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(dramatic music)

(helicopter)

(muffled) I'm flying over the jungle
coastline of Costa Rica,

and you get hundreds of these river
tributaries that run into dense jungle.

These rivers are full of crocs and snakes.

Then you've got these huge
ravines and these volcanic cliffs.

I'm on my way now to
pick up actor Ashton Kutcher.

He said to me he wants
to be pushed to test his mettle.

If he wants a challenge,
he's come to the right place.

This is Running Wild: The Challenge.

ASHTON:
I'm somewhere on the coast of Costa Rica.

and looking forward to a two-day
adventure with Bear Grylls.

(mimicking Bear Grylls)
Okay. We're here! Yeah!

What we got to do is
we're gonna head downhill!

We got to look out because
there's snakes all over here!

That thing will take you right out!

Let's go!

BEAR:
This is Ashton Kutcher.

When you think of Ashton, you
probably think of his biggest TV hits.

Two and a Half Men,
Punk'd, That 70's Show.

We have breaking news. I'm toasted.
(audience laughter)

BEAR: Or maybe you think
of the millions of dollars he's made

by investing in some of the world's
most successful startups.

I was pitched Uber before
Uber ever raised a single dollar.

BEAR: Or maybe you just think how
incredible his wife is, Mila Kunis.

But I'm taking Ashton into the wild,

where he's gonna have
none of these things,

and he's gonna have to show
what he's capable of

when you take away fame,
money, and, yes, even Mila.

I was given this pack, and inside
lays cues about the future.

I basically grew up in and around the
woods, spent most weekends camping.

Fungi of some sort,
might be antiseptic.

Every time I go into the
woods, and I come out,

I gain an additional edge of confidence...

with everything else
that I'm approaching in life,

because you feel
like you pushed it a little bit.

That means I'm probably going airborne.

I believe in constantly pushing myself
into uncomfortable situations.

Good thing I'm done having children.

I think that that's how we grow as people,

and I suspect this could get
a little uncomfortable today.

(dramatic music)

-(muffled) It's about time you made it!
-BEAR (muffled): Welcome to Running Wild.

-ASHTON: Let's go.
-BEAR: Yeah.

(Ashton whoops)

Wow.

BEAR: We're gonna drop down.
We're gonna jump.

If Ashton wants to be pushed, there's
no better way to start this journey

-than to throw Ashton into the deep end.
-Look at the fear in these eyes.

BEAR: I hope he's ready.
(tense music)

One... two... three.

(Ashton screams)

(Ashton groans)
BEAR: Nice.

-ASHTON: Really nice drop.
-Yeah, yeah.

Good jump, well done.
(Ashton laughs)

You know, you'd be amazed how
people freak out in that sort of thing.

All right, Ashton.
Ready for some more?

ASHTON (yells):
Yeah.

BEAR: First of all, we need to find this
cache of gear that I've left somewhere,

near one big tree.

-Well, which would you reckon?
-It's your cache.

-I didn't leave the cache.
-I think...

You left the cache.
And you forgot where you left it.

This is like the beginning
of a bad buddy comedy.

Dude, where's my cache!

(dramatic music)

BEAR: Our extraction point is 14 miles
northwest, deep inside this jungle.

The terrain beneath
this dense canopy is rough

and teeming with creatures
that will eat you.

Along the way, I'll be teaching
Ashton some key survival skills.

He'll need to navigate
a dangerous maze of rivers,

traverse a nasty mangrove swamp,
and descend into a massive canyon.

At camp, I'll show Ashton
one final survival skill

that it takes jungle commandos
months to master.

On day two, he'll be put to the test

on one of the most challenging
traverses a guest has ever attempted.

But first we've got to find this cache.

ASHTON:
Did you figure out which tree it is?

BEAR: Well, it was genuine. It was
a mark of a big tree by the estuary.

(chuckles)

-Ah, under that tree.
-ASHTON: There's a boat there.

-BEAR: Yeah. We've just found our case.
-We're gonna take a canoe?

BEAR: Well, really we want to stay out of
this thick jungle for as long as possible,

so we're gonna use a canoe, head upriver.

ASHTON: This doesn't look like
the kind of canoes I grew up with.

Oh, there's a net!

Two nets, we'll use that to fish.

Box of matches.

-ASHTON: Oh, that's great. Keep those dry.
-Although...

-...One match.
-ASHTON: One match?

So, we're gonna get an
ember going with this one match.

Then we got to keep that ember going, just
wrap it up, protect it, it will smolder.

The mushroom is gonna be
our fire-starting tool.

Wait, hold on, but what are
we gonna keep the ember in?

Well, we'll just carry it in the backpack.

You're just gonna walk around
with fire in your backpack?

Yeah. It'll be fine.

Rather than relying on one match,
that in the humidity or rain is dead,

we've got this smoldering fungus and
we can really wrap it up and protect it.

This match is very small. Whether you
got rain, whether you got water,

whether you got humidity,
if that gets wet, we're done.

-So, this is less reliable.
-This is 100 times less reliable.

Okay.

BEAR: This will be Ashton's
first survival challenge.

The main thing, let's be prepared for this
and make sure we're protected

-from the wind.
-ASHTON: All right.

BEAR: He'll need to use this
one match to ignite a mushroom

and then guard that ember
along on our journey.

We've got one go at this.

-ASHTON: Okay.
-BEAR: You ready?

ASHTON: All right. Here we go.
(strikes match)

Oh, yes, sweet, sweet, sweet.
(tense music)

Great job. We have a burning ember. Look.
And that will keep burning for hours.

With the mushroom lit, Ashton's task
now is to keep that ember burning.

We're ready to travel.

ASHTON: As long as it doesn't go
under water, so don't tip the canoe.

BEAR (laughs):
Don't tip the canoe, yeah.

We're heading up this river,
into the swamp, into the jungle,

above all, we mustn't capsize, you know.

The ember will keep burning,
but not if it's under water.

So, we've got to protect that,
use it for fire later.

Ready? One, two, three. (grunts)

I have one job now:
keep the mushroom dry.

Woo, daddy.

That's my job, that's all I got to
do, that all I'm thinking about.

I'm like, "I'm the mushroom man."

BEAR: So, is adventure part of your life?
Do you get time for anything like this?

ASHTON:
Yeah. I guess when I was a kid,

I always like fantasized about
the ability to be able to do this.

Yeah.

ASHTON: I've been obsessed with
camping and fishing and hunting,

given that I was in the Boy Scouts.

-BEAR: Oh, were you a scout?
-Yeah.

BEAR: Awesome. I was a scout. I don't
think I was a particularly brilliant scout

-but I loved it, you know?
-ASHTON: Yeah, absolutely.

It's just a privilege to be
able to do those things.

How did you get into wilderness
adventure and things like that?

BEAR:
Yeah, so, my dad was a Marine and...

-So was mine.
-BEAR: Really?

-Yeah.
-BEAR: Oh, I love that.

You know, so we
were always doing stuff,

always kind of tinkering
around and climbing,

it's been the only thing I've ever been
half decent at, you know, and I love it.

It's been a privilege.

ASHTON: Kind of like just a pressure
test, like, what you're capable of,

just to really see
what the earth has to offer.

BEAR:
Yeah, yeah. 100 percent.

Okay. Here we go. We've
reached the end of this river.

Let's ditch this and get in there.

ASHTON: What do I need to know before
I start walking in through this stuff?

BEAR:
This screams croc territory.

Assume everything is out to get you,
watch where you put your hands and feet.

This is the perfect opportunity to show
Ashton his second survival skill:

compass navigation.

So, once we get in there, it's gonna be
hard to see the sun direction we use,

-so you're gonna navigate. Okay.
-ASHTON: All right. All right.

Little button compass, so we're gonna be
heading northwest. So, let it settle.

ASHTON:
So, we got north, northwest is there.

BEAR: If you can't use the sun as a point
of orientation, then use your compass,

and the best way of using that
compass is to figure out your direction,

then identify a prominent physical marker

that lines up with
your direction of travel.

This way, you're gonna stay
on course however dense the terrain.

I mean, it looks like
there's that one tree in there.

BEAR:
Yeah.

ASHTON: That we can
kind of use as a point to get to.

BEAR:
Lead the way.

ASHTON: The good old
button compass.

(dramatic sting)

BEAR: I've learned from bitter experience,
mangroves are hard and gnarly.

And when that tide comes in,
crocs fill these mangroves,

and if you do get injured here,
badly, break your leg,

you're on your own,
you do end up as croc food.

ASHTON:
This is wild, man.

BEAR: This is real ankle-twisting
terrain. Just work your way steadily.

Spread your weight, and be
careful what you're holding on to.

ASHTON:
Oh, boy.

BEAR: Careful even like that,
keep your hand on something.

ASHTON: It's tempting to like want to try
to like to get higher up in these things.

BEAR: Yeah. You start to
recognize the ones that are better.

-ASHTON: It's like tightrope walking.
-BEAR: Yeah.

Okay, check the bearing.

That's northwest, that's our heading.

This stuff is tricky! (grunt)

BEAR:
You know, you're fit, you're strong.

ASHTON:
It doesn't matter if you're fit.

-BEAR: (laughing) Yeah!
-ASHTON: It's still tricky.

BEAR: Do you know, I've never met any
strong person who's had an easy road.

Where does that strength
come from with you?

Like, two years ago, I had this
weird, super rare form of vasculitis

that, like, knocked out my vision,

-it knocked out my hearing.
-BEAR: Yeah.

ASHTON:
It knocked out like all my equilibrium.

It took me like a year to,
like, build it all back up.

You don't really appreciate
it until it's gone. Until you go,

"I don't know if I'm ever
gonna be able see again.

I don't know if I'm ever
gonna be able to hear again.

I don't know if I'm ever
gonna be able to walk again."

BEAR: Wow, what an ordeal.
Talk about strength through adversity.

-Lucky to be alive.
-BEAR: Lucky to be alive.

-Yeah, man.
-BEAR: Amazing.

ASHTON: The minute you start seeing your
obstacles as things that are made for you,

to give you what you need,
then life starts to get fun, right?

You start surfing on top of your problems.

BEAR:
Yeah.

ASHTON:
Instead of living underneath them.

BEAR: Hearing Ashton's story
about his autoimmune disease,

you know, that's a terrifying journey.

But it's also part of why
he's strong and resilient.

What do they say in survival:
Storms make you stronger.

And I think he's living proof of that.

-ASHTON: There's a clearing up ahead.
-BEAR: Well done, Ashton.

-Woo!
BEAR: Almost there.

ASHTON (laughs, yells):
I see the other side!

(dramatic music)

This is like a staircase, like
they made this for you, Bear.

BEAR:
Yeah. Oh, wow. Look at this.

(Ashton whoops)

BEAR: Yeah, that is a deep...

-ASHTON: That's unbelievable.
-BEAR: ...deep gorge.

Look at, that just drops straight
down. Do you see the bottom?

ASHTON:
That's crazy.

We're heading in that direction,
so whether we like it or not,

-we've got to figure out a way down.
-ASHTON: Is that why you have the rope?

BEAR:
Yeah.

-ASHTON: We're rappelling down this?
-BEAR: Yeah.

This will be our anchor rope, here we go.

Both of our lives are on this,
so we need to both be happy.

I just want to ensure
that it doesn't slip.

BEAR:
I think it's fine.

ASHTON:
There's a cliff in front of us,

which means we'll be doing some
rappelling, which I haven't done a lot of.

I've done it, like just
coming off the rock wall,

so I've never remotely done
something even close to this.

I'd be lying if I didn't say I'm...
not certain as to what's happening.

(laughs) That is crazy.
(dramatic music)

The plan is, I'm gonna go down,
make sure it reaches the bottom.

And I'll holler up, and then
you know you're good to go.

This rappel is quite intimidating.

Ashton hasn't done a lot of this before.
He's gonna be on his own up here.

(Ashton grunts)

So, remember, you are
your own safety on this, so.

ASHTON: Trust me, it is not lost
on me that I am my own safety.

BEAR: There's no one beside him, so
this will be a little bit of a challenge.

This rappel is a long way down.

At almost 300 feet, it's easy
to get exhausted and lose focus.

Ashton's gonna be his own safety on this,

so it's on him to keep
his footing and his safety grip.

I hope he's up to the challenge.

-Hand never comes off here, yeah?
-Brakes.

BEAR: You get a nice wide stance here and
leaning back. If I'm too upright, I slide.

(dramatic music)
Just trust it and lean back. Okay.

Yeah, this is gonna be
a scary one for Ashton.

It's a long way down to the bottom there.

ASHTON:
Wild, huh?

BEAR:
Yeah, about halfway here.

ASHTON:
That is crazy.

BEAR (yells): Okay! I'm off the rope!
It's just tickling the bottom. It's good.

ASHTON: One last check
with that old rock. (exhales)

(dramatic sting)

(exhales)

(exhales)
All right.

BEAR (yells): Definitely the point of no
return now. It is quite a scary drop-off.

(breathing heavily)

(yells) You've got this,
Ashton, just keep that calm.

(exhales)

Break time. 101 squats.

(exhales)

(Ashton whoops)

BEAR (calls): Careful where we move the
ropes over sharp edges up there.

When you next reach a little ledge,
jump back, it might flick over.

(crumbling)
(Ashton grunts)

BEAR:
Keep your hand on that rope.

-Let's do this.
-ASHTON: Man!

-Straight down here.
-ASHTON: Oh, boy.

Oh, boy.
(dramatic sting)

BEAR:
Keep that focus. You're almost there.

ASHTON:
Yeah.

-Great job, Ashton.
-ASHTON: All right, man.

Like a pro. Fearless, confident,
good line. You should be proud.

That is a long, long way. Well done.

ASHTON (exhales):
That takes a little bit of beef, man.

I've never even remotely done
something even close to this.

-BEAR: Well done.
-ASHTON: Thank you.

Wow! Check out this little
piece of paradise.

BEAR:
Yeah, a little piece of paradise,

but I've seen so many
little pools like this

where when you throw a rock
in and a croc jumps out.

We want to stay 100% out of this
water. So, we're heading that way.

Crocs, when they attack, they
attack out of that still water,

they're ambush predators, and they go.

My plan is eventually
to try and catch some fish.

But it's way too risky
to try to fish here,

so we're gonna continue along
and find a better spot.

Let's keep moving.

Okay, should we get some shade,
have a little water stop?

-Let's get under this tree.
-ASHTON: Tuck up in?

-BEAR: Yeah.
-ASHTON: Eh.

BEAR:
So, did you always want to be an actor?

Where did that come from?

ASHTON: I had a twin brother, and he
had a heart transplant when he was 13,

and there was like a period, rightly so,
that, he just needed a lot of attention.

And around that time,
I started doing plays,

and it was like the one time that
I had the undivided attention.

It felt like an identity, and
so I got really addicted to it.

And then I decided to go to college.

My name is Chris Kutcher,
I go to University of Iowa.

I went and entered
like a fresh faces contest,

won the trip out here, and now
I'm here and having a great time.

And then, I flew to Los Angeles
and started doing That '70s Show.

That was my first like, real job.

That's amazing to get it straight off
the bat. Did that change your life?

Yeah. I mean, down to my wife, right?

BEAR: Was there like
a romantic spark at that point?

ASHTON: No! I was 20 when
I got the job, and she was 15.

BEAR:
Yeah.

ASHTON: She was my little sister.
I used to do her chemistry homework.

So, what was it like then being in LA with
a show that was suddenly working, age 20?

It was really, really fun.

And then, of course, like, success
goes to your head really quick.

You just think you're
way cooler than you are.

(Bear hums)

I think I went from being like a nice kid,
to an *******, and then, you know,

go through the long path
back to being a nice person.

You know, you eat a little bit of humble
pie here and there, and it shifts things.

-Yeah.
-And then that keeps you on the rails.

Yeah, I like that.
Okay, we're gonna push on.

You know, I think so much of life,

everyone's trying to show
no chink of vulnerability.

But Ashton isn't like that.

He's strong enough to open up
and share the difficult stuff.

And when he talks about his past and
how it shaped the man he really is,

there's power to that, and that
shows real strength of character.

Here we go.

(monkey whooping)

Oh, look, you see
a termite nest.

So, let's take this one, and
we'll use that to burn later,

it keeps thee mosquitoes away. And later,
we're gonna get a lot of mosquitoes here.

-It's gonna get mosquito-y.
-Yeah. So, this is a good one to get.

All right.

Termites are a great thing for the
survivor. Not only can you eat them...

ASHTON:
All right. Termites away.

BEAR: ...but also, you can
just throw a termite's nest on the fire,

it's gonna create a smoke that keeps the
mosquitoes away, and in the jungle,

there are a lot of mosquitoes at night.

ASHTON: All right. (exhales)

BEAR: If you just tip the whole thing off
and then we'll just take a bit of it.

Watch, that'll be full of termites.

ASHTON: They're not happy with me.
I got some pissed off termites.

Let me just get my knife,
and I could just cut it out.

Oh, man. Hey! That thing is loaded, buddy.

-BEAR: Yeah.
-ASHTON: Let me just cut a chunk in.

-There we go.
-BEAR: There you go. Done.

-You ever eaten termites?
-ASHTON: I don't think I've eaten them.

I heard they taste
like peanut butter, though.

-And they're really high in protein.
-BEAR: Yeah. Get 'em off your hands.

ASHTON: Yeah, they're not bad. We're
having peanut butter and jelly tonight.

I mean, I'm up here at the buffet.
The buffet is, like, just loaded.

BEAR: Look, it's just raining
termites next to you, though.

-Yeah.
-BEAR: Little snack. Okay.

Well, let's take one bit of
that and we'll burn that later.

-Just give yourself a dust down.
-ASHTON: All right.

BEAR: I'll put this one
in my pack. Here we go.

The termites have given Ashton
and I a little protein pick-me-up.

Okay, here we go.

But we need to push onwards
through the jungle,

and we're on the lookout for a watering
hole where we can use our fishing nets

and try to get us a meal to
sustain us through the night.

ASHTON:
Oh, look at this.

Yeah, well, this would be a good
place to maybe look for something to eat.

You know, we can ease on in,
check it out, make sure we're safe,

and then see if we can
catch some dinner here.

(laughs) All right.

BEAR: This river appears
to be relatively shallow.

It might be a good place to use
our nets to trawl for fish.

-We are still in croc territory.
-Okay. You serious?

BEAR: I work on the principle you'd much
prefer to be aware of crocs than unaware.

Yeah.

BEAR: Just be mindful,
and we'll stay together.

ASHTON:
I do not want to tangle with a croc.

I have a knife, but my knife
is not gonna beat the croc.

I'm not Dundee, although
I did buy his beach house.

BEAR: Okay, come on, let's try a bit
here where it's a little shallower here.

We can just use our teamwork skills;

we can spread out the net and we
can just trawl through the river.

Pan it out, two of us,
so it's like a big tablecloth,

-we'll move downriver.
-Yeah.

BEAR:
And look where it gets narrow there,

we'll go into that corner,
we'll just keep trawling it.

The weights will keep the bottom
of the net on the riverbed,

and then we just drag it and any fish
going through will get caught in the net.

Trawling corral. Ready? Okay, here we go.

-Oh, watch out. Croc, croc, croc. Out.
-ASHTON: Where? Damn.

(tense music)
(Ashton yells)

Oh, watch out. Croc, croc, croc. Out.

-ASHTON: Where?
-BEAR: Out, out.

-Where?
-Punk'd! Punk'd!

(groans) Yeah. You don't
get to do that, man. ******.

What I saw was movement in the water
because he seeded it in my head.

I do promise you, if I say that
again, it won't be a punking.

(Ashton groans)
(laughing)

ASHTON: And then I went down.

Oh, what about the mushroom? Great job!
Great job, Bear! You killed the mushroom!

-You and your prank!
-BEAR: Arguably it was worth it. (laughs)

ASHTON: And I hope I didn't
get the mushroom wet,

that's all, I just pray
I didn't get the mushroom wet.

BEAR:
Okay, get the mushroom out. Here we go.

-Give it some air.
-BEAR: Okay, here we go.

Oh, look!

Still got smoke coming out.
That's good.

ASHTON: I'm shocked at how well
this thing holds an ember.

It would be pretty ironic if
we did get a croc.

ASHTON: Let's not shout croc
when we're in the marsh.

Unbelievable!
(both laugh)

So, make it the biggest area as
we can. Here we go. Keep going.

-Oh, look! No, there's something there!
-ASHTON: Hey, hey, hey!

(splashing)
Hold it, hold it, hold it!

BEAR:
I got it, I got it. No, that's good.

ASHTON:
Okay. (laughs) Dinner!

BEAR: Good job. Give it a whack.
There you go, good.

As you know, all freshwater fish
are edible. So, we can eat that.

It's not huge, but it's
better than nothing.

-Well, that's my dinner. Where's yours?
-BEAR (laughs): Yeah, okay.

I think that is fair
after that dunking.

(Ashton mock grunts)
After that punking dunking.

I'm not gonna live that one down, man.

BEAR: As far as I'm concerned,
that's dinner done.

Now we need to push on and really start
thinking about somewhere to make camp now.

(rhythmic music)

Okay, a bit of water.

So far, Ashton and I
have journeyed upriver

and deep into the Costa Rican jungle.

Our extraction is
another day's journey ahead.

And to get there, we're gonna be forced to
cross a massive volcanic ravine tomorrow.

But first, we need to find camp and to
show Ashton a crucial new survival skill.

And he's gonna need it if we're
gonna get across that ravine.

-ASHTON: Look at this little area.
-Yeah. It's cool, eh?

ASHTON:
It's pretty.

BEAR:
You know, maybe we use these trees here.

Make like a hammock
from those fishing nets.

A hammock?

The key with jungle shelters
is you got to be off the ground.

The ground is where you get all the creepy
crawlies, all the snakes, all the ants.

Ants can really mess up your night.

Maybe we, like, tie a knot
in the bottom of this,

so you don't drop out the bottom,
and then string the rest of it up.

We're gonna just improvise a
hammock with these fishing nets.

-ASHTON: We're gonna tie this over here?
-Yup. So tie that one off.

That's gonna lift us off that ground.

-Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
-ASHTON: Oh, yeah!

And help us hopefully to get some sleep.

Okay.

Okay, so, tomorrow, we're gonna
have to cross a big ravine.

(dramatic sting)

I've had my team leave us
a thick hemp rope,

so Ashton can practice a skill that will
prove essential to finish our journey.

-So, we're gonna be on the top of it.
-ASHTON: Okay.

BEAR:
I'm gonna teach him the commando crawl,

which is a technique that Marines
use to cross ravines on a rope.

So, you're gonna slide on there like this.

To move, you put
your hands in front of you,

lift up a little bit so you can breathe.
And you push with this leg.

I chose the commando crawl for a reason;

I want to challenge Ashton with
something intensely physical.

And if you fall off, you don't let go.

And to push him beyond what
he thinks he's capable of.

So, you want to stay on top.

You mean don't let go
and fall down into the ravine?

BEAR:
Yeah.

ASHTON: Tomorrow we're gonna be
crossing a gorge on a rope.

I don't know how I feel about
that. Um...yeah, it's, I...

-There you go.
-ASHTON (grunts): All right.

-There you go. There you go.
-Here we go.

Okay, so, one leg, one leg up. Yeah.
And then this one's your balance.

-ASHTON: Yup.
-Okay. And then hands in front of you,

and then you can lift
your hands off to your chest.

And then when you want to push,
you push with this leg.

-There you go. And then if you...
-Is it a long way across?

-Yeah. It's quite a long way.
-ASHTON: Come on, man.

I just went this far,
and I'm like (groans).

BEAR: This commando crawl is
quite a skill, it's quite technical.

For Marines, it takes them many, many
weeks sometimes to practice this.

So, if he does it all perfectly, stays on
top of the rope across this gorge, great.

But if he does roll off it
and lose his balance,

he needs to know how
to get back on top of it.

Yup, so get that one armpit up,
try and get your armpit up.

Okay. So all you're doing
is armpit, first of all.

So, you want both sides of your arms,
arms that side. Chest on top of the rope.

Okay. When you swing,
it will throw you up.

-Yeah? So, we're gonna (grunts) swing.
-ASHTON: No, that ain't throwing me up.

So, once you've got it here,
this one is your counterbalance.

ASHTON:
Got it.

BEAR: Alternatively,
just don't fall off tomorrow.

(dramatic sting)

(rhythmic music)

BEAR: So, you're hanging, you're 150 foot
up, the crocodile's snapping under you,

now get that armpit there.
You're not going up this side,

you're going up the other
side, now this leg lifts high.

I'm gonna practice on this
rope until I feel proficient.

BEAR:
Leg can go a little longer there.

ASHTON:
And from a risk mitigation standpoint,

I feel like I can make it
across without dying.

This is where this one goes up
and swings your momentum around.

But let's eat first, we'll practice later.

(quietly) ****, what am I doing wrong?

(laughs) "****, what am
I doing?" I love it.

Throughout our journey,
I've entrusted Ashton

with our only source of fire,
a smoldering mushroom.

Okay, so, here's the
mushroom out of your pack.

-Now he's gonna be put to the test.
-Still got one.

BEAR: He's gonna make us a fire
because our dinner depends on it.

-It's crazy that burns that slow.
-BEAR: I know. Okay, so...

(rustling)

Pick that up, hold it nice and loose.

Okay, then wrap it like a newborn baby.

We just - don't blow it -
just move it in the air.

Like this, yeah. Really good, a bit more.

There you go. There you go. Look, you're
getting some smoke out of that. It's good.

Yeah, the more you get it down in the
middle with the really thin fibers,

without crushing it so
the oxygen can go in.

It only takes one little bit to go.

-Keep it going, keep it going. Fire!
-Here it comes, here it comes.

-Great job.
-There it goes. There it goes.

Now we're gonna make use of it. Okay,
break these up. All the little ones.

-Good job. The mushroom works.
-ASHTON: The mushroom.

-The mushroom delivered.
-ASHTON: The mushroom lasted.

(Bear laughs)

Here you go, look, you've
done this a thousand times,

-you want to take the guts out of that?
-Do I want to, or do I get to?

(Bear chuckles)

Have you ever had someone fillet
a fish with their fingers before?

(laughs) Yeah, it's beautiful, it's
perfect. It's perfect, yeah, it's perfect.

ASHTON:
Okay. Perfect fillets.

BEAR: Then I thought for seasoning,
we could use the termites like a dusting.

Oh, yeah?

BEAR:
So, then we shake out some of these.

Oh, oh, oh, oh. I got it.
Like we can bread it.

BEAR:
Yeah, yeah. With termites.

ASHTON: You bread it in termite nest,
more so than termites, yeah?

-We'll put that on a hot stone.
-Oh, look at the breading.

BEAR: Yeah, we want it all over that,
and then the termite nest will burn,

and we'll put that on the hot stone.

-ASHTON: Oh, look at all that flavor.
-BEAR: Yeah.

Drop it in there.

BEAR: It might not be pretty,
but it will do the job.

Good job today. You know, we survived,
haven't got munched by a croc.

-Still smiling? (laughs)
-Man, thank you. This is super fun.

BEAR: So, weren't you quite a real
party animal when you were young?

I think I worked hard, played hard.

I basically spent my,
like, 20s and 30s working.

And so now I'm in my 40s
and I'm gonna slow down and...

-BEAR: Yeah.
-...do stuff like this.

Yeah.

ASHTON:
I'm gonna try the fish.

-Fish is good.
-Happy?

-Yeah. No, it's good.
-Tastes like mackerel.

-It's good.
BEAR: So, who taught you all of this?

Was your dad like that?
What did he do after the Marines?

Uh, my dad went and
worked at a meat-packing plant.

And then in the recession in the '80s,
showed up at work one day,

and they told him that
his salary was cut in half.

And that if he wanted to still have a job,
he's gonna work for half the money.

Then he started doing construction work.

Yeah, when, when I was a kid, if I wanted
to see my dad, I went to work with him.

Occasionally like on a Sunday
morning we would go fishing,

which was always my favorite thing.

Life is who you travel with,
at the end of it.

-BEAR: That's quite a bond, isn't it?
-Yeah, it's crazy.

(bird calling)
BEAR: You know, it's interesting,

because you've always had to
live your life in the public eye,

you know, like when you
got married to Demi.

-That looked quite an adventure.
-Yeah, it was wild. I...

She seemed like this amazing human.

And then I met her kids,
who were incredible.

The relationship accelerated
really, really fast.

Then I was 25 and a father
of three teenage girls, and going,

-"Wow, this is fast, this is a lot."
-BEAR: Yeah.

Rumer was going to college

and Scout went away to college,
and Tallulah was graduating.

And at that point, our relationship
had sort of gone in a different direction,

and it really wasn't
representing what I wanted.

And so, then it ended.

I was like, "I'm done with
relationships. This is, that's it."

But then I reconnected with Mila.

Actually, we were like
backstage at the Golden Globes.

I remember seeing her and going, "Whoa,"

and I think she had a similar experience.

And then we just started hanging
out, like casually, and...

it was just right.

-And two children later?
-ASHTON: Two kids later,

and I would say I'm just more crazy
about her now than I ever have been.

-Yeah.
-ASHTON: I'm, once again, just lucky.

Mila, she didn't grow up with a ton,
I didn't grow up with a ton.

It was easy for us to have appreciation
for things, 'cause we didn't have a lot.

You've also got to go
through the failures.

ASHTON: The failures teach you everything.
It's hard to learn when you're winning.

The obstacles are the...
they're like lesson stores.

-(laughs) Yeah.
-ASHTON: You know what I mean?

It's like people are like
handing out free lessons.

I love those lessons, it's so true.

ASHTON: Just like I got to figure out
how to get across this damn rope.

-You've got till the morning.
-You're telling me,

-I've got all night to figure this out?
-BEAR: You've got all night.

-BEAR: Jungle, 12 hours of darkness.
-Oh. Great.

BEAR:
Okay. I think I'm gonna hit the hay.

I'm just gonna go work
on that thing a bit.

-I want to be prepared when we get there.
-BEAR: You got this, Ashton.

You're gonna find that strength
inside, my friend. Come on.

(grunts) All right.

(grunting, sighing, continuous)

(grunts) There it is. Okay,
I think I got it.

Now I just have to do it
with my backpack on.

(dramatic music)

So, I woke up, and Bear, very
sweetly, left me this beautiful note.

He's, I don't...
We'll find out where he is.

It says, "Hey, legend, wakey, wakey."
That's cute. It's really cute, Bear.

"I've gone ahead
and set the commando crawl."

Been looking forward to that all night.

"Head northwest for one mile
and you'll see the gorge."

And then this crazy signature that
does not look like it says Bear.

Tell me that says "Bear."

That doesn't say "Bear."
All right, so northwest.

Good thing I still got the handy
dandy little thumb compass,

and it looks like northwest, I
would say northwest is that way.

BEAR: Yesterday I showed Ashton
how to use a compass to navigate.

So, you're gonna navigate, we're gonna
be heading northwest. Lead the way.

I also showed him a Marine technique
called the commando crawl.

-There you go, there you go.
-There we go.

Okay. So one leg up.

Yesterday Ashton struggled to
commando crawl along a 20-foot rope.

some five feet above the ground.

-Okay, so here's the gorge.
-I hope he's been practicing,

because today the terrain is
a ravine that's 80 feet across...

...and 300 feet deep.
A much more difficult challenge.

(tense music)

(grunts) Oh, this is gonna
be tough for him.

ASHTON: One mile, that's
not bad. This is due west.

Nah, go around.

Couldn't leave me with a machete.

(tense music)

About halfway, a long
way down. Check this out.

(breathes)

Keep your balance, keep your
balance, don't look down.

That is definitely a workout.

Sort of pressure on your chest, and then
it's biceps pulling and balance,

and midway looking down, you're
not human if you don't kind of think,

"Oh, wow. That is a big old drop."

(exhales) It's gonna be a test. Come on.

ASHTON:
Ah. Okay.

(yells) Oh, there you are.
Good morning, darling!

(calls) Well, I said it was
gonna be a challenge.

But the thing is, we get across this,

we save ourselves miles,
so it's gonna be worth it.

(groans)

BEAR: So, what you need to do
is get your carabiner,

clip it over the big rope and onto
that same loop on your harness.

That's your safety, and then
I've got you on this black line.

If there's a problem,
I can give you a pull as well.

-Okay.
-BEAR: I mean, it should be strong enough.

I don't like shoulds, coulds,
woulds. I don't like any of those things.

-And in case you have any doubt.
-ASHTON: No, no, no, no.

I don't need a demo. I don't need a demo.
I don't need that, that's the demo.

That's my head.

(thud)
Now it's hit the bottom.

ASHTON (normal):
All right. Here we go.

BEAR: I really want to push Ashton
to unleash that inner strength

by finding the edge of
what he's capable of.

(dramatic music)

In this case, that edge is a gorge
that's 80 feet across and 300 feet deep.

I hope he's ready.

(Ashton groans) All right.
You're a daisy if you do. ****.

(grunts, breaths heavily, continuous)

****. Woo.

-BEAR: Here we go.
-ASHTON: Okay.

-BEAR: It is hard.
-ASHTON: ****!

-ASHTON: Come on.
-BEAR (calls): You got this!

(Ashton groans, exhales)

BEAR: Yeah, that's good. Well done.

ASHTON:
****.

-You're getting the workout.
-ASHTON: ****.

-ASHTON: ****! (yelps)
-BEAR: No.

(dramatic music)
BEAR: Hold on, Ashton. Hold on.

(dramatic music)

(Ashton groans)
ASHTON: All right.

(Ashton grunts)
BEAR (calls): Well done, Ashton.

ASHTON (groans): Whoa. ****!
(dramatic sting)

BEAR: No.
(Ashton yells)

BEAR:
Hold on, Ashton. Hold on.

-ASHTON (mutters): Come on.
-BEAR: Swing your leg.

(Ashton grunts)

Then hold on, get your elbow
over the big rope.

ASHTON:
Okay.

BEAR:
And then use that leg as counterbalance.

That's it, swing it. Here we go.
Well done, Ashton.

(dramatic sting)

ASHTON:
******* ******.

BEAR: Good job. It's meant to be hard, it
is hard. There's no getting away from it.

-BEAR: Last push.
-ASHTON (breathes): Okay.

You're over halfway.
(Ashton exhales, grunts, continuous)

ASHTON: Six inches.

This last bit is a killer.

ASHTON:
Man.

-Last bit's like all uphill.
-BEAR: I know, the last bit's brutal.

ASHTON:
Every bit.

BEAR:
But it's nothing that you can't handle.

I just want to say
thank you for all of this,

for testing me and giving me hard things
to do, that are within my reach.

-BEAR: It is. It is within your reach.
-ASHTON: So, thank you.

BEAR: The last 20 feet.

There's no hiding on that rope, you know.

There's no one helping you,
you're on your own.

You face a few demons.
But you got to keep going,

and I think it's been a weapon
for Ashton in so much of his life.

It's not easy, and I've picked
a big fight, but I'm in it.

-I might not win them all.
-That's a workout.

But, hey, part of the adventure,
definitely part of survival.

-ASHTON: Thank you again, man.
-Hard, you know, hard.

-ASHTON: That's amazing.
-You look back at that?

ASHTON: Yeah, I feel like the
only way to train that is to do it.

BEAR:
You know, that's your thing for life;

you only get strong
by going through the battles.

ASHTON: Bear and I were talking
yesterday about appreciation.

And a lot of times in life, it's just
having someone that believes in you,

that is the difference between

you being able to do the things
that you are capable of, and not.

And he believed in me and put
a challenge in front of me

that he knew I could handle,
that was tough for me.

And I just had this sense of appreciation
and just wanted to say thank you.

BEAR:
Oh, lovely words. Well done, brother.

(victorious music)

ASHTON: Oh, geez.
Good thing I'm done having kids.

'Cause my ***** are ruined.
(Bear laughs)

Oh, holy smokes. That's a good
way to start the day. Woo!

BEAR:
With Ashton's challenge completed,

we've now got to push on
to our extraction point.

Last push. Come on, let's get out of here.

Ashton has proven that strength
truly comes from within.

He's a fighter, and for that,
we've earned some fun together.

I hope he likes flying, 'cause getting out
of here is gonna be one windy ride.

-Ready?
-Yeah, throw it.

(hissing)

Throw it.

(dramatic music)
(helicopter blades)

PILOT (com):
There's a flare off to the right.

BEAR:
Here we go!

The wild is like a boxing match,
it beats the hell out of you,

but you know, it also
rewards the determined.

-(yells) You ready?
-(yells) See you later. (laughs)

It's gonna hit you,
and it's how you respond.

And Ashton would know, you know,
after fighting through so much,

you get this incredible sense
of pride and gratitude.

My wife doesn't like it
when I fly in a helicopter.

(laughs)

We jumped out of a helicopter, we
rappelled down a 160-foot wall,

crossed a 100-yard gorge, airlifted
out hanging from a helicopter.

This is sick! Come on!

Who gets to do that?
I'm the luckiest guy on the planet,

-and I'm grateful for every second of it.
-Yeah, baby! Yeah, baby!