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I'm Bear Grylls.

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I've served with
The British Special Forces,

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I've climbed
to the summit of Everest

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and crossed the frozen oceans
of the Arctic.

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Now, my challenge is to go alone

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into one of America's
deadliest places,

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I don't like this at all.

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The Rocky Mountains.

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Millions of people visit every year.

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Quick, quick, quick.

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Two thousand don't return alive.

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I've just got to get it right away.

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I'm going into one of the most
remote areas of the Rockies,

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with only the clothes I'm wearing,

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to show you
how to be an ultimate survivor.

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I'm flying at 10,000 feet over
the Rockies,

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somewhere near
the Canadian border.

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Since most people who end up in
trouble here are caught by surprise,

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my team has arranged one for me.

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At any moment the pilot will tell
me to jump.

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Where I don't know.

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I don't have a map, spare clothing,
water or food,

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not even a cell phone.

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Go Bear. Good luck.

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My mission is simple.

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Use all my skills to get out alive
in under five days.

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A camera crew will follow me
on the ground

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but the rules are very clear,

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no interaction with me is allowed,

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they can intervene only in a matter
of life or death.

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(BEAR GROANS)

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It really hurts.

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This is always a danger
when jumping into the unknown.

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This is only the second time
I've had a problem with my landing.

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The first time I broke my back.

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(HEAVY BREATHING)

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I've got to somehow try and work out
a way of getting out of here.

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I'm at least 60 feet up,

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if I jump I'll break my legs,

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there's only one way out of this

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and it's something
I've never done before.

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I'm gonna have to use my emergency
parachute to get me down.

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And now what I've got to try and do,
is climb down the canopy of this

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but when I drop,

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keep hold of one side of it
so I bring it down with me,

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because I'm gonna need
these rigging lines

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for getting myself out of this place
I've got myself into.

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And the final thing I've got to
remember is when I land

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from this height, this is gonna
be about 20 foot drop off

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the bottom of this.

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I've got to roll, land with my legs
feet together and avoid landing,

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like a sack of potatoes.

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So here goes.

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(BREATHING HEAVY AND COUGHING)

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I'm down, in a bit of a mess
but out of that tree.

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The one light thing that I manged to
salvage from my parachute

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was some of these rigging lines

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and I'm going to be doing
these, like,

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crossing ravines, rivers,
climbing cliffs,

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and to have something
that can hold my weight.

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I can lash logs together
with and also catch fish.

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It's gonna be a real, real benefit
to me out here.

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Getting lost in the mountains
can be terrifying.

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And it's much easier than you
might think.

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In June 2005 an 11 year old
boy scout, Brennan Hawkins

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was out hiking with his group.

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When he just simply vanished,
after four days

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of intensive searching he was found
severely dehydrated

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only five miles from his camp.

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His rescuers believe

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that if it hadn't been
the month of June

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he would have died of hypothermia.

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If you do get lost like Brennan,

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try to keep calm
and come up with a plan.

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And my plan is simple, to get
my bearings and look for a river.

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There's an old rule
that's a good one

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when you're lost in the wild.

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Find a stream or a river,

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then hunt for a track because that
will lead you to a road and safety.

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But that's easier said than done.

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The Rockies are over 750 thousand
square miles of wilderness

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covering seven US states
and two Canadian.

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I could be looking
for a very long time.

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Although it's September the weather
here can be really deceptive.

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During the day like now,

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it's around 65 degrees Fahrenheit

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but later at night
it can drop to below zero.

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They say there are just two seasons
in the Rockies, June and winter.

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It's about 5pm now
and it's almost dusk

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and there's probably only
about an hour of light left

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and the priority really
for me now is to find shelter

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and something to eat.

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Okay, the key to building a shelter
is you want something

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that's gonna keep you warm,
that's gonna keep you dry

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but above all that's not going
to expend a huge amount

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of energy to build.

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And what I'm gonna do is make
what they call a debris shelter

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and it's really simple to do.

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All I do is I'm going
to pick this thing up.

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Drag it along
and I've got my base of it here.

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And then really just try
and clear all these under branches.

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And...

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Get all of this moss
and pine needles.

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And I do this now,

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on both sides

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and then I need just to find
loads of moss.

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Moss like this for the roof is gonna
protect me from the wind and rain.

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This is gonna be beautiful.

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And it's gonna keep me really snug.

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With temperatures approaching
near freezing at night,

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the inside of the shelter could be
as much as 10 degrees warmer.

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And one of the most important things

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I've done here is really put masses
and masses of pine needles

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as a kind of ground bedding
here and the reason this is

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so important is that you lose
the majority of your heat

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through your body
and through the ground.

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But with enough of this,

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this is gonna hold the heat
and insulate me above and below.

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While I'm building the shelter
and turning over loads of logs

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often when you,
you go under these thing,

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go under these things, you'll find,
here you go, little like millipedes.

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Surviving in the wild is all

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about finding food using
the least amount of energy.

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But I've got to check these have
got four legs per body segment.

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Centipedes are very similar
but have only two

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and can give you a nasty bite.

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Disgusting as it looks
but it's good protein.

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One of the things, I haven't
got what would be so useful

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for me out here is a knife

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and one of the easiest way
of improvising a knife

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is to make
what they call a disc knife

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and the way you do this is just,

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just to grab what we call
a hammer stone

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and a normal bit of stone
and give it a good

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And here we go and look
that's a really good bit sharp,

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bit of flint that I'll be able
to gut fish with.

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And use for a feather stick
for making tinder,

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loads of different things.

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As night falls
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and I need to get a fire going.

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Okay, try and get some firewood here
there's a bit more here.

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Look, look, look. It's... Come here,
come here quick, quick, quick.

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It's a snake. It's a snake.

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A rattlesnake, one of the Rockies'
most deadliest creatures.

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Is he dead?

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Got to let it go.
I'm just gonna give him a nudging.

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My heart's really thumping.

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That's why you've got to be
so careful getting,

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looking under these sort of logs
but I really actually hate snakes

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and it's definitely made me
a little less comfortable

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about my shelter but...

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That is gonna make a good
bit of dinner.

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Before it gets dark
I really need to get a fire going.

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And the best way out here
in the Rockies

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with all this dry pine and spruce
is the hand drill method.

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Use your rock to make a notch
in a log and by rotating the drill,

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ignite a spark
with very dry kindling.

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It's not easy.

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Be prepared,
it can take a long time.

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(INAUDIBLE)

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Just show you how sharp
actually these stones can be.

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My disc knife
is already proving useful.

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The first thing to do is to get rid
of the venomous head.

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Okay, that's the head off.

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I've peeled this little bit back.

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Here she comes,
here she comes,

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here she comes and that's all
the guts then coming out.

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Get rid of the last bit of the guts.

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And, that's the skin and
all its back end.

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That is going to be beautiful meat.

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One of the things that's,
really important is to make sure

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I never leave any of the guts
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I'm eating lying around,
this sort of stuff,

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any guts is really gonna attract,
wolves or bears

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and I don't want any of them
anywhere near where I am,

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so what I'm gonna do,
put that on the fire to burn,

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along with...

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That head that's full of all the
venom and again,

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I want that to be burnt well
and truly.

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So there we go.

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And then I'm going
to cook this baby.

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And if I jam the top bit of the meat
into this stick.

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Wrap this round.

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That is ready for the barbe.

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This area is full of grizzlies,

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and they can smell food
up to 20 miles away.

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So I have to be extra vigilant.

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I recently heard a story
about a husband and wife team

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who were stalked by a grizzly
in their campsite while they slept.

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The grizzly dragged the man away,
ripping his scalp off.

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Luckily the grizzly lost interest

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and the couple both ran 10 miles
before feeling safe again.

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I reckon this is cooked now
and a good way of trying to tell

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is if you can peel the fibres off
of this meat,

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it's generally a sign
it's pretty well cooked and...

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They also normally taste
quite like chicken.

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And, it's beautiful,
that is really, really good.

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It's time to turn in. I wonder
how much sleep I'll get.

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And If I'm really alone.

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I don't like this at all,
I don't like this...

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Just turning this camera on.

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I don't know
if you can hear this but...

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There's definitely something,

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something's scurrying around outside
and it's probably,

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it's probably just a deer but...

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There you go, you can hear it again,
can you hear?

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There's definitely something
out here.

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I just heard a really heavy footstep
out there and I don't know,

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I'm gonna try and try and see
if I can see anything

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with the camera but.

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Something that moved past,
the past the shadow of the fire.

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And it's so hard to tell what it is,
but it sounded just.

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I don't like this at all,
I don't like this, come on then.

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Okay, okay.

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There is definitely
something moving,

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I just can't make out what it is.

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I haven't heard from it now for,

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for a few minutes and it might
well have just moved away but...

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Sure as hell it knows I'm here.

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And it knows I've eaten food here,

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and I don't know a huge amount
about bears

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but what I do know is that it's,

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if they come into your camp
and they see you there,

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you need to clear
that camp and fast,

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it's just it's the middle
of the bloody night.

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It's just the middle of the night
and I don't know,

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I just don't want to go
charging off anywhere.

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But I don't, I just don't know
what I'm gonna do.

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I lay very still
and silent for some time,

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I couldn't hear any
movement outside

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but if whatever it was out
there came back.

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I might not be so lucky.

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It was time to go.

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I've just got to get right away,
from this area now.

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Now, moving at night is never ideal

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but I've got,
I've got just no choice.

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At the moment, the camera light
helping me move much faster.

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One of the real dangers
of moving at night time

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is just running off
and then getting lost

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and the easiest way of navigating

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when you haven't got a compass
is just to use the heavens,

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use the stars and on a beautiful
clear night like this

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you can easily pick out
the North Star just by seeing

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the Big Dipper over there,

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taking the last two stars
of the Big Dipper and then going,

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one, two, three, four and that will
point directly at the North Star,

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it's the star on its own,

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it's not the brightest star
but it's clear

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and it's on its own and it's
about the only star that won't move.

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You can't navigate
by following other stars

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for more than about 50 minutes,
they'll start to shift

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but the North Star is a constant.
It's that way.

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We want to be heading South away
from these mountains.

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People are often scared
about moving at night time

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but certainly I just remember
my time in Special Forces,

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we'd always only move at night time

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and it's just a question
of getting comfortable with it,

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slowing down and tuning in
your senses and you can hear,

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hear there's a stream
obviously near by

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and it's just learning to take it
slow and feel your way

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and move and move branch aside,

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feel with your feet
and actually after about,

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about 40 minutes you get
very, very good night vision

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and under a clear sky like this
where there's a strong moon,

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it can become almost
easy as daylight and once you get

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into that rhythm.

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I've been moving now for...

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For almost, almost 24 hours and...

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I'm tired and I'm cold.

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And if I'm honest
I'm just a little bit,

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a little bit scared
of this grizzly still in this area

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and I just want to,
I really just want to get

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right away from here now.

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I'm walking over here,

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I've just noticed, a lot of
the grass has been flattened,

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it's probably where deer
and elk have just been hanging out.

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You can see this is probably
where badgers have been

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burrowing around looking
for bugs and scrubs

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and I bet if I have a good dig
around, in here,

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I'll find something
that I can eat, as well.

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The rattlesnake was my last meal,
some 12 hours ago.

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I'm using up a lot of energy.

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Being on the move like this burns
around 6,000 calories a day.

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And to stay alert
I'm going to need more food.

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And there you go look
that's what these guys

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were probably eating last night.

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Worms.

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Believe it or not, worms and insects
are 80 percent protein.

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Beef's only around 20.

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So it's easy energy,
even if not the most tasty.

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I will keep those...

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For later.

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It's going to rain soon
and there are loads of signs

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in nature that forecast the weather
and if you look up

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at the sky at the moment,

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you've got this cloud formation
in what's called banded cirrus

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and that's basically these fingers
of cloud that go across the sky

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and often that moves in front
of a low pressure.

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Also when it's going to rain,

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sounds tend to carry much further

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and that's basically just
the moisture laden atmosphere acting

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a little bit like an amplifier
and with that you'll often get

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a very distinct smell
of the forest as basically

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nature's just beginning to open up
ready to receive the rain.

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Then several hours later
the nightmare of last night

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becomes real once more.

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Quick, quick, quick!

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Now, that is definitely
a grizzly track

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and just look at the size
of that paw, man.

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And actually you can tell from just
the compression of the earth here

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and the displacement of the soil
from the claws,

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this is probably only an hour
or two old and by the size of that,

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that could well be a 600 pound bear.

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And I don't know if it's me,

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00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:18,320
just imagining it but it seems like
this bear is just playing with me,

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but we want to get out of here.

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Come on then, let's go.

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The last four, five hours

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I've been moving through an area
that's just been completely,

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you know,
devastated by a forest fire

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and it's cleared a lot
of this ground of the trees,

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the bush and the scrub

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00:18:39,100 --> 00:18:41,140
but it is though working now
in my favour

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and I can move much faster
through this terrain

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00:18:44,060 --> 00:18:46,380
and all of this is good
and soft under foot as well.

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00:18:54,380 --> 00:18:56,420
I'm lost in the Rockies
for the second day

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and I've just come across
my first major obstacle.

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If you are ever in a situation like
this and need to escape quickly,

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there is only one option.

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00:19:08,340 --> 00:19:10,100
Yeah, this is, this is a big jump.

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00:19:10,140 --> 00:19:15,300
This must be, this must be 70 foot
and it is, yeah this is dangerous.

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00:19:16,380 --> 00:19:20,200
At 70 feet if I hit wrong it'll be
like hitting concrete.

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00:19:21,100 --> 00:19:23,400
It is manageable as long as
you enter the water correctly.

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00:19:24,380 --> 00:19:27,340
But I can't stress enough just how
careful you've got to be jumping off

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00:19:27,380 --> 00:19:30,220
anything really more than,
more than about 20 feet.

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00:19:31,020 --> 00:19:33,120
And the big danger of jumping
into these sort of rivers,

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is first of all shallow water
but secondly, rocks,

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both of which could break your legs
which in an environment like this,

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on your own, can be fatal.

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00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,180
But the technique really
for doing this is to make sure

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that you jump feet first,
keep absolutely vertical,

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00:19:48,980 --> 00:19:51,420
keep your legs together
and clench your backside

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and you can guess
the reason for that one.

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Okay.

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00:19:59,980 --> 00:20:00,300
Here goes.

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00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:11,280
There's no way the grizzly's
gonna jump that.

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00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:17,020
And that is definitely going
to have broken my scent trail.

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00:20:18,020 --> 00:20:19,260
Now, I've found a big river,

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00:20:19,300 --> 00:20:22,300
I'm more hopeful about finding
a track and ultimately a road.

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00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,440
This river can also keep me alive
with water and food.

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00:20:27,420 --> 00:20:30,280
The riverbank can also provide
the odd piece of garbage

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00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:32,040
which can be a lifesaver.

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00:20:32,220 --> 00:20:33,000
It's an old,

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00:20:34,380 --> 00:20:36,200
old camp that's been used and...

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00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,980
This probably would have been
used by a hunter or a tracker,

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00:20:41,300 --> 00:20:44,180
anything up to you know
five or 10 years ago

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00:20:44,980 --> 00:20:46,360
but when you get
the chance to scavenge

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00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:49,220
you've got to use these sort
of things and...

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00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,160
This sort of tin will
be really useful for,

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00:20:53,420 --> 00:20:55,020
for collecting water in

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00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:57,020
and you see there's....

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00:20:58,140 --> 00:21:01,140
Even an old plastic bag
under here,

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00:21:01,180 --> 00:21:04,040
it's probably a bit holey
but take it.

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00:21:04,340 --> 00:21:07,380
Also keep your eyes open for natural
elements that can help you,

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00:21:08,060 --> 00:21:09,080
like these cattails.

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00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:11,040
These things are
absolutely brilliant,

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00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,140
and you can use them
for so many different tasks.

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00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,320
Now, If you take the top
of a cattail and twist it,

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00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:20,120
this stuff is so light it makes
just brilliant tinder for a fire

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00:21:20,340 --> 00:21:24,100
and also you can use lots of this to
insulate a jacket and keep you warm.

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00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:26,220
If you move down the cattails,

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the actual shaft of it here is great
for making arrows.

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Really good and strong.

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00:21:34,380 --> 00:21:36,040
And then if you go all the way down

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to the bottom and get one of these,

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00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:45,400
if we go and rinse it off you'll see
they're actually nature's spaghetti.

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00:21:49,340 --> 00:21:51,160
And that's really good carbohydrate.

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00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,260
Now, for some protein and this river
is full of my favourite

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00:21:58,980 --> 00:22:00,080
North American Trout.

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00:22:00,420 --> 00:22:03,140
Although I don't have anything like
a hook to catch them with,

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00:22:03,380 --> 00:22:05,020
there is another way.

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00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,280
Okay, what I've been doing here
is trying to work my way up

383
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:10,980
through a lot of these pools,

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00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,140
looking for fish to try
and do some,

385
00:22:13,180 --> 00:22:16,380
some hand fishing and what happens
often is the fishes swim up

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00:22:16,420 --> 00:22:18,320
into these pools,
but then can't get out

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00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,000
and in this one there are
a couple of fish that are in here,

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00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,040
so the idea of getting these
is to try

389
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:28,100
and come around
behind them very slowly

390
00:22:29,140 --> 00:22:30,260
and try not to disturb them.

391
00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:32,280
And what I want to do here,

392
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,020
I don't know
if you can see this one,

393
00:22:34,420 --> 00:22:36,080
is actually to come above,

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00:22:36,420 --> 00:22:39,440
drive it down into the silt
where I can get some grip,

395
00:22:39,980 --> 00:22:42,080
squeeze it tight and pull it out.

396
00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:50,420
But it's not that easy.

397
00:23:06,340 --> 00:23:07,220
Okay.

398
00:23:08,060 --> 00:23:12,020
And this one is a beauty, good size,
it's gonna be for dinner.

399
00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:24,420
You can actually... These things,

400
00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:26,440
slippery as hell
but if you get your...

401
00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:29,140
Fingers in its gills,

402
00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:33,280
you'll stop it and actually
just rinse this off a bit,

403
00:23:36,220 --> 00:23:38,360
get the silt off.
Don't go away you little brute.

404
00:23:39,980 --> 00:23:42,200
You can actually
in a real emergency situation,

405
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:43,360
eat these raw.

406
00:23:54,980 --> 00:23:55,420
There go the guts.

407
00:23:58,340 --> 00:23:59,080
And head.

408
00:24:00,980 --> 00:24:03,080
And I've got good meat there.

409
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,020
It's the best sushi you'll ever have

410
00:24:06,180 --> 00:24:07,380
and another few of these beauties

411
00:24:08,180 --> 00:24:11,040
and I'm gonna have the best dinner
I've ever had.

412
00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,100
I've got this bark

413
00:24:13,980 --> 00:24:18,220
and I'm gonna line this bark
with a load of mud

414
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,120
and I'm gonna make
like a little oven effectively,

415
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:24,140
for these fish.

416
00:24:25,340 --> 00:24:26,340
So I line it with that...

417
00:24:28,340 --> 00:24:29,200
And then I use...

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00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,440
these goose foot leaves,

419
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,960
to keep the mud away
from the fish.

420
00:24:40,980 --> 00:24:45,420
Again I lay more of these goose
foot leaves on the top.

421
00:24:52,420 --> 00:24:55,320
Pack more mud all the way over that.

422
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,120
And then that's ready to get baking.

423
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,380
To make sure the top of it cooks,
get some of that nice kindling,

424
00:25:11,220 --> 00:25:12,240
but it should need about,

425
00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:14,160
just about 20 minutes.

426
00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:18,000
So that's that
and while that's cooking,

427
00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:20,020
what I want to do is hang up

428
00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:23,960
my tin for any fish
that I'm not using.

429
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:26,420
There we go, we'll put those
guts as well in there,

430
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,140
any fish that
I don't eat this evening,

431
00:25:29,300 --> 00:25:32,420
I don't want to be leaving it around
this camp while I'm sleeping.

432
00:25:33,340 --> 00:25:36,320
I am going to, just with a bit
of my rigging lines,

433
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,040
tie it round this rock.

434
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:41,960
And then we go down.

435
00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:46,360
Down to the river
where there's a nice big tree,

436
00:25:47,180 --> 00:25:49,980
throw this over a branch
and any surplus food

437
00:25:50,020 --> 00:25:52,000
can hang well out of harm's way.

438
00:25:53,060 --> 00:25:56,160
Grizzlies travel vast distances
in search of food eating

439
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,380
around 35,000 calories a day.

440
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,200
The last thing I want is another
hungry bear near my shelter.

441
00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:06,160
I'm putting this food at least
a hundred yards away from my camp.

442
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,180
And that is definitely
beginner's luck.

443
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,360
Then what I'll do is just...

444
00:26:17,380 --> 00:26:18,220
Pull this up

445
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:23,060
and that's any surplus food
well out of harm's way,

446
00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:25,980
so that's ready for after dinner.

447
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:30,340
Okay, this should be nicely,

448
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:32,200
nicely baked now.

449
00:26:33,980 --> 00:26:35,380
I should be able to roll
that nice fish.

450
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:37,380
And there you go,
you can see the,

451
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,240
the white of the fish eye
haven't popped out

452
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,400
which means it's cooked
if we peel back the skin of this,

453
00:26:43,180 --> 00:26:46,060
you can see really
nice white meat there

454
00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:48,080
and that is gonna be...

455
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:52,160
Amazing.

456
00:26:55,140 --> 00:26:56,320
It's the end of my second day

457
00:26:57,060 --> 00:26:59,100
and so far it's been
a roller coaster.

458
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,140
Finding the river has been
a real blessing.

459
00:27:03,100 --> 00:27:04,000
The bad news.

460
00:27:04,260 --> 00:27:06,340
Rivers are the grizzly's
favourite hunting ground.

461
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,240
I've been lost in the Rockies
for over two day now,

462
00:27:19,420 --> 00:27:21,100
the camera crew is with me

463
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,380
but they're not allowed to interact
with me in anyway.

464
00:27:24,100 --> 00:27:26,200
Unless my life's in complete danger.

465
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:28,400
As I headed into day three

466
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,200
I'm getting tired
and I'm feeling the strain.

467
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,200
The only solution, keep moving
and stay positive.

468
00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:42,300
No matter how tough it gets
living rough,

469
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,060
it's always important to freshen up
in nature's rest room.

470
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,040
Really nice to have a good wash
in the morning

471
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,320
and also I can use
what are called horse tails

472
00:27:52,140 --> 00:27:53,100
to do my teeth.

473
00:27:53,260 --> 00:27:54,060
And what you do,

474
00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:57,340
you just break them off at the stem
and these bits actually

475
00:27:58,220 --> 00:28:00,280
clean your teeth really nice.

476
00:28:00,980 --> 00:28:02,140
My dentist would be proud of me.

477
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,180
And then when you've cleaned them,

478
00:28:08,020 --> 00:28:09,280
you can then just use
the middle bit,

479
00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:13,380
that's a bit more abrasive
just to get all the plaque off.

480
00:28:34,140 --> 00:28:36,280
When I was 21 I had a,

481
00:28:37,060 --> 00:28:38,380
a free fall parachuting accident

482
00:28:39,220 --> 00:28:44,400
when my canopy ripped
and I broke my back in three places

483
00:28:44,940 --> 00:28:47,940
and had to spend 18 months in
and out of hospital

484
00:28:48,380 --> 00:28:51,300
and just at that time the thought
of ever being able

485
00:28:51,340 --> 00:28:54,960
to do all these things, that I'd,
I'd always been able to do well,

486
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,320
like, you know, to climb and...

487
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,040
Parachute were just,

488
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,260
just out of my reach and for me,

489
00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:03,420
it's a real buzz to be back

490
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,120
and doing all of these things
that I love so much.

491
00:29:17,340 --> 00:29:19,100
Obviously,
I'm sweating a lot out here

492
00:29:19,140 --> 00:29:21,240
and it's really important to try
and keep hydrated

493
00:29:21,420 --> 00:29:24,000
but what I can't do is drink
straight from the streams,

494
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:25,940
even though the water
looks crystal clear

495
00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:29,380
often it can carry these waterborne
parasites such as salmonella,

496
00:29:30,060 --> 00:29:31,420
Hepatitis A or Giardia.

497
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,200
And it's giardia that's particularly
prevalent in the Rockies

498
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,420
and if you get it
you'll end up out of action

499
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,940
for up to two or three weeks
with diarrhoea,

500
00:29:38,980 --> 00:29:41,260
vomiting and that for me would be,

501
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,140
would be really bad news
in the wild.

502
00:29:43,340 --> 00:29:49,140
So what I'm gonna do is actually
boil up this water in the tin.

503
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,080
Get that through there,
put it on the fire,

504
00:29:53,380 --> 00:29:57,280
let that boil and then flavour it
with some of these rosehips

505
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,960
that I found and all I do is
pick a load of these berries,

506
00:30:03,380 --> 00:30:05,040
crush them up really nicely.

507
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,120
Sit back, enjoy the view
and in 15 minutes I should have,

508
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,360
as the English like to say
a good cup of tea.

509
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,060
Okay, let's see
what this tastes like.

510
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:30,040
It's kind of like,

511
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,300
it's kind of like strawberries
that aren't quite ripe

512
00:30:33,260 --> 00:30:35,940
but it's certainly definitely
better than giardia.

513
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,300
This journey's beginning
to seem endless.

514
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,400
I've been out here
in the Rockies for 72 hours

515
00:30:51,180 --> 00:30:53,960
and I'm starting to wonder
if I'll ever make it out

516
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,200
by my five day deadline.

517
00:30:57,220 --> 00:30:59,380
One of the things that I'm finding
hard at the moment is,

518
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,220
is just missing company I think,
you know,

519
00:31:03,260 --> 00:31:05,200
as a climber I'm always so used to,

520
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,180
to having a buddy right
there with me

521
00:31:09,060 --> 00:31:12,180
and I think it always gives
you strength just the fact

522
00:31:12,220 --> 00:31:16,940
that you're together and I'm just,

523
00:31:16,980 --> 00:31:18,360
at the moment
if I'm honest struggling,

524
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,060
being so much on my own

525
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:27,020
and I just really miss,
just that encouragement I think.

526
00:31:32,060 --> 00:31:35,060
It's strange how you pass the time
when you're lost in the wilderness.

527
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,960
You don't really take in the beauty
and the grandeur of the Rockies,

528
00:31:39,260 --> 00:31:42,140
for all the reasons most people
come here in the first place.

529
00:31:43,380 --> 00:31:46,260
The snow caps keep a frosting
of snow all the year round

530
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:51,040
and if I can make myself stop
and look, it's simply breathtaking.

531
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,060
But right now I only want one thing,

532
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,320
to keep moving as fast as I can
so I can reach a road and safety.

533
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:08,080
As evening closes
in my journey along the river comes

534
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:09,180
to an abrupt end.

535
00:32:11,260 --> 00:32:14,000
I'm not at all sure
how to get out of this one.

536
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,040
I have now reached the point

537
00:32:24,340 --> 00:32:28,160
where I cannot go any further
in the direction I want to travel.

538
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,960
There's this
huge river beneath me

539
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,260
and these sheer cliffs
at the side.

540
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,260
What I can do though is that
I can use this river to take me

541
00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:40,300
in the direction that I want
to travel a hell of a lot faster

542
00:32:40,980 --> 00:32:42,960
than I'm going to be able to
walk through this sort of terrain.

543
00:32:49,140 --> 00:32:51,940
Now, rivers like this
can be seriously dangerous

544
00:32:52,060 --> 00:32:53,380
and on the whole you
do not want to be getting

545
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,140
into this sort of river on your
own unless it's a real emergency.

546
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,200
But there is every chance
that this river can take me

547
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,960
all the way back down
to civilisation

548
00:33:03,220 --> 00:33:06,240
and what I'm actually gonna do
is use my rucksack here

549
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:11,280
and a plastic bag I found
to act as a floatation device.

550
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:17,380
This should hopefully keep me
nicely afloat.

551
00:33:18,220 --> 00:33:20,120
And effectively
I'm gonna white water raft down

552
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,920
these rapids
with this as my raft.

553
00:33:25,980 --> 00:33:27,200
Man it's cold as well.

554
00:33:29,140 --> 00:33:32,060
In the Rockies all the water
comes from snow melt,

555
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,080
so this river is glacial fed.

556
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,000
Averaging around
40 degrees Fahrenheit.

557
00:33:37,380 --> 00:33:41,200
Hypothermia is a very real danger
and the biggest killer

558
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,120
in the Rockies.

559
00:33:43,100 --> 00:33:45,180
Only this year two bodies
were pulled out

560
00:33:45,220 --> 00:33:47,080
of the same river in this area.

561
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,380
Both had been alone and both
had got hypothermia and drowned.

562
00:33:52,180 --> 00:33:55,100
But the bottom line
is the speed this river's eventually

563
00:33:55,140 --> 00:33:59,120
gonna pick up to I'm going to have
literally split seconds to react

564
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,100
but it's definitely better feet
first than head first.

565
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:31,400
Man...

566
00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:34,080
This is tiring.

567
00:34:35,980 --> 00:34:38,280
I'm really feeling my heart
pumping now.

568
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,980
If you get onto a rock like this
you've really just gotta...

569
00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:45,940
Use this, to rest a bit.

570
00:34:46,220 --> 00:34:49,120
But one of the keys
with these sort of rapids is aiming

571
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,980
for what they call the tongue of it

572
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,220
and when you're in the water
and you're going down,

573
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:56,980
you can see this tongue
build in front of you

574
00:34:57,220 --> 00:34:59,140
where all the main flow
of the water is going

575
00:35:00,260 --> 00:35:03,320
and the idea is to get
into that, go with the flow

576
00:35:04,220 --> 00:35:05,240
and try not to panic.

577
00:35:06,220 --> 00:35:08,380
Okay, this is quite a shallow part
of the river here

578
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,920
and this is a classic time just
to use my feet to fend off

579
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,940
lots of little rocks that I can see
in front of me all the way here.

580
00:35:18,060 --> 00:35:21,260
And this is exactly why you go
feet first. There's another one.

581
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,000
Man, just got pulled under up there,

582
00:35:48,380 --> 00:35:53,400
normally you just pop straight up
but I was running out of puff then.

583
00:35:56,220 --> 00:35:58,960
I floated down stream
in near freezing water

584
00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:00,300
for what seemed like an age,

585
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:02,320
I'm not quite sure but I think

586
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,940
I must have travelled at least
20 miles

587
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,080
before I knew I just couldn't
take the cold anymore.

588
00:36:08,380 --> 00:36:12,320
I'm not feeling great at the moment
and I want to get out before,

589
00:36:13,240 --> 00:36:15,300
before it gets any worse
and just try and get warm.

590
00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:26,140
Just feel how exhausted I am for...

591
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,060
Been almost like four days now
of moving and...

592
00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:34,980
Yeah, just need a,

593
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,160
need to stop and get warm.

594
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,940
And the quickest way to do
that is to boost the heart rate

595
00:36:43,980 --> 00:36:45,160
with physical exercise.

596
00:36:45,220 --> 00:36:49,120
Just that I couldn't feel less like
doing 50 press-ups at the moment.

597
00:36:57,260 --> 00:36:58,940
Okay, I've basically just got to,

598
00:36:59,220 --> 00:37:02,000
I've got to get out of these wet
clothes and I've got to get warm.

599
00:37:02,940 --> 00:37:04,960
And I've got to be able to try
and get, a fire going.

600
00:37:07,300 --> 00:37:08,980
Okay, what I'm going to try
and do here

601
00:37:09,220 --> 00:37:12,280
is just to build a fire down
the whole length of this

602
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:17,100
and into this corner here
and when it's going nicely

603
00:37:17,140 --> 00:37:19,360
I'm just going to pile a load
of these stones onto it,

604
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,140
get them really hot and then
all of this bit I'm going to cover

605
00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:26,060
with more sand
and that's gonna make a,

606
00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:28,280
a really nice warm like bed
to sleep on.

607
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,100
You see these sort of stones,

608
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,960
they're gonna be ideal to put
in this fire bed

609
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,360
and get these stones
really nice and hot.

610
00:37:47,060 --> 00:37:48,260
This has died down enough now,

611
00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:51,280
this fire and these stones
are gonna be really hot

612
00:37:52,940 --> 00:37:53,180
and...

613
00:37:54,340 --> 00:37:56,140
What I'll do is just cover
them really well.

614
00:38:02,100 --> 00:38:05,360
And these stones will stay hot
for hours and hours and hours.

615
00:38:14,220 --> 00:38:16,160
My body feels battered and bruised

616
00:38:16,940 --> 00:38:19,220
but those hot stones helped
to ease the pain.

617
00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:24,060
As night falls.
There's just one thought in my mind.

618
00:38:24,220 --> 00:38:26,400
Am I really getting any closer
to home.

619
00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:40,240
It's day four and I'm beginning
to feel pretty rough.

620
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,900
One of the things they say
about when you're,

621
00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:47,960
when you're in a survival
situation is so important

622
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,920
is to keep making decisions,

623
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,040
not get stagnant
and not just procrastinate

624
00:38:53,220 --> 00:38:56,000
and they say it's better
to make a wrong decision almost

625
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,060
than just do nothing
and it's a process

626
00:38:58,100 --> 00:39:02,200
of moving, moving, moving
that's eventually gonna get you

627
00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:06,340
out of trouble and this is
what I'm hoping, hoping for.

628
00:39:13,020 --> 00:39:14,940
I'm thirsty, hungry.

629
00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:17,160
I just want to find my way out.

630
00:39:23,180 --> 00:39:23,920
People...

631
00:39:25,340 --> 00:39:28,340
People often talk
about the survival instinct

632
00:39:28,380 --> 00:39:30,340
and it's something all of us have

633
00:39:30,380 --> 00:39:33,220
but not necessarily everybody finds

634
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:37,280
and I think sometimes your
life can be a little bit fluffy

635
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:41,260
and we don't necessarily have
that need to stay alive

636
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,360
but it is something
that is within us all,

637
00:39:45,380 --> 00:39:47,120
something needs to drive you

638
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,980
and for me at the moment
it's just wanting to,

639
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,220
just wanting to see my family
and see my wife Shara

640
00:39:55,260 --> 00:40:00,220
and my little boy Jesse
who was two a few days ago.

641
00:40:03,060 --> 00:40:04,040
And...

642
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,320
I just really wish, you know,

643
00:40:07,380 --> 00:40:09,980
wish it was him clinging round
my neck at the moment rather

644
00:40:10,020 --> 00:40:12,960
than this rucksack
that I'm carrying everywhere.

645
00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:14,920
But it's...

646
00:40:17,020 --> 00:40:19,980
It's definitely, definitely
that that's keeping me,

647
00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:21,900
keep me moving.

648
00:40:36,220 --> 00:40:37,340
I'd just forgotten how,

649
00:40:38,140 --> 00:40:39,960
how physically demanding it is,

650
00:40:40,300 --> 00:40:42,100
moving through the mountains and...

651
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,140
I'm just not as fit as
when I was climbing every day

652
00:40:47,140 --> 00:40:48,340
and you just forget how hard,

653
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:54,140
how hard it is and the romance
of this has definitely,

654
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:56,040
has definitely gone...

655
00:40:57,900 --> 00:41:01,180
And I'm just plain, plain exhausted.

656
00:41:06,240 --> 00:41:08,280
I'd been following
the river for two days

657
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:10,900
and I'd just about given up hope.

658
00:41:11,900 --> 00:41:14,060
I was convinced I'd missed
my five day deadline

659
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,280
when just like that,
I found my salvation.

660
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:23,120
Oh, man, a road!

661
00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:25,300
It's been a long,

662
00:41:26,020 --> 00:41:28,900
it's been a long four days
but there's an old saying

663
00:41:28,940 --> 00:41:31,940
that says if you're ever lost all
you've got to do is head downhill

664
00:41:31,980 --> 00:41:35,120
until you find a stream, follow
the stream until you hit a track,

665
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,080
then follow the track
until you hit a road

666
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,120
and it's that road that's gonna
lead you back to civilisation

667
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,020
and this is our road
and it's our ticket home.

668
00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:45,340
It may be dangerous

669
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,960
but the only way to the road
is straight down.

670
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,320
There's only one thing stopping me
from reaching that road

671
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,100
and that's this cliff here
and then the river

672
00:41:54,340 --> 00:41:56,060
and I'm kind of hoping
this is the last time

673
00:41:56,100 --> 00:41:58,040
I'm gonna have to use these
parachute rigging lines

674
00:41:58,360 --> 00:41:59,340
to get me out of trouble,

675
00:42:00,020 --> 00:42:01,900
but this is probably about 60 foot

676
00:42:02,260 --> 00:42:04,160
and I'm kind of praying also
my rigging lines

677
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,960
are gonna reach the bottom
but then it's home and dry.

678
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,900
I don't know what the breaking
strains on these parachute lines are

679
00:42:16,940 --> 00:42:19,100
but they held me under my parachute.

680
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,380
In my book this comes
into the category of dodgy

681
00:42:25,020 --> 00:42:29,940
and the trick is not to do
this too blooming often.

682
00:42:40,220 --> 00:42:42,240
With the end in sight
I can't remember

683
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:45,180
when I've last experienced
such a range of emotions.

684
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,980
A mixture of exhaustion,
hunger and thirst,

685
00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:51,140
loneliness and real terror.

686
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,320
But most of all I feel
a sense of achievement,

687
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:02,020
I survived the Rockies,
a journey I will never forget.

688
00:43:03,100 --> 00:43:05,100
Survival is really
about getting the job done,

689
00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:06,300
whatever the means,

690
00:43:07,100 --> 00:43:10,020
even if it's hitchhiking
and when you come across a road

691
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,940
there's only one thing to do,
try and tidy yourself up a bit

692
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:15,200
and thumb a lift.

693
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,000
Hey, buddy. Any chance of a lift?

694
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,120
Thanks my friend. Saved my life.

695
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:34,900
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