Man Vs Wild

Ultimate Discovery, Tuesday, 9 pm

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What’s it about? The wizards at the Discovery Asia pacific network decided to launch Ultimate Discovery to showcase the best of their programming from around the world. The shows are on a variety of themes from revolutionary discoveries in science and technology, the natural world, adventure and exploration. NASA-When We left Earth, the show that will launch the broadcast of the channel is about 50 years of NASA’s advances in space. Future Weapons, is a series of new age weapons and combat technology. Ultrasound guns, tactical high energy lasers and interceptor guns, electro magnetic pulse generators are all being developed by scientists for US army. The most interesting show is Man Vs Wild, with a British mountaineer and adventurer battling the elements. The episode finds him stranded in the middle of the Utah desert with just a bottle of water and a hunting knife.

Who’s in it? Man Vs Wild is presented by the unbelievable adventure fiend and writer Bear Grylls. There is nothing this man can’t do, no terrain he cannot tackle. His expertise in the ecology, survival techniques and extreme levels of fitness make the viewing both inspirational and educative, as he gets through the harshest, most unforgiving landscapes and whether conditions. He climbed to the top of Mount Everest at the age of 23. Grylls is a popular face on British television and has hosted his own shows such as Escape to the Legion and Born Survivor (Man Vs Wild in the US).

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