- I'm bear grylls, former special forces soldier,
Everest mountaineer, and survivalist.
All my life, I've sought out
The most extreme challenges out there.
It's often been a battle.
But along the way, I've shared life-saving survival skills.
It could save your life.
But this is not that show.
- I did not mean to throw up in front of bear.
- [gags] - [grunts]
- Must search through poop.
- Every day, I meet people
Who think they could do it better.
- It doesn't look that hard. - I know I can do it.
- Really grinds my gears when people go on survival shows
And tap out.
I can't do it.
- The truth is, most people wouldn't survive in the wild.
They'd die.
So I've re-created some of my craziest survival situations
To see who can get off the couch
And prove they've got what it takes.
Five will enter, but only one will proudly claim
That "I survived bear grylls."
[all cheering]
[bear roars]
- Ladies and gentlemen, I'm jordan conley.
- Hi! - Hey!
- What's going on?
- Now, I love observing nature...
On tv.
[laughter] but y'all ain't here for me.
For some reason, y'all thought it was a good idea
To try to do what bear does.
The only way I'm doing what bear does
Is if they make a bear grylls video game.
- Will you survive?
- But either way, you're not here for me.
He climbed everest at 23 years old
And had a spice girl pee on his hand
When he got stung by a jellyfish.
[laughter] the toughest man on the planet,
Bear grylls!
[cheers and applause]
[slow-motion cheering]
- Welcome to camp bear.
Some would call it hell,
But you are about to experience a day
Like you will have never experienced before.
- Yes, 'cause your camp counselor is psychotic.
- [laughs] - bring it on.
- We're about to find out if you're as tough
As you hope you are.
I've built four incredible environments,
Each featuring a challenge
That will push your survival spirit to its limits.
The challenges I've got lined up for you
Are just as harsh and unforgiving
As anything I've had to face in the wild.
Only one of you is gonna walk away from here
Having survived me,
And remember,
Up for grabs today is $10,000.
[cheers and applause]
- Yes!
- Hey, mary, you play linebacker
On a local football team.
- Yes. - But how do you plan on
Tackling these challenges?
- I've used that energy on the field,
And I'm ready to see what you can bring.
[laughter] - I've done my time.
This is your pit. - Let's go.
- Shelby, you're obviously a former girl scout.
How's it gonna help you, do you reckon, today?
- You know, it just prepared me mentally
To get out in the wilderness
And go after it.
My name is shelby.
I'm from san diego, california,
And I'm a dietician.
I have no survival experience.
I'd say the most survivalist thing I've done
Is car camping at coachella.
I have to win this
Because I have to win anything that I do,
And I can achieve anything that I want to
Whether or not I might fall down three or four times.
- I'm always cheering on a scout.
But, uh, this is gonna be hard.
- Can I get two samoas? When we have time.
- I'll call you. - Next up, neil.
- I have three boys at home
That are gonna be watching, looking up to me.
So I am not gonna fail.
Bear, I'm also a barber back home,
So if you want me to clean up that 'stache a little bit,
I got you. - [laughs] yeah.
- I see you don't do black hair.
You didn't offer me nothing. - I got you.
I got you too. - Doffer me nothing.
[laughter] all right, that's cool.
- And will, you're obviously a former boxer.
- [grunting] [bell dings]
- What do you reckon is gonna help you today?
- I'm here to knock some heads off.
I'm here to win, and they're here to beat me,
But it's not gonna happen.
My name is will.
I'm from riverview, florida,
And I'm a professional boxing ring announcer.
I'm here to show my son I'm a badass.
He says I'm old. He's gonna see his father,
Live, doing his thing against other contestants,
And he's gonna see that his father is the real deal.
I'm a former boxer, so one thing you can believe
Is I'm not going to quit.
- That's a survivor attitude.
And vondell, you're obviously
Looking sharp today, but tell me
What your strategy is.
- To get in here, to get as dirty as I can,
Find everything that I need to get,
And I'll let you guys know
The bank account later on. - [laughs]
- Hey, it all starts with a little bit of confidence,
And this pit is gonna test that.
Welcome to camp bear swamp.
Many times in the wild,
I've had to get down and dirty
And think smart and act fast.
A few years ago, I was in
A deep cave system in borneo.
I found myself out of food.
But in a survival situation,
Without food, your energy, as you know,
Is gonna plummet.
You've heard the phrase
"finding a needle in a haystack."
Well, you're gonna be searching for nature's needle:
Bugs and frogs and loads of other things,
And for this challenge,
In this thousand-square-foot mud pit.
Here's how it works.
You're gonna be roped.
You're gonna have to get in it.
You're gonna have to scrabble around,
Hands and knees, and you gotta find
Each of these five bugs.
You've got frog, spider, centipede,
Grasshopper, scorpion.
The sign posted clearly.
Wash them off, present them to me.
The last one to reach me is gone.
But there is a twist.
As you guys know, in a cave, it is dark.
To simulate that experience,
You are gonna be wearing goggles
With tiny little pinpricks in them.
Your line of vision is gonna be small.
Here is a very, very good demonstration
From my fine assistant.
- Ooh!
It's hard to see
With these blacked-out goggles on.
[laughter]
- He's been rehearsing that for about a week.
- Thank you.
- Time to get serious.
$10,000 for stake. - Let's do it.
- Let's get ready to survive here.
- Let's go!
- Okay, guys, goggles on.
[rock music]
- The toughest part was not being able to see.
Blinders on. - In you go.
♪ ♪
- [groaning]
- Be efficient in how you locate these bugs.
Lead with your brain.
[bell dinging] think, feel, move.
- Hey, that's my shoe, man! Come on.
I never thought I would be in mud,
Looking for scorpions and frogs and spiders.
Oh, my god.
- I have a frog!
- Good work. Getting tiring, isn't it?
♪ ♪
[bell dinging] neil, well done.
Will's in the lead now with three.
- It was really disgusting to be in there.
You can't see anything.
Wiping mud with mud!
- [as bear] search with your feelings.
[bell dinging]
- Neil ties it up with three.
Mary's got three.
- How you doing over there, vondell?
- I have two. [bell dinging]
Mud baths are not part of my normal routine.
- [grunts] [bell dinging]
- Mary now leads with four,
And vondell finds his third.
- My name is vondell.
I'm a retail manager from powder springs, georgia.
People look at me, and they see the nails,
They see the hair, they hear the soft voice.
But at the end of the day, don't forget,
There's a whole man underneath all of this makeup.
I can come up out of this.
Baby, let me show you what I can do.
What the hell?
- Come on. [bell dinging]
- Two of you are very close.
- I can't see a thing.
[bell dinging]
- Mary, good job. Show me what you got.
- You did not just put all them bugs
Down your shirt. - One frog, check.
Spider, check.
Grasshopper, check.
One scorpion,
Centipede, check.
We've got one survivor.
♪ ♪
- My name's mary.
And I work at a chemical clean-up plant.
I recently walked away
From a 20-year relationship.
Since then, I've been doing all of these crazy things.
I went wing walking
On the wing of an airplane,
And I played semi-professional football.
If I can handle girls on the football field,
I can survive bear grylls.
- Three more survivors. I'm waiting for you.
♪ ♪
- I can't remember the last one that I'm looking for.
- Can you remember where the signs were?
- No. That's what's making it
Frustrating. - [bleep].
Bear, why are you making us do this?
- 10 grand up for stake. - [sighs]
[bell dinging] - I found my centipede.
- Vondell, good job. Show me what you got.
Grasshopper, big frog,
Spider, centipede, scorpion.
Good job. We got another survivor.
♪ ♪
- Oh, [bleep].
- Neil ties it up with four.
- I can't remember what a centipede there looks like.
- Only two of you will survive.
There's 10 grand at stake.
- I gotta win.
[bell dinging] - neil, well done.
- Whoa! - Well done.
But does he have the right ones?
- I swear I moved every piece of dirt in that swamp,
And I still had one.
But you know what?
I was just gonna fight until the end.
- Show us what you got.
- Grasshopper. - Done.
- Frog. - Done.
- I found eight of those.
- Centipede, scorpion,
And that is a spider.
Well done. Great job.
Only one of the two remaining
In this pit is gonna survive.
Shelby, you've just got a frog.
That's all you've got? - I got a frog.
[dramatic music]
- Will, this is like you're in a boxing match.
You're in round ten. - Come on, will!
Come on, shelby!
- [bleep]. - It is all on the line.
- [panting]
- Only one of the two remaining in this pit
Is gonna survive.
One of you is gonna be going home.
- Push forward, and dig! [clapping]
All: Push forward and dig.
Push forward and dig.
- Will, you're still just one centipede down.
- Yes, sir, yes, sir, once centipede down.
- I only have the frog!
- Shelby, you gotta admire your tenacity.
- I'm tryin' to keep my composure.
I can't go home.
Centipede, centipede.
[bell dinging] - whoo!
- You just found the spider.
- Aw.
[bell dinging] - shelby finds another.
- I can't find it. - We are getting
Really close now.
[bell dinging] - [grunts]
- Come on, guys. You guys are so close.
Let's go. - It's all tied up.
- Let's go, baby.
- I can't go home.
- Got it, I got it! - Shelby, show me what you got.
Frog, scorpion,
One spider, one centipede,
One grasshopper.
Shelby, you survived
By sheer heart and grit.
- Whoo!
Let's go!
When I got the fifth piece,
Honestly, like, I could've cried.
I was so thankful.
I knew that I was going to come out here
And give it my all.
- Will, man, you started so strong.
- Yeah. - I thought you were gonna
Get 'em all, but respect.
One that you did have throughout was grit.
- Mm-hmm. - Never gave up.
Still a smile on your face. - Yup.
- That counts for a lot.
- The most important reason
For me to be here is to show
My son to never give up.
Have fun, enjoy yourself.
Ladies and gentlemen, introducing
The one and only will...
"big will" steele!
- You four are the survivors for this challenge.
This adventure is only just getting going.
Follow me. - Bring it on.
- Let's go! - Let's do it.
- Whoo!
- After rolling in the mud,
It's time to dry off.
We're headed to the desert.
[eagle screeching] [snake rattling]
[rock music]
- Through to the next stage. - Yes, sir.
- But the hard work is just about to begin.
What is that hat?
- It's a drinking hat.
- It's ridiculous. - [slurping]
- In a true survival situation,
Few things kill as fast as dehydration.
I have had to find fluids
From some truly awful places.
[laughter]
- You can name it-- whether it's been
Squeezing fluids out of fish eyeballs
Or camel intestinal fluid--
Once, I had to squeeze the liquid
Out of a hot, fresh, elephant dung
In the heat of the kenyan bush.
[groans] but I survived
Because sometimes, you gotta dig deep
And do the difficult stuff.
- I'ma be honest, okay?
Bear invites you out for a drink,
You ask questions.
- When it's a question of life or death,
You gotta be smart
And drink whatever you need to drink that is safe.
- So blood and pee are cool, but you draw the line
At tequila? [laughter]
- Don't laugh, 'cause you just encourage him.
- [slurping] - so this challenge
Will truly test your guts.
We're gonna play a little drinking game,
Combined with a matching challenge.
Behind you, you have each got ten canteens.
In front of you are ten glasses
Filled with survival fluids.
Each of you races to the back,
Picks up one of your canteens,
Tastes it, come to your tasting table,
And try to match what's in the canteen
With the taste that's in each of your glasses.
You need to swallow what you're sipping.
If you can't hold it down,
Then you gotta wait 30 seconds after you've vomited
Before moving on.
- You didn't have to say "vomit" out loud.
Like, that's disgusting. - So we've got
Rotten coconut milk,
Dirty swamp water,
Monkey urine... [monkey screeches]
Camel saliva... [smacking]
Smashed eyeballs... [squelching]
Yak blood... [yak bellowing]
Snail mucus,
Elephant poo juice... [elephant trumpeting]
Snake bile... [snake hissing]
And jordan's favorite,
Rabbit dropping stew.
- Is that what's in your hat?
- Yep. [laughter]
What--what is this? - Chug.
[laughter]
- The last one to match
All ten canteens to their glasses
Is gonna be our casualty
For this challenge. - [spitting]
- Going home. - You have to say that again.
I heard nothing. [laughter]
- Neil, any of those fluids fill you with particular dread?
- With three boys at home,
This is just another walk in the park.
My name is neil.
I'm from greenfield, ohio,
And I own a barbershop.
I'm here to show my family that if
You put your mind to something, you can do it.
I dealt with anxiety a lot throughout my life.
Never used to be able to leave my house.
Now here I am out in the wilderness,
Getting ready to tackle bear grylls' challenge.
He could make me swim across the ocean
Or jump from a helicopter.
I'm gon' do it.
- Vondell, what do you reckon, looking at this?
- I feel like I'm gonna be pretty good with all of 'em,
Besides the one on the far right.
It looks like milk, and if that's what it is,
It's gonna be a hot mess out here,
'cause I'm lactose intolerant.
- He said blood and poop juice,
And you worried about your booty.
- Which one's your favorite?
- Mine is the water
Back in my trailer. [laughter]
- Shelby, you kind of look excited
About what's in front of you. - I am excited
To taste all of these wonderful beverages
And get nice and hydrated.
- Oh, wow, ignorance is truly, truly bliss.
- Going into the second round,
I wanna remain calm, strategized,
And go for the prize.
- Are you ready for this?
- Ready, bear. - I'm thirsty.
- Ready, set,
Go for it.
Match your canteen,
Match it to the glasses.
This is where the fun begins.
- Ah. - [coughs]
I've been training for this competition.
The first challenge, I was ready
For the physicality of it.
But the drinking challenge,
The smell, it's next level.
- Hold it down, mary. Hold it down.
- Bear, bear, bear!
- Shelby, correct.
- Okay. - Good job.
- Check.
- Wrong. - [bleep].
This is gonna be a rough challenge for me.
[coughs]
- Check. - Bear, bear!
Correct. - Bear, bear, bear, bear.
- Bear, bear, bear.
- Correct. Good job, guys.
Wow, your taste buds, they're on fire today.
- These are [bleep] gross.
It tasted like
Baby poop mixed with pickles
Mixed with feet.
It was really nasty.
I've been doubted about things
Just based off of my sexuality,
Based off of my race when it comes to getting jobs.
But every time, I end up showing everyone that
I'm the real winner,
And todays gonna be no different.
- Bear, bear!
Correct, good job.
- Bear, comin' at you.
Wrong. - [groans]
- Check, check, check, check, check.
Wrong.
- Are you doing good, mary? - No.
- Okay. - [coughs]
- Mary, you're st--you're struggling to keep these down.
- [coughs]
Uh, the drinking challenge was rough.
Very close to throwing up.
- Mary's gotta be getting full.
She's drinking more than everybody.
- ♪ he passed me a jug ♪
♪ and said, "drink or I'll shoot" ♪
- Whoo!
- ♪ I took my first drink ♪
♪ of bad juice, bad juice ♪
- You know, it kind of tastes like nasty-ass
Pickle juice. - [gags]
[coughs] - hold it in, mary.
Hold it in. - What'd it taste like?
- Huh? - What'd it taste like?
- Check.
Good job. - [bleep].
Finally. - Bear, bear, bear.
Correct, well done.
- In my head, I'm thinking,
"you know what? I do this back home
All the time with ketchup, mustard, and italian dressing,"
But this is snail gunk and snake bile,
And I'm just like, "what am I getting myself into?"
- Ugh.
- Bear.
Bear, bear, bear, bear, bear!
Done, good. - Here, here, here.
Bear, bear, bear.
Correct, well done.
[bell dinging] - check.
Wrong, vondell. Come on.
- God. - Remember, these tastes
Are gonna get harder to decipher as this goes on.
- Bear? Bear.
- Yeah. - Correct, well done.
- Oh, you are killing it.
[rock music]
- Check, check, check.
Wrong. - Bear, bear,
Check, check, check.
Wrong. - Aw, man!
- Bear! Bear, bear, bear, bear!
Bear, bear. - Correct.
- Shelby's tapping like it's a hotel.
- Shelby, wow. - "service!"
- Bear, bear, bear.
Correct. Neil is catching up.
- Is anybody feeling sick?
- [gags] - bear, bear, bear.
Correct. - Oh, my goodness.
- Well done. - Check.
Wrong, vondell. Come on.
- God. The fact that bear
Drinks this stuff that I was drinking on that table
Is completely disgusting.
We could never have dinner together.
- Check, check, check!
Correct. Keep at it, survivalists.
- [gags and coughs] - doing the difficult now
For the win later on. Well done.
- Bear!
- Well done.
- Check. - Bear, bear, bear, bear, bear!
Wrong. - Bear.
- What the hell?
Correct. - Ah.
- Bear got me a drink.
- [coughs]
- Bear. [groans]
- Did you drink all of that or did you throw that away?
- No--nah, I drank it. [buzzer buzzes]
- Okay, shelby's down to her last four.
Neil's down to three.
Mary, vondell, you've got a mountain to climb.
[rock music]
♪ ♪
- Bear, bear, bear!
Neil, you're smashing it.
Correct. You've only got two to go.
- Check. - Bear!
- Well done.
Well done. - Bear.
- Vondell, maybe you could do a shelby and catch up.
Well done.
♪ ♪
- Oh, god. That one was gross.
- [coughs]
- Hold it down, mary. Hold it down.
[coughs] - hold it in, mary.
Hold it in. Survival is about enduring
The difficult! - Bear!
Well done, great job.
- Bear! Bear, bear, right here.
Right here.
- Let's go. - Well done.
- Check, bear. - Whoo!
Wrong.
- Check! Bear, check.
Beautiful. - Whoo!
That's why I play this game in the kitchen all the time
With the boys.
I just want to show everybody at home right now,
Dealing with anxiety, that if I can do it,
They can do it too.
The nastiest thing I drank in that
Was probably the swamp water--
The consistency of it,
Chunky and gritty--disgusting.
Come on, guys. Come on!
- You got it--don't throw-- don't throw it up.
You got it. You got it.
I'll catch it. - Bear!
- Shelby. - Bear!
You're almost a survivor. That's correct.
You got one more to go.
- Just take it, yeah. Just feel confident.
♪ ♪
- Check, check, check!
- Wrong.
Correct.
Shelby, you're done--
Second survivor through the gate.
- Whoo! I have a reputation
With my friends and family
That I'm really clumsy.
I have this big goofy personality,
So I knew that I needed to come
Into this challenge hard
And really show that I am a true competitor.
So my strategy was to taste
And go directly to the beverage
That I thought it matched.
I was like-- boom, boom, boom, boom.
I felt really good about it.
Whoo! Come on!
Let's go. Taste it!
- Now it's a runoff.
Mary, vondell, one of you
Is going home. - That's just a glass of water
Right there-- a little pinot gris,
Pinot gris. - Bear, bear, check, check!
- Check, check, check.
Wrong. - Check.
Well done.
- Whether I win or lose,
I am here to put myself in an uncomfortable situation,
And so I'm going to go as hard as I possibly can.
- You're almost exactly leveled.
- Check, check, check, check, check.
Well done. Now you're getting it.
Now it is a race.
For the lgbtq+ community.
I'm doing it for myself and just to show people
That have ever doubted me that they're just wrong,
And they never should've started it.
- Taste and texture.
The tongue, the most powerful weapon on the human body.
- Check, check, check. - Check, check.
- Check, check, check, check. - Check.
- You need to match all ten canteens to the glasses.
- [coughs] - mary, vondell,
One of you is going home,
And one of you is another step closer
To 10 grand.
- Check, check, check.
- Well done. - Come on, go, go, go, go, go!
Wrong. Both of you,
Just take your time now, concentrate.
- Check, check, check.
Correct.
- Keep going. Keep going.
[dramatic music]
- Check, check, check. - Check, check, check.
Smart lady.
Wrong.
- Come on, von.
Come on.
- Okay, mary has three more to go.
- Let's go, let's go, von, go.
- It's time to catch up.
Well done, vondell. - Check, check, check.
- You're catching up.
Well done.
- Check, check, check. Check.
Correct. - Good, mary, good, come on.
♪ ♪
- [panting]
Check. - We got another survivor.
- [sighs]
- Oh! - There we go, baby.
- And that means vondell...
- [gags and coughs]
- You're gonna be going home. - Good job.
- Mary,
You've now earned the right to throw up.
- [gags] - keep it in, come on.
- The snake bile was really... [retches]
- [laughs] she said,
- For what it's worth,
I think you're amazing for pushing through that.
You could see that was not easy.
You've earned your right.
- [vomiting]
- Vondell's chucking up.
- [vomiting] - vondell's also going home.
You deserve your place here.
- Thank you. - Vondell...
- I'm so pissed. It's just, like, finally
Just coming to me. It's like--now it's all--
Just like, "damn, you're going home."
[laughter] - you've done well.
There's always gotta be one casualty in the wild.
- To vondell. - To vondell!
- This is for you. [applause]
- You better own that walk.
That's that "I drank doo-doo" walk.
Vondell said, "listen, I'm out of here."
- You know that walk. - I know that walk.
- My friends are definitely gonna be surprised
At the stuff that I did out here,
But they better be proud, because I worked my ass off
Out there, and if they're not proud of me,
That's gonna be the last of that.
[laughs]
- Okay, bear with it, guys.
You're keeping going. You're with me.
Let's go.
- Let's go.
[rock music]
- I hope you sharpened your machete,
'cause we're headed to the forest.
♪ ♪
[animals roaring]
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
- [screams] [laughter]
Oh, my god. - Well, you made it
To the third challenge.
Well done. - Yes, sir.
Bring on the next one, bear. Bring on the next one.
- What do you reckon?
- I don't even have a clue.
- Are they real? - You're about to find out.
- Oh, my god.
- You guys, you crushed those first two, no doubt.
Those challenges--done.
- Yeah. - This next challenge, though,
Is gonna test you.
It's gonna test the skill
That is essential if you're
Gonna survive in the jungle.
- [chuckles] - in the wild,
You need to know how to handle one of these.
[machetes shing]
A machete.
One of the most dangerous weapons out there.
Razor-sharp blades. - Okay.
- Have any of you guys handled a machete before?
- Not regularly. - I have not.
- I don't cook in the kitchen with it.
- A machete makes so much possible.
You can make shelter with it.
You can make fire.
- Kill zombies. - Kill a few zombies.
- This looks like the gas station in my hometown,
Like 2:00 in the morning.
So, like, this is familiar to me.
[roaring]
- The good news is you've found yourself a tent.
The bad news is you gotta hack your way
Through a whole bunch of vines
And some zombies just to survive the night.
So what you're gonna do is use your machete
To cut a bunch of vines and five strong ropes
That are all securing your tents.
Once you have everything chopped,
Grab your tent and cut off the heads of the five zombies
That are in your way,
And then once you're past the zombies,
It's time to set up your camp.
You gotta pitch your tent
And then put all five zombie heads on the poles.
[bear roaring]
The water cannon over there
Is gonna be a creating
A little bit of jungle monsoon conditions.
- Kay. - The last one to manage it
Is eliminated. - All right.
- Perfect. - The president is the head
Of state, but you're gonna be the head of stakes.
[rimshot] - okay!
- Do you feel confident with the tents?
- Been a while. - I'm confident, yeah.
I'm ready for this. - We'll see.
- I would just say get "a-head" of the game.
[rimshot] ha!
[laughter]
- Shelby, tell me what it would mean to you
To go through this round and eventually potentially win.
- I would just feel super grateful.
Super grateful for the opportunity to make it
To the next round. I'm ready to go.
- What about you, mary?
- I'm excited to show my kids
That their mom is a badass.
Since I got divorced,
I'm here to step outside of my comfort zone
And explore who I am as a woman,
And I'm taking my kids on adventures.
I'm trying to be that role model that they need.
- Your shoulders say "badass" already.
[laughter] - let's go.
- And neil, what would this mean to you?
- Being from a small town, bear,
Letting everybody in my community
See me on this big stage,
I think it gives everybody
The will that they can do it too.
I'm ready to show 'em. Let's do this.
[bear growling]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Ready,
Set...
♪ ♪
Get slashing.
♪ ♪
Nice and controlled.
- Whoa, I can feel it growing in my hands.
[bell dinging] - that sawing blade
Is gonna be much more effective
On hemp rope.
First, you need to hack your way through those ropes
To access that tent that you're gonna be taking with you
Through zombie land.
♪ ♪
Keep sawing.
- Oh, like butter, baby, like butter.
I think I got a couple more.
- Neil, you're slicing your way through this.
- After about two good hacks,
The twigs popped off.
That was a different story.
So I'm sitting, thinking in my head,
I pick it up and bring the saw from underneath,
And I got that leverage of the rope,
And it was like a hot knife on butter.
It just came right across it.
- How many ropes have you cut through, shelby?
- Uh, three.
- Mary?
- I'm on my second one.
- As you get tired, stay in control.
- Think I'm through, bear. - Stack those on there.
Grab your tent.
Get slashing.
- You better hit it, daddy!
- I got you, baby!
- [laughs]
♪ ♪
- This one's for you, jordy.
- Okay.
- [yells]
- Wow.
[rock music]
- Well done, mary. Two to go.
Well done, shelby.
- Whoo! Right up the...
Jordan, he knew what he was doing with that hose.
He had ill intent.
Some aquatic action on that one.
[sinister laughter]
- Okay, guys, saw through it.
[bell dinging] clear them out,
Put 'em on the lot. - Yes.
[bell dings] - mary, you got one more
To cut.
Shelby, get your tent. Then get slashing.
- [grunts] - well, shelby's
Just a stone-cold murderer.
- Under control, shelby.
Well done, mary, you've got your tent.
Now get slashing. Let's go.
♪ ♪
There you go.
- You're almost there. You're doing great.
- Be accurate.
Now you're being efficient.
- I very much so enjoyed whacking
The zombie heads with my machete.
That was definitely a first
To whack off the zombie heads, yes.
[crickets chirping]
- I think I will buy a machete.
I think it's badass to have,
For zombie attacks.
- ♪ well, here we come ♪
- This isn't going to be a very comfortable tent,
I can tell you that much.
- Okay, everyone's now working on the tent.
Who is gonna survive?
Neil, you're not done with your tent yet.
You've gotta close that zip,
You've still got a couple of clamps to attach.
- You know, I've never built a tent,
But I have zipped up a sleeping bag.
- Okay, neil, you get on the tent.
Get those zombie heads on the stakes.
One,
Two, three...
[dramatic music]
Five!
We have the first survivor!
- There it is. - Give me some.
Whoo!
- Get that hose away from me, jordan.
- Whoo! You almost got me in trouble.
If I would've got bear wet...
- Only one of you is gonna go through!
Who's it gonna be?
- Come on, shelby, let's get it!
- Shelby, mary, you're looking about level
Only one of you is gonna be going through with neil.
♪ ♪
- You've come this far. Do not fail now.
- [grunts]
- Shelby, mary,
You're not done with your tent yet.
It's about who finishes strong now.
You gotta get those zombie heads on the stakes.
Only one of you is gonna be going through with neil.
♪ ♪
You've come this far.
Do not fail now.
Shelby, you put up a tent before?
- Um, a long time ago!
First and foremost, I don't have a lot
Of tent-building experience.
I have built tents before,
And I don't think it's that hard,
But then, add in monsoon water
Coming straight into your face.
I couldn't see anything.
It's definitely challenging.
- It's time to remember that time pretty quickly.
How are you gonna keep those poles in the holes?
- [laughing]
- Always ahead of me, jordan.
I love it. - You're getting there.
Come on, mary, don't stop.
Don't stop, mary. - You gotta zip it up.
You gotta get those clips on.
Good, mary.
Nice technique.
You're thinking like a survivor.
- I just want to show women
And my children that you can be a badass.
I'm really just trying to figure out who I am
And not let my fears stop me.
I'm going to go as hard as I possibly can.
- No excuses. Just get it done.
- [bleep]. Okay, here I go.
[grunts] - mary, you're working hard.
Make sure the pole stays attached.
There you go, shelby.
- [grunts]
- Mary, your tent came undone.
You gotta get those clips on.
- Okay!
Okay, am I good? - Hold on. Zombie heads.
You need the zombie heads on.
- Okay, okay! - Mary, keep working!
- Come on, mary. Don't stop, mary.
Don't stop. - Get the other one in.
Get the fourth one in.
- Don't quit, mary. - There you go.
Keep that under pressure.
[dramatic music]
That's it, mary.
♪ ♪
Five zombie heads are on.
The tents are erected.
We're done.
- [shrieking] - whoo!
♪ ♪
- Wow. - Good job, mary.
[rock music]
- Oh, my god! - Nice, nice.
Good job. - The third challenge
Was the most physically challenging for me.
I definitely think I have a different perspective
For surviving in the wild.
You have to be ready for anything.
♪ ♪
- You were, like, a minute away from that.
- Yeah. - You know?
You should be proud of yourself.
- Yeah! - You know, I reckon
In life, you're only just getting going.
- Thanks so much.
Make sure you get ahead of it,
And when you find where you want to plant it,
You wanna pitch that tent. - [chuckles]
Thanks so much. - That was the most
Insightful thing I've ever heard.
- So watch out, world.
Well done.
- Now that I've been out in the wild,
It definitely changes my opinion,
And I realize that I should spend a little bit more time
Doing some wilderness [bleep].
- And as for you two, you've reached your finale.
- [laughs] - the next challenge,
One of you is gonna walk away with ten grand.
- You ready? - Yes.
- Follow me.
- We're heading to the tundra.
Who's hungry for some cold, hard cash?
[rock music]
- It's christmastime. - We're here, we're here.
- Well, first of all, respect.
You made it to the finale. This is it.
Shelby and neil, you have shown some real grit,
Some physicality, and a lot of guts.
Impressive, really.
There's only one thing standing in the way of you...
And 10,000 bucks. - [sighs]
Your ability to endure and to adapt.
Neil, though, you've got some outdoor experience.
You love all the survivor stuff?
- Absolutely, yes.
My dad and I, we've watched a lot of survival shows.
He's my inspiration.
He and I have been doing a lot of outdoor stuff
Since, like, 2010.
I think me being on this show
Is gonna give him that motivation
To hopefully take his next step.
I'd like him to be the second season
Bear grylls survival winner.
- And would he love all of this sort of thing?
- He would love meeting you,
He'd love taking on whatever you can do.
- Think your dad would love to meet me too.
- No.
So, shelby, tell me about your outdoor experience.
- I go on long walks. I love to go to the beach.
I've been to the snow.
I'm not outdoorsy. I'm really clumsy.
- And did you ever think you'd get this far?
- Yes. I did. - Good for you.
- [laughs]
Although I have this big, bubbly personality,
When I get into competition, I take it very seriously.
I like to be laser-focused,
And I can achieve anything that I want to,
Whether or not I might fall down three or four times.
- People who win in the wild
Are those who lead with their brain,
And they're smart, they're resourceful,
And they're strong.
Finding food is impossible.
In the wild, nothing's impossible,
But it is harder.
I remember once in the arctic tundra,
Coming across this reindeer carcass.
Indigenous hunters had taken the most valuable meat,
But there was still plenty that was left
That I could use.
Bone marrow.
Tongue.
Brain. You name it.
- We live very different lives.
- But in the arctic, when you're starving,
You'll take whatever you can find.
And that's what this challenge is all about.
- Okay. - Your challenge. Number one.
All of those clothes, apart from your undies,
Are coming off.
- Ugh.
- Let's do it. - Oh!
- You're then gonna have to sit
On top of those blocks of ice.
You know, we obviously can't create
Subzero temperatures at this time of year,
And that's why you guys are gonna strip down
To your skivvies.
You got a hammer and a chisel.
You gotta chisel the six different food items
Out of the block of ice.
But you can only chisel when you're seated,
Which means you're gonna get cold,
And you're gonna get cold fast.
- Gonna be a...
[laughter]
- If your butt gets too cold,
Stand up, warm up for a second,
But you can't continue chiseling
Till you've sat back down.
- Got a lot of cushion for the pushin'.
- You're gonna need it. You're both gonna need it.
- And you're gonna need underwear.
- There's one food item in there
That is the most calorifically dense,
And that is a chunk of animal fat.
That's what you're after. - Okay.
So eat the fat,
Throw the other foods in the lunchbox,
And once you show me that your mouth is empty,
You get dressed again, race up to me,
And the ten grand is yours.
Both: Whoo!
- Gonna put it in my pocket, bear.
- Let me tell you something, bear, you are...
- This is gonna be fun.
- We've made it this far. - Okay.
- What's one more? - Let's go.
- Between this and you guys
Is a lot of cold and a lot of hard work.
You ready? - Let's go.
- Hold on, hold on, hold on. We're short.
Jordan. - That's not--that wasn't--
- Come on, jordan! That's my money!
- That's weird.
That--that's weird that that got there.
That's weird.
- First you spray us with water,
And then you try to take our money?
- Let's not act like gas is cheap.
I did it for my family.
- That money's only going to one of these guys.
Who can prove themself the ultimate survivor
In this ultimate frozen test?
- Let's go!
- Jordan, you ready? - Yes, I am.
- Ready, set...
- Strip!
- Jordan, you ready? - Yes, I am.
- Ready, set... - Strip!
- Once you're stripped down,
You gotta sit on your ice block
And chisel out six food items.
- Okay. I didn't know you were samoan.
Look at that, he got a whole heritage on his arm.
- You like that? [both laughing]
- Wow. Hey, jordan.
Come and get your hands on that.
- Okay. - This is all about simulating
How cold it is in the arctic.
- Oh, yeah. Ahh. Ooh, wow.
- That feels cold already, doesn't it?
- Yeah, that hurts.
- That's ten seconds, and that hurts.
- Having to take off all of this warm,
Cozy clothing and sit on that block of ice,
It definitely was really cold, and that kind of fogs your--
You know, your-- your, um, focus.
Um, I can't even focus right now.
- Do you feel that cold on your butt right now?
- Not yet, I don't think.
- Not yet. Really? I don't think he can feel it.
We gotta amputate the butt.
We gotta amputate the butt if he can't feel it.
- I wasn't worried about the cold.
I was just worried about getting
The food out of the ice.
- Think smart.
The great survivors always think smart.
- Yeah. You just spank that meat.
- One food item out. It's a big hunk of steak.
How's the cold?
- Let me think about it.
- I think it's time to take it up a notch, team.
Jordan? - Yeah.
- Go and get the ice water.
- Don't you do it, jordan!
- All right, we're coming in.
[dramatic music]
- Whoo!
Trying to chop the thing of ice apart
To get all these little foods out.
To have jordan pour
An ice-cold bucket of water on me,
It was just an agonizing hell.
- Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
- Whoo! - Oh, yeah.
Pouring from this ice bucket is really challenging.
Ooh!
- You're getting them out.
You're catching him.
- [screams]
- You okay?
- Yeah, it's just breaking.
I may be clumsy, and I may not have any survival experience,
But I do have mental toughness,
And I was trying to go
For really deep hits into the ice.
- Second item of food is out.
- And that's a cake.
- That's a cupcake. That is not good survival food.
That is sub-primal survival food.
- They used to call me cupcake back in high school.
They'd be like, "hey, cupcake!"
I'd be like, "hey!"
- Pizza.
Shelby, how many have you got out?
- Two. - Two.
So they're about neck and neck, to be honest.
Oh, the chicken is out, neil.
Shelby, there's something red in there.
There you go. Wiggle it out.
[upbeat rock music]
Shelby's got the animal fat. - Oh!
- Which is the one item that doesn't go
Into your lunchboxes, it goes in your stomach.
Good use of the mallet by neil.
You don't need to chisel that. Just smack it.
- Think I'm too close.
- Shelby, you got some catching up to do.
There you go.
So the chicken is out.
You're looking for the steak now.
Neil, how many have you got out?
- All but one, bear. - All but one, okay.
- Trying to get that slice of pizza now.
- Neil, you've got one more to go.
Shelby, you've got that one out.
Get it out.
We're getting close, guys. We are getting very close.
Neil, you got the pizza.
Neil has that fat.
Chew it all, get it down.
- What does it taste like? - Gristle.
- Throw up, throw up!
- Shelby, come on. Smash it out.
- Oh, he's coming up.
- Let me have a look at your mouth.
Fat is gone.
- [laughs]
- Time to get dressed.
Shelby, you're catching him.
- I like that she's not giving up at all.
She never gives up.
- Never give up. She never gives up.
This is gonna be close. Here we go.
Just get the fat in. Good job!
Let's get moving, get into the lunchbox.
Let's get changed! - Putting all this on,
I think it's a little ridiculous,
Being that I had to take all of it off.
- Okay, this is gonna be close.
Who's it gonna be?
- Okay, we're racing to see who could be the first
To be a stripper, but in reverse.
- Whoo-hoo-hoo! Yes! - Done.
We have...
- Whoo-hoo-hoo! - A winner.
- Yes!
I'm neil. I survived bear grylls.
For my family, my community,
For people that are out there dealing with anxiety,
It's something I've struggled with for years
To the point where I used to not even be able
To leave my house,
- ♪ who's gonna stop me? ♪
- I'm probably ready to go out and try it again,
To be honest with you.
- You should be so proud of yourself, really.
- Thank you. - Inspirational.
Definitely a winning survivor heart you have.
- I didn't survive bear grylls,
But I had the most wonderful time today.
I feel so lucky.
That I'm very clumsy but that I can still kick some butt
While being clumsy.
- ♪ who's gonna stop me? ♪
- So, guys, thanks for watching, and remember:
Survival requires sometimes that we dig deep,
And the rewards will always go
To those who do whatever it takes.
So until next time, stay wild.
[cheers and applause]
- ♪ who's gonna stop me? ♪