Ray Mears' Extreme Survival (1999)
Synopsis
Ray Mears has spent his life developing a brand of survival skills he calls Wilderness Bushcraft, a philosophy that humans should live closer to nature, as the Bushmen do. In Extreme Survival he demonstrates his wilderness skills and shares amazing tales of survival from some of the world's most menacing environments.
Network
BBC Two
Episodes
Jungle Survival
Ray visits the jungles of Costa Rica, where threats to survival include heat exhaustion, dehydration and poisonous snakes.
Arctic Survival
Ray travels to northern Sweden in midwinter, an Arctic terrain colder than a household freezer, where he finds shelter under a snow-laden tree and receives survival tips from a military training instructor. Bob Thomson, a survivor of being trapped in the wreckage of a plane crash near the North Pole, describes his experience of survival.
Psychology of Survival
Ray explores the story of two teenage sisters lost for two weeks after their boat was wrecked, and whose survival is accredited largely to their positive mental attitude and unshakable belief that they would come out of the experience alive.
Sea Survival
Shipwreck survivor Steve Callaghan, who spent 76 days adrift in a life raft, tells his story of survival.
The Arizona Desert
Ray journeys through the Arizona desert in the footsteps of the famous Apache warrior chief Geronimo, and shows a host of survival skills, including how to find food and water in the arid environment.
Arnhem Land
The intrepid explorer braves the hostile environment of Arnhem Land to find some of the world's deadliest snakes. He also reconstructs the story of how three airmen overcame starvation, thirst and the fearsome creatures of the wilderness when they crashed in its swampland.
Cast
Details
Original Title
Ray Mears' Extreme Survival
Status
Ended
Seasons
3
Episodes
18