

But now, he is up against something completely different. He has been places and done things that would defeat most normal people. His experiences include climbing Mount Everest, crossing the freezing North Atlantic Ocean in a small, open boat and climbing a Himalayan peak described by Sir Edmund Hillary as 'unclimbable'.

Additional new episodes will air on Mondays at 9pm with Bear’s adventures taking him to other remote parts of Iceland in blizzard conditions, New Zealand’s South and North Islands, and the Utah badlands. This new episode of Man vs Wild airs on Monday, July 11 from 9-10PM ET/PT on Discovery Channel. You’ve got to smile when it’s driving horizontal hail and be able to face your fears and just get on and do it - and on both of those accounts, Jake came up strong.” Said Bear about the experience, “The wild is always very revealing -– not only physically but mentally.


“For me, it’s all about discovery,” said Gyllenhaal. Jake will have to go where Bear goes, eat whatever Bear eats, and on occasion even take the lead, if he’s going to cope with some of the worst conditions known to man. For two days, Bear and Jake embark on a survival experience neither will forget, to an Icelandic landscape dominated by mountains, huge glaciers and some of Europe’s most active volcanoes. Man vs Wild will test how Gyllenhaal measures up to unpredictable and unforgiving Mother Nature. This coming Monday, July 11, MAN VS WILD‘s Bear Grylls returns to our screen and is bringing along a companion, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, on a new excursion for the Season 7 premiere.
