[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, [bleep]!
[animal growls]
How was that for some close encounters?
- Not everybody gets the chance to look in the eye
of the animal you're about to eat.
[sobs]
- Oh, [bleep], there's a bear coming my way.
I'm gonna go toward the bear.
Might be smart to get him a little extra afraid of me.
- I've lost my fire steel.
[screaming]
When you think you've got everything,
how quickly it all can just go away
just by making a mistake.
♪ ♪
male narrator: For the first time,
ten participants will fight to survive the Arctic
for longer than anyone in "Alone" history...
a grueling 100 days.
- This is the ultimate challenge.
- 100 days in the Arctic is no joke.
narrator: If they can endure,
they'll win the biggest prize ever--
$1 million.
♪ ♪
- Whoa! - Holy [bleep]!
- You can't tap out
when there's a million bucks on the line.
- Oh, my gosh. - [growls]
- How hard can you work for $10,000 a day?
- It looks like frostbite.
- [screams]
- Holy [bleep]!
narrator: This is "Alone: Million Dollar Challenge."
- They're just surrounding my shelter.
[wolf growling]
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[berries rustling]
- Can you hear that?
Those are berries in there for winter.
I'm gonna empty my boot from last night into my hollow log.
[tarp crinkling]
I want to get some berries and some herbs
and things dried.
There ain't a whole bunch of calories in that stuff,
but I want to have that as a complement.
And if I strike out on the big-game kill,
at the very least, I'm gonna have them berries.
♪ ♪
Oh, yeah, that's a pretty sight.
I had four or five "logfuls" like that
and a bunch of fireweed root, I might be in business.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Heading for Stoneville.
I found a spot where I want to have my permanent shelter.
And I've made good progress on that.
This is it.
This is where we're wintering in.
We're gonna live in stone.
We'll rearrange all them wall stones.
Come over to here, stop.
This is the doorway right between the boulders.
And then we'll make our other wall behind that tree.
And then we can start putting logs on top of that for roof.
[grunts]
It's gonna be a project.
[grunting]
Today's goal is to have the rock--
part of the rock house finished.
[grunts]
I want to get this wall done.
Keep burning up energy on this. [grunts]
It's heavy-ass hard work for sure.
[pants]
[grunts and yells]
Ooh, stay there, you mother--
My main plan is cabin.
I know you need a heavy, heavy structure to spend the winter.
[straining]
I want to be comfortable.
I'm not gonna get cold in what I'm fixing to build.
Yep, he's gonna go right in there.
I'm gonna spend a lot of calories
getting my structure up.
But I think in the end, we'll be glad we went rock.
♪ ♪
[bleep], that looks good. [giggles]
My odds of winning are damn near 100%.
That's a 100-day shelter.
Yeah, I'm going the distance here.
[foreboding music]
♪ ♪
- All right, so I came across this track
right here next to the shore.
The only thing I can think of is maybe a small wolverine,
'cause I'm seeing five.
I'm gonna erase all these because that's pretty fresh.
[sniffs]
And I'll come back in a couple days
and also see if animals are frequently visiting this spot.
So I don't know.
I don't really track wolverines, so we'll see.
♪ ♪
I spent ten years in the United States Marine Corps
conducting special operations for the reconnaissance
and scout sniper communities.
And about two and a half years ago,
I started my own business teaching shooting,
survival, mountaineering, and tracking.
I just have a passion for it. I love it.
This is my snare.
I'll bend it down, I'll put a small little kink in it
like that, so when it comes up, it closes.
This is all a mental challenge.
I want to see how far I can push my body and my mind.
I know what I have done in the Marine Corps.
I've been drug through the dirt and the mud,
and blood, sweat, and tears, and I've done so well
because of my attitude.
all: ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
My son Max, he's one years old,
and the biggest reason
why I'm doing this show is for him.
All right, man, it's the last time I'm gonna see you
for 100 days. - Say good-bye to Dad.
- I don't make that great of money.
I mean, a million dollars
could definitely take care of us.
Love you. Love you, Dad.
But 100 days is a long time, and I think the money
is gonna push people to really push themselves further.
- Say bye-bye.
- I don't mind failing, but I do mind quitting.
- Bye, Dad.
- Quitting is not an option.
- Good luck, Dad.
- Might as well go check the gill net.
We'll see if we got a fish in there.
♪ ♪
All right, two whitefish...
♪ ♪
And two lake trout...
♪ ♪
All in one morning.
[breathes deeply]
I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am.
[chuckles]
♪ ♪
I need a bigger area to be able to smoke all my meat.
So I've got to build a fireplace with these rocks.
All right, now I got to kind of start
laying the foundation for some of them.
I've got to put my rock wall high enough
to prevent my shelter from catching on fire.
I want it big, so that's gonna take a lot of work.
But my mindset is,
this is a long-term, miserable situation,
so it's all about what can I endure
and how good am I at pain, misery, and suffering.
More big rocks.
'Cause sooner or later, the fish are gonna dry up.
We got our three cooking platforms--one, two, three.
So smoking fish, that's gonna be enough for me
to build a sustained life for 100 days.
There it is for now.
I think that that's gonna really protect my shelter
from catching on fire.
First fire in the new shelter with the new fireplace.
Fish isn't gonna be my only meals out here.
I do plan on catching large game if I can.
It's awesome that I have that gill net out
producing food for me while I'm doing this other stuff.
Every fish I catch gives me a little bit more relief.
Tell you what-- it's smoking my fish.
Like, it's perfect.
Not bad.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- You won't believe this. [chuckles]
Guess what.
I just found...
a lucky rabbit foot.
Check this out. Do you see this?
Some people might think it's gross, and maybe it is,
because it is a partially decomposed rabbit foot,
but it's a lucky rabbit foot.
I mean, aren't rabbit feet lucky?
That's lucky. That's frickin' lucky.
That is lucky.
Look, there's mushrooms right here, too.
Kind of reminds me of hiking on a trail back home.
♪ ♪
My whole adult life, I've been traveling around,
so I'm a nomad.
I don't live in a house.
I don't have a bed to miss.
I live in a tent. I live under trees.
I live in caves. I live under tarps.
This is my home.
My life has been committed to deepening my relationship
with everything that sustains me--
so my food, my water, my shelter, my clothes,
I'm trying to figure out, how do I fit into this ecosystem?
So the idea is
to put this in a stream in kind of a chokepoint,
and the fish can easily swim in here,
but they can't get back out.
In the winter, I track mountain lions.
In the fall, I go out on bowhunts.
I pack goats.
And then I spend a lot of the year
teaching ancestral skills--
basket weaving, hide tanning, and animal processing.
The Arctic's gonna be a totally new landscape,
but I'm capable of staying out for 100 days.
The reason I'm doing this is because the opportunity
to be able to have financial abundance
and still be able to prioritize
the things I love and I think are important
would be a wonderful gift.
[laughter]
I'm gonna miss my parents, my sisters,
and my sweetheart, Joshua.
It'll be hard to leave him,
but I'm so ready
for a wilderness solo adventure.
This is my rite of passage
into the next phase of my life,
and I have to meet it.
My strategy for first food
would be squirrels and rabbits.
I'm just setting multiple snares
along the rabbit trail.
So I got my bit of snare wire.
I've already set several,
and I'm just gonna keep setting some more.
Let's go set some snares.
[lively music]
♪ ♪
Until I figure out the patterns of the big game
and the patterns of the fish,
my plan is to set lots of snares.
The camera can hardly see it,
so hopefully the little bunny will hardly see it either.
All right, let's go back to camp.
Learning this new environment and this new place
isn't gonna be without its challenges.
But since I've chosen to live outside,
I've had to be adaptable.
I think the more comfortable and at home you are,
the better you're gonna be.
♪ ♪
I'm tempted to go exploring down there,
but I have the camera and all this stuff.
[bird cawing in the distance]
[whispering] Oh, my God.
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
♪
- [whisper
♪ ♪
- [whispering] Holy [bleep].
♪ ♪
There's, like, five of them.
♪ ♪
They move so swiftly.
They just move, like, swiftly and silently over the land.
♪ ♪
I don't know why,
but I'm gonna follow the wolves.
♪ ♪
I probably shouldn't 'cause there's, like, five of them.
♪ ♪
Wonder where they went.
I don't think I'm gonna find those wolves again.
♪ ♪
[normal voice] All right, so wolves and me--
we like to eat a lot of the same things.
[chuckles]
And let's face it--they're way better hunters than me.
So they're obviously gonna have an impact
on the rabbit population.
And...
they're gonna have an impact on the moose population
and all the critters.
So it's gonna take more effort finding food,
but that's all right.
I'm up for the challenge.
[low tense music]
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
- [panting lightly]
[arrow thwacks]
Yes!
Ye--I got him.
All right. Got him.
Cool.
Well...
I get to eat tonight.
♪ ♪
This is a crazy experience. I'm thankful to be here.
And I'm thankful for whatever lessons
I'm supposed to learn out here.
♪ ♪
I think my skills with a bow and arrow
definitely set me apart from the crowd.
[arrow thwacks]
I come from a long line of hunter-gatherers
and avid outdoorsmen.
So, ever since I was old enough
to hold a bow and arrow,
my parents had one in my hands.
I started building arrows in my basement
and now I make primitive longbows for a living.
I served four years with the Marines
and served two combat tours in Afghanistan.
[exhales deeply]
The Marine Corps taught me, more than anything,
discipline and perseverance in extreme hardship.
I think the Arctic is gonna provide some new challenges,
but the extreme conditions are gonna be no problem for me.
♪ ♪
I don't have a wife. I don't have kids.
I think that's gonna help me stay focused.
What the million dollars would do--
would probably give me a chance
to start a homesteading lifestyle
that I've been dreaming about for a long time.
I hope to make you proud, Dad.
More than anything, it would be a chance for me
to simplify my life even further than I already have.
It's gonna be tough competition, for sure,
but I feel good.
I feel ready.
Bye, everybody. - Bye.
- I'm gonna go 100 days.
♪ ♪
[water lapping]
This rock's down by the water.
I really don't want to have
a bunch of blood and guts
and things up by camp.
Feels so weird to be out here
with no sounds from other people.
It's gonna take some getting used to for sure.
Back home, when you're so distracted,
every moment of downtime is filled with something,
whether it's scrolling through the phone or watching TV.
There's not a lot of time to look inside yourself.
It doesn't matter. It's all distraction.
I'm gonna eat every part of this little guy that I can.
Thanks for your life, little dude.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- The rocks are really slippery.
Got to watch my step.
[breathes deeply]
♪
[exhales deeply]
♪ ♪
[sighs]
♪ ♪
♪
[arrow thwacks]
Voilà, fire.
♪
[laughs]
[sighs]
Holy cow.
♪ ♪
There we go.
♪ ♪
♪
Wow.
[insect buzzing]
[bleep].
♪
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
♪ ♪
Oh, [bleep].
♪
Whoa, it's crazy.
♪ ♪
[sighs]
♪ ♪
♪
I'm taking a big risk by being so close to the beach,
because there are predators walking here.
[scoffs] They might attack, you know?
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Pretty good.
Chimney's virtually done.
That's gonna hold a pretty big fire.
I feel good about that.
All the rock work's done.
Now we go on to phase two-- the log work.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
We need some poles, logs,
building material for the roof.
[grunts]
♪ ♪
[straining and panting]
Once I get the roof on, I'll be able to move in.
But I've got some work to do.
[exhales sharply]
[straining and grunting]
♪ ♪
[panting]
First log of the rock house...
in place.
♪ ♪
[grunts]
Whoo!
Logging's a dangerous gig.
You got to watch them trees.
They don't care. Kill you in a heartbeat.
Ooh, yeah.
♪ ♪
You got to hit it.
Your best don't happen in an eight-hour day.
Your best might take 16 hours.
[grunts]
I've worked myself to every victory
I've ever had in my whole life
just by sheer bullheadedness and hard work.
[sniffs]
♪ ♪
Rock house is coming along.
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
- [breathes deeply]
I think boiling water might be one of the biggest pain
in the asses here.
You got to take, like, 15, 20 minutes out of your day
at random times just to start a fire and purify your water.
Really makes you appreciate
the ability to just turn on your tap at home
and have fresh, clean water come out.
[light music]
♪ ♪
Here's where the shelter's at so far.
♪ ♪
Area for the firepit down in there,
a little elevated platform for some wood, and my bed.
♪ ♪
[breathes deeply]
My creativity is definitely gonna be a strong suit for me.
I take my shelter building very seriously.
♪ ♪
Just applying this moss chinking here
in between each one of the logs.
It's gonna be quite the process.
[grunts]
♪ ♪
[mallet thudding]
♪ ♪
I've got the fully insulated side walls up.
Now all I need to do is finish pitching the roof
and get that all braced up.
I should be able to get this thing done today,
with any luck.
[grunts] Oh, [bleep]!
Ow.
[groans]
I heard a pop in my left knee.
[grunts]
♪
[groans]
[panting]
♪ ♪
[exhales deeply]
[grunts] Just [bleep]--
♪ ♪
I just fell in a hole with this log,
and--ow--
I heard a pop in my left knee.
[winces]
It didn't feel very good, but...
[groans] It'll be all right.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
Adapt, improvise, and overcome, as they say in the Marines.
♪ ♪
I really do believe that the only way people can grow
is through challenges and hardship.
[tarp crinkling]
[sighs heavily]
Oh, my knee.
I had surgery on that knee 13 years ago,
and it's been pretty much 100% for a lot of years.
I'm just gonna try to take it easy and keep an eye on it.
♪ ♪
So I'm gonna put these spruce tops on the whole shelter...
because these...
are gonna be kind of like crisscross framework...
all the way up.
My internal self is highly competitive.
I think the competition aspect of it
and the fact that I have to beat out other people
for the prize will motivate me
to push myself further than I would have otherwise.
I'm not done until 100 days.
There's no settle point for me.
♪ ♪
Finally got a roof over my head.
It's not fully brushed up,
but I'm so tired of working on this shelter.
I think, uh-- Yep, I'm ready for a break.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[water lapping]
- I need a good shelter spot.
I need to get on it, too, 'cause I know weather's coming,
and I got to get a shelter set.
But I just can't find a good spot.
[birds chirping]
[crow caws]
Flat, dry ground,
close to water, close to firewood.
Haven't found that.
Surprising.
There's this really cool spot up on the cliff,
and I think it would be really warm 'cause the rocks.
But it'd basically be, like, a death trap,
hauling things up and down the cliff there.
But that's just what life is
presenting itself at the moment.
Let's ramble.
♪ ♪
[wind whistling]
There's, like, literally zero...
flat places...
to make a shelter,
so I am--
I got to level the ground...
of everything
so this shelter sits right.
♪ ♪
[grunts]
That's good.
Out here, people have to be concerned about the weather.
It can change at any moment,
so you have to be really careful.
♪ ♪
I was thinking I would have shelter already built,
but that's just not the case,
and I still have a lot more time
before I have something that feels
like a cozy home.
[grunts]
Let's see if I can do this without blowing away.
[tarp crinkling]
Oh, it might blow away.
Blowing away.
♪ ♪
Easy now, tarp.
Easy now.
♪ ♪
I know, it's shabby. It's shabby.
But I needed to do something to cut down on the wind.
There's gonna be a lot of windy days here.
So, if I even think I can be comfortable at all,
I'm gonna have to fortify it perfectly.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[water lapping]
♪ ♪
- You guys want to see how much fat is in fish head soup?
Look at this...
all fat.
Fat, fat, fat, fat, fat. Fat, fat, fat.
There's some meat in there.
Mostly fat.
[fat slopping]
And that's why I eat it,
'cause I need fat.
[grunts]
[foreboding music]
This gill net is the best decision ever.
And I never thought in a million years
that I'd be catching the amount of fish
that I've been catching with this thing.
This is the kind of stuff
that's gonna be able to give me the energy
to be able to get up and do the things that I need to do.
♪ ♪
We're gonna start building a door.
So here's the idea--
lay these five logs down,
put a bar on the outside
and a bar on the inside going across.
We're gonna have two layers of poles,
and in between the two are gonna be a bunch of boughs
from spruce trees and pine trees.
Make it nice and thick.
♪ ♪
There's gonna be a lot of times
I'm away from my shelter,
so I want to make it predator resistant
whenever I'm gone.
I don't want things getting in my shelter,
going through my stuff.
I want it to be able to protect me.
This place is gonna be my new home.
[logs clacking]
Okay.
That looks good. [exhales deeply]
Think I'll get a fire started in here.
[crow cawing]
[crow caws]
I hear something.
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
[crow cawing rapidly]
♪ ♪
[whispering] There's a black bear...
♪ ♪
Cutting across.
♪ ♪
[driving tense music]
♪ ♪
[crow cawing]
- [whispering] There's a black bear...
cutting across.
I'm gonna go try and cut him off.
Got to move quick but quietly.
[normal voice] Bears have an incredible sense of smell.
And then with me catching all these fish,
there's no doubt that they smell that.
So now I'm in hunt mode.
Wind's in my favor right now.
Not everything out here is gonna be very friendly to me,
coming to try and steal my food,
trying to take what's mine.
So it's really survival of the fittest.
And this is a perfect opportunity
for me to be able to supply myself a lot of food.
♪ ♪
♪
[sniffs]
I'm gonna give it my best interpretation
of a dying snowshoe hare in distress.
[sniffs]
This might be ugly, but I'm gonna try it out.
[imitating hare squealing]
Bears--they'll all come into that...
if I didn't sound like an idiot...
If they're hungry enough.
Oh...
gosh.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Today I've already got to carve a new hole in my belt.
I have maxed it out, and I'm exactly one hole past.
New belt loop.
Damn.
I knew I was gonna lose weight quickly
coming out here this lean, but...
I didn't expect it to go quite that quickly.
♪
I wasn't naive enough to think that I'd come out here
and make it look easy, but...
I really...
really hoped for a little more game
so I could play on archery, which...
is my strongest skill,
but I have not seen one rabbit on the ground,
one grouse.
♪ ♪
And now there's definitely something going on
inside my left knee.
I've had my meniscus surgically repaired on that side before,
and it feels...
off in there.
I don't know if I twisted it when I was hauling lumber
through that squishy terrain... or what,
but it hurts like a mother.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[exhales deeply]
I'm finally getting to the point now
to where I'm waking up every day feeling pretty hungry.
I know it's not gonna be long
before my body starts cannibalizing my muscle.
I'm really not relying on squirrels
for more than a snack.
♪ ♪
I have a gill net out.
I'm really hoping I catch something.
♪ ♪
I just need some food to secure my stay here.
♪ ♪
Holy [bleep], there's a fish in there.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[grunts]
♪ ♪
Don't fall out, little guy.
♪ ♪
Ah, [bleep].
I tweaked my knee a little bit more.
♪ ♪
[grunts]
Now just don't fall in the water.
♪ ♪
Yes.
It worked. [laughs]
Holy [bleep]. [sniffs]
My homemade gill net worked.
It's only been in the water for one day,
but, man, I needed this fish.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
It's my first proper protein meal.
I'm pumped.
I'm ready for some hot fish head soup.
It definitely feels like you're in the game
as soon as you catch your first big fish.
So...
That's half of what I got cooked up right now.
Ah, so good.
[fire crackling]
[laughs]
I never thought I'd be so thankful for one fish.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[wind whistling]
♪ ♪
- I know it's windy. Okay, so...
you're gonna think I'm crazy.
But I'm moving camp. I'm moving camp.
I've just spent, like, two days...
[laughs]
I just spent, like, two days getting this spot--
like, getting the ground ready and then bringing poles over,
but this spot is windy.
It's so windy.
I feel it, I feel like I should move.
[wind whistling]
Being in the wind all the time is gonna make life way harder.
And if I can pick a spot
that's a little more sheltered,
I think it's probably gonna be better.
[light tense music]
♪ ♪
I've explored this whole bowl.
You can kind of see I'm in a bowl.
And there's wood up here, and the ground is dry,
but there's just not flat spots.
So what's a gal to do?
I doubt that you can tell that from the video,
but the ground's very uneven.
But like I've been saying, that is the case everywhere.
So I got my measuring stick here
just to kind of see.
So, one...
I mean, that guy is just really hilly,
so if that's one...
And then two...
I am definitely expending more calories
than I'm eating, that's for sure.
Those are calories that could be used towards hunting.
It's frustrating.
♪ ♪
All right, I'm gonna go down and start grabbing some things.
[wind gusting]
Ooh. Watch your step, girl.
Just have to be careful to not--
not fall down.
♪ ♪
[gasps]
♪
[arrow thwacks]
Oh, my God.♪
♪
[arrow thwacks]
[gasps, whispering] A porcupine.
It's totally a porcupine. Oh, my gosh.
I just hit him with my...
I just hit the porcupine with my blunt tip arrow.
I'm gonna try to get him with a broadhead.
[birds chirping]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[bowstring straining]
[arrow thwacks]
Oh, I got him.
See him in there? Oh, my gosh.
So now I got to crawl in there to get him.
[grunting]
[pants]
♪ ♪
Wow.
Oh, my gosh.
♪ ♪
[grunts]
Oh, my gosh, he's so sweet.
Oh, thank you, porcupine.
♪ ♪
[grunts]
I don't like taking life. I don't like being a killer.
But I feel like his life is a gift.
♪ ♪
His meat and fat is gonna fuel me
to get through this next week.
♪ ♪
Wow.
You have fat on you. That's amazing
Look at all that fat!
It does not seem impossible to make 100 days.
It's not gonna be just about my skills,
it's gonna be about my ability to work
in collaboration with this land.
[grunts]
It's a tough critter. Tough critter.
That is, like, really thick hair.
Wow.
[plaintive music]
♪ ♪
All right, um...
I just finished skinning this little guy...
and just finished processing him out.
So I took his skin off, and then I have all his bones
and meat and fat and organs in my pot.
♪ ♪
This couldn't be at a more perfect time.
Now I have food to fuel me in getting set up here.
And I just feel like this land is providing for me.
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
♪ ♪
- [breathes deeply]
I've been eating pretty good.
And I was excited to get some protein in my system,
but you can't live on just meat out here.
So I'm gonna have to eat a few handfuls of these every day
just to kind of keep everything working
as it should.
♪ ♪
[grunts]
[chewing]
I'm honestly a little bit scared
that I've done something to my knee.
♪ ♪
I'm losing stability. It gives out when I walk.
♪ ♪
[groans]
Nasty.
There's a huge fluid sac on the back of my knee.
[sniffs]
It's hard as a rock.
[birds chirping]
I thought I would show you guys what's going on with my knee.
[groans]
Right there.
So... [sniffs]
This knee, as you can see, has no lump.
This knee has a fluid sac
right here.
And it hurts like hell to fully extend my knee.
[sniffs]
[groans] And it's...
tries to give out on me every once in a while.
I'm familiar with a Baker's cyst, which is what that is.
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
[fire crackling]
♪ ♪
Even though things are going really well,
I've somehow managed to injure myself so early in the game.
It's a long ways to get to 100 days.
If this cyst doesn't go away, and somehow I rupture it,
I could go septic.
♪ ♪
[exhales deeply]
[groans]
Just laying here with, like, a hot feverish feeling
and a dull throbbing in my leg.
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Oh, ouch.
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[inhales deeply]
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I think-- [gulps]
I think it might still be a while till sunrise, but...
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No sleep for me tonight.
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[exhales deeply]
[sniffs]
[fire crackling]
[gulps]
When I woke up this morning, the normal,
just sort of nagging pain has kind of evolved
into more of a stabbing pain.
And the fluid sac that used to come and go,
depending on how much I kneeled down,
is now permanent.
So... [gulps]
There's something wrong inside my knee,
I just have a gut feeling.
I have the skills to do good out here,
and I've tried to prove that, but now I have to choose
between injury or pushing forward.
I'm a long ways from the finish line, so...
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I can't risk my future for this show.
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This is Correy. I'm officially tapping out.
[dramatic music]
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I'm not a doctor, but I think I probably damaged my meniscus.
And now I have to do what's right by me
and make sure I'm good.
The only thing that was gonna take me out
was an unforeseen injury, just like I said.
Just like that. [scoffs]
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[gulps]
[cries quietly]
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I learned a lot out here in a short amount of time.
It's...
weird what you learn when you're all by yourself,
even just for 12 days with no distractions whatsoever.
I don't think I had a chance to fully accomplish
what I came out here to do.
I was really drawn to just the transformative experience,
just spending time in solitude with nature
and figuring out who you are.
As a lesson in humility,
it was a humbling experience for me more than anything.
I'm humbled.
I think I'll be thinking about it for a long time.
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and find out how he's doing now,
Mark, it seemed like
you were killing it in the fishing department.
How did that affect your game plan
in the first 12 days?
- Yeah, man, so when I first started catching fish,
that was definitely a dream come true,
and I kept catching fish after fish after fish.
It kind of tailored the way I made my shelter.
It definitely changed the game plan for sure,
but in a good way.
- Well, yeah, you brought it up, perfect segue.
Let's talk shelters, Mark.
First of all, that thing you built was huge.
Looked like you could park a '68 Buick in that thing.
What was your--what was your strategy behind that shelter?
- When I first was gonna build my shelter,
obviously, I had a game plan.
I was gonna build a small one first
and then move on to my big shelter
and take the time to build it,
and when I got out there, I said,
"Nope, making the big one now."
I wanted to be able to have a home, right?
[grunts]
So the psychology behind being out there,
I wanted to make sure that I was good mentally.
- Well, we can't talk about shelters,
Roland, without talking about rock house, okay?
And the first thing I noticed,
in addition to just the size and the amount
of boulders and rocks you were moving into place...
- [grunts]
- Is I kept thinking about how many calories
you had to be burning when you were doing all that.
- Yeah, well, I got the advantage
of a number of far-north winters behind me,
and I've done 50-below in a wall tent.
So I wanted a warm,
substantial,
airtight shelter,
but the calorie output was massive.
- Massive. - Oh, man.
- And then once I started down that trail,
you got to finish it.
- Correy, your shelter was a little more typical
of what we've seen before, meaning, you know,
maybe don't expend a ton of energy upfront,
knowing that you're gonna continue to add on
to that shelter as the experience goes.
Was that your strategy with your shelter?
- Yeah, my strategy...
[sighs]
I had to change everything.
I had this grand plan for my shelter.
It was gonna be a lot bigger.
How is it possible to still need that many [bleep] trees?
But when we got dropped,
everything goes out the window,
and I had no dirt in my area whatsoever.
I had no real usable rocks.
I mean, I managed to make a pretty decent fireplace.
I mean, the biggest tree that I had in my area
was probably about the size of my arm,
so my shelter was totally improvised.
I went with more of a really tight sort of pitched roof,
A-frame type.
That was honestly the best that I could do
with my drop zone.
- And, Callie, by day 11,
you had started to build a shelter.
Then you bailed on it, moved somewhere else,
and at this point,
you don't really have a permanent shelter.
- That was something that surprised me.
I did not think that I would struggle
or have a challenge building a shelter.
I've done it lots of times,
but the place that I was dropped
was a north-facing bowl,
so it's all cliffs and all bogs,
and it was pretty challenging
finding a place that was suitable
for a long-term 100-day shelter,
but like Correy said,
you just have to roll with the punches
and adapt to what happens.
There's a lot that's out of your control
in these kinds of experiences.
- You brought up a great point. I want you to expand on that.
The viewers at home may not know,
but those location sites,
that's the luck of the draw, isn't it,
as far as where you land?
Tell us about how that process works,
how you ended up there.
- Right, so we all got a cupcake with a--
when we ate the cupcake, inside of it was a number
that correlated with which spot we got,
so it was sort of like a,
you know, random lottery
who got to go to which spot,
and they try to pick the spots fairly
so that each spot has a mixed bag
of, you know, challenges,
but also things that make it, you know,
a really plush spot.
- Well, there's plenty to still talk about when we get back,
right, Correy,
I know you're a bit of a methodical person,
and I know this because of this next clip
we're gonna take a look at,
some never-before-seen footage
of you crafting a throwing stick.
Let's take a look.
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- I want it to look like I took pride in making it.
You should always put pride
in everything that you put your hands on,
even if it's just a stick to whap animals in the head with.
Hiyah!
I think that'll do for now.
Ooh, check it out!
That's my humane dispatching staff.
Hiyah! Hiyah!
How many biting flies can one man fight off
before he loses his mind?
[grunting]
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Carry this with me when I go fishing.
That'll do well.
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- All right, Correy.
If nothing else, there's some nice form there.
Nice technique at the end of that.
Tell us about that.
- Thanks, I appreciate that.
So the stick was actually just my--
my humane dispatching stick.
I was gonna use it to smack fish
if I needed to, for a humane kill.
The other thing is, the biting flies
for, like, the first, I don't know,
eight days maybe
before it started to get cold at night
were just brutal.
If I could count how many bugs I've swallowed today...
I don't even need to be fishing right now.
I mean, they were tearing up my neck.
- Amós, how were those bugs
the first few weeks you were out there?
- The first couple weeks, there were a bunch of bugs.
They would get in your eyes, in your ears,
in your mouth, in your nostrils.
- Yeah, biting flies and these biting gnats too.
I had big old welts all over my belly.
- Okay, Correy, how did you feel about your specific site
and your location?
- My location was kind of a big surprise.
I had these big plans for bow hunting
and big plans for fishing off the shore with a hand line,
and when I got dropped,
it turns out that my shoreline--
I had a little cove that was very shallow,
and I couldn't really get a hand line casted out there,
and the only other areas that I had to fish
were really steep,
on some very slippery, wet rocks.
I don't know, my area was a lot more challenging
than I thought.
- But once you constructed that gill net,
things started to turn for you a little bit.
Seemed like you were doing pretty good, right?
- The gill net was kind of a last resort.
I whipped up the gill net out of some paracord,
and that's when I started securing fish.
- With the gill net, things seemed to be going pretty good,
but then boom, you twist your knee.
Suddenly your entire experience changes.
- When it first happened,
I really didn't think much about it.
I just kind of-- it was a little uncomfortable,
and I thought, ah, that didn't feel real great,
but we'll just push on and keep an eye on it,
and it really started to get bad.
It was only a few days after
that my knee started to fill full of fluid,
and a few nights after that,
I started to get sort of feverish in my sleep.
- How difficult was it to make that final decision to tap out?
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- It was one of the hardest decisions of my life for sure.
- How's the knee today?
What happened once you got home?
- I went straight to the hospital in Canada.
They flew me out.
They gave me some anti-inflammatories,
got me rested up for a few days,
and I flew back to the States.
The knee was a torn meniscus
and a partially torn MCL,
so I've been doing exercise therapy
and physical therapy for--
I mean, this interview's, like, seven months now.
- Wow.
It's an unforeseen-- really, a tragedy,
an accident, something like this
that can so quickly take you out of this competition.
Mark, what did you think
when you were watching the episode
and you saw Correy tap out?
- I think you can be as careful as you want to be,
but at the end of the day, things like this happen,
and there's nothing you can do about it,
and you know,
we're all kind of lucky, in a sense,
that up to this point, this didn't happen to one of us.
But you know,
I think everybody goes out there,
and they're like, you know, "We want to crush it.
We want to do this. We want to do that."
But something like happened to Correy?
The armchair quarterbacks,
there's nothing you could have done differently
about that situation.
- Amós, what did you think
when you were watching the episode
and you saw Correy tap out?
- It was really easy to get hurt out there.
You had to watch every step,
and the terrain is very difficult to navigate.
- Callie, coming to you on this.
- It was so heartbreaking to watch
what happened to you, Correy,
because you're so talented
and have a great head on your shoulders,
and I know you would have done so well,
and that could have easily happened to any of us,
and I know for me,
I was constantly walking slow.
I noticed I changed how I walked out there.
It's no walk in the park.
- Excellent.
Correy, any regrets from your experience at all?
- Really--I don't know.
I just--I'm sad that it went the way that it did.
I had big plans,
and I feel like I had the skills
to do well out there,
and just one misstep
is all it took.
- Anyone else have anything to say to Correy
before we wrap up here?
- Yeah, man, I think you absolutely rocked it.
- Correy, you have a lot to show
for your two weeks out there.
You really crushed it.
- I appreciate you guys.
- I would like to thank Roland, Mark,
Callie, Correy, and Amós.
That wraps it up for tonight's
"Alone: Tales from the Arctic."
Join in each week.
We'll be speaking with participants all season long,
so be sure to tune in after all the episodes.
And as promised, a sneak peek at next week's episode.
We'll see you then.
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- This'll really set my mind at ease,
once I know my food is stored safely.
No!
[rustling, animal growls]
- Maybe that's the wolverine.
Oh, [bleep].
- Holy [bleep].
He's 20 yards from me.
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Oh, my God.
[bleep].
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