Bear Grylls: Survival School (2016–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode #1.1 - full transcript
The kids are taught to survive in the wild by the wilderness adventurer. The 10 young explorers are challenged to make their own shelter.
I'm Bear Grylls.
When I was growing up,
allof this was my playground.
I want to find out if kidstoday
have got what it takes
to abandon their mobilephones
and survive for two
weeks out here in the wild.
Woo!
Watch out!
You made it.
You made it.
I really don't want to do this.
Dig deep, finish strong.
Oh!
Welcome to "Bear
Grylls Survival School."
I'm heading into the
heart of North Wales
to meet 10 young people who
areabout to embark on the journey
of their lifetime.
And for the next two weeks,
for them, there's going
to be danger at every turn.
Five boys and five girls
aged 12 to 15 have won,
throughauditions all over the UK,
to take on the wild.
If you put me out in themiddle
of the woods, I just--
I wouldn't know
what the hell to do.
The thought of drinkingmy
own wee and eating worms
makes me feel a bit sick.
But I think I'd do it anyway.
BEAR GRYLLS They'll be
right back to basics,
stripped of home
comforts and all technology.
Two weeks without myphone,
it'll be horrible.
I sit inside a lot.
I edit videos.
I film.
And I wanted to get
outsideand challenge myself.
#yolo.
I do want it to be
hard, but I might regret
that in a few weeks, ha, ha.
If they're not
nervous, they should be.
I don't think I'mgonna last, but I'll try.
I have a feeling he's gonnacome
in a helicopter, yeah.
Look.
See, look, flare.
That's Bear Grylls, isn't it?
Oh, it's not very wide.
It said he'd come
on a parachute, yeah.
Yeah.
Cool.
That's awesome.
- Morning, champs.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- How are you doing?
- Great.
- Hi.
Hi.
So you've done the difficultbit,
which is the first step.
Any great journey,
the hardestbit is often that first step.
And you've done, you're
here, so well done.
But this journey
is gonna be tough.
If you want it easy, the
time to go home is now.
- All want to be here?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
OK, good.
I want to introduce you
tothree members of my team
that have been with me
throughhell and back many times.
Scott, Tim, and Sarah,
these guys are the best.
Scott is an ex Royal
Marines commando,
and he's as hard as nails.
Tim is a mountain and
expedition specialist.
And Sarah is our fearlessexpert
in water activities.
You're in incredible hands.
You've gotta learn from them,
you've gotta listen to them,
and you've gotta trust them.
Be prepared for a
little bit of hardship,
because there will be
timesover the next few weeks
you feel a bit beaten up.
You'll feel exhausted.
You're gonna feel wet,
becauseit ain't always sunny in Wales.
And you've also
got to endure two
weeks without your smartphones.
Guys, let's gather those up.
Gadgets will be no use
where these guys are headed.
Over the next 12 days,
they'llbe learning how to survive
in hostile environments.
They'll be plunging
into freezing water--
Justremember this, keep going.
Keep going.
BEAR GRYLLS
--climbing
dangerous mountains--
We can do this.
It's cold, and
we're all wet and damp.
It was worth going
through the pain.
We can't stay out here tonight.
--confronting
the highest cliffs--
They're going to bescared
looking down this.
This is high.
This is dangerous.
Oof.
I just jumped off a cliff.
Last push.
You can do this.
--and deep mines.
I'm really claustrophobic.
I don't want to do it at all.
We're nearly out.
Just a walk and
we'll get out of here.
- You can do it,
Savannah.- We can do this, OK?
It's fine.
It is a sheer drop down
there, into the abyss.
They'll be living off the land--
There's three dead
squirrels in a bag.
That's disgusting.
Three squirrels.
--spending the night wherever
they can make or find shelter--
--all building up to
achallenging final survival
exercise.
Alana, we don't
have time, come on!
BEAR GRYLLS
--abandoned
on a bare mountainside.
We can't wait any longer!
So I have an extreme test
to find out urgently just
whatthe team know about survival.
The first thing you're gonna do
is spend the whole night outin the
forest, on your own.
You're gonna have to
make your own camp.
You're gonna have to
look after each other.
You're gonna have to
look after yourselves.
You've got to do it
all for yourselves.
The only thing I'm
going to give you
is just a little
bit of food, but it
isn't gonna be nice food.
It's something that
Antarcticand Arctic explorers
for generations have
used to stay alive,
and it's called pemmican.
It gets its energy from
threesources, fat, meat, fruit.
Oh, no way.
Just eat it like that.
Wow.
Yeah, and I've eaten a
lot of bad survival food
over the times, but, mm--
Oh, god.
--that's a new taste.
OK, who wants just totry
a little bit of this?
No.
No.
We'll give you a little bit.
There you go.
Just remember, the
Antarctic explorers
would live off this
stufffor months and months.
Well done.
Disgusting.
It's like a mix of
cardboard and dog food.
I've a bad stomach.
Nasty.
That's disgusting.
When you hangwith
me for a couple of weeks,
you're going to eat this sortof
thing, and a lot worse.
Let's go.
It'sgoing
to be a very tough night.
With no experience
in the wild, they've
got to build a shelter
completely on their own,
using only what they
can find in the forest.
I never thought that we'd have
to spend, like,
the firstnight with no one to help us.
And we're all, like, gobsmacked.
We've no idea what
we're gonna do.
Tonight's gonna
be hard, very hard.
First night, and not
really learn anything.
Straight up here, come on.
There you go, Kieron, let's go.
I thought it was just gonnabe
nice, and like, yeah,
this is what we're
gonna be doing.
To help my leaders judge
the young survivors,
I've split them into two
teams, girls versus boys.
You need a structure
tonight, that's
gonna last four or five
hours, get some sleep,
batteries recharged,
you'reready start tomorrow.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Go.
No, go something high.
Go somewhere high.
Go up high.
They've got just two hours
until nightfall,
and the expedition
leaders will be watching,
andjudging, their every move.
Well, we kind of need,
like, a plan, of what to do.
We're near the
water, right there.
The water's right through there.
I was thinking if weget,
like, a giant branch,
and we just put it against
here, and we get a few,
and then that's
kind of a shelter,
and we'll have to sleep
under there somehow.
Oh look, down there, downthere,
down there, down there.
Oh, this is
actually a good place.
- Yeah, that's perfect.
- I think that's fine.
It's fine.
While the girls work together
on their plan, the boys
haven't even agreed
on a site for their shelter.
We need to listen to
everyone's opinion--
No we, don't.
By the time we've done
thatwe'll have about 15 minutes.
Yeah, that's true, butlike,
if we work quickly--
Yeah, just get
this one over here
Hey, would you
mind putting this?
Oh, yeah.
The girls are building fast,
and led by Tara, their shelter
is taking shape nicely.
Our plan is to stack oldtwigs kind of
up, like that,
and then get some
leaves, and try
and work off this
structure, and trying
just to get some shelter.
14-year-old Tara
comes from Glasgow,
but soundsmore Australian than Scottish,
having lived down under
for the last 10 years.
Back in Australia, I
didsailing, I did scouting,
I did netball.
But because we've
just moved here,
we're basically just
unpacking our stuff.
The rain, it's a bit
annoying sometimes.
But when the sun comes
out, you appreciate it
more than you did in Australia.
Shefeels her outdoor life in Oz
will help her stay the course.
The traits that I thinkl
have that will become useful
on the show would probably be
myenthusiasm, and my positivity,
and probably my
leadership skills.
I've had some
experience with that.
Here, do you want this one?
You go.
BEAR GRYLLS But it will
take all of Tara's
sunny personality
to cope with the
infamous Welsh weather.
It's going to be
a few rough nights.
Ah, I'll live, it will be fine.
Can I just say,
these twoare resting on each other,
so try not to move these two.
OK.
The girls are doing pretty well.
It's all about the planning.
I didn't know, really,
what they were gonna build,
because they've
got no real skills.
There's a few things
they've got wrong.
But there's actually a fewthings
they've got very right.
In contrast, the boys
are struggling to work together,
and are getting nowhere, fast.
--running low on time.
- What are we doing?
We need to decide now.
Like, right now.
- I say we stay here,
but----we go across the river?
No.
BEAR GRYLLS The oldest
in the group,
15-year-old Kieron,
admits he's not a team player.
When people try and tellme
what to do, I don't like it.
Like, it just frustrates me,
and I just won't listen to them.
It's the way I am.
Kieronis
no stranger to the outdoors,
living on a farm in
Lancashirewith his foster parents.
I've been in
fostercare for about 13 years.
Moving to different
placesand different schools,
it has an effect on
you, and you don't
feel like you can bond withpeople
100%, and trust people.
It's something
we're gonna try and helpchange
during survival school.
But for now,
withnightfall fast approaching,
the boys are still arguing.
Guys, that's not gonna
benothing, I'm telling you.
Yes, it is, so stop moaning.
It's not going too well, at all.
And the light's leaving us.
So far it's been tough.
I hope it just
doesn't get harder,
because I'll just lose it.
Onething this exercise highlights
is how humans have
gradually lost
touch with the natural world.
As we've advanced,
life has become easier.
You know, we take
things for granted.
The tap, we turn
it, water comes out.
We close the front door,
we're protected from the rain.
And actually, humanity's, in many ways,
lost a lot of the
survival skills
that our ancestors
just took for granted.
They could make
fire, just like that.
They could put up
shelter easily.
Keep it like that,
thenwe can turn it upside down
and build things up from there.
We can fit this
in there, come on.
No, no, keep that one.
Keep that one.
No, but to the feel,
that isquite good, because then we--
I mean, that can
fit five people in.
It's not gonna be the
bestsleep of our lives, is it?
No, is it?
You all just go and get
twigs, and me an Charlie
will build it.
Yeah.
They're just having
a bit of a spat.
Bailey's sat on the
side in a grump.
Kieron's going, stop moaning.
They're not-- yeah,
they'renot working well together.
We've definitely got
to think about this,
because this isn't-- this
justdoesn't seem like it's working.
I don't know.
While the boys have still
hardly begun,
the girlsare putting the finishing
touches to their shelter.
I've collected
loads of these leaves,
to obviously keep it waterproof.
Because if it starts
raining, it'll seep in.
So we need more and moreleaves
just to give it layers.
We need to hurry up.
The survivors are still
wet from their rivercrossing,
and hypothermia
will be a real danger ifleft
exposed to the elements.
Where are we actually
gonna lie down?
Like, in here, like this.
Because there's no way
we're gonna get two
people like that, and then--
You're not gonna
get five people in.
No, I think, we're max
getting two in there.
This is not comfy.
It's not gonna be comfy.
Are we cozy?
No, we're not finished yet.
We're not finished.
OK, guys, you've
got about 30 minutes
left of light, actually.
Right,
we thinkthat's gonna be all right.
As night closes in,
the boys rush to waterproofand
insulate their shelter.
Who was that?
Who was what?
My chair moved.
Kieron, watch it.
If they knock
it, that's game over.
BEAR GRYLLS But Azriel
hasn't quite got the idea
ofmaking the shelter watertight.
Yup, it's good.
That's good.
All right, Jesus,
two hours to build that.
I think Bear Grylls couldhave
built a house in two hours.
See, at least we
can, like, lie down--
Temperatures are dropping fast,
so the leaders are forced
to make a safety call.
OK, you guys,
Bear wantedyou to stay out there
completely using the wild.
We've come to the
decision that you should
have a couple of sleeping bags.
It's cold this evening,
notgonna be much cloud cover,
so it's gonna be
a chilly evening.
And we've got three
sleeping bags per group.
And one top tip,
don't eat anything,
apart from the pemmican.
What's poisonous andwhat's
not, you don't know.
You haven't got any
knowledge at the moment.
This is it, goodnight.
Good luck.
See you tomorrow, goodnight.
The team are on their own,
with a long night
ahead in the wild.
All right, so we just go to bed?
Yeah, pretty much.
OK, we need to eat
something, though.
OK.
With no way to light a fire,
there's just one thing onthe
menu, cold raw pemmican.
Pemmican is disgusting.
I can't taste anything.
It just tastes like
berries covered in muck.
Alana and Maria
are the only girls to try it.
And for the boys,
just Bailey and Adam
are prepared to give it a go.
Put that away, because
I'm not eating it.
I won't eat it.
It's like flat meat.
It's like a moldy flapjack.
I'm done eating it.
It's like a beet and
then vomit added in
and mashed together and fried.
- And then dog biscuits mashed in.
- A little bit of poo.
Uh.
I don't know why you were..
Refusing to be put off,
Adam is determined to
appreciateevery part of his survival
school experience.
The 15-year-old has worked hardto
get fit for the expedition.
From birth, he's had a
problem with his back.
I was born withsomething called scoliosis.
The curve of a spine.
My spine is kind of likea backwards
C, and it's--
basically, it kind
of goes like that.
So the last
operation I had, they
put a titanium rod in my back.
And they're hoping that
thatgradually straightens it.
Adam developed
a passion for computer gamesduring
long stays in hospital.
Though now recovered,
he'sstill hooked on his console.
How are you going to cope?
You don't even go to
yourGran's without your Xbox.
I went last time
without it, so--
- Yeah, for a day?
- Two days.
Over the summer I've
got more reliant on it,
and I wanted to
break that habit,
and get back out to going out.
BEAR GRYLLS Determined
to change his life around,
Adam is a man on a mission.
Because of
everythingl've been through,
and I've came out
the other side,
everybody thinks I'm fragile.
And I want to prove
toeverybody that I can do it.
This is so cramped.
--be in a tent.
Yeah, I'd rather be in a tent.
Wait, Bailey, what
are using as a pillow?
Us.
Yeah, you two.
No, I'm using--
The boys' shelter
is small and uncomfortable.
I'm surprised they haven'teven
made a bed out of leaves.
Oh, the door broke in.
The girls' one-sided design
is more successful.
Now they just need to shareout
the three sleeping bags.
You guys and these
guys are like this.
Right.
Yeah, come on.
12-year-old Savannah
feels she's getting a
raw deal on the covers.
I'm kind of having
to half-and-half here.
Yeah, I know.
And I've hardly
got any on me at all.
That's a survival situation.
Despite being the youngest
of the girls,
she'sdetermined to get her voice
heard at survival school.
Alana keeps pulling
that one off of me.
That's all I've got,
is the middle one.
I think I have got attitude.
Like, a lot of attitude.
I'm very loud, and out there.
I do have my opinion,
but Ijust say it, no matter what.
BEAR GRYLLS Savannah
comes from inner
city Birmingham,
and applied to
survival school to get
some excitement in her life.
My normal life isreally--
it's really boring.
Go to the park and walk thedog,
but that is literally it.
I'm on my phone 24/7.
When adults tell me
to get off your phone,
we didn't have that
back in the day,
I was like, it's not
my fault I was born
into a more evolved generation.
Can we take a selfie?
Let's take a selfie.
We don't have our phones.
Oh, darn.
As the five girls settle
under their three sleeping bags,
Scott notices something strange
about the boys' camp.
There's a lot of
sleeping bags in here.
Theboys have stolen an extra two
sleeping bags from
theleaders' emergency supply.
So I'll take two
to stay with me.
Oh, no!
You need to open up the bags.
Five of you get underneath,
shared body heat.
Get the bags open and
start working as a team,
otherwise someone's gonna
getseriously injured tonight.
OK, see you tomorrowmorning,
bright and early.
This is the worst thing ever.
It isn't working, is it?
Why did he have
to take mine away?
I can't--
Move over.
Ugh.
Ugh.
Wait, wait, Bailey,
no, because I'll
need to do this up.
The boys finally
settled down for the night.
But their shelter is
frankly of little use.
If it rains, or the wind getsup,
they'll be in deep trouble.
In the end, they're
extremely lucky.
The weather holds, and
all the young survivors
make it through the night.
But the girls are awake early,
and they've barely slept.
I didn't sleep very well.
She was too cold.
You stay warm in here, though.
Yeah, I know.
I don't want to get out.
Despite their lack
of shelter building skills,
the boys actually sleep longer.
So Scott gives them his
veryown survival wake up call.
OK, team, morning!
Here we go, guys, here we go!
Five minutes, up on
yourfeet, boots on, let's go!
My night was uncomfortable,
because I pulled sticks fromunder
me, and rocks, and--
just digging into my skin.
It was actually
quite cozy in the end.
The ground was keeping me cold,
and the-- the sleeping bag
was keeping warm, so
it was kind of just
a perfect that mix of both.
I had to share thesleeping bag with Kieron,
and he took off with
the sleeping bag,
so I'd hardly get anything.
It was really cold.
If the young survivors
are expecting time
to relax, they've
got another thing coming.
Every day at survival
schoolwill begin with a dose
of physical training.
--on the spot.
Sprints, go!
One, two, three.
Up, up, up, up, up!
Stop!
The military style session
aims to improve basic fitness.
And also, more
importantly, to develop
the mental toughness to
copewith the hardships ahead.
One more time!
Kit back on.
You don't need to
get all that lot on.
Just a couple of
layers, I think.
It's been a baptism of fire
for the young survivors.
And as expected, the
overnight exercise
has pointed out some
keystrengths and weaknesses.
Last night was your firstnight
out in the wild, OK,
and it was a tough one.
Girls selected
a nice shelter area.
Their shelter actually
was very effective.
It's called a lean-to.
It just gets you
out of the wind.
Probably not going to keep
youdry, but it's very effective.
And you guys found yourown
roles within the team.
And you kind of go on
with what you're doing,
but you still helped
each other out.
Boys aren't working very well.
And why do you think
that was, boys?
I think one person wanted todo
this, the other one wanted
to go over here.
And I think we didn't
listen to anything.
Correct.
You didn't decide,
becauseyou didn't have a chat.
There was no
conversation going on.
And you all went off in
different directions.
So there's something
to think about, maybe,
and learn from in
the coming weeks.
BEAR GRYLLS Each day,
the leaders will decidewhether
the boys or the girls
have done best, overall.
And today is pretty clear.
Sarah, for you, girls or boys?
I'm gonna go with the girls.
I can massively, massively
saythat it's got to be the girls.
Girls, you've got it.
One, nil.
One to the girls,
zero to the boys.
Now, when's the last
time you had any food?
Lunchtime, yesterday.
Last night.
Delicious pemmican
last night, yeah?
Oh no, I did not eat that.
No?
We picked out
some of the berries.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
How much pemmican you got left?
All of it.
Quite a bit.
How can-- hold on.
How can you have any food left?
You must be full.
No.
OK, it's a bit rancid.
OK, it's a bit stinking.
It's hundreds of calories.
You've got no energy levels.
You're gonna walk 100
meters, 200, 300 meters,
you're gonna collapse.
We give you food, you eat it.
You eat everything.
Today you're lucky.
We have prepared
breakfast for you.
Oh.
And I expect all of this to go.
What used to be
gruel, I suppose.
It's better than pemmican.
I wish I had a big
bacon sandwich that I
could just eat up right now.
I think everybody wouldrather
McDonald's than this.
I think what's dawning
on the young survivors
at this early stage is justthe
scale of the challenge.
My idea of what it wouldbe
like was completely wrong.
But I'm quite proud of
myselfthat we lasted the night
without, you know,
going aroundsaying we want to go home.
I'm glad I came, becauseit's,
like, once in a lifetime
opportunity, isn't it.
But it was really
difficult yesterday.
And they say it's gonna
getharder and harder each day.
I didn't expect it would
bethis hard on the first night.
But I'm happy that,
like, I've been there,
and, like, done it now,
and I got through it.
I've learned in my life
that the ultimate key
to survival, when you're
up against it, it's
not about physical strength.
It's actually all in here,
in the mind and in the heart.
And when the going gets
tough, as it invariably
will in this sort
of environment,
to be able to summon up
thatpositive mental attitude
will make all the differencefor
these young people.
Next time on "Bear
Grylls Survival School,"--
It starts off slippy.
Hands out then, guys.
--in at the deep end,
tackling treacherous terrain.
Cold?
Yeah!
Andtaking on a powerful waterfall.
I can't do it.
Savannah, you can do it.
I really can't.
When I was growing up,
allof this was my playground.
I want to find out if kidstoday
have got what it takes
to abandon their mobilephones
and survive for two
weeks out here in the wild.
Woo!
Watch out!
You made it.
You made it.
I really don't want to do this.
Dig deep, finish strong.
Oh!
Welcome to "Bear
Grylls Survival School."
I'm heading into the
heart of North Wales
to meet 10 young people who
areabout to embark on the journey
of their lifetime.
And for the next two weeks,
for them, there's going
to be danger at every turn.
Five boys and five girls
aged 12 to 15 have won,
throughauditions all over the UK,
to take on the wild.
If you put me out in themiddle
of the woods, I just--
I wouldn't know
what the hell to do.
The thought of drinkingmy
own wee and eating worms
makes me feel a bit sick.
But I think I'd do it anyway.
BEAR GRYLLS They'll be
right back to basics,
stripped of home
comforts and all technology.
Two weeks without myphone,
it'll be horrible.
I sit inside a lot.
I edit videos.
I film.
And I wanted to get
outsideand challenge myself.
#yolo.
I do want it to be
hard, but I might regret
that in a few weeks, ha, ha.
If they're not
nervous, they should be.
I don't think I'mgonna last, but I'll try.
I have a feeling he's gonnacome
in a helicopter, yeah.
Look.
See, look, flare.
That's Bear Grylls, isn't it?
Oh, it's not very wide.
It said he'd come
on a parachute, yeah.
Yeah.
Cool.
That's awesome.
- Morning, champs.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- How are you doing?
- Great.
- Hi.
Hi.
So you've done the difficultbit,
which is the first step.
Any great journey,
the hardestbit is often that first step.
And you've done, you're
here, so well done.
But this journey
is gonna be tough.
If you want it easy, the
time to go home is now.
- All want to be here?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
OK, good.
I want to introduce you
tothree members of my team
that have been with me
throughhell and back many times.
Scott, Tim, and Sarah,
these guys are the best.
Scott is an ex Royal
Marines commando,
and he's as hard as nails.
Tim is a mountain and
expedition specialist.
And Sarah is our fearlessexpert
in water activities.
You're in incredible hands.
You've gotta learn from them,
you've gotta listen to them,
and you've gotta trust them.
Be prepared for a
little bit of hardship,
because there will be
timesover the next few weeks
you feel a bit beaten up.
You'll feel exhausted.
You're gonna feel wet,
becauseit ain't always sunny in Wales.
And you've also
got to endure two
weeks without your smartphones.
Guys, let's gather those up.
Gadgets will be no use
where these guys are headed.
Over the next 12 days,
they'llbe learning how to survive
in hostile environments.
They'll be plunging
into freezing water--
Justremember this, keep going.
Keep going.
BEAR GRYLLS
--climbing
dangerous mountains--
We can do this.
It's cold, and
we're all wet and damp.
It was worth going
through the pain.
We can't stay out here tonight.
--confronting
the highest cliffs--
They're going to bescared
looking down this.
This is high.
This is dangerous.
Oof.
I just jumped off a cliff.
Last push.
You can do this.
--and deep mines.
I'm really claustrophobic.
I don't want to do it at all.
We're nearly out.
Just a walk and
we'll get out of here.
- You can do it,
Savannah.- We can do this, OK?
It's fine.
It is a sheer drop down
there, into the abyss.
They'll be living off the land--
There's three dead
squirrels in a bag.
That's disgusting.
Three squirrels.
--spending the night wherever
they can make or find shelter--
--all building up to
achallenging final survival
exercise.
Alana, we don't
have time, come on!
BEAR GRYLLS
--abandoned
on a bare mountainside.
We can't wait any longer!
So I have an extreme test
to find out urgently just
whatthe team know about survival.
The first thing you're gonna do
is spend the whole night outin the
forest, on your own.
You're gonna have to
make your own camp.
You're gonna have to
look after each other.
You're gonna have to
look after yourselves.
You've got to do it
all for yourselves.
The only thing I'm
going to give you
is just a little
bit of food, but it
isn't gonna be nice food.
It's something that
Antarcticand Arctic explorers
for generations have
used to stay alive,
and it's called pemmican.
It gets its energy from
threesources, fat, meat, fruit.
Oh, no way.
Just eat it like that.
Wow.
Yeah, and I've eaten a
lot of bad survival food
over the times, but, mm--
Oh, god.
--that's a new taste.
OK, who wants just totry
a little bit of this?
No.
No.
We'll give you a little bit.
There you go.
Just remember, the
Antarctic explorers
would live off this
stufffor months and months.
Well done.
Disgusting.
It's like a mix of
cardboard and dog food.
I've a bad stomach.
Nasty.
That's disgusting.
When you hangwith
me for a couple of weeks,
you're going to eat this sortof
thing, and a lot worse.
Let's go.
It'sgoing
to be a very tough night.
With no experience
in the wild, they've
got to build a shelter
completely on their own,
using only what they
can find in the forest.
I never thought that we'd have
to spend, like,
the firstnight with no one to help us.
And we're all, like, gobsmacked.
We've no idea what
we're gonna do.
Tonight's gonna
be hard, very hard.
First night, and not
really learn anything.
Straight up here, come on.
There you go, Kieron, let's go.
I thought it was just gonnabe
nice, and like, yeah,
this is what we're
gonna be doing.
To help my leaders judge
the young survivors,
I've split them into two
teams, girls versus boys.
You need a structure
tonight, that's
gonna last four or five
hours, get some sleep,
batteries recharged,
you'reready start tomorrow.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Go.
No, go something high.
Go somewhere high.
Go up high.
They've got just two hours
until nightfall,
and the expedition
leaders will be watching,
andjudging, their every move.
Well, we kind of need,
like, a plan, of what to do.
We're near the
water, right there.
The water's right through there.
I was thinking if weget,
like, a giant branch,
and we just put it against
here, and we get a few,
and then that's
kind of a shelter,
and we'll have to sleep
under there somehow.
Oh look, down there, downthere,
down there, down there.
Oh, this is
actually a good place.
- Yeah, that's perfect.
- I think that's fine.
It's fine.
While the girls work together
on their plan, the boys
haven't even agreed
on a site for their shelter.
We need to listen to
everyone's opinion--
No we, don't.
By the time we've done
thatwe'll have about 15 minutes.
Yeah, that's true, butlike,
if we work quickly--
Yeah, just get
this one over here
Hey, would you
mind putting this?
Oh, yeah.
The girls are building fast,
and led by Tara, their shelter
is taking shape nicely.
Our plan is to stack oldtwigs kind of
up, like that,
and then get some
leaves, and try
and work off this
structure, and trying
just to get some shelter.
14-year-old Tara
comes from Glasgow,
but soundsmore Australian than Scottish,
having lived down under
for the last 10 years.
Back in Australia, I
didsailing, I did scouting,
I did netball.
But because we've
just moved here,
we're basically just
unpacking our stuff.
The rain, it's a bit
annoying sometimes.
But when the sun comes
out, you appreciate it
more than you did in Australia.
Shefeels her outdoor life in Oz
will help her stay the course.
The traits that I thinkl
have that will become useful
on the show would probably be
myenthusiasm, and my positivity,
and probably my
leadership skills.
I've had some
experience with that.
Here, do you want this one?
You go.
BEAR GRYLLS But it will
take all of Tara's
sunny personality
to cope with the
infamous Welsh weather.
It's going to be
a few rough nights.
Ah, I'll live, it will be fine.
Can I just say,
these twoare resting on each other,
so try not to move these two.
OK.
The girls are doing pretty well.
It's all about the planning.
I didn't know, really,
what they were gonna build,
because they've
got no real skills.
There's a few things
they've got wrong.
But there's actually a fewthings
they've got very right.
In contrast, the boys
are struggling to work together,
and are getting nowhere, fast.
--running low on time.
- What are we doing?
We need to decide now.
Like, right now.
- I say we stay here,
but----we go across the river?
No.
BEAR GRYLLS The oldest
in the group,
15-year-old Kieron,
admits he's not a team player.
When people try and tellme
what to do, I don't like it.
Like, it just frustrates me,
and I just won't listen to them.
It's the way I am.
Kieronis
no stranger to the outdoors,
living on a farm in
Lancashirewith his foster parents.
I've been in
fostercare for about 13 years.
Moving to different
placesand different schools,
it has an effect on
you, and you don't
feel like you can bond withpeople
100%, and trust people.
It's something
we're gonna try and helpchange
during survival school.
But for now,
withnightfall fast approaching,
the boys are still arguing.
Guys, that's not gonna
benothing, I'm telling you.
Yes, it is, so stop moaning.
It's not going too well, at all.
And the light's leaving us.
So far it's been tough.
I hope it just
doesn't get harder,
because I'll just lose it.
Onething this exercise highlights
is how humans have
gradually lost
touch with the natural world.
As we've advanced,
life has become easier.
You know, we take
things for granted.
The tap, we turn
it, water comes out.
We close the front door,
we're protected from the rain.
And actually, humanity's, in many ways,
lost a lot of the
survival skills
that our ancestors
just took for granted.
They could make
fire, just like that.
They could put up
shelter easily.
Keep it like that,
thenwe can turn it upside down
and build things up from there.
We can fit this
in there, come on.
No, no, keep that one.
Keep that one.
No, but to the feel,
that isquite good, because then we--
I mean, that can
fit five people in.
It's not gonna be the
bestsleep of our lives, is it?
No, is it?
You all just go and get
twigs, and me an Charlie
will build it.
Yeah.
They're just having
a bit of a spat.
Bailey's sat on the
side in a grump.
Kieron's going, stop moaning.
They're not-- yeah,
they'renot working well together.
We've definitely got
to think about this,
because this isn't-- this
justdoesn't seem like it's working.
I don't know.
While the boys have still
hardly begun,
the girlsare putting the finishing
touches to their shelter.
I've collected
loads of these leaves,
to obviously keep it waterproof.
Because if it starts
raining, it'll seep in.
So we need more and moreleaves
just to give it layers.
We need to hurry up.
The survivors are still
wet from their rivercrossing,
and hypothermia
will be a real danger ifleft
exposed to the elements.
Where are we actually
gonna lie down?
Like, in here, like this.
Because there's no way
we're gonna get two
people like that, and then--
You're not gonna
get five people in.
No, I think, we're max
getting two in there.
This is not comfy.
It's not gonna be comfy.
Are we cozy?
No, we're not finished yet.
We're not finished.
OK, guys, you've
got about 30 minutes
left of light, actually.
Right,
we thinkthat's gonna be all right.
As night closes in,
the boys rush to waterproofand
insulate their shelter.
Who was that?
Who was what?
My chair moved.
Kieron, watch it.
If they knock
it, that's game over.
BEAR GRYLLS But Azriel
hasn't quite got the idea
ofmaking the shelter watertight.
Yup, it's good.
That's good.
All right, Jesus,
two hours to build that.
I think Bear Grylls couldhave
built a house in two hours.
See, at least we
can, like, lie down--
Temperatures are dropping fast,
so the leaders are forced
to make a safety call.
OK, you guys,
Bear wantedyou to stay out there
completely using the wild.
We've come to the
decision that you should
have a couple of sleeping bags.
It's cold this evening,
notgonna be much cloud cover,
so it's gonna be
a chilly evening.
And we've got three
sleeping bags per group.
And one top tip,
don't eat anything,
apart from the pemmican.
What's poisonous andwhat's
not, you don't know.
You haven't got any
knowledge at the moment.
This is it, goodnight.
Good luck.
See you tomorrow, goodnight.
The team are on their own,
with a long night
ahead in the wild.
All right, so we just go to bed?
Yeah, pretty much.
OK, we need to eat
something, though.
OK.
With no way to light a fire,
there's just one thing onthe
menu, cold raw pemmican.
Pemmican is disgusting.
I can't taste anything.
It just tastes like
berries covered in muck.
Alana and Maria
are the only girls to try it.
And for the boys,
just Bailey and Adam
are prepared to give it a go.
Put that away, because
I'm not eating it.
I won't eat it.
It's like flat meat.
It's like a moldy flapjack.
I'm done eating it.
It's like a beet and
then vomit added in
and mashed together and fried.
- And then dog biscuits mashed in.
- A little bit of poo.
Uh.
I don't know why you were..
Refusing to be put off,
Adam is determined to
appreciateevery part of his survival
school experience.
The 15-year-old has worked hardto
get fit for the expedition.
From birth, he's had a
problem with his back.
I was born withsomething called scoliosis.
The curve of a spine.
My spine is kind of likea backwards
C, and it's--
basically, it kind
of goes like that.
So the last
operation I had, they
put a titanium rod in my back.
And they're hoping that
thatgradually straightens it.
Adam developed
a passion for computer gamesduring
long stays in hospital.
Though now recovered,
he'sstill hooked on his console.
How are you going to cope?
You don't even go to
yourGran's without your Xbox.
I went last time
without it, so--
- Yeah, for a day?
- Two days.
Over the summer I've
got more reliant on it,
and I wanted to
break that habit,
and get back out to going out.
BEAR GRYLLS Determined
to change his life around,
Adam is a man on a mission.
Because of
everythingl've been through,
and I've came out
the other side,
everybody thinks I'm fragile.
And I want to prove
toeverybody that I can do it.
This is so cramped.
--be in a tent.
Yeah, I'd rather be in a tent.
Wait, Bailey, what
are using as a pillow?
Us.
Yeah, you two.
No, I'm using--
The boys' shelter
is small and uncomfortable.
I'm surprised they haven'teven
made a bed out of leaves.
Oh, the door broke in.
The girls' one-sided design
is more successful.
Now they just need to shareout
the three sleeping bags.
You guys and these
guys are like this.
Right.
Yeah, come on.
12-year-old Savannah
feels she's getting a
raw deal on the covers.
I'm kind of having
to half-and-half here.
Yeah, I know.
And I've hardly
got any on me at all.
That's a survival situation.
Despite being the youngest
of the girls,
she'sdetermined to get her voice
heard at survival school.
Alana keeps pulling
that one off of me.
That's all I've got,
is the middle one.
I think I have got attitude.
Like, a lot of attitude.
I'm very loud, and out there.
I do have my opinion,
but Ijust say it, no matter what.
BEAR GRYLLS Savannah
comes from inner
city Birmingham,
and applied to
survival school to get
some excitement in her life.
My normal life isreally--
it's really boring.
Go to the park and walk thedog,
but that is literally it.
I'm on my phone 24/7.
When adults tell me
to get off your phone,
we didn't have that
back in the day,
I was like, it's not
my fault I was born
into a more evolved generation.
Can we take a selfie?
Let's take a selfie.
We don't have our phones.
Oh, darn.
As the five girls settle
under their three sleeping bags,
Scott notices something strange
about the boys' camp.
There's a lot of
sleeping bags in here.
Theboys have stolen an extra two
sleeping bags from
theleaders' emergency supply.
So I'll take two
to stay with me.
Oh, no!
You need to open up the bags.
Five of you get underneath,
shared body heat.
Get the bags open and
start working as a team,
otherwise someone's gonna
getseriously injured tonight.
OK, see you tomorrowmorning,
bright and early.
This is the worst thing ever.
It isn't working, is it?
Why did he have
to take mine away?
I can't--
Move over.
Ugh.
Ugh.
Wait, wait, Bailey,
no, because I'll
need to do this up.
The boys finally
settled down for the night.
But their shelter is
frankly of little use.
If it rains, or the wind getsup,
they'll be in deep trouble.
In the end, they're
extremely lucky.
The weather holds, and
all the young survivors
make it through the night.
But the girls are awake early,
and they've barely slept.
I didn't sleep very well.
She was too cold.
You stay warm in here, though.
Yeah, I know.
I don't want to get out.
Despite their lack
of shelter building skills,
the boys actually sleep longer.
So Scott gives them his
veryown survival wake up call.
OK, team, morning!
Here we go, guys, here we go!
Five minutes, up on
yourfeet, boots on, let's go!
My night was uncomfortable,
because I pulled sticks fromunder
me, and rocks, and--
just digging into my skin.
It was actually
quite cozy in the end.
The ground was keeping me cold,
and the-- the sleeping bag
was keeping warm, so
it was kind of just
a perfect that mix of both.
I had to share thesleeping bag with Kieron,
and he took off with
the sleeping bag,
so I'd hardly get anything.
It was really cold.
If the young survivors
are expecting time
to relax, they've
got another thing coming.
Every day at survival
schoolwill begin with a dose
of physical training.
--on the spot.
Sprints, go!
One, two, three.
Up, up, up, up, up!
Stop!
The military style session
aims to improve basic fitness.
And also, more
importantly, to develop
the mental toughness to
copewith the hardships ahead.
One more time!
Kit back on.
You don't need to
get all that lot on.
Just a couple of
layers, I think.
It's been a baptism of fire
for the young survivors.
And as expected, the
overnight exercise
has pointed out some
keystrengths and weaknesses.
Last night was your firstnight
out in the wild, OK,
and it was a tough one.
Girls selected
a nice shelter area.
Their shelter actually
was very effective.
It's called a lean-to.
It just gets you
out of the wind.
Probably not going to keep
youdry, but it's very effective.
And you guys found yourown
roles within the team.
And you kind of go on
with what you're doing,
but you still helped
each other out.
Boys aren't working very well.
And why do you think
that was, boys?
I think one person wanted todo
this, the other one wanted
to go over here.
And I think we didn't
listen to anything.
Correct.
You didn't decide,
becauseyou didn't have a chat.
There was no
conversation going on.
And you all went off in
different directions.
So there's something
to think about, maybe,
and learn from in
the coming weeks.
BEAR GRYLLS Each day,
the leaders will decidewhether
the boys or the girls
have done best, overall.
And today is pretty clear.
Sarah, for you, girls or boys?
I'm gonna go with the girls.
I can massively, massively
saythat it's got to be the girls.
Girls, you've got it.
One, nil.
One to the girls,
zero to the boys.
Now, when's the last
time you had any food?
Lunchtime, yesterday.
Last night.
Delicious pemmican
last night, yeah?
Oh no, I did not eat that.
No?
We picked out
some of the berries.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
How much pemmican you got left?
All of it.
Quite a bit.
How can-- hold on.
How can you have any food left?
You must be full.
No.
OK, it's a bit rancid.
OK, it's a bit stinking.
It's hundreds of calories.
You've got no energy levels.
You're gonna walk 100
meters, 200, 300 meters,
you're gonna collapse.
We give you food, you eat it.
You eat everything.
Today you're lucky.
We have prepared
breakfast for you.
Oh.
And I expect all of this to go.
What used to be
gruel, I suppose.
It's better than pemmican.
I wish I had a big
bacon sandwich that I
could just eat up right now.
I think everybody wouldrather
McDonald's than this.
I think what's dawning
on the young survivors
at this early stage is justthe
scale of the challenge.
My idea of what it wouldbe
like was completely wrong.
But I'm quite proud of
myselfthat we lasted the night
without, you know,
going aroundsaying we want to go home.
I'm glad I came, becauseit's,
like, once in a lifetime
opportunity, isn't it.
But it was really
difficult yesterday.
And they say it's gonna
getharder and harder each day.
I didn't expect it would
bethis hard on the first night.
But I'm happy that,
like, I've been there,
and, like, done it now,
and I got through it.
I've learned in my life
that the ultimate key
to survival, when you're
up against it, it's
not about physical strength.
It's actually all in here,
in the mind and in the heart.
And when the going gets
tough, as it invariably
will in this sort
of environment,
to be able to summon up
thatpositive mental attitude
will make all the differencefor
these young people.
Next time on "Bear
Grylls Survival School,"--
It starts off slippy.
Hands out then, guys.
--in at the deep end,
tackling treacherous terrain.
Cold?
Yeah!
Andtaking on a powerful waterfall.
I can't do it.
Savannah, you can do it.
I really can't.