Boy to Man

Tim Noonan travels to Siberia, to attempt the boy to man ritual of the Nenets reindeer people. To become a man, Tim must learn to slaughter a reindeer without spilling a drop of its blood.

Tim Noonan travels to the mysterious islands of Guinea-Bissau, where he endures a baptism of fire that involves his being beaten naked, eating bush rats and monkeys, and frightening initiations including a tribal scar.

Tim journeys to Mongolia to attempt the ancient Kazak boy to man ritual of the eagle hunters. Only if he can train a golden eagle to hunt the corsac fox will he become a true eagle man.

Tim Noonan travels to Thailand in search of the fabled cave climbers of the Andaman, to undertake their intense boy-to-man rituals, despite his extreme fear of heights.

Tim travels to Cameroon, West Africa, to find the Gbaya people and undertake a terrifying ritual, where one crawls headfirst into the lair of a giant-rock python and wrestles the monster snake from its den.

Tim is with the tropical cowboys of Venezuela, known as Llaneros, where he must break in a bucking bronc to earn a rite of place on the world's most intense cattle drive.

Hiding away in a little known corner of the world called Kyrgyzstan, Tim is mentored by members of the Kyrgyz tribe to take part in a strange and ferocious rite of passage.

Tim ventures into the remote Central Highlands of Madagascar to find the Betsileo, a people whose name means 'invincible'; he wants to take on their intense manhood initiation Savika, where a young man must prove himself by wrestling an angry bull.

In Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains, long-distance endurance running is a way of life for the Tarahumara people. To be a marathon man, Tim must run down a deer and catch it barehanded.

In the Himalayas honey hunters are the most respected and influential people in their communities. Tim must brave sheet heights and marauding bees to earn his stripes as a man.

To join an ancient brotherhood in Papua New Guinea, Tim must prove himself as a sailor and a shark wrestler.

There is no other tribe with a rite of passage as challenging as the Xavante. Tim must perform all the tasks of the Wai'a, pushing past physical limits to experience a spiritual awakening.