Ultimate Expedition (2018–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Episode #1.3 - full transcript
(electronic slide sound)
(dramatic music)
- [Narrator] Previously
on Ultimate Expedition,
- Alright, lets go trek dudes.
- [Narrator] The team set
off on their first real test,
a ten mile hike up to base
camp, at over 14 000 feet.
- I'm trying to do it in three
hours,
- [Narrator] Olympic skier, Gus
Kenworthy,
raced ahead of the pack.
- My shoulders are [bleeping]
burning.
- [Narrator] But Nikki and Lia
fell victim
to altitude sickness, and
barely made the cutoff.
- I hate this feeling, so much.
- [Narrator] Now,
altitude training begins.
- Let's do it.
- [Narrator] They need to
master these technical skills,
or they'll be cut from the
expedition.
(dramatic music)
(gentle music)
- Where am I?
- It's now day two on
base camp, the sun's just,
starting to come up,
Wendy chose to sleep outside,
she was coming back and forth
a lot, but she wouldn't stay in.
I think Steve was kind of upset
about it.
Wendy wont hang out in
the tent, dammit Wendy.
- Good morning world!
How you doing?
That's a happy face right
there, happy camper.
- I gotta brush my
teeth, my breath stinks.
- Morning at base camp is,
taunting us right now.
- So, I just had my first
night sleeping on the mountain,
you can see out tent, it's
covered in ice.
- Every time we get our peak,
it just gets more and more
intimidating.
- I had panic attacks, on panic
attacks,
on panic attacks all night,
I started crying so much.
There we're so many times
during the hike, that I just
wanted to go down on the ground
and just,
collapse, and just be like,
"It's over, I can't do this
anymore."
Gus is an Olympian, he ran up
the hill,
he said it took two and a half
hours, it took me almost six.
Chachi's a dancer, she
works out and everything,
so I feel like she's
a little more capable.
We got Chuck, he's a
fighter and, you got me.
It just looks so easy when they
do it.
I just have to believe in
myself, and I will be okay.
I know, I can do it.
- What is this?
- It's peanut potato.
- You can eat potato.
- I actually really like that.
- How you guys feeling, how's
everybody?
First day.
- Just mostly hungry.
- Hungry!
No headache?
- No.
We all woke up after
the march to base camp,
and everybody was feeling fine.
The next few days will be more
technical,
so that they learn the basics,
but they gonna learn every
single skill.
The last part of Tocllaraju
mountain, is a vertical wall,
first you got to ice climb it
up,
and then you look at the world,
and you look at how
amazingly beautiful it is,
you're up in 20 000 foot,
but then you gotta be
able to rapel down and,
there's no room for error.
- [Narrator] The set to Mount
Tocllaraju, is treacherous,
the last stretch to the summmit,
is a near-vertical ice wall.
Anyone on the summit team,
will need to be able to,
climb up, and rapel down.
And tomorrow, they'll
be tested on 150 foot
vertical rock face.
- The hike to base camp was a
tough pull,
the first real challenge.
I saw so much focus and
concentration in them,
but I can see, some people
struggle a bit more.
- Yeah, sure.
- [Narrator] Before every
stage, the expedition leaders
meet to evaluate individual
performances.
If they decide anyone is
holding the team back,
they'll be cut from the
expedition.
- Looks like Lia is a big worry
for us,
we want her to progress,
we want her to push it.
Does she have the mental edge?
- The knots, the rope
skills, that's her life line,
you've gotta know every single
skill,
to be able to summit the
mountain.
But also, there's a big
challenge with Jusreign,
he is very afraid of heights,
rapelling down 200 feet,
that will be a major problem,
to take that leap of faith,
and overcome that fear of
heights.
- Please may I have your
attention,
this is your first training
session at this base camp level.
Now this is real.
My only advice for you,
is please concentrate.
As the expedition
leader, it's my decision,
who will go up to that mountain,
do they have enough skills,
to go their next challenge?
If not, they out.
Hunty is the main man over here
today,
so please Hunty, your call.
- Okay so let's start
immediately,
so first thing what we are
doing,
do this kind of knot in your
harnesses.
You all guys, have to,
like, practice this,
a lot, you have to know it,
okay?
- Right now's our first day of
training,
we're learning some really
basic, but also some really,
really important knots,
like fundamental skills
for mountaineering.
- What was the name of the knot?
- Double fishermans.
- Double fishmerman.
- All these different
knots that we have to use,
to keep ourselves safe
and keep everybody safe,
when we're on the mountain.
- If you don't tie these knots
right,
it could cost you your life,
yeah I didn't come here to die.
I came here to tie knots
properly.
At first, I was like,
"Man, this is complicated,
maybe I'm gonna die, or kill
someone."
But, after a bit of repetition,
I feel like I got it all figured
out.
Of course, I can forget pretty
easily too.
- Okay, so one loop,
one like this, then, oh,
oh, got it, okay.
They bust out all these ropes,
and start doing all these
crazy knots and it's, honestly,
really, really confusing
to have these weird names,
and I feel like, I don't even
know how to tie my shoes,
at this point.
God, why was that so difficult?
It seems so easy, God.
I know I'm gonna have to do
a lot of things, that I'm not
comfortable with here,
or things that I don't
necessarily trust.
Throughout my life, I've
been taken advantage of,
by people close to me,
and it's always been an
issue, for me to get over it.
So, my main goal is to reach the
summit,
but my biggest goal, I
would say, is to have,
trust in myself.
- We're about to go, the first
part of rapelling training,
by little rock, tomorrow
it will be the big rock.
Rock 'n roll rock.
- [Narrator] All the
skills in mountaineering,
build on each other.
The knots that the team learned,
are critical to this 25 foot
rappel.
Mastering all these skills,
will be the difference,
between life and death, at
20,000 feet.
- How are you all feeling
about moving to high places?
Comfortable?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, everybody comfortable?
Nobody has any like,
the fear of the heights?
(dramatic music)
- It's not like a big fear,
but I have alike a little,
like a tiny, like, baby fear of
heights,
it's not, it's not a
big thing, it's whatever
- Before I even came to
approval,
there we're so many doubts
running through my mind,
like, "What am I doing,
like, can I even do this?"
I'm gonna go there, they're
filming, like,
"What if I fail, I'm gonna be a
joke."
All of my family was like,
"Why are you doing this?
Just stay safe, this is very
dangerous, don't do this."
That's like the biggest
motivation for me,
is to prove to them, to be like,
"Yo, you can do anything
that you want to, as well."
(dramatic music)
- Afraid of heights?
- I am but,
- That's how you get rid of it.
- I know.
(laughing)
- But Lia's coming this
way, she's doing good.
Right?
- Yeah.
- You cruising?
- Yeah, ow! [bleep]
That's what helmets are for!
- That's what helmets are for.
- Oh shit.
- I think that Lia doubts
herself a lot,
I hear her say things
like, "I can't." and,
"I don't know if I can."
And, "I don't want to."
- How do I get off?
- I think that that's gonna
be the only thing that,
gets in her way, is herself,
but I'm hoping that she can
put that to rest and, power
through.
- Just walk down.
- Yeah, I just don't know how
to do the rest, you just walk?
- Yeah, you can just walk.
- Okay
(laughs)
he's not going slowly.
(dramatic music)
- Lia, really good job.
- Yeah, thanks.
- You're confident on what
you're doing,
you know your skills right?
- Are we doing twice the size
tomorrow?
- Oh no, it's like five times.
- Okay great.
- And that's, you know,
- I wanna be good for that.
- Tangled, no pressure,
After I learned these knots, we
start to,
put them into motion
and, we start to rappel.
And it's so crazy to think that,
these little knots are saving my
life.
So, it's a lot of pressure,
to make sure they're don't
right, 'cos it's like,
"Hey if they're not done
right, I might die."
- Okay,
- You think she's gonna be
able to come up, from there?
Is she freaking out?
'Cos she's kind of struggling on
the way,
what's getting in her head?
- We will see.
(dramatic music)
- This one, this one?
- Do you feel at all nervous?
- Yes.
- You should feel a little bit
nervous.
- This one get me, if those
two fail, this one gets me.
If those fail, I only have
two chances to live, right?
- They are not failing.
- Double check me, are you sure
I'm on?
Check again, can you check
again?
- Alright so, Nikki got
a little freaked out so,
I'm gonna try and scare
her a little bit, if I can.
- Oh my God, Nikki, your rope!
(laughing)
- I'm gonna get you Matt.
- My name's not Matt.
- That's right, okay.
(laughing)
-ok
(dramatic music)
- It's not theory, you're
getting harnesses on,
you're moving the rope,
you're rapelling down,
like, step by step, it's
just getting more and more
exciting and I love it because
now we're actually doing.
And, tomorrow is the first
real test for these people,
if they have, what it
takes, to climb a mountain.
- We just got down after
our first day of rapelling,
a little tedious, but these
guys gotta be very meticulous,
with what they're doing,
so they don't get hurt.
- That was good fun, I learned a
lot,
we're gonna be rapelling
off a massive rock tomorrow,
whew it's hot.
It was like cold and
hot, and cold and hot,
that's how it always is.
- I haven't showered in
three days and I feel really
disgusting, and me and Steve
O are gonna get in and wash
our bodies, 'cos I can't
take it any longer,
and I know it's gonna be super
cold.
- I've been wearing the
same clothes since we left
for base camp, I stink so
bad, and so do my clothes,
now it's time for laundry.
(water splashing)
It's cold, woo!
- Holy shit!
- Cold, but it's better than
stinking.
When I wake up in the tent with
Gus and I can smell myself,
I feel awful.
I make myself do it, so I
can be a good tent mate,
I love Gus.
- Women poo, men poo, everybody
poos.
Right now, I'm about to
poo, sorry about that.
Alright, we are inside
of the outhouse tent,
it's nothing fancy, it's
basically just a tent,
with a little wooden box over a
hole,
but they have like a sand
that you pour on top of your,
your poo, to make it not smell.
I'm just letting you
guys know how it works.
(playful music)
- Chuck needs to maintain his
image, keep his scalp clean,
I'm a little scared here,
'cos if I cut him or,
something like that, I feel
like he's gonna kick my ass,
or if I screw something
up, it might be an issue.
I feel like this is a kind
of honor, you know, like,
to be able to do this, here we
go.
- Press harder
- I can?
- Yeah, press harder than
you would on your face.
- I just wanna make sure I don't
cut you.
- Oh yeah,
- Were getting a lot of
bits into that water,
how long have you had
this type of haircut for?
- From about '93
- '93, damn.
You got one small blood mark.
- Oh, that's okay.
- That's okay?
- Yeah, that happens.
- I think were good.
Yeah, I think we look good,
alright just had the honor of
buzzing,
shaving Chuck Liddell's
head, pretty damn good!
What do you guys think?
- Looks pretty good.
- Looks pretty cloudy to me,
hairy cloudy.
- Yeah, looks pretty gross.
- Yeah.
- I think someones gonna drink
out of it.
- Pete, he's drinking,
(retching sounds)
- Will I get sick?
How about a sip, how about a
little sip.
Actually tastes pretty
good, it's pretty good.
- Chuck Liddell tastes good?
(coughing)
-your a maniac
- Oh yeah, wooooo!
Yeah!
- There's like a million
knots, that you have to learn,
if you don't know how to
do, just one of the knots,
you're dead, your
[bleeping] dead,
your hip is dislocated
and your legs are broken.
- I'm so stoked for
the big repel tomorrow,
today's repel was fun but
it was so frikken small that
I couldn't even get excited
about it.
Tomorrow, is like a whole
different story, we're on like a
hundred and fifty foot
cliff, maybe bigger,
and we get to repel down it,
using knots that we're tying,
so, you've really gotta
trust yourself and,
trust that you're paying
attention and,
that you're doing everything
right,
and I'm kind of excited,
to watch everybody else,
squirm a little bit.
(dramatic ambient sound)
- Oh today is cold, it's really
cold,
today we're actually
going to repel down that
massive slab of rock,
might not look so massive on
the camera screen right now,
but it is huge.
It's gonna be a fun day,
it's gonna be helluva day.
(dramatic music)
- I'm fairly confident in the
knots,
Tocllaraju, I'm coming for you,
supes excited, let's go!
- This mission, it's only
getting epicer and epicer,
now, we're gonna repel
down that huge wall.
See those itsy bitsy
little people up there?
They make that wall look pretty
big.
- Are you ready for today?
- No.
(laughing)
- Yes you are!
- [Narrator] The time
for learning is over,
each climber must safely
rapel down a massive,
150 foot slab of sheer rock,
an essential skill for
any climber to get off
the summit of Mount Tocllaraju.
- May I please have your
attention,
yeah, thank you.
(dramatic drum music)
- You look at this slab of
rock from the base camp,
and it doesn't look
intimidating.
I don't go to theme parks,
that's just not my thing so,
a big drop like that, puts
some butterflies in my stomach,
going up there, that's for sure.
- Holy shit,
- Being that high, and
knowing that drop is lethal,
so many things that could go
wrong,
you're literally hanging off by
a rope.
Both of the fears that I
have, that are very prominent,
fear of heights, fear of
failure,
those fears are extremely
present.
You begin to think about, like,
other doubts that you have,
in your life, other doubts,
that people tell you.
Like even my brother was like,
"There's no way you're gonna do
this."
(dramatic music)
- Are you ready?
- Lets do it.
(laughing)
(talking on two-way radio)
- This guy right?
- No, no, no, no, this doesn't
exist.
- Okay, this doesn't exist, got
it.
(heavy breathing)
- [Narrator] Getting down this
rock face,
is the main goal of this
challenge.
But expedition leader, Mikko
Vermas, is on the lookout,
for signs that someone
could be a safety hazard,
high up on the mountain.
Someone who can't overcome their
fear,
or has too much hesitation, is a
red flag,
and maybe a reason for Mikko,
to cut someone from the
expedition.
(heavy breathing)
(talking on two-way radios)
(heavy breathing)
- Very good!
(heavy breathing)
- Yes Jusreign!
- Yeah Jus, yooooo!
- As soon as I let go, there
was a feeling that just,
kind of like, rushes over you,
just,
just how ridiculous, that doubt
before that moment, sounded.
- In your face Amaal!
Amaal's my little brother,
he was the one who said I
couldn't do this shit,
so in your face bro.
- I just can't get over the fact
that,
my life's being held
together by some ropes.
(laughing)
But I know, when I get there,
I'm just gonna really have to
trust, trust the ropes and,
it's pretty intense looking
at it, 'cos it's just,
"That's keeping me alive!"
Yeah, here we go.
(dramatic ambient sound)
There we go, there we go, now
it's pretty.
(laughing)
The time that I had to prepare,
I got in my head a lot,
I was really nervous, and I
started questioning my ability,
to conquer anything,
and I have a really close
relationship with my sister
and, she's going to pastor
school and she was like,
"Chachi, you just gotta have
faith."
So, I'm looking at this steep
rock and,
it's kind of my enemy
and like, "You know what?
I'm gonna beat you, you're
not gonna, like, stop me."
"You know what you gotta
do this so, let's go."
Nothing bad's gonna happen.
(talking on
two-way radios in foreign
language)
Here we go,
- [Narrator] To control
the speed of the descent,
the climber must work the rope
as a brake, using their hand.
- Oh okay,
- Come on Chach!
- Wooo!
- [Narrator] For a novice
climber,
150 feet above the ground,
the danger is that panic sets
in,
and they let out too much rope
too fast,
or let go of the brake rope
altogether.
- Chachi!
- Yeah?
- Reach back with your
right hand and feed,
feed the rope forward!
(panting)
- Yeah Chachi, you got this!
- Okay, okay, we got this.
(dramatic music)
- Yeah Chach!
(dramatic music)
- Come on.
- Yeah Chachi!
- Hell yeah!
(laughing)
(whistling)
- My gosh!
(clapping)
At first I was kinda
psyching my self out like,
"Man, there's no way I
can do this, I don't know,
this is crazy."
I was like, "I'm not gonna
fall back right, nothing
bad's like gonna happen."
I just had to get out
of my head for a second,
just to push myself.
Every time I accomplished
something I'm like,
"I'm totally making it
to the top of Tocllaraju,
no doubt about it."
That was awesome.
- Now you can see those
little people up there,
because we're them.
Yeah.
Ready to make this look easy,
(dramatic ambient sound)
(dramatic music)
I don't wanna go anymore.
(heavy breathing)
At least I know I can get down.
- How do you feel?
- Good, how do you feel?
-I feel really good.
As a professional athlete,
you mental state is so
important, it's not always
about physical strength,
or stamina or, like, technique.
It's all of those things, but
so much of it comes down to,
kind of like, your head space.
(dramatic music)
- See he's killing me, Gus you
bastard!
Why's he gotta be so much
better at everything?
- We got new kids now and
I want them to see the guy,
that was world champion.
That's what I'm here for,
you know, showing them who
their dad really is.
- Chuck goes like a pro,
- I think there's a lot
of similarities between,
training for a fight,
training for anything,
and I look at this as a training
camp.
I'm listening to my coaches
and, I'm doing what I'm told,
to get ready, and get prepared.
- Shhh don't talk to me,
I've been saying to myself,
"Oh my gosh am I gonna
be able to do this?"
"Wow this is really physical,
is it gonna be too much?"
It's really high up and
you're walking off a cliff,
(screams)
- Yeah!
(dramatic music)
- Yeah!
- I wanna sit down,
(laughing)
- First couple of steps going
down,
there's just that, a little
voice that's telling you,
"What are you doing right here
right,
why are you doing this, you
don't need to be doing this."
(panting)
You got this buddy.
- There you go Pete!
- Got out of my comfort zone
for a bit, and it felt good.
- Yeah!
(whooping)
(dramatic music)
(whooping)
- That was fast.
(laughing)
- Everybody, no matter how
pro you are on that ledge,
like, has to take that step,
leap of faith,
and it feels good.
(dramatic ambient sound)
- Are you ready?
- Okay,
- Yeah.
- Holy shit that's, a drop.
- Lia is doubting herself
the most, and I've told her,
"Please just don't stop, because
you psyched yourself out."
(groaning)
- Oh no,
(dramatic music)
(talking on two-way radios in
foreign language)
- Wow, ow.
- Yeah Lia!
(whooping)
- Sssniperwolf's not scared of
nothing!
(uplifting music)
- What's up?
(clapping)
The more I overcome, the more
it motivates me to do more,
and just push myself.
- She is so seriously making
me look like a complete wuss.
- I've done rapalling in
so many different games,
but how they just like jump
off, do like these big,
crazy jumps, like, "Hey,
I wanna do that too."
I would honestly rather rapal
again, than play a video game.
- Did you ever think that you
could do something like this?
- No.
I would have just been like,
"No, I'm not doing it."
Bye.
(laughing)
- Did you wanna quit a lot of
times?
- Yeah, every day I wanted to
quit.
(water running)
- [Narrator] Everyone
successfully rapalled
down the rock face.
Now, the expedition leaders
will let individuals know,
if they performed well enough to
continue,
on the expedition.
(whistling)
- Hey everybody, can
you come gather around?
- Pete, Chuck, please come over
here.
(drumming music)
- So today we finished
the first part of the
technical skills challenges,
as you know, you are being
evaluated at every moment,
I talked with Mikko, and
he's been talking with
the trainers and, he's made a
decision on
who gets to continue.
(whooping)
- You guys are doing great,
I think that you probably
still need some practice,
I mean, tomorrow we start the
big push,
tomorrow is gonna be a tough
day.
And, shit's about to get real.
- At 6a.m. we start, maybe
8 to 12 hours, it depends.
So, it's a long day.
- I'm gonna crash out, like, so
soon.
(gentle music)
- Tomorrow's gonna be
one of the hardest days,
so far and, we should see a
little bit of elimination,
we should see some people that,
just might not be strong enough
to do it,
might be me, who knows, I don't
know.
- I got back from rapalling a
bit ago and,
my God, it's really
terrifying because you go from
seeing like, rock under your
feet,
and then it just being
like a straight drop.
It was a little bit of
an internal struggle
but, I'm glad I did it, and
tomorrow our call time is
like at, four in the morning.
I never wake up at four in the
morning, that's 2a.m. in LA.
So, tonight we're gonna
have to get a lot of rest.
- Each training session, kinda,
is another
piece of the puzzle, how
we're gonna get up on top
of that mountain, and it just
feels good,
to get more confident, as we
learn more.
- This is why white
people climb mountains,
I get it now.
I'm learning the culture,
and I'm infiltrating and
I understand it now,
so step by step, I'm getting it.
It's actually pretty cool,
I didn't know, none of
this shit worked like this,
like I didn't know it was so
technical.
- I think everyone's on track to
crush it,
peace.
- [Narrator] Coming up
on Ultimate Expedition,
the team must reach new heights.
- Do we have to climb up that?
- Yeah.
- [Narrator] And climb a 100
foot vertical wall of ice.
- Oh my God, I'm so tired.
- [Narrator] It will push
everyone to their limit,
and some, to their breaking
point.
- I don't think I can do this.
(crying)
(dramatic ambient sound)
(dramatic music)
- [Narrator] Previously
on Ultimate Expedition,
- Alright, lets go trek dudes.
- [Narrator] The team set
off on their first real test,
a ten mile hike up to base
camp, at over 14 000 feet.
- I'm trying to do it in three
hours,
- [Narrator] Olympic skier, Gus
Kenworthy,
raced ahead of the pack.
- My shoulders are [bleeping]
burning.
- [Narrator] But Nikki and Lia
fell victim
to altitude sickness, and
barely made the cutoff.
- I hate this feeling, so much.
- [Narrator] Now,
altitude training begins.
- Let's do it.
- [Narrator] They need to
master these technical skills,
or they'll be cut from the
expedition.
(dramatic music)
(gentle music)
- Where am I?
- It's now day two on
base camp, the sun's just,
starting to come up,
Wendy chose to sleep outside,
she was coming back and forth
a lot, but she wouldn't stay in.
I think Steve was kind of upset
about it.
Wendy wont hang out in
the tent, dammit Wendy.
- Good morning world!
How you doing?
That's a happy face right
there, happy camper.
- I gotta brush my
teeth, my breath stinks.
- Morning at base camp is,
taunting us right now.
- So, I just had my first
night sleeping on the mountain,
you can see out tent, it's
covered in ice.
- Every time we get our peak,
it just gets more and more
intimidating.
- I had panic attacks, on panic
attacks,
on panic attacks all night,
I started crying so much.
There we're so many times
during the hike, that I just
wanted to go down on the ground
and just,
collapse, and just be like,
"It's over, I can't do this
anymore."
Gus is an Olympian, he ran up
the hill,
he said it took two and a half
hours, it took me almost six.
Chachi's a dancer, she
works out and everything,
so I feel like she's
a little more capable.
We got Chuck, he's a
fighter and, you got me.
It just looks so easy when they
do it.
I just have to believe in
myself, and I will be okay.
I know, I can do it.
- What is this?
- It's peanut potato.
- You can eat potato.
- I actually really like that.
- How you guys feeling, how's
everybody?
First day.
- Just mostly hungry.
- Hungry!
No headache?
- No.
We all woke up after
the march to base camp,
and everybody was feeling fine.
The next few days will be more
technical,
so that they learn the basics,
but they gonna learn every
single skill.
The last part of Tocllaraju
mountain, is a vertical wall,
first you got to ice climb it
up,
and then you look at the world,
and you look at how
amazingly beautiful it is,
you're up in 20 000 foot,
but then you gotta be
able to rapel down and,
there's no room for error.
- [Narrator] The set to Mount
Tocllaraju, is treacherous,
the last stretch to the summmit,
is a near-vertical ice wall.
Anyone on the summit team,
will need to be able to,
climb up, and rapel down.
And tomorrow, they'll
be tested on 150 foot
vertical rock face.
- The hike to base camp was a
tough pull,
the first real challenge.
I saw so much focus and
concentration in them,
but I can see, some people
struggle a bit more.
- Yeah, sure.
- [Narrator] Before every
stage, the expedition leaders
meet to evaluate individual
performances.
If they decide anyone is
holding the team back,
they'll be cut from the
expedition.
- Looks like Lia is a big worry
for us,
we want her to progress,
we want her to push it.
Does she have the mental edge?
- The knots, the rope
skills, that's her life line,
you've gotta know every single
skill,
to be able to summit the
mountain.
But also, there's a big
challenge with Jusreign,
he is very afraid of heights,
rapelling down 200 feet,
that will be a major problem,
to take that leap of faith,
and overcome that fear of
heights.
- Please may I have your
attention,
this is your first training
session at this base camp level.
Now this is real.
My only advice for you,
is please concentrate.
As the expedition
leader, it's my decision,
who will go up to that mountain,
do they have enough skills,
to go their next challenge?
If not, they out.
Hunty is the main man over here
today,
so please Hunty, your call.
- Okay so let's start
immediately,
so first thing what we are
doing,
do this kind of knot in your
harnesses.
You all guys, have to,
like, practice this,
a lot, you have to know it,
okay?
- Right now's our first day of
training,
we're learning some really
basic, but also some really,
really important knots,
like fundamental skills
for mountaineering.
- What was the name of the knot?
- Double fishermans.
- Double fishmerman.
- All these different
knots that we have to use,
to keep ourselves safe
and keep everybody safe,
when we're on the mountain.
- If you don't tie these knots
right,
it could cost you your life,
yeah I didn't come here to die.
I came here to tie knots
properly.
At first, I was like,
"Man, this is complicated,
maybe I'm gonna die, or kill
someone."
But, after a bit of repetition,
I feel like I got it all figured
out.
Of course, I can forget pretty
easily too.
- Okay, so one loop,
one like this, then, oh,
oh, got it, okay.
They bust out all these ropes,
and start doing all these
crazy knots and it's, honestly,
really, really confusing
to have these weird names,
and I feel like, I don't even
know how to tie my shoes,
at this point.
God, why was that so difficult?
It seems so easy, God.
I know I'm gonna have to do
a lot of things, that I'm not
comfortable with here,
or things that I don't
necessarily trust.
Throughout my life, I've
been taken advantage of,
by people close to me,
and it's always been an
issue, for me to get over it.
So, my main goal is to reach the
summit,
but my biggest goal, I
would say, is to have,
trust in myself.
- We're about to go, the first
part of rapelling training,
by little rock, tomorrow
it will be the big rock.
Rock 'n roll rock.
- [Narrator] All the
skills in mountaineering,
build on each other.
The knots that the team learned,
are critical to this 25 foot
rappel.
Mastering all these skills,
will be the difference,
between life and death, at
20,000 feet.
- How are you all feeling
about moving to high places?
Comfortable?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, everybody comfortable?
Nobody has any like,
the fear of the heights?
(dramatic music)
- It's not like a big fear,
but I have alike a little,
like a tiny, like, baby fear of
heights,
it's not, it's not a
big thing, it's whatever
- Before I even came to
approval,
there we're so many doubts
running through my mind,
like, "What am I doing,
like, can I even do this?"
I'm gonna go there, they're
filming, like,
"What if I fail, I'm gonna be a
joke."
All of my family was like,
"Why are you doing this?
Just stay safe, this is very
dangerous, don't do this."
That's like the biggest
motivation for me,
is to prove to them, to be like,
"Yo, you can do anything
that you want to, as well."
(dramatic music)
- Afraid of heights?
- I am but,
- That's how you get rid of it.
- I know.
(laughing)
- But Lia's coming this
way, she's doing good.
Right?
- Yeah.
- You cruising?
- Yeah, ow! [bleep]
That's what helmets are for!
- That's what helmets are for.
- Oh shit.
- I think that Lia doubts
herself a lot,
I hear her say things
like, "I can't." and,
"I don't know if I can."
And, "I don't want to."
- How do I get off?
- I think that that's gonna
be the only thing that,
gets in her way, is herself,
but I'm hoping that she can
put that to rest and, power
through.
- Just walk down.
- Yeah, I just don't know how
to do the rest, you just walk?
- Yeah, you can just walk.
- Okay
(laughs)
he's not going slowly.
(dramatic music)
- Lia, really good job.
- Yeah, thanks.
- You're confident on what
you're doing,
you know your skills right?
- Are we doing twice the size
tomorrow?
- Oh no, it's like five times.
- Okay great.
- And that's, you know,
- I wanna be good for that.
- Tangled, no pressure,
After I learned these knots, we
start to,
put them into motion
and, we start to rappel.
And it's so crazy to think that,
these little knots are saving my
life.
So, it's a lot of pressure,
to make sure they're don't
right, 'cos it's like,
"Hey if they're not done
right, I might die."
- Okay,
- You think she's gonna be
able to come up, from there?
Is she freaking out?
'Cos she's kind of struggling on
the way,
what's getting in her head?
- We will see.
(dramatic music)
- This one, this one?
- Do you feel at all nervous?
- Yes.
- You should feel a little bit
nervous.
- This one get me, if those
two fail, this one gets me.
If those fail, I only have
two chances to live, right?
- They are not failing.
- Double check me, are you sure
I'm on?
Check again, can you check
again?
- Alright so, Nikki got
a little freaked out so,
I'm gonna try and scare
her a little bit, if I can.
- Oh my God, Nikki, your rope!
(laughing)
- I'm gonna get you Matt.
- My name's not Matt.
- That's right, okay.
(laughing)
-ok
(dramatic music)
- It's not theory, you're
getting harnesses on,
you're moving the rope,
you're rapelling down,
like, step by step, it's
just getting more and more
exciting and I love it because
now we're actually doing.
And, tomorrow is the first
real test for these people,
if they have, what it
takes, to climb a mountain.
- We just got down after
our first day of rapelling,
a little tedious, but these
guys gotta be very meticulous,
with what they're doing,
so they don't get hurt.
- That was good fun, I learned a
lot,
we're gonna be rapelling
off a massive rock tomorrow,
whew it's hot.
It was like cold and
hot, and cold and hot,
that's how it always is.
- I haven't showered in
three days and I feel really
disgusting, and me and Steve
O are gonna get in and wash
our bodies, 'cos I can't
take it any longer,
and I know it's gonna be super
cold.
- I've been wearing the
same clothes since we left
for base camp, I stink so
bad, and so do my clothes,
now it's time for laundry.
(water splashing)
It's cold, woo!
- Holy shit!
- Cold, but it's better than
stinking.
When I wake up in the tent with
Gus and I can smell myself,
I feel awful.
I make myself do it, so I
can be a good tent mate,
I love Gus.
- Women poo, men poo, everybody
poos.
Right now, I'm about to
poo, sorry about that.
Alright, we are inside
of the outhouse tent,
it's nothing fancy, it's
basically just a tent,
with a little wooden box over a
hole,
but they have like a sand
that you pour on top of your,
your poo, to make it not smell.
I'm just letting you
guys know how it works.
(playful music)
- Chuck needs to maintain his
image, keep his scalp clean,
I'm a little scared here,
'cos if I cut him or,
something like that, I feel
like he's gonna kick my ass,
or if I screw something
up, it might be an issue.
I feel like this is a kind
of honor, you know, like,
to be able to do this, here we
go.
- Press harder
- I can?
- Yeah, press harder than
you would on your face.
- I just wanna make sure I don't
cut you.
- Oh yeah,
- Were getting a lot of
bits into that water,
how long have you had
this type of haircut for?
- From about '93
- '93, damn.
You got one small blood mark.
- Oh, that's okay.
- That's okay?
- Yeah, that happens.
- I think were good.
Yeah, I think we look good,
alright just had the honor of
buzzing,
shaving Chuck Liddell's
head, pretty damn good!
What do you guys think?
- Looks pretty good.
- Looks pretty cloudy to me,
hairy cloudy.
- Yeah, looks pretty gross.
- Yeah.
- I think someones gonna drink
out of it.
- Pete, he's drinking,
(retching sounds)
- Will I get sick?
How about a sip, how about a
little sip.
Actually tastes pretty
good, it's pretty good.
- Chuck Liddell tastes good?
(coughing)
-your a maniac
- Oh yeah, wooooo!
Yeah!
- There's like a million
knots, that you have to learn,
if you don't know how to
do, just one of the knots,
you're dead, your
[bleeping] dead,
your hip is dislocated
and your legs are broken.
- I'm so stoked for
the big repel tomorrow,
today's repel was fun but
it was so frikken small that
I couldn't even get excited
about it.
Tomorrow, is like a whole
different story, we're on like a
hundred and fifty foot
cliff, maybe bigger,
and we get to repel down it,
using knots that we're tying,
so, you've really gotta
trust yourself and,
trust that you're paying
attention and,
that you're doing everything
right,
and I'm kind of excited,
to watch everybody else,
squirm a little bit.
(dramatic ambient sound)
- Oh today is cold, it's really
cold,
today we're actually
going to repel down that
massive slab of rock,
might not look so massive on
the camera screen right now,
but it is huge.
It's gonna be a fun day,
it's gonna be helluva day.
(dramatic music)
- I'm fairly confident in the
knots,
Tocllaraju, I'm coming for you,
supes excited, let's go!
- This mission, it's only
getting epicer and epicer,
now, we're gonna repel
down that huge wall.
See those itsy bitsy
little people up there?
They make that wall look pretty
big.
- Are you ready for today?
- No.
(laughing)
- Yes you are!
- [Narrator] The time
for learning is over,
each climber must safely
rapel down a massive,
150 foot slab of sheer rock,
an essential skill for
any climber to get off
the summit of Mount Tocllaraju.
- May I please have your
attention,
yeah, thank you.
(dramatic drum music)
- You look at this slab of
rock from the base camp,
and it doesn't look
intimidating.
I don't go to theme parks,
that's just not my thing so,
a big drop like that, puts
some butterflies in my stomach,
going up there, that's for sure.
- Holy shit,
- Being that high, and
knowing that drop is lethal,
so many things that could go
wrong,
you're literally hanging off by
a rope.
Both of the fears that I
have, that are very prominent,
fear of heights, fear of
failure,
those fears are extremely
present.
You begin to think about, like,
other doubts that you have,
in your life, other doubts,
that people tell you.
Like even my brother was like,
"There's no way you're gonna do
this."
(dramatic music)
- Are you ready?
- Lets do it.
(laughing)
(talking on two-way radio)
- This guy right?
- No, no, no, no, this doesn't
exist.
- Okay, this doesn't exist, got
it.
(heavy breathing)
- [Narrator] Getting down this
rock face,
is the main goal of this
challenge.
But expedition leader, Mikko
Vermas, is on the lookout,
for signs that someone
could be a safety hazard,
high up on the mountain.
Someone who can't overcome their
fear,
or has too much hesitation, is a
red flag,
and maybe a reason for Mikko,
to cut someone from the
expedition.
(heavy breathing)
(talking on two-way radios)
(heavy breathing)
- Very good!
(heavy breathing)
- Yes Jusreign!
- Yeah Jus, yooooo!
- As soon as I let go, there
was a feeling that just,
kind of like, rushes over you,
just,
just how ridiculous, that doubt
before that moment, sounded.
- In your face Amaal!
Amaal's my little brother,
he was the one who said I
couldn't do this shit,
so in your face bro.
- I just can't get over the fact
that,
my life's being held
together by some ropes.
(laughing)
But I know, when I get there,
I'm just gonna really have to
trust, trust the ropes and,
it's pretty intense looking
at it, 'cos it's just,
"That's keeping me alive!"
Yeah, here we go.
(dramatic ambient sound)
There we go, there we go, now
it's pretty.
(laughing)
The time that I had to prepare,
I got in my head a lot,
I was really nervous, and I
started questioning my ability,
to conquer anything,
and I have a really close
relationship with my sister
and, she's going to pastor
school and she was like,
"Chachi, you just gotta have
faith."
So, I'm looking at this steep
rock and,
it's kind of my enemy
and like, "You know what?
I'm gonna beat you, you're
not gonna, like, stop me."
"You know what you gotta
do this so, let's go."
Nothing bad's gonna happen.
(talking on
two-way radios in foreign
language)
Here we go,
- [Narrator] To control
the speed of the descent,
the climber must work the rope
as a brake, using their hand.
- Oh okay,
- Come on Chach!
- Wooo!
- [Narrator] For a novice
climber,
150 feet above the ground,
the danger is that panic sets
in,
and they let out too much rope
too fast,
or let go of the brake rope
altogether.
- Chachi!
- Yeah?
- Reach back with your
right hand and feed,
feed the rope forward!
(panting)
- Yeah Chachi, you got this!
- Okay, okay, we got this.
(dramatic music)
- Yeah Chach!
(dramatic music)
- Come on.
- Yeah Chachi!
- Hell yeah!
(laughing)
(whistling)
- My gosh!
(clapping)
At first I was kinda
psyching my self out like,
"Man, there's no way I
can do this, I don't know,
this is crazy."
I was like, "I'm not gonna
fall back right, nothing
bad's like gonna happen."
I just had to get out
of my head for a second,
just to push myself.
Every time I accomplished
something I'm like,
"I'm totally making it
to the top of Tocllaraju,
no doubt about it."
That was awesome.
- Now you can see those
little people up there,
because we're them.
Yeah.
Ready to make this look easy,
(dramatic ambient sound)
(dramatic music)
I don't wanna go anymore.
(heavy breathing)
At least I know I can get down.
- How do you feel?
- Good, how do you feel?
-I feel really good.
As a professional athlete,
you mental state is so
important, it's not always
about physical strength,
or stamina or, like, technique.
It's all of those things, but
so much of it comes down to,
kind of like, your head space.
(dramatic music)
- See he's killing me, Gus you
bastard!
Why's he gotta be so much
better at everything?
- We got new kids now and
I want them to see the guy,
that was world champion.
That's what I'm here for,
you know, showing them who
their dad really is.
- Chuck goes like a pro,
- I think there's a lot
of similarities between,
training for a fight,
training for anything,
and I look at this as a training
camp.
I'm listening to my coaches
and, I'm doing what I'm told,
to get ready, and get prepared.
- Shhh don't talk to me,
I've been saying to myself,
"Oh my gosh am I gonna
be able to do this?"
"Wow this is really physical,
is it gonna be too much?"
It's really high up and
you're walking off a cliff,
(screams)
- Yeah!
(dramatic music)
- Yeah!
- I wanna sit down,
(laughing)
- First couple of steps going
down,
there's just that, a little
voice that's telling you,
"What are you doing right here
right,
why are you doing this, you
don't need to be doing this."
(panting)
You got this buddy.
- There you go Pete!
- Got out of my comfort zone
for a bit, and it felt good.
- Yeah!
(whooping)
(dramatic music)
(whooping)
- That was fast.
(laughing)
- Everybody, no matter how
pro you are on that ledge,
like, has to take that step,
leap of faith,
and it feels good.
(dramatic ambient sound)
- Are you ready?
- Okay,
- Yeah.
- Holy shit that's, a drop.
- Lia is doubting herself
the most, and I've told her,
"Please just don't stop, because
you psyched yourself out."
(groaning)
- Oh no,
(dramatic music)
(talking on two-way radios in
foreign language)
- Wow, ow.
- Yeah Lia!
(whooping)
- Sssniperwolf's not scared of
nothing!
(uplifting music)
- What's up?
(clapping)
The more I overcome, the more
it motivates me to do more,
and just push myself.
- She is so seriously making
me look like a complete wuss.
- I've done rapalling in
so many different games,
but how they just like jump
off, do like these big,
crazy jumps, like, "Hey,
I wanna do that too."
I would honestly rather rapal
again, than play a video game.
- Did you ever think that you
could do something like this?
- No.
I would have just been like,
"No, I'm not doing it."
Bye.
(laughing)
- Did you wanna quit a lot of
times?
- Yeah, every day I wanted to
quit.
(water running)
- [Narrator] Everyone
successfully rapalled
down the rock face.
Now, the expedition leaders
will let individuals know,
if they performed well enough to
continue,
on the expedition.
(whistling)
- Hey everybody, can
you come gather around?
- Pete, Chuck, please come over
here.
(drumming music)
- So today we finished
the first part of the
technical skills challenges,
as you know, you are being
evaluated at every moment,
I talked with Mikko, and
he's been talking with
the trainers and, he's made a
decision on
who gets to continue.
(whooping)
- You guys are doing great,
I think that you probably
still need some practice,
I mean, tomorrow we start the
big push,
tomorrow is gonna be a tough
day.
And, shit's about to get real.
- At 6a.m. we start, maybe
8 to 12 hours, it depends.
So, it's a long day.
- I'm gonna crash out, like, so
soon.
(gentle music)
- Tomorrow's gonna be
one of the hardest days,
so far and, we should see a
little bit of elimination,
we should see some people that,
just might not be strong enough
to do it,
might be me, who knows, I don't
know.
- I got back from rapalling a
bit ago and,
my God, it's really
terrifying because you go from
seeing like, rock under your
feet,
and then it just being
like a straight drop.
It was a little bit of
an internal struggle
but, I'm glad I did it, and
tomorrow our call time is
like at, four in the morning.
I never wake up at four in the
morning, that's 2a.m. in LA.
So, tonight we're gonna
have to get a lot of rest.
- Each training session, kinda,
is another
piece of the puzzle, how
we're gonna get up on top
of that mountain, and it just
feels good,
to get more confident, as we
learn more.
- This is why white
people climb mountains,
I get it now.
I'm learning the culture,
and I'm infiltrating and
I understand it now,
so step by step, I'm getting it.
It's actually pretty cool,
I didn't know, none of
this shit worked like this,
like I didn't know it was so
technical.
- I think everyone's on track to
crush it,
peace.
- [Narrator] Coming up
on Ultimate Expedition,
the team must reach new heights.
- Do we have to climb up that?
- Yeah.
- [Narrator] And climb a 100
foot vertical wall of ice.
- Oh my God, I'm so tired.
- [Narrator] It will push
everyone to their limit,
and some, to their breaking
point.
- I don't think I can do this.
(crying)
(dramatic ambient sound)