- Previously on "Race to Survive: New Zealand"...
- Whoo-hoo!
- After a month battling across the breathtaking
and treacherous South Island...
- You got it, Paul!
- Oh, shit.
- in a jaw-dropping turn,
two of the top three contenders
were forced out of the race.
- I wanna tap out.
- Sorry to see you go.
- Very sorry.
- We have to disqualify Oliver and Corry.
- Are you serious? - Holy shit.
- Now only three unbowed and unbreakable teams remain.
The rugged smokejumpers, Ethan and Tyrie, whose grit...
- This is nothing.
- Survival skills...
- [laughs]
- And a brotherhood forged in fire...
- Let's go, dude.
- Has cemented their place atop the leaderboard.
- Hey.
- Divorced mountaineers Paulina and Creighton,
who entered the race with an emotional burden
like no other team...
- I'm having a hard time today being here with you.
- Yet dug deep...
- We're coming for you, Ryan and Bronsen!
- Scrounged...
- [groaning]
- And found a way to never finish lower than fourth.
- I'm excited to cross this finish line with you.
- Adventure exes for life.
- And the underdog Canadians, Kennedy and Nik,
playing tortoise to a field of hares...
- We're always last until somebody taps or gets injured,
and then suddenly we're back in the game.
- Overcoming their weaknesses...
- Nik, I don't ------- nap. You know that.
- And leaning on each other.
- You're the best. - Whoo-wee!
- After the surprise exits, the final two races have been
combined into one massive crucible
for the $500,000 grand prize...
- This is it. Hey, guys. This is it!
Yes! The finale!
- Starting with a race against the clock...
- This race is two parts. The first is a time trial.
- You must reach the finish by the end
of the daily clock on day 2.
- If you do not make this cut-off,
you will be eliminated.
- And a game-changing twist.
- Up to now, you've been tested as a team.
In this race, you will also be tested individually.
We're splitting up. - Yeah.
- We're splitting up.
[dramatic music]
- The first leg of this race we're gonna be split up,
probably until tonight, hopefully.
Maybe tomorrow.
- So we need to get to the gateway
to the finish in two days, correct?
- Yes. - We each get a map.
Let's look at the--
okay, we'll--start.
- Here we go.
To qualify for the chance to claim the grand prize,
teams will have to prove their speed--
a two-day, 15-mile beat-the-clock
through interconnected river systems,
up and over a 350-foot untamed rock ascent,
and 7 bitter miles of thick bushwhacking.
But fail to reach the end of leg one
before the second day's clock expires,
and kiss the $500,000 prize goodbye.
- One of you will start by land.
The other will paddle by the river.
Choose wisely.
- Out of the gate, teams face a crucial decision
on how to divide and conquer.
One must take a strictly overland route,
a punishing 2,100-foot climb
through a labyrinth of interlocking ridgelines,
tributaries, and dense forest.
The other begins with a 3-mile serpentine paddle
through class III rapids and piercing rock slabs
to claim a food cache, where they'll transition
from water to land, then climb the opposite side
of the hill from their teammate.
The goal?
Reunite at the mandatory checkpoint
before the end of day 1
and push to the next challenge.
- What do you think? - Okay.
I feel better about doing the more treacherous terrain.
- I feel better about doing the packraft.
- Okay. - Sounds good.
- Let's get our bearings. - Okay.
- I don't think either option is gonna be easy.
Tyrie is doing the packraft.
It's just what we've decided.
- Feeling pretty good about our plan.
- Yeah. I'm gonna take the river.
Nik is faster going uphill, and it seems like a little bit
more tougher terrain and a little bit
more tougher navigation.
This is, like, my biggest test I've ever had to do on my own.
- It's a confidence test right now.
You're gonna crush it.
- At this point, I wouldn't call--
really say I can nav on my own.
I picked up a map, like, four days ago.
I don't even know how to shoot a bearing.
This is all shooting bearings.
- Stakes are super high right now.
And this race means everything.
- Being out in the woods by myself
without Creighton navigating,
I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit scared
navigating by myself.
- It's all good? - Yeah.
- Okay. - Thank you.
- With just 24 hours of race clock,
12 each day to work with, the time trial...
- In 5...
all: 4, 3...
- Begins now.
- 1!
- Let's go, baby!
- Get it. Let's get it.
- For Nik.
- Load up. Load up. I got this.
See you at the ------- top, baby.
- Yeah?
- [barks] - [barks]
- All right, I'm off. Go, Nik. Go.
Crush it.
- Good ------- luck. - Good luck.
- You're gonna do great. - Thank you. Thank you.
- First out of the blocks, on the rafts.
- Get that first cache.
E's got the remains of our last one,
so getting these caches now, I think we'll be invincible.
Hehehehe!
Yoo-hoo!
Ooh, shit.
----.
[grunting]0
God damn it.
----, that rock hit me good.
That hurt.
Ooh!
- Oh, no.
Stick to the right, then stick to the left.
Stick to the right. Perfect.
Perfect, perfect. Now stick to the left.
Yes.
Stick to the left.
Perfect.
Oh, whoo-hoo!
Crushed it!
My entire life, I've been doing it on my own,
because I never had anybody say,
you know, this is how you do life.
You know, let me-- let me show you the way.
Money's on the table.
Come on.
Losing speed, Kennedy. Pick it up. Pick it up.
Pick it up.
Veer to the right.
Perfect. Good job, Kennedy.
Push.
Knowing that people in my life, like the guys at work,
genuinely believe I'm gonna suck at this,
makes me wanna do even better.
I'll wanna prove them wrong.
Haha.
I'm freaking killing it!
* *
Yes. Nice.
Ha, ha, ha. Crushed it!
Ha.
Oh, Nik would be so proud.
- I'm feeling okay about the split.
I'm a little nervous, but I'm excited to prove
to myself that I'm capable of doing this on my own.
There's been a part of me that's felt
very lost for a long time.
The divorce, it stripped me of all this,
you know, independence and strength
and confidence that I had.
I wanna be someone that I can be--that I'm proud of again,
and I wanna stop doubting my self-worth and, you know,
feeling like I'm not good enough.
- [chuckles]
All right, Dy.
Let's do this.
- Whoo. - Sorry.
[gasping]
- I'm gonna get you, Paulina.
- While half of the teams fight their way downriver,
1.5 miles to the west, their partners search
for the fastest route uphill.
- River travel can be good, but, I mean, it's slippery.
Got a lot of weight on my back.
And this bushwhacking, honestly, is not that thick.
Might not be the quickest way,
but we're going up and over, boys.
Ride that ridge up.
Straight shot.
It's kind of a gamble either way.
- While Ethan opts for a straight line ascent
through the thickets...
- Ooh, this is scary.
- It's decision time for Nik and Creighton.
- Gross!
I'm done with bushwhacking.
Let's head down.
Hey, friend. - How are you?
- Doing good, man. This feels totally right.
- Uh, yeah.
If you know where you are.
- If you know where you are.
- We're gonna go up, try and
position ourselves higher, 'cause I don't wanna go lower.
You never wanna go lower
because then you might have to climb up.
Climbing up sucks.
- Nik is going to the high points up here.
He's going up and over.
I don't wanna do a bushwhack.
I'm gonna follow this tributary up,
and then I'm gonna break down to the river and down across.
I got a plan, and my plan is not following Nik.
- Two hours already gone.
Back on the river...
* *
- Oh, yeah. Coming up on the cache.
- Smokejumper Tyrie is first to reach the food cache...
- Banana chips?
E's gonna love that.
- And the transition point from water to land.
- Got people right on my tail.
But more important, I'm trying to just boogie up that hill.
- Food cache.
- Now without their partners to lean on for navigation,
they'll need to find their bearings, choose a path,
and climb the opposite side of the hill to the meetup point.
- Just gotta keep following this ridge.
It'll keep coming up.
Up, up, up.
And it'll take me straight to E.
- Right now, the nav is all on me.
I don't have Nik to lean on, which is very intimidating.
Something feels off.
Ugh.
This doesn't feel right either.
Let me think here.
What would Nik do?
Nik would bushwhack it.
- Shit, so we never even--
we're not even near where I thought we were then.
- ----. Are you going up?
- Yep.
- Yeah, I'm debating that too.
I just don't wanna keep going back and forth.
Like, I keep going back and forth, back and forth,
and second guessing.
At some point, I just gotta, like, do it.
- Yeah. I'm just gonna say ---- it.
- That's fine. - Okay.
Good luck. - I might see you up there.
- I believe in you. Okay.
- Might see you up there. - Sounds good.
Good luck. - Thank you.
You too. - Be safe.
- You too.
- I'm gonna stick to my guns.
I'm gonna go for the high route.
- While Paulina and Kennedy finally
set a course, 2 miles away...
- This might not be the second tributary I'm looking for.
Oh, ----.
Oh, my gosh.
That means--
- Creighton's plan to navigate the flowing tributaries
has brought him to a near-vertical dead end.
- I'm on the river right here.
I'm gonna leave the river, head straight
for this high point of 519.
We're getting out of the river.
Here we go.
* *
[tense music]
- At the river's edge...
- [grunts, groans]
Crumbly, crumbly shale.
[breathing heavily]
Let's try that again.
- Creighton's decision to forge his own path uphill
has hit a snag.
Over a mile off-course, he now faces an even steeper,
more time-consuming bushwhack.
- Tell you what.
Five weeks of doing this on little to no food,
I'm feeling weak out here.
This is the first race we've had
where there's an actual time limit,
where if you don't finish, you're out.
You're disqualified.
And so that's huge pressure to not mess up navigation.
You just gotta be on it and go, go, go.
* *
- Forced to split up for the first 7 miles of the race,
contestants are dispersed across the hillside,
fighting to reach zone 2 and reunite with their teammates
before the first daily race clock runs out.
On the east side...
- I made a decision just to go straight up
instead of following the river.
Gain elevation fast, find that ridge,
and follow it to crumbling cliffs
so I can meet up with Creighton.
Navigating by myself, bushwhacking by myself,
part of me is a little scared not having Creighton here,
and I'm having to navigate through this on my own.
And, uh...
I don't know why. This makes me emotional.
[sobbing]
The individual race is kind of like a look into our future
of, like, you know, we've been working together
this whole time, and now--
oh, dang. It's gonna make me cry.
I've been so stoic about our relationship,
like, for so long.
And I'm gonna have to navigate through life without him
after this, and, uh,
I'm gonna miss having him around.
It's scary, both here and in the real world.
- Up ahead...
- We gotta get moving.
$500,000.
You're gonna keep going and see this thing through.
It's the only way I'll be satisfied with this experience.
I don't think--up until the last three years of my life,
I never felt accomplishment.
I've never felt proud of myself, and it's my own fault.
And I had very self-destructive tendencies.
Every lesson I've ever learned has been the hard way,
especially in my youth.
I think I was 16.
I rolled a truck probably five, six times.
My girlfriend at the time was in the car
and she got severely hurt.
You know, she was banged up real bad
where she had to go to the hospital.
You know, I isolated myself and I beat myself up for years.
Um.
* *
[voice breaking] You know, I hated myself,
and, uh, I didn't care about myself.
You know, I could have been in a lot more trouble,
but I took big steps.
It was hard to join the military.
It was hard for me to leave home.
You know, getting scared straight
taught me a lot of things.
It taught me how to be grateful for the things I do have.
[panting] Catch your breath.
Makes sense.
Gotta get moving.
I'm gonna go get a slow jog going.
- Yeah, Kennedy is right behind me.
You know, I was kind of hoping to shake her,
but she's cruising.
- I'm behind her, so it looks like I'm following her.
I'm just shooting my bearing.
We're both just going the right way.
- Like, not gonna lie, I've tried to shake you a few times.
[laughter]
And it's not working.
- I've been trying to catch up with you...
- [laughs]
- And I'm doing it. - Hell yeah, you are.
Are you seeing how much stronger you are
than you've given yourself credit for?
- Oh, my God.
I'm so impressed with myself right now.
- You're doing so amazing.
Let's keep pushing each other, okay?
- Yeah. Keep pushing, girl.
Just haul ass.
- At this point, it kind of benefits us
just to be together.
It's not about what place we come in,
it's that we finish it and we finish
before the clock runs out.
I'm glad we did this, like, on our own,
but like, we still have each other to support each other.
- Me too. - Right?
- It feels good.
- 2 miles northwest...
- Over there. Come on.
Here's the clearing.
- Following a steady bearing uphill,
smokejumper Ethan is first to the mandatory checkpoint
and base of the crumbling cliffs.
- [sighs] Where's Tyrie at?
Ah.
"The crumbling cliffs stand between you
"and the gateway to the finish.
"You may choose your lane on a first-come, first-serve basis.
"This challenge is a dark zone.
"You must have at least two hours on your race clock
to be able to enter this challenge."
And I do not have enough time tonight,
but, Tyrie, ------- hope you're scrambling, brother.
- That's north.
I'm so thrown off right now.
Not in a good spot.
It's definitely a trail.
----.
- Tyrie, you out there?
- Yo, E, give me a hoot.
- Tyrie!
- [screams]
- Let's go, baby!
[barks]
Let's go.
Come on!
Let's do it! Let's do it!
Ah, my dude!
- While Ethan and Tyrie's solo navigational efforts
have secured the lead...
for the four still separated in the forest,
the day 1 clock is running out.
- I have no idea where Nik is right now.
I didn't go over his route of passage.
I don't know if he's bush bashing.
I don't know if he found a trail.
- That is the crumbling hills.
I need to follow this ridge exactly
and then head straight up.
- What do I do? What do I do?
I kind think I should push on to the top of this hill.
I think I'm close.
- Ooh, we're almost to the bottom.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
- Kennedy!
- Nik?
- Kennedy!
- Nik!
- Yeah!
- Whoo-hoo!
- Right on!
That is awesome.
This is crazy.
We just met up on the way to the meeting point.
I am--I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm ecstatic.
Get it in!
- I freaking crushed it.
- You've been crushing it.
- You are the shit.
[horn blares]
- I didn't pop my raft.
I didn't flip my raft. - Yes!
- And I shot a bearing!
- Ah!
- And I bushwhacked.
- There you go. - And I didn't complain once.
- She should be really proud of herself.
Like, she went from not being able to read a map,
and now she's, like, navving.
This is more than a story about people racing for money.
[tense music]
* *
- [groans] That hurts.
I just woke up. Day 2.
I'm just thinking about the other teams.
And if you're out there alone and whatnot,
it's probably not the best sleep.
- Day 2.
The reunited smokejumpers
have hit the mandatory checkpoint first,
and entrance to the next challenge--
a towering 350-foot high, vertigo-inducing rock climb.
3/4 of a mile behind,
with more than half the course still to travel,
the triumvirate of Paulina, Kennedy, and Nik
are closing in on the rendezvous,
while Creighton's route choice
has left him a mile back in dead last.
- I'm super curious to know how Paulina's day and night went.
It's a weird feeling after being with a partner
for so long out here, and now you're out,
like, camping by yourself.
- I have a feeling Creighton crushed navigation yesterday.
He was just waiting on me and probably a little stressed
that I didn't move as fast as he was probably hoping I would.
And so ready to race to meet up with Creighton.
- We have to get rid of her
because I bet Creighton's over there.
She gets there before us
and if they start the challenge before us,
that'll set us behind an hour, maybe two hours behind them.
- Okay. - We will be faster than her.
- Yeah.
- We have to shake her. - Okay.
- Today, what has been the 12-hour daily race clock
comes with a threat.
Finish the course before time expires or you're out.
[horn blares] - 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, go.
- It's a $1/2 million all or nothing push.
- Ugh, I have to beat Nik and Kennedy there.
I absolutely have to.
- You're shooting bearing, right?
320? - 320.
- That way. Go.
- Hell yeah, dude. - Ready to move, brother?
- Yeah. Go, go, go.
- The crumbling cliffs--
a white-knuckle, 350-foot vertical ascent of slick,
moss-covered rocks and unstable shale overhangs.
Teams will use fixed ropes and brawn
to pull, scrape, and battle their way to the top.
- This is the gnarliest shit.
- With three distinct rope lengths...
- That one has an overhang. That one too.
I can see all the way at the top over here.
- Some harder than others, the first team to arrive
gets to choose their path
and close it off to the competition.
- All right. You ready, brother?
Take it slow, brother. You got this.
It's a tricky, tricky ascent here.
Got that belay line on your right getting snagged up.
- Hey, rock.
Rocks!
- Ugh, I have to beat Nik and Kennedy there.
- Just a quarter mile behind,
pushing to the rendezvous checkpoint...
- Kennedy and Nik, we all took off running.
They kind of went off in a different direction, um,
and I just bolted.
So I have lost them, but I don't know by how much.
Oh, I see the cliffs.
Oh, shit.
Okay. Please. Please be there.
Please be there.
Creighton?
I don't know where Creighton is.
I'm gonna touch this just in case.
Damn.
I can't believe Creighton's not here.
I really thought he would be here.
I hope he gets here before Nik and Kennedy.
- Oh, dude, how do you get through this?
Wow.
[panting]
- Whoo-ooh!
- Is that him? Creighto?
Oh, no. Damn it.
- Is Creighton here? - No.
- Creighton's not here? - Mm-mm.
- Touch it. You earned it.
That's what I'm talking about.
I'm proud of you. Good job.
Good job, man. You did it.
- Good job, you two. Good job.
- Paulina. - Yeah?
- You beat Creighton.
I know it's disappointing for the team,
but it's a win for you.
And you ------- crushed it, and you did it on your own,
and you did it without Creighton.
And you got here with your navigation and your skills.
- Yeah. - Remember that.
- I will. Yeah.
- Good job. - Proud of you guys.
Crushed it.
Good luck on this. - Thank you.
- Yeah, you too.
- Thank you.
- I'm gonna wait for Creighton.
Honestly, he should be here by now.
- Still over a mile and a half behind...
- Trying to fight through this jungle with a knife.
Feel like I shouldn't be losing elevation going that way.
It doesn't feel right.
[tense music]
- With just nine hours to complete the course
or be sent home...
- Creighto!
- Mountaineering exes Paulina and Creighton
have yet to reunite at the mandatory checkpoint.
While 350 feet above...
- [grunts]
Let's go now, baby!
Yee-hee!
- There you go, dude.
- Ha!
What's up, baby?
- He just muscled that whole thing up, basically.
Never used a climbing system like this.
- Wildland firefighters Ethan and Tyrie
have conquered the climb.
- See the other teams. - All right.
- And I dropped down-- - I'm good, man.
Let's go. - You good?
All right. - Do what we gotta do.
- Yep.
- 500k on the way, baby.
We're about to be upper middle class.
Let's go.
- And with 7 brutal miles
still to travel to the finish line,
they'll need to make every second count.
- I'm coming for you, Paul.
I'm coming.
- Creighto! - Paulina!
- Come on! You're so close!
- Ah!
- Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
I'm so happy to see you.
Come on. You got it.
You got it. And then we got snacks.
Come on.
2, 1.
- Whoo! - You did it.
I'm so proud of you. Hi.
Everyone's ahead of us. - Everyone?
- Mm-hmm.
Nik and Kennedy are now exactly an hour ahead.
- Okay.
- Okay, let's get our shit on real quick.
We really gotta pick it up. We're running out of time.
- Whoo!
- With Kennedy already at the summit
and Nik over halfway through the ascent...
- Oh, ---- yeah, bud.
- Can you see him? - He's right here.
- Ooh. This is my wheelhouse.
It's feeling really good to be back on ropes.
- Down to the last choice of rope lanes,
a route with a 95-degree overhang,
Paulina and Creighton look to 22 years
of combined mountaineering experience
to make up for lost time.
- Get it, Creighto.
If there was a chance for Creighton and I
to make up ground, this is it.
Definitely.
- We're both hunting and being hunted.
It's a good motivation that, you know, we have to--
we gotta chase people and we're being chased.
It's quite exciting.
- The weight of my pack is causing a lot of problems.
- We're catching up, Creighto. Come on.
- Whoo-whoo.
Whoo!
I'm making quick work of this, baby.
- Creighton cruised over that overhang,
and I think he--yeah, he's on to the second half.
Nik's still stuck in that spot.
- Aw, it's Creighton.
It does suck a lot.
- Kennedy!
- Climbers can climb.
That's a shock. - Climbers can climb.
- Whoo!
You got this, Paulina!
- Ready to go.
Let's see if I can prove myself here.
Okay.
Ooh, this is gonna be exhausting.
- 1 mile ahead...
- All right, dude. Right here.
- Steep.
That's steep.
- The final zone of the time trial contains
a potential $500,000 decision.
To hit the finish line 2,000 feet below,
teams have two options--
take the heavily forested ridgeline to another day's
worth of food and risk the thick, time-sucking bushwhack,
or head east and use the river as a handrail
and sacrifice the last guaranteed calories
before the $1/2 million winner-take-all.
- I think that's more us.
- Opens up.
It's gonna be some bushwhacking,
but we got at least an hour head start on the other teams,
so we can get food, eat heavy tonight.
- Oh, yeah. We're gonna go for the cache.
Once we get there, we're just going across those ridges.
- All right, baby. Let's go.
- Let's go, brother. - Let's do it. Let's do it.
- Hee-hee!
- Back on the cliff side...
- [groaning]
- Nik?
- I don't see him yet.
Oh, I do see him. He's coming up over the ridge.
- Come on, Nik. You're doing great.
- Keep coming, Paul!
- [groaning] Damn.
Struggling more than I thought I would.
Struggle's coming from just, like, severe lack of strength
in my arms now.
- Saddled with a 31-pound backpack
and up against the steep roof,
Paulina's push for the top is stalling out.
- Is she moving? - I don't think so.
- [groaning]
------- backpack.
I'm so tired.
Oh, my God.
How do I get past this?
Oh, God!
- We can't see a thing.
- Under three hours remain for teams to reach the finish line
or go home empty handed.
- Oh, my gosh.
I see it.
- Let's get to that cache. - Yeah.
[tense music]
* *
- Let's load that up into my bag.
Then we gotta figure out what direction to go in.
- Man, I wish we could see something.
- The fog makes a massive difference
in how you race because we literally just
have to rely on our bearings.
What happens if we get lost?
Maybe it'll clear as we're going?
But we have our bearings.
We have to absolutely hurry.
- Claiming the food cache, Paulina and Creighton
need to cover over 2 miles of heavy bushwhack
through the dense fog before time runs out.
* *
While up ahead...
- Protein. - Oh, brother.
Is that the ------- river, dude?
- Canister, right around the corner.
- The Smoke Jumpers are first to reach the finish line.
- We got it, dude.
- "Congratulations.
"You have made it and earned the opportunity
to win the grand prize."
- If no other team arrives before the clock runs out,
Ethan and Tyrie will be crowned the victors
and take home 500 grand.
* *
1 mile out, looking to stake their own claim...
- The terrain is up and down, up and down,
mixed with slippery.
- Kennedy and Nik's decision to skip the food cache
and follow the river has them on a direct, albeit unstable,
path to the finish.
- Oh, God.
----. Ugh.
Ah! - You all right?
- Yeah. I just took the bath I wanted.
- And descending the ridgeline...
- This is what we've been fighting through.
It is the thickest, most impermeable bullcrap
I've ever had to try and go through.
- I hate this shit!
- Whoa.
Paulina? Paulina? - Yeah?
- Hold on.
I'm gonna shoot this one more time.
We're just--we're getting pretty far off.
- Hey, Creighto. I think we need to get moving.
- I don't know where the ---- we are or where to go.
One more bearing.
- Unable to reference landmarks as they dropped
below the blinding fog, Paulina and Creighton
have veered south, away from the finish line.
- If this is our first drainage,
then our direction is changing a little.
- We don't need to change our bearings.
- There is a slight change in direction,
so it's gonna change our bearing.
I wanna know exactly what that bearing is.
- I'm aware of that, but I'm keeping that bearing
because it will still continue to point us to this peak.
- All right. This is 243.
- Cool.
- So it changed it by 9 degrees.
Not huge, but, like, enough to be
veering a little more one way.
- All right, let's go.
I did just fine on my own yesterday.
I know what I'm doing. - I'm not saying you're not.
- Let's go. Let's go.
- Will you stop?
Yes, I would like to go too.
I'm still doing my own thing here.
If I told you to go, go, go every time I wanted you to go,
like, we'd ------- explode.
- With a shot at 500 grand slipping away...
- Force it till the end.
Either way, this ends one way or another.
- It's do or die time.
- Let's start moving.
- God, I hate this race clock.
- Wait for me!
- $500,000 on the line right now.
As opposed to what?
Just lay down and die and give these guys 500,000?
Not a chance.
- Pick it up. We're running out of time.
- We're so close, Kennedy.
Let's go. Let's go!
- Nik!
- [laughs]
We did it.
Okay, let's touch it together.
Let's touch it together.
Ready?
Ah!
[laughs]
Whoo-hoo! [laughs]
- The Average Joes do it again.
- The Average Joes!
- Paulina, let's go.
- I'm trying.
- Keep coming, Paul. This is it. Come on.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah!
- Paulina. - Yeah?
- I see people. - You do?
- Holy shit. Nik and Kennedy in front of us.
- ----. I knew it.
- Whoo!
- What a bushwhack, huh?
- You made it! - Yay.
- With less than 15 minutes to spare,
all three teams have beat the clock...
- Final three, guys.
- Hell yeah. We made it.
- Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
- One more night and then it's go time.
- Hell yeah it is.
- Closing the book on the first test
and opening the door...
- Come on, Paulina!
- To a massive...
- Heads up for rocks. - Take a look out.
- Final...
- Let's go. Let's go.
- That's them right there.
- Battle.
- Ethan!
- We want to win first place.
We want that 500,000.
Keep pushing. - Let's get it.
- This is the big one. This is the one that matters.
- Gonna be real freaking windy up there.
Could be dangerous going up.
- This is insane!
This is New Zealand!