Original subtitles

[dramatic music]

♪

- Holy [bleep]!

That was my moose. It was 20 yards away from me.

♪

[animal growling]

Oh, [bleep].

- I need to have a big shelter day today.

I'm already getting a little bit of a late start.

- No way.

The snare got him perfectly around the neck.

- [retches]

Can't keep any liquid down.

Dehydration is nothing to play with.

This is the worst way I could possibly go out.

♪

male narrator: For the first time,

ten participants will fight to survive the Arctic

for longer than anyone in "Alone" history...

a grueling 100 days.

- This is the ultimate challenge.

♪

- A hundred days in the Arctic is no joke.

narrator: If they can endure,

they'll win the biggest prize ever:

$1 million.

♪

- Whoa!

- Holy [bleep]!

- You can't tap out

when there's a million bucks on the line.

- Oh, my gosh. - [growls]

- How hard can you work for $10,000 a day?

- It looks like frostbite.

- [screams]

- Oh, [bleep]!

narrator: This is "Alone: Million Dollar Challenge."

- They're just surrounding my shelter.

[wolf growling]

♪

[low dramatic music]

♪

[rain splashing]

♪

[thunder crashes]

♪

[water dripping]

♪

- Things look a little different.

It rained like hell last night.

And it's still not what you'd call dry in here,

but it's a lot better than outside.

Boy, it rained all night long.

It's a wet, miserable booger out there today.

That damn water was sure powerful last night.

I was awful glad I got the net out.

If I wouldn't have got it out,

who knows what it would've done to it.

I'm pretty sure I did the right thing, absolutely.

[birds chirping]

I guess I'll check the water. Hopefully get to put it in.

♪

Big wave bouncing the other side over there,

but makes me wonder if our side of the lake is stirred up.

Kind of want to go look at it,

but I'm scared I'll talk myself into putting it in,

and then regret it.

I guess we'll walk out there.

♪

I can catch fish here,

but I know it's the waves that are gonna be the issue.

When the waves are crashing,

you're just gritting your teeth,

'cause you know later when the ice comes,

it's gonna get hard to do.

[water crashing]

That's kind of jumpy.

♪

And it could get worse.

I mean, we got to crawl down that crack

and then scale along the edge of this...

And I set the net right there.

It's spooky when that water's jumping at you.

And that's deep. It's gonna be dangerous.

♪

Well, I got to think.

♪

My overall philosophy

to being number one in the wilderness

is to get woodsy.

♪

Woodsy is smart. Woodsy is intelligent.

If you're dumb, you're never gonna get woodsy.

You got to think like an animal, like an old timer.

You got to be able to look around you

and utilize what's at hand,

'cause that's all you're gonna have.

That's all that's there.

♪

Every little move you make, you know, it's like chess.

You got to think about it.

Every move you make.

♪

We come this far, we're not gonna chance now.

No, sir.

Tomorrow it'll be looking better.

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

- I wonder if I could shave with this.

[breathes deeply]

Hmm.

Not really working well enough to go for it.

It's this stuff that starts getting irritating.

[sighs] Oh, well.

♪

I've been trying every day

to get a little bit done on the shelter.

That's where we're at today,

but it's still taking longer than I want it to,

and I think that's kind of still my big gamble.

I went to bed last night with a longer narrative

on, like, "If it rains and then freezes,

"that's gonna suck, and I'm gonna be working

on a shelter that now has ice all over it."

[sighs deeply]

But catching more game could be the main issue for me.

So that's my focus.

All right.

I think it's time for snare check in.

Let's roll out.

For me, I know that I came in as a pretty slim guy anyway,

and so I'm not gonna just be able to push through

weakness and weight loss.

I have to be getting that nutrition.

And so it's a tough balance in my priorities

between protecting myself from the elements

and trying to obtain all the meat that I need.

Oh, we got one this morning.

What? [bleep].

What the heck?

He's a big one,

and somebody freaking chewed through his head?

♪

What does that?

[sighs]

♪

There's still stuff in there, but damn it.

Should've got an earlier start. I don't know what I was doing.

Pretty sure I can salvage a fair bit from this guy,

but it's just--it's a mess now, which is disappointing.

Let's hope for more,

and hope that they aren't scavenged upon.

♪

What is this? [bleep].

Finding a catastrophic problem here.

We have predators. Damn.

Well, they figured me out. [bleep].

Probably a fox, I guess.

Well, whatever this was is gonna pick up the habit

of checking out my snare area now.

♪

Dang it.

♪

Two-hare morning turned into a conundrum.

I think that shelter work

is kind of off the table for the rest of the day.

My muscles are just too fatigued.

Got to have fuel to get stuff done.

[suspenseful music]

♪

[water lapping]

- I've got, like, an emo stick.

It's a way to sort of log my journey out here

because I've got no other way of documenting it, so...

You can see over here

I've got a fish swimming into a net.

Talon, always on my mind-- that's my son's name.

Bobs, that's my wife's nickname, and, uh--

just like Talon, always on my mind.

That's Jaco,

my musk ox that's hanging outside

on the fir tree in front of my shelter.

And then right next to it is a fly,

to remind me of the fly that got stuck in my inner ear.

I've never had that happen before,

so that's something I kind of don't want to forget.

But anyways, yup.

That's, uh, just a little update on the story stick.

♪

So let's begin.

♪

Okay, chair making time.

This is gonna start off with a tripod.

Let's call this the back rest of my chair.

And the seat will go here.

And then we're gonna build off of there.

♪

There's just so little distraction out here,

that you have all the time in the world

to focus on individual thoughts.

I think we have to be able to just step back

and have our quiet time

and be able to just focus on an individual thing...

like making a chair.

♪

As a kid, I always remember my dad saying to me

that I need to figure out

how to enjoy doing things on my own

to truly be free and not held back

from doing what I really want to do.

And to this day I still think of those words,

because that's exactly what I did.

I learned to find comfort in doing things on my own, solo.

[chuckles]

[birds chirping]

Love it. That's it, right there.

And there we go.

A multi-pieced chair.

Now, here comes the test.

[breathes deeply]

Oh, yes.

Oh, look, and my headrest. Oh, perfect.

This is gonna be my meditation chair for sure.

[dramatic music]

♪

- My mother always took me to the dentist.

[clears throat]

Twice a year. I was terrified of that place.

And then when I got old enough to quit going,

I never had a cavity again.

I don't know if that guy was just making money or what.

Maybe I started drinking beer

instead of eating all that sugar.

I need more.

Hopefully, we can get a chance to put net in

and nab a couple.

I don't like missing a day of fishing.

♪

That gill net is a very effective tool.

It can give fish, but that cliff--

it's not for the timid.

You got to watch.

A simple little thing as a sprained ankle

or a slightly broken bone can kill you out here.

But I need a bulk food source, so it has to be set.

♪

Well, it ain't exactly calm, but...

there ain't a bunch of waves breaking on the rocks.

Just kind of rolling around.

Maybe it's gonna behave itself.

I'm--guess I'm gonna put the [bleep] net in.

We're gonna have to take our chances.

[dramatic music]

♪

[grunts]

[water splashing]

Now don't start getting unruly,

now that I decided to put the net in.

♪

Now, what the [bleep]?

It was calm as all hell.

♪

Now you're up over my boots going.

♪

[grunts] Oh, I don't like that.

♪

Why is that loose?

♪

[grunting]

♪

That's a little better.

That is one dangerous [bleep] place, man.

That's too much work and too much danger.

That's the only fishing hole I got.

Danger!

Danger Rock.

A good name for this spot.

Oh, [bleep]!

[ominous music]

♪

Probably just a rock.

♪

Almost looks like a black bear,

with its head up, and that's its white snout,

pointing down the hill.

Got him looking downhill.

Don't move, though.

♪

[bleep], it's moving. I think that's a bear.

[bleep].

[arrow thwacks]

- Dang, my gill net snapped.

Look at that.

Don't fall in the water.

- Ooh, it's got a bite. Don't freak out.

[water splashing]

[yells]

[tense music]

♪

Be good to run into a black bear

with the wind in our favor, get an arrow in him.

Then we'd just be fat all winter.

Everybody says, "Oh, it's just a black.

It's just a black."

I've had black bear scare the hell out of me.

When it gets on the prod,

that bear will eat your face off.

It's scary, but I will hunt,

because a million bucks is just too much money.

♪

Been about an hour since we've seen that bear.

Just trying to work my way out ahead of him.

And then there's a little high spot here that we're up on now.

Right there's the fishing hole. That's where the net's at.

I was kind of in here when we spotted him,

and he was making his way this way, and then--

he could just be laying in that timber

but I had to cross down here ahead of him.

The way the wind was, this was our only thing we could do.

It was the only logical plan.

If we'd have just tried to go in behind him,

this wind would've betrayed us,

and then we'd have just scared him clear out of the country.

♪

I had to try something.

That's the first good animal we've spotted.

♪

Well, we got to keep moving.

♪

I have a long-term food source plan

that involves big game, of course.

And I feel that's probably everybody's.

And to go 100 days,

you're probably gonna have to have that.

I believe I can stretch that black bear out

with some fish and small game, of course,

but I'm also scared of that bastard.

♪

Well, we're coming out the other side of all that now.

I don't know where he got off to.

We're right about where he was at

when I spotted him right now.

And I can smell the smoke from my camp

from right here really good.

That's probably why he was sat down looking our way initially.

♪

So he might be curious enough to hang in the area.

Hopefully, we'll just get another whack at him.

[dramatic music]

♪

- I just washed my underwear, which is awesome.

Brushed my teeth.

And I was thinking about washing my hair, and I thought,

"Why bother washing all of this hair if I'm not gonna keep it?"

So I'm gonna cut my hair.

I haven't cut my hair with such baby little scissors before,

so this might be interesting.

Chopping off my ponytail.

There we go. Yay.

It's like a bow tie.

♪

Little Arctic bob.

♪

[birds chirping]

I have a pile of snares I can't wait to show you.

So I'm gonna go check them.

♪

I can see one of my snares here.

Huh.

Nothing.

I was thinking about it last night, how much food I need.

And if I'm pulling in bunnies consistently,

a bunny every two days is enough

to keep me from starving.

Beyond that, a big game is the only way to make it.

So I want a moose. I want a bear.

It's unfortunate.

[sniffles]

Part of trapping, I guess, is sometimes it always

doesn't go exactly the way that you intended it to.

Okay, so no bunnies today,

but lots of indication that they're here.

Just take a quick walk around the perimeter here.

See if there's any bunnies.

Don't have any calories in me right now.

So of course, I dream about my mom's cooking.

I used to live close to home in high school,

so I'd come home for lunch.

We'd eat a box of white cheddar mac and cheese

with lots of butter and black pepper.

♪

[wildlife chittering]

♪

♪

And then when I was a real kid, beans and wieners,

that was the camping thing.

Me and my dad would go up north,

and we just had a small little trailer.

It was my first encounter with a bear.

I was four years old.

I was like, "Dad, Dad, Dad, there's a bear!"

He's like, "Go back to sleep."

In the morning, there was teeth marks in the gas can.

Guess that's probably when I fell in love with nature.

♪

Okay.

[rustling]

[dramatic music]

♪

Oh, [bleep].

[low tense music]

♪

[arrow thwacks]

I just shot my first bunny

right in the throat.

♪

It's a big bunny.

He seems heavier than normal.

That just feels--feels good.

Now I'm not just a trapper. I'm a huntress.

♪

Hardly.

♪

I'm gonna head back, process the bunny.

You'll make a nice rabbit stew.

My lungs are definitely gonna age a couple years out here.

[wood crackling]

It's getting smoky in here, so let's get out of here.

♪

A bit lightheaded and woozy from all that smoke.

Hope that the smoke behaves.

♪

Oh.

♪

[sighs]

It is as bad as it looks.

[exhales]

[sniffles]

Sorry about this terrible sniffles.

I'm not normally this phlegmy.

I've started developing a headache,

'cause my eyes are blurry.

Ugh. This smoke, eh?

Ugh, you can't even see anything.

[blows air and sniffles]

This smoke is not leaving my shelter,

and it is creating a lot of issues with my eyes burning,

my nasal passages completely blocking,

and it's driving me insane.

♪

[ominous music]

♪

[water lapping]

- I'm just up on the ridge for a little sit.

Me and this stump, we're buds.

I like to come sit up here with this stump.

Sometimes it's good to see things from above.

My head's always clear in a high place, you know?

It's so nice. It's calm.

All right. Maybe head back down to camp.

Get some more rocks.

♪

It's gonna be so cold this winter.

I want to make a completely enclosed shelter,

and my goal is to have it totally sealed in

to where the wind isn't coming through,

so I can have a big fireplace that's also heating up

a big rock so I have thermal mass

that's gonna heat my whole shelter.

♪

Let's go see. Can we get this rock out?

That's the size I should be going after.

It's so nice, but is it worth the calories?

I probably shouldn't be carrying big rocks

back to camp.

But I can't help it. They're so pretty.

And they'd make such a nice fireplace.

I've turned into a rock-obsessed, crazy person.

But I think anyone coming out here

is a little bit crazy, right?

Here we go.

[grunts, laughs]

I know calories are very valuable.

[grunts]

And I shouldn't be expending them needlessly.

But it's gonna be crucial to have a good fireplace.

Oh.

♪

You know, things don't have to be perfect out here.

All we got to do is stay warm and stay fed.

[grunts]

♪

Perfect fit.

[vocalizing]

Love it.

Yeah, I'm liking it. I'm liking what I'm seeing.

♪

Oh, I'm having so much fun playing rock "Tetris."

I'm rocking and rolling here, and this just makes me think

of my dad, because he really loves masonry,

and one of his dreams is to build a stone castle,

and so I just think of him as I'm doing this.

I'm totally thinking of my dad

and all the rocks that he's laid.

♪

So there's the firepit.

♪

Whoo! My hands are so cold.

But I just got to do this, because if I wait much longer,

the clay is gonna be frozen, and I can't do it.

That is making me want to just go ahead

and get this wall knocked out before the clay freezes.

♪

You guys, I cannot believe I made this firepit.

This is, like, a massive-- [laughs]

This is massive.

♪

Can you believe I moved all of those rocks over here?

But I got to just keep moving,

'cause winter is coming, y'all.

Winter is coming.

[foreboding music]

♪

[branches rustling]

[tarp flapping]

- This season, on "Alone"...

Watch as ten survivalists battle untold challenges

such as the sound of their tarp billowing in the wind,

driving them absolutely mad.

[exhaling hard]

Isn't that one of the sounds? [exhales hard]

There's, like, a "sword being drawn" sound too,

that's like a-- "Shing! Sceen!"

Something like that.

There's some weird, like,

synth-poppy thing going on.

All right, let's do this.

[grunts]

Getting a little late in the day to call it morning fishing,

but I do want to make a few casts.

Given the loss of the rabbits,

gonna be getting my fat from trout from now on.

That's the hope.

Since I am getting low on my reserves,

I really need to be sure I make my focus getting fish.

I just--I want that shelter done so bad

for days like today and for when it gets worse,

I'm gonna need it.

But if I run out of food in the next few days...

it's gonna be real hard.

♪

I remember my grandpa telling me about the hunger

he experienced as a child in Arkansas.

He was abandoned by his mom, and he had stories

about him and his brothers being out in the woods

and digging for roots as, like, children.

And I'm going through some of the same stuff,

and one of my bigger aversions is my family,

particular my mom, see me struggle.

Because I know that there's worry coming from that side,

and I don't want that worry.

That worry makes it harder for me to succeed.

Which doesn't concern me,

but I'm gonna have to go through some hardship

and discomfort to make it to 100 days.

[water lapping]

Ooh, it's got a bite.

♪

Yup, yup, okay.

Okay, we'll take that.

Don't get in the rocks.

It's trying to get in the rocks.

We're getting around rocks right now.

Okay, fish right here. Fish right here.

Don't freak out. Don't freak out.

[water splashing]

[yells]

♪

[tense music]

♪

[water lapping]

- Ooh, it's got a bite. Don't freak out.

[water splashing]

Oh, yeah! Yes!

[panting] Yes!

Yes! Oh, yes!

You're here. I got a firm grip on you.

Thank you, fish. Thank you so much.

[groaning]

[exhales hard]

[laughing]

Oh, yeah! Yes!

Do you see this? [laughs]

Look at this fish!

[laughs]

Look at this fish. [laughs]

Oh, yes. Oh, you beauty.

Oh, you're so beautiful.

Look at this trout.

This is a fat trout.

♪

[laughs]

Oh, folks. So huge for me right now.

I'm gonna persist through adversity with this wind

and work on my shelter while I'm eating well.

That feels really good.

[suspenseful music]

♪

- The other day, smoke got so bad

that I felt like I was in, like, a gas chamber.

I was thinking about it last night,

and I realized that maybe the reason

the smoke was worse was-- in building code,

you have to have your chimney higher

than the highest point of your house.

So I have clay collected.

I just have to put the clay up and make a clay chimney.

All right. I'm just gonna go for it now.

♪

I'm not a perfectionist.

I'm not going to worry about every little tiny thing.

I'm a big picture kind of person.

♪

I want to attach it nicely to the top of the ridge.

I'm function over form, so if it works,

I'll move on and keep going.

And I always want to be moving forward,

trying to make each day better than the last.

And I think that's a skill,

and I'm pretty good at moving on.

Okay.

[clears throat, sniffles]

I'm getting hungry, so I really hope it works.

♪

Come on, suck it up.

This whole experience is a complete mental boot camp.

And if you have a low that is so low

that you don't know if you can crawl out of it, but you do...

I think it's working.

Then you're going to remember that,

and you'll be able to use it as fuel

to get through your next low.

Guys, I think it's working.

♪

For now, we're calling this chimney a win.

[dramatic music]

♪

- So I've got a little game to keep myself occupied

on these not-so-great days.

Okay, we're gonna go for four of a kind.

[sighs]

One, two-- two, two, three.

[groans]

All right, that's not a very good roll.

♪

Trying to stay entertained out here

is a legitimate survival skill.

I need to keep myself busy, because it's constant battles

and fighting out here.

♪

How to be without companionship.

I have to fight that battle each and every day.

And so I've been setting myself tasks each day

that occupies my mind.

Just being creative is something that I need to do

on a regular basis to keep myself motivated.

♪

Okay, let's get to work on some slippers.

So I don't have to walk around in the bare dirt

in my socks, which is great.

[grunts]

Okay, I've got rabbit pelts.

I'm gonna take the pelt,

place it inside the slipper,

and then wrap the front over my toes

and then underneath

this top part here.

♪

[chuckles]

That is nice and toasty.

Rabbit slippers.

[exhales]

Okay, I've thought long and hard,

and I've decided that I'm going to attempt

to make a mandolin.

♪

And I'm gonna make it out of one piece

that's gonna be out of a birch.

I often wonder if my son's

gonna take to any musical instruments.

He's only 2 1/2 years old now,

which is obviously too young,

but yeah, that'd be pretty awesome.

Every day I'm here, I will fight missing my son.

The pain of not being able to talk

or see my son is, uh, hard sometimes.

Just a feeling of despair.

But that's why I have to block it out,

and sometimes it's definitely harder than others, for sure.

♪

We've got our front three dowels all lined up.

And then we've got slots cut over here

with a flattened and slightly indented section in the back.

Now, I couldn't make the guitar

if I didn't have the snare wire.

I do believe... [laughs]

That I have created a mandolin.

[strumming mandolin]

♪ My feet are cold

♪ But my heart is warm

♪ In this moment I'm happy

♪ Happy for this home

[whistling]

♪

[whistling continues]

- [slurps]

- [whistling continues]

♪

♪ In the Arctic alone

♪ Winter on its way

♪ Not sure what the future holds ♪

♪ But I'll take each day by day ♪

[humming]

♪

♪

- Where the hell is my axe?

[bleep].

- I'm gonna sneak up over this rock

and hopefully get one in him.

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

- Good morning, y'all. It is...

Oh, that's very funny.

I was just about to say...

[wind whistling]

"It's a beautiful, calm morning."

And literally right as I was about to say "calm,"

a wind just kicked up.

[wind whistling]

So who knows what's gonna happen today?

♪

We're transitioning. This is a transition day.

We're going from stone to wood now.

So I'm gonna put my first wood piece on.

Something like that.

Today I'm definitely feeling

like winter is coming in quick now,

and there's a lot of work to be done.

So I'm gonna get to work on starting to enclose this wall.

♪

And then we're just gonna start going up here,

filling all these little gaps with the moss.

♪

All right, here we go.

Grand finale of finishing the wall.

This is the mark of the change of the season here.

It's nice to have an open wall, but an Arctic winter is coming.

It's time to close up the wall.

♪

All right, well, there we have it.

Like, I don't even know how I'm gonna wake up now,

because usually I can look out

and see that the light is changing,

and I'll probably accidentally sleep in tomorrow morning.

♪

Now I'm really settled in.

I feel like this place is my home.

I have a shelter built, so I feel like I can really

just sort of drop in and really be here.

I have the trap line established

and food coming in, and to me,

I don't feel like I'm just surviving,

I feel like I'm really living out here.

Mmm-mmm-mmm, mmm-mmm.

I feel like this is my home,

and now I'm ready for winter to start.

♪

[tense music]

♪

- When I was walking,

I found this can that hasn't been opened.

It reeks.

Looks like, uh-- it's old fish.

I don't know, but it stinks.

[laughs]

Terrible.

Let's go check on the gill net.

♪

Right now, I'm catching fish almost every day

in the gill net.

So you might think I have food for a month.

But the way my metabolism works,

I'm realizing that it's only good for 15 days,

'cause I'm just eating so much of it.

I'm only 170 pounds,

but when I'm out there in society,

when I'm in a restaurant, I eat two entrees.

And I can eat a couple appetizers.

But the metabolism I have and the work I do,

I use a lot of fuel.

So I want to be able to catch as much fish as possible.

[water lapping]

Oh, no.

Dang.

♪

My gill net snapped, bro. Look at that.

♪

Don't fall in the water.

♪

There we go, come on-- [sighs]

♪

There we go. [grunts]

♪

Dang.

Almost lost my gill net.

Whoo!

Back to work. [laughs]

♪

My hand's getting really cold

just by fishing for a couple hours.

And I'm realizing that the weather has turned

to this cold now all the time.

I need lots of firewood. So thankful for the axe.

I think to win this, it will take a lot of skills,

but I feel like it's mostly mental as well.

Because when you're cold,

your mind starts playing tricks,

your mind's trying to take you out of it,

because it's trying to let your body survive it.

And just knowing that you have a tap out button...

It'd be really easy to just go ahead

and press it and go home.

♪

So I feel like trying to override that

is going to be really, really challenging.

So I'm trying to prepare as much as possible.

[exhales]

♪

[wind whistling]

Where the hell is my axe?

♪

Don't tell me I left it out there.

♪

I cannot believe it.

[bleep].

[suspenseful music]

♪

Wow.

So stupid.

♪

[bleep].

[foreboding music]

♪

[wind whistling]

[bleep].

I've been just, like, out there too long,

my feet are wet, and my hands are too cold,

and I can't do much.

I have to find the axe tomorrow.

Well, hopefully, we'll have, like, a [bleep] ton of snow,

and then it'll just, like, disappear.

That would be a big issue, man.

[dramatic music]

♪

[wind whistling]

Starting to get light outside, so...

It's time to go on a search for...

my misplaced axe, man.

[sniffles and sighs]

♪

Yesterday, I made a mistake of leaving it out there.

Such I bummer that I did a mistake.

So maybe I'm starting to make mistakes like that.

I got to be really careful.

♪

Huh.

♪

There it is. Yes.

♪

So stupid. My baby.

♪

I left you outside in the dark. I'm so sorry, man.

I'll never do that again.

♪

Oh, please forgive me.

[laughs]

Forgive me. [laughs]

My beautiful axe. I love you so much.

Oh, thank you.

Mwah. [laughs]

[water trickling]

[dramatic music]

♪

- [groans]

Well, it looks like our exertions were in vain.

There's no fish in the net.

Maybe that's my punishment

for the terrible cursing I done.

Need the way.

Bless me here, Danger Rock.

[water lapping]

Right now, I'm going on top to dig root,

and I might pick a few berries too.

I hope this bear comes around.

♪

I don't take time off to hunt.

You say, "Okay, let's go bear hunting."

You can walk all day long here every day, and you know,

you're just gonna bump into him.

It's the only way to do that.

But whenever I don't need my axe, I take my bow.

And every time I see him,

I'll go straight to hunting mode.

Till then, no.

Now my favorite part. Cranberries.

Picking these cranberries,

I really relate to my ancestors.

I like that bond.

This is our fruit for the winter.

Roots will be our vegetable.

♪

I like to go out and do

the things the old timers had to do.

♪

The old ways are valuable.

You know, electric's the only thing that keeps us

separated from how the old timers had to live.

The lights ever go out, boy,

everybody's gonna get a big awakening.

♪

[branches rustling]

[bleep].

♪

I'm gonna sneak up over this rock

and hopefully get one in him.

♪

- Coming up, I'll be speaking

with all the participants of tonight's episode.

Plus, we'll take a sneak peak at next week's show,

and we have some exciting, never-before-seen footage

that you're gonna love.

You don't wanna miss it. Stick around.

♪

- Welcome to "Alone: Tales From the Arctic."

I'm Colby Donaldson.

This week on the show we have Roland, Joe, Joel,

Kielyn, Callie, and Amós,

everyone involved in this night's episode.

By the end of this episode,

you've all been alone in the Arctic for one month.

Callie, one month in, how are you feeling right now?

- I'm feeling great.

I feel like it takes about a month

to sort of slow down

and kind of get into the rhythm of a wild place.

Whoo.

And so, I'm really settling in.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

And I feel really grounded because my shelter's

coming along really well too.

- Well, we see this every season.

About a month in, people start to reflect

on loved ones back home.

Kielyn, tell us about that.

- I was starting to think about childhood

and relationships that were fostered long ago,

and you start thinking about those people again,

and that I found really interesting.

- Yeah, Kie, I had exactly the same memories,

which would never enter your mind

just randomly come out of nowhere.

Reflections on when you were

just, like, five, six years old,

and it's crazy how all those things come up,

and that's priceless, because you don't get

those sort of experiences in this modern life.

- Nice.

Roland, let's talk about getting woodsy.

I love that quote from you.

- Woodsy can describe your frame of mind.

Woodsy can describe your acclimation.

You know, you're woodsy now.

You've been there a long time.

Feels pretty homey.

We are getting really woodsy now.

Also might mean a compliment if I walk into your camp,

and you're doing some [bleep] I think's pretty cool,

I might say, "You're getting woodsy."

- Well, you know, both Kielyn and Callie

got a little woodsy out there.

Both of you were presented with different issues,

and then you both adapted.

Callie, tell me about the important of using clay

when you were building up that stone structure

for your fire pit.

- Yeah, the clay was crucial

when I was building that stone fireplace,

because if I just stack the stones,

there's all these gaps in between each rock,

and the clay I would fill in

between all the cracks in the rocks.

So there's nowhere for the smoke to get in,

and that way there's no way

for the cold air to get inside,

and then there's only one place for the smoke to go,

which is out the chimney.

- Kielyn, did the chimney work right away, first attempt?

I mean, it looks pretty successful

from what we could see.

- I ended up having, like, a temporary

birch bark tube that I had going up

just to test it to see if it would draw,

and it was, so then I decided to go ahead

with putting in the effort of building it with clay.

So yeah, it was working.

There was definitely still some tweaking to be made,

but we know that Callie's looked amazing,

and I was super jealous when I was watching it.

- On that point, Kielyn, I've always wondered this.

When you're watching the episodes back--

obviously you didn't know what was transpiring

over at the other locations.

When you're watching them back,

and you see some of the other shelters,

are you--are you blown away?

- Yeah, I mean, I loved watching it.

Certainly Roland's was very unique and looked robust,

and then I saw Joel's little chimney

with the cans that he found,

and I thought, oh, that was really cool.

They were all thinking long-term,

and that was cool.

- Yeah.

Joel, did you bring the mandolin home?

- I did bring the mandolin home.

There she is, right there. - There you go.

- I cannot believe that they put my song

the way that they did on this episode,

so I'm both grateful and a bit embarrassed about it.

♪ Not sure what the future holds ♪

♪ But I'll take each day by day ♪

- It was very sweet. - [chuckles] Thank you, Kie.

- I thought it was an awesome song.

- [chuckles]

[humming] - Nice work.

There's plenty more to talk about when we come back,

including some never-before-seen footage

and a sneak peak at next week's episode.

You're not gonna want to miss it.

Stick around.

♪

♪

- Welcome back to "Alone: Tales from the Arctic."

We're here tonight with Roland, Joe, Joel,

Kielyn, Callie, and Amós.

Joe, you finally have some success

with your snare lines, only to have that stolen

by another predator.

How frustrating was that part?

- Well, I had been having really consistent success

with the snares up to that point,

and it was scary to think that maybe I would start

losing those bunnies to some kind of predator.

Must be a small critter.

Something that didn't carry the body off.

If anything was on to me, I was--

I was pretty concerned that I could be losing

that food source as an option.

- Okay, well, I wanna pivot to that massive lake trout.

Your reaction that that thing was complete

and total jubilation.

Explain just the range of emotions

and how that felt when you brought him in.

- Well, it's one of those moments

where it's undeniable that life's really happening,

and you're in it.

And to happen in that moment

where I was starting to have doubts

about getting another fish and to get a trout that big,

ten days of food, even if that was all that I had,

not to mention the fact that it actually

came off the hook at the shore.

That's why you see me go into that almost panic

and dive down.

That was the fish of a lifetime for me.

- That thing was beautiful.

Well, you were talking about being down

on the water's edge.

I wanna talk about that.

Roland, you know, I don't think people understand

just how dangerous the edge of those rocks really are.

Spell it out a little bit for the viewers at home.

And what would happen in those circumstances

if you had slipped in or fallen in

where there's a lot of very deep, steep ledges?

- Yeah, it's absolutely deep right there.

It was 20-foot, possibly more,

right off the very edge,

and the camera never grabs that like--like you see it.

Really super steep there.

Then the spray blows up on there,

so it's slippy too.

Hey, you [bleep]!

Quit that!

Hundred ways you can go in the water.

The least that's gonna happen

is you're soaking wet and maybe some hypothermia.

I don't know.

Worst case scenario, drowned and die.

Done for. It could happen right there.

- Well, and it wasn't just the water

that you guys were having to contend with out there.

Joe, even, you know,

little things can become big things,

certainly annoying things, and what I'm referring to

is the wind.

Wind became a huge factor,

at least a huge annoyance.

We've got some never-before-seen footage.

Let's take a look.

[gentle music]

- This season on "Alone,"

Joe is finally going mad.

♪

It's not the loneliness.

It's the sound of this tarp

billowing six inches from his face.

More extreme than ever!

♪

I knew the wind will be my biggest adversary here,

and it is.

This is driving me crazy.

[wind whistling]

More wind.

It's like, give me [bleep] cold.

I don't [bleep] care about the cold.

The wind...

the wind is just--

it's like it crawls under my skin,

gets in my blood and goes to my brain,

and it just doesn't [bleep] work.

Feeling angry at the wind,

but it's only the fool

who screams at the wind to stop.

- Was it really that bad?

- I wouldn't say it was bad. [chuckles]

I would say that it-- it was brutal.

Wind's got me feeling aggravated.

It was hard for me to think straight sometimes.

You wanna be able to hear everything around you.

I wanna be able to sit calmly

and contemplate my next move,

and, man, it was just like that wind was like

an annoying little brother or something

just pestering at you.

- Yeah.

One final thing,

Roland, at the end of this episode,

we see you take a shot at that musk ox.

I gotta ask, did you get him?

- Well, that's to be seen.

I mean, that's the jackpot out there traipsing around,

and it was high pressure to make that shot.

- That is the big game that everybody's talking about.

That's what everybody's trying to bring down.

Well, we're gonna have to tune in and see

if you are successful.

That's it for "Alone: Tales From the Arctic."

I'm Colby Donaldson. Thanks for joining us.

I'd like to also thank Roland, Joe, Joel,

Kielyn, Callie, and Amós.

And as promised, here's a sneak peak

of next week's episode.

We'll see you then.

- Holy [bleep].

The bear is stealing fish out of my cache.

You steal my food, you turn into food.

- Oh, my God, the gill net's gone.

If I don't have fish, it won't be possible

to stay long-term.

- Why rain?

[bleep] rain!

It's not supposed to be [bleep] raining in the Arctic.

- He's going up over the rock ridge.

Sometimes you just gotta go for it.

[musk ox growls]

♪