

Tough Guy or Chicken?
2009 · BBC Three · 60 min · 1 season
S01E08 · Japan
Fri, 9 Oct, 7:00 am
The lads' final challenge is to become Buddhist Yamabushi monks and complete a tough pilgrimage to the summit of a sacred mountain, under the eye of Miyagi-San, their Master.
About
Series in which five young British adventurers spend four months travelling the world, taking on some of the most deadly creatures and hostile places on the planet.
Episodes
- E01
Ecuador
Fri, 21 Aug· 60 minHigh in the Ecuadorian Andes, five adventurers join the local cowboys and battle with fighting bulls.
- E02
Siberia
Fri, 28 Aug· 60 minIn the Siberian arctic, the five adventurers attempt to become Evenki reindeer herders and must guard the herd from wolves.
- E03
Mexico
Fri, 4 Sept· 60 minThe five adventurers head into the jungle of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and become cave-divers in a vast network of largely uncharted, pitch-black, underwater tunnels.
- E04
Amazon
Fri, 11 Sept· 60 minThe adventurers join boys of the Jaminawa tribe in the Brazilian Amazon and endure a jungle initiation to become men, involving hallucinogenic brews and sacrificing a snake.
- E05
Namibia
Fri, 18 Sept· 60 minIn Namibia, the five adventurers join the Ju-Wasi tribe of San Bushmen on a traditional hunt in one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet.
- E06
Bahamas
Fri, 25 Sept· 60 minIn the Bahamas, expert Jeremiah Sullivan has the task of turning the rookies into shark wranglers in just six days. Reuben is not sure he's prepared to risk losing a limb.
- E07
Bangladesh
Fri, 2 Oct· 60 minThe lads' penultimate challenge could be the most deadly, as they come to Bangladesh to learn to catch venomous snakes under the aegis of snake king Shoporaj Dholu.
- E08
Japan
Fri, 9 Oct· 60 minThe lads' final challenge is to become Buddhist Yamabushi monks and complete a tough pilgrimage to the summit of a sacred mountain, under the eye of Miyagi-San, their Master.
Cast

Lauren Laverne
Narrator







