Season 1 • "
The Arctic": Ray Mears looks at how the
Inuit of
Baffin Island survive in temperatures as low as -40C. • "
Arnhem Land": Ray meets the
Aborigines who live in northern Australia in amazingly high temperatures and humidity. • "
Siberia": Ray meets the
Evenk people who live in the
Taiga forest of Siberia. • "
Savaii": Ray investigates what life is like on the island of Savaii in
Western Samoa. • "
Namibia": Ray learns some more survival skills from the Jo'hansi
bushmen of Namibia. • "The Spice Islands, Indonesia": Ray travels to the island of
Seram and meets the
Nuaulu, a rainforest people who are historically headhunters.
Season 2 • "Heart of the Rift": The
Hadza, one of the few surviving tribes of hunter-gatherers, live on the eastern shore of
Lake Eyasi in
Tanzania. • "The Land of Genghis Khan": Ray explores survival skills practised by peoples of the
Mongolian
Steppes, one of the remotest places on Earth. • "Headwaters of the Orinoco": Ray journeys into the
Amazon rainforest to meet the ancient
Sanema tribe, whose way of life has barely changed for 10,000 years. • "The Coromandel Coast": Ray encounters the dangers of India's
Coromandel Coast, where he learns to fish with the people of the
Vadabalija tribe, whose specialised sailing skills allow them to live off one of the most lethal stretches of water in the world. • "The Barren Lands": Ray learns the finer points of fishing in
Labrador, Canada, and visits the native
Innu people at a winter hunting camp where porcupine figures high on the menu and the brains of unfortunate
caribou are used to tan their hides for buckskin. • "The Red Centre": Ray ventures into the Central Australian Desert to meet a tribal elder of the indigenous Aboriginal people and learn about their unusual navigation methods. He also picks up some nutritional tips, dining on a mixed diet of
emu,
grubs and ants. ==See also==