本系列节目中，荒野探险家海森·奥德尔雄心勃勃地挑战雄伟的安地斯山脉，这独自横跨南美洲的英勇旅程将是他有史以来最长、最艰难的探险之旅。从东往西穿越六个不可思议的多元自然生态系统，途经大西洋沿岸广袤无垠的古老森林、安地斯山脉厚厚冰封的山峰、阿塔卡马一望无际的沙漠、直到波澜壮阔的太平洋海岸。若要完成这段史诗般壮阔的旅程，并征服安地斯山脉，他会经历南美洲最为恶劣的生存环境：危机四伏的森林、赤日炎炎的平原、泥泞不堪的沼泽、越险象环生的云雾森林等等；他必须卯足全力，不断向当地部落学习特殊的技能以及求生的技巧，把所学的知识充分运用，利用好身边所有的资源，展现惊人的毅力和耐力，才可能收获最终的成功。那一刻，所有的汗水与泪水都将值得。

本系列节目中，荒野探险家海森·奥德尔将沿着雄伟的湄公河进行长达500英里的冒险之旅。他将穿越老挝境内，跨过地球上最偏僻、生物最多元的地区，最终抵达位于老挝最南部的孔恩瀑布。雨季的湄公河流域呈现狂野的自然景观，而这也意味着此次冒险将更具挑战。海森从高耸的云雾森林出发进入湄公河流域，在古老的原始森林中寻找珍贵的蘑菇，在广阔的布拉万高原遇见传统的火枪猎手，在丛林深处发现与世隔绝的隐秘村庄，在野生动物天堂的沼泽地追寻巨型网纹蟒，还与勇敢的渔民一起在湄公河最狂野的水域惊险捕鱼。面对洪水泛滥的平原、迷宫般的石灰岩山峰、陡峭的悬崖峭壁、深不见底的洪水洞穴、难以逾越的丛林，海森通过观察河流情况，依靠湄公河原住民的传统生存技能，完成这次史诗般的生存之旅。

《原始求生记：极致非洲远征 第一季》是一档由国家地理频道出品的纪录片，它展示了生存专家哈森·奥德尔（Hazen Audel）徒步穿越非洲大裂谷的极限探险旅程。在这个系列中，奥德尔深入非洲的荒野，观察并体验那里稀有且壮观的野生动物。这个节目不仅带领观众领略非洲的自然美景，也展示了在极端条件下的生存技巧和对自然环境的深刻理解。

亚马逊热带雨林位于南美洲的亚马逊平原，占地庞大，神秘莫测，是“地球之肺”、“绿色心脏”。这里有枝繁叶茂的原始森林，有一望无际的热带草原，有高耸入云的花岗岩山脉，也有危机四伏的致命危机。跟随极限冒险家黑森·奥戴尔脚步，我们将进行一场跨越亚马逊热带雨林的独行之旅，也是承载黑森青春梦想的“圆梦之旅”。在这场路程中，黑森会去往沿途的各个部落，探访雨林生存之道；学习各种极限探险技能，掌握雨林生存之法。从陆地到河流，从高地到山地，神秘莫测的雨林危机四伏，黑森会遭遇猛兽、毒蛇，肆虐的雨季会带来更多超越想象的危险。而黑森又该如何应对这些危险，成功完成这样一场“神奇的路程”呢？

求生教练兼荒野向导黑森·奥代尔回来了，在这新的一季中，他将前往地球上一些最极端的地方来进行一些使他的知识，耐力和技能达到极限的独自挑战。为了取得成功，他将依靠在这些环境中生活了数千年的土著人民的古老求生技能。在太平洋，黑森来到了瓦努阿图群岛，他将与茂密的丛林和高耸的瀑布搏斗以到达活火山的山顶。他还与沙尔冈部落成员一起为他们的群落狩猎。在肯尼亚，他将穿越了炎热的平原，在鳄鱼出没的水域中航行，并与致命的蛇搏斗以找到在沙漠腹心守卫自己骆驼的朗迪耶族战士。黑森负责将其中的两种珍贵的野兽归还给村里的长者，以确保他使它们免受掠食者的伤害。

极端冒险家黑森·奥德尔重温了他所经历的最激动、最痛苦和最令人作呕的时刻，揭示了成为一名原生幸存者需要的素质。

一个厌世新鲜人意外进入监狱成为管理员，同时监狱也有一群迫不得已在此工作的伙伴，每天面临各种光怪陆离的遭遇。

The story is recalled in a first-person perspective by the geologist William Dyer, a professor at Arkham's Miskatonic University, in the hope to prevent an important and much publicized scientific expedition to Antarctica. Throughout the course of his explanation, Dyer relates how he led a group of scholars from Miskatonic University on a previous expedition to Antarctica, during which they discovered ancient ruins and a dangerous secret, beyond a range of mountains higher than the Himalayas. A small advance group, led by Professor Lake, discovers the remains of fourteen prehistoric life-forms, previously unknown to science, and also unidentifiable as either plants or animals. Six of the specimens have been badly damaged, while another eight have been preserved in pristine condition. The specimens' stratum places them far too early on the geologic time scale for the features of the specimens to have evolved. Some fossils of Cambrian age show signs of the use of tools to carve a specimen for food. When the main expedition loses contact with Lake's party, Dyer and his colleagues investigate. Lake's camp is devastated, with the majority of men and dogs slaughtered, while a man named Gedney and one of the dogs are absent. Near the expedition's campsite, they find six star-shaped snow mounds with one specimen under each. They also discover that the better preserved life-forms have vanished, and that some form of dissection experiment has been done on both an unnamed man and a dog. The missing man is suspected of having gone utterly insane and having killed and mutilated all the others. Dyer and a graduate student, named Danforth, fly an aeroplane across the mountains, which they identify as the outer walls of a vast abandoned stone-city, alien to any human architecture. For their resemblance to creatures of myth mentioned in the Necronomicon, the builders of this lost civilization are dubbed the "Elder Things". By exploring these fantastic structures, the men learn through hieroglyphic murals that the Elder Things first came to Earth shortly after the Moon took form and built their cities with the help of "shoggoths" — biological entities created to perform any task, assume any form, and reflect any thought. There is a hint that all earthly life evolved from cellular material left over from the creation of the shoggoths. As more buildings are explored, the explorers learn about the Elder Things' conflict with both the Star-spawn of Cthulhu and the Mi-go, who arrived on Earth shortly afterwards. The images also reflect a degradation of their civilization, once the shoggoths gain independence. As more resources are applied in maintaining order, the etchings become haphazard and primitive. The murals also allude to an unnamed evil lurking within an even larger mountain range located beyond the city. This mountain range rose in one night and certain phenomena and incidents deterred the Elder Things from exploring it. When Antarctica became uninhabitable, even for the Elder Things, they soon migrated into a large, subterranean ocean. Dyer and Danforth eventually realize that the Elder Things missing from the advance party's camp had somehow returned to life and, after slaughtering the explorers, have returned to their city. Dyer and Danforth also discover traces of the Elder Things' earlier exploration, as well as sleds containing the corpses of both Gedney and his missing dog. They are ultimately drawn towards the entrance of a tunnel, into the subterranean region depicted in the murals. Here, they find evidence of various Elder Things killed in a brutal struggle and blind six-foot-tall penguins wandering placidly, apparently used as livestock. They are then confronted by a black, bubbling mass, which they identify as a shoggoth, and escape. Aboard the plane, high above the plateau, Danforth looks back and sees something which causes him to lose his own sanity, implied to be the unnamed evil itself. Dyer concludes the Elder Things slaughtered the survivors and dogs only out of self-defense or scientific curiosity, that their civilization was eventually destroyed by the shoggoths and that this further entity has preyed on the enormous penguins. He warns the planners of the next proposed Antarctic expedition to stay distant from the site.

Molly Dunn从小热爱地理，她曾在半夜做实验闹得家人不得安宁，但是她并不是一个十分幸运的孩子，父亲很早就死于一场地震灾害中。长大后Molly成为了一名地质学家，在一所大学教书，某天她正在做一项预测地震的试验，安放在各处的传感器数据显示即将会有一场大地震发生，她必须通知所有人撤离，但是她的力量实在太薄弱了，并没有人愿意听信她的预测，地震如期而至，她只有与时间赛跑，尽可能的拯救更多的人。