Seven celebrities battle through the wilds of Southern Africa on an uncompromising 12 day survival expedition. They are pushed to their psychological and physical limits to see who has the heroic qualities needed to become Bear’s Mission Survivor. In Bear Grylls: Mission Survive, Les Miserables actress Samantha Barks, former Coronation Street actress Michelle Collins, choreographer and Dancing on Ice judge Jason Gardiner, Casualty actress Chelsee Healey, Grantchester actor Neil Morrissey, ex England footballer and coach Stuart Pearce MBE and Arsenal and England Ladies footballer Alex Scott, are put under extreme pressure by the adventurer and survival expert to see what they are made of.

In the second programme, the six remaining celebrities start the day without breakfast having decided to conserve their dwindling military rations. They trek to meet Bear, who delivers their first mission of the day. The group head off into the Karoo mountain range to locate a dead springbok. They need to retrieve the carcass, which has been placed high up in a tree, divide it into pieces, and each carry it in their rucksacks across a leopard crawl – two lines suspended 50ft above a rocky ravine. Anybody who fails to get across successfully, keeping hands and feet on the ropes, will have to sacrifice their meat.