Ed Stafford: First Man Out

Ed Stafford challenges ultra-fit ex-Marine and ropes expert Aldo Kane to a race across the tangled wilds of Borneo's crocodile-infested mangrove swamps.

Ed flies to Kazakhstan to take on ex-South Korean special forces soldier Ken Rhee. He encounters dangers such as wolves and life-threatening navigation errors.

Ed Stafford is paired against survival supremo and famed endurance athlete Matt Graham. He climbs into the deadly Gobi Desert, facing sand storms and extreme dehydration.

Ed races through the harsh jungles of northern Thailand against ex-military survival legend EJ Snyder. It's almost fatal as one competitor tumbles off a cliff.

Ed is up against primitive skills expert Cat Bigney in a race across the deadly island paradise of Palau in the South Pacific – home to sharks and saltwater crocodiles.

Ed races Royal Air Force survival instructor John Hudson across the top of the monster mountains of the Himalayas. Monsoon rains and lethal bears are among its dangers.

Ed Stafford is ready to face Matt Graham, a primitive skills specialist who beat him back in Mongolia, where they encountered the deadly Gobi Desert.

Ed Stafford finds himself in the punishing jungles of the Amazon rainforest, going up against former US Marine Donny Dust

Ed Stafford is paired against professional athlete and survivalist Max Djenohan in one of the most inhospitable places on earth, Lake Turkana -- a well-known breeding ground of Nile crocodile, hippopotamus and venomous snakes.

Ed Stafford and Sun Lingye are headed for the high mountains of Taiwan, known for incredibly steep cliffs that are infamous for taking lives.

Ed Stafford is facing The Wild Twins Amber and Serena Shine, both hunters, adventurers and primitive survivalists.

Ed Stafford and Ness Knight will be racing through the fertile river valleys of Taiwan known as the "Valley of the Gods."

This is Ed's story -- a behind-the-scenes documentary where Ed and his crew reveal the extraordinary lengths it takes to produce such a show.

Ed challenges The Juggernaut in the Wanshan Archipelago of China.

Ed takes on the Kiwi Bushman in the Three Parallel Rivers Plateau.

Ed plays cat-and-mouse with ex-PLA Xinlei Wu in the Aksai Desert.

Ed takes on his old bushcraft teacher Will Lord in Bashan, China.

Ed goes toe-to-toe with Hollywood stuntwoman Ky Furneaux.

Ed goes head-to-head with an ex-PSYOPS marine in the Zoige Marshes.