Cloud Forest Hunters: Hazen travels to Laos to meet the Akha tribe. To prove he is worthy of joining one of their hunts, he heads out into the wilderness alone.

(Jungle Ambush) Hazen learns in a village of the semi-nomadic Mani tribe in the pristine forest of Malaya (peninsular Malaysia), full of wildlife, some as dangerous as vipers, how they live, especially preparing and practicing the traditional blowpipe and darts poisoned with fig sap or harvesting bee hives. As prey gets rare after a few months, the tribe regularly packs everything together and sends a hunters party ahead to prepare a new camp site while the families follow. Hazen proves himself as 'warrior' by journeying to the new valley alone, living from what he ...

Hazen learns the fairly pristine culture of the Marr tribe, which is quite isolated in the highland jungle of inner Papua New Guinea. He seeks to earn an invitation to an impending elaborate traditional wedding by joining in the communal preparations with the villagers, tutored by two elder warriors. They repair the long house feast venue's thatching with freshly cut, painfully sharp long grass, and make their way into a high cave the harvest a bat as delicacy. The whole village uses a dam and poisonous plant for fishing. Then he sets out alone to collect three ...

(Masters of Fire) Hazen learns the traditions culture of the Saramaccas, one of six maroon ('bush nigger') tribes in Suriname, descendants of escaped slaves who fled during Dutch colonial from plantations to the Amazonian interior jungle. He seeks to earn an invitation to an impending 'fire dance', an elaborate tradition of the villagers 'inspited by wood spirits'. An old man teaches him to make a canoe, the champion warrior learns him about hunting with an ancestral flint and arranges to meet him far away. He sets out thereto alone on the Suriname river and later ...

(Extreme Tribal Tools) Hazen compiles what he learned about traditional tools of various tribal cultures from previous episodes and seasons. Includes from the tropics Ecuador's Amazonian Hoarani precision weapon, the blowpipe with home-made curare darts, Panama's Embara balsa rafts to use the numerous rivers and New Guinean highland's Yima dugout canoe, hammock, the odd Samburu throwing weapon to ward off savanna predators. Fo use at sea, the Bajau seas nomads diving goggles and Solomons islanders all join to tie vines into a huge finishing strand 'noose' to catch ...

(Extreme Tribal Foods) Hazen had to get over sôntaneaous disgust at some traditional foods, especially in tribal cultures wehere it's too scarce to waste, such as yak heads in Tibet, pulling the tongue out by mouth and gacking at the horro taste of the brains. Some foods are just 'acquired tastes' such as abundant, live grubs the Amazonian interior jungle. Bee stings are the price for superfood honey, climbing for tree fruit. Fishing requires skill and technique, but for the lao on the upper Mekong also braving wild falls on shaky ropes. Expert hunters like the San in...

(Hostile Environments) Hazen learns to brave the perils of tribal homelands. The Dulong in a Chinese valley harvest bee hives from high cliffs. In Laos, the Lao Loum fish among the barely accessible rapids of the mighty upper Mekong. The Rendille tribe in Kenya are camel herdsmen, but also traverse the crocodile-infested Lake Turkana reusing the rare logs to improvise rafts. The Marcushi of Guyana are among the jungle people of Amazonia, abundant in dangers. Even on one volcanic island of Vanuatu, he needs various skills of the Salkon tribe to brave the jungle, a ...

(Wild Animal Adventures) Hazen considers wildlife no less part of the exciting exploration then tribal cultures in testing environments. The richest and wildest is Amazonia, like the land of the Macushi in Guyana, crawling with caiman, snakes, spiders, dart poison frogs - The rice fields people in Chinese southwestern highland province Guizhou (Kweichow) are man-made with elaborate irrigation, yet teem with wild animals, from 'chiggers' (itchy red mites) to cobras, and even the domesticated water-buffaloes require careful handling due to a residual wild side. The ...