Original subtitles

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- This place is so thick.

[yelps]

I just messed my ankle up. I don't think I can do this.

- Is Josh okay?

- He chose to pull himself out of the competition.

- It's disappointing to be leaving so early.

- What the [bleep] was that?

- I'm coming for you, bear.

- Rugged as hell.

- This is not fun, trudging through this.

- I cannot stop thinking about Logan.

- I think I can hear something. It's probably a bear.

Sounds like it's getting closer.

[horn honks]

Hey, bear!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- This is gonna be an incredible challenge.

- We're gonna be dropped off in separate locations.

And one of us has to find the other.

- There they go!

- I've got to wait on my brother.

Hopefully he'll be here soon.

- Please come tomorrow.

- I don't know where I'm going,

how long I'm gonna be out here.

All I have is a compass bearing.

- It's a needle in a haystack. Can I even make it to base camp?

- Dad! - Son!

- No way.

- Everything around you is

telling you that you need to go home.

[horn honks] - Please leave me alone!

- If you don't work as a team, it's game over.

- I can't hold this whole thing up.

- Just hold it still.

- $500,000 would be life-changing.

- I know.

- I feel like the life is sucked out of me.

- [whispers] He's coming. He sees me.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[dramatic music continues]

♪ ♪

Oh, man, it's slippery here.

The tide is on its way out, which is good.

It means I can walk this shoreline a bit better.

I've seen a couple limpets here, good-sized ones,

just right in my vicinity.

One of the reasons I brought the knife that I brought,

it's great for prying limpets up.

♪ ♪

[panting]

Okay, not so good, actually.

I have just smashed the shell of the limpet,

and I think it might just be better to use my hands.

There it is.

The beauty about these babies is you can eat 'em raw.

I've never eaten one before.

Let's try it out.

[grunting]

if we can get it out of its freakin' shell, first.

Ugh.

Oh, gross.

Look at that, it just exploded guts all over me.

Mmm.

[water swishes]

So let's give it a try.

[crunching]

Hmm.

Crunchy.

Crunchier than I thought.

It's a little piece of muscle.

♪ ♪

This is feeling pretty real now.

I mean, I've got to just live out here.

I'm by myself.

I have no idea when Jim's gonna get to me.

Jim's gotta find me through this.

Uh...

That is terrible hiking.

That is pretty challenging.

I hope he's up to it, man, because it's concerning.

♪ ♪

- Jim is my older brother.

We've been inseparable our whole lives.

I think we're built to do this kind of thing,

because it's just been ingrained into us

since we were little kids.

- Good job.

- [laughs]

- For a living,

I work with my family's business,

a map publishing company,

and I do a little freelance videography.

- I'm Jim. I'm a professional adventurer,

and basically a content creator.

I think that we have what it takes

because we have legitimate experience out here.

Bull's-eye. [mimics gunshot]

I mean, we've been

in the middle of remote northern Labrador

with an intense whitewater river in front of us,

and had to catch and forage and hunt for food.

- The trap falls, snaring your bird.

- When we were tiny kids,

surviving in the woods,

it was like a fascination we had.

And, even though it's scary,

we want to test our ability

and see if we can do it.

Because, I mean, that's the ultimate test.

- Vancouver Island! Whoo!

[rain pattering]

- I am concerned about the amount of limpets,

that kind of stuff around here,

'cause I'll probably exhaust that really quickly,

let alone two people.

You know, I'm a big person,

and I mean, I need a lot of food.

And my brother, when he gets here, he's 6'5".

He needs even more food.

So we're gonna have to get other food sources.

Gonna set up my gill net here.

I feel like if I can get in a groove

and find sustainable food, then I'm gonna be having fun.

'Cause I enjoy doing this.

I enjoy being out here,

and I feel like I could stay here forever.

I set up my gill net.

Feels good.

Hopefully this produces some freakin' fish.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- Oh, there's a bunch of chanterelles down here.

[underbrush rustling]

[grunting]

So, I just had to go under.

I'm 6'5",

so it ain't easy.

There we go.

Nice little stash of them I just picked there.

About ten more like that, I'll have a meal.

Ten more stashes, that is.

Oh my Lord.

God, it's tough walking through this stuff.

All these salal bushes.

But no matter how hard this is, this is just so awesome.

♪ ♪

- Somewhere, through this haunting, daunting wilderness,

Ted will be hopefully

waiting on a seashore

that's loaded with food and fish.

- Oh, [bleep].

There's a lake right here.

My bearing crosses this lake,

which is kind of a pain in the butt.

Which means I'm going to have to walk around,

and that's something that can cause you to get mixed up.

So what I've done is I've marked this side of the lake.

I've pushed these sticks into the water.

And that's something to distinguish where I am.

And then I sighted with my compass that big white tree.

It's right in my path.

And Here we go.

♪ ♪

This is not going to be fun.

This is all happening

at a perfect time in my life right now.

I really wanted to get into being able

to do my video work full-time,

and I kept saying, "Well, when I have more money,

when I have more money, I'll do it."

And finally I just said, "You know what?

Forget it. It's now or never."

And I just went into trying to be a full-time adventurer

with absolutely zero money in the bank.

And it's been a little bit crazy, to say the least.

But $500,000 would be life-changing for me.

It's gonna be peace of mind.

That's what I want to win.

- Okay, and there's the big tree I sighted from the other side.

And then you can see the sticks I jammed in the water.

This tells me that I'm on my bearing

if I keep walking that way.

Whoo!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[rain pattering]

♪ ♪

- I'm thoroughly soaked, so I'm trying to get dried out.

Everything's soaking wet.

I was really anxious to get going today,

but the best thing to do is just hunker down

and wait for the rain to let up.

I just hope Logan's holding the fort down.

I'm pretty sure he is. I hope he's doing all right.

He's probably worried to death about me.

But I told him to give me three days, minimum, to get to him.

♪ ♪

For me, this experience with my son

is the ultimate bonding opportunity.

Seeing my son become a man is a big deal for me.

It's kind of like the dream

that's coming true for a father, you know?

So--

[helicopter rotors whirring]

Oh.

I hear a helicopter.

[helicopter rotors whirring]

[dramatic music]

Is this a courtesy call?

What's going on, guys?

- There's something going on with Logan.

- Yeah. - We're gonna pull you out

and bring you over to him, all right?

♪ ♪

- Is my son all right?

[helicopter rotors whirring]

I know he was worried about the animals.

He could've come upon a bear or a cougar or a wolf.

It's very dangerous, rugged conditions.

I'm just hoping that he's okay.

[helicopter rotors whirring]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[helicopter rotors whirring]

- Is my son all right?

It's very dangerous, rugged conditions.

Just hoping that he's okay.

[helicopter rotors whirring]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- What happened, bub?

- I don't know. I thought it would be easier.

The weather, the animals.

I mean, the terrain.

Just--

I'm just done.

I really just--I don't know.

It doesn't feel, like, right.

Like, I shouldn't be doing it.

- Yeah.

Hey.

So, that's it.

♪ ♪

That's all you can do.

You're all right. You didn't get hurt.

Put it behind you and move on.

[somber music]

♪ ♪

- This place hit me pretty hard.

I'm most disappointed in the fact

that I couldn't stay out here a little longer for my dad.

He wanted to be able to get to me and do this together.

But, had my chance, and I've made my decision.

It's definitely a very, very tough place to survive,

and I'm glad that someone's here to pull me out.

- Naturally, I wish my son could've gone longer,

but this is no joke.

Very dangerous, rugged conditions.

I don't think he was mentally prepared

for this type of weather and terrain,

and he was thoroughly demoralized.

[helicopter rotors whirring]

I wanted to carry on, wanted to keep going,

but we came in this as a team.

If one person goes down,

the team goes down.

[helicopter rotors whirring]

[somber music]

♪ ♪

[bright music]

♪ ♪

[bright music continues]

♪ ♪

[birds chirping]

♪ ♪

- So, here's a real shame.

My t-shirt is soaking wet, 'cause it poured all yesterday.

And I'm gonna have to put it on.

I can't hike in this sweater.

I have to have it for tonight.

It's got to stay dry, or I'll die.

If you're wet and it's 55 degrees,

you're gonna get hypothermia.

♪ ♪

[screams]

Oh! Oh.

Whoa! Oh.

Oh, that was so unwelcome.

Oh.

Ooh.

That'll wake you up.

[sighs]

I better get going.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[rain pattering]

♪ ♪

- [spits]

Had a bunch of stuff in there.

Got a lot of issues with this shelter I need to dial in.

So, today...

♪ ♪

I think I need to build my fireplace.

Everything is a bit damp, and I really could use a fire.

Man, it is just pouring today.

[grunts]

Poor Dave.

Ugh.

What I'm doing here is digging a depression,

which I'm gonna fill with beach gravel,

sand, put some rocks.

Then I'm gonna build my tepee chimney over top.

Now I can start the chimney.

♪ ♪

Okay.

You can do this.

♪ ♪

You can do it.

The idea is, the smoke will go out the top,

where there's air.

And then I can cover it with hemlock

and cedar, cover the whole thing.

Hope this works.

All right. I'm going in.

All right, guys.

It is time for fire.

I need this fire today.

Be a big boost.

[rhythmic scraping]

[rhythmic scraping continues]

[rain pattering]

Please stay.

Please stay.

I have fire.

I have fire.

♪ ♪

I have fire.

[claps]

Oh.

If Dave shows up today,

I will be able to get him some heat.

♪ ♪

Nice to have a fire.

♪ ♪

I hope Dave is doing good.

Hope he feels safe.

I wish he was here.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[water rushing]

♪ ♪

[underbrush rustling]

[crashing]

- Oh, [bleep]!

Mayday.

[grunts]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

This ain't survival,

this is hiking in hell.

Man.

Whoo.

Ugh.

Tweaked my knee a little bit

when I twisted off of that log.

♪ ♪

You think you're gonna take a little small step,

and it winds up being a four-foot drop.

♪ ♪

Moving again.

Let's go.

♪ ♪

Ugh.

- I chose to be a hiker, taking into consideration

that there is 11 years' difference

between me and my brother Chris.

But--

It's harder than it looks, folks.

Harder than it looks.

My brother is sticking it out on a coast somewhere.

My motivation is to get there.

That's gonna be steep.

Whoo-hoo.

Bearing is right down this ridge line.

If I go down in that, I don't think I'm ever coming out.

That is steep, steep, steep.

I mean, where I come from, we don't even have mountains.

♪ ♪

- For my brother and I,

our goal is to test our personal skills

and see if we have what it takes to thrive in the wild.

- Well, it's good to see you. - Good to see you.

- Getting a chance to go to Vancouver Island,

I think we were just bred for it.

Growing up on a farm, it really, I think,

enables you to deal with suffering.

It instills in you a work ethic.

And we've been practicing bushcraft skills,

survival skills for many years now.

We go into a swamp or into a wilderness,

and we procure food while we're there,

and we survive the best we can.

- I have a lovely wife Heather, and my two daughters.

One of the hardest things for me

is going to be being away from them.

- I'm leaving behind my wife and a 10-month-old daughter.

When you go from seeing those people every day

to having no way

of contacting them, psychologically,

it's really gonna make you start missing home.

That's the one people that thing can't necessarily prepare for.

- But we have a job to do, and ultimately our goal

is not to be slowly dying on the island,

but thriving on the island.

- All right, off we go.

- Yeah.

♪ ♪

[underbrush rustling]

- Oh, man, you know

when you're about to bust your ass.

And there ain't nothing you can do about it.

We are having fun now, folks.

We are having fun.

Oh. Oh, yeah.

♪ ♪

Oh, look at that.

♪ ♪

When I got here to this point,

I looked out there, and I can see the ocean.

♪ ♪

I really hope my brother's down in there.

It's been a hard trip,

I've been busting my ass going through those mountains.

I've been through really dangerous parts,

really steep parts,

but right now, I look up

and my bearing goes right over the top of that mountain.

I can tell you right now, I don't see it,

I don't see it happening.

Oh, yeah, climb that mountain.

I tell you what, my feet are raw.

They've been soaking wet.

[groans]

[spits]

I didn't come here to do a [bleep] hiking journey.

I'm gonna just throw up camp right here.

Maybe I'll feel better in the morning.

But right now?

♪ ♪

[bleep] that mountain.

♪ ♪

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[dramatic music continues]

♪ ♪

- [munching] [waves

Kelp.

Breakfast of champions.

Hopefully today I get to see Jesse

walking down that beach.

Be nice to see his ugly mug right now.

♪ ♪

I need wood.

Wood to build my shelter.

You know, I spent all day finding logs on the beach,

cutting them and hauling them.

What am I staying out here for, huh?

Do I have a point to prove?

Nah. I don't.

I'm doing it for my family.

I want them to see this adventure with me,

see where it goes, for better or for worse.

Whatever, whatever happens.

I would do anything for my family,

anything at all.

♪ ♪

- My partner's Jesse. He's my brother.

we're uniquely suited for this type of adventure

because of both of our lifestyles, you know?

His military background,

and I'm a subsistence hunter and commercial fisherman.

- We are challenge seekers.

Being in the woods and having to survive out there

is one of our funnest challenges.

It's not where you go, it's who you do it with.

That's why I like doing stuff with my family.

- We're from Wrangell, Alaska.

He was kind of raised in this lifestyle,

and we had some really lean times.

We was raised hand to mouth, and most of the food

that we got was from hunting and fishing.

- It was such an obligation to have to go out

and put food on the table for your whole family,

as a kid, that now it's kind of turned into a passion.

- And one advantage we do have is we'll keep moving,

no matter how nasty it is out there.

We'll keep working for survival and to thrive.

We're stubborn, hard-headed.

- Too damn stupid to quit. - That's it.

That's a perfect way of putting it.

[arrow thwacks]

- This is what I've been working on all day.

It's going to be a snug little cabin

for me and Jesse when he gets here.

Once I get this done,

I can stay as long as I want to stay.

Now I'm gonna go drag some more logs.

♪ ♪

Look what I found.

[laughs, speaks indistinctly]

Look what I found.

A basket.

You know what I see?

A crab trap out of this.

Take the top, over here on the side,

cut a door in there where they can get in.

Make the tunnel for 'em.

This is gonna be a crab trap.

I'm here to survive as long as I can with my brother.

And not only survive, I want to go and prosper.

Until we can't take it no more.

Until we find our breaking point.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- Bear trail.

♪ ♪

Holy crap.

[dramatic music continues]

♪ ♪

I see the ocean.

I see the ocean.

How the [bleep] do I get down there?

Slide!

Whee!

Slide!

Ride's over.

So, made it down the hill

I slided on my butt.

Feels so good to get out of that slough right now,

on to the open beach.

[waves crashing]

So the first thing I have to do is find my route

as fast as possible.

I just don't know how close I am to Shannon.

Man.

That's where I need to go.

I don't think I can slide up there.

This could either lead to a cliff on the other side

and I'm gonna have to backtrack

and spend another hour

or two finding another trail around this rocky bluff.

Or this could really pay off,

and there might be actual, good open shore,

maybe an open path, just a way to make up a few miles

that I've had to spend in a slough in the bushes.

[underbrush rustling]

One of the big reasons why I want to get

to Shannon so quickly

is because in the back of my head, I know him and I.

The only way we're going out is by someone getting hurt.

And Shannon is a klutz.

I got to make sure if he's getting hurt,

I'm there to take care of him.

I just need to get to the coast.

I move faster on the coast.

Hope there's something up here.

♪ ♪

Oh, wow. It's a little cove.

Hopefully this brings me out to the beach.

[wind howling]

[bleep].

Nope.

Damn it.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

Hopefully this brings me out to the beach.

[wind howling]

[bleep].

♪ ♪

Just way too rough for me to even try to get there.

[sighs]

[rain pattering]

That means back into the slough.

I've been to mountains, been in the jungle.

None of it's this hard.

The fallen trees, the bushes,

it's all hard.

[rain pattering]

[sighs]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- It's a beautiful day out.

There's actually blue sky.

I do see some grey sky rolling in, but this is nice.

I think I'm gonna try to catch a fish today,

because I'm freakin' starving,

and my gill net didn't catch anything yesterday.

I just cut down this stem off a huckleberry bush

to make a pole to fish with.

As far as bait goes, a couple shore crabs,

give it a shot.

♪ ♪

Oh!

You're kidding me.

[bleep] sakes.

I went to throw it out,

and the crab whipped off the hook.

That's just amazing.

What a disaster.

♪ ♪

[bleep].

I've tangled my line, pretty bad.

Ugh.

Looks like I'm just gonna be

spending the next half an hour untangling line.

So, I'm pretty discouraged at the moment.

I haven't caught a fish.

I'm gonna go check my gill net.

Kind of have a feeling there will be nothing in it,

but I'm gonna go have a look.

I saw earlier what looked like a stick wrapped up,

but the tide wasn't totally out yet,

so I didn't want to go over and disturb it.

♪ ♪

Oh.

Oh!

Yeah!

There's fish in my net!

A lot of fish.

I've got one, two,

three, four, five fish.

Five.

Just when I was starting to feel a little down and discouraged,

I'm rewarded with this.

This is awesome.

Probably a big school here.

I've got a meal!

Yes!

♪ ♪

Whoo!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- I'm feeling pretty tired and lethargic today,

just from lack of calories.

I walked maybe 15 feet back to the campfire,

and I found rainforest slug.

They do exist here.

This, ladies and gentlemen-- look at it.

It looks like a piece of poo or something.

You know that, you know, times are tough

when you're like, "Yeah, I get to eat a slug!"

I wonder how many calories that adds up to?

I don't know.

The slug is boiling.

What is a slug?

Is it a bug?

I don't know.

It may be a grub.

My sliggity, sliggity, sluggy, sluggity slug.

♪ ♪

What time is it?

Time for some slug.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Not the best texture.

[smacks lips]

It's disgusting.

Ugh.

You know, there is kind of

a bit of a flavor I've tasted before.

But the slime.

The slime is--

something needs to be done about the slime.

That is gross.

That's gross.

Slug, slug.

Nighty night.

[mysterious music]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- Trying to think of...

what that tastes like.

Yeah.

I guess it tastes like survival.

Gonna be a long winter.

In a couple of days, Brody will be here.

I'm gonna go ahead and work on putting out some of my trash,

hanging it out on some of these limbs,

to create a visible sign.

When he looks down into this cove,

I may not be on the beach.

And so I want him to know, when he looks down,

"Hey, that's probably my brother."

So I've got two pieces of rope.

I've got two jugs here that have handles,

and should be pretty visible.

I decided to make this trip

because I haven't had an opportunity

to spend time with my brother like this.

I'm 11 years older than he is,

so when I left for college,

I was 17 and he was 5.

So this is a wonderful opportunity

for us to spend time together.

And I really hope my brother and I are deeply connected by

the end of the trip in a way

that we have not been able to have before

because of our age differences and different paths.

Here's my beach.

♪ ♪

Looking forward to my brother getting here.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[rain pattering]

- [sniffles]

[rain pattering]

Do you hear that? That's rain.

That's rain right now.

It's been days of this.

Everything's wet. Everything's soaked.

There's no getting anything dry here.

Add 50 pounds of equipment through this crap?

It's ridiculous.

[rain pattering]

Whatever. I'm still doing it.

I'm still doing it,

because you guys put a challenge in front of me,

and I'm gonna [bleep] do it.

I don't back down from challenges.

I push through.

[rain pattering]

The faster I get to Shannon, the easier it will be.

He's always in the back of my head.

♪ ♪

Damn near impossible to go in a straight line in this stuff.

♪ ♪

But my bearing brings me this way,

and I'm gonna follow it.

Maybe I'm actually pretty close to Shannon.

♪ ♪

Shannon!

Shannon!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Shannon!

Shannon!

So I figured I'd give it a try.

But it doesn't seem like

he's even close enough to hear my yells.

I mean, I've got a few more miles to go.

Or, he's near the coast so much,

and that crashing wave's just drowning me out.

So, we'll see which one it is.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Hey!

I thought I heard somebody yelling over here,

over in that direction.

Maybe it's ghosts.

I don't know.

No response, so it wasn't him.

Okay, moving forward to get my parts for my crab trap.

Hopefully Jesse gets in today.

If not, I'm just gonna keep pushing forward,

and it's all about food today.

It's really hard working around up on these rocks up here.

You know, it's hard on your legs, it's easy to trip.

And I'm all about the slow and steady.

Just want to take my time and not get hurt.

I think I'm gonna use this as a door...

[grunts]

For my crab trap.

It might work.

How deep do I want it?

♪ ♪

This should do it.

♪ ♪

I was just thinking about home.

Before I even came out here,

I wrote about 50 letters to my wife.

And I gave 'em to a friend of mine, and I told him,

"Send a letter every two or three days."

And I just think that it's gonna be something special for her.

Because she has a lot on her plate.

She's taking care of all of our kids

back home by herself, and that's a tough job.

Because that's what people don't realize,

is how hard it is for the people

that you leave at home.

And doing what I do, commercial fishing

and subsistence hunting and fishing,

I never forget that.

Now I just got to find straight sticks,

cover the top of my crab trap.

Oh.

[branches snapping]

Still one good one in my hand.

Yeah.

Hmm. But--

[thuds]

[rustling, groaning]

[groaning]

Oh, wow.

- This forest just tears you up.

It is unforgiving.

- Oh my God. Oh.

- Oh [bleep], I've got to move.

I see a wolf.

He's so close to me.

- Ooh, bear poop.

Look at that, just full of berries.

- I saw something moving down there.

- I think there's a pretty big bear here.

- Energy levels today have just gone to zero.

I'm not really sure how much more I can take of this.

- Mayday!

- I can hear something.