Ecuador
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Aug 20, 2009
High in the Ecuadorian Andes, five adventurers join the local cowboys and battle with fighting bulls.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Aug 20, 2009
High in the Ecuadorian Andes, five adventurers join the local cowboys and battle with fighting bulls.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Aug 27, 2009
In the Siberian arctic, the five adventurers attempt to become Evenki reindeer herders and must guard the herd from wolves.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 3, 2009
The five adventurers head into the jungle of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and become cave-divers in a vast network of largely uncharted, pitch-black, underwater tunnels.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Sep 10, 2009
The adventurers join boys of the Jaminawa tribe in the Brazilian Amazon and endure a jungle initiation to become men, involving hallucinogenic brews and sacrificing a snake.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Sep 17, 2009
In Namibia, the five adventurers join the Ju-Wasi tribe of San Bushmen on a traditional hunt in one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Sep 24, 2009
In the Bahamas, expert Jeremiah Sullivan has the task of turning the rookies into shark wranglers in just six days. Reuben is not sure he's prepared to risk losing a limb.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2009
The lads' penultimate challenge could be the most deadly, as they come to Bangladesh to learn to catch venomous snakes under the aegis of snake king Shoporaj Dholu.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Oct 8, 2009
The lads' final challenge is to become Buddhist Yamabushi monks and complete a tough pilgrimage to the summit of a sacred mountain, under the eye of Miyagi-San, their Master.