Army combat veteran EJ Snyder and wilderness survivalist Jeff Zausch must brave venomous pit vipers, fight a wild boar and survive the treacherous terrain in a mile-high Araucaria forest of South America.
EJ and Jeff brave the blazing high desert heat of eastern Utah where they descend a sheer canyon wall, climb the face of a steep mesa and endure a hellish journey.
Grady and Josh slash their way through the Nicaraguan jungle battling snakes, mosquitoes and dehydration; they struggle to start a fire using a soil testing kit, go on a nighttime hunt for caiman and build a raft to cross croc-infested waters.
Grady Powell and Bo McGlone are dropped into separate locations of a Colombian jungle to play out a military operation gone awry, with only a map and machete.
Grady and Bill try to get fire in the damp rainforest while they are stranded in Chile; Grady and Bill use a primitive fire and hunt to help with their survival.
Matt and Joe are marooned on a rocky coast in the Pacific Northwest. They must decide whether to hunker down or travel deeper into one of the darkest, wettest forest in the United States.
While stranded in the snowy mountains of Wyoming, Matt and Joe face hypothermia and predatory mountain lions; they also find a use for a broken snowmobile and make a shelter in the snow before they are rescued in Wyoming.
In a classic survival scenario, Cody and Joe take on the mountains of Northern California; the damp and treacherous woodland environment wreaks havoc on the body with drastic temperature changes and a lack of dry materials for fire-building.
Dave and Cody demonstrate how to get back to civilization after surviving an avalanche in Wyoming's snow-covered Rocky Mountains; the duo builds a snow cave to save time; the team uses a parachute cord to climb down a steep mountainside.
Two ranchers try to survive being stranded on the Plains in the dead of winter with only an ax head, a bison hide, a glass jar, a tin box, and a steel striker.
Dave and Cody portray travelers whose truck breaks down in Maine on a lonely road running through the dense woods; the duo concentrates on making enough noise to be heard by a passersby, but they realize it's a futile effort.
Survival experts Cody Lundin and Dave Canterbury head into Peru's infamous Valley of the Volcanoes to take on the ultimate lost-in-the-desert survival scenario: a broken-down car, miles from civilization, with few resources.