ITV Press Release – This is the last episode in this adrenalin-fuelled series starring Bear Grylls for ITV. In Mission Survive the adventurer takes a group of celebrities into the depths of one of the most unforgiving Central American rainforests, where they will be competing in an epic 12-day survival mission.

 

To stay alive they must navigate impossible terrain, build shelter, make fire and eat food that nature provides. From abseiling down ferocious waterfalls, crossing perilous rapids, trudging through swamps and eating rats and scorpions; this is an epic journey in the jungles of Costa Rica.

 

In episode six the three remaining celebrities fight it out to be crowned Bear’s Mission Survivor.  They must also build their camp using only what the jungle provides them, eat rats for dinner and face Bear’s most extreme challenges yet.

 

The first challenge sees the group split for the first time. Bear takes the contestants, one by one, to the top of a 300ft waterfall which they each must abseil down alone . They are not in for an easy ride.

 

They all make it down, but one celebrity struggles swimming in the lake below the waterfall and has to be rescued by Bear’s lieutenant Scott. Bear follows the celebrities down and delivers news to the team that there will be no firewood, no shelter and no rations that evening.

 

The celebrities trek to a clearing where they have to build a camp without their usual supplies to help them. There are no army rations tonight but Bear has something to offer – a dinner of three dead rats which they have to gut and cook.

 

When breaking up wood for the fire, a branch recoils and one of the celebrities gets a cut on their forehead and is taken to hospital where they are given stitches.

 

The following morning the celebrity expedition team has to get across a near impenetrable mangrove swamp. Bear’s lieutenant Scott is somewhere inside the thick swamp blowing a distress signal on a whistle. The team must follow the sound through the dense vegetation and deep swamp mud until they reach Scott.

 

When the team find Scott he directs them to the mouth of a river, they must wade up to their necks in the water, home to estuarine  crocodiles. Bear has placed two canoes on which the celebrities can paddle out to the coast. The welcome sight of the Pacific Ocean signals the end of the journey but Bear has one final survival challenge in store.

 

Bear is waiting on the beach by a smouldering fire with only a few remaining embers. The celebrities must each transport an ember to one of three signal fires at the end of the beach and make enough smoke to create an international distress signal and call in a rescue helicopter.

 

Three remain but only one person will win. Who has impressed Bear the most? Who has conquered their fears? And who has the qualities Bear is looking for to be named his Mission Survivor?

 

• Episode: 6 of 6
• Transmission (TX): Fri 03 Apr 2015
• Time: 9.00pm – 10.00pm
• Week: Week 14 2015 : Sat 28 Mar – Fri 03 Apr