TV series
Bear Grylls: Escape From Hell
Overview
Bear Grylls takes his survival expertise one step further as he reveals the incredible stories of ordinary people stranded in devastatingly dire situations. Coupled with incredible archive footage and interviews with the survivors, Bear will pit himself against the very same dangers and scenarios, reliving their journeys through first-hand experience and showing us how to survive through some of the world's most desolate landscapes.
Details
- First air date
- 2013-10-07
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 6 episodes
- Genres
- Reality, Action & Adventure
- Network
- Discovery
- Production
- Betty TV
- Country
- GB
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Bear Grylls as Himself - Host
Creators and crew
- Bear Grylls - Executive Producer
- Neil Smith - Executive Producer
- Sarah Davies - Executive Producer
- Gareth Johnson - Director
Episodes
Episode 1: Jungle
Bear Grylls enters the Guatemalan jungle to re-live the experiences of three groups of jungle survivors: A team of Mexican archaeologists are attacked by bandits, stripped of their belongings and forced across a dangerous river.
Episode 2: Snow
In this high octane, no holds barred episode, extreme survival expert Bear Grylls goes to Canada's snow covered Pacific Coast mountain range to explore incredible real life survival stories in this hostile, unforgiving terrain.
Episode 3: Desert
Bear Grylls heads to Morocco's searing Sahara Desert to explore gripping survival stories in this hostile, unforgiving terrain. Bear recreates the brute force of a Saharan sandstorm, scales crumbling desert cliffs and drinks the blood from a snake.
Episode 4: Canyons
Bear Grylls heads to a dramatic canyon in North Africa and white water in Italy to explore three extraordinary stories of survival.
Episode 5: Mountains
Bear Grylls explores the stories of three young men who all self-rescued from mountain ranges and impenetrable forest.
Episode 6: Compilation
Bear looks back at the most memorable survival experiences he had to face from the series. But which situations did he pick out for the unique challenges they posed?
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