Extreme Survival is a survival television series hosted by
Ray Mears. The series airs on the
BBC in United Kingdom, it is also shown on
Discovery Channel in the United States, Canada,
India,
Italy,
Brazil,
New Zealand, Australia,
Norway,
Sweden,
Denmark, the
Netherlands and
Russia, where he demonstrates his wilderness skills and presents tales of survival from some of the world's most difficult environments. The show was first broadcast in 1999, after the success of
World of Survival from 1997–1998, and ended in 2002.