I'm Bear Grylls. Whoo!
I'm gonna show you what it takes to get out alive
from some of the most dangerous places on earth.
I've gotta make it through a week of challenges
in the sort of places you wouldn't last a day
without the right survival skills.
Now I'm on New Zealand's South Island
where I'll take on everything
the country's highest mountain range has to throw at me...
We're still bang in that danger zone.
..engineer a way across an impassable canyon.
Here she goes!
I push myself to the limit...
Starting to get quite cold in this river now.
..to show you how to survive...
(SPITS) It's more like snot.
..in one of the most beautiful and toughest environments on the planet.
Oh, jeepers!
(TENSE MUSIC)
(PEOPLE CHATTER INDISTINCTLY ON RADIO)
I'm on the South Island of New Zealand
on a training mission with the air force.
We're headed for the country's largest mountain range -
the Southern Alps.
It's a place I've wanted to go to for a long time.
And there's no better way to get there than on this plane -
the Hercules C-130,
one of the most successful transport aircraft of all time.
It's designed for tactical operations
and used to take troops and equipment into difficult terrain.
We're heading for an area
that's about as wild and remote as you're ever gonna get
and access here is very hard.
But for the time being I'm in the hands of the best.
I'm with 20th Squadron.
These guys fly missions
to inhospitable places all over the world.
Just spectacular, isn't it?
Unbelievable landscape.
The South Island is the size of Michigan
with just a fraction of the population.
The terrain changes from glacial mountains to forest to coastal swamp
in just a couple of hundred miles.
It's unpredictable and treacherous -
the perfect place for a low-level tactical insertion.
Special forces use these planes to insert troops at low level.
I've done it before and it's committing.
At low level, you reduce your margin for error.
Two minutes!
(PILOT SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY ON RADIO)
The best way out of here is the same way I got in -
through the tailgate.
Stand by.
Five seconds!
-Go! -Let's go!
MAN ON RADIO: Clear, clear.
My landing zone is directly below me.
One chute open.
At 2,000 feet, I pop my chute.
I've got a limited window before I touch down,
but enough time to assess the terrain and get my bearings.
That will help with navigation once I'm on the ground.
I'm down in one piece. Now the real challenge begins.
Wow! Not a lot of time between exiting that plane and landing.
One of the dangers of low-level jumps -
if you have a malfunction,
you've just got no time to sort it out.
But they were pinpoint accurate with the landing.
It's about the only clear area around here.
I stayed out of the trees, which is good.
OK, let's cut up a bit of this canopy.
There's loads on a parachute I can use.
Looking at the terrain, it won't be easy going.
I'll need all the help I can get.
And the silk of the canopy is windproof,
which is always good in the mountains.
You could use that actually as a sleeping bag.
Let's get all this stuff stowed away.
I can see the direction we want to head in -
straight up to the mountains.
The closest route to reach the coast is gonna be west
and that means you have to cross those mountains.
With 75% of the population living
near the coast, that's your best bet.
Just because you've gotta cross the mountains
doesn't necessarily mean you wanna go vertically straight up.
Now, that's probably the most direct route,
but it's probably gonna be quicker going this way.
No route will be easy, but making good decisions from the outset
will give you the best chance of survival.
I'm pushing into the tree line to skirt the corners of the pass.
It'll save time and energy.
Under this dense foliage,
the undergrowth is sparse and I'm making good headway,
but almost immediately I'm stopped in my tracks.
This is why you never get complacent in the mountains.
There's always another obstacle
and often when you least expect it.
OK, let's get down this and try and get up and across.
Ravines like this are a feature of this glaciated terrain.
To continue towards the coast,
you have to make it over to the opposite bank.
We need to go further down to find a way up this.
For now the water levels are low,
but in a region that sees 60 foot of rainfall in a year,
flash floods are a real threat.
We're not gonna get up that, you know?
Try and work our way down this and try and find another way across.
The wet, moss-covered rocks offer little grip.
Actually, this is getting quite slippy.
I'm gonna try and come back up and try and go down that way, OK?
It's a close call.
Not quite the way I wanted to get down!
But it's quite deep there.
Just slide down the way I came.
A fall like that could be serious.
You've just gotta learn from your mistakes
and make sure it doesn't happen again.
It's incredible. There's a whole tunnel under the rock here.
And this is gonna be all formed just by the power of the water.
They say its always raining somewhere in New Zealand...
..and that's what makes this classic flash flood danger.
It can be raining higher up
and the first you'd know
is this whole place could just get rammed by all that water.
I want to move through this pretty sharpish.
Don't head into something like this without checking for obstructions.
If it's clear, move fast.
Water levels can change in no time with devastating impact.
And not far from here, a flash flood cost a woman her life.
Dragged downstream, it was a year before rescue teams
discovered her pelvis and femur trapped between boulders.
As if that's not reason enough to find a way out of here quickly,
the water level is only about 55 degrees.
So be on the lookout for any potential escape route.
Let's try and get up this way.
This isn't looking promising.
These sheer walls are too dangerous to climb.
Do you know what? That's not gonna happen.
Let's try further down.
It might be my mind playing tricks on me,
but it seems like water levels are rising.
I don't want to hang around in here.
I need to keep moving.
But this is neither the time or the place to rush things.
That is another big drop-off down here.
That's way too high to jump.
If I can get lower, a jump might be possible.
But I know from experience how slippery these rocks are.
I've gotta be careful.
The thing is we're running out of options here.
This is about as low as I can get.
There's no alternative. I'm gonna jump from here.
You know, if you hit a rock and break your legs,
you can drown so easily.
But this water is crystal clear
and also the actual white water itself is very contained.
It's like a funnel running straight down,
which means it's probably running deep.
You know, if there were rocks under that
you'd get a big splay of white water.
OK, I'm confident to jump this.
However sure you are, a leap this high is never easy.
Oh, jeepers!
It needs to be perfect.
And in my next challenge,
crossing this ravine will call on all my ingenuity.
Here she goes! Oh!
I'm in New Zealand's South Island
in the middle of a complex series of waterfalls.
I've reached a point of no return and I've gotta make a tough call.
OK, I'm confident to jump this.
It needs to be perfect.
If you hit the aerated centre, you'll sink like a stone.
Oh, jeepers!
Easily deep enough. Didn't even come close to hitting the bottom there.
Let's keep moving down.
There's no time to waste and only one way to go.
Steady here.
No, that's a whole other ball game.
That's about 80 foot down into shallow water.
Sometimes you gotta know your limits.
If you get injured in the wild it can have massive consequences.
My dad always used to say to me,
"If there's doubt, then there's no doubt -
"just back up and find another way back or across."
I've pushed my luck in here. I'm gonna take my Dad's advice.
I'll head back upstream on dry land and try to find another way across.
Check these two trees out. See those long, thin ones?
That might well work. Come on.
Mountain beech have shallow roots -
perfect for what I plan to do with them.
That's where we want to get to - just across this stream.
What's difficult, though,
is this first 20 or 30 foot is just too steep to climb up.
But these are long enough and thin enough
that if I can get them to topple over,
they'll take me higher up that bank.
See, the whole root system, with a bit of encouragement,
will actually go
and I might be able to just build some...some rungs between this.
This is all the stuff that I love about survival -
thinking up ingenious ways... to solve problems.
Best way of securing this - timber hitch.
Make a loop,
a few turns...
..then put that round the rung and the trunk
and feed it back through itself.
And then just take a few wraps round the tree
and that will bite down on itself
and then just tuck it in there.
OK, look. This is gonna help it go in the right direction as well.
The trees are leaning towards the bank.
They could fall the wrong way,
but this wedge should stop that happening.
The plan seems to be coming together,
but I'm all too aware that two small trees
are all that stand between me and a 50-foot drop.
This is what indigenous jungle fighters would often do -
they'd make rungs between the trees
to get them up into the canopy to make lookout stations from.
In theory, my body weight should be enough to uproot these trees.
They'll fall over the ravine and high enough up the opposite bank
to get me out the other side.
OK, moment of truth on this,
whether this thing actually works.
In practice, it's not as simple as it seemed on the ground.
Come on, you brute. Over you go.
Here she goes!
Oh!
What do you know?
It worked!
(SPITS)
There was a big part of me
that when I was on the top was
thinking, "What the hell am I doing?"
But that worked perfectly!
If it hadn't, it would have been a long way to fall.
That's such a good feeling. OK, come on.
The ravine is behind me, but I know other obstacles await up ahead.
This undulating terrain has been shaped by huge tectonic forces,
leaving rivers crisscrossing the mountains.
Really need to be so careful in rivers like this.
It's a deceptively fast flow.
So many of the first settlers when they first came to New Zealand
drowned in rivers just underestimating the power of them.
It became known as the 'New Zealand death'.
You've gotta be careful with these rivers.
Let's find a better way across.
More than 30 feet of rain falls here annually
and currents are unpredictable
so you need to choose your crossing point carefully.
Look, it's all willow,
but they don't like having their roots submerged in water like this.
It probably means this river's in full flood now.
You know, this would normally be dry.
The soil on this riverbank is nutrient rich.
Lots of useful plants flourish here.
There's a serious amount of rosehip around here.
All of these. Look.
Rosehip contains over eight times more vitamin C than an orange.
They actually used to make these into a syrup
to give it to soldiers in the trenches in the World War
as a way of stopping them getting scurvy.
You can't just eat these like this.
If you look inside, they've actually got these little pips.
They've got loads of little hairs on them.
If you eat that, it's really gonna irritate your throat.
OK, come on, then.
The seeds can irritate the stomach too.
Preparation is the key.
Look, there's a line across the river. Can you see that?
Look. There's a metal cradle on it as well.
Let's go and check it out.
These cableways have been used for over 200 years,
but this one hasn't been crossed over in a long time.
Pretty solid.
It's what a lot of miners and early settlers would have used
to cross these rivers without having to brave these sort of currents.
This is gonna take my weight.
If I could get those rings, that would help.
OK, hold on. Let me... Stay there.
Even with my gloves on, the wire's cutting into my hands,
but with the rings, I'll rig something up to take the strain.
OK, I'm gonna use these. These are rigging lines.
I'll make some stirrups off them.
The bridles from my parachute harness are perfect for the job.
Now with my feet taking the strain
this crossing is much more achievable.
There's an old Scottish custom
that says, "Before you cross a bridge
you should always say a prayer -
"a prayer to thank the person who built the bridge
"and a prayer for the person who's about to cross it."
That feels appropriate right now.
OK, let's give these a go.
Right, here we go.
By shifting my weight from foot to foot
I can move my way along the wire.
It feels a bit precarious, but it's working.
The further I get out, the more tired I get
and the less chance I have of escaping the river if I do fall in.
It really is the ultimate nutcracker, this.
At least I can take some of the weight off my hands, I can rest.
I've reached the basket.
Now to see if I can use it to get the rest of the way across.
Mad place.
OK, get this basket across.
Oh, this isn't gonna budge.
This crossing has been much harder than I imagined,
but it's about to get a lot harder.
Hold on. This is very uncomfortable.
I'm in New Zealand, stranded halfway across a river in full flood.
I'm stuck high and dry.
OK, get this basket across.
Oh, this isn't gonna budge.
I can't move the rings that I've used for my sling past the basket.
I might just have to hang and shimmy the last little bit.
This swirling eddy
is probably the worst part of the river to be hanging over,
but I've got to go for it.
Hold on. This is very uncomfortable.
Have a rest.
Oh.
It's very hard to grip.
Come on. Last few feet.
Well done.
Arms running out of puff on that. Real forearm burn.
Good job, though.
This mountain range is called the Southern Alps.
They only emerged in the last 5 million years,
which makes them very young,
but they rise to more than 12,000 feet.
They're a natural barrier between me and the west coast.
You can see the clouds and the wind
licking across the pinnacles there.
We're on a latitude of about 45 degrees here
bang smack in the middle of the roaring 40s
and they're notorious for their strong winds, strong westerlies,
and these mountains take the full force of that.
Cold fronts and cyclones can quickly blow in
and the temperature can plunge 60 degrees in a matter of minutes.
Getting over the ridge line and off the mountain quickly is paramount.
Let's get up to the ridge.
The Southern Alps are still growing about a third of an inch every year.
The harsh weather from the west
is wearing them down at the same rate
and that makes them especially challenging.
Oh, it's never easy, is it?
This is classic sort of terrain
where it starts off quite manageable,
but very easily you can get yourself into terrain
where you can't go up or down.
It's called getting rim-rocked.
And that's happened to me before climbing in New Zealand.
It's probably worth trying to improvise some sort of rope
while we're in a good position up here.
Let's try and do something out of that parachute.
Let's get out of this wind. Come on.
Oh, that's better down here.
You get these crazy things in called weather bombs.
It's basically where that cold air comes up from Antarctica.
There's nothing between here and Antarctica.
The air comes up and meets the warm westerlies
and just creates these wild cycles of wind.
That's why I need to minimise the time I spend here.
I kind of envisioned using this parachute...
..as, like, a windproof or something,
but actually it's gonna be more use here as a rope.
That's the mountains for you - you've gotta be flexible.
It's a case of adapt to survive.
Get a good long strand of it like this, put a loop in the end
and then just twist it.
It's simple mechanics -
plaiting the nylon will make the rope stronger.
Take an arm's length of it, bring it together,
you'll see what happens to it -
it starts to twist on itself
and that's gonna be the end.
And this works on multiple strands
and the more strands like this you have
the stronger it's gonna be.
That's getting pretty good there.
Get this stowed and get moving.
I'm looking for a route down,
but there's no simple way off this ridge line.
It's looking pretty ugly down this way. That's just sheer.
There's no point in launching off
unless I know I can reach the ground.
This is looking a little better -
still pretty sheer, but I reckon my rope will reach the bottom of this.
I just need to find a decent anchor.
The thing is all of this stuff - look - it's all so crumbly.
Just want to make sure whatever we tie off to is bombproof.
This layered, flaky rock is recrystallised mudstone.
It's called schist.
Ideally, though, I would double up this rope
so I could then make it retrievable so I'd be able to pull it through.
The thing is I'm gonna need the whole
length of it really to get down here.
But I am gonna need to improvise some sort of harness.
To do that, I'll measure four lengths of cord
and then tie a simple overhand knot.
Then what you're left with - two ends with two loops in each end.
Use that cut-away handle from the parachute.
This is what I'm actually gonna belay off.
Step into the leg loops and pull the others over your shoulders
and you've got a good improvised harness.
OK.
It's always worth,
when you've got improvised rope, improvised harness
and improvised belay device
to just have a little double-check of everything.
I'm tied off securely and ready to go.
When you're more than 70 foot up, your descent needs to be considered.
The harness is holding firm,
but I'm not feeling confident up here.
I'm just aware of the rope running over a lot of these sharp rocks.
I don't want to be bouncing around too much on this.
Nice and steady.
With so much loose rock around,
there's nowhere for me to hide if any of it comes my way.
Oof!
This is all horrible.
Situations like this can be killers.
And I'm right in the firing line.
Oi!
Get one of those on your head and it's lights out.
Come on. We need to get you down here, then we'll go together.
Otherwise, we're just gonna bring so many rocks on top of each other.
We'll go down at the same level.
The reason loose rocks are so dangerous
is that if you get something coming down on top of you, knocks you out,
you then stop holding your rope and drop straight off the end of it.
The end of this parachute is just jammed in this ring
and we're still bang in that danger zone.
OK, here we go.
That's the rope gone.
I'm relieved to escape in one piece.
Next up, I'm on the hunt for food in a saturated rainforest.
Look! Possum!
I'm in New Zealand's South Island
where I've pushed my luck in a watery ravine...
..catapulted myself over a steep gorge...
Here she goes!
Oh!
..and rappelled from a crumbling ridge line
in the country's highest mountain range.
Oi!
And now I'm in one of the wettest places on earth.
Nearly 400 inches of rain fall here annually.
My clothes are soaking. I want to warm up.
That means finding shelter.
When it's raining this much, simplicity really matters.
You know, we don't want anything too complicated.
Try and look for a natural hollow or deadfall.
That won't be hard to find around here.
The ground in this rainforest is so wet,
even the biggest trees can be uprooted.
This might work.
It's fallen, but the trunk's firmly wedged against a nearby tree.
The problem is so much of the ground is like this -
saturated with water.
But all of this, a bit spongy and a bit higher,
is gonna keep me out of that water.
And then look. I've got nice coverage above here.
You know, it's pretty basic.
I'll maybe use some ferns to make some roofing
to keep the worst of the rain out of here as well.
Cool. Let's try that.
Tree ferns are incredibly useful.
The fronds help keep the water out
and the dead leaves make good tinder
and the roots are a great food source.
All I need now is a roof rafter.
And this can then jam in there
and that's gonna give something
for me to jam the fern ends into to support them.
Quick, easy and very effective.
There's a nice layering to that. Now let's have a look inside.
Oh, yeah, actually it's quite nice and cosy in here,
protected from the rain and out of the water.
The only thing that could make this a bit more homely -
I wanna get a fire going.
OK, let's do it.
I'm surrounded by wood,
but in waterlogged forest, finding anything dry is a real challenge.
You always want to try and get deadwood
that's hanging in the trees
that hasn't been sat, soaking in water.
And, yeah, even though it's wet on the outside,
on the inside that's nice and dry.
And I've got a load of those dried fern fronds
that I can use as tinder just to get the fire going.
And this is always the difficult stage of a fire,
especially when it's raining.
Once it starts to generate heat, it all becomes easier.
While the kindling catches,
I'll use the heat to dry bigger branches.
I've gotta be careful not to smoother it, though.
A nice crisscross frame -
the kindling keeps all the oxygen going in
and the rain's still off it, which is good.
My fire's alight,
but I'll need bigger bits of deadwood to keep it going.
In this wet, soaking place
you have to focus on staying warm and dry.
Stay there.
Look! Possum!
See him? Stay there.
There are around 30 million of these small mammals in New Zealand.
I've only got a stick as a weapon...
..but if I can catch this, it'll make a great meal.
Got him!
Just got him.
He was going into that hole. Look.
See that? That's where he shot into.
I could just see the back of him.
These guys are really considered pests in New Zealand.
You know, they destroy the forest, kill the birds.
Huh. Good. Now, where did I drop all that firewood?
When you're burning more than 3,000 calories a day,
a meal this size is a bonus.
Normally you wanna skin and prepare any food away from your camp,
but there's no predators here that I need to worry about.
Get the guts out.
Possums can carry diseases like tuberculosis
so it needs to be cooked through.
Just lay it on like this and cook it in the skin.
It's funny - when you sit and watch something cook,
it's always gonna taste better at the end.
You just get hungrier and hungrier.
But having food on the fire is great for morale.
OK, that should be done.
Oh, a very strong taste.
It kind of reminds me of rat meat, and that's not great.
But it's warming and it's nutritious
and for that I'm grateful.
I'm battered, bruised and soaked to the skin,
but it's not all bad in my rudimentary shelter.
However hellish a place you're in, and I've been to a lot of them,
there's always something you can do
to make yourself a bit more comfortable.
You might not make it like home,
but you can certainly make it feel a bit more homely.
And right now I'm sheltered, I'm warm and I've had something to eat.
And you know what? I'm pretty happy.
But now I have to face the elements once again.
The incessant rain is bad news for me,
but it's helped this forest to thrive
for more than 80 million years.
It's absolutely teeming with life and that means food.
And that's a huhu grub. He's big and completely edible.
I'm deep in the forests of New Zealand
in search of something to get my teeth into.
Rotting wood like this - it's always good to look for grubs.
The larvae from New Zealand's largest native beetle - the huhu -
feeds off the decaying wood.
And these guys will go in absolutely tiny
and then live in there for up to two years
just steadily feeding away.
Here he is.
And that's a huhu grub. He's big and completely edible.
You just wanna take off the head...
..which you don't want to eat,
but all of this is fine.
It's a real Maori delicacy.
People say it tastes like peanut butter.
I love peanut butter on my toast, but I wouldn't put this on it.
(SPITS) It's more like snot.
But they've got a high fat content
so they're the perfect fast food to keep you going.
OK.
There's no shortage of rotting wood
and that means no shortage of food... if you like grubs.
So the biggest challenge here is finding a way to the west coast.
You can tell it rains in New Zealand.
Just solid waterfalls like this the whole way down the mountain.
The stream will run to a river
and on this side of the mountains, they all wind their way west
so that's what you should look for.
Look. There's a river.
This is only ever gonna lead one way -
downhill and to the coast.
Come on.
It's impossible to tell how far the coast is from here.
For now, it's probably best to follow the course of the river.
But I can't make that call until I see the lay of the land.
OK, the next phase begins.
You can see it's gonna be hard to follow the riverbank -
it's just sheer cliffs on both sides there.
You know, there's a nice gentle flow to this.
It might be worth making some sort of flotation device
and just drifting down
and breaking out onto a bank when we find one.
It's a calculated risk.
You never know what's around the corner
or where you'll be able to get out.
Now, these will be good - all the dead stems from these ferns.
The good thing about these
is all the ferns above have kept these pretty dry.
That means they're gonna make good buoyancy.
And the remains of the parachute
will make a fail-safe waterproof casing to put them in.
The good thing about using parachute material is zero porosity.
That means it will keep water out and trap air inside,
creating extra buoyancy.
This is what we used to do in the military. We'd use our ponchos
to wrap up everything - backpack -
and then tie it, seal it
and use that as flotation to cross lakes or rivers.
And that's gonna be nice and buoyant.
The one thing I don't want to put in there, though, is my knife.
I want to keep that out, strapped to me.
That's my safety in the river if I get snagged in anything.
Your knife is your primary means of survival. You don't want to lose it.
Let's do this.
I might be in a rainforest,
but this water comes straight from a glacier.
It's less than 50 degrees -
cold enough to render you unconscious within an hour.
There's loads of buoyancy in this at least.
Push out into flow.
OK, we're on.
Keep with me in the main flow. Stick together in this river.
Just get downstream
and find a place where we can walk properly along the banks.
You need to stay alert in rivers.
There's potential danger around every bend.
Some rapids ahead there.
You need to keep your feet up as you go through these, alright?
If you glide on your back with your legs forward
and use the current to help steer,
you can avoid hidden rocks and stoppers.
Those can be a death sentence.
Oh!
Keep away from the undercut ledges.
If you can't, fend off the rocks
and hope you're spat out the other side.
Ooh! I didn't like that undercut bit.
I'm through the rapids, but not out of trouble yet.
There's still no banks to be able to get out and walk on.
Look at this. Look.
Still sheer walls on both sides.
I'm beginning to wonder if getting in this river was such a good idea.
Hypothermia will set in 25 times quicker in here than on land.
We've gotta get out soon. It's getting really cold in here now.
I'm in a freezing glacier-fed river on the west coast of New Zealand.
We've gotta get out soon. It's getting really cold in here now.
I knew the risks before I got in here and I'm well prepared.
The best way of keeping warm
is just to hold your buoyancy close to you,
try and preserve your core heat.
Keeping your legs and arms close to your stomach
will help slow the heat loss.
Look. There's a bank over there. We can get out.
My gamble's paid off.
And that is a very welcome sight to see, that bank.
But the cold water's taking its toll.
Early signs of hypothermia are plain to see.
I bet my lips are really blue.
That's the stage I know I'm getting really cold.
It's not far, but most drownings are within a few feet of safety.
Every stroke is a struggle.
I thought that canyon was just never gonna end.
I can't feel my fingers well at all.
Warm them up and then we can get packed up.
Very, very relieved to see some clear ground.
I need to get on the move,
get my heart rate up and the blood pumping.
Let's go.
As you follow the riverbank west towards the coast,
you hit tidal flood plains...
..and that means you are soon into swamp.
There's no escaping water here.
It's energy-sapping.
At times like these you've gotta dig deep
and keep a positive mental attitude.
(SLURPS AND SPITS)
The water's beginning to taste a bit saltier, brackish.
That means we're getting closer to the sea.
Let's keep going. Come on.
After days of being soaked through, I'm flagging.
Even a one-degree drop in your core body temperature
can mean you burn five times more energy.
I need a boost and I've seen something that'll help me.
That's a cabbage tree.
Strip all these leaves off...
..and right in the middle of it you get the heart of it
and that's what's edible.
A good bit of carbohydrate,
give you a bit of energy,
which, in a swamp like this, you need.
Tastes a little bit like raw cabbage, unsurprisingly.
Fighting my way through here is hard work and disorientating.
I need to find a marker to get my bearings.
Look. See those trees?
See the way they're leaning towards us
and that far side has been stripped bare
by the force of the weather coming from the sea?
That means west and the coast is that way.
It's so hard to maintain your direction in a swamp like this,
but little markers like that really help.
Let's keep going. Come on.
The weather's closing in and this rain is relentless.
But the coast is a welcome sight.
Can hear the surf from here.
Come on. Let's get down.
I'm on my last legs, but I've made it in one piece.
And that's the coast!
It's pretty bleak.
And this is as far west as I can go.
The next stop that way is Argentina
and that's almost halfway around the world.
OK, left or right up the coast?
Last time I went left I was wrong. Let's go this way.
There's only one word for New Zealand - epic.
The diversity here has been the ultimate challenge
and I've been tested to my breaking point.
But the end is finally in sight.
Look. There's a hut.
You can see the outline of two chimneys.
You see that?
That's gonna be my end.
And, man, New Zealand
has been spectacular,
but hard.
And, boy, does it rain a lot.
OK, let's get to that hut. Come on.
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