[animals grunting]
[growling]
[gunshot blasts]
- [elephants trumpeting] - [indistinct chatter]
Run, run!
- Oh, we need to run. - [bleep]!
[Andries speaking]
- Hey! - Ha!
[elephant trumpeting]
[Andries speaking]
My heart right now is just...
[Andries speaking]
[Amy] I'm just not sure anybody can survive here for 21 days.
[Lily] Oh, my god!
[screaming]
[narrator] Two strangers...
[Viktor] Ha! Run! Go, go, go go!
[sobbing]
...no food...
- Ah! - Whoo-ah!
[bleep].
...no water...
Ah!
...21 days.
- [Tray] Don't tap. - [roaring]
Die first.
"Naked and Afraid."
Check all of this stuff.
I don't see this stuff out there by me.
[Amanda] So the first things I'm noticing
for the terrain and the weather,
is just how wet it is.
It's going to be really hard to make a fire.
It looks like there could be some steep terrain,
but it's very dense and just really thick jungle.
All right, here we are. It's time to get naked.
I have a background in mountain guiding, backpack guiding,
and wilderness therapy.
I am drawn to the therapeutic nature of nature itself.
I would describe my survival philosophy more of working
with the land and being patient.
I think it's awesome to be like, I know that plant,
but not only do I know the name, but I'm like,
I can eat that plant, you know?
It's like, I can make a rope out of that plant.
Let's do it!
[Andries speaking]
And the downfall, if I don't,
I'm never gonna hear the end of this.
In the Krabi province of southern Thailand,
Andries and Amanda's 21-day challenge begins
in the Kiriwong Forest, a sprawling valley
of dense jungle surrounded by 800-foot limestone cliffs.
With Thailand's infamous monsoon season in full swing,
heavy rains flood the area, filling streams
and natural aquifers with fresh water,
but also creating extreme humidity
and spawning a breeding ground of highly-toxic plants,
poisonous insects, and ravenous mosquitoes
that carry the threat of dengue and Zika virus.
The jungle is infested with over 200 species of snakes
including the 12-foot king cobra whose powerful venom
can kill an adult elephant with one bite.
I'm really hoping that my partner is competent
and works well with others.
Someone that you can get along with when you're
in stressful situations like this.
[Amanda] Hello, how's it going?
Amanda.
Oh, I'm ready.
- Oh, are you? - [Andries] Yeah.
Right. Oh, that's awesome.
So you--
So you know how everything works then.
It's cool to hear that Andries has been a ranger
for "Naked and Afraid."
He definitely has protective instincts, and so that's
awesome in terms of just making sure we're all OK.
What do we got here?
[Amanda] Mm-hmm.
[Amanda] Yeah.
[Amanda] Fire.
[Amanda] We will make it work.
I got some fishing hooks and some fishing line on here.
[Amanda] There is no pot.
With an abundance of potable fresh water in the area,
the survivalists have not been given a pot.
Instead, due to a high risk of mosquito-borne diseases,
they receive a bug net for protection.
Let us sleep well.
Oh, yeah, the map. Let's see.
[Andries] We are there.
[Amanda] Right, that arrow is where we are.
It looks like there's some water.
[Amanda] Mm-hmm.
It looks like we should be heading that direction.
Mm-hmm.
To reach the nearest freshwater source
and set up their camp, Amanda and Andries will head
four miles northwest through the thick jungle,
crawling with venomous centipedes, scorpions,
and black tarantulas, as well as the lethal pit viper
that camouflages itself in the canopy in order to ambush
its prey from above.
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] It is thick.
[Amanda] Yeah, because you're used to what, being more open?
[Amanda] This is jungle.
[Amanda] If you get white sap from these plants on you,
it'll irritate your skin.
A couple years ago, a doctor told me that I was
positive for Lyme disease, and so it's made it
more of a challenge to regulate my nervous systems,
and that has affected not only my personal life,
but also my career in guiding
because there's been moments when I've really had
these doubts that I can continue doing things outside
because I don't know if my health will uphold.
So I chose to do this challenge to kind of experience truly
what the human body can endure.
Oh, it looks like this is a rubber tree.
So if we cut into it, it'll have latex.
I think we're being watched right now.
[Andries laughing]
[Amanda] Kind of getting the feeling like we are.
[Amanda] Found the water?
There may be some spring head we can find.
So I'm following the water source,
trying to find the head of the spring to see
where I can get a visual on it coming out of the rock.
So you can see there's some light flicker down there.
So that's telling me there is water coming through
this cave system.
So the water has cut through the limestone.
I definitely think this water is safe to drink.
It looks like that water is either coming
from a spring head or it's coming from like an aquifer
in the-- in the earth that's coming out of the limestone.
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] Nice.
Solid.
[Amanda] Yep.
[animals buzzing]
What do you think about, like, one of these spots
on this side? - [Andries speaking]
[Amanda] Yeah, it's nice and shady, right?
What is it, the little sapling shelters?
[Amanda] That would be real easy to make.
[Andries speaking]
Yes.
Amanda and Andries will first create a sleeping shelter
using thin, pliable saplings to create an arched framework
layered with palm fronds.
Then they'll create a separate lean-to structure to protect
their fire and supplies from the frequent monsoon rains.
[Amanda] Nice work.
So, you thinking about that rock?
The fire will probably be somewhere here and it can be
protected out of the rain.
Hey now, bliksem!
Ah!
[Amanda] What happened?
[Amanda] Is it deep?
[Amanda] Oh my gosh!
[Andries] Ahh!
Oof.
[Amanda speaking]
[indistinct]
[Amanda] I know we saw a plant coming in, the acacia,
and so that has antiseptic properties on it.
With the thorns on it?
Around your hand.
OK.
We went ahead and wrapped it on the hand with a banana leaf,
and that's kind of helped protect it
and prevent infection.
So just hold that there, please.
[Andries speaking]
All right.
Do you want me to take a turn chopping stuff, or do you still
feel comfortable chopping things?
OK.
[Amanda] Looking good.
So right now, I am getting some dry bamboo flakes
for fire tinder.
So I have a lot, uh, drier tinder here
than I would just picking up stuff off the ground,
but I'm still nervous.
Everything is still really, really wet.
Getting a fire going is very nerve-racking
because from the Lyme disease,
my nervous system gets dysregulated easier,
and at times, my body doesn't hold or produce heat super well,
so the fire is really important to me.
Got fire.
- Hell yeah. - [Andries] I'll say.
- [Amanda] I love it. - [Andries] All right.
I'm very excited.
[Amanda] I think we've done a mighty fine job
with this shelter of ours.
Mosquito netting, shelter, rain protection.
Our mosquito net.
Once you're surrounded by netting, you're safe.
None of the world's terrors can get you underneath
the see-through mosquito netting.
[insects buzzing]
[bleep].
[Andries and Amanda speaking]
[insects buzzing]
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda sighs]
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] Damn it!
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda speaking]
[high-pitched squeaking]
[Andries speaking]
[bleep].
The plan for today is we're gonna try
to start building some traps.
I would say that my strong points in survival are more
of knowing the different traps and how to set that
for the aquatic life.
Right now, we have the materials
for an eel trap.
We do have some bigger pieces of bamboo.
The idea is that the bamboo hole is functioning as like
a hole an eel would normally go into.
You know, they like the little holes to pop in and out of.
Amanda's bamboo eel trap will be closed
and baited at one end.
At the other, she'll build a funnel of sharpened sticks
that will guide an eel into the trap for the bait,
but prevent it from escaping.
[Amanda] This might work.
Typically used for small game,
a deadfall trap combines a bait stick
with two other notch sticks in the shape of a four,
and held in place by the weight of a large stone.
When an animal disturbs the bait, it triggers the trap,
releasing the stone that pins the animal.
[monkeys growling]
[chattering]
[monkey shrieks]
[Andries speaking]
[groans]
[Amanda] Just-- oop. What is that?
So nothing's in there other than a little bitty crawdad.
It's something.
[Andries speaking]
It is exactly the taste of when you bite the shrimp's tail
and don't take the shell off, in case anyone was wondering.
I am checking traps.
Crawdad number two.
And we have some breakfast.
I am getting a little bit nervous.
It's reliably catching crawfish, but really tiny ones.
It's kind of exciting to have that in the morning sometimes,
but it's not really worth the energy.
It's a lot of effort for not a lot.
[laughing]
[Amanda] Yesterday was the first day I really started feeling
some weakness from not eating enough calories,
a lot lower energy,
so I'm noticing some shifts in my body,
feeling more hunger pains.
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda speaking]
Wah!
Got it!
I don't want to brag or anything,
but I just caught a lizard with my hands.
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] OK.
[Amanda] His little tongue's ready to slap you in the face.
[Andries] This thing barely has any meat on him.
You know he's right, but the other part of me was
like, can we at least like lick the meat a little bit?
Yes, yes, good luck with it.
[Amanda] Good luck with the journeys.
[Andries speaking]
Ha-ha!
Damn!
Been a while since we've had not something small
and pitiful, so there's lots of meat on this feller.
[Andries speaking]
Hoo-hoo! Yeah!
Ha-ha! Ha-ha!
- Eh. - [Amanda] Damn!
[Amanda] Look at the meat on that.
Look at that.
[Amanda] Oh, my God.
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] We got some food.
[Andries speaking]
Good fish. Good fish.
- [wind howling] - [rain splashing]
[lightning crashing]
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda speaking]
[Andries speaking]
[groans]
[lightning crashing]
[Amanda] Nice, look at those banana leaves.
[Andries speaking]
Perfect.
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] Yeah, the rain's gonna be the big problem.
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] Yeah, and I might start playing around with making
some type of a torch to see if we can catch
some of the some frogs or maybe some toads out and about.
A lot of the animals actually are pretty nocturnal,
so we know to expand our hunting menu,
we need to search in the dark for some of the creatures.
To hunt in the dark, Amanda will create torches
by filling bamboo with both fresh and dried latex
from a rubber tree along with shaved coconut husk
to fuel the flame.
[Amanda] I'm currently working on a torch.
I'll end up creating some slits in it so that there's airflow.
That's dried latex.
It's white when it first comes out and then darkens
as it sits.
I'm gonna shove a bunch in the top there
and then intermix some coconut because the coconut oil burns
really well also.
So, with that mixture, I'm hoping that it's gonna
give us a really good flame and give us a lot of light.
We'll see how that works.
All righty, I know you can barely see me, but that's OK
because we're doing torch test number one.
All right, now we're going.
The torch lives!
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] Yeah, it does.
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] So we're just looking for the little frog holes,
any signs of movement.
[light croaking]
Where's that one frog? You hear it?
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] Whenever you go to where one of the frog noises is,
they of course stop.
Playing games with us.
[Andries speaking]
[light croaking]
[Amanda] Yeah?
What do you got eyes on?
Mm-hmm.
[Amanda] Oh, [bleep], that's a huge one.
Damn, we can eat that one!
[Amanda] Oh.
- [Amanda] There he is. - [Andries] Oh, [bleep]!
[Amanda] Those blend in so well.
That's ridiculous.
[Amanda] Nice job.
[Amanda] Frogs.
I'm quite excited about the size of these things.
[Amanda] That was really successful.
I gotta say. There's one leg.
- Perfect. - Man, look at that meat.
It's so much meat.
I am really amazed at how well the torches held
its light and flame.
Oh, my goodness.
That's yummy.
Very tender.
So I'm really, really proud of that success there.
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] Ready to go.
[Amanda] Yeah, absolutely.
And I'll just wrap...
this up.
[Amanda] My emotional state is, I'm pretty excited
to be on the move.
It's been tiring being out here for these 21 days.
Obviously, we know our camp is right around here,
and our extraction is right there at the X.
- [Andries speaking] - [Amanda] Mm-hmm.
[Amanda] Extraction-- yeah.
I think that's a good plan.
To reach their extraction point, five miles away,
Andries and Amanda must forge their own path
out of the valley by traversing a two-mile stretch
of muddy swampland, home to deadly 12-foot king cobras...
[hissing]
...before pushing another three miles through the dense jungle
covered in sharp thorns
and venomous pit vipers.
[Amanda] The cliff line is coming up ahead.
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] Head straight towards it.
Make sure we have that good landmark.
[Amanda] Found the swamp?
[Andries grunts]
[Amanda] Yeah.
[Amanda] Really have to watch our steps here so we don't get stabbed
by the root system. - [Andries] Yah.
These roots are quite sharp.
[Amanda] Yeah.
[Amanda] Just try not to get sucked into the mud.
This is definitely a place where all those water snakes
would love to live. That looks deep.
[Andries speaking]
Oh [bleep]!
[Amanda] That is huge!
Wow! Oh, my gosh!
I don't like this.
[hissing]
[Andries speaking]
[bleep].
- [light thud] - Ha-ha!
So good. So fresh.
- [Amanda] Oh, [bleep]! - [Andries speaking]
I don't like this.
[hissing]
[Andries speaking]
He hasn't started making his...
himself wider, so let's just
stand dead still. Let him do his thing.
[Amanda] Wow!
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] Holy, [bleep], that's a huge snake
and it blends in perfectly
with the mangrove roots.
[Amanda] Took a deep breath there.
Lots of power behind it.
[Amanda] Let him go back home.
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] This jungle right here is thicker than anything
we've been through thus far.
The cliff line is getting covered up more
with vegetation.
[Andries speaking]
[Amanda] Ouch.
Some thorns over here.
[Andries speaking]
[indistinct]
[Amanda] Walking through this section of the jungle,
the rocks are getting really sharp and then
the thorns are really picking up.
They're getting a lot more dense and it's really hard
on our feet.
- [Andries speaking] - [Amanda] Uh-oh.
[Amanda] Listen, I hear more water.
You hear the rushing water?
[Amanda] Sounds a little bit like a waterfall.
[Amanda] Yeah, the sky is opening up.
[Amanda] At the end of the cliff line.
[Amanda] We're almost there.
[Amanda] To leave the jungle behind,
right now it just feels kind of surreal.
It definitely was a long mental game, and there's just a sense
of relief that we finally are exiting that very tough
and rough terrain.
We must be getting close.
Oh, I hear something.
[Amanda] Yeah, it's definitely an engine.
[Amanda] I think this is it.
Oh, there it is.
[Amanda] Hell yeah.
[Andries speaking]
Whoo-hah!
I do have a sense of accomplishment
from this challenge because when I had my Lyme diagnosis
and was all of a sudden,
like, unsure of what my body was capable of...
What it is to sit down in a vehicle!
...to kind of experience the full resiliency of
the human body myself is kind of a cool feeling
to realize and know.
And time for another chapter to start.
After surviving the jungles of Thailand,
Amanda lost 20 pounds,
while her primitive survival rating rises
from 5.7 to 6.6.
[Amanda] Twenty-one days and going home.
I can put myself right up there with the legends
and say, "Right guys,
maybe someday we're gonna-- gonna go toe to toe."
Over the course of his 21 days, Andries dropped
a total of 23 pounds, his PSR climbs from 6.7 to 7.5.
Of all the Rangers out there, I hope you guys gonna follow
my lead and come prove your worth
and show that we tough as nails.
- Whoo! - Now just hold on.
[laughing] Yeah, don't fall out of the vehicle.