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Ray Mears' Extreme Survival: Season 1

Ray mears' season 1 1999
TV-PG

  • 1999-06-06T04:00:00Z on Discovery
  • 50m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
Ray Mears has spent his life developing a brand of survival skills he calls Wilderness Bushcraft, a philosophy that humans should live closer to nature, as the Bushmen do. In Extreme Survival he demonstrates his wilderness skills and shares amazing tales of survival from some of the world's most menacing environments.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

1999-06-06T04:00:00Z

1x01 Jungle Survival

Series Premiere

1x01 Jungle Survival

  • 1999-06-06T04:00:00Z30m

Ray visits the jungles of Costa Rica, where threats to his survival include heat exhaustion, dehydration and poisonous snakes

1999-06-06T04:00:00Z

1x02 Arctic Survival

1x02 Arctic Survival

  • 1999-06-06T04:00:00Z30m

Ray travels to northern Sweden in midwinter, an Arctic terrain colder than a household freezer, where he finds shelter under a snow-laden tree and receives survival tips from a military training instructor. Meanwhile, Bob Thomson describes his experience of being trapped in the wreckage of a plane crash near the North Pole

1999-06-06T04:00:00Z

1x03 Psychology of Survival

1x03 Psychology of Survival

  • 1999-06-06T04:00:00Z30m

How a positive mental attitude is vital to survival, as demonstrated by a pair of teenagers lost for two weeks after their boat was wrecked, whose unshakeable belief that help would come kept them alive in extreme conditions.

1999-06-06T04:00:00Z

1x04 Sea Survival

1x04 Sea Survival

  • 1999-06-06T04:00:00Z30m

The story of shipwreck victim Steve Callaghan, who spent 76 days adrift in a life raft, enduring some of the most extreme conditions known to humankind and surviving only by spearing fish and sucking moisture from their bodies

1999-06-06T04:00:00Z

1x05 The Arizona Desert

1x05 The Arizona Desert

  • 1999-06-06T04:00:00Z30m

Ray journeys through the Arizona desert in the footsteps of the famous Apache warrior chief Geronimo, and learns a host of survival skills, including how to find food and water in the arid environment

Season Finale

1999-06-06T04:00:00Z

1x06 Arnhem Land

Season Finale

1x06 Arnhem Land

  • 1999-06-06T04:00:00Z30m

The intrepid explorer braves the hostile environment of Arnhem Land to find some of the world's deadliest snakes. He also reconstructs the story of how three airmen overcame starvation, thirst and the fearsome creatures of the wilderness when they crashed in its swamplands

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