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.

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.