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Man vs. Wild Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 2009 - 2010
Episode 1
Arctic Circle
Wed, Aug 12, 200944 mins
Bear is helicopter-dropped in Lapland, where natives can only survive traditionally thanks to the perfectly adapted reindeer. The Samen allowed him exceptionally to hunt and kill a wild one, but the self-built trap requires extra effort to kill it and pulling the prized fat meat, hastily cut before it freezes rock-hard, on a self-made sledge trough the thick snow and across traitorous crevasses in glacier country is too exhausting even for one worthy to be called Bear. Even with fire and food, spending the Siberian night in e self-dug trench is chilling to the bone. Finding an abandoned wolverine hunters cabin (those are now protected) he improvises good use for the cabin debris and puts on skis with self-made clamps, finds the traction insufficient but improves that by letting his strategic load of urine freeze under the skis. He risks descending an impregnable slope by exposing a young birch tree. He strips down to cross an icy river and para-glides over a frozen lake on his way to the desolate coast. After constructing a primitive, alas leaky raft from beached-up fishery waste he harvest from a floating seal-corpse the fat for a signal fire on the island where he must carefully wait to spot and haul a passing ship.
Episode 2
Alabama
Wed, Aug 19, 200944 mins
In Alabama Bear rides river rapids in yet another sinking raft. But it's the wild pig he snares that is almost more than he can handle. Then it off to the swamp where Bear get stuck in the mud before facing a forest fire.
Episode 3
Vietnam
Wed, Aug 26, 200944 mins
Bear traverses the rocky terrain of Vietnam including river rapids and waterfalls while following a river in Vietnam. Along the way he stares down a cobra, feeds some leaches and pursues his least favorite animal, bats.
Episode 4
Texas
Wed, Sep 2, 200944 mins
Bear finds an oasis in the Chihuahuan Desert but not before a near death experience crossing a gorge on a single rope bridge secured only by a make-shift grappling hook. Then it's on to the Rio Grande River if he can make it down a rock face.
Episode 5
Alaska
Wed, Sep 9, 200944 mins
Bear hikes in Alaska as summer approaches and the glacial ice is unstable. He nearly falls into swollen river rapids when his log bridge collapses. Eventually he reaches the coast and tries to paddle out into the shipping lanes on an improvised raft. Of course the raft starts to since so Bear tries to jump on an iceberg hoping to snag a fishing trawler as it goes by.
Episode 6
Bear's Ultimate Survival Guide: Part Two
Wed, Sep 16, 200943 mins
In his ultimate survival guide Bear goes back to basics, to show you how to find water food and shelter; everything you need to make it home in one piece.
Episode 7
The Inside Story
Wed, Sep 23, 200944 mins
Bear introduces his crew including his courageous cameraman who follows him everywhere. Bear also describes some of the unexpected challenges he encountered.
Episode 8
Pacific Island
Wed, Jan 6, 201044 mins
Bear demonstrates island survival but still decides to head to sea on a makeshift raft after gathering supplies. He ends up island hopping until he finds an inhabited island.
Episode 9
China
Wed, Jan 13, 201044 mins
Bear is in the nearly uninhabited typhoon-prone bamboo jungle of southwestern China. rides a scares, especially after another devastating storm, so he braves the stench of a truck loaded with pigs. Rivers are the natural highways, but wind-uprooted logs add greatly to the dangers of the currents. He climbs vines almost in Tarzan-style, dives cliffs, penetrates a deep cave and passes a gorge using a monkey climbing technique. It all costs much energy, so he must eat what he can find, be it raw frogs, boiled bats and crabs, grubs or rats.
Episode 10
Big Sky Country
Wed, Jan 20, 201043 mins
Bear para-glides into the Montana Rockies. After risking his life climbing down a water fall on a rotten old log and rope ladder that is a bit too short he tries to cross a lake on a holey canoe using a make shift kite and manages to make it part way. Surviving these exploits he finds an unstable rock wall to climb, a collapsing mine to explore and a chasm to jump over. Then it gets really dangerous before getting absolutely crazy.
Episode 11
Guatemala
Wed, Jan 27, 201043 mins
Bear drops in on a volcano in Guatemala. He wisely decides to vacate the area but his route out is just as dangerous.
Episode 12
Urban Survivor
Wed, Feb 3, 201044 mins
In a deserted Baltic (icy) harbor, Bear demonstrates how survival techniques can serve to stay alive without human help in an urban 'concrete jungle'. Getting around and into closed buildings from the top requires mountaineering technique, climbing and sliding along steel cables. Without 'civilized' food supplies, he must catch, cook on improvised fire and consume bugs or rodents, but drinking water is even harder to get by.
Episode 13
Shooting Survival
Wed, Feb 10, 201044 mins
Survival takes a look behind the scenes and introduces the experts that keep Bear alive and make the show possible. In conjunction with clips of past highlights the crew explains the challenges and surprises they encountered.
Episode 14
North Africa
Wed, Feb 17, 201044 mins
Bear is helicopter-dropped in Western Sahara, a disputed part of the largest sand desert. Advancing there means balancing energy, transpiration and supplies, so even his urine may not go to waste. He fails in catching a juicy lizard but settles for a scorpion in a Berber ruin and risks his neck climbing down and up an abandoned near-dry well by self-made acacia beams to dig for mud moisture. Bear reaches the coast, climbs down a wiggly cliff crevasse and swims to a shipwreck, where he fishes for octopus, which must be eaten super-fresh, so the spastic tentacles cling in his throat. After improvising a raft to return by the flood tide, he constructs a predator-proof shelter in and from acacia with a night-lasting fire, dining on ghastly on-site mixed-bugs-mince. Finally catching a rare passing truck provides his way out.
Episode 15
Bear's Top 25 Man Moments
Sun, Jun 6, 201043 mins
Bear's greatest stunts include several helicopter droppings and daring climbs, descents and escapes, like running for a train entering a tunnel. His survival techniques also include eating/drinking utterly disgusting, albeit natural substances, like juicy grubs, various insects, his own urine and even the liquid from camel and elephant dun. He also guts animal carcasses and uses skins like a camel as sand storm shelter or builds a nest too high for nocturnal jaguars to eat him. He also demonstrates skills like making fire and gets starkers in polar frost to keep his cloths dry while swimming across a stream.
