This is my new favorite show- "Man Vs. Wild". Holy crap it was good! It's on the Discovery Channel every Friday at 9pm.

The host Bear Grylls is a survival specialist. He trained in the Foreign Legion, the British Special Forces, and he has hiked Everest, etc...

The idea of the show is that they drop this guy in a harsh environment, and he improvises his way to safety. Along the way, he shows you how to survive with only a pocketknife and flint.

On the first episode, he was in the desert. He peed on his shirt and then wrapped it around his head to keep him cold under the hot sun.

The next episode he will be in Costa Rica, and he gets extremely sick from bad water.

I loved this show so much that I went to the web site afterwards for his live chat. He spends a few days studying survival techniques for the particular area, but the show is actually unplanned and improvised.

Check it out!