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[dramatic music] and may contain mature subject matter.
[gunshot fires]
male narrator: In one of the most brutal
survival challenges ever,
three strangers will try to endure 30 days in the wild
with only one resource:
a fresh kill,
its location marked by a single flare.
- The flare is up.
We have to get to that animal very quickly,
preserve it
so I have something to eat for the next month.
[tense music]
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- The terrain out here is crazy.
Be really careful.
narrator: They have no tools.
- We're going out there with no knife.
It's intimidating.
There's a lot riding on our primitive skills.
narrator: Just the clothes on their backs.
- We're living completely off the land,
using what nature provides.
Sticks, rocks, plants, and then obviously the animal.
narrator: Do they have the stamina and ingenuity
to survive?
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- Look here.
Yes. All right, now it begins.
- When I first see this animal, I'm thinking,
"How in the world are we gonna cut this up?"
- Aw, man.
- That's the biggest animal I've ever seen.
- Oh, my goodness gracious.
- My number one priority:
We need to open up the animal cavity.
- We need a rock quick, huh? - Yeah, a bunch of 'em.
- Once it's dead, it can rot from the inside out,
so we need to get the guts out of the moose,
and for that we need to find
a sharp enough rock since we have no knives.
- All right.
[percussive music]
I find that this experience
gives an opportunity to connect with how it all began.
With rocks.
We're living completely off the land,
just like our ancestors had to do to survive out here.
Uh, the rock's kinda substandard.
A lot of it's like a shale consistency.
I've worked without a knife in the woods quite extensively.
I currently teach survival for the United States Army.
I became very passionate about survival
after my first trip to Afghanistan in 2004.
I'm taking on this challenge to test myself
and my survival mentality and ethos.
This looks a little bit better,
but not nowhere near good.
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- Right now we need to be in visual of the moose.
We're gonna open up the moose, get those innards out,
and that smell's gonna go all the way inland
and let everybody know we're here.
Just seeing a lot of bear sign here.
And wolverine I think are our two biggest things.
So we need to protect it for tonight.
This is a-- we've only got, like,
probably, like, two hours of daylight left shelter.
This challenge is gonna highlight primitive skills,
and for the last 20 years of my life,
that has been a passion of mine.
I got a degree as a natural resources technician.
So I have the academic background
in plants and ecology.
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I've got five kids watching back at home.
I want them to know that
if they have desires in this world,
they can go after it, and they can do it.
So yeah, I'm doing this for my kids.
- Right now I'm trying to figure out
how to get those innards out.
After the animal dies
the bacteria in the stomach continues to live on.
Once it gets out, it'll spread into the meat,
so that's why it's really paramount
to remove the innards as soon as possible.
Not happening. - No.
- Need a better point.
My largest skill set is hunting
and fishing and butchering wild animals.
I would imagine it was very hard
for the early man to survive
out in these environments
without any of this modern equipment,
and I look forward to walking in their boots
for the next month.
- That's coming through pretty good.
- Yeah, it's doable.
So, what I was thinking, I'm doing pretty good here
if you wanted to try to cut
a parallel strip of hide off this for the--
- Yeah, for the bow drill. - Add it to the bow drill.
- Yeah, that sounds good.
Being wet and cold out here is a scary feeling
so fire is definitely high on the priority list.
[tense music]
So we're gonna connect the hide
to a traditional bow drill
like the Native Americans would've done.
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- Amy! Where you at?
- I'm just trying to get supplies set.
- [heavy breathing]
This is what we're gonna use for--
hopefully for the bow drill string.
This is too sticky right now to run.
So maybe you can work on a tree?
- I'll go work on a tree. - I'll take the boughs.
I'll start stacking them neatly.
- You wanna take boughs? Awesome.
- Nate's doing okay right now. - Okay.
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What we're trying to do is to be able to get something
so we can make the string part that is for the bow,
and we need a bow to create friction fire.
And I can't do that with the hair on it.
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- Over the next couple days I hope to accomplish
getting the moose completely butchered up.
I plan on using just about everything there.
That's our lifeline.
That's our food source for the next month.
I gotta kinda be really careful where I'm at.
I'm trying to finesse my way around that stomach lining
without nicking it.
A little tiny nick's okay,
but you sure don't wanna cut it,
because it'll come spurting out everywhere,
and contaminate the meat,
so this is a pretty crucial part I'm at here.
The stones are very porous.
The sharp points break off very frequently
and very easily.
I found it very difficult to cut.
Trying to keep everything well organized here.
One wrong swipe and it changes everything.
My confidence in a wilderness situation
largely comes from the immense amount of time
that I've spent out in the wild by myself.
I do tend to struggle in the suburbs.
The constant sound of the lawnmowers
and weed whackers
does tend to get underneath my skin a little bit.
It makes me really long to be out in the wild.
Now if I'd've had a normal knife,
this would've been done, like, an hour ago.
It goes pretty quick.
The sun sets very quickly this time of year in the arctic,
and I know that time is limited.
- We're getting close to nighttime,
and I think the windbreak is coming along
as good as it's gonna.
- [grunts]
- But our fire right now
I think is gonna be our biggest challenge.
I think this stuff is strong enough.
- Right.
- As this temperature changes,
snow comes in, rain comes in,
and there's intense predators around here.
We need fire.
- We were able to connect the hide to a bow
with kind of a traditional bow drill.
Okay, here we go.
Nice and easy.
It's frickin' hanging up in the bottom.
Being out here is teaching me
how much of a struggle it really is.
I was playing with the materials
and then I found out very quickly
that these materials weren't that easy to work with.
All right, here we go.
We're slipping.
No, no. - No, not yet?
- No. It's so close, man.
[tense music]
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- We're so close, man.
- Okay.
- It isn't even-- it's not pulling on it.
Yeah, I'm not--I'm not wore out, it's getting--
- It's getting hung up.
- This is-- this is not dry enough.
Because we didn't have time to dry it.
We're short on time, long on work.
Making fire tonight may be more difficult than it sounds.
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We just gotta get this fire. Hold it right there.
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[groaning] [bleep].
[groans]
Jesus.
Started on this right off.
Positivity is a hard thing to hold onto
when you've failed and failed and failed
for hours and hours and hours and hours,
and you know how badly you need that fire.
- I don't know if we're getting a fire tonight.
- Problem is you can't see your co--
can't see your coal in the dark.
You can't see where you're at, you know what I mean?
I may be prepping what's gonna be used tomorrow.
Now we need to hunker down for the night.
It's been a long day with not a lot of ups.
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What did you hear?
- I heard, uh, big footsteps.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
But it wasn't like a scurry, like a little forest creature.
Like, you know, pine marten or something like that.
It was definitely bigger.
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- Day two, we have this temporary shelter built,
but we all didn't sleep the best last night.
It was not a warm night,
and we're still struggling with fire.
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No fire means no working on any other shelters.
No other tools.
And fire is taking a lot of calories,
and we're not getting any benefit back out of it.
It's frustrating having pounds of meat at our disposal,
and we can't eat any of it.
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- This taking as long as it's taking
for me to get fire is getting me down a bit
because I feel that's the role I chose to follow, you know?
Nathan chose to follow the moose,
Amy chose to follow the shelter,
and I wrapped my arms around the fire,
and it's very, very frustrating
not to have got it going yet.
[bleep].
Without fire, you can't eat the food.
Without fire it's gonna be very, very cold.
Without fire, we're dead in the water.
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- The arctic's a tough environment.
- You're wet no matter what you do.
[retches]
- Danger is always present.
- Fresh blood.
[wolf howls]
- And you know it's always gonna be there.
[animal snarling]
[bleep]. [bleep].
[dramatic music]
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- Day three, we have not had any food now
in these three days except for just some berries.
But I know there's one food that we can get at
that I'm perfectly fine having raw,
and that's gonna be the bone marrow.
[percussive music]
That high fat, high energy food
that's in that lower leg I think is what we need
as some sort of food right now.
We need some sort of boost of our energy.
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- [grunts] Look at that.
That's nice.
That score that you did really, really helped.
You see the marrow right in there now.
- Yeah, we'll be able to scoop.
That make our life a little easier.
Moose is not one of our options that we can eat raw out here.
There' way too many pathogens in that meat.
It's much harder for pathogens to be in marrow,
as the moose is in the water eating and things like that.
There's different parasites that he gets in his intestines
and can migrate to muscle tissue,
but it's very difficult to get into the bones.
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Ladies first? - Oh, of course.
- [laughs] - You know?
- [laughs]
- It tastes very fatty. - It is.
- Obviously.
Tastes good. [laughs]
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That was a game changer.
That's really suppressing the hunger,
and allowing me to focus on getting that fire going.
[ominous music]
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Okay, nice and easy.
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I can't push--
- Yeah, hold up, hold up, hold up.
- I can't press down any harder 'cause it just binds.
Which means you ain't gonna get no fire.
We kept sharpening the spindle
and sharpening the spindle
to try to get it friction free,
but it definitely feels like we're in a negative gain here.
We just need some lubricant up there
to get that thing spinning.
Yeah, let's put some marrow on that.
By unlocking that leg bone,
we use some of the marrow on the spindle
up in the socket
to give us a little more slick transition there.
Let's go.
Go, go, go.
[tense music]
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All right. - Okay, oh.
- That may be a coal.
- That little baby coal that is starting there
can get extinguished in many different ways.
The most prominent way is movement,
and as soon as it gets too much oxygen actually,
it just dissolves and falls apart.
- Nice and easy.
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- You got this, Jason.
- I'm doing it, and you know,
my heart's beating 'cause I know how important this is.
But I've been there before so many times.
I know what right looks like.
So, you know, you're able to calm down and look at it
and say, "You know, I've been here before.
I'm just bringing a coal to fire."
- There you go.
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- [heavy breathing]
- Okay, get my sticks. - Oh, my God.
Oh.
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Man, I'm gonna tell you right now.
Oh, my God. - [laughs]
- [sighs]
- Ah. - Aw, man.
That was--that was the hardest I ever worked for a fire
in my life, man.
Oh, thank you, God.
- Oh. - [laughs]
Yes!
Oh, arctic, you didn't beat me! [both laugh]
[tense music]
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- Now that we have a fire to utilize,
we're gonna eat cooked meat.
Back home, the heart is our first meal
out of every animal that we harvest.
Raising kids in that atmosphere teaches
for all of us to be very aware of our consumption.
We have an animal's life that was taken,
and I think we have a due diligence
to be respectful towards it.
So part of that respect is eating the heart.
Okay.
So we collected a bunch of berries yesterday,
so we're gonna put berries in the chambers of the heart.
Being able to utilize a moose
in a way that our ancestors would've tried to utilize,
I find it an honorable thing to do.
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So the fire should just reflect the heat off
against these rocks so it'll take a while,
but I think it's gonna be super tasty.
- Yeah.
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Mmm.
- We're finally able to cook some of the moose,
and you know we hadn't eaten for several days out here,
and that was a big game changer.
That good or what?
- Yeah. You're welcome, guys.
- That turned out awesome.
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[percussive music]
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It's just nice to have some extra cordage here
for small projects, you know? - Definitely.
- Cordage, in and of itself, is just something to tie with.
It can be any type of material
whether it's plant or animal material.
This is the lower moose leg here.
Got the hide off.
We took the Achilles tendon
and pounded it
and then took the sheath off of it,
and what's inside are all these fibers.
So now I can twist those up and make some thread.
But in quick short order,
that's kinda what we're getting right here.
We're getting a-- a nice little thread.
- Thank you for making me this thread.
So now we're gonna stitch this hole up.
The pericardium sac is the tissue
that holds the heart in its place.
At this point in time we have no access to other containers,
so I'm taking the sac, sewing up the hole,
and I think we'll be able to at least go down to the lake
and use that as a bigger vessel
to bring 2 to 3 cups of water in that.
- All right, Amy, I'ma link up with Nate.
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Yeah.
- [sighs]
I really want to get all the quarters
put out in front of the structure
where I can keep a close eye on it.
It's gonna be super important
in order to keep the predators off our meat.
I try to mitigate those dangers
through doing smart things
and being aware of my surroundings.
- There it goes.
- [sighs]
- Each environment's
gonna come with its own inherent goods and bads.
The meat hasn't spoiled, and that's a good thing.
That's what the cold does for you up here,
but the day to day grind of being cold,
it just wears every fiber, and that's bad.
[ominous music]
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- So, this morning, we woke up, and it was starting to snow.
And it's pretty thick. - [coughs]
The weather is changing right now,
and now I'm sick, and it just pisses me off
that I'm out here sick because my body is pulling me down.
I hope the ceiling doesn't leak too much.
The windbreak with the flat roof,
it's meant as an extremely temporary shelter,
and there's snow up on top of it now,
so with a fire going that snow is going to melt
and instead of being snowed on,
we are being rained on in the shelter.
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- I mean, I don't know how to fix it
without tearing the whole thing apart.
- I don't know.
I'm sitting here, getting dripped on.
I mean, right now,
when I went to go to the bathroom over that way,
I was drier over there-- - Yeah.
- Than I am in our shelter.
- When it comes to safety,
obviously shelter is our main concern now
'cause of hypothermia.
- What's the deal, you think?
We're just gonna get soaked in here.
So if I'm gonna get soaked, I'd rather be productive soaked.
- I'd like to just get on with doing the other shelter.
- Okay.
Let's go.
[tense music]
- The arctic is especially challenging...
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Compared to other cold climates.
The weather changes immediately,
the lake temperature is only, like,
3 degrees above freezing,
and the ground's freezing cold.
It's a tough environment.
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So we need to build a really nice structure.
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- It's like you're sweating here,
and then you're soaked on the feet.
You're wet no matter what you do.
My shoes are completely soaking wet
and about double the weight they were yesterday.
Getting too wet can be a first aid issue.
- You need to get some tea. Go get some water.
I think you'll feel a lot better, yeah.
You good, girl? - Yep.
- Okay.
- I took a gamble with this footwear.
Mukluks are the footwear of choice
for traditional peoples that live in the northern climates
where you have below freezing temperatures.
Bad part is, we're still transitioning out of rain,
so I'm getting soaking wet.
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My coat's soaked.
I'm sitting here getting dripped on.
I'm gonna be spending good portions of each day
drying out footwear.
Trying to come up with some other creative ways
to not get so wet, I guess.
And with me fighting a cold, I'm hoping my health holds out
because there's a real risk of hypothermia.
- There's wolverines really close to our camp.
[sighs] Oh, [bleep].
Fresh blood.
- Nate, did you hear that?
- Did you see something back there?
- [bleep].
[dramatic music]
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- I'll get some more boughs,
close this in a little bit more.
- The shelter's done.
We're just upgrading here and there.
What's next for us now
is prepping for freezing cold temperatures.
- [coughs]
Dealing with a simple cold,
there's a lot of aspects that I think are
making it harder for me to heal
with the weathers thrown at us, and my boots.
My feet get soaked, and that's not acceptable,
'cause moisture up here can be deadly.
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I need to make some more protection for my feet.
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I'm gonna take my rocks,
and I'm gonna peel back the hide part of the lower leg
to complete my gaiters for my boots.
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So I got four legs
that each have some sort of piece this size.
Uh, I think this is what I'm gonna end up
trying to sew around to keep my feet drier.
That's kinda what I'm-- I'm thinking here.
I think it'll shed a lot of the water,
and it'll keep the rest of this from getting so wet so quickly.
I'm gonna be sewing with this.
I will never look at a knife when I get back home
the same ever again.
If I couldn't come up with a solution
I probably would've tapped out.
To sit here and have soaking wet feet the entire time
and be a productive member of our team--
No.
But now I feel I can be productive
so I don't see any reason to tap out.
I'm going to make it to the end
by being adaptable and solving these problems
with whatever tools we can make
from the land and from the animal.
And I wanna be able to teach that to my kids.
[solemn music]
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- All right.
It's wet and miserable out right now.
The fact of the matter is
it's only gonna get colder and more brutal.
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Hopefully we don't get, like, a foot of snow.
At least just a few inches or something.
- Yeah.
- Days are getting shorter, and we lose
about 10 degrees in temperature each week.
- I'm starting to feel sicker.
It's frustrating because I don't have access
to what I normally would do to get better,
so I'm gonna get us some hot liquids.
It seems that the--
the team is open to using the stomach to make some tea.
I just wanna be able to move it
without hearing too much of a crinkly sound.
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It's pliable enough, so...
I just don't want it to tear.
We need to make the stomach portable
so we're making coiled baskets to support the stomach.
- So we made cordage out of grass,
and then I'm just doing a wrap.
We built a basket,
and we're gonna attempt to do a hot rock boil
with some Labrador tea.
I just wanna aid and assist her in getting what she needs.
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Look at that.
Ha-ha! Look at...
Boom! - Beauty, right there.
- Good job. [laughs]
- So we have the cordage.
I'm gonna do an initial dunk,
get a little bit of that ash off real quick,
and then I'm gonna move it around in this one.
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Oh.
That's what I've been waiting for.
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[ominous music]
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- Oh, jeez.
We have fresh--
fresh blood.
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To me it looks like animal confrontation.
This is kinda matted on the snow,
so I'd say it was a wound that actually hit the ground here.
I know there's wolverines, and there's fox,
and there's wolves here.
Got some real apex predators really close to our camp,
and so that is definitely a concern.
[tense music]
[animal howls]
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[wind howls]
[dramatic music]
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- I think our biggest concern right now is predators.
They're definitely circling the camp.
There's been a lot of tracks,
and it's our responsibility to defend our meat.
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So we're bringing the meat closer
to one centralized location,
and with the low temperatures
the meat is frozen absolutely solid.
So they'd have to gnaw at it a while
which would give us some type of inclination
that they were out there,
and we can build some early warning there to deter them.
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- We're hanging up the meat on one meat pole.
And take that moose hide to make a bunch of cordage.
- I'm, uh-- - Go ahead, lean on me.
- Yeah, I'm gonna have to lean on you
just a little bit here, bud.
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[grunts]
- Main thing is to get them all together
in the same general area,
so when we hear a noise at night
we're not scanning left and right.
If they're all together, we know exactly where to look.
This one's kinda hanging low, huh?
Cut off?
- Let's just cut dinner off it, you know?
- Yeah. - That'll shorten it.
- We're keeping one of the quarters in our shelter
so we can defrost it
and eat off it as we go, so we do have food.
- [grunts]
There's a decent steak.
It's so cold, man, I don't even wanna eat.
I eat 'cause I know I wanna eat, not 'cause I'm hungry.
I've already lost 17 pounds.
[chilling music]
I've probably-- I'm probably over 20 now.
[grunts]
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[wind howling]
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Amy!
- Yeah?
- Can you stomach some steak?
- Uh, I'm-- I'm good right now.
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So, I have been sick,
and I'm getting sicker.
Yesterday, I started getting dizzy.
It was, uh, enough where I have to sit a lot of the day.
And now it has turned so bad that I have a constant nausea.
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[retches, coughs]
I have thrown up twice now.
My hazards have just skyrocketed.
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- Here, I'll get the door for you.
She's really sick. It just keeps getting worse.
But if you can't get up and walk
because you're too nauseated,
that pretty much says it all right there.
You gotta take care of yourself.
- [sighs]
- We need Amy to get better.
I really want the team to stick together,
and I'm hoping that she can shake it off.
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[Amy coughing]
[coughing continues]
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- Today Amy's health seems to be deteriorating
quite rapidly.
She doesn't wanna get up and walk around
because she's very, very dizzy,
so Amy asked to see a medic this morning...
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[flares whistle]
And I'm very concerned at this point
about how this is gonna progress.
- Yeah.
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- Yeah, a little bit.
[tense music]
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- Okay.
- Yeah, exactly.
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It sucks.
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Being told I couldn't continue, that was--that was low.
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- Losing Amy, it's gonna be tough.
We still need the same amount of firewood,
but now we have less hands to carry 'em.
We have less ideas.
You take a set of hands away,
and the job gets bigger for who's left.
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- I didn't finish,
and I'll have that hang over me for my whole life.
But what am I gaining
if I go back home to my family with life altering injuries?
But I think they're gonna be proud of me,
and that's pretty neat, to have your kids be proud of you
versus you being proud of your kids.
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- I think our biggest concern right now is predators.
- Moose used to be laying over there yesterday.
He runs out of things to eat down here,
you can bet your boots
he's gonna be coming down to our camp.
[dramatic music]
- Just another morning, you know?
More to do, less hands to do it,
with Amy being gone as of yesterday.
We're gonna maintain the fire inside.
So we'll take turns kinda doing excursions.
- I'm just gonna head on out
and bring back some big branches.
- In the grand scheme of things
when it comes to, like, the tribe
if you will, of Nathan and I,
fire is the key to survival right now.
[wind howling]
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- Something with pretty big feet hopped along here.
And here's the toes.
There's one, two, three, four, five toes.
Definitely has claws.
So I'm about 100% certain that's a wolverine track.
And it's going the direction of the moose carcass and our camp.
I've seen videos of wolverines
keeping a whole pack of wolves off of carcasses
and chasing grizzly bears off of carcasses,
and I've heard of them
attacking polar bears and killing them.
And if the wolves and a grizzly bear and a polar bear
can't handle a wolverine, I know I can't.
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[bleep].
The moose used to be laying over there yesterday.
That shows just how tough it is.
Looks like he really got after that nose.
It's, uh, gonna-- just the start of a long winter
for these, uh, forest carnivores,
and when he runs out of things to eat down here,
you can bet your boots
he's gonna be coming down to our camp.
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[brush rustling]
[wolverines snorting]
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- We have wolverines within the general area here.
There's tracks literally everywhere around the camp.
- You can see 'em along here.
There's one, and another, over here, and there.
- The big risk of having a wolverine come into camp
is him eating the food and our safety.
- I'd say at this point
we're still not prepared for predators
like wolverines coming into camp.
So I wanna make a torch
to protect the moose and protect us.
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I'm just collecting sap.
Basically the best fuel we have out here.
So I plan on melting this down
and coating my torch heads with it.
Should light right up, and be real bright,
and burn for a very long time.
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- So I have this torch
that I split the end in several different directions,
and then I stuffed in some moss,
wrapped it tight with grass to hold it all together,
and I have a little bit of a pointed end,
and this is my torch for at night.
The idea is just to try to mop as much of that up on here
as I can.
So if it's coming at you all teeth and stuff,
with that big flame on the end,
you can stick it right on out there,
and it would certainly deter it.
Nothing likes a flame in its face.
Got my torch ready to go.
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Got birch, a bunch of good pieces of dead spruce,
and Nate's got the longer spear torch.
And I got the shorter one for more mobility.
'Cause it's small, I can kind of
toss this in the direction potentially.
Predators have gotten emboldened day by day by day,
so Nathan and I kind of come together as a team
so we can stay safe.
- We are holding our own,
and I think if we have an encounter with 'em
we'll be ready for 'em.
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[eerie music]
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[brush rustling] [sniffing]
Yeah. - Nate, do you hear that?
I thought I heard something, like--
like, same direction as the meat pole outside.
Listen, listen, listen.
- Yeah, okay.
- Do you hear it? Do you hear it?
Okay, okay.
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Check it out.
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[rustling]
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[whispers indistinctly]
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- Yeah, I can't see anything.
[tense music]
- Did you see something back there?
Where's the...meat pole at?
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Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
[wolverine snarling]
[bleep]. [bleep].
[dramatic music]
[wolverine sniffing] - Do you hear that?
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Did you see something back there?
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Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
[wolverine growls]
[bleep]. [bleep].
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I swear I thought I saw something run.
Well, whatever was out here hopefully ran off.
I don't see no eyes.
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Meat looks unmolested,
so maybe we scared 'em off before they got to eat.
Hopefully he'll think twice
about kind of coming back into camp.
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I started out the day with cold feet.
It's just--it's-- it feels miserable
with a slight bit of disheartening today,
is kinda how it feels.
I haven't seen the wolverine for quite some time.
[sighs]
But out here in the arctic there's no reprieve.
Danger is always present
and you know it's always gonna be there.
Warm up, feet.
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[wind howling]
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- It got pretty cold last night.
We had too many holes along the bottom of the shelter,
and we definitely had a wind chill factor
inside the shelter which was, uh, no good
so I'm trying to button it up real tight
'cause it's only gonna get colder.
I would say that we are barely maintaining.
It definitely gets more challenging
as the weather gets colder.
Just everything's so frigid
it just makes things uncomfortable,
and you either have to keep moving
or you have to get near the fire in order to stay warm.
It's starting to cool down fast out there now.
At this point I'm about ready to end the challenge.
I'm really looking forward to getting on my way home.
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[stark piano music]
This environment is hard work.
There's hardship and cold and very limited resources.
- As far as working with strictly natural materials,
stone tools, it's certainly a unique challenge.
We were really at a detriment out here
with the limited rocks to make tools.
So, yes, very, very challenging experience.
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- It feels awesome to know
that I made it through this challenge.
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I have a very deep respect for the first people,
the things that their ancestors went through--
just mind-boggling,
you know, the hardship and the cold, and I respect them.
I found it to be very difficult.
[flare whistling]
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It's a harsh, really tough environment,
but I don't really think
it's really gonna change my love of the woods,