Boy To Man

Tim Noonan ventures to Siberia where he joins the Nenets reindeer people and attempts their boy-to-man ritual, learning their way.

Tim visits the Altai mountains of Mongolia, where it is an ancient rite of passage for Kazakh men to capture and tame the formidable golden eagle.

Tim joins the elite brotherhood of cave climbers in Thailand to track down the delicacies found in bird's nest soup.

Tim heads to the Goro village in Cameroon, West Africa, where coming of age means crawling into a dark cave to do battle with a python that can grow over six-metres long.

Tim heads to the unforgiving landscapes of Elorza in Venezuela to ride with the fearless swamp cowboys. Their coming-of-age ritual is to tame a wild bucking bronco.

Tim saddles up with the wild horse gladiators of Kyrgyzstan, central Asia. As a rite of passage, members of the Kyrgyz tribe take part in an ancient game with no rules and a headless goat called kok-boru.