Episode
Man vs. Wild: Alabama
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.
Details
- Series
- Man vs. Wild
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2009-08-19
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Alabama is Episode 2 in Season 4 of Man vs. Wild. It aired on 2009-08-19. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 1: Arctic Circle
Grylls goes to the Arctic Circle, where he encounters a frozen waterfall, wild reindeer and some of the coldest conditions on the planet.
Episode 3: Vietnam
Grylls demonstrates what it was like for soldiers who had to survive in the jungles of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: Texas
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.
Episode 5: Alaska
Grylls returns to the wilderness of Alaska to survive the dangerous terrain of the Last Frontier.
Episode 6: Pacific Island
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.
Episode 7: China
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.
Episode 8: Big Sky Country
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.
Episode 9: Guatemala
Episode 10: Urban Survivor
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.
Episode 11: North Africa
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.