Man vs. Wild (Season 4)

Arctic Circle (Episode 1) 3.8

Air date: 2009-08-12

Runtime: 45 min

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

Alabama (Episode 2) 3.2

Air date: 2009-08-19

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.

Vietnam (Episode 3) 5.5

Air date: 2009-08-26

Runtime: 45 min

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

Texas (Episode 4) 5.5

Air date: 2009-09-02

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.

Alaska (Episode 5) 5.5

Air date: 2009-09-09

Runtime: 45 min

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

Pacific Island (Episode 6) 5.5

Air date: 2010-01-06

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.

China (Episode 7) 5.5

Air date: 2010-01-13

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.

Big Sky Country (Episode 8) 5.5

Air date: 2010-01-20

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.

Guatemala (Episode 9) 5.5

Air date: 2010-01-26

Runtime: 45 min

Urban Survivor (Episode 10) 5.5

Air date: 2010-02-03

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.

North Africa (Episode 11) 5.5

Air date: 2010-02-17

Runtime: 45 min

Overview: 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.