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I'm Bear Grylls.

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I have served
with the British Special Forces.

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I have climbed
to the summit of Everest

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and crossed the frozen oceans
of the Arctic.

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Now, I'm in the remote
Scottish Highlands.

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Millions come here to witness
this ancient and wild land

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but each year
60 people need rescuing.

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I'm gonna show
the skills needed to survive here.

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I'm in the most northerly point

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in the U.K. in the remote
Scottish Highlands.

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This is classic fishing, climbing
and hiking country.

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There is almost 1500 square miles of
spectacular rivers, peaks, valleys,

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and huge moors and most of it is
untouched since the middle ages.

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That is why people come here.

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I'm heading
into a mountain range that attracts

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over half a million tourists
every year.

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This area gets the most extreme
weather of anywhere in the U.K.

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and last year, seven people lost
their lives here.

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The winter storms that can roll in
here from the Atlantic can bring

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with them winds of up
to a 170 miles an hour.

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That's the equivalent
of hurricane level five

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and with those can come treacherous
sub zero temperatures.

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All I have got with me is my knife,
a flint and a water bottle.

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A camera crew will follow
my journey.

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The low clouds are forcing us to fly

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only two and a half thousand feet
above the mountains,

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much lower
and the jump could be fatal.

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I usually parachute
at 10,000 feet or more.

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At this height there's
no room for error.

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That was a low and a fast
parachute jump.

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And I have landed
in pretty horrendous conditions.

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But I'm down at least.

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I'm 4,000 feet high
on a mountain plateau.

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But the sudden cloud cover
is so thick

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I can't even see the sun
to work out which way I'm facing.

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This is the reality of weather
in Scotland.

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You know, it can change so fast.

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And you see all of this mist.

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It's really making
visibility minimal.

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Even though I can't
see more than 30 feet

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in any direction I can still figure
out which way I need to go.

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When we flew in, in the plane

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we had a pretty strong
westerly wind,

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so I know as long as
I keep that westerly wind

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on my left shoulder blowing
this way,

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it means I'm heading north.

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I want to head north as the nearest
towns are in the northern valleys.

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But it's unnerving using
the wind alone for direction

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because it can change at any moment.

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But right now it's my only option.

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As I head off into the mist

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a freezing blizzard closes
in around me.

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The snow is now blasting
in all directions.

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It's hard to feel
where the wind is coming from

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but the ice on the rocks
shows me the wind direction.

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See down here
these ice particles,

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these are really helping me
maintain my direction.

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And this wind now on these
high plateaus has really picked up.

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It would be so easy to lose
my bearings,

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but what these little things
are they are called rime ice

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and what happens is this moisture
hits the rocks and then freezes.

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It starts to grow these
particles out towards the wind.

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So really these are
like reverse flags

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and it's just another indicator
of where this wind is coming from.

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So as long as I keep these pointing
that way that's west.

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I'm heading that way still, north.

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I have got to keep my head down out
of this freezing wind.

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My face is going numb.

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This wind now,
is just getting super strong

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and if it builds any more really
I'm going to struggle

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even just to stand up.

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In this white-out,

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I can only just make out way down.

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But I've gotta take care,
a steep slope,

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mix with all this wind and snow,
is a deadly combination

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and I'm walking straight
into an avalanche zone.

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The angle of this slope
is between 30 and 40 degrees

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and that's a classic
avalanche angle.

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When it's windy like this
there is a real danger

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of wind slab avalanche.

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And wind slab is the most
common sort of avalanche

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in Scotland just
because of how windy it is.

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And it takes very little
to trigger an avalanche.

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And on faces like this
now there is a way to work out

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how avalanche prone it is

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and what you need to do
is dig an avalanche pit.

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This will show you how stable
the snow pack is.

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And if I get across to,

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across to an area like this all
I need to do is dig down

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through the soft snow
until I get to the bottom.

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That there you go. You see harder,
hard compact snow underneath.

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And then dig down the sides
and again through the fresh snow

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to this icy stuff...

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And then across, across here.

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And then what I can do...

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Is pull like this.

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And if that is well bonded it
it's not gonna move.

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If it's weak, though, all of
this slab would just slide down.

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This snow pack seems solid

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and it should be safe enough
for me to climb down.

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I still want to tread carefully
as most avalanches

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are triggered by people.

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Every year an average of an 160
people, are killed by them.

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I met a family recently who had
been caught in a huge avalanche.

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And when it stopped

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they were completely disorientated
and had no idea

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which way was up
and which way was down.

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And what they did was
then spit to work out

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which way was up
and then dug their way out.

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And it was only their quick
thinking that saved their lives.

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Gravity will mean your spit
will always go down

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and when you know which way to dig,

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you have then got to move fast.

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Anyone trapped in an avalanche
will suffocate in 15 minutes.

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Soon I drop under the clouds

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and I'm faced
with a vast frozen landscape.

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It's now 10 degrees Fahrenheit

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and I want to get across
this as fast as I can

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but the snow-covered heather
is really slowing me down.

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This area is so exposed

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that there is no protection
from the freezing wind.

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This wind has just whipped up
very quickly

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and this is why the Scottish weather
can be so dangerous.

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You get this combination
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with this driving damp wet snow.

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And that combination literally just
sucks the heat out of your body.

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And that is why if you
are not prepared,

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this sort of weather can kill in
a matter of just a few hours.

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There is no way you can
find shelter up here.

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You have just really gotta keep
moving.

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Keep your hands
and your feet working

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and keep heading downhill trying
to get out of this weather.

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In 2006, two climbers were caught
in a storm.

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They tried to walk to safety
but the conditions got worse.

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They couldn't find shelter
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and the next day their bodies
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from the parking lot.

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As I head down thankfully
the wind starts to ease.

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I'm steadily losing height
and here the snow is melting

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and draining into a stream.

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If I follow this stream down
it should lead me off this mountain.

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You have got to watch your step
walking in thick snow like this.

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There are dangers everywhere.

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See look, you see look.

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There is a snow bridge running
straight under that.

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That would be so easy to walk on
and not realise.

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Night is approaching
and I want to get down

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and find shelter
before it gets dark.

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In winter the sun sets at 5:30,

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which gives me
an hour of light left.

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But this stream has just led me
to a sheer 40 foot drop.

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And there is no way
I'll be able to down climb this.

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This is just gonna be a slippery
tube of moss, water, rock

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and then snow and ice.

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My route down has just hit
a spectacular dead end.

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I'm up in the Scottish Highlands
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has ended in a 40 foot drop.

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There's no way
I'm going to be able to make it

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down, down this waterfall.

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It's just way too slippery
to down climb this.

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I really need to try
and find another way up and round.

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The light is now fading fast
and it's getting cold.

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And night up here it can be as cold
as minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit.

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I need some sort
of emergency shelter.

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Hey, I have just seen this.

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To be coming down the ridge,
came around here

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and just see those markings
in the snow

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and that is leading to
that deer down the bottom.

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It's a red deer
that has fallen and died.

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There are more
than 25,000 deer roaming wild

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in this part
of the Scottish Highlands.

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Look it has just been
completely mangled.

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Look there is blood and blood
and guts everywhere.

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And you see exactly the line here

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that he has fallen down
and just got wedged.

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And, and he is a little stag.

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I want to try
and get him out of here. God.

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It really, really stinks as well.

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It has obviously been
here a few days.

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This meat is gonna
be no good to eat, you know.

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It's gonna be past that

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but it's getting late
in the day now and there is no way

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I'm going to be down in the valleys
by the time it's dark.

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What I might be able to do is,
is just use, use...

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Oh, God, it really stinks.

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Just use the fur off him
and to give me some warmth

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and give me some protection.

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So I'm going to drag him out
of here actually.

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In survival situations you have
to take advantage

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of every opportunity
nature provides.

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The fur on this deer is really thick

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and it's coated in oils making it
waterproof.

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I have got to get him on his,
on his back like that.

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You can see how his stomach
is pretty bloated there

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which means he has been,

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he has been dead
a little bit of time.

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What I want to do here
is just go from down the bottom.

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Make a little incision.

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I want to pretty careful.
Not to pierce the...

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The gut so.

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I want to keep the
fur as clean and dry as I can.

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Once you've got a bit
of it going like this

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and here you see
just where the skins separates

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from the main carcass really.

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Then you want to use
as little knife as possible.

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And you can just get your hand in

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with your fist down

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and then just roll it.

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And push, push it off.

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And it becomes a lot easier.

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And a lot quicker.

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See look, I've just done, double
the amount in that bit.

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Then we'll knife on this bit.

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The meat really stinks.

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If it was fresh, it'd perfect to
eat.

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I want to get the skin off
in one piece.

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The Scottish Highlanders used
to use dear skin to make shoes.

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They wore them with the fur on
the outside and got the nickname

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Rough footed Scots.

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I gonna use this fur as my shelter.

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Okay, that is the fur off.

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And look at that.

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Indigenous people all around
the world have used furs like this,

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you know, for centuries
for both protection

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from the weather
and also for warmth.

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I have got my fur, but I have used
up the last hour of sunlight.

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Really it's almost like dark
completely now

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and it's just too difficult to try
and dig a proper like snow cave.

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I can hardly see
and I just need to use

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what nature has provided me here.

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But just up this little bit
there is like,

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I don't know if you can see this,

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a little gap between there

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where the snow
has melted against the rock

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and it has made like
a little hollow.

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And that's gonna be great.

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It's going to get me out
of the wind,

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which is the most important
thing up here.

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And literally all
I can do here is lie in this

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and the snow is going to
insulate me on one side

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and the rock is gonna protect me
from wind

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and the rain on the other side.

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I haven't got a hat
but what I can do is improvise one.

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And all I need to do for this
is take my fleece off here

245
00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,300
and just, with my knife...

246
00:14:16,100 --> 00:14:18,980
Cut through, cut through
the arm of it.

247
00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,360
And once I'm through
that just give it a stretch

248
00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:32,140
and put it straight
onto my head like this.

249
00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,400
And that's gonna keep some
of the warmth in.

250
00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,420
It might look a bit daft,
feel a bit daft

251
00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:43,280
but it's gonna work.

252
00:14:44,980 --> 00:14:45,980
Put this jacket back on.

253
00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:50,040
You lose 40 percent of your heat
from your head.

254
00:14:50,380 --> 00:14:53,020
Your body temperature
only has to drop by 10 degrees

255
00:14:53,060 --> 00:14:54,380
for you to end up unconscious.

256
00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,260
And then I pull this great big skin
of fur over me.

257
00:15:00,180 --> 00:15:01,280
It stinks like anything

258
00:15:02,220 --> 00:15:05,340
but at least it will keep me
hopefully warm and dry.

259
00:15:07,340 --> 00:15:08,380
Yeah, that's quite good.

260
00:15:15,100 --> 00:15:18,060
This carcass really stinks.

261
00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:20,320
And it has also started raining

262
00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,200
and I'm beginning
to get quite cold now.

263
00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,220
And I also need to pee,
which is just boring.

264
00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:33,180
But I don't want to just waste
the pee by just doing it

265
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into the snow.

266
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I can use the heat
from my pee to keep me warm.

267
00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:38,320
So what I'm gonna do...

268
00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:41,980
Is pee into my water bottle here.

269
00:15:49,180 --> 00:15:51,120
It's morning
in the Scottish Highlands

270
00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,220
and I have gotta find a way down.

271
00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,220
This mist has just
really clagged in now

272
00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,340
and it makes it
really disorientating.

273
00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,960
And you see how easy it's just to
get lost and lose your bearings.

274
00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,440
But often, though,
when there is still winds like this

275
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it means the mist hangs around
on the mountaintops.

276
00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:09,360
And what I'm hoping

277
00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,440
is if I follow this stream down
just maybe a few hundred feet

278
00:16:12,980 --> 00:16:13,980
I might drop out of it.

279
00:16:14,340 --> 00:16:16,280
I have had to leave
the deer skin behind.

280
00:16:16,980 --> 00:16:18,300
It weighs over 20 pounds

281
00:16:18,420 --> 00:16:21,020
and carrying it is just gonna
slow me down.

282
00:16:21,300 --> 00:16:25,040
I need to move quickly to get warm
and to get off this mountain.

283
00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:28,340
Walking in this mist

284
00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:31,260
I can see why the early highlanders
believed the mountains

285
00:16:31,300 --> 00:16:33,320
were haunted by evil spirits

286
00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,440
and why they rarely came up
into these high grounds.

287
00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:42,140
10,000 years ago this whole area
would have been covered

288
00:16:42,180 --> 00:16:45,980
in massive glaciers that carved out
these immense valleys.

289
00:16:50,180 --> 00:16:52,280
I have just dropped under
this cloud now and look

290
00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,160
suddenly my first view of one
of these just huge valleys.

291
00:16:57,340 --> 00:17:00,080
And that is spectacular.

292
00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:05,420
I'm standing on the edge of
a massive horseshoe shaped cliff

293
00:17:06,420 --> 00:17:07,420
and I know that the side

294
00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,100
with the thickest snow cover
faces north as it gets

295
00:17:11,140 --> 00:17:12,200
the least amount of sun.

296
00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,180
So if I head straight down
this snow bank

297
00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:18,140
I'll be heading north
towards the nearest towns.

298
00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:24,440
Well, I'm off the snow up there

299
00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:27,020
and I'm down now
into all of this rock.

300
00:17:30,420 --> 00:17:34,200
And actually a lot of this
is now loose enough for me

301
00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:35,280
to be able to scree run.

302
00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:40,360
But the technique for doing this
is just keep a low centre of gravity

303
00:17:41,020 --> 00:17:42,100
and to keep your balance.

304
00:17:42,420 --> 00:17:45,260
And when you do start to go
don't resist it.

305
00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:47,020
You know, go with the flow.

306
00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,300
Get this right and it's easy
the quickest way down.

307
00:17:59,140 --> 00:18:01,980
I have probably made it down
2,000 feet in total

308
00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:04,300
and I'm into another
of these huge valleys.

309
00:18:05,380 --> 00:18:09,000
There have been people living
here since 4,000 B.C.

310
00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:11,380
and the early highlanders
had a reputation

311
00:18:11,420 --> 00:18:13,220
for being incredibly tough.

312
00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,320
And to survive
in these freezing conditions,

313
00:18:16,980 --> 00:18:17,420
they needed to be.

314
00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,240
As I head through
this open landscape

315
00:18:20,340 --> 00:18:22,240
I need to check
I'm still heading north

316
00:18:22,380 --> 00:18:26,000
and even in this bleakness
nature provides clues.

317
00:18:27,180 --> 00:18:29,120
What I'm seeing as
I move through this valley

318
00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:31,360
is there is quite distinctly
more moss growing

319
00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,440
on a lot of these rocks
on one side than the other.

320
00:18:34,980 --> 00:18:36,160
Look this is much barer.

321
00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:39,100
And what this tells me is
where all this moss is,

322
00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:40,360
is actually north facing.

323
00:18:41,140 --> 00:18:42,240
This will get less sunlight.

324
00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,300
There will be more moisture
and all of this will grow.

325
00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,140
And it's a good reliable indicator
of north and south.

326
00:18:52,300 --> 00:18:55,200
Even in the cold it's easy
to get dehydrated.

327
00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,420
I need to drink at least
half a gallon of water a day

328
00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,380
but there is a way of finding water
out here that's safe to drink.

329
00:19:06,260 --> 00:19:07,180
This is what I was looking for.

330
00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:11,160
I keep seeing this red stuff around.

331
00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,280
And what this actually is,
is called sphagnum moss.

332
00:19:15,060 --> 00:19:17,380
If I pull a bit of this out
you can see it.

333
00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:19,260
But you can actually use this.

334
00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:22,020
It's like a,
like a minor antiseptic.

335
00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:23,980
What it contains is iodine.

336
00:19:24,060 --> 00:19:25,180
You can actually drink from it.

337
00:19:25,420 --> 00:19:29,000
The moss itself will clean
a lot of the dirt away

338
00:19:29,180 --> 00:19:32,420
and then the iodine inside will kill
a lot of the bacteria.

339
00:19:33,100 --> 00:19:35,020
And all you need to do
is squeeze it and drink.

340
00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:43,320
Sphagnum moss is used in
organic water filters as the fibres

341
00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:46,280
in the moss strain out dirt
and heavy metals.

342
00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,160
In this cold damp weather
the moss slowly rots

343
00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,040
and forms a dark heavy soil
called peat.

344
00:19:53,340 --> 00:19:56,220
When this soil dries out
it burns like coal

345
00:19:56,420 --> 00:19:59,380
and the highlanders used blocks
of dried peat as their fuel.

346
00:20:00,180 --> 00:20:01,380
When it's waterlogged, though,

347
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,040
this stuff is a nightmare
to walk through.

348
00:20:06,180 --> 00:20:09,440
There is over 20 square miles
of this wet marsh bog here

349
00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,400
and some of it can be extremely
dangerous.

350
00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:15,200
There was a guy out here

351
00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:17,440
and he got stuck in a bog
for four days.

352
00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:21,280
And his life was only saved
because a farmer found him alive

353
00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:22,380
but unconscious.

354
00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:25,020
But if you did go
into a bog like this,

355
00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:27,280
you need to know what to be able
to do to get out of it.

356
00:20:31,180 --> 00:20:36,160
So what I'm going to do here
is just strip off and do it myself.

357
00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:37,960
And the last thing I want out here

358
00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,440
where it's cold
is soaking wet clothes.

359
00:20:41,260 --> 00:20:44,360
A thick layer of algae covers
the surface of these mud pits.

360
00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:49,120
This makes it so hard to distinguish
between what you can walk across

361
00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:50,100
and what you can't.

362
00:20:52,980 --> 00:20:54,440
Now, I'm going to feel
a little bit stupid

363
00:20:55,220 --> 00:20:58,200
if I walk across
this absolutely fine.

364
00:20:59,000 --> 00:20:59,360
So here it goes.

365
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:05,180
Oh, God.

366
00:21:06,380 --> 00:21:08,360
This stuff just stinks.

367
00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:14,300
And really the first thing
is just this is freezing,

368
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,980
freezing cold and you need
to fight that urge of panic

369
00:21:19,420 --> 00:21:22,300
and try and keep calm
because the more you fight it,

370
00:21:22,980 --> 00:21:24,180
the more it's gonna suck you in.

371
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,280
But the way I want to go out
is this way

372
00:21:28,060 --> 00:21:30,360
because this is
where I know it's solid enough.

373
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:36,420
And then just swim
with big like strokes to the edge.

374
00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:39,080
And look you see just

375
00:21:39,120 --> 00:21:40,420
where my hand has got
caught around...

376
00:21:41,380 --> 00:21:45,320
All of these roots and this is
why these things are dangerous.

377
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:59,080
That has to be
one of the worst stink pits

378
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:00,380
I have ever been in.

379
00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:06,160
And what I can do just
to get some of this off me

380
00:22:07,060 --> 00:22:08,340
is use some of this moss.

381
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:13,320
Use that just to scrape,
scrape this off.

382
00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:18,400
I'm sure I could feel bits
of dead animals in there.

383
00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,320
It felt like bloated stomachs
under my feet.

384
00:22:21,980 --> 00:22:25,120
That's a death pit for any
sheep or deer that fall in.

385
00:22:25,220 --> 00:22:30,060
God, it's like a sewer of
about three cities going

386
00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:31,440
into one little hole.

387
00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:35,960
When the ground dries out in summer
that mud will be thicker

388
00:22:36,140 --> 00:22:38,400
and there will be even more roots
and that makes it

389
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,200
even harder to get out of.

390
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,320
Use a bit of this moss just to clean

391
00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:48,040
some of this horrible stuff off
my face.

392
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,220
But it's time to get dressed
and moving again.

393
00:22:52,420 --> 00:22:56,080
The Scottish Highlands still have an
awful lot left to throw at me.

394
00:22:57,300 --> 00:22:58,100
(GROANS)

395
00:23:07,100 --> 00:23:10,120
I'm in the Scottish Highlands
heading down from the mountains

396
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,940
and I've reached the edge
of the vast Pine Forest.

397
00:23:13,260 --> 00:23:16,040
Those trees
will give me some protection

398
00:23:16,180 --> 00:23:18,340
from the wind and the rain
and this river

399
00:23:18,380 --> 00:23:21,360
I can follow towards hopefully
where I'll find people.

400
00:23:22,260 --> 00:23:24,260
These rivers
are full of brown trouts

401
00:23:24,940 --> 00:23:27,260
but in winter they are
in deep warmer water,

402
00:23:27,380 --> 00:23:29,300
making them so difficult to catch.

403
00:23:30,020 --> 00:23:32,340
Out here there is just hardly
anything to eat.

404
00:23:33,420 --> 00:23:36,420
You see these mushrooms,
these mushrooms here.

405
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:39,360
And it's always, you know,

406
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,360
it's always tempting
when you come across mushrooms

407
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,160
in the wild just to eat them
especially for me

408
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:45,340
because I love mushrooms.

409
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,000
But actually the reality of them is,

410
00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:51,100
is that almost 80 percent
of mushrooms you come across

411
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,060
are actually poisonous
and there is also almost

412
00:23:54,100 --> 00:23:55,340
zero nutritional value in them.

413
00:23:55,380 --> 00:23:58,980
So really unless you are 100 percent
positive about identifying it,

414
00:23:59,180 --> 00:24:00,180
just leave them alone.

415
00:24:05,020 --> 00:24:07,260
This is fox poo here
and I can tell that

416
00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:10,240
because it's black and it has
also got like tapered ends.

417
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:11,400
And this is what they do.

418
00:24:11,940 --> 00:24:13,400
And they often do it
on high ground like this

419
00:24:14,060 --> 00:24:15,380
as a way of marking their territory.

420
00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:19,000
But what is important here
if you look closely at this

421
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,400
you can see some rabbit fur
just on the outside of it.

422
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,240
And if there is a fox out
here catching rabbits,

423
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,060
there is every chance I can.

424
00:24:29,380 --> 00:24:31,340
Rabbits don't hibernate
through winter.

425
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,100
They are my best chance
of decent food

426
00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,940
but they are almost impossible
to catch by hand.

427
00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:41,360
All of this here is just perfect
territory for rabbits.

428
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,380
You can see open grassland,
long grass, heather,

429
00:24:45,020 --> 00:24:48,200
lots of little runs that are gonna
lead between the burrows

430
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,200
and where they are feeding
and where they are drinking.

431
00:24:50,420 --> 00:24:53,180
And this is going to be a good place
for me to set some snares.

432
00:24:53,420 --> 00:24:58,100
And all I'm going to do
is use some of the para cord tying

433
00:24:58,140 --> 00:25:00,260
my bottle together and you know,

434
00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:02,300
you can use any sort of string
really. If you haven't got this,

435
00:25:02,340 --> 00:25:05,060
you use your shoelaces
or your bootlaces.

436
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,320
If I take this and then just
put a little knot in the end of it.

437
00:25:11,100 --> 00:25:12,160
Thread that through there

438
00:25:15,020 --> 00:25:16,300
and I have got then a simple...

439
00:25:18,060 --> 00:25:18,320
Noose.

440
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,220
With a sharp stick as a stake
I'm ready to set my snare.

441
00:25:26,220 --> 00:25:29,380
And what I'm really looking
for here are just these runs.

442
00:25:29,420 --> 00:25:32,040
Look I do not know
if you can see this really clearly.

443
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,020
It's like really like a rabbit's
motorway, you know

444
00:25:35,060 --> 00:25:36,000
and they will use these.

445
00:25:36,180 --> 00:25:38,280
Just go back and forward
between their burrows

446
00:25:39,020 --> 00:25:40,960
and where they are feeding
and where they are drinking.

447
00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:43,980
But what is really important
is not to set

448
00:25:44,020 --> 00:25:46,000
the snares near their burrows.

449
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,260
They are especially wary
when they first come out of them.

450
00:25:48,420 --> 00:25:51,000
You want to set them somewhere
they are familiar with

451
00:25:51,180 --> 00:25:52,940
and then use them just
back and forward.

452
00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:59,300
And really I want to do as little
work as possible near the site.

453
00:25:59,340 --> 00:26:02,040
You know, I don't want them to be,
you know, smelling me.

454
00:26:02,380 --> 00:26:04,080
So if I lay it here...

455
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,020
I want to make sure this stake...

456
00:26:08,060 --> 00:26:09,280
Is really well in the ground.

457
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,060
So if I do catch something it's not
going to be able to pull it out.

458
00:26:13,940 --> 00:26:14,240
And then...

459
00:26:15,340 --> 00:26:17,140
Take a couple of just little twigs

460
00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:22,360
and put one either side
of the actual run itself.

461
00:26:26,180 --> 00:26:27,160
And then take the noose

462
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,980
and I want the noose ideally
to be like

463
00:26:31,020 --> 00:26:33,240
about five finger height off
the ground

464
00:26:33,980 --> 00:26:36,200
so it catches the head
and its ears

465
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,940
and big enough for it to be
able to get its ears through.

466
00:26:39,180 --> 00:26:41,960
And just a bit bigger
than fist size is good.

467
00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:46,980
Okay, and I'm going to set
about four or five of these

468
00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:48,980
and hope that I get something.

469
00:26:49,980 --> 00:26:53,320
I have to be patient
and leave these traps out overnight.

470
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,040
I'm heading into the forest now
to find somewhere to make shelter.

471
00:26:58,980 --> 00:27:02,180
This is a pretty good place just
to make camp for the night.

472
00:27:02,220 --> 00:27:05,300
I have got some protection
amongst the trees from the weather.

473
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,280
Nice soft, pretty dry grass
under foot as insulation.

474
00:27:10,980 --> 00:27:12,240
And I have got a stream nearby.

475
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,420
And what I can do is just use
what nature has already provided.

476
00:27:17,260 --> 00:27:20,160
The branch of this fallen tree
can act as a backbone

477
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,360
for a half dome shelter.

478
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,280
It's the best shape as it has
no corners,

479
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,380
the air keeps circulating
and that will keep me warmer.

480
00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:33,260
Once I have got this in place then
all I then need is a load of pine

481
00:27:33,300 --> 00:27:37,300
boughs just to drape over
the top of this.

482
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,120
Thick pine branches provide
insulation and waterproofing.

483
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:46,180
As many of these branches
I can interweave as possible means

484
00:27:46,220 --> 00:27:49,360
they all support themselves and
it just gives it a bit of strength.

485
00:27:50,980 --> 00:27:53,320
To get a fire started quickly
in these damp conditions

486
00:27:53,940 --> 00:27:55,940
I'm looking
for nature's fire lighter.

487
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:02,040
These dead birches are
really good to use as tinder.

488
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,400
And I can tell they are birch just
from their silver limbs

489
00:28:05,940 --> 00:28:08,200
and this very distinct white bark.

490
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,020
But the bit I want is
all of this outer bark here.

491
00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:17,100
And once you have got this,
if you crush this up

492
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:18,380
because of the amount of oils

493
00:28:18,420 --> 00:28:21,300
that is in here this will take
a spark really well.

494
00:28:26,260 --> 00:28:29,040
It's gonna be another night
of sub-zero temperatures

495
00:28:29,180 --> 00:28:32,240
and I need to reflect
the fire's heat into my shelter.

496
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,160
What I have done here is just built
up a bit of a bank of these logs

497
00:28:36,260 --> 00:28:37,980
to act as like a fire reflector.

498
00:28:38,020 --> 00:28:39,360
And this is going to reflect
hopefully a lot of the heat

499
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,980
of my fire back into the shelter.

500
00:28:42,180 --> 00:28:44,260
I have got a base here of wood

501
00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:46,240
and the idea
of this is to lift the fire off

502
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,060
the wet ground and also allow
the air to circulate.

503
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,980
A pile of kindling
and then this birch tinder.

504
00:28:53,020 --> 00:28:57,140
And what I'm doing here
is just scraping off the outer bark

505
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,060
into like shavings.

506
00:29:00,260 --> 00:29:02,040
It's almost like big sawdust

507
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,320
but it's this that is going
to ignite really easily.

508
00:29:08,220 --> 00:29:09,080
Get my flint.

509
00:29:10,380 --> 00:29:11,420
And hope this goes.

510
00:29:17,940 --> 00:29:20,340
Even though it's damp and cold
and my flint is wet,

511
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,040
it still works.

512
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,320
Okay, here we go.

513
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,240
Give it lots of oxygen.

514
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:35,400
Whoa, don't come out.

515
00:29:36,340 --> 00:29:37,180
There you go.

516
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:40,960
And you can hear that crackling

517
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,300
and that's all of those natural
oils burning.

518
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,260
And as the twigs start to dry out,
they start to burn.

519
00:29:54,020 --> 00:29:56,120
It's like kind of sizzling
like gunpowder.

520
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,280
Using the cup from my water bottle,

521
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,300
I can now make myself a hot drink.

522
00:30:02,180 --> 00:30:05,000
Well, what I haven't got
is anything good to eat

523
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:06,160
but at least I have got a shelter.

524
00:30:06,380 --> 00:30:09,120
I have got a nice roaring fire
that is really good for morale

525
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:13,380
and then the next best thing a cup
of boiling water on the go for me

526
00:30:13,420 --> 00:30:15,060
to make a nice cup of tea.

527
00:30:15,380 --> 00:30:18,020
And all I need to do is grab some
of these pine needles,

528
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:23,020
tear them off
and then put that into the mug.

529
00:30:23,380 --> 00:30:25,120
And that's really good vitamin C

530
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,180
and it's going to keep
my core temperature up as well.

531
00:30:29,060 --> 00:30:32,040
People all around the world have
been drinking pine needle tea

532
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:33,080
for centuries.

533
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:37,280
Pine needles weight for weight
have five times as much vitamin C

534
00:30:37,420 --> 00:30:40,360
as a lemon
and they taste pretty good.

535
00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:51,420
That' s better.

536
00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:56,020
There's no clouds
and it's a cold night

537
00:30:56,220 --> 00:30:59,020
but this pinewood creates
an intense fire.

538
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,960
Well, it's not raining and I'm
actually quite cosy in this shelter.

539
00:31:06,260 --> 00:31:08,300
You know, I was just
thinking back to, you know,

540
00:31:08,340 --> 00:31:10,380
everything I have learnt
about survival over the years

541
00:31:10,420 --> 00:31:14,100
and in so many ways
what matters much more

542
00:31:14,140 --> 00:31:16,100
than knowing all
of the skills in the world

543
00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:19,940
is actually just having
that determination to stay alive.

544
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,160
And it's often
about just keeping going,

545
00:31:22,420 --> 00:31:25,340
keeping making decisions
and keeping calm.

546
00:31:26,140 --> 00:31:28,100
And also I think trying
to keep cheerful even

547
00:31:28,140 --> 00:31:30,220
when things really
seem stacked against you.

548
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,120
Ultimately that is what really
matters I think.

549
00:31:34,340 --> 00:31:37,300
And I'm gonna need this
attitude tomorrow more than ever.

550
00:31:51,140 --> 00:31:53,300
It's dawn in the remote
Scottish Highlands.

551
00:31:54,140 --> 00:31:56,240
I made a shelter
in the ancient pine forests.

552
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:57,200
Hey.

553
00:31:59,060 --> 00:32:02,340
Well, I have actually had a really
good snug night's sleep,

554
00:32:03,260 --> 00:32:04,080
which is good.

555
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,960
I'm just getting
this fire stoked up properly again

556
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:13,000
and now I'm going to go and see if
I have had any luck with my traps.

557
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:18,280
Rabbits were brought in and released
in the 18th century for food.

558
00:32:18,340 --> 00:32:21,260
There's now 9.5 million
rabbits in Scotland

559
00:32:21,380 --> 00:32:23,260
and they are an agricultural pest.

560
00:32:26,060 --> 00:32:28,400
Just looking for any signs of luck
with these snares.

561
00:32:32,060 --> 00:32:34,920
Rabbits are most active
at dusk and dawn

562
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,240
and my snares
have been out all night.

563
00:32:45,020 --> 00:32:45,380
There's movement.

564
00:32:54,100 --> 00:32:56,980
And this is really,
given this has worked.

565
00:32:57,020 --> 00:32:58,040
I wanna kill him.

566
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,000
As quickly
and as painlessly as I can.

567
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,060
And one way hold it down
twist his head.

568
00:33:03,940 --> 00:33:05,160
Grab his hindquarters.

569
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,340
And just break his neck like
that, if you're in any doubt

570
00:33:08,380 --> 00:33:13,100
after that, just give him a really
good hit on the back of the head.

571
00:33:13,940 --> 00:33:16,080
But that's him, him dead.

572
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:21,240
Pull this out.

573
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:24,020
Take him back.

574
00:33:24,380 --> 00:33:26,300
Skin him and cook him.

575
00:33:27,060 --> 00:33:27,980
That is breakfast.

576
00:33:31,340 --> 00:33:32,960
Doesn't look like there's anything

577
00:33:33,380 --> 00:33:35,060
in any of these other traps.

578
00:33:35,940 --> 00:33:37,300
So I want to dismantle these

579
00:33:38,220 --> 00:33:40,240
there's always kind of golden rule
never to leave.

580
00:33:41,260 --> 00:33:44,040
Snares set,
once you finished with it.

581
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,280
To cook a rabbit slice
through the underbelly,

582
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,260
peel back the skin
and then pull out the guts.

583
00:33:53,940 --> 00:33:56,180
Okay, this is gutted
and ready to cook.

584
00:33:56,220 --> 00:33:57,300
And what I'm gonna do is make

585
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,400
like really simple prong
to spit roast it.

586
00:34:03,060 --> 00:34:05,280
This prong needs to be
two foot longer than the rabbit

587
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,300
so that the carcass fits
in the middle

588
00:34:07,980 --> 00:34:10,940
and there's a foot length at each
end to balance over the fire.

589
00:34:11,180 --> 00:34:13,220
The best meat is on the back legs.

590
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,020
And I want to pin them flat
to cook them fast and even.

591
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:23,060
Over a hot fire an adult rabbit
will take about 30 minutes to cook.

592
00:34:24,220 --> 00:34:25,260
Let's give this a try.

593
00:34:26,240 --> 00:34:28,280
This is the first food
I have found out here

594
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,380
and it's a real boost
for my morale.

595
00:34:31,180 --> 00:34:33,300
This is gonna
be a great energy lift.

596
00:34:34,260 --> 00:34:35,340
Oh, look at that.

597
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:47,100
Tastes like rabbit.

598
00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:51,400
No, it tastes amazing,
really good.

599
00:34:53,100 --> 00:34:56,000
You know, it's quite, you know,
game taste is always strong,

600
00:34:56,240 --> 00:34:57,100
strong meat.

601
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,080
But I like that and it's delicious.

602
00:35:00,180 --> 00:35:01,360
It's a great breakfast.

603
00:35:02,380 --> 00:35:06,220
I now, need water and to start
following the river down.

604
00:35:07,180 --> 00:35:10,200
It's flowing north and the closest
towns to the mountains

605
00:35:10,300 --> 00:35:11,360
are in that direction.

606
00:35:16,060 --> 00:35:16,380
Scotland.

607
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:18,960
It's starting to rain again.

608
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,260
In winter it seems just
to rain here all the time.

609
00:35:25,020 --> 00:35:27,180
But at least these trees
in this ancient woodland

610
00:35:27,220 --> 00:35:28,980
are giving me some shelter.

611
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,980
All of this here
is Caledonian forest.

612
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,980
And Caledonia was
the Roman name for Scotland.

613
00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:40,920
But in the Middle Ages
almost all of the north of Britain

614
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,360
I'm in the Scottish Highlands

615
00:35:47,940 --> 00:35:50,340
and I've made my way over
two-and-a-half thousand feet down

616
00:35:50,380 --> 00:35:51,360
into the forest.

617
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:54,380
And I think I've just seen
my way out of here.

618
00:35:55,980 --> 00:35:57,920
You often get these
in the mountains in Scotland,

619
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,020
there are known as bothies.

620
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,220
And you know people don't always,
don't always live in them

621
00:36:02,380 --> 00:36:04,180
but they act as like a refuge.

622
00:36:04,940 --> 00:36:07,280
And I know one couple
who got completely lost

623
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,380
when they misread their compass

624
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,980
and they headed off east
instead of west.

625
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,080
And they would have died
if they hadn't come across

626
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,180
one of these to act as a refuge.

627
00:36:18,380 --> 00:36:20,920
This river is a major obstacle.

628
00:36:21,180 --> 00:36:24,040
That white water is impossible
to wade through

629
00:36:24,180 --> 00:36:26,140
and the banks are too wide to jump.

630
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,900
A pine tree, though,
has fallen across the river.

631
00:36:32,180 --> 00:36:35,960
If I get down to the bank I could
see if I can make my way across it.

632
00:36:36,940 --> 00:36:40,100
These huge pines have shallow roots
and are easily brought down

633
00:36:40,140 --> 00:36:41,120
by high winds.

634
00:36:41,980 --> 00:36:43,900
This one straddles
the widest point

635
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,260
but it could be the way over
these rapids and up to the hut.

636
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,120
I should be able to get across,
get across this.

637
00:36:51,940 --> 00:36:54,980
My only concern is whether,
whether this is rotten.

638
00:36:55,020 --> 00:36:57,020
It looks like it has been
here quite some time.

639
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,260
It feels pretty sturdy
and I know that wood rots slower

640
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:04,900
in colder climates.

641
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,060
I'm hoping this is gonna
to be strong enough.

642
00:37:07,900 --> 00:37:09,260
Last year, though in the U.K.

643
00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:12,380
over 80 people died
by falling into rivers.

644
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,300
What I have got to do here
is just really grip with my thighs

645
00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:22,960
and then just use my hands
to lift myself up

646
00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:24,940
and shift my body along.

647
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:27,240
But this is all about just keeping,

648
00:37:28,060 --> 00:37:31,300
keeping your balance and I guess
also keeping your nerve.

649
00:37:34,020 --> 00:37:36,220
Either way
I'm pretty committed now.

650
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,320
With all of this moss
and rotting wood

651
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:45,240
and water it's literally just
like grease up here

652
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,140
and I do not want to end up down
in that.

653
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,240
Falling into this fast flowing
freezing white water

654
00:37:52,380 --> 00:37:56,200
in all my clothes would leave me
very little chance of survival.

655
00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:04,280
What is awkward is just getting
over all of these dead branches.

656
00:38:06,180 --> 00:38:09,160
And it's not doing my manhood
much good either.

657
00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:17,320
Now, that I'm off I can see if
this has been a risk worth taking.

658
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,920
These old dwellings
can be a real safe haven

659
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,020
for anyone who is lost.

660
00:38:24,380 --> 00:38:28,160
And hikers will often leave supplies
in them for others to use.

661
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:32,000
It's looking pretty,

662
00:38:32,300 --> 00:38:33,260
pretty deserted...

663
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,960
Although it does looks like somebody
has been doing some work in here.

664
00:38:43,180 --> 00:38:47,020
There is just not the supplies
I was hoping for, you know.

665
00:38:47,060 --> 00:38:48,920
I have known it before.
I have turned up in these bothies

666
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,120
in Scotland and literally it has
been like a wood burning stove,

667
00:38:53,060 --> 00:38:54,080
pre-laid fire.

668
00:38:54,340 --> 00:38:57,960
I have even known it to have like
a little tin of sugar and tea bags.

669
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,040
But there is nothing really,
I can use.

670
00:39:01,220 --> 00:39:03,320
The builders won't be working
here in winter

671
00:39:04,060 --> 00:39:05,060
I've gotta move on.

672
00:39:06,020 --> 00:39:07,240
I need to get back to the river.

673
00:39:07,900 --> 00:39:09,280
And continue downstream.

674
00:39:13,220 --> 00:39:15,220
Walking through
this heather is tiring

675
00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:17,360
and it's hard to see what you're
stepping on.

676
00:39:21,380 --> 00:39:23,380
It's the third time
I have done that in an hour.

677
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,120
It's getting boring.

678
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,300
I'm losing my whole leg
of foot in all these holes.

679
00:39:31,260 --> 00:39:34,260
But survival is about trying just
to keep positive,

680
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:36,920
even when you are cold and tired.

681
00:39:37,140 --> 00:39:38,980
Think about what matters most,

682
00:39:39,140 --> 00:39:40,300
your family your friends,

683
00:39:41,020 --> 00:39:43,240
whatever it takes
to keep yourself moving.

684
00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:50,100
And before long
the land scape in front of me,

685
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,260
starts to change.

686
00:39:51,940 --> 00:39:53,200
This is a good sign for me.

687
00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:56,360
You can see over there
that the trees suddenly changed.

688
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,140
You know, they are lighter
and they are also in these rows

689
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,300
and that means one thing,
a plantation.

690
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,060
But what I'm hoping is
that it is a logging plantation

691
00:40:05,220 --> 00:40:07,160
because where there is logging,
there is trucks.

692
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,260
And where there is trucks,
there is roads.

693
00:40:10,340 --> 00:40:13,300
But in this area there are
hundreds of thousands of acres

694
00:40:13,340 --> 00:40:14,900
of these tree farms

695
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,180
but they will only be logging
a few areas at a time.

696
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,900
These non-native pine trees are
planted less than three feet apart.

697
00:40:24,060 --> 00:40:26,220
I want to keep a straight path
through these trees

698
00:40:26,380 --> 00:40:27,320
but it's not easy.

699
00:40:28,900 --> 00:40:32,020
All of this is poke
your eye out forest

700
00:40:32,300 --> 00:40:34,200
all these spindly little branches.

701
00:40:35,380 --> 00:40:36,940
And not making it easy.

702
00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:42,300
The trees are so closely packed that
the light fades even faster in here.

703
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:46,280
It's so easy
to get disorientated and lost.

704
00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:57,260
This is what I was hoping for.
Look, definite signs of logging.

705
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,360
And this means I must be getting
close to finding my way out of here.

706
00:41:05,300 --> 00:41:06,180
And there are more.

707
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:11,260
The wood is freshly cut.

708
00:41:11,380 --> 00:41:14,300
The ends look clean
and I can smell the pine resin.

709
00:41:14,940 --> 00:41:16,260
The road has to be nearby

710
00:41:16,980 --> 00:41:20,220
but in this thick tree cover
I could be less than 20 foot away

711
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:21,940
and not see a road.

712
00:41:24,340 --> 00:41:26,320
Just when I think
I'm here for another night

713
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,000
I find what I'm looking for.

714
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:35,240
This road for me just means
one thing my way home.

715
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,340
And maybe once there I'll treat
myself to a little Scotch whisky.

716
00:41:42,340 --> 00:41:46,180
The harsh beauty of this Scottish
landscape has remained unchanged

717
00:41:46,220 --> 00:41:47,200
for centuries.

718
00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:52,380
It is a place I love and one
of the few areas left in the U.K.

719
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,060
which still has this raw
and untamed spirit.

720
00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:26,900
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