Bear Grylls Born Survivor Patagonia

As one of the youngest people to climb Everest and one of the few to successfully complete the gruelling training for the French Foreign Legion Bear Grylls has experienced intense cold pain and exhaustion In this feature length special that opens with the old Etonian parachuting on to a treacherous ice field in Southern Patagonia he demonstrates the survival techniques needed to withstand avalanches and hangs in the jaws of an ice crevasse To escape a snowstorm he takes shelter for the night in a snow cave before paragliding from the mountain range into the beech forest below Picking his way through the challenging terrain of the Patagonian tundra he grubs around for worms and beetles to eat He tackles a frozen bog and attempts to sail a makeshift raft across an icy lake Phew