Man vs. Wild
tv show

66 total episodes
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7 seasons
First Aired October 27, 2006
Overview
Bear strands himself in popular wilderness destinations where tourists often find themselves lost or in danger.

Costa Rican Rain Forest
Season 1 - Episode 3 - 1h 42m
Air Date
November 17, 2006
Overview
Grylls parachutes into a Costa Rican rainforest in the Osa Peninsula, with only his knife and a canteen. He's careful about the water he drinks, but gets violently ill anyway. He climbs down a waterfall using a vine, and floats down a river to the ocean on a raft he crafts out of balsawood to demonstrate how someone lost in the jungle can make it to civilization. He encounters snakes, mosquitoes and dangerous river currents.ve swamps.