Episode
Man vs. Wild: Northern Australia
Overview
In Australia's Northern Territory, Grylls must rely on many of the skills honed by the Aboriginal people to survive in this sweltering landscape dominated by crocodiles.
Details
- Series
- Man vs. Wild
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2009-06-01
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Northern Australia is Episode 2 in Season 5 of Man vs. Wild. It aired on 2009-06-01. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 1: Western Pacific
Grylls is on a desert island, south of Papua New Guinea. He wades across a shark-infested tidal channel, climbs crumbling volcanic cliffs, leaps over a 100-foot death drop, and constructs a bamboo windsurfer to make his escape.
Episode 3: Canadian Rockies
While in the Canadian Rockies, Grylls is buried alive in an avalanche, swims long distance beneath an ice-covered lake, and is airvac-ed to the hospital when an icy glissade goes horribly wrong.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: Republic of Georgia
Grylls lands in the snow-capped Caucasus Mountains of the Georgian Republic by driving a snowmobile out the back of a hovering helicopter. He ziplines across a river, camps among wolves and trudges through swampy wetlands.
Episode 5: Fan vs. Wild
Grylls takes two fans into the Canadian wilderness for their ultimate survival challenge. They face their fears head on, trek down dangerous glaciers and across a frigid glacial river, build a rustic shelter, and try to swallow typical Grylls fare.
Episode 6: Extreme Desert
In the Mojave Desert Grylls puts himself in the path of a man-made sandstorm, takes on the full force of a man-made flash flood and HALO jump from 30,000 feet. His body is pushed to the limit as the temperature soars from minus 40 to 110 degrees.