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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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 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 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.