Bear Grylls is a seasoned adventurer who served with the Special Air Service a special forces unit of the British army where he was trained as a survival expert. His experiences include climbing Mount Everest crossing the freezing North Atlantic Ocean in a small open boat and climbing a Himalayan peak described by Sir Edmund Hillary as ''unclimbable''. He has been places and done things that would defeat most normal people. But now he is up against something completely different.More than 100000 Americans visit Kenya each year in search of a safari. But what they don''t know about life in the wild can kill them. Bear surveys the Kenyan landscape from a hot air balloon then he parachutes down onto the arid plain. Upon hitting the ground Bear is immediately sur.More than 5 million visitors come to Australia''s outback every year but hundreds need rescuing in this land of extreme heat snake bites and cyclones. Host Bear Grylls travels to Australia''s Kimberley region roughly the size of California and a mixtur.dventurer Bear Grylls demonstrates how to survive in the harsh Australian outback by taking extreme measures to avoid sun stroke finding food and avoiding the deadly ''Salties'' - salt water crocodiles.