Overview
- Prime Video launched Season 5 on October 7 with a 16-episode run and ten behind-the-scenes installments slated to stream on Prime before later appearing on YouTube.
- Filming takes place in a remote tri-border stretch of the Amazon across Colombia, Brazil and Peru, with dense jungle, wildlife and intense weather driving up the risk level.
- Jeannine Michaelsen sustained a hand puncture from a palm thorn within the opening episode and removed the spike herself, highlighting medical vigilance in the rainforest conditions.
- Participants voiced frustration that a local guide set an unsafely fast pace through the jungle, with survival expert Joe Vogel warning that the group risked stumbling and losing the path.
- Hervé Neukomm is introduced as host and season planner as founder Fritz Meinecke sits out, with CaliVision Network producing the upgraded Amazon-backed installment.