Friendships are tested when three men from L.A. enter freezing temperatures in a survival test that has them building a wooden tepee with custom beds, starting a fire with found steel and flint, and hunting for food, all before being separated.
Three men learn about survival by entering a dark pine forest, where they must build shelter from pine needles, start a fire from scratch, make a log-cabin-style trap to catch meat, eat reindeer moss for food, and much more.
In cold river vally, a former Eagle Scout, a tech-obsessed New Yorker and a man handicapped by a rare bone disease must build "super shelters," start fire from a fire piston and tinder fungus, and eat big beetles, then one is rushed to the hospital.
Survival on a mountain slope depends on learning how to build a pit shelter and make a friction fire with a four-man bow drill. Also: how to stir-fry honeybees when a deadfall trap fails to catch anything.
An emergency hits the woods when Johnny is rushed out on the woods to the hospital; Nick and Andrew are an odd couple.
Josh has an emotional breakdown while Dane builds one of the best shelters Creek has seen in his 15 years of survival instruction.
A man and his two sons have a complicated history, but they work well together building a shelter; starting a fire with a broken lighter and lint; and hunting for an opossum.
Three men search for dry tinder in wet conditions to start a fire in a cave, but face a tougher dilemma when they trap a boar in a rock pit.