I'm looking at going swimming in middle-of-winter Tasmania.
Oh! Shit!
Oh! Oh!
Yeah!
It's make or break. I have to try everything I can.
If I don't, I will just starve out here.
Oh! (GASPS)
One mistake here can just snowball into a chain of events
that takes me out.
In you go. Gotcha.
I want the fat that I have to last me two more months.
It won't. There's no way.
I need an animal.
(TEARFULLY) I do want someone here.
I want a hug.
We're going for the big move.
There's no going back now,
so let's hope it pays off.
Ow.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
but it comes at a cost to my family.
(TEARFULLY) Oh, my heart!
We're halfway to the South Pole.
We're going to be totally alone.
It's Tasmania.
It's cold, it's rain, it's snow.
We're all going to leave changed forever.
Holy fuck.
Yeah!
What is this place?
It's like a camp trip from hell.
Mother Nature's kicking my arse.
Oh, man!
This experience...
Oh, you FUCKER!
..is just as much a mind game...
Op, op, op, op, op, don't go in.
..as it is a survival game.
Check it out.
The $250,000 prize would change my life.
Whoo! Wha! Whee!
(TEARFULLY) This is persistence. This is giving your everything.
I'm fucking over it.
Holy shit.
We had our first frost overnight.
It was subzero.
I wasn't sure if it was just my metabolism was down or something,
but it was freezing!
No wonder I felt freezing.
(ROLLS TONGUE)
Frost.
Frost,
frost, frost,
frost, frost, frost.
The blue sky's just disappeared...
..and it feels like it dropped about 10 degrees
in about two minutes.
No matter whether you've been in your shelter for days or weeks,
today's going to be a tough one anyway.
I'm just glad we had some almost nice weather for getting here.
With moving camp,
it's a huge investment.
You can only hope it pays off.
My body did get a lot more drained during that.
I probably lost another kilo or so.
It's getting close to, um...
(VOICE WAVERS) ..to pushing it and I'm not going to be healthy.
I was just wandering back
and I saw a little kind of hole
where the water falls in.
It's a bit deep,
and I'm just thinking just maybe just pop a rod in,
just for a few seconds.
Just test it, test out the waters.
At my first spot, I felt like I set up well,
but got nothing.
That's our hook for our rod.
That's what this spot's chosen for is the fish,
and then eel in the creek.
Let's have a spot of fishing
while the sun's out over there.
It's a bit snaggy in there, it might cost a few hooks,
but if we get a meal, it's going to be worth it.
I thought I had a bite, but it was just a snag, I think.
I hope to do better here, but I haven't done well.
I haven't caught any fish.
Do I keep going?
Just hoping that the others are starving and not catching fish.
Funny thing is,
I've just got no appetite.
I don't want to invest the time anymore, either.
I just feel it's so hopeless
trying to find food.
(SIGHS)
It's a bit disappointing,
not to be able to have
made some more progress today.
It's not over yet, but...
..it's not looking good.
I wonder if moving to this new spot was the right thing or not.
We'll tuck in and wait once again.
I always feel a little bit nervous about these things, for some reason.
I don't know why.
Maybe you're going to get some news that you don't want to hear
or something. I don't know what it is.
I don't know, you're just worried about the unknown, like,
you know, 'cause I'm in a good place right now, you know?
Whilst it worries me... And in.
..it's completely outside my control...
..what they perceive the danger area to be.
So I've just got to do what I've tried to do since I first got here,
which is get as much food as I can in.
I came in here with 30 kilos to lose.
I put on 19 just to get here.
Like, I feel like I'm at about the 72-kilo mark...
..but I don't know.
I've been starving for 30 days.
I know I've lost a lot of weight.
It's already too long.
OK.
Mm-hm.
Ha. So we just had med check.
I really wanted them to take me.
I don't know.
(VOICE WAVERS) It's just tough.
I'd been fudging the med checks for a little while already anyway.
I'd been gulping down the water beforehand
and trying to make myself heavier.
I had enough of that.
I'm ready. If they say it's time to go, I'm ready to go.
(TEARFULLY) And I was actually pretty disappointed
that they didn't take me.
I was expecting to come away from that med check, with them going,
"Oh, that's great. You're getting food.
"OK, great, no worries. See you later."
But, uh, no.
It's a bit of a flip-out, you not knowing how you're going.
So I don't have a mirror,
um, so I just want to have a look at myself,
to see how my fat's going,
and I could do that a little bit in the viewfinder.
Otherwise, I'm just looking down at myself.
Maybe it's worse than I thought. I don't know.
So I'll have a look.
(SIGHS) I can't really see very well there.
Right,
that is still skin fold.
Like, that's,
that's normal for me,
that amount of skin fold.
And that, too. Look at that.
See?
That's still a reasonable amount of skin fold.
You know?
Have I got any muscles?
There's a couple there.
So, yeah,
this is what I thought I looked like,
and I think I'm normal weight.
I also can't see the scales,
so I'm only guessing what my weight is.
I don't think the doc's going to let me stay another 30,
unless I really pull in some more fish, but, shit,
I don't know.
So I really hope I get a bloody eel tonight.
I need one.
I just think the only thing that's going to work,
particularly for the eels,
is worms.
I'd love to just get a couple...
..if I could, please.
Anybody? Worms?
Such wormy-looking soil.
It's full of really good nutrients.
It's dark.
I should have dug up 10 in that lot.
If I can't get worms,
I have no viable bait.
I don't know what to do
if I can't get worms.
It's tiring doing this work,
and I quickly get the sense that I'm wasting my time here.
Come on, there's got to be frickin' worms here.
They're just not here.
I have done my best to get worms out of this place...
..and I haven't managed to get one...
..for about five days.
Gut feel is
I know I'm not going to find any...
..and if I can't get worms,
it's a good chance I'm not going to win this.
I've been starving since day one.
My body's wasting away.
I'm only getting worse.
I'm not going to be well soon.
I just want to...
..go home to my family, healthy,
and know that, emotionally,
I am done.
I need them.
I'm going to go home to my beautiful family...
(TEARFULLY) ..who I miss dearly.
(PHONE DIALS)
It's going to be nice to hold my wife's hand.
(PHONE DIALS)
Hi.
Um, I'm ready to...
..I'm ready to go home now.
(TEARFULLY) Um...
..I've got a beautiful family,
and I've just been away from them for too long.
I just miss them too much,
and I want to be part of their lives again.
Can you just work on getting me out of here, please?
Come on in!
I don't think I've been so happy in five weeks!
Whoo-hoo!
How you doing?
I'm feeling very relieved.
I just want to be home
and I'm so glad to be working towards that,
and, yeah, I just want to be back
with the people I love.
You know, starving until the doctors came and took me away,
I was OK with that,
but, um...
..just, yeah, just...
..just my heart's pulling me away from here and I can't stop it.
I would've liked to end the journey on a medical tap-out.
I think it would've looked better for trying everything.
But I realise that a medical tap-out means you're going to hospital,
and I'm not ready to go to hospital.
Just, I'd rather be back with my family
than go to hospital for another week
without them.
I don't know why I did this when I knew I'd miss them.
I guess it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,
and we just took that sacrifice,
and I'm ready for it to be over.
I like us being close,
needing each other,
being there for each other.
It just gives me such peace.
So out here, I had my faith backing me.
I spent my time here with Jesus,
and I keep spending my time with Him afterwards.
He wants you to ask for what you need.
He didn't give me what I asked for, and that's OK.
For Him to know that I trust in Him is important.
I really did want to win, I did want to go all the way to the end,
but, um...
..I'm ready to come out of the furnace.
The amount of weight that I'm losing
is a concern.
I haven't been playing smart.
I've just been enjoying myself.
It means I have to really change my strategy
and do a lot less and stay a lot warmer.
But first I have to get my shelter warm.
That's number one.
If I basically made a frame,
I could then get the saw sedge
and weave it really tightly to make a door.
It's got a layer of debris,
wild brush, air spaces,
some heat retention.
That'll keep the wind out.
The first phase was just, like, the emergency survival stuff.
Can I get a shelter,
and can I get a source of calories?
It feels like this is kind of like phase two,
so kind of like the bedding in.
There we have...
..door.
I want to be the first woman to win.
I want to be an example for women,
to show that anyone can survive in the wild.
If I leave, I won't be that woman.
So everything now is about preserving the fat that's on my body
in every possible way I can.
I need some new fish heads for my fish head soup.
I can't believe I'm still drinking
this one pot of fish bits,
after 11 days.
I've had this on the go for 11 days.
But...
..the pot of fish head soup
has reached the end of its life.
I can't risk giving myself, like, the vomits or the trots,
at this point.
Farewell.
It's a sad day.
That's a sad day, indeed.
Yeah, one of the things I keep thinking about is the disappointment
of being told you've got to go home.
I want to win this, you know?
(SIGHS)
I could do with the money, basically!
Yeah, I really want to win this money, so my wife is, you know,
it eases the stress on her about money and that kind of thing.
So that's a lot of money, 250,000 bucks.
There's so much riding on this.
Man, I feel like I've wrung the crap out of it, you know,
like, just doing everything I can.
(SIGHS)
I need meat
and I'm not getting it.
What haven't I thought of?
I mean, there's been pademelons bouncing around...
..and I just keep going over in my head, how can I get them?
How can I get... This is ridiculous, like...
I can't hunt them with a club at night,
because I've got a torch on my head and they can see me coming.
But, last night...
It's a pademelon.
I can hear him thumping around camp.
I think there's two,
'cause I just saw some eyes shining.
See, I could do with one of those.
I managed to pressure it up the track,
which was my intention...
..and it did run through the clearing
where I've got the trail cam,
'cause I checked it on the trail cam.
You know, maybe it is worth putting a drop net trap there.
So that's my new purpose in life out here,
is to make this drop net.
This gives me a new focus.
This pademelon, if I can get it,
doing this method,
there's a good chance that'll mean the difference between
being the last person out of here.
So I've got to do everything
to get it sorted as quick as I can, really.
There's nothing else really that's more important.
(WIND HOWLS)
Man,
after spending ages getting this thing untangled,
the wind's come up, and it is just a diabolical mess.
So I'm going to move this whole thing into the shelter,
where it's less windy.
Eek.
Far out.
Fucking hell.
(SIGHS)
It's fucking ridiculous.
It's just so frustrating.
I mean, I've been doing this for hours this morning.
The last doing it was 2,400 knots.
Third knot.
And now, a gust of wind, yeah, that's great.
Good on you, thanks.
Fuck. I can't even do this FUCKING knot!
So I'm not really looking forward to the next couple of days
of really frustrating net-making.
That's going to suck.
(SIGHS)
Last night...
..I laced up the perimeter of the trap.
Yeah, I'm pretty spent, you know?
I've put a lot of effort into this trap.
And, at least it should just be there,
working for me each night now,
and I don't need to do any more work, other than maybe reset it,
if it gets windy.
(GROANS)
Putting this thing up,
it's a couple of hours' work.
(GRUNTS)
So,
now it's time for the trigger mechanism.
I've got the wire here,
runs to a weak point here,
and a stick that's been cut.
Any pressure on the trip wire will break the join here.
Yep, that's good.
Net comes down on the pademelon.
Now...
This is the bit I've been dreading most. I've got to get...
..the string under pressure...
..to come off that tree,
down through here, tie a knot in it.
So all this tension on the line,
I can't raise it any more.
And I basically... I just can't take the pressure off to tie the knot.
Unless I do it with my teeth.
Could my teeth hold that amount of pressure?
For fuck's sake.
Fucking ridiculous.
Ungh!
Come on, get in there, you fucker!
Oh, you FUCKER!
FUCK'S sake!
Get fucked.
Live trapping, they said.
Yeah, yeah, just trap 'em live, yeah, and then kill them.
Yeah, don't set a normal trap.
Just catch 'em like you're at the fucking zoo or something.
I'm FUCKING over it!
It's FUCKING bullshit!
Fuck, see, I'm pretty bloody tired, right...
..in all sorts of different ways, and it is showing.
Oh, I just set it.
Nobody breathe.
No-one flinch.
I find that...
..pretty much all my...
..waking thoughts are about food now, about..
..how to get food.
Now I need a wee.
Dammit.
I didn't even have a drink till, like, after four.
I should have had all my pees by now.
OK.
(BREATHES HEAVILY) I'm gonna get him.
(SOFTLY) Slow. Slow, slow.
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(SIGHS)
I need a wee.
Dammit.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
OK.
(SOFTLY) I'm gonna get it.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
(EMOTIONALLY) I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
(THWACKING) Ah!
I got a...I got a wallaby.
I got a wallaby.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
I got a wallaby.
He was just right there, and I jumped on him, and,
holy fuck, I got him.
Oh, darling, I'm so sorry.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Holy shit.
Holy shit!
Oh, wow.
Oh, you beautiful thing.
Holy fuck.
Oh, oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
OK.
I gotta, I gotta do things.
I gotta, I gotta,
I gotta, I gotta dress an animal,
now.
Wow. OK.
Alright.
Liver.
Let's get you out of your skin, my friend.
I reckon there's probably about five kilos of meat on that beast...
..and considering I probably have eaten a total of maybe 1.5 kilos
of protein, fish,
in 35 days...
Oh, my God.
So good for my poor protein and nutrient-starved body.
Got a pelt...
..and...
..a skun wallaby.
(PAN SIZZLES)
Oh, my goodness.
Meat.
(GASPS) Oh, my God.
Mmm!
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Mmm. Thank you.
So, I'm feeling,
really, like, lots of things.
Like, I'm feeling really
activated and excited and...
..grateful and...
..just that, you know,
that my prayers were answered.
Look, I've been the last few days going,
"Fuck, if I don't get an animal, I'm done here,"
and then I get an animal.
It's just, like, I don't...
How does that even work?
Cor, I mean, I was having a pee.
I wasn't expecting a bloody wallaby to come by.
My body just launched onto it...
..and then I, doosh, donked him.
Bugger off, fly.
It's not for you.
Mine.
I reckon that animal will keep my body going
for at least another three weeks...
..which is fantastic.
Because I've cut the pieces quite thick,
the salt's going to help to dry them out,
suck the moisture out.
(SIZZLING)
Thank you, wallaby.
Thank you, Mr Wallaby...
..for all your deliciousness.
(SIGHS)
I think it's about...out there.
Oh, the trap's down.
Bugger!
Alright, let's see if there's anything on here.
That's me.
(GASPS) It's a paddy in there! What happened?
This was at 7:48.
He's just on the far side of the trigger mechanism.
Come on, man.
I reckon his nose is on the trip wire...
Is he touching the wire?
Oh!
What?
Oh, my goodness.
What the...far out!
I reckon
he's just got out of the way
by that much.
That was it. That was my... That was my one frickin' chance, man.
I'm not going to reset it now.
I'm just going to go to bed and cry.
Man.
That sucks.
I'm going to go to bed.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
And just on cue,
it starts to rain.
(RAIN FALLS ON CANVAS)
I've decided to pull out a family photo for the first time,
'cause, um,
you know, I'm feeling a bit low.
I kind of was subconsciously saving
my photo for that kind of thing,
'cause I find,
when I look at photos too much,
they don't have the same impact when I look at them.
So...
(THUNDER CRACKS)
..yeah.
Yeah, it's a good photo.
Yeah, I can't wait to get home.
You know, it's not much fun out here.
It's getting harder.
Why am I starving out here?
I could be eating chocolate and peanuts
in two hours if I just pick up that sat phone.
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You probably want to see what I'm doing, don't you?
OK, then.
It's not like me just going, nur, it doesn't mean anything, when you,
like, you want to see that.
It's all that's left, look.
Oh, fuck it.
Come on.
Who can't resist a Flintstones moment?
Alright.
I need to save some for later, right?
I mean, this has to last me three weeks,
at least.
(RAIN FALLS ON CANVAS)
It's just the same stuff.
Just the day number's changed.
I'm screwed.
That's probably my one shot at that pademelon.
I've made...
..two traps...
..heaps of effort...
..and it's all been a waste, because it's not going to come back.
There's a lot to process from this.
A lot.
Fuck.
It's hard to motivate myself to get up and do stuff,
'cause I'm tired,
and, you know...
..I was that close to getting a pademelon.
I worked hard to get that failure...
..but, um,
you know, I've got to keep doing it.
Oh, there's a big worm!
Look at that!
That's a good bait worm.
That is a celebration, right there.
Check that out.
I kind of feel...
..I'm better off spending my time...
..foraging for bait.
You know, if I can get maybe one or two more worms,
I think there's a reasonable chance I could get a fish
or I could get an eel.
(SIGHS)
Oh, there's one!
I've got a small...
..small worm.
Barely big enough to bait a hook,
but I can probably just get away with it.
Yes!
That is a monster.
Just got a good worm.
Thank goodness.
Alright.
First line, smallest hook,
smallest worm, unweighted.
So I'm just going to put it out there.
It doesn't need to go any deeper than that.
We're all good.
That's one done.
Alright, lucky dip.
Which worm?
What the fuck?
Oh, fuck!
One of my worms has disappeared.
You're FUCKING shitting me!
Where's my FUCKING worm?!
Fuck!
Anyway, I'm pretty pissed off.
Pissed off and over it.
It doesn't look like a wallaby anymore.
Get it into a nice shape for a, um,
for a floor rug.
Yeah, I have a little floor rug here.
This is when I miss a village.
I don't know, I just...
..I love just, like, sitting around where people are just doing things
with their hands.
We'd be making pots and clay.
To me, it just feels like craft is a village thing.
Yeah, I think I feel a bit lonely doing it on my own.
Huh.
I hadn't realised that.
I just got that right then.
Oh.
It's true.
I feel lonely doing this hide on my own.
And right now...
..I just want there to be other people here.
I miss them.
Just making, doing this hide,
I really miss them.
I miss them.
(TEARFULLY) I miss my people.
Yep.
I miss my people.
I keep coming back to the fact that I think everyone else
is getting fish...
..um, regularly.
I don't know why I'm thinking that,
but I do.
I probably should stop doing it, 'cause it, um...
..I don't know, it doesn't really matter, does it?
It matters what I get.
That's what matters.
It matters what I get
and how long I last.
That's it. It really makes no difference.
I just got to keep telling myself that.
Hey, hang on...
Is this my line?
Yes, something's on there!
Frickin' beauty!
Alright.
Do not stuff this up.
It is a trout.
Oh, come on.
Yes!
You bloody beauty!
Oh, that is fantastic!
Oh, thank goodness!
Yes! I got a trout!
I frickin' needed this trout.
It's going to be one of the best things I've tasted in my life.
Ooh, that looks so good!
Yes, it does!
That... Oh, shit!
That is a slab of meat.
Yeah!
Oh, it tastes so good!
Man.
Oh, there's its little heart, see?
See that little triangular thing at the top there?
Yum.
It's a morale boost, overall, you know?
18 days is a bloody long time not to get any meat.
No fish, no eel, nothing.
So I've broken that drought, thank goodness.
Yeah, I could be on the cusp
of a week of good fishing.
That could help me win.
I could win, if I get a week of good fishing.
Yeah, that's good.
Alright, night. I'm going to bed.
I know I've dropped weight in the last week.
I still need a whole bunch of other stuff in my diet that I'm not getting
Oh for fuck sake, really? Ahhh!
I'ts hailing now.
Man, this place bangs you over the h so hard with the weather
You just have to expect the worst.
Fucking hell, what a pain in the fucking arse.
I have to do everything I can to win this.
I keep meeting the "No".
What the fuck!
And at some point, the red line will get crossed.
What is that? oh there's a snake.
Oh my god.
I absolutely want to be the last woman standing.
Or there's no freaking way I'm giving up on this thing.
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