Ed Stafford: First Man Out - Episode Guide

Ed Stafford challenges ultra-fit ex-Marine and ropes expert Aldo Kane to a race across the tangled wilds of Borneo's crocodile-infested mangrove swamps.

Ed flies to Kazakhstan to take on ex-South Korean special forces soldier KhenRhee. He encounters dangers such as wolves and life-threatening navigation errors.

Ed Stafford is paired against survival supremo and famed endurance athlete Matt Graham. He climbs into the deadly Gobi Desert, facing sand storms and extreme dehydration.

Ed races through the harsh jungles of northern Thailand against ex-military survival legend EJ Snyder. It's almost fatal as one competitor tumbles off a cliff.

Ed is up against primitive skills expert Cat Bigney in a race across the deadly island paradise of Palau in the South Pacific - home to sharks and salt water crocodiles.

Ed races Royal Air Force survival instructor John Hudson across the top of the monster mountains of the Himalayas. Monsoon rains and lethal bears are among its dangers.

Ed faces his old bushcraft teacher, Will Lord, in Bashan, central China. Both without a knife, they must navigate huge cliffs and Asia's largest bamboo forest.

Ed takes on the 'Kiwi bushman', Josh James, in the Three Parallel Rivers plateau of Yunnan Province. Josh draws on his Maori-heritage to make fire in the mountains.

Ed takes on Hollywood stuntwoman, Ky Furneaux, in the Four Girls Mountain Range. How will they survive in its icy valleys and snow-covered peaks?

Ed challenges Matt 'The Juggernaut' Wright, in the Wanshan Archipelago off the coast of southern China. They race to build rafts as storms roar in.

Ed takes on ex-PSYOPS marine and real-life ninja, Hakim Isler, in the Zoige Marshes of Sichuan Province. The unforgiving wetland tests their willpower to the max.

Ed faces former French Foreign Legion desert specialist, Xinlei Wu, in the Aksai Desert of north-west China. They encounter huge sand dunes and rock-valley mazes.