Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1997
Survival expert Ray Mears travels to the most inhospitable places on earth and discovers how indigenous people have survived. He takes on the Canadian Arctic and learns survival techniques from the Inuit.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1997
Expert Ray Mears demonstrates how to survive in some of the most inhospitable places on earth. He visits Northern Australia, where the local Aborigines show him how to make shelters out of bark, find water in tree trunks and eat worms.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1997
Expert Ray Mears demonstrates how to survive in some of the most inhospitable places on earth. He visits the Evenk people of the Brigade Gayulski, whose lives revolve around reindeer, and learns how they survive.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1997
Survival expert Ray Mears takes on the most inhospitable places on earth and discovers how the indigenous people have survived. He travels to Savaii, Western Samoa, an island prone to cyclones and treacherous seas.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Mar 24, 1997
Survival expert Ray Mears takes on the most inhospitable places on earth and discovers how the indigenous people have survived. He visits the Namibian bush to learn survival skills from the Jo'hansi bushmen.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Mar 31, 1997
Survival expert Ray Mears takes on the most inhospitable places on earth and discovers how the indigenous people have survived. He travels to the island of Serum, Indonesia to learn the art of trapping from the Nuaulu.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1998
Traveller Ray Mears explores far-flung locations with tips on survival and integration into societies of indigenous people. At Lake Eyasi, Tanzania he joins the Hadza tribe on a 60km trek.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1998
The extreme climate of the Mongolian Steppes makes it a hostile environment. Ray Mears finds out how its nomads move their livestock up to 15 times a year, timing their journeys with the seasonal growth of pasture.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1998
Ray Mears goes deep into the Amazonian rainforest to meet the Sanema people, who are superb naturalists and exploit chemicals from trees and vines to catch prey and to induce hallucinogenic trances.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1998
The beach is home to the Vadabalija, an Indian caste who survive by specialising in fishing. Ray Mears sees how they use rafts of logs to navigate the treacherous surroundings to reach the fishing areas around the Bay of Bengal.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1998
In the freezing temperatures of Labrador, Northern Canada, survival expert Ray Mears joins the Innu at their winter hunting camps. He follows the amazing transformation of caribou skin into buckskin, using the brains of the animal to tan the hide.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Dec 27, 1998
Ray Mears visits the Aboriginal people of the central Australian desert. He goes to Amata, where 500 Anangu live, and learns how they find water, hunt emu and dig for delicacies such as witchetty grubs and honey ants.
