Season 1
Synopsis
Bear Grylls: Escape From Hell (2013), Season 1 is the survival documentary you can watch online on iFILM — six episodes in which Bear Grylls retraces how ordinary people clawed their way out of life-or-death situations.
The format stays steady all season. Each episode takes one brutal environment, and Bear throws himself into it to relive what the survivors went through. The jungle hour drops into Guatemala, where archaeologists are robbed by bandits and left to cross dangerous terrain on their own. From there it moves to the snowbound mountains of Canada's Pacific coast, then the furnace of Morocco's Sahara, complete with a recreated sandstorm and crumbling cliffs. Other episodes cover North African canyons paired with Italian white water, and young men who self-rescued out of remote ranges and forest. The closer pulls together the season's tightest scrapes.
Archive footage and interviews with the actual survivors cut against Bear facing the same conditions himself. Good for viewers who want hands-on survival over staged drama. Stream Escape From Hell Season 1 online on iFILM.
6 episodes
S1·E1Jungle
Bear Grylls enters the Guatemalan jungle to re-live the experiences of three groups of jungle survivors: A team of Mexican archaeologists are attacked by bandits, stripped of their belongings and forced across a dangerous river.
S1·E2Snow
In this high octane, no holds barred episode, extreme survival expert Bear Grylls goes to Canada's snow covered Pacific Coast mountain range to explore incredible real life survival stories in this hostile, unforgiving terrain.
S1·E3Desert
Bear Grylls heads to Morocco's searing Sahara Desert to explore gripping survival stories in this hostile, unforgiving terrain. Bear recreates the brute force of a Saharan sandstorm, scales crumbling desert cliffs and drinks the blood from a snake.
S1·E4Canyons
Bear Grylls heads to a dramatic canyon in North Africa and white water in Italy to explore three extraordinary stories of survival.
S1·E5Mountains
Bear Grylls explores the stories of three young men who all self-rescued from mountain ranges and impenetrable forest.
S1·E6Compilation
Bear looks back at the most memorable survival experiences he had to face from the series. But which situations did he pick out for the unique challenges they posed?
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