MUMBAI: After years of mastering the subsistence tactics by being dropped off in remote locales around the globe, the survival expert and extreme adventurer Bear Grylls returns with a new season of Man Vs. Wild on infotainment broadcaster Discovery every night at 9 pm from 1 November.

The new episodes will see Grylls tackling the terrain and braving the elements, from raging waters and the biting cold to mudslides and deserts, to make it out alive. Grylls will search for new extreme destinations and challenges and shares invaluable survival strategies along the way.

Discovery South Asia senior VP, GM Rahul Johri said, "Man Vs. Wild is one of the most popular programmes on Indian television. It attracts millions of viewers from across India. It also demonstrates the entertainment quotient in Discovery Channel?s unmatched programming."

Grylls has served with the British Special Forces, explored the Arctic and was the youngest British climber to complete a summit and descent on Mount Everest. In the show using his specialist survival skills, he attempts to navigate his way through these environments. Drawing upon years of experience as a soldier, mountaineer and seasoned adventurer, viewers can watch as Grylls claws his way back to civilization, armed only with a few supplies and the clothes on his back.

In this season viewers can follow Grylls as he faces obstacles that push him to his limits in the wilderness and endures the most intense journeys with some of the harshest conditions possible. Some things Grylls does are scaling towering escarpments in the Malaysian archipelago, traversing a mountain range in New Zealand?s South Island, tackling vertical drops in Arizona?s arid desert and facing blinding blizzards in Iceland.

Tagging along Grylls in an episode is the Hollywood actor Jake Gyllenhaal. For two days Grylls and Gyllenhaal embark on a survival experience to an Icelandic landscape dominated by mountains, huge glaciers and some of Europe?s most active volcanoes.

Also part of the series is a Global Survival Guide episode, which features never-before-seen footage from Bear?s challenges from around the planet.