Season 5 (2010)

№	#	Title	Directed by	Survival expert(s)	Original air date
50	1	"Western Pacific" "Papua New Guinea"	Nick White	Stani Groeneweg	August 11, 2010 (2010-08-11)
Grylls is on a desert island, south of Papua New Guinea. He wades across a shark-infested tidal channel, climbs crumbling volcanic cliffs, leaps over a 100-foot death drop, and constructs a bamboo windsurfer to make his escape.
51	2	"Northern Australia" "Northern Territory, Australia"	David O'Neil	Ross Bowyer	August 18, 2010 (2010-08-18)
In Australia's Northern Territory, Grylls must rely on many of the skills honed by the Aboriginal people to survive in this sweltering landscape dominated by crocodiles.
52	3	"Canadian Rockies" "British Columbia"		Andrew Wood	August 25, 2010 (2010-08-25)
While in the Canadian Rockies, Grylls is buried alive in an avalanche, swims long distance beneath an ice-covered lake, and is airvac-ed to the hospital when an icy glissade goes horribly wrong.
53	4	"Georgian Republic" "Georgia, Eastern Europe"	Stephen Shearman	Andrew Wood	September 1, 2010 (2010-09-01)
Grylls lands in the snow-capped Caucasus Mountains of the Georgian Republic by driving a snowmobile out the back of a hovering helicopter. He ziplines across a river, camps among wolves and trudges through swampy wetlands.
54	5	"Fan vs. Wild" "Canadian wilderness"			September 8, 2010 (2010-09-08)
Grylls takes two fans into the Canadian wilderness for their ultimate survival challenge. They face their fears head on, trek down dangerous glaciers and across a frigid glacial river, build a rustic shelter, and try to swallow typical Grylls fare.
55	6	"Extreme Desert" "Mojave Desert"			September 15, 2010 (2010-09-15)
In the Mojave Desert Grylls puts himself in the path of a man-made sandstorm, takes on the full force of a man-made flash flood and HALO jump from 30,000 feet. His body is pushed to the limit as the temperature soars from minus 40 to 110 degrees.
56	7	"Behind the Wild"			September 22, 2010 (2010-09-22)
In a behind the scenes episode, the team who films the series demonstrate their roles in the productions.
57	9	"Northern Scotland" "Cape Wrath"			January 2011 (2011-01)
58	10	"Artic" "Northern Norway"			January 2011 (2011-01)