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MAN: I'm Bear Grylls.

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Whoo!

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I've travelled to the ends
of the earth

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in search of the most
extreme challenges

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in the most dangerous locations

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to show you the skills
you need to survive

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in the world's
toughest environments.

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I've been to the four corners
of the planet - sea...

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Let's just move. Come on.

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..mountains...

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The whole slab just dropped.
Let's keep moving.

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..ice...

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Oh. I got to get out of here.

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..and desert.

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(PANTS) Very, very hot.

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With me through
every challenge is a

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small team of
dedicated professionals

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committed to capturing
every step that I take.

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In this special episode I'm going
to take you behind the scenes,

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introduce you to the crew,

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and show you how
we make this program

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and get out of it in one piece,

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most of the time.

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Every show is an adventure and it's
a great privilege to do this job.

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People watch this show
and often think,

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"Maybe it's a little bit crazy."

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You know what, the
wild can be crazy,

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and these places are often full-on,
sometimes a little bit scary too.

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Most of the time it's amazing,
but it can be frustrating...

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This isn't working.

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..frightening, exhausting...

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Take two steps forward.

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Ooh.

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..and dangerous...

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(BEAR YELLS)
Sit down, buddy.

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..and often it doesn't go your way.

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This plan has not gone TO plan...

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(PANTS AND SPLUTTERS)

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With me are Simon and Dan,
who run the cameras.

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SIMON: You've got to just
concentrate on what you do.

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You know, once you can do that,
it makes the scary scenarios

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a lot more comfortable.

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DAN: Bear is the one making his way

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through all of these different

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wildernesses that we get to

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and keeping up with him
is a real challenge.

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Dave's the one
who keeps the crew safe.

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DAVE: And it's my job, really,

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to make sure
that they're looked after

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so they can do their job
to the best of their ability.

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There. Now you can see.

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And Danny and Duncan,
they're the grown-ups on the shoot.

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They tell us to stop
if we're pushing things too far.

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You got to really make sure
you don't get bit here.

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It's three and a half hours
to get you to the hospital.

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Whatever the environment,

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more than often the trickiest
and most dangerous part

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is getting the team
on to the ground....

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..and there's never
a straightforward way to do that.

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The insertions at the beginning
of the show are brilliant fun.

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MAN: He's by the skid. Steady there.
Hover. He's nearly at the bottom.

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We do dream up really wonderful ways
to get Bear into the environment

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and that ranges from
jumping from seaplanes...

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..numerous helicopters...

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Skydiving freefall...

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..aircraft...

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..sometimes by boat...

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The more weird and wonderful they
get, the harder they get to plan.

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Let's go!

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It's difficult and something
could go wrong very quickly.

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They are very intense
and you've got to get it right.

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You've only got one chance.

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This is one jump
I cannot afford to go wrong.

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In one of the show's
most audacious insertions

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we were trying to get
deep into the Caucasus Mountains.

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We adapted an old Russian helicopter

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so that I could drive
a snowmobile out of the back

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while it hovered above the snow.

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Ride skidoos out of the back
of helicopters.

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Hey, it's all in another
day's work for Man vs Wild.

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It picks the crew up,
we love this part of it.

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Dave and Nick need to be
on the same radio communications.

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Dave Pearce will oversee
the safety of the crew

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and be an extra pair of eyes for me.

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Attempting something as dangerous
as this, there's no room for error.

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The engineers have taken
the doors off,

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and we're going to do some rigging

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to get Bear on the edge here

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as the helicopter's flying through
these...through the mountains

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and the valleys of the Caucasus,

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and then we're going to get
a skidoo in the back here.

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DAVE: Fingers!

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MAN: OK, fingers.

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DAVE: We were gonna try and land,

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but the helicopter
can't land and shut down

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because if it does
it could sink or tilt.

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So the pilot has to skilfully
tickle the belly of the snow

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with the helicopter.

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When I think it's all safe and we're
ready to go and the pilot's happy,

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then I'll give Bear the thumbs up

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and he'll rev that skidoo out
and fly out the back,

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making sure he goes
that way and not that way.

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Otherwise he'll get a very swift
haircut on the tail rotor,

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which will be going
at a ridiculous speed.

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That whole insertion
was high-octane, high-octane,

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lots of little components
going on there,

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which could have made
the thing disastrous.

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Looking good.

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We're just above the snow. Go.

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Let's go.

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Bear slams on the accelerator,
dives out of this thing...

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We're gonna get
into the mountains now

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and all the clouds
are finally coming in.

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The helicopter disappears
off the Caucasus Mountains,

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Bear starts tunnelling
uphill and then...

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It comes to a grinding halt.

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(ENGINE REVS)

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(GRUNTS) I think it's all the snow.

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At the moment,
it's just like porridge.

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It's on the foot from here. OK.

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Like all these environments,

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you don't know which time
it is going to come round

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and give you a little nip
in the backside.

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The Caucasus Mountains were isolated

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but nowhere feels as remote
as Australia's Northern Territory.

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It's one of the harshest
environments on the planet

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and populated with deadly animals.

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Lack of roads made
access impossible.

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Our best option
was a 70-year-old plane.

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OK. It's dawn, early morning,
Northern Territory, Australia.

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The crew's just prepping kit.

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I'm about to jump into one of the
most croc-infested places on earth,

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and I have actually been really
nervous coming down for this shoot.

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The good thing is we're jumping in

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from the coolest plane
you'll ever see.

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Check out this old
World War II Dakota.

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SIMON: This thing, when we first
saw it, was a beautiful machine.

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It was all polished silver

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and it looked amazing
from a distance,

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and as you got closer you could
see it had had a hell of a life.

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DANIEL: Where the engines were
I could see rivets half hanging out,

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you know, and it did look as though
it should be sitting in a museum

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rather than up in the air.

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It goes through your mind...
It certainly went through my mind.

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I'm thinking, "How air-worthy
is this thing?"

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And they started this thing up.

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It looked like it
should not leave the tarmac.

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It looked like it should
just stay there and rest.

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(PILOT SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)

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But once we started and got into
this thing and got up to height,

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it was absolutely amazing.

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It was beautiful.

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It was smoother, really,
than a lot of the commercial jets

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that you fly nowadays.

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It was absolutely amazing.

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Once we were flying in this DC-3

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we're getting to the area
where we were jumping from,

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and Dave is at this...the rear
door, standing there.

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He's on the phone to the pilot,
he's communicating with the pilot,

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to get him to the right place
and the right drop zone.

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Nerves do run quite high.

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Bear and I literally wait for Dave's
word to go, "Right, let's go."

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Dave says, "Power off 'cause we're
coming to the drop zone point,"

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and they back off on the speed

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so they're exiting and we're not
going too fast when they exit.

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I'm crouched in the door,
right in the prop draft,

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and also where the blast from
the wind's coming straight through.

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I'm sitting there trying
to sort of sit there.

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I mean, my face
is just being contorted

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by the fact that the wind
is blasting through.

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Final checks are made.

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Yep.

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Here we go.

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At the right time, Bear leaps out.

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Yeah!

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It's really exciting,
an exciting sequence.

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But he's got to get
his drop zone right

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because all sorts of things
want to eat you out there.

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There's all the crocodiles...

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There's plenty of animals that
you don't really want to encounter

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when you're heading in
with a parachute on your back.

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Northern Territory, here we come.

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As much as possible
we can dictate where we land,

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but one thing we can't control
is the weather and the environment

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and often that's the hardest part.

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Making this show we've travelled
to the toughest places on the planet

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to show you how to survive.

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We do operate in
extreme environments.

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It's either hot,
sweaty, cold, freezing,

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or dry as you like
in the arid sands of the Sahara.

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When you're at the mercy
of the elements

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you have to be
prepared for anything.

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(GROANS)
(SNAPPING)

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This turned into a bit of an epic.

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On the Baltic coast, my mission was
to show the survival skills you need

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in an abandoned urban environment.

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Here jungles and rivers have been
replaced by derelict buildings.

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Once we're on this building
we have to get into the building,

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and to cut a way into a building

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is through the air conditioning
ventilation shafts.

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Bear smashes his way through
and we drop in.

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Bit of a squeeze
getting into this one.

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You don't want to have had
too much lunch.

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I've never been
in one of these things,

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but to be honest, ever since 'Die
Hard' came out I have wanted to.

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But there's nothing Hollywood
about these ventilation shafts.

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As it got to the really,
really narrow point

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absolutely what was going
through my mind is,

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"Does this get even narrower
down here?" and it did.

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Go on all fours if you need to.
Spread your weight.

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That's thin here.

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If you're thrown in a tight area
that's getting tighter, you think,

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"What if we can't get out this way?
Can I actually get back?"

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As the space got smaller, Bear says,

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"The thing...the trick
is here now not to panic."

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See, if you panic
your chest cavity expands

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and a tight place
becomes even tighter.

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As soon that's flagged to you
and he said that to me,

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I was thinking, "Thanks.
I hadn't even thought about that."

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Suddenly now it's in your mind.

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That's all you can think about
is expanding your chest cavity,

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like telling someone
not to look at the light.

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First thing they do -
look at the light.

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But thankfully there was light
at the end of this tunnel.

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Soon we were out of the ventilation
shafts and into the building.

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Here. Give it here.
I got it. I got it.

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Man, it's nice to be out
of that place.

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I did feel relieved
once we got out of that.

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It was an absolute dream, you know.

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Brilliant.
What a great day that was.

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A key ingredient to survival
is trying to use nature to help you.

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Fir trees are meant to be friendly.

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But sometimes even the most useful
resource can test your patience.

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(GROANS WITH FRUSTRATION) Bamboo!

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DANIEL: Really,
really strong material,

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but, being really strong,
a nightmare to get through.

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With extreme environments
come frustrations

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because it's so unpredictable.

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Oh, God.

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Bloody, bloody, bloody cacti.

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He lets you know
that he's frustrated,

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but he just cracks on, you know?

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He's got that kind of
never-say-die attitude about him.

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Sometimes the
environment and its

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inhabitants are just
plain dangerous.

246
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Stop, stop, stop, stop.

247
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Straight under that rock there.

248
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(OMINOUS RATTLING)

249
00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,140
If he gets those fangs into you

250
00:13:57,300 --> 00:14:00,220
and injects you
with his haemotoxic venom,

251
00:14:00,260 --> 00:14:03,320
you end up just vomiting
and pooing blood.

252
00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,160
That's the nastiest
sort of death you can imagine.

253
00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:09,360
(HISSES VIOLENTLY)

254
00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:11,280
Why is it that
everything around here

255
00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:16,200
is either spiky,
sharp or out to kill you?

256
00:14:16,300 --> 00:14:18,460
And after an exhausting day,

257
00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,220
even getting into bed
can have its ups and downs.

258
00:14:23,140 --> 00:14:27,020
Whoa. More string?

259
00:14:28,420 --> 00:14:32,280
The desert is one of the most
unforgiving environments.

260
00:14:33,420 --> 00:14:37,280
Bottom line is it doesn't matter
how good or smart or clever you are,

261
00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,160
without water you're dead.

262
00:14:40,340 --> 00:14:43,140
In North Africa,
as temperatures soared,

263
00:14:43,180 --> 00:14:45,340
I had to find a way
to cool myself down.

264
00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,100
He's a real opportunist as far as
kind of what's available to him

265
00:14:50,140 --> 00:14:53,200
and his surroundings
and that stretches to his own pee.

266
00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:58,000
Take your T-shirt
and then just pee on it.

267
00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:02,060
Try and capture as much
of that fluid as you can.

268
00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:08,160
And even just, you know,
a little bit of pee into the mouth

269
00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,120
is just going to help moisten it,
take the edge off the thirst.

270
00:15:13,180 --> 00:15:15,180
Something I've never got used to.

271
00:15:15,220 --> 00:15:18,360
When he drinks his urine, it
looks like he's loving it as well.

272
00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,460
It's not something, I think, that,
you know, most people would be doing

273
00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,400
on a Friday night if they were going
down the pub or anything like that.

274
00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:29,440
And that's even just...
wiping on my face,

275
00:15:29,980 --> 00:15:32,140
it's cooling my face down.

276
00:15:32,180 --> 00:15:33,420
We had a thermal imaging camera
with us

277
00:15:33,460 --> 00:15:36,460
and we could actually see
whether or not his own pee

278
00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,320
changed the temperature
of his body heat and it did.

279
00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:42,120
If we're putting that on,

280
00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:48,140
you can see what the difference
the fluids on the face make.

281
00:15:48,180 --> 00:15:49,980
It worked as a coolant, effectively.

282
00:15:50,020 --> 00:15:54,120
You see the darker bit is where
is all much cooler than all of this.

283
00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:56,280
It's gonna be bright and hot.

284
00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,120
So if I then put this T-shirt on,

285
00:15:59,260 --> 00:16:01,160
that's gonna keep me even cooler.

286
00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,400
When you haven't got that much water
around you, it has to be done.

287
00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,440
But, uh, not my favourite.

288
00:16:06,980 --> 00:16:11,200
Cooler. Smellier.
But better off for it.

289
00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:17,200
In an Alabama swamp
heat wasn't the problem.

290
00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:20,060
It was what lurked beneath.

291
00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:25,180
I remember we were up to our knees
in this swampy kind of mud.

292
00:16:25,340 --> 00:16:26,420
See that?

293
00:16:26,460 --> 00:16:29,200
Bear just picked up
this snapper turtle.

294
00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:31,000
Oh, look.

295
00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,100
They can give you a vicious bite.

296
00:16:34,980 --> 00:16:36,320
Snap down on that,

297
00:16:36,980 --> 00:16:40,080
and that would tear
your finger just clean off.

298
00:16:40,260 --> 00:16:42,200
These things have got
serious, serious jaws on them.

299
00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:44,280
I mean, the crushing power
is phenomenal.

300
00:16:44,420 --> 00:16:46,300
It's actually got pound-for-pound

301
00:16:47,020 --> 00:16:51,420
as much strength in those jaws,
if not more, than an alligator.

302
00:16:51,460 --> 00:16:53,280
Then he dropped the bloody thing.

303
00:16:53,420 --> 00:16:55,340
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on.

304
00:16:55,380 --> 00:16:57,120
You just told us how
delicate this thing

305
00:16:57,180 --> 00:16:58,420
is and he dropped
it right next to us.

306
00:16:59,060 --> 00:17:01,060
And then he can't find it again.

307
00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:04,040
Where is he?
And there he is trying to grab it.

308
00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,180
I think I said to him,

309
00:17:06,220 --> 00:17:09,000
"Let's just leave this one alone,
shall we, and crack on?"

310
00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:11,340
Better not mess around with it
too much. Just leave him.

311
00:17:13,100 --> 00:17:16,160
Thanks, Bear. Nice one.
Next time hold on to it, please.

312
00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:19,240
Where is he?

313
00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,200
But as I was about
to find out in Canada,

314
00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,160
sometimes it's not the environment
or the wild animals

315
00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,120
that pose the biggest threat.

316
00:17:28,120 --> 00:17:29,140
Argh!

317
00:17:29,180 --> 00:17:31,240
Just lie down, buddy.

318
00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,340
What have I done? What have I done?
I've hit him. Where have I hit him?

319
00:17:34,380 --> 00:17:36,260
You know,
if I've hit him in the head,

320
00:17:36,300 --> 00:17:39,280
that's...that's, you know,
potentially he's dead.

321
00:17:49,340 --> 00:17:51,400
BEAR GRYLLS: Surviving
in the wilderness is one thing,

322
00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:55,340
but having to film what I do to
survive is another thing altogether.

323
00:17:55,380 --> 00:17:59,220
It takes a dedicated team
and complete trust in each other.

324
00:17:59,260 --> 00:18:01,100
Never take anything
for granted,

325
00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,380
and never think,
"Yeah, this will be easy,"

326
00:18:03,420 --> 00:18:05,120
because when you say that

327
00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,160
then it's probably time
to pack up and go home.

328
00:18:09,140 --> 00:18:10,960
In an episode filmed in Canada,

329
00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,420
I wanted to show
what happens to the body

330
00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,220
when fully immersed
in freezing water.

331
00:18:16,380 --> 00:18:19,280
Bolted on to jumping into cold
water and swimming in the ice

332
00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,060
are inherent risks.

333
00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:27,320
Holes were cut through a frozen lake
and my heart was monitored.

334
00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:29,280
What I was trying
to do was dangerous

335
00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,240
and this wasn't the place
for things to go wrong.

336
00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:34,340
Let's get ready for this.

337
00:18:35,380 --> 00:18:39,060
For Bear, clearly it's quite
a nerve-racking thing.

338
00:18:39,100 --> 00:18:40,300
It gets pretty scary.

339
00:18:40,340 --> 00:18:42,300
Do you know, this is
much harder than normal.

340
00:18:44,100 --> 00:18:45,960
OK. Here we go.

341
00:18:49,420 --> 00:18:51,320
Once he hits that water...

342
00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:53,280
It's a massive, massive
shock to your body

343
00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:55,160
once you hit that
kind of temperature.

344
00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:59,080
Everything seizes up. You're trying
to breathe. You hyperventilate.

345
00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:02,420
(SPLUTTERS)

346
00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,220
It becomes a very dangerous game.

347
00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:13,120
I can feel my extremities
are just beginning to slow up here.

348
00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:17,120
If I start heading off line,
you've got to keep eyes on me, OK?

349
00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,300
We got no extension line here.
You get it straight.

350
00:19:22,340 --> 00:19:24,980
For me, probably one
of the most concerning things

351
00:19:25,020 --> 00:19:30,020
was whether he would stay
on line swimming under the ice.

352
00:19:31,180 --> 00:19:34,060
If you're under water and you're
trying to follow a line forward...

353
00:19:34,100 --> 00:19:36,400
You don't know where 'forward' is.
It could be there. Could be there.

354
00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,220
A few degrees out means you're
going to come up and hit ice,

355
00:19:39,260 --> 00:19:40,960
and then you're gonna panic.

356
00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:49,980
His body has gone
through a hell of a lot

357
00:19:50,020 --> 00:19:51,180
in a very, very short space of time,

358
00:19:51,220 --> 00:19:53,100
and so once he goes
under that ice bridge

359
00:19:53,140 --> 00:19:56,060
the potential for disorientation
is really, really high.

360
00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:03,280
You never quite knew 100%
if everything was 100% safe.

361
00:20:03,980 --> 00:20:07,160
(GASPS AND SPLUTTERS)

362
00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:11,160
Alright. I got to get out of here.

363
00:20:14,140 --> 00:20:16,360
You could see he was
absolutely physically exhausted,

364
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,020
and you can see the heat
energy coming off him

365
00:20:20,060 --> 00:20:21,260
on the thermal imaging camera,

366
00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:25,200
and my hat goes off to him
in those environments

367
00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:26,440
because you just think,

368
00:20:26,980 --> 00:20:29,440
"That's a hell of a thing to do,
a hell of a thing to do."

369
00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,340
Wherever possible we minimise
the risk in making this program.

370
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,300
But sometimes I need to leave
the camera crew behind.

371
00:20:38,340 --> 00:20:42,200
In those cases a camera,
affectionately known as Bear cam,

372
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:46,000
is strapped to my wrist while
the crew remain at a safe distance.

373
00:20:47,420 --> 00:20:51,340
Descending a swollen river
in Vietnam was one of those times.

374
00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:53,420
It was a very,
very tricky,

375
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,980
precarious location
to be working in for anybody.

376
00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:01,960
The river swelled probably
about 10 to 15 foot.

377
00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:03,320
It was deep.

378
00:21:03,980 --> 00:21:06,300
It was very important
for the crew to be harnessed up

379
00:21:06,340 --> 00:21:10,020
and to be anchored off
to trees and to rocks.

380
00:21:11,060 --> 00:21:13,320
He wasn't taking the crew down
there. It was far too dangerous.

381
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,300
So he fitted a wrist cam.

382
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,400
OK, that seems about right.

383
00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,980
Every time I see Bear
put the Bear cam on,

384
00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,000
I think, "Thank God
it's him and not me."

385
00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:33,260
You've got hundreds
of tons of water.

386
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:43,300
He worked his way down to the rock
at the base and off he went.

387
00:21:46,020 --> 00:21:48,980
It's not for the faint-hearted,
that one, I can assure you.

388
00:21:51,300 --> 00:21:53,420
Whether it's Bear cam or the crew

389
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:57,220
we always get the cameras
as close as we can to the action.

390
00:21:57,260 --> 00:21:59,060
But while glissading
down a mountain in Canada,

391
00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:01,400
the camera got just too close.

392
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:04,340
(BEAR YELLS)

393
00:22:04,380 --> 00:22:06,380
(MAN OVER RADIO) Is he OK? Is he OK?

394
00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:12,320
In Canada we did a glissade scene,

395
00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:15,300
and a glissade is effectively
sliding down a slope.

396
00:22:15,340 --> 00:22:18,080
We were gonna demonstrate
the arresting techniques

397
00:22:18,120 --> 00:22:19,320
as you go down this thing.

398
00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:22,280
You can't underestimate
just how fast you pick up speed

399
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,120
on these sort of slopes.

400
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,140
Unless you know what you're doing
you're not going to beat gravity.

401
00:22:27,180 --> 00:22:28,380
All relatively straightforward.

402
00:22:28,420 --> 00:22:31,140
I was gonna slide down
behind Bear and I had my camera.

403
00:22:31,180 --> 00:22:34,200
I was on a little sledge and I was
gonna slide down, camera in front.

404
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,980
We did tests on it.

405
00:22:40,140 --> 00:22:42,180
37 miles an hour.

406
00:22:42,220 --> 00:22:45,360
You'd get a ticket in an urban place
in the UK with that speed.

407
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,200
We're thinking, "Yep,
this is comfortable."

408
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:48,340
"This is fine.
This is going to work.

409
00:22:48,380 --> 00:22:51,140
"This is gonna show the viewer
what you need to do."

410
00:22:51,980 --> 00:22:54,000
OK, here we go.

411
00:22:56,340 --> 00:22:58,260
But as I was about to find out,

412
00:22:58,300 --> 00:23:02,260
no matter how much you plan
things can always go wrong.

413
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,420
Bear got further away
from me at the start,

414
00:23:07,060 --> 00:23:11,240
and once he hit the ice with the
ice axe it threw up a cloud of snow.

415
00:23:11,340 --> 00:23:15,320
All I could see was a big
cloud of snow and ice...

416
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,220
..and I just remember
thinking, "Where is he?"

417
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,120
What was going through my mind
was, "Please don't hit him.

418
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:25,980
"Please don't hit him.
Please don't hit him,"

419
00:23:26,020 --> 00:23:28,260
and as soon as that
thought was in my head...

420
00:23:28,300 --> 00:23:31,200
I mean, all this is happening
in, you know, microseconds.

421
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,220
Bang. I hit him.

422
00:23:36,220 --> 00:23:39,220
(BEAR YELLS)
(MAN OVER RADIO) Is he OK? Is he OK?

423
00:23:39,260 --> 00:23:41,440
It felt like a colossal impact.
It felt like hitting a wall.

424
00:23:41,980 --> 00:23:44,200
And I just thought...

425
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:47,980
I just felt so terrible and just
thought, "Oh my, God," you know,

426
00:23:48,020 --> 00:23:50,300
"What have I done? What
have I done? I've hit him."

427
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,300
"Where have I hit him?"

428
00:23:53,340 --> 00:23:55,420
You know, if I've hit him
in the head, that's...

429
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,360
You know, potentially he's dead.

430
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,200
Bear, do you want
to lie down, buddy?

431
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,120
Ran over to him and then I could
see the blood on the snow,

432
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,220
and I suppose the only
kind of solace I had

433
00:24:05,260 --> 00:24:08,240
was the fact that he was moving
and I hadn't actually killed him.

434
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,200
Luck was on my side.

435
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,300
Simon had missed my head
by a fraction, but hit my leg.

436
00:24:13,340 --> 00:24:16,300
Someone pointed out to me,
"Get your nose sorted out,"

437
00:24:16,340 --> 00:24:19,200
and I went sort of, "Why?"

438
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,120
And then I remember
touching my nose and thinking,

439
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,240
"Right. OK. That's
the source of the blood."

440
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,080
So all the blood all over
the snow was mine and not his.

441
00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:27,980
An interesting look.

442
00:24:29,020 --> 00:24:30,400
Bear's got a bad leg injury.

443
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,140
We don't know if
it's broken or not.

444
00:24:33,180 --> 00:24:36,260
We hope not. Please,
let's hope that it's not broken.

445
00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:40,240
Simon's busted his nose.
He got the camera in the face.

446
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:44,180
What's left of the housing.
That's the front.

447
00:24:44,220 --> 00:24:47,160
That's quarter-inch plate glass,
that. It's like a shop window.

448
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,240
That went into Bear's leg.

449
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,360
It could have been a lot worse.
Just thank God they're both alive.

450
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,340
I had a big haematoma on my leg
and Simon had a broken nose.

451
00:24:58,380 --> 00:25:01,220
We were both extremely
lucky that day.

452
00:25:02,260 --> 00:25:05,340
Fortunately, fortunately, you know,
I didn't hit him in the head.

453
00:25:05,380 --> 00:25:07,080
I mean, I just...

454
00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:09,340
It doesn't bear thinking about
how horrendous that could have been.

455
00:25:09,380 --> 00:25:11,400
It absolutely doesn't
bear thinking about.

456
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,440
(BEAR YELLS)
(MAN OVER RADIO) Is he OK? Is he OK?

457
00:25:19,180 --> 00:25:22,400
In the wild, food isn't always
that appealing.

458
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:26,140
But if you're going to survive
you can't be squeamish.

459
00:25:26,180 --> 00:25:28,160
Eugh.

460
00:25:44,420 --> 00:25:46,420
That is a whopper!

461
00:25:49,980 --> 00:25:53,000
BEAR GRYLLS: In survival situations
there's no gourmet menu.

462
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:54,980
You survive on what you can find.

463
00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,040
The list of things that Bear's
eaten is completely unimaginable.

464
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,280
It reads like the most horrendous
menu that you've ever seen.

465
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,380
A puff adder like this,
even with the guts and skin on,

466
00:26:05,420 --> 00:26:07,980
you can eat them straight like this.

467
00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:11,980
It may look grim,

468
00:26:12,020 --> 00:26:15,220
but if it's going to keep you alive
you've got to tuck in.

469
00:26:15,260 --> 00:26:17,280
Over the past few years
I've seen him eat...

470
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,020
- Cockroaches.
- Flies.

471
00:26:19,060 --> 00:26:20,260
- Wood louse.
- Centipedes.

472
00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:21,980
Beetles.

473
00:26:22,020 --> 00:26:23,300
Beetle larvae.

474
00:26:23,340 --> 00:26:25,220
- Sea cucumber.
- A yak.

475
00:26:25,260 --> 00:26:28,140
A lot of them I don't even want
to look at, let alone touch,

476
00:26:28,180 --> 00:26:29,380
and definitely don't want to eat.

477
00:26:29,420 --> 00:26:30,980
But he does.

478
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,000
He sees an animal and it's like,
"Eat it. Eat it."

479
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,060
I want to know what these taste
like 'cause I'll never ever eat one.

480
00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:43,400
But I really want to know
what they taste like. You tell me.

481
00:26:43,940 --> 00:26:45,360
It tastes like rubber bands.

482
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:46,960
Creamy goo.

483
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,020
Very bony.

484
00:26:48,060 --> 00:26:49,040
Dog faeces.

485
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,140
Salad that somebody's put
a lot of mosquito repellent on.

486
00:26:52,180 --> 00:26:54,960
It's all claws, legs and bone.

487
00:26:56,300 --> 00:26:58,020
It's bad. It's really wrong.

488
00:26:58,060 --> 00:27:00,980
(SPITS AND SPLUTTERS)

489
00:27:01,020 --> 00:27:02,960
And he dreads eating them.
He absolutely dreads it.

490
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,300
I've really learned
to hate that taste.

491
00:27:05,340 --> 00:27:08,100
Eugh.

492
00:27:09,340 --> 00:27:13,400
In North Africa, I found a whole
platter of surf-and-turf delicacies.

493
00:27:13,940 --> 00:27:17,220
Whoa. There's a scorpion.
See this guy?

494
00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:19,280
You got to be super careful.

495
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,100
The smaller they are
with the scorpions,

496
00:27:21,140 --> 00:27:22,340
the more poisonous they are.

497
00:27:23,380 --> 00:27:27,980
That's a death stalker.
Look at its tail. Right up.

498
00:27:29,020 --> 00:27:32,000
Get hit by that
and you could be dead in 24 hours.

499
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:33,420
Whip the tail off.
The rest of it's fine.

500
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,260
So the tail goes on the ground,
just keep an eye on it...

501
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,020
..scorpion in the mouth, munch away.

502
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,400
Bear does eat some
extraordinary things.

503
00:27:43,940 --> 00:27:45,360
How he keeps them down
I've got no idea.

504
00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:50,200
The rufty-tufty crew just
tend to go a bit, "Whoa,"

505
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,140
and Bear - straight up
with his hand, in his mouth.

506
00:27:56,420 --> 00:28:00,280
Also in North Africa, an old
wreck was too good to pass by.

507
00:28:01,180 --> 00:28:04,960
I wanted to check it out to see if
there was anything worth salvaging.

508
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,160
There's an octopus
clinging on to the hull.

509
00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:09,400
I'm going to see
if I can get him out of here.

510
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,300
There we go. Look. You see? He's
clinging on with all his tentacles.

511
00:28:14,340 --> 00:28:18,420
He managed to get
hold of an octopus,

512
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,300
which I'm sure if he had
the time or the means to cook it

513
00:28:22,340 --> 00:28:24,040
would've been fine.

514
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,320
But unfortunately for him,
it was a raw eat on this occasion.

515
00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:30,200
That's going to be tough as hell.

516
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,180
It's better on a platter

517
00:28:33,220 --> 00:28:37,060
in a nice seaside resort with
family around and a bit of mayo

518
00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:38,400
than like this.

519
00:28:38,940 --> 00:28:41,020
But when needs must,
that's gonna keep you alive.

520
00:28:41,060 --> 00:28:43,400
And he bit off one of the tentacles.

521
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,400
It's still gripping on.

522
00:28:49,940 --> 00:28:51,180
He was gagging all the time

523
00:28:51,220 --> 00:28:54,380
'cause the tentacles had actually
attached to his throat.

524
00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:03,000
The problem is the suckers
stick to your throat.

525
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,240
One of those moments when I'm glad

526
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:09,080
that I'm standing this side of the
camera and he's that side, really.

527
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:10,940
(GAGS AND SPITS)

528
00:29:12,220 --> 00:29:14,940
It has still...still got
a lot of suction power.

529
00:29:14,980 --> 00:29:17,160
That's what's gripping on
down my gullet.

530
00:29:21,060 --> 00:29:25,240
That evening, the light of my fire
attracted all sorts of insects.

531
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,320
The octopus had filled me up

532
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,380
but I thought the bugs
would make a great breakfast.

533
00:29:30,420 --> 00:29:32,200
He has to wake up the next morning

534
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,420
and eat what we called
a 'bug burger'.

535
00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:39,280
The easiest way of eating this

536
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:43,100
is to make a bug patty
out of all of these things.

537
00:29:43,140 --> 00:29:44,940
Let's see what we've got here.

538
00:29:45,980 --> 00:29:49,220
And I think it consisted of a
praying mantis, a couple of moths...

539
00:29:49,260 --> 00:29:53,300
Scorpions, crickets, locusts...

540
00:29:53,340 --> 00:29:55,180
A few beetles.

541
00:29:56,060 --> 00:30:00,040
Ooh, quite a diverse breakfast menu.

542
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,220
Squidge all that up together.

543
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,020
Made this little patty like this

544
00:30:07,060 --> 00:30:10,420
and you could just hear
everything cracking and popping.

545
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,380
It was disgusting.

546
00:30:16,260 --> 00:30:20,060
I think the popping was probably
the heads of the crickets.

547
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,100
What's that?

548
00:30:25,380 --> 00:30:28,120
They've all got their little hooks
on them, all these creatures,

549
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,060
and when you go to eat them, they
sort of...their legs sort of hang,

550
00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:33,060
and so he's sort of pulling
them off his lip.

551
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,020
Rogue leg in there.

552
00:30:39,980 --> 00:30:41,140
Oh, God.

553
00:30:44,020 --> 00:30:45,400
It's just a real nice opportunity

554
00:30:45,940 --> 00:30:49,020
for us to just keep
the camera on him,

555
00:30:49,300 --> 00:30:51,980
and just keep it on him,

556
00:30:52,020 --> 00:30:54,000
and then a bit more,

557
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,000
and I know that he's thinking,
"Just turn it away.

558
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,420
"Give me the opportunity
to get out of this,"

559
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,140
and you're like, "No, no.
You're gonna swallow this."

560
00:31:00,180 --> 00:31:02,160
(EXHALES HEAVILY)

561
00:31:02,980 --> 00:31:06,200
A truly terrible way to start a day.

562
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,200
Hang on.

563
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:11,320
Bear survival food

564
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,340
is not normally something
that I myself would like to eat,

565
00:31:14,380 --> 00:31:18,140
but in Torres he came across
these rock lobsters.

566
00:31:18,180 --> 00:31:19,420
Looks like a couple of feelers

567
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,940
just poking out
from under that rock ledge.

568
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,000
Usually for him it's normally
something a bit more disgusting.

569
00:31:31,380 --> 00:31:34,220
He's caught this rock lobster.

570
00:31:36,180 --> 00:31:39,320
That's going to be good food.
Come on, then.

571
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,980
Brought it out onto the beach
and taken the shell off,

572
00:31:42,020 --> 00:31:43,220
cooked it up and everything.

573
00:31:43,260 --> 00:31:45,400
Looked beautiful.
It's an amazing thing to eat.

574
00:31:45,940 --> 00:31:50,020
On the basis that good survival
is about keeping your morale up...

575
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,000
..this is good morale.

576
00:31:56,940 --> 00:31:58,380
Wow.

577
00:32:01,420 --> 00:32:04,140
But meals like this are rare,

578
00:32:04,180 --> 00:32:07,020
and in the wild
you have to be careful

579
00:32:07,060 --> 00:32:09,200
not to end up on the wrong
side of the menu.

580
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,980
We had seen a lot of crocodiles on
the banks and they will go for you.

581
00:32:27,340 --> 00:32:30,300
It's hard enough to find food when
you're surviving in the wilderness,

582
00:32:30,340 --> 00:32:35,260
but when the tables are turned
and the hunter becomes the hunted,

583
00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:38,340
well, that makes
a bad situation worse.

584
00:32:38,380 --> 00:32:40,240
Suddenly it could
all go horribly wrong.

585
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:41,980
The whole thing
could collapse.

586
00:32:42,020 --> 00:32:44,020
It doesn't matter
how strong you are at swimming

587
00:32:44,060 --> 00:32:45,940
or whatever your
survival abilities are

588
00:32:45,980 --> 00:32:47,220
if you're in the wrong place.

589
00:32:47,260 --> 00:32:50,060
(HISSES)

590
00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:53,220
Gonna find a way across this river.

591
00:32:54,260 --> 00:32:57,000
In Australia's Northern Territory

592
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,040
I was trying not to cross paths with
one of the most lethal predators

593
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,340
that I fear most.

594
00:33:02,380 --> 00:33:05,120
We got to a point where
we had to cross this river.

595
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:06,360
There was really no avoiding it.

596
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,000
So Bear was looking
for some way to get across

597
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:10,300
and he saw what
he thought was gusset,

598
00:33:10,340 --> 00:33:14,100
which was this tree that
had fallen on to another tree.

599
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,180
Well, it does go across
the river all the way.

600
00:33:18,220 --> 00:33:21,120
Crossing a river like this
would normally be easy.

601
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,140
But these waters are full
of saltwater crocodiles.

602
00:33:24,260 --> 00:33:27,240
We had seen a lot of crocodiles
on the banks.

603
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,980
The thing with saltwater crocodiles,
you know, they're hunters,

604
00:33:31,020 --> 00:33:32,220
and they will go for you.

605
00:33:32,260 --> 00:33:35,000
You know they're in the water
because of the bubbles,

606
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,400
and there were bubbles everywhere.

607
00:33:38,220 --> 00:33:40,380
And I think this is probably
the first occasion

608
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,980
where I've really been very
concerned for Bear's safety.

609
00:33:44,020 --> 00:33:47,200
You know there's saltwater
crocodiles all over this place.

610
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,220
So it's probably, the drop...
The drop's not gonna hurt.

611
00:33:51,260 --> 00:33:54,120
It's maybe the bite
at the end of it that might.

612
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,340
Yeah. Let's not get to that stage.
No.

613
00:33:56,380 --> 00:34:00,980
To me, what was pretty threatening
was the top part of the tree

614
00:34:01,020 --> 00:34:04,260
where it's resting in the other tree
on the other side of the bank

615
00:34:04,300 --> 00:34:05,980
is rotten.

616
00:34:06,020 --> 00:34:08,940
So we decided to film it with
Bear's little camera on his wrist.

617
00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:11,360
Come on, then. Give us
the camera. Let's just do this.

618
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,340
So Bear started climbing the tree

619
00:34:18,380 --> 00:34:20,280
and, you know, we were
very nervous for him,

620
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,060
and I think that's the first time

621
00:34:22,100 --> 00:34:23,360
I've actually seen Bear
quite nervous.

622
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,060
You know, he was seriously
going into the unknown here.

623
00:34:33,140 --> 00:34:35,220
DAVE: From what I recall as well,
interestingly, about crocodiles,

624
00:34:35,260 --> 00:34:38,220
particularly saltwater crocs,
is that they react to movement.

625
00:34:38,260 --> 00:34:41,120
So it was not as though a big
splash would've frightened them off.

626
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:42,360
It would have attracted them.

627
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,920
BEAR: We've got bubbles there.

628
00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:50,020
(GASPS)

629
00:34:50,060 --> 00:34:52,260
OK.

630
00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:55,000
It was very difficult to manoeuvre
around some of the branches.

631
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,380
Halfway across Bear does fall.

632
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,360
(BEAR GROANS LOUDLY)

633
00:35:01,980 --> 00:35:04,040
(BEAR PANTS HEAVILY)
DUNCAN: And the camera just fell.

634
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:05,380
Thankfully, it was
attached to a cord.

635
00:35:07,140 --> 00:35:09,220
I swallowed my heart
at that particular point...

636
00:35:09,260 --> 00:35:12,080
But, you know, he's got
great upper-body strength

637
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,120
and he managed to right himself
and carry on across.

638
00:35:24,180 --> 00:35:27,380
And in China I discovered
that no matter how strong you are,

639
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,140
if you're being hunted,
size really doesn't matter.

640
00:35:32,180 --> 00:35:34,020
DAVE: The jungles of China are tough

641
00:35:34,060 --> 00:35:38,980
and made even tougher by Bear
walking into this weaver ant nest.

642
00:35:39,020 --> 00:35:40,320
Oh!

643
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,060
(YELPS)

644
00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:45,000
SIMON: Bear found a nest, and we
sort of go crashing into this nest,

645
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:46,400
and Bear goes,
"Whoa, whoa. Stop, stop, stop."

646
00:35:46,940 --> 00:35:50,200
And he comes back and he sees
this beautiful nest made of leaves

647
00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:53,340
and the ants have made it,
and it's an amazing creation.

648
00:35:53,380 --> 00:35:55,080
See, it's why they're
called weaver ants.

649
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,020
They've weaved all
of these leaves together.

650
00:35:57,060 --> 00:36:01,940
They have this, like, it's like glue
that holds it all in place.

651
00:36:01,980 --> 00:36:04,960
But these are nasty ants.

652
00:36:06,220 --> 00:36:11,000
They're tiny little things
but they're unbelievably vicious.

653
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,100
(BEAR YELPS)

654
00:36:13,140 --> 00:36:16,240
As we're filming, Bear's swatting
his arm and getting bit by them.

655
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,000
So am I. They're crawling up my arm
but I can't do anything about it.

656
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,120
Yep. Behind the ear.

657
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,360
Right down the neck.

658
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,360
And as I'm getting bitten,
I'm thinking, "Bear, hurry up.

659
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,960
"Talk faster.
Talk faster. Talk faster."

660
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,060
In northern Australia

661
00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:37,040
we faced a very real threat
that had the whole crew on edge.

662
00:36:37,300 --> 00:36:39,300
DANIEL: The island in Torres

663
00:36:39,340 --> 00:36:42,160
is probably the scariest
place that I've been, really,

664
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,120
as far as animals are concerned.

665
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:48,080
There were sharks' fins
just littering the kind of horizon.

666
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,200
They were everywhere,
sharks everywhere,

667
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:53,000
and Bear's got to do this crossing
from one island to another.

668
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,060
So we're about to do this crossing
from this island to over there

669
00:36:58,100 --> 00:36:59,300
and it's full of sharks.

670
00:36:59,340 --> 00:37:01,300
Just been in the shallows near one,

671
00:37:01,340 --> 00:37:04,940
and to be honest, I'm definitely
quite nervous about this.

672
00:37:04,980 --> 00:37:07,160
Sound guy's just prepping his kit.

673
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,300
He's taking an abnormally
long time about it.

674
00:37:10,340 --> 00:37:11,380
Come on, Paul!

675
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,920
He's been doing this
for about 20 minutes.

676
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:17,920
And all that I'm seeing is fins
going left, right, left, right.

677
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,300
With sharks as far
as the eye can see

678
00:37:22,340 --> 00:37:25,940
this was going to be the longest
300 yards I've ever crossed.

679
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,400
What... What was that?

680
00:37:31,060 --> 00:37:35,180
A shark... A shark
passed my legs there.

681
00:37:35,220 --> 00:37:38,200
Go on here. Speed up.
Let's get moving.

682
00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:41,960
You can see the fins
all around him.

683
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,320
Two of them.

684
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,080
They're inquisitive creatures,

685
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,340
and they're coming and they
obviously want to know what he is.

686
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:50,400
Stay still.

687
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,320
They say one of the worst
things about the shark

688
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,340
is that they will bite you
to find out what you are,

689
00:37:57,380 --> 00:38:01,100
and these sharks did look like
they were wondering what he was.

690
00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:06,380
So the next thing we're all
waiting for is the potential munch,

691
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,000
and hence the reason
he's got to sprint for his life.

692
00:38:09,140 --> 00:38:10,960
Let's just move. Come on.

693
00:38:17,340 --> 00:38:19,340
(SIGHS)

694
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,980
Getting out of the wilderness
is always a relief,

695
00:38:23,020 --> 00:38:26,240
but often even that comes
with its own challenges.

696
00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:31,140
OK, we're gonna need
to stick together in this.

697
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,920
God. Where the
hell's that come from?

698
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:46,220
After being out in the wilderness,

699
00:38:46,260 --> 00:38:49,100
there's no better feeling
than finding your way out.

700
00:38:50,020 --> 00:38:54,020
To do that you have to move fast
over all sorts of terrain.

701
00:38:54,060 --> 00:38:56,240
DUNCAN: Bear will pick up his
rucksack and start running,

702
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,160
and just hop, skip and jump,
and he's off.

703
00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,900
It's quite amazing.

704
00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:04,040
When Bear's travelling fast through
these different types of terrain

705
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,000
I have to try and keep up with him.

706
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,040
He often does leap over boulders,

707
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,320
jump across gaps, crevasses,
buildings, you name it.

708
00:39:19,940 --> 00:39:21,360
It's either climbing
up something or down.

709
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:24,980
It's never walking.

710
00:39:28,940 --> 00:39:30,340
We barely ever walk anywhere.

711
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,220
In Texas I saw a way out...

712
00:39:45,380 --> 00:39:47,360
Patrols going up and down the river.

713
00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:50,900
If you reach that
you're gonna get found.

714
00:39:53,300 --> 00:39:56,360
..but at the bottom
there was one last hurdle.

715
00:39:57,940 --> 00:39:59,160
SIMON: Right at the end
of the Texas show

716
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,920
Bear jumps off this big ledge
and lands in the water...

717
00:40:05,980 --> 00:40:09,000
..and I really wanted to run
behind Bear and jump off this.

718
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,980
But this area was quite small
he had to hit and I couldn't go,

719
00:40:12,020 --> 00:40:15,120
and I decided actually that was one
step, one step, I think, too far.

720
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,240
This is going to be just heaven.

721
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,000
I just run up with him.

722
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:25,260
He runs up, I let him go,

723
00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:28,120
and you just see him fall away
and the camera tilts down,

724
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,220
and I look back on that shot now and
I go, "I wish I'd gone with him."

725
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,080
Sometimes extractions
are straightforward.

726
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:47,180
But in China water also played
a part not only getting in,

727
00:40:47,220 --> 00:40:49,200
but also getting out.

728
00:40:50,380 --> 00:40:54,040
In China we were hit
by a tropical hurricane.

729
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,940
It's that atmosphere
of being in a storm

730
00:40:56,980 --> 00:40:59,340
where it's relentless, madness,

731
00:40:59,380 --> 00:41:03,260
and you just seem to be at your
wits' end trying to get through it.

732
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,040
Jungles are really
a nightmare at the best of times,

733
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,260
but when you start
getting typhoons involved,

734
00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:11,160
which is what we've had out here,

735
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,200
you know, it really takes
on a whole other meaning.

736
00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:16,300
You suddenly get three foot of rain,
40- or 50-mile-an-hour winds,

737
00:41:16,340 --> 00:41:19,200
and these places just become,
you know, a real epic,

738
00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:23,220
you know, not only for the crew, but
also for what we're planning to do.

739
00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:29,380
What we were planning to do
was get out by crossing a river,

740
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,060
but that was now flooded.

741
00:41:32,100 --> 00:41:33,940
We need to get across this.

742
00:41:34,140 --> 00:41:37,920
Yeah, you can see this river
is in full flood with all the rains.

743
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,040
SIMON: This was literally
just post-cyclone.

744
00:41:40,180 --> 00:41:44,340
This river had raised, believe it
or not, about five metres.

745
00:41:44,380 --> 00:41:47,160
It was a ridiculous amount of water
that was coming down that river.

746
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,340
OK, we need to stick
together in this.

747
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:54,240
DANIEL: He'll say it himself
in the show, time and time again,

748
00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:56,020
you don't mess with jungle rivers.

749
00:41:56,060 --> 00:41:59,920
They're seriously, seriously
treacherous places to be.

750
00:42:00,340 --> 00:42:03,240
You can feel there's actually
a strong current in here,

751
00:42:04,020 --> 00:42:05,900
whipping me down.

752
00:42:08,100 --> 00:42:10,320
And as we cross this river
the whole sky goes quite black

753
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,980
and it goes quite eerie and quite
grey and real silvery clouds.

754
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,060
Where the hell's that come from?

755
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:27,320
It felt quite dark and lifeless
and certainly had a sense of...

756
00:42:27,940 --> 00:42:30,940
Well, I had a sense of not
really wanting to be there.

757
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,080
There's all dead wood

758
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,160
and bits and pieces
of debris coming down the river,

759
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,140
and you do expect to see
a sort of body come floating past.

760
00:42:40,180 --> 00:42:41,300
(THUNDER RUMBLES)

761
00:42:41,340 --> 00:42:45,180
But in a survival situation
staying positive is crucial.

762
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:49,020
Bear copes with it very well
and he just says to himself,

763
00:42:49,060 --> 00:42:52,180
"I am gonna get out of this
and I will find a way to do it."

764
00:42:56,060 --> 00:42:57,980
Getting out means
the end of the journey,

765
00:42:58,020 --> 00:43:00,920
not just for me
but for the crew as well.

766
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,920
When the end of the show comes
I do feel a sense of relief

767
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,900
because, you know, you've finished
it and you've got all your limbs

768
00:43:06,940 --> 00:43:09,980
and maybe not too many
cuts and bruises.

769
00:43:11,020 --> 00:43:13,100
DUNCAN: All the planning
and prep that's put into this,

770
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,260
it's quite enormous.

771
00:43:15,900 --> 00:43:19,380
So coming home is,
yes, time to relax.

772
00:43:20,020 --> 00:43:22,060
There's no doubt
that me and the crew

773
00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:23,320
travel to some of the
extremes of the earth.

774
00:43:23,940 --> 00:43:25,960
There's often danger
and high risk.

775
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,900
But I work
with the best.

776
00:43:27,940 --> 00:43:30,120
We work hard,
trust each other with our lives,

777
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:31,320
and the number
one goal -

778
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,320
always get back
in one piece.

779
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,340
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