also provides several answers like cures, bug-repellent and building materials to bows for fishing.
Episode 5
Patagonia
Fri, Dec 7, 200744 mins
A helicopter deposes Bear on a frosty glacier in icy winter-land Patagonia, almost as large as Greenland and cold like Antarctica. He demonstrates the grave dangers of traitorous crevasses, frost bite and avalanche, simulating the latter. Bear shows how to survive by hastily digging an igloo-like den to avoid the wind, urinate in a bottle, finally get down by mini-paraglider. It's an uncomfortable landing in beeches of the sub-alpine forest, which yields little and unsavory foods, like crest, beetles and worms. He follows a river, which surges into a formidable fall, which he descends abseiling. Passing the stinking, icy bog is even less pleasant. Finally he tries to cross the wide stream by building a raft, which is wobbly and too deep,so he gets soaked, and lacking wind for once paddling would take too long, so he stuffs upper clothing in his backpack to swim back and warm up at the fire.
Episode 6
Andes Adventure
Fri, Dec 14, 200744 mins
Bear traverses a glacier in the Andes exploring the hidden dangerous and gets naked to warm up. The he parachutes into the extremely dry but still cold Patagonian Steppe for some rock climbing and puma tracking
Episode 7
Bear Eats
Fri, Dec 21, 200744 mins
Bear finds the most disgusting bad-tasting things in the world to eat to stay alive.
Episode 8
Zambia
Fri, May 2, 200844 mins
Bear hazards the treacherous rapids and terrain surrounding the Zambezi river not wanting to risk still water for fear of crocodiles. But the bush contains it's own dangers.
Episode 9
Namibia
Fri, May 9, 200844 mins
Bear is dropped off the Skeleton Coast in Namibia. After a day and night on the beach he heads inland across 60 miles of desert in a search for water. Meeting up with a group of San Bushmen he hunts porcupine.
Episode 10
Jungle Swamp
Fri, May 16, 200844 mins
Bear abseils from a helicopter into the stinking, dead swamps on Sumatra's western coast, created by the wall of brine during the tsunami. He's eager to climb out into the life part, fearing salty crocodiles, on to jungle land, hindered by high pandan reeds, but manages to catch by hand a monitor (large lizard), which makes a major meal, ideal to supplement an insects-based diet, but needs cooking, and starting a fire in this dam land takes all his skill. A strong vine enables him to improvise an abseiling rope down a steep river side, it breaks just deep enough. He enjoys any opportunity for personal hygiene, to avoid skin problems, builds a 'nest' safely high up a giant tree and finds wild bananas, but fails to catch fish in his stripped-off trousers due to the rain. Working through the jungle, he catches, decapitated and eats raw a venomous mangrove snake. Finally a perilous vines descent down a steep cliff gets him to civilization: a rice field.
Episode 11
Castaway
Fri, May 23, 200844 mins
Bear explores a tiny deserted island near Sumatra. Despite the idyllic appearance, Bear struggles to find food and especially water. Unable to find adequate water, he builds a raft to escape.
Episode 12
Siberia
Fri, May 30, 200844 mins
Dropped in the wilderness, Bear searches for the Trans-Siberian Railroad in the bitter cold of Siberia.
Episode 13
Land of Ice
Fri, Jun 6, 200844 mins
Bear is air lifted into the treacherous Sanyan mountains in Siberia. Bear meets the Tuvans; yak herder descended from Genghis Khan who have lived there for 20,000 years, and learns some survival techniques from these cold climate experts.