The Island With Bear Grylls

From the very beginning the men face a life anddeath struggle, as the fierce currents of the Pacific Ocean force Bear to drop them 75 meters off the island.

These women will be utterly alone for six weeks, left to film everything themselves. So when stripped of the luxuries and conveniences of 21stcentury living will these women have the skills and mental strength to survive and rival the male islanders?

In this film mild-mannered paramedic, Barney Strange comes to the rescue of the group by catching and feeding the men a tasty but unusual supper. Just five days in and the group has reached a breaking point.

This time the survival challenge is harder than before, as they attempt to survive entirely on their own wits for six weeks in the height of the tropical storm season.

The men face a life and death struggle with the island's most fearsome predator. Two weeks in and the men are in rapid physical decline. Despite their best efforts to hunt and fish, they haven't yet managed to catch themselves a substantial meal.

It's Lauren's 25th birthday but there's little to celebrate. Two castaways have already abandoned the women's island due to the extreme conditions, since being dropped in the Pacific seven days ago. The 12 remaining are desperately dehydrated.

It's four days since then men killed a crocodile, and they haven't been able to repeat their success. Most of the meager meals they are eating are coming from Vic, who has is the only member of the group to mastered his improvised fishing rod.

The extreme conditions on the island are taking their toll on the 11 remaining women and they are now on the brink of starvation. They are living on an extremely low-calorie diet, surviving on snails and scraps of scavenged yucca and coconut.

The 10 remaining women are entering the dangerous medical territory. It's more important than ever that they keep up their food and water supply otherwise they risk long term damage to their vital organs.

In this episode, the emergency evacuation team are called in when 36 year old, Will, falls off a cliff on to rocks, badly injuring himself.

The women are starving as they enter their sixth and final week on The Island. Having plundered all the resources in the vicinity of their beach, the group is now looking to the ocean to sustain them.

In this special episode of The Island With Bear Grylls takes an in-depth look at life on the islands.