Ed Stafford has bitten off more than he thinks he can chew by racing serving Royal Air Force survival instructor John Hudson across the top of the monster mountains of the Himalayas.
Mongolia's Gobi desert is the setting for the ultimate survival race as Ed Stafford is paired against survival supremo and famed endurance athlete Matt Graham.
Ed Stafford finds himself marooned in a never-ending natural maze as he flies to Kazakhstan to take on ex-South Korean special forces soldier Khen Rhee.
Ed's up against China's own Xinlei Wu, an ex-PLA, and former French Foreign Legion desert specialist, in the Aksai Desert of north-west China. Ed and Xinlei play 'cat-and-mouse' in massive sand dunes and claustrophobic rock-valley mazes.
Ed challenges Matt 'The Juggernaut' Wright, in the Wanshan Archipelago off the coast of southern China. They race to secure islands that can provide materials to build rafts capable of a 25km sea crossing. Storms come in and Ed has to face his fear.