Alone (2015–…): Season 3, Episode 2 - First Blood - full transcript
As they venture deeper into their surroundings, the nine remaining survivalists realize that this terrain is unlike anything they've ever experienced. One participant suffers a serious injury.
[dramatic music]
*
- What did I just do?
- Holy cow.
All alone.
- Check it out!
I'm just so looking forward
to the future here.
[squeals]
- It is really rugged over here.
My site is almost
completely uphill
It's impossible
to walk through.
- I keep thinking about my wife
and three kids
that we're adopting.
The thoughts are overwhelming.
I am tapping out.
Being alone's just not
something that
I guess I was ready for.
- Look at that.
A complete skeleton.
Maybe I'm sitting in
a damn puma kill zone.
*
- This is the hardest terrain.
- Patagonia is a different
environment entirely.
- Everything out here
is so hard.
- Patagonia's no joke.
- Are you willing to
give up who you are
for what you will become?
- It's Patagonia
for God's sake.
- Patagonia!
- It's tougher than
I ever imagined.
- Just missing home right now.
- You get a feeling of
helplessness,
like, "why am I doing this?"
- Oh, my God!
- The last person left
wins $500,000
and is a badass.
- Bam!
- Ugh.
[animal growling]
- What is that?
- It's just,
how far you can push yourself
and what you're able to do.
- Yeah!
- You don't have anyone
to lean on.
- Oh, my God, I got a fish.
- Go to bed hungry,
wake up hungry.
- Can't believe I did that.
- End of the day, it's gonna
come down to mental endurance
of food deprivation.
- [cries]
- Person'll be dead
in a week at this rate.
[animal growling]
*
- Whoa, that's a big cat.
*
- [sighs]
*
[groans]
*
[groans]
*
[laughs]
Whoo!
*
Whoo!
Woke up this morning and, uh,
I had a little bit of a chill.
Not a lot of energy.
Second I got out of
this water--
[laughs]
Both those were cured.
Uh, every Saturday.
Every Saturday.
Let's do it one last time.
[yells]
*
[laughs]
*
Kind of enjoying it out here.
I'm really enjoying it.
Place is feeling more
and more like home.
- Come on, Dave!
Let's see those
climbing moves, man.
- That insatiable desire
for being outdoors
and living with the land,
it's very,
very strong in my life.
- [laughs]
What?
- Yeah, you know,
survival experiences,
I've done many,
many walkabouts.
I've been tested
quite a few times
in different environments
and different atmospheres
with different amounts of gear.
44 days is the longest that
I've gone outdoors
in the wintertime.
I'm prepared to do this,
because I've been practicing
for this for almost 20 years.
I teach survival
and bush craft skills,
so this has sort of given me
a little bit of an edge.
*
I'm doing this
for many reasons.
One of which is gonna be build
a connection to the earth.
To live, as well.
I mean,
I believe in living well
and experiencing life.
Another reason
that I do this is
to push my skills set
a little bit.
Put all those together,
you got Patagonia in the mix,
and look out.
See ya all.
- All righty.
- I love you all.
- Bye, Dave.
Now kids, oral hygiene
is very important.
Charcoal.
See?
Much better now.
[laughs]
*
I have never been to this part
of the world in my life.
I've never been
south of the equator.
Uh, wilds in Patagonia,
Argentina,
are familiar, yet very,
very different from home.
And this,
I want to be my home
for the next year.
*
Going after food
is my biggest challenge.
I'm ready to go fishing.
[chuckles]
*
I made myself a bone lure
with a couple holes in it
from some old bones.
*
I have a feeling,
if I want to stay a long time,
then I'm gonna need to
figure out
how to be sustainable out here,
how to catch fish
on a regular basis,
what do I need to do?
*
Got one!
I'm excited to
figure out this land.
Lot to learn from.
This is another country,
this is another continent.
*
[laughs]
Oh, hell yeah!
Oh.
Look at that.
Oh.
[laughs]
*
Oh, it's just falling off.
*
Oh.
[chuckles]
I have a feeling
you guys are gonna see
a lot of ecstasy from me.
Oh, my--oh, my!
It's freaking good.
[chuckles]
It's good.
Mmm.
*
*
[birds cawing]
- Holy--be quiet.
Came out here to
get away from alarm clocks,
you birds!
[birds continue cawing]
Birds!
They're doing it unison,
or what the hell?
Oh, my God.
[birds continue cawing]
This is ridiculous.
[birds continue cawing]
*
All right, day five,
let's do it.
*
Still can't believe
I'm doing this, to be honest.
Still doesn't feel real.
And I know I'm doing it, but...
*
I get to camp out here
in this wild, wild place.
I mean, it's crazy.
It's really crazy.
Now, if it could just
work with me.
Not a lot, a little bit.
*
In order to be successful
out here...
You got to have sustenance,
you got to--you got to be
putting calories into your body.
[sighs]
I got to get some fish.
*
My game plan right now,
I'm gonna try
and make a fish trap.
And the way I'm gonna do it
is I'm gonna make an M.
And in the middle of the M, I'm
gonna leave it partially open
so the fish can swim in.
*
The reason I'm here
is for life lessons.
I'm here to grow as a person.
Just try to figure out
what I'm capable of.
But, at the end of the day,
this is a competition.
I know I got a huge
competitive streak in me.
I'd feel accomplished if I beat
either 56 or 66 days.
Above and beyond,
the first and second season,
but I want to
be here the longest.
I want to win this.
The fish will swim in from here,
and hopefully get confused
and stay in here
and I'm gonna
put some brush over top
so it's nice and shaded.
*
I think it looks good.
*
Only time will tell.
*
[sighs]
You ever have those thoughts
where it's like,
"How did I get here?"
From back country, Canada,
to the jungles
of South America.
*
So are you gonna miss me?
- Yes.
- My girlfriend, Kristin's,
gonna be the hardest thing
that I'm leaving behind.
Whatever I want to do in life,
she's pushing me,
she's driving me
to accomplish my goals.
She's always there for me,
like the rest of my family.
- You know, you've got a huge
opportunity in front of you here
to make your mark.
And you're gonna do
really well.
- The interaction with
the whole family,
that's what I'm gonna
miss the most,
and just the love
that they give.
I'm gonna be knowing that
everything's still rolling
back home and here I am
in the middle of the bush.
*
This is literally gonna be
the hardest thing I think
I've ever done in my life.
You got this game plan,
but now all of a sudden,
you're in this location
that you've never seen before
and that game plan
might go out the window.
You got to be able to adapt
and you got to be able to
overcome these kind of
situations.
This is the challenge
of a lifetime,
this is the one thing
that I know
I have been training for
and I've been trying to do,
and now it's here.
It's about me
doing what I love
and I want to see
how far I can go.
*
I'm gonna go for a walk.
Just forage around, see if
I can find some wild edibles
till I get me some fish.
*
Nature's one of those
things that...
doesn't give a [bleep]
if you're here.
*
Just keeps on going.
*
*
[bleep]
*
Think I found some puma scat.
*
Nothing in these woods
is gonna have bone
in their scat as well as hair.
This is 100% puma.
*
Those things hunt
from above, too.
*
And that is...
maybe a five minute walk
from my camp.
Plus two--two, three minutes.
*
I got to keep my eyes open now.
*
[leaves rustling]
*
[wood snapping]
*
[wood snapping]
*
*
*
Another day.
Feeling motivated.
Ambitious.
Stinky.
*
It's time to get to work.
I have a pool of water
on the top of my tarp here.
*
So I'm thinking that
I actually might
steeple my roof
right in the middle.
And raise up that middle
of my roof to a peak
and have all the water run off.
I don't want any water
sitting up there.
Eventually,
it'll start seeping.
Or if it's snowing,
it'll just sit up there
and freeze and crush my roof.
There's my beam.
Put some pincushion moss
on the top of it to soften it,
'cause I don't want to put
this sharp wood up into
the top of my ceiling
and maybe pierce it.
*
Might be a little tall,
but we'll see.
*
There we go.
[sighs]
Yeah, that got it all down.
*
- Ugh.
*
[groans]
*
Okay, I--
[laughs].
I was just walking along
the shoreline
and I am stuck...
in the freaking quicksand mud
that's back here.
Like, above my boots,
it's like--
Oh, my gosh,
my boot is stuck in the mud.
[chuckles]
Oh, my.
I can't even get out.
[laughs]
Just walking along,
and I'm stuck.
Oh, my God,
it's like quicksand.
[grunts]
Ugh.
[grunts]
Oh, jeez.
Show you what
my boots look like.
My family's probably
sun tanning right now,
and I'm freezing my ass off.
*
I'm a biologist and forester.
I definitely am
pretty independent and driven.
My family consists
of my husband, Tyson,
and our two children,
Kaya and Angus.
- I'm already here.
- Family means everything to me
and it was my decision
to leave them.
There's gonna be
a bit of guilt behind that.
I'll miss you guys.
- I'm gonna miss you, too.
- I've worked
in forestry for 20 years.
We work in areas where you're
climbing up hills
in the rain and the snow
and you run into bears.
People say to us,
like, "Why would you want
a job like that?"
But I just love
challenging myself.
- [indistinct yelling]
[children giggling]
- My main goals
are to have the opportunity
to self-reflect
and to put my skills to use.
My strategy overall
is just to keep busy.
Hug.
- Where are you going?
- I just have to
go away for a little bit.
- I love you.
- Mm, I love you.
Oh, gosh.
Bye.
I think I can
focus on the task at hand,
but, um, I know
it's gonna be difficult.
[crying]
Being a forester and biologist,
I have a really extensive
plant base knowledge.
It's an advantage to me
in terms of getting protein,
getting minerals,
getting vitamins.
So this is, uh,
gaultheria plant.
So I'm gonna get
as many of these as I can
while I see them,
because they're probably
gonna drop in the next week.
I need to get prepared
for the upcoming winter.
I can draw these out
and I can also make syrups
and some jam out of these.
I really need to stockpile
and prepare for those times
when there are absolutely
no calories available.
You have to be like a bird
and a squirrel
and store your food away.
I just had a flash that my
daughter wants to paint her room
kind of this color, so...
um, I'll be
thinking of you, Kaya,
when I'm eating these berries.
*
*
- That shouldn't take too long
and I'll have some warm water.
*
Got my homemade comb.
Try to get the knots out.
*
Hard to keep your hair clean
when, uh, you got no shampoo.
*
Got to look good for the camera.
[laughs]
Good luck on that one.
Doesn't really matter what
I look like out here, I guess.
I'm not going to the mall.
One thing that's starting
to irritate me
is these nose hairs, though.
You just get a little flame,
and then you just kind of
sniff it in.
There.
That's all it should take.
That's how you shave
in the bush.
*
Being from a small town
in the Rockies,
everybody fishes
and hunts and camps.
Everybody does things that are
bush-oriented.
*
That's about my distance
right there.
I'm a drywaller.
Been a drywaller for 37 years.
*
I go camping in 30 below
all the time just for fun.
I spent months
in the bush by myself.
Experience goes a long way.
Most of the people
that I'm up against
are half my age.
Seems like almost everyone
has husbands and wives
and I've been a loner
for the last 20 years.
The only
close family member I have
is my daughter, Jeanette.
*
Jeanette keeps me motivated.
She keeps me on my toes.
*
She said, "Dad, if you're not
the last guy out,
don't even come and see me."
So that was her way
of motivating me.
*
There's three reasons,
basically, I'm doing this.
It would be nice to be able
to make my daughter proud.
The money could mean not having
to hang drywall again.
And just for the whole
adventure.
Now, you know I'm gonna do good.
- Good luck.
- So, if I'm not back in a year,
come looking.
[both laugh]
There it is.
[laughs]
Fish for breakfast!
*
My goal is to live off the land
for a year if I have to.
Fingers through the gills,
break the back of its neck.
Now it can't get away.
*
So far, my opinion is that I've
been doing everything right.
My shelter's in a good spot,
close to my food,
close to my firewood,
close to my water for drinking.
Take all my moss now.
Dry enough.
*
Now I'm making
a comfortable bed.
*
It's gonna be
like a "pasta-predrict,"
or whatever they're called.
The more comfortable
you make it...
This'll be good.
It can actually be enjoyable,
living off the land.
[water babbling]
[animal bellowing]
*
[whispers]
Something over there.
*
[animal bellows]
*
*
*
[animal bellows]
- What the heck is making
that noise?
[animal bellows]
*
I definitely heard
a squealing.
*
I hear them,
but I haven't seen any yet.
You can't shoot at something
if you can't see it.
So I don't know how feasible
it would be
to get one with a bow.
Hah!
That's just like Robin Hood,
there.
*
It's time to find my paracord.
I'll go set a snare.
*
*
Just looking in the water.
See if I see anything.
All right, so I'm just
gonna go check my trap now.
*
Oh, man.
It's big zip.
*
Lack of fish
has definitely humbled me.
*
Nothing I can do at this point.
*
Time to get
back to work and, uh,
get some stuff done.
*
I have a shelter in mind
that I want to build.
It allows me to have dry
firewood inside.
Gonna go cut some bamboo.
The only problem is,
there's none really
in the close proximity
of my area.
Which means
I'll have to hoof it.
*
This is a nice sprout
of bamboo,
it's probably got
30 shoots in it.
*
Oh.
Oh, my God.
Jeez.
*
Jeez.
*
[grunts]
*
Ow.
It is hard to live here.
*
It's hard to walk here.
*
One bundle done.
All right.
Now for the rest.
*
Oh, man, what a day.
*
Being tired and lack of
sustenance, lack of calories,
and just no--no food
puts myself in danger.
I need to be able
to think smart out here.
*
Oh, my God.
[exhales sharply]
[bleep].
*
All right.
*
Unless you know
how to work with it,
everything here,
it's--it's gonna hurt you,
it's gonna take you out.
*
What are these [bleep] roots?
All these things do
is trip me.
Look at these things.
Trip wire, trip wire,
trip wire, trip wire.
All this just to keep
my [bleep] firewood dry, too.
*
[bleep] roots!
[bleep] my balls, roots.
*
I see how people tap out
on days like today.
*
Today's the day
I [bleep] lose it.
*
Right now, it feels
like the land's rejecting me.
It's really not a good feeling.
*
I got road rash
on my neck and face
from carrying that
[bleep] bamboo.
*
Ugh.
[bleep].
*
Anyways...
smiles all around.
* *
- So I was gonna show you guys
what I'm having
for dinner tonight.
It's not fish.
[laughs]
I'm having orange peel lichen
and chaura berries
in a watery soup mixture.
I'm still getting my
vitamins and minerals,
but I definitely need protein.
I do have a trigger deadfall
trap in mind for fish.
So I'm gonna try that one out.
*
Never made one of these before,
so it's a bit of a
work in progress.
*
And what I'm gonna do
is cut it off
at the top of the branch,
and then make triggers,
two triggers per set.
This will be going into
the ground once I sharpen it.
I'll modify this point
and then I'll have another one
like this attached
to my fishing line.
So once the fish pulls on it,
the two tension points
with release
and a hook will be set,
and I'll be able
to reel the fish in.
*
Okay, it's down there,
it's floating.
The line's set.
And now we're gonna
set our trigger.
I just want it
resting there to...
*
*
So the trigger system is set
for fishing.
The sapling's bent over,
the two pegs are connected
just at a fine point,
with the thought that when
the fish actually
bites onto the hook,
that will get pulled out and
it'll set the hook in the fish.
So we'll see what happens.
*
And I'm gonna make
several of these.
I can just go and check them
in the nasty weather
that's upcoming.
*
*
*
- I'm already on day eight.
And it's still raining.
*
[sighs]
What a dreadful day.
*
Oh, I've--I've tested myself,
I'm testing myself.
Yeah, you know,
I thought coming to this thing,
I don't know,
I thought I'd be stronger.
Just based on doing
long-term survival
and living off the land.
But, jeez, this is way, way,
way harder than I thought.
*
But I can't get down.
Minute you start
getting depressed
and feeling sorry for yourself
'cause you can't do something,
That's when you start to break.
*
So I just got to
keep trying new things.
Start some work
on my fire reflector.
So these are just gonna be my--
my base posts.
*
Gonna do one here, one here,
and then another one over here.
And then once I get
more bamboo,
I just slide 'em in along that
and stack, stack, stack.
And then I'm gonna tie off
at the base up here
so then it'll be a wall of
bamboo all the way up,
and then hopefully it'll block
some of the wind, push smoke in,
and it'll reflect heat back
in towards my shelter.
*
Now I got to go get baoo.
Now is the hard part.
Which means I got to walk
up into that [bleep].
Again.
*
That's what I'm going through.
*
Forest is hard to walk in,
regardless, here.
*
But now everything's soaked,
so everything's gonna be
ten times as slippery.
Whoa.
Man.
Not a good day to be out here,
I'll tell you that much.
*
This is the hardest terrain...
I have ever, ever worked in.
I wish I had a machete.
*
Why am I doing this is the rain?
I'm just trying to plan a route
as to how I can get in here.
*
I'm freaking scraped up,
beat up.
I'll tell ya that much.
*
Should be getting
at that bamboo.
*
[bleep].
[grunts]
[bleep] cut myself.
*
- [grunts]
[bleep].
*
*
[bleep].
Cut myself.
*
Oh, my God,
I tripped over a log.
My ax doesn't have
its face on it.
*
[bleep], [bleep], [bleep].
*
I don't want to go home.
*
I don't want to go home.
*
Starting to lose function
in my hand.
*
If it doesn't stop bleeding,
I might be [bleep].
[bleep] you, ax.
*
I rolled into
the bottom of the ax.
I think that's when I cut it.
*
Stupid, stupid,
stupid, stupid, stupid.
*
Oh, my God!
*
Hi, I cut my arm.
It just won't stop bleeding.
- All right.
Bye.
*
[sighs]
*
*
[bleep].
[bleep], man.
*
*
- Stitches?
- Stitches.
- I can't take off
your tape there,
'cause I'm gonna start
the bleeding again.
It looks as though it's got
some debris in there, as well.
- Okay.
- I can't do that out here.
- [bleep].
Okay.
*
I wanted to do
so much more here.
*
I felt my entire life
had led me to this point.
*
One split second
takes everything away.
*
But, um, it's life.
*
It's just hard to accept.
*
It's all over now.
*
*
[metallic scraping]
*
- Loving this shovel.
Nothing like having a shovel
with a sharp edge.
Man, this is the tool to have.
*
Having a shovel
that can do multiple jobs
is super efficient.
I can dig a hole,
use it for bushwhacking.
Use it for hide scraping,
were I able to get a deer.
Can use it like
a throwing knife,
just throwing at, uh,
a duck or a bird
or something, you know?
Maybe not--throwing it
out there and losing it
wouldn't be
very smart, but, uh,
when you only got
ten of something--
your ten survival items,
you know,
that's not a lot.
So they all
got a dual purpose.
So I'm pretty happy
so far with my shovel.
[laughs]
Oh, love that shovel.
*
- I got to get on trying to get
one of these pigs somehow.
*
I'm gonna set my snare today.
Try to figure out how to do it.
I'm gonna go to one tree,
I'm gonna go to another tree
on the other side of the trail.
Like that, and then that
will go to that tree.
Take some fish guts,
hang it from a line,
and when they go for that,
they might get snared.
*
It's gonna be fantastic
if this works, you know?
Like, can you imagine
getting 150 pounds of meat
instead of just a one-pound fish
every second day?
*
Well...
I'm hiking and hiking
through the bush here.
It's thick as hell.
*
I've never seen
thick bush like this.
You can't even crawl through it.
It's just terrible stuff.
*
I mean, look.
*
Oh, boy.
*
I got off the trail.
I've got to find
my way out of here.
*
Should've been a 15 minute hike,
now who knows where I am.
*
And now I'm lost.
*
[animal grunting]
- Hey!
There's definitely
something outside.
- * Gonna have
fish dinner tonight *
- If I continue
catching fish like this,
and I can't eat 'em all,
I got to figure out a way
to preserve them.
- [bleep]!
- My shelter roof collapsed.
- Lack of calories
are rocking me.
There's something on this line.
I'm just gonna go in for it.
Let's do this.
*
*
- What did I just do?
- Holy cow.
All alone.
- Check it out!
I'm just so looking forward
to the future here.
[squeals]
- It is really rugged over here.
My site is almost
completely uphill
It's impossible
to walk through.
- I keep thinking about my wife
and three kids
that we're adopting.
The thoughts are overwhelming.
I am tapping out.
Being alone's just not
something that
I guess I was ready for.
- Look at that.
A complete skeleton.
Maybe I'm sitting in
a damn puma kill zone.
*
- This is the hardest terrain.
- Patagonia is a different
environment entirely.
- Everything out here
is so hard.
- Patagonia's no joke.
- Are you willing to
give up who you are
for what you will become?
- It's Patagonia
for God's sake.
- Patagonia!
- It's tougher than
I ever imagined.
- Just missing home right now.
- You get a feeling of
helplessness,
like, "why am I doing this?"
- Oh, my God!
- The last person left
wins $500,000
and is a badass.
- Bam!
- Ugh.
[animal growling]
- What is that?
- It's just,
how far you can push yourself
and what you're able to do.
- Yeah!
- You don't have anyone
to lean on.
- Oh, my God, I got a fish.
- Go to bed hungry,
wake up hungry.
- Can't believe I did that.
- End of the day, it's gonna
come down to mental endurance
of food deprivation.
- [cries]
- Person'll be dead
in a week at this rate.
[animal growling]
*
- Whoa, that's a big cat.
*
- [sighs]
*
[groans]
*
[groans]
*
[laughs]
Whoo!
*
Whoo!
Woke up this morning and, uh,
I had a little bit of a chill.
Not a lot of energy.
Second I got out of
this water--
[laughs]
Both those were cured.
Uh, every Saturday.
Every Saturday.
Let's do it one last time.
[yells]
*
[laughs]
*
Kind of enjoying it out here.
I'm really enjoying it.
Place is feeling more
and more like home.
- Come on, Dave!
Let's see those
climbing moves, man.
- That insatiable desire
for being outdoors
and living with the land,
it's very,
very strong in my life.
- [laughs]
What?
- Yeah, you know,
survival experiences,
I've done many,
many walkabouts.
I've been tested
quite a few times
in different environments
and different atmospheres
with different amounts of gear.
44 days is the longest that
I've gone outdoors
in the wintertime.
I'm prepared to do this,
because I've been practicing
for this for almost 20 years.
I teach survival
and bush craft skills,
so this has sort of given me
a little bit of an edge.
*
I'm doing this
for many reasons.
One of which is gonna be build
a connection to the earth.
To live, as well.
I mean,
I believe in living well
and experiencing life.
Another reason
that I do this is
to push my skills set
a little bit.
Put all those together,
you got Patagonia in the mix,
and look out.
See ya all.
- All righty.
- I love you all.
- Bye, Dave.
Now kids, oral hygiene
is very important.
Charcoal.
See?
Much better now.
[laughs]
*
I have never been to this part
of the world in my life.
I've never been
south of the equator.
Uh, wilds in Patagonia,
Argentina,
are familiar, yet very,
very different from home.
And this,
I want to be my home
for the next year.
*
Going after food
is my biggest challenge.
I'm ready to go fishing.
[chuckles]
*
I made myself a bone lure
with a couple holes in it
from some old bones.
*
I have a feeling,
if I want to stay a long time,
then I'm gonna need to
figure out
how to be sustainable out here,
how to catch fish
on a regular basis,
what do I need to do?
*
Got one!
I'm excited to
figure out this land.
Lot to learn from.
This is another country,
this is another continent.
*
[laughs]
Oh, hell yeah!
Oh.
Look at that.
Oh.
[laughs]
*
Oh, it's just falling off.
*
Oh.
[chuckles]
I have a feeling
you guys are gonna see
a lot of ecstasy from me.
Oh, my--oh, my!
It's freaking good.
[chuckles]
It's good.
Mmm.
*
*
[birds cawing]
- Holy--be quiet.
Came out here to
get away from alarm clocks,
you birds!
[birds continue cawing]
Birds!
They're doing it unison,
or what the hell?
Oh, my God.
[birds continue cawing]
This is ridiculous.
[birds continue cawing]
*
All right, day five,
let's do it.
*
Still can't believe
I'm doing this, to be honest.
Still doesn't feel real.
And I know I'm doing it, but...
*
I get to camp out here
in this wild, wild place.
I mean, it's crazy.
It's really crazy.
Now, if it could just
work with me.
Not a lot, a little bit.
*
In order to be successful
out here...
You got to have sustenance,
you got to--you got to be
putting calories into your body.
[sighs]
I got to get some fish.
*
My game plan right now,
I'm gonna try
and make a fish trap.
And the way I'm gonna do it
is I'm gonna make an M.
And in the middle of the M, I'm
gonna leave it partially open
so the fish can swim in.
*
The reason I'm here
is for life lessons.
I'm here to grow as a person.
Just try to figure out
what I'm capable of.
But, at the end of the day,
this is a competition.
I know I got a huge
competitive streak in me.
I'd feel accomplished if I beat
either 56 or 66 days.
Above and beyond,
the first and second season,
but I want to
be here the longest.
I want to win this.
The fish will swim in from here,
and hopefully get confused
and stay in here
and I'm gonna
put some brush over top
so it's nice and shaded.
*
I think it looks good.
*
Only time will tell.
*
[sighs]
You ever have those thoughts
where it's like,
"How did I get here?"
From back country, Canada,
to the jungles
of South America.
*
So are you gonna miss me?
- Yes.
- My girlfriend, Kristin's,
gonna be the hardest thing
that I'm leaving behind.
Whatever I want to do in life,
she's pushing me,
she's driving me
to accomplish my goals.
She's always there for me,
like the rest of my family.
- You know, you've got a huge
opportunity in front of you here
to make your mark.
And you're gonna do
really well.
- The interaction with
the whole family,
that's what I'm gonna
miss the most,
and just the love
that they give.
I'm gonna be knowing that
everything's still rolling
back home and here I am
in the middle of the bush.
*
This is literally gonna be
the hardest thing I think
I've ever done in my life.
You got this game plan,
but now all of a sudden,
you're in this location
that you've never seen before
and that game plan
might go out the window.
You got to be able to adapt
and you got to be able to
overcome these kind of
situations.
This is the challenge
of a lifetime,
this is the one thing
that I know
I have been training for
and I've been trying to do,
and now it's here.
It's about me
doing what I love
and I want to see
how far I can go.
*
I'm gonna go for a walk.
Just forage around, see if
I can find some wild edibles
till I get me some fish.
*
Nature's one of those
things that...
doesn't give a [bleep]
if you're here.
*
Just keeps on going.
*
*
[bleep]
*
Think I found some puma scat.
*
Nothing in these woods
is gonna have bone
in their scat as well as hair.
This is 100% puma.
*
Those things hunt
from above, too.
*
And that is...
maybe a five minute walk
from my camp.
Plus two--two, three minutes.
*
I got to keep my eyes open now.
*
[leaves rustling]
*
[wood snapping]
*
[wood snapping]
*
*
*
Another day.
Feeling motivated.
Ambitious.
Stinky.
*
It's time to get to work.
I have a pool of water
on the top of my tarp here.
*
So I'm thinking that
I actually might
steeple my roof
right in the middle.
And raise up that middle
of my roof to a peak
and have all the water run off.
I don't want any water
sitting up there.
Eventually,
it'll start seeping.
Or if it's snowing,
it'll just sit up there
and freeze and crush my roof.
There's my beam.
Put some pincushion moss
on the top of it to soften it,
'cause I don't want to put
this sharp wood up into
the top of my ceiling
and maybe pierce it.
*
Might be a little tall,
but we'll see.
*
There we go.
[sighs]
Yeah, that got it all down.
*
- Ugh.
*
[groans]
*
Okay, I--
[laughs].
I was just walking along
the shoreline
and I am stuck...
in the freaking quicksand mud
that's back here.
Like, above my boots,
it's like--
Oh, my gosh,
my boot is stuck in the mud.
[chuckles]
Oh, my.
I can't even get out.
[laughs]
Just walking along,
and I'm stuck.
Oh, my God,
it's like quicksand.
[grunts]
Ugh.
[grunts]
Oh, jeez.
Show you what
my boots look like.
My family's probably
sun tanning right now,
and I'm freezing my ass off.
*
I'm a biologist and forester.
I definitely am
pretty independent and driven.
My family consists
of my husband, Tyson,
and our two children,
Kaya and Angus.
- I'm already here.
- Family means everything to me
and it was my decision
to leave them.
There's gonna be
a bit of guilt behind that.
I'll miss you guys.
- I'm gonna miss you, too.
- I've worked
in forestry for 20 years.
We work in areas where you're
climbing up hills
in the rain and the snow
and you run into bears.
People say to us,
like, "Why would you want
a job like that?"
But I just love
challenging myself.
- [indistinct yelling]
[children giggling]
- My main goals
are to have the opportunity
to self-reflect
and to put my skills to use.
My strategy overall
is just to keep busy.
Hug.
- Where are you going?
- I just have to
go away for a little bit.
- I love you.
- Mm, I love you.
Oh, gosh.
Bye.
I think I can
focus on the task at hand,
but, um, I know
it's gonna be difficult.
[crying]
Being a forester and biologist,
I have a really extensive
plant base knowledge.
It's an advantage to me
in terms of getting protein,
getting minerals,
getting vitamins.
So this is, uh,
gaultheria plant.
So I'm gonna get
as many of these as I can
while I see them,
because they're probably
gonna drop in the next week.
I need to get prepared
for the upcoming winter.
I can draw these out
and I can also make syrups
and some jam out of these.
I really need to stockpile
and prepare for those times
when there are absolutely
no calories available.
You have to be like a bird
and a squirrel
and store your food away.
I just had a flash that my
daughter wants to paint her room
kind of this color, so...
um, I'll be
thinking of you, Kaya,
when I'm eating these berries.
*
*
- That shouldn't take too long
and I'll have some warm water.
*
Got my homemade comb.
Try to get the knots out.
*
Hard to keep your hair clean
when, uh, you got no shampoo.
*
Got to look good for the camera.
[laughs]
Good luck on that one.
Doesn't really matter what
I look like out here, I guess.
I'm not going to the mall.
One thing that's starting
to irritate me
is these nose hairs, though.
You just get a little flame,
and then you just kind of
sniff it in.
There.
That's all it should take.
That's how you shave
in the bush.
*
Being from a small town
in the Rockies,
everybody fishes
and hunts and camps.
Everybody does things that are
bush-oriented.
*
That's about my distance
right there.
I'm a drywaller.
Been a drywaller for 37 years.
*
I go camping in 30 below
all the time just for fun.
I spent months
in the bush by myself.
Experience goes a long way.
Most of the people
that I'm up against
are half my age.
Seems like almost everyone
has husbands and wives
and I've been a loner
for the last 20 years.
The only
close family member I have
is my daughter, Jeanette.
*
Jeanette keeps me motivated.
She keeps me on my toes.
*
She said, "Dad, if you're not
the last guy out,
don't even come and see me."
So that was her way
of motivating me.
*
There's three reasons,
basically, I'm doing this.
It would be nice to be able
to make my daughter proud.
The money could mean not having
to hang drywall again.
And just for the whole
adventure.
Now, you know I'm gonna do good.
- Good luck.
- So, if I'm not back in a year,
come looking.
[both laugh]
There it is.
[laughs]
Fish for breakfast!
*
My goal is to live off the land
for a year if I have to.
Fingers through the gills,
break the back of its neck.
Now it can't get away.
*
So far, my opinion is that I've
been doing everything right.
My shelter's in a good spot,
close to my food,
close to my firewood,
close to my water for drinking.
Take all my moss now.
Dry enough.
*
Now I'm making
a comfortable bed.
*
It's gonna be
like a "pasta-predrict,"
or whatever they're called.
The more comfortable
you make it...
This'll be good.
It can actually be enjoyable,
living off the land.
[water babbling]
[animal bellowing]
*
[whispers]
Something over there.
*
[animal bellows]
*
*
*
[animal bellows]
- What the heck is making
that noise?
[animal bellows]
*
I definitely heard
a squealing.
*
I hear them,
but I haven't seen any yet.
You can't shoot at something
if you can't see it.
So I don't know how feasible
it would be
to get one with a bow.
Hah!
That's just like Robin Hood,
there.
*
It's time to find my paracord.
I'll go set a snare.
*
*
Just looking in the water.
See if I see anything.
All right, so I'm just
gonna go check my trap now.
*
Oh, man.
It's big zip.
*
Lack of fish
has definitely humbled me.
*
Nothing I can do at this point.
*
Time to get
back to work and, uh,
get some stuff done.
*
I have a shelter in mind
that I want to build.
It allows me to have dry
firewood inside.
Gonna go cut some bamboo.
The only problem is,
there's none really
in the close proximity
of my area.
Which means
I'll have to hoof it.
*
This is a nice sprout
of bamboo,
it's probably got
30 shoots in it.
*
Oh.
Oh, my God.
Jeez.
*
Jeez.
*
[grunts]
*
Ow.
It is hard to live here.
*
It's hard to walk here.
*
One bundle done.
All right.
Now for the rest.
*
Oh, man, what a day.
*
Being tired and lack of
sustenance, lack of calories,
and just no--no food
puts myself in danger.
I need to be able
to think smart out here.
*
Oh, my God.
[exhales sharply]
[bleep].
*
All right.
*
Unless you know
how to work with it,
everything here,
it's--it's gonna hurt you,
it's gonna take you out.
*
What are these [bleep] roots?
All these things do
is trip me.
Look at these things.
Trip wire, trip wire,
trip wire, trip wire.
All this just to keep
my [bleep] firewood dry, too.
*
[bleep] roots!
[bleep] my balls, roots.
*
I see how people tap out
on days like today.
*
Today's the day
I [bleep] lose it.
*
Right now, it feels
like the land's rejecting me.
It's really not a good feeling.
*
I got road rash
on my neck and face
from carrying that
[bleep] bamboo.
*
Ugh.
[bleep].
*
Anyways...
smiles all around.
* *
- So I was gonna show you guys
what I'm having
for dinner tonight.
It's not fish.
[laughs]
I'm having orange peel lichen
and chaura berries
in a watery soup mixture.
I'm still getting my
vitamins and minerals,
but I definitely need protein.
I do have a trigger deadfall
trap in mind for fish.
So I'm gonna try that one out.
*
Never made one of these before,
so it's a bit of a
work in progress.
*
And what I'm gonna do
is cut it off
at the top of the branch,
and then make triggers,
two triggers per set.
This will be going into
the ground once I sharpen it.
I'll modify this point
and then I'll have another one
like this attached
to my fishing line.
So once the fish pulls on it,
the two tension points
with release
and a hook will be set,
and I'll be able
to reel the fish in.
*
Okay, it's down there,
it's floating.
The line's set.
And now we're gonna
set our trigger.
I just want it
resting there to...
*
*
So the trigger system is set
for fishing.
The sapling's bent over,
the two pegs are connected
just at a fine point,
with the thought that when
the fish actually
bites onto the hook,
that will get pulled out and
it'll set the hook in the fish.
So we'll see what happens.
*
And I'm gonna make
several of these.
I can just go and check them
in the nasty weather
that's upcoming.
*
*
*
- I'm already on day eight.
And it's still raining.
*
[sighs]
What a dreadful day.
*
Oh, I've--I've tested myself,
I'm testing myself.
Yeah, you know,
I thought coming to this thing,
I don't know,
I thought I'd be stronger.
Just based on doing
long-term survival
and living off the land.
But, jeez, this is way, way,
way harder than I thought.
*
But I can't get down.
Minute you start
getting depressed
and feeling sorry for yourself
'cause you can't do something,
That's when you start to break.
*
So I just got to
keep trying new things.
Start some work
on my fire reflector.
So these are just gonna be my--
my base posts.
*
Gonna do one here, one here,
and then another one over here.
And then once I get
more bamboo,
I just slide 'em in along that
and stack, stack, stack.
And then I'm gonna tie off
at the base up here
so then it'll be a wall of
bamboo all the way up,
and then hopefully it'll block
some of the wind, push smoke in,
and it'll reflect heat back
in towards my shelter.
*
Now I got to go get baoo.
Now is the hard part.
Which means I got to walk
up into that [bleep].
Again.
*
That's what I'm going through.
*
Forest is hard to walk in,
regardless, here.
*
But now everything's soaked,
so everything's gonna be
ten times as slippery.
Whoa.
Man.
Not a good day to be out here,
I'll tell you that much.
*
This is the hardest terrain...
I have ever, ever worked in.
I wish I had a machete.
*
Why am I doing this is the rain?
I'm just trying to plan a route
as to how I can get in here.
*
I'm freaking scraped up,
beat up.
I'll tell ya that much.
*
Should be getting
at that bamboo.
*
[bleep].
[grunts]
[bleep] cut myself.
*
- [grunts]
[bleep].
*
*
[bleep].
Cut myself.
*
Oh, my God,
I tripped over a log.
My ax doesn't have
its face on it.
*
[bleep], [bleep], [bleep].
*
I don't want to go home.
*
I don't want to go home.
*
Starting to lose function
in my hand.
*
If it doesn't stop bleeding,
I might be [bleep].
[bleep] you, ax.
*
I rolled into
the bottom of the ax.
I think that's when I cut it.
*
Stupid, stupid,
stupid, stupid, stupid.
*
Oh, my God!
*
Hi, I cut my arm.
It just won't stop bleeding.
- All right.
Bye.
*
[sighs]
*
*
[bleep].
[bleep], man.
*
*
- Stitches?
- Stitches.
- I can't take off
your tape there,
'cause I'm gonna start
the bleeding again.
It looks as though it's got
some debris in there, as well.
- Okay.
- I can't do that out here.
- [bleep].
Okay.
*
I wanted to do
so much more here.
*
I felt my entire life
had led me to this point.
*
One split second
takes everything away.
*
But, um, it's life.
*
It's just hard to accept.
*
It's all over now.
*
*
[metallic scraping]
*
- Loving this shovel.
Nothing like having a shovel
with a sharp edge.
Man, this is the tool to have.
*
Having a shovel
that can do multiple jobs
is super efficient.
I can dig a hole,
use it for bushwhacking.
Use it for hide scraping,
were I able to get a deer.
Can use it like
a throwing knife,
just throwing at, uh,
a duck or a bird
or something, you know?
Maybe not--throwing it
out there and losing it
wouldn't be
very smart, but, uh,
when you only got
ten of something--
your ten survival items,
you know,
that's not a lot.
So they all
got a dual purpose.
So I'm pretty happy
so far with my shovel.
[laughs]
Oh, love that shovel.
*
- I got to get on trying to get
one of these pigs somehow.
*
I'm gonna set my snare today.
Try to figure out how to do it.
I'm gonna go to one tree,
I'm gonna go to another tree
on the other side of the trail.
Like that, and then that
will go to that tree.
Take some fish guts,
hang it from a line,
and when they go for that,
they might get snared.
*
It's gonna be fantastic
if this works, you know?
Like, can you imagine
getting 150 pounds of meat
instead of just a one-pound fish
every second day?
*
Well...
I'm hiking and hiking
through the bush here.
It's thick as hell.
*
I've never seen
thick bush like this.
You can't even crawl through it.
It's just terrible stuff.
*
I mean, look.
*
Oh, boy.
*
I got off the trail.
I've got to find
my way out of here.
*
Should've been a 15 minute hike,
now who knows where I am.
*
And now I'm lost.
*
[animal grunting]
- Hey!
There's definitely
something outside.
- * Gonna have
fish dinner tonight *
- If I continue
catching fish like this,
and I can't eat 'em all,
I got to figure out a way
to preserve them.
- [bleep]!
- My shelter roof collapsed.
- Lack of calories
are rocking me.
There's something on this line.
I'm just gonna go in for it.
Let's do this.
*