1 00:00:05,130 --> 00:00:05,547 [wind whistling] 2 00:00:09,634 --> 00:00:12,887 [tense music] 3 00:00:12,929 --> 00:00:13,972 - There it is. 4 00:00:14,014 --> 00:00:15,015 - Yeah, buddy. 5 00:00:15,056 --> 00:00:16,057 - Oh, there it is. 6 00:00:16,099 --> 00:00:17,100 - See the crate? 7 00:00:17,142 --> 00:00:18,560 - I can see it! 8 00:00:18,601 --> 00:00:21,312 - After three grueling weeks-- 9 00:00:21,354 --> 00:00:23,898 - This race has been the hardest thing 10 00:00:23,940 --> 00:00:25,316 I've ever done in my life. 11 00:00:25,358 --> 00:00:28,361 - --seven battle-tested teams remain-- 12 00:00:28,403 --> 00:00:30,280 - It's not a race to survive. 13 00:00:30,321 --> 00:00:33,116 It's just being able to survive the race. 14 00:00:33,158 --> 00:00:35,702 - We're all out there to get to that final crate. 15 00:00:35,744 --> 00:00:38,038 You start fighting in ways you didn't know you could fight. 16 00:00:38,079 --> 00:00:40,040 - --on a vicious race 2 course. 17 00:00:40,081 --> 00:00:41,374 - God damn it. 18 00:00:41,416 --> 00:00:43,209 - Injuries from Utah hunter, Ryan-- 19 00:00:43,251 --> 00:00:44,836 - Damn knee! 20 00:00:44,878 --> 00:00:46,379 - Oh, shit! 21 00:00:46,421 --> 00:00:47,756 - --ultrarunner Coree-- 22 00:00:47,797 --> 00:00:49,424 - You all right? 23 00:00:49,466 --> 00:00:51,051 - My head has taking a couple pretty big hits so far. 24 00:00:51,092 --> 00:00:52,010 - Oh, gosh! 25 00:00:52,052 --> 00:00:53,386 No! 26 00:00:53,428 --> 00:00:55,055 - --and endurance athlete, Ashley-- 27 00:00:55,096 --> 00:00:57,766 - My ankle is not healing as quickly as I'd like it. 28 00:00:57,807 --> 00:01:01,394 - --changed the game for their teams. 29 00:01:01,436 --> 00:01:04,856 - I'm doing this with my newly divorced ex-wife. 30 00:01:04,898 --> 00:01:07,233 - While Mountaineers Paulina and Creighton-- 31 00:01:07,275 --> 00:01:09,152 - Try and not get frustrated. 32 00:01:09,194 --> 00:01:10,570 I think this is-- 33 00:01:10,612 --> 00:01:11,654 - Creighton, we have to go up this way. 34 00:01:11,696 --> 00:01:12,864 - I understand. 35 00:01:12,906 --> 00:01:14,324 - --and oil workers Kennedy and Nik-- 36 00:01:14,366 --> 00:01:15,700 - Want me to leave right now? - Do it. 37 00:01:15,742 --> 00:01:16,951 I dare you. 38 00:01:16,993 --> 00:01:18,620 - --struggle to work together as a team. 39 00:01:18,661 --> 00:01:19,621 - Ooh! 40 00:01:19,662 --> 00:01:21,164 - Jesus. 41 00:01:21,206 --> 00:01:24,000 - River guides Oliver and Corry took home first place 42 00:01:24,042 --> 00:01:25,794 for the second straight race-- 43 00:01:25,835 --> 00:01:27,212 - We did it. 44 00:01:27,253 --> 00:01:29,130 - The Jackson boys are pushing so hard. 45 00:01:29,172 --> 00:01:30,757 They're whooping us. 46 00:01:30,799 --> 00:01:33,134 - --as their rivals, smokejumpers Ethan and Tyrie, 47 00:01:33,176 --> 00:01:35,053 failed to run them down. 48 00:01:35,095 --> 00:01:37,597 - No matter what, we don't quit. 49 00:01:37,639 --> 00:01:40,225 - Now, with no rest for the weary-- 50 00:01:40,266 --> 00:01:41,226 - Let's go. 51 00:01:41,267 --> 00:01:42,602 What do we got? 52 00:01:42,644 --> 00:01:45,939 - --the next test is about to begin. 53 00:01:46,815 --> 00:01:52,404 This is "Race to Survive: New Zealand." 54 00:01:52,445 --> 00:01:54,906 [tense music] 55 00:01:54,948 --> 00:01:56,783 [birds chirping] 56 00:01:56,825 --> 00:01:58,326 - Yes. Yes. 57 00:01:58,368 --> 00:01:59,577 - Let's go. 58 00:01:59,619 --> 00:02:01,079 What do we got? What do we got? 59 00:02:01,121 --> 00:02:02,414 - Oh, here we go. 60 00:02:02,455 --> 00:02:04,207 "Take a deep breath, you have made it 61 00:02:04,249 --> 00:02:06,459 to race 3 of "Race to Survive." 62 00:02:06,501 --> 00:02:09,379 - "And you are now closer than ever to $500,000." 63 00:02:09,421 --> 00:02:13,550 - "Now, it's time for Race Leg 3, Cave to Coast." 64 00:02:13,591 --> 00:02:19,889 - Race 3, 22 strenuous miles of pain and confusion. 65 00:02:19,931 --> 00:02:22,142 Beginning with a sprint through the forest 66 00:02:22,183 --> 00:02:24,019 to an ancient cave. 67 00:02:24,060 --> 00:02:27,063 Dropping 600 feet underground, they'll 68 00:02:27,105 --> 00:02:30,483 climb and squeeze their way through, out, 69 00:02:30,525 --> 00:02:33,820 and then into the Green Maze-- 70 00:02:33,862 --> 00:02:36,740 their toughest navigational test yet, 71 00:02:36,781 --> 00:02:39,492 a brain-jumbling 11-mile labyrinth 72 00:02:39,534 --> 00:02:41,745 of crisscrossing game trails. 73 00:02:41,786 --> 00:02:45,540 Solving the maze earns a run at the Boulder Canyon, 74 00:02:45,582 --> 00:02:47,834 scrambling along rocks through the water 75 00:02:47,876 --> 00:02:50,879 and to the ocean, where they'll paddle kayaks 76 00:02:50,920 --> 00:02:52,839 along the coast 77 00:02:52,881 --> 00:02:56,384 an exhausting 7 miles to the finish crate. 78 00:02:56,426 --> 00:02:58,511 - "Descending through the cave is on a 'first come, 79 00:02:58,553 --> 00:03:00,055 first serve' basis." 80 00:03:00,096 --> 00:03:02,974 - If you don't have at least some nav background, 81 00:03:03,016 --> 00:03:05,560 this course is gonna be challenging. 82 00:03:05,602 --> 00:03:07,896 - So the food cache should be somewhere in there up 83 00:03:07,937 --> 00:03:08,897 on the hill. 84 00:03:08,938 --> 00:03:09,981 - Don't point. 85 00:03:10,023 --> 00:03:11,691 - Sorry. 86 00:03:11,733 --> 00:03:13,860 - "An important note, if a team taps out before the finish, 87 00:03:13,902 --> 00:03:17,364 it does not necessarily save you from elimination." 88 00:03:17,405 --> 00:03:19,157 - I'm just gonna take it one step at a time. 89 00:03:19,199 --> 00:03:21,701 - Yeah, gotta dig down deep. 90 00:03:21,743 --> 00:03:24,287 With the state of Ashley's ankle, 91 00:03:24,329 --> 00:03:25,872 I know how hard she's fighting. 92 00:03:25,914 --> 00:03:28,124 I know inch by inch, she's doing everything she 93 00:03:28,166 --> 00:03:29,793 can to keep us in the game. 94 00:03:29,834 --> 00:03:31,586 But it doesn't matter how tough she is if her ankle 95 00:03:31,628 --> 00:03:33,338 is not obeying her brain. 96 00:03:33,380 --> 00:03:34,839 I'm worried. 97 00:03:34,881 --> 00:03:36,841 - With a 12-hour race clock, the course 98 00:03:36,883 --> 00:03:41,888 needs a minimum of 2 days for the fastest teams to complete. 99 00:03:41,930 --> 00:03:44,432 all: 5, 4, 3-- 100 00:03:44,474 --> 00:03:45,725 - And it all starts-- all: 2, 1! 101 00:03:45,767 --> 00:03:46,768 - --now. 102 00:03:46,810 --> 00:03:48,061 all: Let's go! 103 00:03:48,103 --> 00:03:49,437 [dramatic music] 104 00:03:49,479 --> 00:03:50,939 - Whoo-whoo! 105 00:03:50,980 --> 00:03:52,065 Go, go, go, go! 106 00:03:52,107 --> 00:03:53,024 I can't help you. 107 00:03:53,066 --> 00:03:55,193 Say it out loud. 108 00:03:55,235 --> 00:03:56,736 - Come on, Paulina! 109 00:03:56,778 --> 00:03:58,405 - I know. 110 00:03:58,446 --> 00:04:02,367 - Just going straight to the cave. 111 00:04:02,409 --> 00:04:03,660 - Ash, you're right there? 112 00:04:03,702 --> 00:04:04,661 - Yep. 113 00:04:04,703 --> 00:04:06,913 - OK. 114 00:04:06,955 --> 00:04:09,374 - The opening 2 miles pose an immediate 115 00:04:09,416 --> 00:04:11,167 race-defining decision. 116 00:04:11,209 --> 00:04:14,087 The course contains just one food cache. 117 00:04:14,129 --> 00:04:16,006 So teams can head straight for the cave 118 00:04:16,047 --> 00:04:18,174 and be first allowed to descend 119 00:04:18,216 --> 00:04:20,051 or navigate to the food 120 00:04:20,093 --> 00:04:24,889 and be forced to double back to the entrance. 121 00:04:24,931 --> 00:04:26,391 - Skipping the cache. 122 00:04:26,433 --> 00:04:29,436 We're heading to the start of the cave. 123 00:04:29,477 --> 00:04:31,896 I'm not sure whose team-- what team you're with. 124 00:04:31,938 --> 00:04:35,191 We're just trying to keep moving. 125 00:04:35,233 --> 00:04:37,819 We're making the decision to pass the cache, 126 00:04:37,861 --> 00:04:41,656 try to get the cave first so we have that advantage. 127 00:04:41,698 --> 00:04:44,743 First one there gets first rights to go at it. 128 00:04:44,784 --> 00:04:47,328 - Well, let's just keep going, bud. 129 00:04:47,370 --> 00:04:48,621 - Yep. 130 00:04:48,663 --> 00:04:49,831 - Where are you at, Nik? 131 00:04:49,873 --> 00:04:50,915 - Just right here. 132 00:04:50,957 --> 00:04:52,292 Keep going. 133 00:04:52,334 --> 00:04:54,085 This way. 134 00:04:54,127 --> 00:04:56,796 - Right off the bat, we decide we're going for the food cache. 135 00:04:56,838 --> 00:04:59,299 It was a first hard nine days of starvation 136 00:04:59,341 --> 00:05:00,633 that we did to ourselves. 137 00:05:00,675 --> 00:05:04,012 That really motivated us towards food. 138 00:05:04,054 --> 00:05:05,013 - Paul? 139 00:05:05,055 --> 00:05:06,639 - Over here. 140 00:05:06,681 --> 00:05:08,016 - Can you keep moving? 141 00:05:08,058 --> 00:05:09,559 - I'm trying. 142 00:05:09,601 --> 00:05:11,311 Are you feeling confident about where we're going? 143 00:05:11,353 --> 00:05:12,354 - 100%. 144 00:05:12,395 --> 00:05:14,022 - Good. 145 00:05:14,064 --> 00:05:15,482 - Do you have you-- are you trying to-- are you navigating? 146 00:05:15,523 --> 00:05:16,524 Do you have a compass out? 147 00:05:16,566 --> 00:05:17,734 - Not right now. 148 00:05:17,776 --> 00:05:18,568 - Why not? 149 00:05:18,610 --> 00:05:20,070 - I'm trusting you. 150 00:05:20,111 --> 00:05:23,990 I'm just trying to keep up with you right now. 151 00:05:24,032 --> 00:05:27,160 - While Ryan and Bronsen make a beeline for the cave, 152 00:05:27,202 --> 00:05:29,621 out of the gate, six of the seven teams 153 00:05:29,662 --> 00:05:32,082 are opting for the food cache. 154 00:05:32,123 --> 00:05:33,792 - There it is, huh? 155 00:05:33,833 --> 00:05:34,959 That is it. 156 00:05:35,001 --> 00:05:36,002 No, maybe not. 157 00:05:36,044 --> 00:05:37,337 - Looking for an uphill. 158 00:05:37,379 --> 00:05:41,591 - Of course, finding it is a different story. 159 00:05:41,633 --> 00:05:47,347 - Hopefully, we're coming up on the cache. 160 00:05:47,389 --> 00:05:48,598 It feels like it's a lot farther 161 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,142 than we should have gone. 162 00:05:51,184 --> 00:05:53,311 Hey, let's look at the map real quick. 163 00:05:53,353 --> 00:06:00,443 * * 164 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,989 - We're not necessarily the best at map and compass. 165 00:06:05,031 --> 00:06:06,533 And if we're fighting a fire, we have a lot 166 00:06:06,574 --> 00:06:08,076 of GPS satellite systems. 167 00:06:08,118 --> 00:06:09,744 You know, we're lay-- getting a lay of the land 168 00:06:09,786 --> 00:06:11,538 as we're flying around before we jump it. 169 00:06:11,579 --> 00:06:13,415 It's just a lot different. 170 00:06:13,456 --> 00:06:15,500 - So that should be 120. 171 00:06:15,542 --> 00:06:16,543 - So we need to just do-- 172 00:06:16,584 --> 00:06:18,169 - 200 meters. 173 00:06:18,211 --> 00:06:20,171 - With the smokejumpers overrunning 174 00:06:20,213 --> 00:06:22,549 the cache by nearly a mile-- 175 00:06:22,590 --> 00:06:24,801 - Actually, the left edge of this. 176 00:06:24,843 --> 00:06:26,386 Yeah. 177 00:06:26,428 --> 00:06:27,387 We just got to find it. 178 00:06:27,429 --> 00:06:29,139 Where is it? 179 00:06:29,180 --> 00:06:32,726 - --their rivals, race 1 and 2 winners Oliver and Corry-- 180 00:06:32,767 --> 00:06:34,394 - To the flag, right? 181 00:06:34,436 --> 00:06:36,396 - I believe so. 182 00:06:36,438 --> 00:06:38,940 - --are first to track it down. 183 00:06:38,982 --> 00:06:41,359 - ---- yeah. 184 00:06:41,401 --> 00:06:44,487 First to the cache. 185 00:06:44,529 --> 00:06:45,488 - Well done. 186 00:06:45,530 --> 00:06:48,992 - Good naving. 187 00:06:49,034 --> 00:06:50,910 - Coree-- - Hurry. 188 00:06:50,952 --> 00:06:52,454 This is us. 189 00:06:52,495 --> 00:06:55,582 - We can get that so we can get a bearings to the cave. 190 00:06:55,623 --> 00:06:58,335 - Good naving, guys. 191 00:06:58,376 --> 00:06:59,377 - You too. 192 00:06:59,419 --> 00:07:00,503 - Second to the cache. 193 00:07:00,545 --> 00:07:01,838 Got it. 194 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,674 Now, we're heading down to the cave. 195 00:07:04,716 --> 00:07:05,967 - Yeah, Paul. 196 00:07:06,009 --> 00:07:07,010 - Got it? 197 00:07:07,052 --> 00:07:08,386 - Yeah. 198 00:07:08,428 --> 00:07:09,679 Hey, boys. - Hey, brother. 199 00:07:09,721 --> 00:07:10,889 - Good to see all y'all. 200 00:07:10,930 --> 00:07:12,140 - Oh, yeah. 201 00:07:12,182 --> 00:07:13,350 - Oh, that was so great. 202 00:07:13,391 --> 00:07:16,227 - Cool. 203 00:07:16,269 --> 00:07:19,522 - We need to go nice and straight down that way, Corry. 204 00:07:19,564 --> 00:07:21,191 - You got the cache? - Yep. 205 00:07:21,232 --> 00:07:22,942 - Oh, here we are. [cheers] 206 00:07:22,984 --> 00:07:23,985 - Got it! 207 00:07:24,027 --> 00:07:25,236 - Oh, I could cry! 208 00:07:25,278 --> 00:07:27,155 I want food! 209 00:07:27,197 --> 00:07:29,032 - You want to get it while I look at the nav? 210 00:07:29,074 --> 00:07:30,200 - Yeah. 211 00:07:30,241 --> 00:07:32,035 - Paulina, get us to our next spot, OK? 212 00:07:32,077 --> 00:07:33,495 - I am. 213 00:07:33,536 --> 00:07:35,038 - Got it? - Yeah. 214 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,081 - Here. 215 00:07:36,122 --> 00:07:37,540 - This is madness. 216 00:07:37,582 --> 00:07:39,709 I've never seen this many people at a food cache before. 217 00:07:39,751 --> 00:07:41,002 - We head down that way. - OK, let's go. 218 00:07:41,044 --> 00:07:42,879 - OK. 219 00:07:42,921 --> 00:07:45,507 - Coree, we need to go that way. 220 00:07:45,548 --> 00:07:46,549 Go! 221 00:07:46,591 --> 00:07:47,592 - [grunts] 222 00:07:47,634 --> 00:07:50,553 [tense music] 223 00:07:50,595 --> 00:07:53,348 * * 224 00:07:53,390 --> 00:07:54,891 - You all right? 225 00:07:54,933 --> 00:08:00,605 - [groans] 226 00:08:00,647 --> 00:08:03,066 - You good? 227 00:08:06,027 --> 00:08:07,070 - We need to go. 228 00:08:07,112 --> 00:08:08,863 - That's called the leaning tower. 229 00:08:08,905 --> 00:08:10,407 - Yeah, leaning tower. 230 00:08:10,448 --> 00:08:13,284 Coree, we need to go that way. 231 00:08:16,705 --> 00:08:18,748 - OK, man, hold on. 232 00:08:18,790 --> 00:08:22,002 It's gonna be some crazy bushwhacking. 233 00:08:26,715 --> 00:08:30,677 - You all right? 234 00:08:30,719 --> 00:08:32,178 - It'll be OK. 235 00:08:32,220 --> 00:08:34,472 - All right, just let me know how it gets. 236 00:08:34,514 --> 00:08:36,391 - Let's go. 237 00:08:36,433 --> 00:08:39,185 - While the shell-shocked ultrarunners 238 00:08:39,227 --> 00:08:43,189 and five other teams snatch and grab their food cache, 239 00:08:43,231 --> 00:08:47,318 2 miles away-- 240 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:48,361 - Maybe. 241 00:08:48,403 --> 00:08:52,532 Yeah, there it is. 242 00:08:52,574 --> 00:08:54,034 - OK, come touch. 243 00:08:54,075 --> 00:08:55,910 - --for the second time in the competition, 244 00:08:55,952 --> 00:08:58,788 turning down calories allows the in-laws 245 00:08:58,830 --> 00:09:03,209 to climb the leaderboard. 246 00:09:03,251 --> 00:09:05,962 - "Congratulations, you arrived at the cave. 247 00:09:06,004 --> 00:09:09,883 "Your departure order is your order of arrival to this spot. 248 00:09:09,924 --> 00:09:11,760 Prepare for a deep dive." 249 00:09:11,801 --> 00:09:16,431 - 600 feet below the surface is an oozing, slippery system 250 00:09:16,473 --> 00:09:17,891 of caverns. 251 00:09:17,932 --> 00:09:19,809 The kinds of tight squeezes in the dark 252 00:09:19,851 --> 00:09:22,771 that nightmares are made of, as they boldly 253 00:09:22,812 --> 00:09:25,565 navigate a mile of claustrophobic crevices 254 00:09:25,607 --> 00:09:29,194 and pitch-black switchbacks. 255 00:09:29,235 --> 00:09:31,821 [tense music] 256 00:09:31,863 --> 00:09:35,825 - Is something over here? 257 00:09:35,867 --> 00:09:36,785 - Remember to touch it. 258 00:09:36,826 --> 00:09:39,704 - Yep, yep, yep. 259 00:09:39,746 --> 00:09:40,705 - [chuckles] 260 00:09:40,747 --> 00:09:42,082 - ---- yeah. 261 00:09:42,123 --> 00:09:43,124 [cheers] 262 00:09:43,166 --> 00:09:44,709 - Let's go, dog. 263 00:09:44,751 --> 00:09:49,964 - Snag the cache first and got to the cave, I believe, first. 264 00:09:50,006 --> 00:09:51,508 I see Ryan and Bronsen right there. 265 00:09:51,549 --> 00:09:53,009 - Oh. - Did they get here first? 266 00:09:53,051 --> 00:09:54,511 - Oh, maybe they beat us. - They might of beat us. 267 00:09:54,552 --> 00:09:55,929 - They skipped the cache. - Oh! 268 00:09:55,970 --> 00:09:57,013 They might have beat us here, actually. 269 00:09:57,055 --> 00:09:58,098 - Yeah. 270 00:09:58,139 --> 00:09:59,683 - Ryan and Bronsen skipped the cache. 271 00:09:59,724 --> 00:10:01,434 And that was about two days' worth of food. 272 00:10:01,476 --> 00:10:02,852 It wasn't worth it. 273 00:10:02,894 --> 00:10:04,646 - We know we're faster than them. 274 00:10:04,688 --> 00:10:06,272 We'll catch them and pass them. 275 00:10:06,314 --> 00:10:09,484 - With Oliver and Corry waiting their turn in second-- 276 00:10:09,526 --> 00:10:10,777 - We're doing good, Paul. 277 00:10:10,819 --> 00:10:12,112 - I'm good! 278 00:10:12,153 --> 00:10:14,781 - --it's a three-team race for third. 279 00:10:14,823 --> 00:10:16,449 - You good, bro? - Yeah. 280 00:10:16,491 --> 00:10:17,659 - Come on, Ash! 281 00:10:17,701 --> 00:10:19,119 Come on, Ash! - Yes, yes! 282 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:20,036 Yes! 283 00:10:20,078 --> 00:10:22,455 - Come on, come on, come on! 284 00:10:22,497 --> 00:10:23,498 - ----. 285 00:10:23,540 --> 00:10:24,874 - [laughs] 286 00:10:24,916 --> 00:10:26,251 - God, that was so close. - Oh, yeah. 287 00:10:26,292 --> 00:10:27,627 - That was seconds. - Way to work. 288 00:10:27,669 --> 00:10:29,129 - Oh, god. - We were close. 289 00:10:29,170 --> 00:10:30,505 - Nice. - So close, guys. 290 00:10:30,547 --> 00:10:32,048 - Seconds. - OK. 291 00:10:32,090 --> 00:10:33,717 - Coming up on these adventure challenges, 292 00:10:33,758 --> 00:10:36,469 it's so important to get there first. 293 00:10:36,511 --> 00:10:39,973 They really can make or break team placement out here. 294 00:10:40,015 --> 00:10:42,809 You were slow in the forest. 295 00:10:42,851 --> 00:10:47,105 - I mean, I was trying to go as fast as I could. 296 00:10:47,147 --> 00:10:48,732 - I have seen you move faster. 297 00:10:48,773 --> 00:10:52,318 [tense music] 298 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:53,987 - I was literally doing everything I could. 299 00:10:54,029 --> 00:10:56,156 I wanted-- I want to be just as fast. 300 00:10:56,197 --> 00:10:57,824 I was trying to keep up with you. 301 00:10:57,866 --> 00:10:59,409 Don't-- don't talk down to me like that. 302 00:10:59,451 --> 00:11:00,618 That's not cool. - I know. 303 00:11:00,660 --> 00:11:02,287 That's why I-- 304 00:11:02,328 --> 00:11:03,830 - I have not talked down on you once this entire race. 305 00:11:03,872 --> 00:11:05,331 And you're, like, talking shit on my-- 306 00:11:05,373 --> 00:11:07,334 on my abilities and, like-- and my speed. 307 00:11:07,375 --> 00:11:08,460 That's not cool. 308 00:11:08,501 --> 00:11:12,964 - It's not. 309 00:11:13,006 --> 00:11:14,507 - Are you ready for this, bro? 310 00:11:14,549 --> 00:11:16,176 - Yep. 311 00:11:16,217 --> 00:11:19,054 - Pretty high. 312 00:11:19,095 --> 00:11:21,348 We're the first team into the cave. 313 00:11:21,389 --> 00:11:25,560 Getting hurt, obviously, put us out-- right out of the gate. 314 00:11:25,602 --> 00:11:27,312 But we're backcountry guys. 315 00:11:27,354 --> 00:11:29,064 We've always been backcountry guys. 316 00:11:29,105 --> 00:11:31,483 People hire us to take them up in the mountains. 317 00:11:31,524 --> 00:11:33,777 So I'm not, like, worried about height. 318 00:11:33,818 --> 00:11:37,364 You get some of those areas that someone might freak out. 319 00:11:37,405 --> 00:11:42,202 - I sure hope this thing is good. 320 00:11:42,243 --> 00:11:43,244 Whoo! 321 00:11:43,286 --> 00:11:45,997 Have fun, brah! 322 00:11:46,039 --> 00:11:48,958 Look at that hole, dude. 323 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:49,959 - Come on, bro! 324 00:11:50,001 --> 00:11:57,133 * * 325 00:11:58,426 --> 00:12:00,553 - Keep her coming, Brons. 326 00:12:00,595 --> 00:12:05,475 * * 327 00:12:05,517 --> 00:12:06,893 Good job, bro! 328 00:12:06,935 --> 00:12:11,314 * * 329 00:12:11,356 --> 00:12:15,026 - Whoa. 330 00:12:15,068 --> 00:12:16,319 - Coming up-- - Hurry, hurry. 331 00:12:16,361 --> 00:12:17,362 Let's go. 332 00:12:17,404 --> 00:12:18,446 Go, go, go, go! 333 00:12:18,488 --> 00:12:19,489 - All ready torn up. 334 00:12:19,531 --> 00:12:20,824 Bleeding everywhere. 335 00:12:20,865 --> 00:12:22,409 - I don't understand what's going on. 336 00:12:22,450 --> 00:12:24,452 - This is the last thing you and I ever do together. 337 00:12:24,494 --> 00:12:25,829 [helicopter blades whirring] 338 00:12:25,870 --> 00:12:28,915 - The Green Maze is taking casualties. 339 00:12:39,551 --> 00:12:40,010 [tense music] 340 00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:43,179 - Nice job, Brons. 341 00:12:43,221 --> 00:12:44,014 - Yeah. 342 00:12:44,055 --> 00:12:46,307 - Almost there. 343 00:12:46,349 --> 00:12:48,977 - Deep old hole. 344 00:12:49,019 --> 00:12:51,062 How sweet is that? 345 00:12:51,104 --> 00:12:53,815 - One hour into the race clock, the 600-foot 346 00:12:53,857 --> 00:12:57,819 plunge into New Zealand's limestone crust has begun. 347 00:12:57,861 --> 00:13:00,405 - Let's do it. 348 00:13:00,447 --> 00:13:01,990 - Just gonna push as hard as we can 349 00:13:02,032 --> 00:13:04,117 so we can stay up in that top. 350 00:13:04,159 --> 00:13:07,829 [water rushing] 351 00:13:07,871 --> 00:13:09,748 Go swimming in that pool, huh? 352 00:13:09,789 --> 00:13:12,167 - Yeah. 353 00:13:12,208 --> 00:13:14,044 - Everyone else went for the caches. 354 00:13:14,085 --> 00:13:16,004 But we didn't. 355 00:13:16,046 --> 00:13:18,340 We chose not to so we can stay out in the lead. 356 00:13:18,381 --> 00:13:22,010 It's a big risk not having that food. 357 00:13:22,052 --> 00:13:25,096 So we got to make this worth it. 358 00:13:25,138 --> 00:13:27,390 I don't know, where do you go, Brons? 359 00:13:27,432 --> 00:13:29,559 Oh, I see it. 360 00:13:29,601 --> 00:13:31,186 - You just hang on to it. 361 00:13:31,227 --> 00:13:33,813 - Clear of the rappel, teams will feel their way 362 00:13:33,855 --> 00:13:35,815 forward a mile and a half-- 363 00:13:35,857 --> 00:13:37,400 - See that handhold? 364 00:13:37,442 --> 00:13:39,027 You gotta grab it. 365 00:13:39,069 --> 00:13:40,779 - --climbing, squirming, and fighting 366 00:13:40,820 --> 00:13:44,491 every inch in darkness as fast as they can. 367 00:13:44,532 --> 00:13:46,618 - 'Cause if you were to fall into that-- 368 00:13:46,659 --> 00:13:47,660 - That would suck. 369 00:13:47,702 --> 00:13:49,120 - --that's gonna be cold. 370 00:13:49,162 --> 00:13:50,538 - Back at the entrance-- 371 00:13:50,580 --> 00:13:51,539 - Nice pit. 372 00:13:51,581 --> 00:13:53,083 - It's here. 373 00:13:53,124 --> 00:13:54,793 We're here. 374 00:13:54,834 --> 00:13:56,252 Let's do it. 375 00:13:56,294 --> 00:13:58,713 - --the next team is allowed to descend. 376 00:13:58,755 --> 00:14:00,090 - Man, I don't even have words. 377 00:14:00,131 --> 00:14:03,134 Like, I think I can see the bottom. 378 00:14:03,176 --> 00:14:05,220 - What's the worst thing that could happen? 379 00:14:05,261 --> 00:14:06,846 - The worst thing that we-- could happen-- 380 00:14:06,888 --> 00:14:08,348 - Look at that pit. 381 00:14:08,390 --> 00:14:09,432 - --is we die alone at the bottom of the pit. 382 00:14:09,474 --> 00:14:11,434 [laughter] 383 00:14:11,476 --> 00:14:12,727 - Whoa! 384 00:14:12,769 --> 00:14:14,854 That's scary. 385 00:14:14,896 --> 00:14:16,690 - Those 3 seconds behind the moms 386 00:14:16,731 --> 00:14:19,234 cost us a ton of time going into the cave. 387 00:14:19,275 --> 00:14:20,902 That could be the difference between us staying 388 00:14:20,944 --> 00:14:23,530 in this competition or not. 389 00:14:23,571 --> 00:14:25,240 That's why I'm-- That's why I'm upset. 390 00:14:25,281 --> 00:14:26,908 I feel like you didn't do 100%. 391 00:14:26,950 --> 00:14:28,910 I feel like-- 392 00:14:28,952 --> 00:14:30,412 - Sorry it wasn't up to your standards. 393 00:14:30,453 --> 00:14:32,580 But that was-- that was all I had. 394 00:14:32,622 --> 00:14:34,416 - No, it wasn't like up to my standards. 395 00:14:34,457 --> 00:14:37,460 I feel like it wouldn't be up to your standards. 396 00:14:44,259 --> 00:14:45,385 - I feel like you've been really mean 397 00:14:45,427 --> 00:14:46,928 to me, like, all day today. 398 00:14:46,970 --> 00:14:48,096 And I don't understand what's going on. 399 00:14:48,138 --> 00:14:50,432 [tense music] 400 00:14:50,473 --> 00:14:53,143 - When you divorce somebody, you give up 401 00:14:53,184 --> 00:14:56,104 on trying to fix the things that were broken. 402 00:14:57,939 --> 00:14:59,733 - I initiated the separation. 403 00:14:59,774 --> 00:15:02,193 I was hopeful that we could work through it. 404 00:15:02,235 --> 00:15:04,612 He was the one who asked for the divorce. 405 00:15:04,654 --> 00:15:06,448 It just kind of came to the point 406 00:15:06,489 --> 00:15:09,325 where we both realized that we would have to change who we 407 00:15:09,367 --> 00:15:11,161 are as people to make it work. 408 00:15:16,958 --> 00:15:21,796 - But I'm having a hard time today being here with you. 409 00:15:22,630 --> 00:15:26,468 There are just ways that we don't work together. 410 00:15:26,509 --> 00:15:27,761 - Yeah. 411 00:15:27,802 --> 00:15:30,513 - But out here, like, we can't escape it. 412 00:15:30,555 --> 00:15:33,433 - Yeah. 413 00:15:33,475 --> 00:15:34,934 - Do you think we're ever gonna do anything 414 00:15:34,976 --> 00:15:36,895 after this, you and I? 415 00:15:36,936 --> 00:15:39,439 - I have no idea, but I think that's a conversation 416 00:15:39,481 --> 00:15:42,442 for another day. 417 00:15:42,484 --> 00:15:44,861 - I think there's like a real chance this is the last thing 418 00:15:44,903 --> 00:15:46,279 you and I ever do together. 419 00:15:49,532 --> 00:15:53,328 But if is-- if this is our final thing, it's pretty cool. 420 00:15:53,370 --> 00:15:55,413 - Pretty ------- cool. 421 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:03,338 [tense music] 422 00:16:03,380 --> 00:16:04,923 - While five of the seven teams have entered 423 00:16:04,964 --> 00:16:06,966 the cave or wait to descend-- 424 00:16:07,008 --> 00:16:09,177 - Oh, my god. 425 00:16:09,219 --> 00:16:11,179 300 degrees. 426 00:16:11,221 --> 00:16:14,683 - So that way? 427 00:16:14,724 --> 00:16:16,643 - --two teams are still in the forest. 428 00:16:16,685 --> 00:16:19,312 The smokejumpers struggling to find the cache 429 00:16:19,354 --> 00:16:22,524 and ultrarunners Coree and Jeff-- 430 00:16:22,565 --> 00:16:23,692 - Located the-- - At the water. 431 00:16:23,733 --> 00:16:24,859 - Yep. 432 00:16:24,901 --> 00:16:25,902 And there's water right there. 433 00:16:25,944 --> 00:16:27,487 - It's gotta be there. 434 00:16:27,529 --> 00:16:31,491 - --slowed by a fall and struggling to find the cave. 435 00:16:31,533 --> 00:16:33,201 - My head hurts. 436 00:16:33,243 --> 00:16:35,829 Life goes on. 437 00:16:35,870 --> 00:16:37,706 It would be awesome to see Jeff win this 438 00:16:37,747 --> 00:16:39,916 just because, you know, his girls, 439 00:16:39,958 --> 00:16:41,710 the college would be paid for. 440 00:16:41,751 --> 00:16:45,005 And so I want to help him win this thing. 441 00:16:45,046 --> 00:16:46,047 - You see it? 442 00:16:46,089 --> 00:16:48,508 - To the right. Yep. 443 00:16:48,550 --> 00:16:50,093 When you're racing with a teammate, 444 00:16:50,135 --> 00:16:52,262 it's like, wow, like, they had to take time off work, 445 00:16:52,303 --> 00:16:54,055 time away from their families, time away 446 00:16:54,097 --> 00:16:55,849 from their daily activities. 447 00:16:55,890 --> 00:16:57,684 And they've been training for this for the last six months 448 00:16:57,726 --> 00:16:59,227 or however long it's been, you know? 449 00:16:59,269 --> 00:17:00,687 It's not just me. 450 00:17:00,729 --> 00:17:04,733 There's just a lot that goes into play then. 451 00:17:04,774 --> 00:17:05,900 - How are you feeling? 452 00:17:05,942 --> 00:17:08,945 - Pretty bad. 453 00:17:08,987 --> 00:17:09,988 - Anything I can do? 454 00:17:10,030 --> 00:17:11,698 - Mm-mm. 455 00:17:11,740 --> 00:17:15,869 - 1,200 yards away and 600 feet below-- 456 00:17:15,910 --> 00:17:17,912 - We're just gonna keep pushing through at a good pace. 457 00:17:17,954 --> 00:17:18,913 Whoo-hoo-hoo! 458 00:17:18,955 --> 00:17:19,956 [chuckling] 459 00:17:19,998 --> 00:17:20,999 - [laughs] 460 00:17:21,041 --> 00:17:22,042 - Whoo! 461 00:17:22,083 --> 00:17:23,877 Let's go, bro! 462 00:17:23,918 --> 00:17:26,629 My pride and reputation is on the line. 463 00:17:26,671 --> 00:17:29,257 I got to prove my point that we're the best. 464 00:17:29,299 --> 00:17:33,261 I've envisioned myself and Bronsen so many times 465 00:17:33,303 --> 00:17:34,846 coming to that finish line. 466 00:17:34,888 --> 00:17:38,350 And then we open that up and see that one medallion 467 00:17:38,391 --> 00:17:40,810 knowing we won $500,000. 468 00:17:40,852 --> 00:17:44,939 I mean, it's a-- it would just blow my heart away. 469 00:17:44,981 --> 00:17:47,400 I'm hoping that there's an end out of here, 470 00:17:47,442 --> 00:17:48,943 you know what I mean? 471 00:17:48,985 --> 00:17:51,196 - In order to escape the cavern-- 472 00:17:51,237 --> 00:17:52,655 - Go through there? 473 00:17:52,697 --> 00:17:53,656 - I don't know. 474 00:17:53,698 --> 00:17:54,908 - Yeah? 475 00:17:54,949 --> 00:17:56,409 Looks tight. 476 00:17:56,451 --> 00:17:58,620 - --all racers must squeeze and force 477 00:17:58,661 --> 00:18:01,373 themselves face down through a watery 478 00:18:01,414 --> 00:18:03,500 fissure barely 2 feet high. 479 00:18:03,541 --> 00:18:06,169 - Going down into the hole. 480 00:18:12,884 --> 00:18:15,053 And caught again. 481 00:18:15,095 --> 00:18:17,263 And I can't move it. 482 00:18:17,305 --> 00:18:21,810 It's cold. 483 00:18:21,851 --> 00:18:23,728 God damn. 484 00:18:23,770 --> 00:18:24,854 - You all right? 485 00:18:24,896 --> 00:18:25,939 - Damn it. 486 00:18:25,980 --> 00:18:27,273 Augh. 487 00:18:27,315 --> 00:18:28,817 Shit. 488 00:18:37,742 --> 00:18:38,159 - You all right? 489 00:18:39,786 --> 00:18:42,622 - God damn it. 490 00:18:42,664 --> 00:18:43,581 Shit. 491 00:18:43,623 --> 00:18:46,001 [grunts] 492 00:18:46,042 --> 00:18:48,795 [groans] 493 00:18:48,837 --> 00:18:53,049 - Dude, it's like you're getting reborn, buddy. 494 00:18:53,091 --> 00:18:55,218 - Whoo! 495 00:18:55,260 --> 00:18:57,762 Let's go, bro! 496 00:18:57,804 --> 00:18:58,763 - Hot? 497 00:18:58,805 --> 00:18:59,764 - Yeah. 498 00:18:59,806 --> 00:19:01,474 - OK. 499 00:19:01,516 --> 00:19:03,768 - Hurry, hurry. 500 00:19:03,810 --> 00:19:04,811 Let's go. 501 00:19:04,853 --> 00:19:07,188 Go, go, go, go. 502 00:19:07,230 --> 00:19:08,231 - We got to boogie. 503 00:19:08,273 --> 00:19:09,899 - They're coming. 504 00:19:12,485 --> 00:19:16,156 - Dude, we made it out, Brons. 505 00:19:16,197 --> 00:19:17,240 - Hey, and it's sunny! 506 00:19:17,282 --> 00:19:19,200 [chuckles] 507 00:19:19,242 --> 00:19:20,243 - Whew. 508 00:19:20,285 --> 00:19:21,786 - It feels good out here. 509 00:19:21,828 --> 00:19:24,748 - Clearing the cave, in-laws Ryan and Bronsen 510 00:19:24,789 --> 00:19:27,667 have a hold on first place. 511 00:19:27,709 --> 00:19:30,295 But back at the food cache-- 512 00:19:30,337 --> 00:19:33,256 - Phew. 513 00:19:33,298 --> 00:19:34,924 We have the cache. 514 00:19:34,966 --> 00:19:37,761 We just got to reset, you know, and get to the cave. 515 00:19:37,802 --> 00:19:39,763 - --after veering wildly off course-- 516 00:19:39,804 --> 00:19:42,974 - There's a bunch of sign of people running through here. 517 00:19:43,016 --> 00:19:44,642 That's exactly what we're pointing to. 518 00:19:44,684 --> 00:19:46,519 - --for the first time in the competition, 519 00:19:46,561 --> 00:19:48,938 smokejumpers Ethan and Tyrie are over 520 00:19:48,980 --> 00:19:52,025 90 minutes behind and facing the serious 521 00:19:52,067 --> 00:19:53,943 threat of elimination. 522 00:19:53,985 --> 00:19:54,986 - Let's go. 523 00:19:55,028 --> 00:19:56,696 - Is this the cave start? 524 00:19:56,738 --> 00:19:59,074 Touch it. 525 00:19:59,115 --> 00:20:00,784 - Yeah. 526 00:20:00,825 --> 00:20:01,618 - You know, we've been in a lot of stressful situations 527 00:20:01,659 --> 00:20:02,744 together already. 528 00:20:02,786 --> 00:20:05,497 - We know how well we work together. 529 00:20:05,538 --> 00:20:07,457 - So you just have a lot of trust and faith in each other 530 00:20:07,499 --> 00:20:09,751 that if stuff does blow up, we're gonna be able to make 531 00:20:09,793 --> 00:20:11,169 the right decision together. 532 00:20:11,211 --> 00:20:13,797 And so we're just gonna keep on fighting. 533 00:20:13,838 --> 00:20:16,800 - With 10 hours remaining on the race clock-- 534 00:20:16,841 --> 00:20:18,968 - All right. 535 00:20:19,010 --> 00:20:21,304 Here we go. 536 00:20:21,346 --> 00:20:24,140 - Oh, she's tight. 537 00:20:24,182 --> 00:20:26,309 Whoo-ee! 538 00:20:26,351 --> 00:20:30,021 - --teams are pushing through the underground world. 539 00:20:30,063 --> 00:20:31,022 - Yeah, you got it. 540 00:20:31,064 --> 00:20:32,357 - Ahh! 541 00:20:32,399 --> 00:20:34,693 - That is some cold water, man. 542 00:20:34,734 --> 00:20:36,611 This is protecting me ankle! 543 00:20:36,653 --> 00:20:38,822 Every step of that cave hurts. 544 00:20:38,863 --> 00:20:41,157 We're not just, like, crawling through things 545 00:20:41,199 --> 00:20:42,367 or walking through the dark. 546 00:20:42,409 --> 00:20:44,994 We are rappelling inside the cave. 547 00:20:45,036 --> 00:20:47,330 We are climbing up rocks. 548 00:20:47,372 --> 00:20:48,748 Good job! 549 00:20:48,790 --> 00:20:50,917 - I'm here to spot you. 550 00:20:50,959 --> 00:20:52,419 Grab up. Grab up. 551 00:20:52,460 --> 00:20:54,129 Good. 552 00:20:54,170 --> 00:20:57,549 - This is more technical than I thought it was gonna be. 553 00:20:57,590 --> 00:21:02,345 I think I might just have to scooch my way down. 554 00:21:02,387 --> 00:21:04,180 - Hey. - Ah! 555 00:21:04,222 --> 00:21:05,181 [metal scraping] 556 00:21:05,223 --> 00:21:08,018 [water splashing] 557 00:21:08,059 --> 00:21:09,310 - You OK? 558 00:21:09,352 --> 00:21:11,229 - Yeah, I'm good. 559 00:21:11,271 --> 00:21:12,772 Divorce isn't easy. 560 00:21:12,814 --> 00:21:14,941 And there's, like, still a decent amount of issues 561 00:21:14,983 --> 00:21:17,068 that we each have had to deal with. 562 00:21:17,110 --> 00:21:19,279 But out here, you have to get over 563 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,449 any disagreement you're having quickly if you 564 00:21:22,490 --> 00:21:24,200 want to stay in the race. 565 00:21:24,242 --> 00:21:26,202 - All right, well, that's one-- that's a quick way to do it. 566 00:21:26,244 --> 00:21:28,204 - [laughs] 567 00:21:28,246 --> 00:21:29,581 - Where are we going? 568 00:21:29,622 --> 00:21:30,707 - I don't know. 569 00:21:30,749 --> 00:21:32,167 - Do you have your compass? 570 00:21:32,208 --> 00:21:35,295 - No, you don't use a compass in a cave. 571 00:21:35,337 --> 00:21:36,296 - All right. 572 00:21:36,338 --> 00:21:37,839 - [groans] 573 00:21:37,881 --> 00:21:39,466 [spits] 574 00:21:39,507 --> 00:21:40,425 - That works, too. 575 00:21:40,467 --> 00:21:43,053 - Oh, man. 576 00:21:43,094 --> 00:21:44,888 [groans] 577 00:21:44,929 --> 00:21:46,431 - You all right? 578 00:21:46,473 --> 00:21:48,224 - My head's just pounding. 579 00:21:48,266 --> 00:21:52,562 - Coree's strengths are his ability to keep our morale up. 580 00:21:52,604 --> 00:21:54,230 When he was my coach, even after what 581 00:21:54,272 --> 00:21:57,734 I conceived as a bad race, for him to just fire right back 582 00:21:57,776 --> 00:22:00,362 and tell me all the things that I did good. 583 00:22:00,403 --> 00:22:02,280 - [groans] 584 00:22:02,322 --> 00:22:03,865 - Anything I can do? 585 00:22:03,907 --> 00:22:07,660 So it's just hard to watch him in pain right now. 586 00:22:07,702 --> 00:22:10,080 But he's tough. 587 00:22:10,121 --> 00:22:11,081 He's tough. 588 00:22:11,122 --> 00:22:12,123 And he'll push. 589 00:22:12,165 --> 00:22:13,208 - I'm all right. 590 00:22:13,249 --> 00:22:14,334 Let's get off of this thing. 591 00:22:14,376 --> 00:22:16,586 [groans] 592 00:22:16,628 --> 00:22:17,587 - Off rope. 593 00:22:17,629 --> 00:22:19,089 - Yeah, yeah. 594 00:22:19,130 --> 00:22:20,507 - Holy shit, man. 595 00:22:20,548 --> 00:22:21,549 - Nice. 596 00:22:21,591 --> 00:22:23,760 - This is wild, dude. 597 00:22:25,595 --> 00:22:30,016 - 1 mile ahead-- 598 00:22:30,058 --> 00:22:32,602 - All right, Brons, let's hit that trail. 599 00:22:32,644 --> 00:22:33,812 Straight ahead, man. - OK. 600 00:22:33,853 --> 00:22:35,855 - --leaders Ryan and Bronsen have 601 00:22:35,897 --> 00:22:40,235 plunged headlong into the race's next challenge. 602 00:22:40,276 --> 00:22:42,362 - This is nasty stuff, bro. 603 00:22:42,404 --> 00:22:43,738 - Already is torn up. 604 00:22:43,780 --> 00:22:45,407 I'm bleeding everywhere. 605 00:22:45,448 --> 00:22:48,993 - With a canopy so thick, it turns daylight to dusk, 606 00:22:49,035 --> 00:22:52,122 the Green Maze is a navigational nightmare. 607 00:22:52,163 --> 00:22:54,749 Bordered to the north by cliffs so steep, 608 00:22:54,791 --> 00:22:57,752 a geofence boundary has been marked for safety, 609 00:22:57,794 --> 00:23:00,338 this 11-mile labyrinth of deadfall 610 00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:02,298 and thorn-kissed vines 611 00:23:02,340 --> 00:23:06,136 is riddled with a gnarl of footpaths created by animals 612 00:23:06,177 --> 00:23:08,763 and the hunters in their wake, each headed 613 00:23:08,805 --> 00:23:11,141 in a different direction. 614 00:23:11,182 --> 00:23:12,851 - Everything's just brutal out here. 615 00:23:12,892 --> 00:23:14,811 My hands are just eaten apart. 616 00:23:14,853 --> 00:23:16,855 Everything you grab was sticking onto you, 617 00:23:16,896 --> 00:23:21,151 sticking onto your packs, cutting your hands up. 618 00:23:21,192 --> 00:23:22,485 It was constant. 619 00:23:22,527 --> 00:23:25,780 ------- heck, bro. 620 00:23:25,822 --> 00:23:27,490 - While the in-laws bash straight through 621 00:23:27,532 --> 00:23:29,075 the thickets-- 622 00:23:29,117 --> 00:23:32,078 - If you can keep your head up for the flag? 623 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:35,206 - --chasing them down, Oliver and Corry 624 00:23:35,248 --> 00:23:37,000 have a different tact. 625 00:23:37,042 --> 00:23:40,628 - We're gonna hit a geofence off the back of this. 626 00:23:40,670 --> 00:23:42,213 We can bounce the fence. 627 00:23:42,255 --> 00:23:43,590 - OK. 628 00:23:43,631 --> 00:23:45,175 - Using the boundary markers designed 629 00:23:45,216 --> 00:23:49,012 for safety to navigate, instead of a map or compass. 630 00:23:49,054 --> 00:23:51,222 - So those geofences are there to protect us 631 00:23:51,264 --> 00:23:53,641 from, like, steep, steep terrain, 632 00:23:53,683 --> 00:23:55,060 cliffs, that sort of thing. 633 00:23:55,101 --> 00:23:56,853 And so we figured the best way to do it 634 00:23:56,895 --> 00:23:58,521 for this initial starting point was 635 00:23:58,563 --> 00:24:01,524 to actually hit that geofence and basically hug it, 636 00:24:01,566 --> 00:24:04,903 stay right on it, because eventually that line is 637 00:24:04,944 --> 00:24:07,238 gonna point us right to the-- that track 638 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,240 that we need to be on. 639 00:24:09,282 --> 00:24:10,367 - I see tape up there. 640 00:24:10,408 --> 00:24:11,326 - There it is. 641 00:24:11,368 --> 00:24:12,452 - Geofence. 642 00:24:12,494 --> 00:24:14,204 More tape. 643 00:24:14,245 --> 00:24:16,373 - Using the bordered fence as a handrail is a clever play 644 00:24:16,414 --> 00:24:21,252 but comes at a cost, adding over 2 miles of extra travel. 645 00:24:21,294 --> 00:24:23,505 - I'm pretty confident we're probably 646 00:24:23,546 --> 00:24:26,716 just behind Ryan and Bronsen. 647 00:24:36,017 --> 00:24:36,476 [tense music] 648 00:24:38,019 --> 00:24:43,692 - With seven hours left on the race 3, day 1 clock-- 649 00:24:43,733 --> 00:24:45,151 - * Sunlight * 650 00:24:45,193 --> 00:24:47,529 - Let's go. 651 00:24:47,570 --> 00:24:50,782 - --all teams have cleared the cave and hit the dense 652 00:24:50,824 --> 00:24:54,244 bushwhack in the Green Maze. 653 00:24:54,285 --> 00:24:56,663 - I imagine we're somewhere right here. 654 00:24:56,705 --> 00:24:57,789 - Cool. 655 00:24:57,831 --> 00:24:58,832 - Good calls, man. 656 00:24:58,873 --> 00:25:00,583 Real good calls. 657 00:25:00,625 --> 00:25:03,795 - Keep following this down until we hit a creek or river. 658 00:25:03,837 --> 00:25:05,296 Then we'll know where we're at. 659 00:25:05,338 --> 00:25:07,048 - Looking to overcome the navigation error 660 00:25:07,090 --> 00:25:09,050 that dropped them to last-- 661 00:25:09,092 --> 00:25:11,219 - I think this is a creek. 662 00:25:11,261 --> 00:25:12,262 - Yep. 663 00:25:12,303 --> 00:25:14,305 A fresh creek. 664 00:25:14,347 --> 00:25:16,016 - --the smokejumpers are following 665 00:25:16,057 --> 00:25:18,143 a straight bearing, sprinting at every 666 00:25:18,184 --> 00:25:20,478 chance to make up ground. 667 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,856 - We're ahead of you. 668 00:25:25,692 --> 00:25:27,402 - Oh, hey, guys. 669 00:25:27,444 --> 00:25:30,613 - Good job, Kennedy. 670 00:25:30,655 --> 00:25:33,450 - Yeah, man, we're just gonna be going up and over that hill. 671 00:25:33,491 --> 00:25:34,492 - Yep. 672 00:25:34,534 --> 00:25:35,827 Just keep following it. 673 00:25:35,869 --> 00:25:36,828 Trust your gut. 674 00:25:36,870 --> 00:25:38,580 I trust you. 675 00:25:38,621 --> 00:25:40,999 - I think it's this way. 676 00:25:41,041 --> 00:25:44,419 - It's saying this way. 677 00:25:44,461 --> 00:25:46,921 Based on my bearings, we got to go that way. 678 00:25:46,963 --> 00:25:49,466 But if that trail goes that way, then we're good. 679 00:25:49,507 --> 00:25:51,217 - It's not trails. 680 00:25:51,259 --> 00:25:55,013 We're following, like, animal game paths and, like, 681 00:25:55,055 --> 00:25:58,433 trapper trails, and stuff that, like, the general people 682 00:25:58,475 --> 00:25:59,851 don't really take. 683 00:25:59,893 --> 00:26:01,936 - OK, it just makes me so nervous. 684 00:26:01,978 --> 00:26:03,355 - What makes you nervous? 685 00:26:03,396 --> 00:26:04,856 - That we're going the wrong direction 686 00:26:04,898 --> 00:26:06,358 and then we're gonna get behind. 687 00:26:06,399 --> 00:26:07,525 - Let's see if there's like-- if we missed, 688 00:26:07,567 --> 00:26:08,485 like, a little left. 689 00:26:08,526 --> 00:26:11,196 - OK. 690 00:26:11,237 --> 00:26:14,115 God damn it, I ------- hate this. 691 00:26:14,157 --> 00:26:17,035 - Scattered throughout the blindingly dense forest 692 00:26:17,077 --> 00:26:19,204 with no way of knowing their positioning-- 693 00:26:19,245 --> 00:26:23,458 each team is carving its own unique pathway. 694 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:25,627 - In the Green Maze we go. 695 00:26:25,669 --> 00:26:27,962 They were not joking around. 696 00:26:28,004 --> 00:26:29,255 - OK with this Ash? 697 00:26:29,297 --> 00:26:30,548 - Yep. 698 00:26:30,590 --> 00:26:32,425 - None more cautious than the route chosen 699 00:26:32,467 --> 00:26:35,261 by navigator Rhandi, looking to protect her teammate's 700 00:26:35,303 --> 00:26:36,554 hobbled ankle. 701 00:26:36,596 --> 00:26:37,889 - This is gonna be slow-going, and there's 702 00:26:37,931 --> 00:26:39,516 nothing wrong with that. 703 00:26:39,557 --> 00:26:41,309 We just take our time here. 704 00:26:41,351 --> 00:26:44,187 - It feels like there might be a bit of a game trail here. 705 00:26:44,229 --> 00:26:46,272 - Just look out for bush lawyer. 706 00:26:46,314 --> 00:26:49,275 I'm very comfortable in the outdoors. 707 00:26:49,317 --> 00:26:52,487 My mom taught me how to be wild in nature 708 00:26:52,529 --> 00:26:54,364 and in the mountains and doing hard things. 709 00:26:54,406 --> 00:26:55,740 My sister and I, we didn't have a lot 710 00:26:55,782 --> 00:26:58,076 when we were little, and my mom worked so hard 711 00:26:58,118 --> 00:26:59,619 to give us a wonderful life. 712 00:26:59,661 --> 00:27:02,580 But because of her wild and fun mountain ways, 713 00:27:02,622 --> 00:27:04,958 she blew out both her knees and progressively had to get 714 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,876 one surgery after another. 715 00:27:06,918 --> 00:27:09,170 And pain medication was needed. 716 00:27:09,212 --> 00:27:12,132 That was how it all started. 717 00:27:12,173 --> 00:27:16,720 And almost nine years ago, she passed away from 718 00:27:16,761 --> 00:27:18,596 an accidental drug overdose. 719 00:27:18,638 --> 00:27:20,098 [somber music] 720 00:27:20,140 --> 00:27:23,852 And, you know, I want to preserve her memory 721 00:27:23,893 --> 00:27:25,437 and her amazingness because I would never 722 00:27:25,478 --> 00:27:28,815 want her to be known as that person, 723 00:27:28,857 --> 00:27:30,483 because it did not define her. 724 00:27:30,525 --> 00:27:31,943 I think we might be on this. 725 00:27:31,985 --> 00:27:33,528 - At some point, we're just gonna have to go 726 00:27:33,570 --> 00:27:35,238 on a bushwhacking adventure. 727 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,158 - That dream really freaking big, that comes from my mom. 728 00:27:38,199 --> 00:27:40,577 And that's the base and the, kind of, the foundation 729 00:27:40,618 --> 00:27:43,705 of who I am as a human and how I mother 730 00:27:43,747 --> 00:27:45,040 and how I approach life. 731 00:27:45,081 --> 00:27:47,375 The glass is full for me. 732 00:27:47,417 --> 00:27:48,668 Hey, we got a trail. 733 00:27:48,710 --> 00:27:50,045 We got footprints. - This is great. 734 00:27:50,086 --> 00:27:51,004 - We're in business, baby. 735 00:27:51,046 --> 00:27:52,339 - Beautiful. 736 00:27:52,380 --> 00:27:53,506 OK, onward. 737 00:27:53,548 --> 00:27:56,176 Here we go. 738 00:27:56,217 --> 00:27:58,928 - In a rare clearing of the Green Maze-- 739 00:27:58,970 --> 00:28:01,890 [tense music] 740 00:28:01,931 --> 00:28:04,642 * * 741 00:28:04,684 --> 00:28:05,977 - Oh, boy. 742 00:28:06,019 --> 00:28:08,855 Even the wind is bothering my head. 743 00:28:08,897 --> 00:28:11,149 - --constant, pulsating pain has 744 00:28:11,191 --> 00:28:13,985 slowed the ultrarunners to a walk, 745 00:28:14,027 --> 00:28:16,112 dropping them to dead last. 746 00:28:16,154 --> 00:28:17,155 - Whatever we need to do. 747 00:28:17,197 --> 00:28:18,656 You just let me know. 748 00:28:18,698 --> 00:28:19,991 I don't know-- 749 00:28:20,033 --> 00:28:21,534 I don't know what to say, you know? 750 00:28:21,576 --> 00:28:24,079 I couldn't imagine having a headache for as long 751 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:25,246 as he's had one. 752 00:28:25,288 --> 00:28:29,084 So I think he's pretty tough-- 753 00:28:29,125 --> 00:28:33,171 [chuckles] --for pushing as hard as he has. 754 00:28:33,213 --> 00:28:36,341 - It's actually getting worse as the day goes on. 755 00:28:36,383 --> 00:28:40,011 Something's just not right. 756 00:28:40,053 --> 00:28:43,348 My head is not getting better. 757 00:28:54,567 --> 00:28:55,610 - Ten hours into the daily race clock. 758 00:28:57,278 --> 00:29:01,491 - Geofence river comes in over there. 759 00:29:01,533 --> 00:29:04,994 - Their navigation move paying off, Oliver and Corry 760 00:29:05,036 --> 00:29:06,746 have ridden the northern boundary 761 00:29:06,788 --> 00:29:08,957 all the way to first place. 762 00:29:09,874 --> 00:29:11,626 - The box is right there. 763 00:29:11,668 --> 00:29:14,587 [tense music] 764 00:29:14,629 --> 00:29:17,716 * * 765 00:29:17,757 --> 00:29:19,467 - "Challenge 2, The Canyon. 766 00:29:19,509 --> 00:29:22,387 "And The Canyon is designed to test your route-finding skills 767 00:29:22,429 --> 00:29:24,639 "on a foot race in a river. 768 00:29:24,681 --> 00:29:26,057 "The Canyon is a dark zone. 769 00:29:26,099 --> 00:29:27,392 "You will not be allowed to start this 770 00:29:27,434 --> 00:29:28,727 "challenge if you have less than three 771 00:29:28,768 --> 00:29:34,399 hours on your race clock." 772 00:29:34,441 --> 00:29:35,233 - Close. 773 00:29:35,275 --> 00:29:38,194 - An hour late. 774 00:29:38,236 --> 00:29:42,741 - That sucks so hard. 775 00:29:42,782 --> 00:29:45,785 - It feels like a lot of race clock's burnt. 776 00:29:45,827 --> 00:29:46,953 - Let's go make camp, dude. 777 00:29:46,995 --> 00:29:48,705 - Yeah. 778 00:29:48,747 --> 00:29:51,416 - For safety of the racers, no team is permitted to enter 779 00:29:51,458 --> 00:29:54,878 the jagged, boulder-laden canyon without enough time 780 00:29:54,919 --> 00:29:59,132 to complete it before sundown. 781 00:29:59,174 --> 00:30:02,677 - Ugh, so disappointed. 782 00:30:02,719 --> 00:30:05,597 To come out of the Green Maze and be stopped 783 00:30:05,638 --> 00:30:10,435 by that dark zone in the canyon and potentially blow our lead, 784 00:30:10,477 --> 00:30:13,480 there's some frustration for sure. 785 00:30:13,521 --> 00:30:17,359 I hope we don't see anyone else today. 786 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,027 - While the dark zone has forced 787 00:30:19,069 --> 00:30:22,322 the river guides to a halt-- 788 00:30:22,364 --> 00:30:23,490 - I know I'm hydrated. 789 00:30:23,531 --> 00:30:25,367 I know I have calories in me. 790 00:30:25,408 --> 00:30:27,494 I know it's not either of those things making my head hurt. 791 00:30:27,535 --> 00:30:30,497 And so it's like I'm just very concerned about continuing 792 00:30:30,538 --> 00:30:32,123 to make it worse. 793 00:30:32,165 --> 00:30:36,836 - The fall at Cache 1 has done the same to Coree and Jeff. 794 00:30:36,878 --> 00:30:38,630 - Like, it really sucks. 795 00:30:38,672 --> 00:30:41,508 I don't want to just quit because we're here. 796 00:30:41,549 --> 00:30:43,510 We put in a lot of work to get to this point. 797 00:30:43,551 --> 00:30:48,223 But, like, I cannot keep pushing like this. 798 00:30:48,264 --> 00:30:49,808 - Hey, I'm not upset. 799 00:30:49,849 --> 00:30:51,851 You know what I mean? 800 00:30:51,893 --> 00:30:55,313 It's a hard decision to make. 801 00:30:55,355 --> 00:30:58,149 So, yeah, I'm behind you 100%. 802 00:31:00,694 --> 00:31:02,529 - From day one, we've said that, you know, 803 00:31:02,570 --> 00:31:04,239 we wanted to come here and compete, 804 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,991 have this great adventure, but we are going 805 00:31:07,033 --> 00:31:08,284 to make it home in one piece. 806 00:31:10,078 --> 00:31:11,705 - Just a beautiful country. 807 00:31:15,625 --> 00:31:16,501 Here it comes. 808 00:31:16,543 --> 00:31:20,296 [helicopter blades whirring] 809 00:31:20,338 --> 00:31:21,715 It's hard. 810 00:31:21,756 --> 00:31:23,049 I didn't want it to end. 811 00:31:23,091 --> 00:31:24,968 And I didn't want it to end this way for Coree, 812 00:31:25,010 --> 00:31:26,678 for me, for anybody. 813 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,807 As much as I want to go and hug my kids, 814 00:31:30,849 --> 00:31:37,230 you know, laying in bed, I would trade the comforts 815 00:31:37,272 --> 00:31:39,899 to be back under the tarp. 816 00:31:39,941 --> 00:31:42,777 - After 70 grueling miles and notching 817 00:31:42,819 --> 00:31:46,322 two strong fifth-place finishes, 818 00:31:46,364 --> 00:31:48,575 the decorated ultramarathoners 819 00:31:48,616 --> 00:31:50,618 have hit the end of the road. 820 00:31:53,788 --> 00:31:56,041 - That looks like a medical helicopter. 821 00:31:56,082 --> 00:31:57,000 - No. 822 00:31:57,042 --> 00:31:58,043 Oh, man. 823 00:31:58,084 --> 00:32:00,420 - Oh, my gosh. 824 00:32:00,462 --> 00:32:01,796 - Jesus. 825 00:32:01,838 --> 00:32:04,382 Well, I guess the Green Maze is taking casualties. 826 00:32:04,424 --> 00:32:06,718 - It doesn't mean that we're safe. 827 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,596 - No, dude, even if a team gets taken out by injury, 828 00:32:09,637 --> 00:32:12,682 then we could still come in last and be out. 829 00:32:12,724 --> 00:32:13,933 - Yep. 830 00:32:13,975 --> 00:32:16,353 [tense music] 831 00:32:16,394 --> 00:32:20,482 - For the remaining six teams, it's crunch time. 832 00:32:22,317 --> 00:32:24,444 - [whistles] 833 00:32:24,486 --> 00:32:27,655 All right, Brons, touch the metal thing. 834 00:32:27,697 --> 00:32:28,865 - We made it. 835 00:32:28,907 --> 00:32:29,991 - Holy cow. 836 00:32:30,033 --> 00:32:31,451 - Hey, look who it is. 837 00:32:31,493 --> 00:32:33,119 - It looks like we'll be starting tomorrow. 838 00:32:33,161 --> 00:32:34,871 - Heck, yeah, man. 839 00:32:34,913 --> 00:32:36,790 - After skipping the food cache, hoping to get ahead-- 840 00:32:36,831 --> 00:32:40,377 hunters Ryan and Bronsen slow bushwhack through the maze 841 00:32:40,418 --> 00:32:44,881 ends their day in second place at the canyon. 842 00:32:44,923 --> 00:32:46,007 - I am so frustrated. 843 00:32:46,049 --> 00:32:47,467 - Me, too. 844 00:32:47,509 --> 00:32:49,177 We know that that's not it. - Yeah. 845 00:32:49,219 --> 00:32:50,553 - Yeah. - All right. 846 00:32:50,595 --> 00:32:52,097 - The rest of the teams-- 847 00:32:52,138 --> 00:32:54,557 - Grab this tree. 848 00:32:54,599 --> 00:32:56,685 I know, the ankle doesn't obey. 849 00:32:56,726 --> 00:32:59,604 - --are mired in the jungle labyrinth, scrambling to stay 850 00:32:59,646 --> 00:33:02,148 on course and out of last. 851 00:33:02,190 --> 00:33:04,859 - The trail started veering off. 852 00:33:04,901 --> 00:33:06,778 We decided, as a team, not to trust 853 00:33:06,820 --> 00:33:10,907 them and just head through the Bush direct bearing. 854 00:33:10,949 --> 00:33:14,202 - But in the day's biggest turnaround-- 855 00:33:14,244 --> 00:33:17,163 - You think we're close? 856 00:33:17,205 --> 00:33:20,166 - --with seconds to spare, smokejumpers Ethan 857 00:33:20,208 --> 00:33:23,920 and Tyrie's true navigation and hustle whiplashes 858 00:33:23,962 --> 00:33:26,715 them from last to third. 859 00:33:26,756 --> 00:33:28,216 - Oh, yeah, dude! 860 00:33:28,258 --> 00:33:30,135 [cheers] 861 00:33:30,176 --> 00:33:32,178 [chuckles] 862 00:33:32,220 --> 00:33:33,430 There it is, dude. 863 00:33:33,471 --> 00:33:36,099 - Challenge 2, The Canyon. 864 00:33:36,141 --> 00:33:37,892 - Nice push, dude. - Yeah. 865 00:33:37,934 --> 00:33:38,935 - ---- yeah. 866 00:33:38,977 --> 00:33:40,729 - Oh, did we make it? 867 00:33:40,770 --> 00:33:45,442 [horn blares] 868 00:33:49,863 --> 00:33:53,199 - Despite gaming the system and arriving two hours early, 869 00:33:53,241 --> 00:33:56,494 Oliver and Corry will begin tomorrow neck-and-neck 870 00:33:56,536 --> 00:34:00,040 with their closest rivals. 871 00:34:00,081 --> 00:34:01,499 - What's up, dudes? 872 00:34:01,541 --> 00:34:03,752 - Good to see you guys. 873 00:34:03,793 --> 00:34:05,879 - Congrats, boys. 874 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,923 Good work. 875 00:34:08,965 --> 00:34:10,342 A little disappointing. 876 00:34:10,383 --> 00:34:14,304 - I think Ethan and Tyrie showing up definitely 877 00:34:14,346 --> 00:34:19,559 puts our first place in jeopardy. 878 00:34:19,601 --> 00:34:21,269 We're gonna have to work a little bit 879 00:34:21,311 --> 00:34:22,812 harder than I thought-- than I think we thought we would. 880 00:34:22,854 --> 00:34:26,399 - As the top teams make camp-- 881 00:34:26,441 --> 00:34:27,859 - I'm so over today. 882 00:34:27,901 --> 00:34:30,320 Days like this make you think, a hot shower 883 00:34:30,362 --> 00:34:31,738 would be way better than this. 884 00:34:31,780 --> 00:34:35,283 - --the back of the pack remains in the maze. 885 00:34:35,325 --> 00:34:36,826 - I really don't want to go home yet. 886 00:34:36,868 --> 00:34:38,578 - There's no way we're going home this race. 887 00:34:38,620 --> 00:34:40,705 It's not happening. 888 00:34:40,747 --> 00:34:42,791 - I feel so bad. 889 00:34:42,832 --> 00:34:46,795 [sobbing] 890 00:34:46,836 --> 00:34:48,088 And I just don't want to ruin her. 891 00:34:48,129 --> 00:34:49,464 - I know. - I know. 892 00:34:49,506 --> 00:34:51,132 It's, like, not responding at all. 893 00:34:51,174 --> 00:34:52,509 I can see it. 894 00:34:52,550 --> 00:34:53,968 My toes are not lifting. 895 00:34:54,010 --> 00:34:57,806 They won't, like, curl or, like, point or flex. 896 00:34:57,847 --> 00:35:00,934 Am I dealing with a pain that's gonna cause me 897 00:35:00,975 --> 00:35:04,979 longer recovery and longer out of my racing, 898 00:35:05,021 --> 00:35:06,481 longer out of work? 899 00:35:06,523 --> 00:35:09,442 Like, this is getting worse and worse, not better. 900 00:35:09,484 --> 00:35:12,779 This is-- this is so hard, because it's like, 901 00:35:12,821 --> 00:35:14,781 don't be stupid, sleep on it. 902 00:35:14,823 --> 00:35:17,784 And then I'm like, don't be stupid, go home. 903 00:35:17,826 --> 00:35:21,037 - So now we just have to make a decision about what's 904 00:35:21,079 --> 00:35:24,290 best in the big picture. 905 00:35:24,332 --> 00:35:25,709 You are a gift. 906 00:35:25,750 --> 00:35:28,920 We-- like this, sharing this with you is a gift. 907 00:35:28,962 --> 00:35:30,380 Being here is. 908 00:35:30,422 --> 00:35:32,549 So everything is a win, even if it's not like exactly 909 00:35:32,590 --> 00:35:34,175 where we thought we'd be. 910 00:35:34,217 --> 00:35:35,427 OK? - OK. 911 00:35:35,468 --> 00:35:36,469 - OK. 912 00:35:36,511 --> 00:35:39,472 [somber music] 913 00:35:39,514 --> 00:35:44,436 * * 914 00:35:44,477 --> 00:35:45,478 - Just get to those kayaks. 915 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,981 I'll be OK. 916 00:35:48,023 --> 00:35:50,066 I've just got to get to those kayaks. 917 00:36:03,621 --> 00:36:04,080 [tense music] 918 00:36:05,081 --> 00:36:09,586 [birds chirping] 919 00:36:16,843 --> 00:36:20,096 - Just woke up and my brain was like, you know what? 920 00:36:20,138 --> 00:36:21,765 Today is gonna suck. 921 00:36:21,806 --> 00:36:24,351 - As the second race day begins-- 922 00:36:24,392 --> 00:36:26,061 - I was able to rest a little bit. 923 00:36:26,102 --> 00:36:29,230 And hopefully, we'll have some more function in the ankle 924 00:36:29,272 --> 00:36:30,315 this morning. 925 00:36:30,357 --> 00:36:31,316 - Just step by step. - Yep. 926 00:36:31,358 --> 00:36:32,317 - And we'll get through it. 927 00:36:32,359 --> 00:36:33,276 We've got a game plan. 928 00:36:33,318 --> 00:36:34,736 We're a team. 929 00:36:34,778 --> 00:36:36,529 And we're just gonna take it one chunk at a time. 930 00:36:36,571 --> 00:36:38,406 - --the rally to avoid elimination 931 00:36:38,448 --> 00:36:40,658 is on for the bottom three. 932 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:42,369 - Four minutes. 933 00:36:42,410 --> 00:36:44,037 All right. 934 00:36:44,079 --> 00:36:47,791 - Even just to get fifth, we want to stay in the game. 935 00:36:47,832 --> 00:36:49,751 - I'm ready to get after it. 936 00:36:49,793 --> 00:36:51,753 - While for the top teams, poised 937 00:36:51,795 --> 00:36:54,130 to be released in five-minute intervals 938 00:36:54,172 --> 00:36:56,049 by order of arrival-- 939 00:36:56,091 --> 00:36:57,050 - Love it. 940 00:36:57,092 --> 00:36:57,926 - Whoo-hoo. 941 00:36:57,967 --> 00:37:00,345 - --a showdown is coming. 942 00:37:00,387 --> 00:37:02,764 - It was unfortunate to see that lead dissipate 943 00:37:02,806 --> 00:37:04,224 because of the dark zone. 944 00:37:04,265 --> 00:37:06,685 But looking at our two most competitive teams, 945 00:37:06,726 --> 00:37:08,561 we just burned you guys. 946 00:37:08,603 --> 00:37:10,397 And we burned you good on that one. 947 00:37:10,438 --> 00:37:13,942 - There was a lot of anger, frustration energy. 948 00:37:13,983 --> 00:37:16,986 That is pretty huge motivation. 949 00:37:17,028 --> 00:37:18,655 - Ready? 950 00:37:18,697 --> 00:37:21,574 - All right, let's get this bread. 951 00:37:21,616 --> 00:37:22,992 Mmm, bread. 952 00:37:23,034 --> 00:37:25,286 - Oh, 4, 3, 2, 1. 953 00:37:25,328 --> 00:37:26,538 Let's go. [horn blaring] 954 00:37:26,579 --> 00:37:27,580 - Widdle-waddle! 955 00:37:27,622 --> 00:37:28,581 Widdle-waddle! 956 00:37:28,623 --> 00:37:30,125 - Let's go. 957 00:37:30,166 --> 00:37:32,377 - Let's do it. 958 00:37:32,419 --> 00:37:33,420 - Ready? 959 00:37:33,461 --> 00:37:36,131 - Let's boogie. 960 00:37:36,172 --> 00:37:37,590 - The Canyon-- 961 00:37:37,632 --> 00:37:41,177 2 miles of river-cut granite winding to the beach. 962 00:37:41,219 --> 00:37:42,595 The direction is clear. 963 00:37:42,637 --> 00:37:44,806 The path, anything but. 964 00:37:44,848 --> 00:37:47,892 Teams must leap, swim, slide, and squeeze 965 00:37:47,934 --> 00:37:50,937 through boulder gardens, down cliff faces, 966 00:37:50,979 --> 00:37:54,399 and past waterfalls to the shore. 967 00:37:54,441 --> 00:37:58,236 It's tricky, even if taken at a careful pace. 968 00:37:58,278 --> 00:38:00,321 [dramatic music] 969 00:38:00,363 --> 00:38:01,781 - Hang left. 970 00:38:01,823 --> 00:38:02,991 - And downright dangerous 971 00:38:03,033 --> 00:38:05,493 if someone's out to prove a point. 972 00:38:05,535 --> 00:38:08,580 * * 973 00:38:08,621 --> 00:38:10,165 [water splashing] 974 00:38:10,206 --> 00:38:12,083 - Whoa, yeah. 975 00:38:12,125 --> 00:38:15,337 * * 976 00:38:15,378 --> 00:38:18,715 - Us, Ethan and Tyrie, Ryan and Bronsen, we're all hungry. 977 00:38:18,757 --> 00:38:20,008 You know, we all want it. 978 00:38:20,050 --> 00:38:21,885 And we're all ready to, kind of, 979 00:38:21,926 --> 00:38:25,263 thrash our bodies through this canyon to get ahead. 980 00:38:25,305 --> 00:38:31,019 * * 981 00:38:31,061 --> 00:38:32,729 - It definitely feels like home terrain. 982 00:38:32,771 --> 00:38:37,025 We're moving super-fast. 983 00:38:37,067 --> 00:38:39,736 - Jump. 984 00:38:39,778 --> 00:38:42,030 * * 985 00:38:42,072 --> 00:38:44,199 - Oh. 986 00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:46,659 Yeah, that hurt. 987 00:38:46,701 --> 00:38:50,747 - Shit. 988 00:38:50,789 --> 00:38:53,291 That is slippery. 989 00:38:53,333 --> 00:38:59,714 * * 990 00:38:59,756 --> 00:39:02,509 - Ahh, let's do it. 991 00:39:02,550 --> 00:39:09,391 * * 992 00:39:09,432 --> 00:39:10,767 - Hold! 993 00:39:10,809 --> 00:39:17,941 * * 994 00:39:19,693 --> 00:39:23,196 - We've just got to keep moving. 995 00:39:23,238 --> 00:39:24,781 - 1 mile behind-- 996 00:39:24,823 --> 00:39:29,744 * * 997 00:39:29,786 --> 00:39:30,704 - Found it. 998 00:39:30,745 --> 00:39:32,247 - Yay! 999 00:39:32,288 --> 00:39:34,624 - Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! 1000 00:39:34,666 --> 00:39:36,418 Tag. 1001 00:39:36,459 --> 00:39:38,420 - Do you see how many dry bags are still here? 1002 00:39:38,461 --> 00:39:39,796 - Oh, my god. 1003 00:39:39,838 --> 00:39:41,089 - There are three sets besides ours. 1004 00:39:41,131 --> 00:39:42,215 - Holy shit. - We're in fourth. 1005 00:39:42,257 --> 00:39:43,425 - Oh, my god. 1006 00:39:43,466 --> 00:39:44,718 Neither one of us are ready to leave. 1007 00:39:44,759 --> 00:39:46,094 And we're going into a canyon. 1008 00:39:46,136 --> 00:39:47,971 And Creighton and I fly through canyons. 1009 00:39:48,013 --> 00:39:49,931 Like, that was our main thing that we did together 1010 00:39:49,973 --> 00:39:51,516 as a couple was canyoneering. 1011 00:39:51,558 --> 00:39:53,351 - This is basically a second honeymoon. 1012 00:39:53,393 --> 00:39:58,231 This is the coolest thing we could possibly do. 1013 00:39:58,273 --> 00:40:00,442 Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! 1014 00:40:00,483 --> 00:40:02,277 - Close, baby. We're close. 1015 00:40:02,318 --> 00:40:03,278 Yoo-hoo! 1016 00:40:03,319 --> 00:40:04,612 Hell, yeah. 1017 00:40:04,654 --> 00:40:06,656 Oh, they're back there. 1018 00:40:06,698 --> 00:40:08,241 Good to go. 1019 00:40:08,283 --> 00:40:09,451 - There's the ocean. 1020 00:40:09,492 --> 00:40:10,452 - Come on. 1021 00:40:10,493 --> 00:40:11,995 [water sloshing] 1022 00:40:12,037 --> 00:40:13,580 [groans] 1023 00:40:13,621 --> 00:40:17,500 - As the top teams clear the canyon, facing elimination, 1024 00:40:17,542 --> 00:40:21,921 the back two push to be the next allowed to enter. 1025 00:40:21,963 --> 00:40:24,674 - We can hear water, which means we're probably 1026 00:40:24,716 --> 00:40:27,635 super close to the canyon. 1027 00:40:27,677 --> 00:40:30,764 - First to the challenge canister earns the advantage 1028 00:40:30,805 --> 00:40:34,059 of a five-minute head start. 1029 00:40:34,100 --> 00:40:34,851 - Yes. 1030 00:40:34,893 --> 00:40:36,978 - Beautiful. 1031 00:40:37,020 --> 00:40:39,773 This is probably our best place to cross. 1032 00:40:39,814 --> 00:40:40,774 - Ooh-we! 1033 00:40:40,815 --> 00:40:43,735 OK. OK. 1034 00:40:43,777 --> 00:40:46,154 Ow. 1035 00:40:46,196 --> 00:40:51,701 The good news is the rocks are not slippery. 1036 00:40:51,743 --> 00:40:53,536 No, I don't want to do that. 1037 00:40:53,578 --> 00:40:56,164 We'll go this way. 1038 00:40:58,708 --> 00:40:59,834 - There's people right there. 1039 00:40:59,876 --> 00:41:01,670 - Yeah, I know. Let's go. 1040 00:41:01,711 --> 00:41:02,671 - Right there? 1041 00:41:02,712 --> 00:41:04,172 - There is better. 1042 00:41:04,214 --> 00:41:05,256 OK, ready? 1043 00:41:05,298 --> 00:41:08,510 1, 2, 3. 1044 00:41:08,551 --> 00:41:09,719 - It's anyone's game right now. 1045 00:41:09,761 --> 00:41:11,596 The Jackson boys just took off. 1046 00:41:11,638 --> 00:41:12,847 They're in the water. 1047 00:41:12,889 --> 00:41:15,016 - Let's go, Brons! 1048 00:41:15,058 --> 00:41:16,601 - Go, go, go, go, go. 1049 00:41:16,643 --> 00:41:17,811 - All right, get in. 1050 00:41:17,852 --> 00:41:18,853 Whoo! 1051 00:41:18,895 --> 00:41:20,814 All right, rip it. 1052 00:41:20,855 --> 00:41:21,773 - Let's go! 1053 00:41:21,815 --> 00:41:22,941 Let's go! 1054 00:41:22,982 --> 00:41:23,983 I'm gonna-- I'm going this way. 1055 00:41:24,025 --> 00:41:25,193 - Oh, I see it! 1056 00:41:25,235 --> 00:41:26,653 - We've got a team right behind us. 1057 00:41:26,695 --> 00:41:27,779 Who is that, Nik and Kennedy? 1058 00:41:27,821 --> 00:41:28,780 - Mm-hmm. 1059 00:41:28,822 --> 00:41:30,323 - Nik, I see it! 1060 00:41:30,365 --> 00:41:31,825 Go straight! 1061 00:41:31,866 --> 00:41:33,368 - I am going straight. 1062 00:41:33,410 --> 00:41:34,661 Let's go. 1063 00:41:34,703 --> 00:41:36,246 - We want to try to get that lane before them, 1064 00:41:36,287 --> 00:41:37,831 and we're almost through the rocks. 1065 00:41:37,872 --> 00:41:39,916 - Let's keep it up. 1066 00:41:39,958 --> 00:41:41,251 - You see them? 1067 00:41:41,292 --> 00:41:42,210 - Let's go. 1068 00:41:42,252 --> 00:41:44,796 Go. 1069 00:41:44,838 --> 00:41:46,381 - Good push, man. 1070 00:41:46,423 --> 00:41:47,799 - Good job, Ash! 1071 00:41:47,841 --> 00:41:50,385 Come on, they're coming! 1072 00:41:50,427 --> 00:41:51,845 - Let's go, Kennedy! 1073 00:41:51,886 --> 00:41:54,180 We got them! 1074 00:41:54,222 --> 00:41:57,350 - I know, we both have to tap it. 1075 00:41:57,392 --> 00:41:58,393 - Come on, Ash! 1076 00:41:58,435 --> 00:42:00,603 Come on! 1077 00:42:00,645 --> 00:42:02,564 - I'm trying! 1078 00:42:02,605 --> 00:42:03,898 - You've got it! 1079 00:42:03,940 --> 00:42:05,358 - Let's go, Kennedy! 1080 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:06,735 Go Kennedy! 1081 00:42:06,776 --> 00:42:08,486 - [screams] - Come on! 1082 00:42:12,157 --> 00:42:15,910 - Next time on "Race to Survive: New Zealand"-- 1083 00:42:15,952 --> 00:42:17,662 - I can see the Jackson boys. 1084 00:42:17,704 --> 00:42:18,997 I think I see the end, dude. 1085 00:42:19,039 --> 00:42:19,998 - Is that the crate right there? 1086 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:21,207 - Finish crate. 1087 00:42:21,249 --> 00:42:22,167 [chuckles] 1088 00:42:22,208 --> 00:42:23,585 - [groans] - Let's go! 1089 00:42:23,626 --> 00:42:24,711 Let's go! 1090 00:42:24,753 --> 00:42:25,962 - I know, we're almost there. 1091 00:42:26,004 --> 00:42:28,048 But-- [sobs] --it's not working. 1092 00:42:28,089 --> 00:42:30,592 - Nothing's biting out here, man. 1093 00:42:30,633 --> 00:42:32,052 - No food here. 1094 00:42:32,093 --> 00:42:34,471 If anything would get me to tap, it's food. 1095 00:42:34,512 --> 00:42:35,555 - Yeah! 1096 00:42:35,597 --> 00:42:36,681 - Your boy caught a fish. 1097 00:42:36,723 --> 00:42:37,724 Kill that thing, dude. 1098 00:42:37,766 --> 00:42:39,309 - No, no, no, no!