[dramatic music]
[gunshot]
♪ ♪
male narrator: In one of the most brutal
survival challenges ever,
three strangers will try
to endure 30 days in the wild
with only one resource:
a fresh kill,
its location marked by a single flare.
‐ There it is.
‐ Once that flair goes off,
it's a race to get to that animal
and get it preserved.
It's time to get to work.
♪ ♪
Watch out, guys. This is slick.
narrator: They have no tools,
‐ The knife is the number one survival tool,
and I'm out here without one.
narrator: Just the clothes on their backs.
‐ We get this one large animal.
We have to utilize every piece of it
to help us survive out here.
‐ It's over here somewhere. ‐ Keep your eyes open.
narrator: Do they have the stamina and ingenuity
to survive?
♪ ♪
[flies buzzing]
‐ Look at this.
‐ Oh, man. It's a musk ox.
‐ I don't think I've ever seen one of these in person.
‐ This animal is gonna provide us
with every bit of food we need for the next 30 days,
but once that animal died,
it starts to want to decompose,
and the heat is what's doing that,
so we gotta get rid of the heat,
and all the heat is in the organs.
♪ ♪
‐ Guys, we gotta get this thing open soon.
‐ Yeah, we need‐‐ ‐ Cool it down.
♪ ♪
‐ So this is a large animal with very thick hide.
If we're gonna get the guts out of this animal,
we gotta find stone tools that we can knap
to make a sharp edge.
‐ We can get some tools from here.
‐ We've got two types of rocks here, it seems.
Some that are just, like, real round and real hard,
a real big,
and then stuff that has a lot of layers.
They'll kind of come apart a little bit easier.
This might flake into a nice sharp little flake.
♪ ♪
‐ The thing that really sets us apart
from other animals
is being able to create tools.
Here's a good sharp edge.
Every tool we have today,
it can be traced back to one point in time
where one man created that tool
to go from a survival situation
to actually being able to live.
I'm gonna take this whole thing with us.
That way, we can take blades off as we need.
♪ ♪
‐ The heat right now is our enemy.
We have to cut the hide across the belly.
We gotta get those guts out
and start getting the body cooled down.
♪ ♪
I learned a lot about survival while I was in the Marine Corp.
Marines do not ever give up.
That's our thing.
We will fight to the death,
and that includes if I have to fight for my life
out in the elements,
and I will never give up on this challenge.
♪ ♪
‐ The main concern I have up here in the arctic
is the predators.
Once we start processing this, the bears, the wolverines,
and whatever else comes our way
is gonna be wanting this food as well.
♪ ♪
‐ Do you maybe want to change out blades,
or are you still holding the edge on that?
‐ No, I'm still holding a bit of an edge here.
‐ Okay.
‐ Several years ago, I started working in a tannery
and learned a lot about dead animals.
How to process 'em, how to skin, butcher, tan.
‐ Instead of stroking down with the hair,
stroke from the flesh up.
‐ Yeah, I've done it both ways.
‐ Oh. Okay.
I am a scientist and biologist
by schooling, I would say.
I think I have a really great understanding
of anatomy and physiology.
I've processed all kinds of different animals.
I have this pure joy out of my particular way,
and finding every muscle and every ligament
and every part of that animal.
Just keep that hole out here.
‐ Whatever you wanna do.
If you wanna do it‐‐
‐ No, I didn't say it's my way or the highway.
I said, if you wanna do it.
‐ I have a very extensive skillset,
but people really do underestimate me.
♪ ♪
‐ I teach a wide variety of survival skills,
but my main strengths are in primitive living skills.
That includes anything our ancestors would have done.
Learning to make bows and arrows, stone tools,
primitive fire.
We really need to get a fire going
so we can preserve this thing.
‐ Yep, go ahead and try it.
♪ ♪
‐ Fire is extremely important,
not only to keep us warm at night,
but also so we can smoke the meat,
we can cook the meat,
and make sure this animal doesn't go to waste.
So with these stone tools,
it's gonna be a lot harder to do all the woodworking
to make a bow drill kit,
so I'm hoping I can get a hand drill fire going,
and really reduce some of the work I have to do.
♪ ♪
All this really ties back to my Cherokee heritage.
My grandmother is one of the main inspirations
for why I want to showcase
the living skills the Cherokee had.
I'm gonna make sure this is dry.
To do that, I'll just put it to my face.
If it feels cool, it's probably not dry enough.
They weren't just surviving. They were living.
So it's really important to me to do good on this challenge
and to honor the memory of her.
Yes.
♪ ♪
‐ Aw, seriously?
‐ It'll be all right. ‐ [bleep]
We've hit the intestines several times.
‐ Not several times. A couple times.
‐ This right here is all [bleep], basically.
‐ We nicked the intestines on this thing.
It's not ideal, but, you know, [bleep] does happen.
‐ I was gonna reach through
and dissect the intestines from the inside
so that we didn't have any poop anywhere,
but that's impossible now.
Shane and I are both very strong‐willed individuals.
He has an idea of what he wants to do
as far as cutting things up,
but I also have my own,
and ultimately, we're going to have to find middle ground.
♪ ♪
‐ You can cut around it,
or you can just cook it out.
Doesn't really matter.
Anne's a germophobe, and I am not.
I am the opposite of that,
so we're going to bump heads a lot.
‐ I take it all out, and then get it out.
‐ Here, go for it.
‐ It's already‐‐I mean, it's already done.
‐ Well, if you're gonna sit there and go‐‐
[imitates huffing]
Do what you're gonna do.
‐ So what I usually do,
cut those cartilages,
pull everything out from here down,
and then you don't have fecal matter anywhere.
♪ ♪
‐ Typically, in Texas, I can get a fire
with a hand drill in anywhere from 15 to 30 seconds,
but up here, it's just a whole different ball game.
The wood seems to grow a lot slower,
it's got a lot tighter growth rings,
and it really wants to fight you
every step of the way.
One more try.
♪ ♪
If we don't have a fire, we can't preserve this animal,
we can't cook, we can't stay warm,
so I really feel the pressure
that I need to get a fire going.
♪ ♪
Don't think I got anymore hand drill in me.
[grunts]
As much as I personally want to get a hand drill up here,
the materials just aren't gonna work,
so I'm gonna have to swallow my pride
and go with the bow drill.
♪ ♪
So, first thing, I need to get cordage.
Try to dig up some spruce roots,
get a couple of dead pieces of alder,
and see if we can make it work with that.
♪ ♪
The good thing about a bow drill
is it has a really great mechanical advantage.
Rather than having to start at the top
and work my way down,
I can hold steady downward pressure
and continue stroking the entire time.
[grunts]
So you build up a lot more heat
as long as you have the cordage.
♪ ♪
‐ You're gonna cut that intestine there.
‐ Yeah, but now we're getting all that meat.
It's so contaminated. We're gonna have to be careful.
If you wanna come over and see
if you can't start scooping the rest of this out,
we are almost out of here.
‐ Eh, we'll wash it off.
I've done it before. ‐ Ugh!
Do not spray me with poop.
I'm hiding behind you.
‐ There you go.
♪ ♪
I got my hand on the heart.
‐ Uh‐huh.
‐ [grunts]
Lookie there.
This was the last organ.
Sun is almost behind the little hill over there.
Let's stuff this.
We will go help Phil get fire.
Three of us working on fire will be better than one.
‐ Okay.
‐ We got the guts out of this animal,
and it should start getting the body cooled down,
which is great, but predators are gonna be attracted
by this large, dead animal.
If we don't get a fire from Phil up here pretty soon,
it could be very detrimental.
‐ Oh.
[stick scrapping]
‐ It's just not working for some reason.
‐ Yeah.
The cordage is not optimum.
The spruce trees got really short roots
that are not gonna be easy to get a bow drill.
♪ ♪
Come on!
‐ Relax.
Hey, hey. Breathe.
Phil's spirits are down.
We're trying not to put too much pressure on him,
but we can't move forward on the animal
until we get fire,
and we don't need any big predators
sneaking up on us while we're sleeping.
♪ ♪
‐ [grunts]
If we can't get a fire out here,
we can't keep the bears away, we can't cook,
we can't stay warm, and we are done.
♪ ♪
[bleep].
[thund
‐ Our first night here was super miserable.
I just shivered head to toe
sleeping on the soggy, wet ground.
I've never appreciated sunrises so much as I have here.
♪ ♪
‐ It's getting down into the mid to low 30s
at night around here,
but the daytime temperature in the sun
is hurting us big time.
Meat starts to spoil at 40 degrees,
and it's in the 50s.
‐ That black hide is gonna soak up that heat,
so we're getting cold moss to put over the meat
to hide the animal from the sun,
which will certainly keep it cooler.
‐ We can't really move forward on the animal
until we get fire,
so we pretty much have to get fire today.
♪ ♪
‐ Gotta get some fire.
I've really been struggling
to make fire out here for a while.
♪ ♪
I'm no beginner at primitive fire making,
and this place is just brutal.
♪ ♪
All right.
[exhales]
Whew!
♪ ♪
Guys, we got fire!
We got fire!
‐ Fire.
‐ I've never been so grateful to have fire in my life.
Now we can preserve our meat, stay warm.
This is everything.
‐ Right on, brother.
Hey, good job. ‐ Yeah.
♪ ♪
Where's our heart?
Plan is, one, we need to cut the heart up.
A lot of Native American tribes believe
that if you eat the heart,
you're receiving the soul of that animal,
and we wanted to honor this animal.
♪ ♪
‐ After struggling for that long,
I cannot explain how amazing it felt
to feel the nutrients pulse through my body.
‐ This tastes exactly how that animal smells.
‐ [laughs]
It tastes wonderful.
‐ No, not‐‐no.
‐ I beg to differ.
[moans]
♪ ♪
‐ We've got a small window of time
to get this meat preserved.
We're taking out one quarter at a time.
‐ Take it.
‐ Cutting that up, and then get it smoked.
We built a nice little tripod smoke rack,
and we got the fire going,
trying to get that meat preserved
and just make a bunch of jerky.
‐ We have a long chore of butchering this animal,
and Phil is exactly what I was looking for
to compliment all my skills.
He is an awesome bush crafter.
With an animal this big,
you don't want to discard anything,
and we need to respect that.
Every bit of it's good meat.
♪ ♪
[thunderclap]
♪ ♪
‐ I'm not gonna lie, today is pretty miserable.
It's been rainy and dreary since last night.
My feet are getting soaked,
my underlayers are getting soaked.
I'm worried that I might get sick out here.
This place, it's one thing after another.
You can't seem to get a step ahead.
It'll‐‐it just throws another curveball at you.
‐ I see more coming. It's gonna get worse.
♪ ♪
‐ We've been neglecting our shelter
because the animal takes priority
over everything else,
but we got all this meat and we're in the rain
'cause we have no shelter
because we haven't had time to make it yet.
♪ ♪
So the big priority for today is working on our shelter.
♪ ♪
‐ If all this meat did get wet and it started to spoil,
we'd be done.
It's like gold at this point.
‐ Quite frankly, we've been low‐energy all day,
but the thought of losing your meat
puts a fire under your ass.
♪ ♪
[thunder rumbling]
‐ When it rains in the arctic,
you just have to buckle up and suffer through it.
It's cold, it's wet, it's miserable,
and we're out here in the middle of it.
We're trying to get our shelter put together.
Oh.
I haven't ate much of anything today,
so I'm just exhausted.
‐ I have zero energy, man.
‐ Same here.
[grunts]
‐ We've decided to set up our main camp now.
That little lean‐to's gonna be great
for keeping some stuff dry.
‐ We need to put some boughs down,
put more boughs on top of that,
and then cover it with the moss.
‐ The smaller the shelter is, the easier it is to heat,
so we need a shelter for two people
because somebody has to stay on fire watch.
Somebody has to make sure that fire keeps going.
‐ Whoo! All right.
♪ ♪
Rain's blowing in again,
so I'm just taking this meat we've been smoking,
and throwing it on some boughs under our shelter there,
just to try to keep it nice and dry,
keep it from going bad.
Not looking forward to another night of rain.
♪ ♪
[coughs]
We just can't seem to get a break
out here in the arctic.
♪ ♪
‐ Yep. Think we're done for tonight.
Now, do I think it's gonna keep us warm and dry?
No, but it's gonna keep us warmer and dryer.
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
‐ We had the stomach out of the ox,
so I get the idea I'm gonna make something with it.
How about we do this?
We cut it in half.
Two large containers to boil water in,
maybe cook in.
‐ Right now, there's some good contents in there.
You know, give us some carbs.
That chyme inside the stomach.
I know it's gross, but, you know, I could use
the energy right now. ‐ Right on.
‐ So maybe a little pick‐me‐up. ‐ That's fine.
♪ ♪
She ate.
The animals up here eat a lot of the reindeer moss,
which, for us, we have to boil it three times
before we can eat it, but a musk ox stomach
will break down the acids,
so if you take it straight out of the stomach,
it's actually edible that way.
Now hopefully, it'll be a good source of carbs.
Good source of energy.
Hmm.
It actually smells quite a bit like broccoli.
We're just gonna cook some up,
hopefully kill any bacteria that might be in there.
♪ ♪
You hungry, Shane? ‐ No.
‐ [laughs] ‐ Not for that.
But thank you anyway.
‐ We need our carbs, man. ‐ Uh‐huh.
‐ Stomach contents
of an ox.
♪ ♪
Kind of tastes
like a cigarette butt or something.
‐ It's something.
I think Shane's missing out.
It's energy.
‐ [clicks tongue]
Carbalicious.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
My hands have already been haggard,
but they're extra haggard now.
So I'm making soap because it makes things clean.
I just get worried that if you're not clean,
it can cause some microbial upsets in your body.
♪ ♪
I'm gonna heat up the ash and the water,
keep it hot, and simmer it until it reduces down,
melt fat, stir it up, and keep it going.
Crunch up the black charcoal.
The oils and the ashes and lyes all mix good,
chunking up, and if I let this cool,
it is going to form a bar.
And these are ready to use right now.
I wanna make this nice and hot.
I'm gonna put hot rocks in it.
♪ ♪
A little bit of soap in here.
Oh, wow. It works.
See stuff coming off.
This was great news.
Maybe even get Shane to wash his hands.
♪ ♪
Doubt that.
♪ ♪
‐ I spent all day yesterday
building this secondary smoker.
Basically just a meat tree.
I've just got meat hanging from the branches,
and I'm just trying to keep smoke going up
through all this jerky,
get it nice and dry and smoked really well.
♪ ♪
‐ We don't have sleeping bags, we don't have beds,
we have rock
with some spruce boughs laying on it,
and some moss, and the moss is wet.
So today I'm trying to get the hide fleshed out.
We wanna use that hide for a blanket to keep us warm.
Fleshing is, after you've skinned the animal,
you still have a lot of meat and fat on the hide.
If I don't flesh the hide, it'll start to rot.
♪ ♪
These rock tools, they do not cut near as sharp
as a regular steel knife would.
What usually would probably take me about three hours
is gonna take me probably a day and a half.
‐ Are you gonna need more rocks for that?
‐ I need another one just like that.
‐ I've got a nice rock down by the lake
I left down there, so‐‐
‐ Okay.
‐ If you'll just keep an eye on that.
Make sure that smoker's going. ‐ Yeah, we can do that.
‐ All right.
‐ This particular rock right here fits my hand good.
We dulled up one of these edges, so it‐‐
‐ Oh, God.
‐ [bleep].
[bleep].
‐ Oh.
♪ ♪
‐ [bleep], back up.
‐ Oh, God. All that meat?
‐ [bleep], back up.
‐ Oh, God. All that meat?
Whoa. ‐ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
‐ Can we get in? ‐ Nope, no, no.
‐ We can't get in there. ‐ It's too hot, no.
Back up. Just‐‐
‐ Well, make sure it doesn't spread.
‐ God bless it.
All we can do is just sit there and watch our meat burn.
We lost a healthy chunk of our meat,
and that's disappointing.
‐ So much for that meat.
Just like that, the arctic takes it away.
Nothing you can do.
What a damn shame.
♪ ♪
‐ [bleep]?
I was gone for two minutes.
‐ Sorry, man. Just went up.
‐ I see that smoker just going up in flames,
and, you know, it's like my heart dropped.
Yeah, that's done.
‐ It's charcoal.
‐ We'll have to stretch our resources a little more.
‐ Yep.
‐ From here on out,
we're gonna have to be really, really careful
and make sure that we do our best
to preserve any meat we do have.
‐ I'm not a hunter or a fisher,
so I'm gonna have to kind of depend a little bit on Phil.
What happens on day 20 if everything's gone?
♪ ♪
‐ I was having some weird stomach pain this morning.
Eating just a little bit of protein every day,
like we have been,
your digestive system basically shuts down.
It is an issue.
I'm kind of out of it today, but‐‐
having pretty serious stomach cramps
the last two days.
Every time I stand up, I feel like I'm gonna pass out.
We can try to get some other food
besides our jerky.
You know, maybe that can help.
‐ I've been thinking about this horn
and what we can do with it,
and thinking about how we're not getting any sodium.
There's a lot of minerals in this.
We can grind powder,
and use it on top of our food when we cook it,
and that should give us some of our sodium and minerals.
‐ Awesome.
♪ ♪
‐ Phil is an integral part of our group.
He's got some great skills,
and it's hard to see him struggle,
so hopefully, using the horn will help him get better.
‐ Yeah, it's working.
♪ ♪
Having trouble keeping my head in the‐‐
you know, the right headspace,
and all I can really think about
is getting my stomach to quit hurting.
Hopefully resolving that issue,
because it is pretty intense.
♪ ♪
I'm getting the shivers also.
I'm feeling weak, nauseous.
Every time I stand up, I feel like I'm gonna pass out.
♪ ♪
[grunts]
♪ ♪
[grunts]
[retching]
♪ ♪
[spits]
♪ ♪
[birds tweeting]
Today is day 15,
and for the last two days,
I've been struggling.
Feeling sick, and wondering what's going on with my body.
It's a real low point.
Guys, I've been getting concerned about my health,
and I might reach a point
where I can't recover.
It's starting to worry me,
and I feel like the best thing for me and my health
is for me to...
go ahead and go home.
♪ ♪
‐ I don't want you to leave, man.
‐ I feel bad about leaving y'all,
but it just feels like the right thing.
♪ ♪
‐ I'm gonna miss you.
‐ I hate to leave you guys.
‐ [crying]
‐ I love you.
‐ You guys are family now.
‐ With Phil gone,
it's gonna get really tough out here.
The chances of us having fresh meat
are less likely.
I can do some hunting,
but nowhere near as good as Phil.
‐ I know he has to do what he has to do,
but I don't want him to go.
♪ ♪
‐ You can understand your environment
and know everything about it‐‐
[flare pops]
And think that you are an amazing survivalist,
and that may be true in your environment,
but when you come somewhere like the arctic,
it'll teach you some humility,
and to realize that there's always more to learn.
♪ ♪
‐ We got 15 days left.
Just me and Anne surviving together.
Anne has her way of doing things,
and I have my way of doing things,
and they don't exactly line up.
‐ Just the two of us.
It's not good,
so I'm worried about it for sure,
but the arctic goes on.
‐ [groans]
‐ Are we gonna be okay, Shane?
♪ ♪
‐ Ah, [bleep].
♪ ♪
We got fresh scat.
There's definitely a big bull moose out here.
Who knows if he was coming or going,
but he left a deposit.
We are in the rut, which is mating season,
and they will get aggressive.
They're liable to not care about who we are,
so they might come in a little closer,
and that could be very dangerous.
♪ ♪
A moose could easily kill somebody,
not even try.
♪ ♪
[bushes rustling]
‐ [whispering] Shane.
Shane.
‐ Listen. Shh, listen.
Listen!
[rustling]
[animal groaning]
The moose is here.
Hey, the moose is right [bleep] here.
Dude, Shane, the moose is right at our camp.
Right there.
♪ ♪
[rustling] [moose groans]
Holy [bleep]. [moose groans]
Holy [bleep].
[moose groaning]
[bushes rustling]
[moose groans] ‐ The moose is here.
Hey, the moose is right [bleep] here.
Dude, Shane, the moose is right at our camp.
Right there.
♪ ♪
[rustling] [moose groans]
Holy [bleep]. [moose groans]
Holy [bleep].
♪ ♪
[moose groans in distance]
♪ ♪
So I hear the moose...
♪ ♪
Finally going back towards the cove,
towards the marshes,
which is good.
A bull moose is not something I want around our camp.
♪ ♪
I'm kind of scared, not gonna lie.
My body weight's just‐‐
‐ Yeah. ‐ Dwindling away.
It's kind of starting to really freak me out.
‐ We did lose some meat.
Have about enough jerky
for two more days, maybe,
and every calorie, every bit of food up here counts
to make it through this challenge.
Might be a little rough.
♪ ♪
Let's make some pemmican.
See how it comes out.
Pemmican is a mix of crushed up jerky,
dried blueberries, and lard.
Pretty much makes the original energy bar.
♪ ♪
I need to grind down the jerky into a powder
to get it to mix right.
So we got this ball joint
that goes into the hip socket right here.
We'll use that as a mortar and pestle.
♪ ♪
Fits right in my hand.
♪ ♪
That stuff right there, that's what we're looking for.
Perfect.
‐ On this angled rock that I preheated,
I'm trying to get all the marrow
and the fat on here.
All this fat's pooling up, and we're gonna collect it
and add that to the cranberries,
put in some more of that jerky,
and keep on putting on the calories
as best I can.
both: Cheers.
♪ ♪
‐ Mmm. ‐ The berries help a lot.
‐ Oh, yeah. It's like I can taste the calories.
♪ ♪
‐ I'm just feeling rundown,
feeling the hunger pain,
and so we think it might be a good idea
to go squirrel hunting.
‐ Shane, there's squirrels around.
So approach quietly.
‐ I see it.
‐ I would swing wide around.
♪ ♪
Other way.
You're chasing it now.
‐ I know what I'm doing.
[squirrel chatters]
‐ So in nature, I mean, from my animal training
that I've done,
is when a prey starts to move away from you
is you move away from it even if you‐‐
‐ Works a lot better
if you don't tell me what to do.
‐ Communication is really an important issue between us.
If we go into something without a plan,
it just sounds like two bull moose fightin'.
First few times I see a squirrel,
I'll probably be inclined to just watch it for a minute.
[squirrel chatters]
‐ Yeah, he's up there. You wanna go grab that spear?
Anne? [squirrel chatters]
All right.
♪ ♪
‐ Where'd he go? Is he up higher now?
‐ Yeah, he's up higher now.
‐ He's gonna start alerting.
‐ Right now, I'm very much missing Phil.
Phil was the primitive hunter of our group,
and I'm wondering if it's worth the energy
that we're spending to get this little squirrel.
‐ A lot of time invested, lot of calories invested.
Oh, we're in a herd of trouble.
‐ So we lost a bunch of our meat
in the smoker fire,
and we're also out of fresh meat,
been out of fresh meat for a couple days now,
so we think it might be a good idea
to build a fish weir.
♪ ♪
A fish weir is sort of like a trap in the water.
Fish can come in and not escape.
We'll make a wide entrance that narrows down
to a very narrow entrance
that goes into a big wide open area.
Once they get in there,
they can't find their way back out.
♪ ♪
Then we'll also bait it with that rotten meat
that's sitting there on that bone,
and hopefully, you know, when we come back,
we'll have a fish or two in there,
and then we just basically reach down and grab 'em.
♪ ♪
I'm wore out.
Don't have a whole lot of energy.
Once I get the frame done,
I got the grueling task
of putting the branches around the framework,
weaving 'em in and out of there,
and that's cold.
♪ ♪
I don't wanna get hypothermia,
but having some fresh fish would be great right now.
♪ ♪
My toes and my fingers are going numb
from being in that water.
‐ My pants are wet.
‐ Pants are wet,
feet are wet.
I'll be spending a lot of time by the fire tonight
getting dried out.
♪ ♪
So hopefully I check everything tomorrow morning,
maybe we'll have something.
I ain't going back in that [bleep] water.
♪ ♪
‐ I'm glad we're getting out there
before the wind picks up.
‐ I spent a lot of time and calories, energy,
to build this fish weir.
Having a fish will give us more nutrients,
and it'll be a big boost in morale.
♪ ♪
‐ If there's something in there,
you're gonna have to toss me your coat, okay?
‐ Yeah.
♪ ♪
I'm looking.
Yup.
There ain't nothing in there.
♪ ♪
Done a lot of this stuff for many years or all my life,
and you come to the arctic,
and it's a different story altogether.
There's the last few days left.
I don't know that we will be able to be in it
for the whole thing.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music building]
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[eerie music]
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[sniffles] Nothing.
The weir for some reason's not working.
I'm not sure why.
Could be the location,
it could be the entrance,
it could be a variety of different things.
I don't know.
Right now, my energy level is pretty low,
and I'm done.
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‐ I think the next few days are gonna be cold and hungry.
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The last days have been very difficult,
but we both made it, and I'm happy about that.
This journey's come to an end,
and we're getting ready to tear down camp.
I am not sure if I could have gone more days.
It would have been much more taxing
and much more difficult to recover from.
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‐ This whole challenge got me to realize
exactly how hard it was for our ancestors to live.
They knew exactly what they were doing.
When it comes to catching food,
fishing, foraging,
building shelter, building fire,
these are all skills
that people call survival skills today.
Back in those times, that was living.
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We were all in this together.
Even after Phil left,
it was me and Anne surviving together.
‐ Ready?
‐ I'm ready. Let's do 'er.
‐ All right.
[flare pops]
‐ We were the only two out there,
so we had to depend on each other.
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‐ Shane and I, deep down, definitely respect each other,
need each other, care for each other.
Primitive life,
it was hard.
Thinking about what our ancestors
went through in this land,
I think that communal life, having your group, your tribe,
was very important,
so I think they valued each other.
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