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- Oh, my gosh.

Yes! I see it.

Yes!

1 got first blood.

Today could actually be, like, a turning point for me.

- Yeah.

Fish!

1 really need some food.

I'm not thriving or surviving.

I'm just lasting.

- God, it's tough killing something,

but at the same time, got to eat.

- Frickin' deer floating down the river.

It's heartbreaking that I wasn't able

to bring down that deer.

1 need 10 tap deeper into my resolve

and determination.

Male narrator: For the first time ever on "Alone,"

ten past participants return.

They've come back with one goal:

redemption.

- I deserve to be here, and I'm back.

- I want to win more this time than I did last time.

Narrator: Now a fresh hell awaits...

- The cold is an incredibly strong punch in the face.

Narrator: In the punishing wilderness of Mongolia.

- We're in the middle of nowhere.

- Mongolia's a very unforgiving land.

Narrator: They must survive in complete isolation,

enduring as long as they can.

- I'm just gonna push and push and push

until there's nothing left.

Narrator: The last one standing wins.

- Look at that.

People should work together like ants.

In the end, we pretty much just have

all one common goal, right?

Health, happiness, family,

food, some fun.

These ants work tirelessly to fight this thing,

and they'll win too.

They have the numbers. This thing has no defense.

It's pretty crazy.

Turned out to be a nice day, huh?

Okay, let's go catch some fish.

1 got three grasshoppers in my pocket.

My fishing strategy right now is definitely grasshoppers.

1 just scoop up a pocket of 'em.

I'm catching good fish every day.

Okay.

There he is.

Now, my next spot.

I didn't feel like I left Patagonia

and I'd failed,

but I'm here to redeem myself,

I'm here to go the distance.

Hey!

Grasshopper.

I'm surprising myself with my success.

The rate at which I'm having it is so great

that it is almost making me laugh at times.

This is absolutely the most success

I've ever had fishing everywhere.

If I'm procuring food at this rate,

and 1 don't have to have that

as the first and foremost thought in my brain,

then I can focus a lot more on other things

to make me more successful in other areas.

Check out that haul.

Nine fish.

This is a lot of weight.

Not bad for about two hours of fishing,

maybe two hours.

I've got dinner.

Holy . Look at that.

That up here looks suspiciously like claws.

And I see these little ones next to it.

Seeing these tracks

is putting me a little bit on edge.

My number one fear is being ripped apart by a grizzly.

If a bear's giving indications of that being his territory,

I'd rather find another territory to fish.

We're totally immersed in this wild kingdom out here.

1 mean, there's no filter

between all these animals and us.

There's no buffer zone.

They roam where they want,

and we're just here at their mercy.

- Tummy is growling.

Says, "Feed me."

All right, what's on store for today?

Well...

I really need to eat.

There's no way to hunt right now.

I've not seen a deer.

I think they're so small,

they barely get above the vegetation,

so you need the vegetation to die back

as fall and winter sets in, 1 think, to even see 'em.

So 1 am hoping for a fish.

Got one floating line out.

Nothing biting on that.

Got to think about trying something else.

So 1 think 1 want to make some kind of a spinner

to attract the fish.

Sort of trying to make a little spoon

out of this piece of pine.

If I can make a little hole right here with my awl,

1 can put on a piece of wire,

and maybe it would spin in the water with my hook.

There it is, in theory.

My homemade lure.

Sometimes the days seem to go fast,

but then sometimes they just...

drag on.

The lack of food, it dominates your thoughts.

You've got to keep yourself busy.

That's why 1 just invent things to make,

even if they're kind of goofy.

Well, here's the finished--

at least one container

1 got out of the birch bark.

Four days' worth of birch bark chain.

Does that look cool?

Can't let your mind take over about what you're missing,

what foods you want, what your people are doing.

Yes, deer teeth.

1 think the thing 1 think about the most,

and it happened last time too, is you just--

you're making plans for your life,

you know, when this is over.

Like, you're thinking about everything

you're gonna do and everything you want to do.

Here, you're just kind of static.

You're just existing.

It eats at you, for sure.

Why aren't the fish biting?

- 1 was just looking at myself in the camera.

Man, I'm scared because I got--I've gotten thin.

Whoo.

I really need to start getting some actual calories in.

Whoo.

Wow.

This is not Vancouver Island. This is Mongolia.

Vancouver Island was,

go down to the beach and grab some seaweed

when you didn't do very well at fishing.

Here, you have to fight for every scrap.

1 mean, 1 haven't had any solid food for five days.

1 would eat anything.

1 don't know. 1 got to think.

Looking around, there's a lot of pine trees.

Pine inner bark is starvation food.

1 think that's what Tm gonna have to get into,

eating pine bark.

One tree can supply me a long time with food.

Definitely need to get the calories in me

before it becomes a big problem.

I'm tired of this starvation game.

Let's get this bark off, outer bark.

This whiteness?

That's the xylem.

What I'm going to be harvesting is the xylem,

the blood vessels that bring all the good nutrients

from the soil up to the leaves and the branches

and the rest of it.

See how 1 can easily slide my knife up beneath that?

I want to make sure I only go a little bit down.

Just peel it down.

And you just eat it.

I'm not screwing with you guys.

Pine bark is good.

It'll keep me alive.

Might become the day I've eaten the most

since I've been out here.

That sounded like a bear.

Can you hear that?

If a bear comes close to my campsite,

1 hope that it doesn't come pushing through my front door,

'cause it's really the only weakness of my shelter.

Keep my bear spray and bear horn safe,

or handy just in case.

He comes to the front door,

I'm putting arrows through that door.

No hesitation.

- So it's weird.

You just get accustomed to all the sounds,

like even when you're at home,

and you hear a noise

that triggers something in your brain

to be out of the ordinary,

and that's what I heard last night.

Whoo.

It's a gray day.

See?

Everybody's heard bear sounds on nature shows or on TV.

And they have that--

Kind of sound.

I grabbed my bear spray and my bear horn

and just kind of listened for something

to see if it was gonna happen.

If I'm gonna encounter one,

I'd rather it be in the daytime.

1 don't want to get surprised by something.

I'm definitely seeing a lot of evidence of bear activity

not too far from my camp.

See all these bear scratches?

Right there?

They're as high as my face.

Look how thick those are.

Those are big claws.

Not something 1 want to feel across my body.

1 knew they were here.

It doesn't make me comfortable,

Hopefully I'll just be able to avoid

any sort of confrontation.

What I really don't want to do is run into a mother with cubs.

That, 1 don't want to happen.

- I know 1 had some...

pretty uncomfortable hunger pains

fairly early this morning.

So...

1 might dig a few more dandelions

than what 1 have been digging,

just so I have something to eat, like,

in the morning and in the evening.

Be nice if 1 caught another fish while 1 was out here.

I'm losing weight pretty rapidly,

but that's to be expected from my lack of calories.

Got my digging stick.

Let's go dig up some dandelions.

1 sure lucked out with how many dandelions

there are here,

even though 1 don't care for 'em.

There's something happening when 1 stand up,

and I'm getting these head rushes.

They worry me a little bit.

1 know 1 had head rushes bad on Vancouver Island,

but not that bad.

I'm hoping they'll go away.

Well, I harvested quite a bit of dandelion,

so let's go fishing.

3 Head rush, head rush

3 How come 1 get a head rushy?

1 need some fish, man.

Lots and lots of fish.

That was a big one too.

God, that's disappointing.

Come on, man, 1 need more fish.

Let's go.

Please, Mongolia.

Please let me get this fish.

There, 1 got one.

Thank you.

Oh, yeah! Yeah!

Yeah!

Whoo!

Yeah!

Yeah!

Whoo!

Whoo!

Oh, thank you, Mongolia.

Thank you, Mongolia.

Oh, head rush, head rush.

Time to cook up some victuals.

What a needed morale booster,

nourishment.

1 mean, 1 just can't say enough about it.

Whoa.

Well, that was a pretty intense head rush.

I've never had a head rush like this before.

This is the worst one I've ever had.

1 blacked out.

1 hit my head,

just very, very glancing,

but it could've been pretty bad.

I'm laying on my back,

and I'm staring at the sky thinking,

that is a really blue, pretty sky.

And then slowly my brain fog starts to lift,

and I realize I'm in Mongolia,

and I'm on my back, and I just fell.

1 think those dandelions have been dehydrating me pretty bad.

The problem is, is 1 think those dandelions

are a diuretic, which makes you pee.

And if they make you pee,

then they're keeping my urine color clear,

so I'm thinking that I'm hydrated

when I'm really not.

I'm hoping that cutting the dandelions out of my diet,

at least temporarily, will correct these head rushes.

It's disconcerting to tip over from a head rush.

So that's something that 1 really need to watch.

Something small can turn into something big

out here in the wilderness if you let it go.

We are out in the middle of nowhere.

If you do something catastrophic,

you're just screwed.

- Mmm.

That was a good piece.

Got up in the morning.

I processed part of that log.

That gave me a lot of food.

1 could eat all that,

or 1 could dry it up

and try to make some flour,

which could be three days' worth of bread.

2-quart pot of food.

That's a couple days right there.

1 couldn't eat all that in one day.

Well, I guess I could.

I have food laying outside.

1 have more food hanging up.

I have a lot of food right now.

It's all pine bark, but it gives me

carbohydrates and amino acids.

It just doesn't give me protein and fat.

Oh.

Pine bark gives me gas.

Oh.

I'm a little worried about constipation.

I've been eating well for the last, what, two days?

But I haven't had to have a bowel movement.

Other than the spiritual nature of this show for me,

I'm doing this financially for my family.

1 want 10 help each and every one of them out.

Filling up my pot.

I love my family.

That's why 1 wake up every single day in that shelter

and negotiate with myself.

"All right, get up, boil your damn water,

get some food, get your shelter built."

1 will do that every single day

Tl 1 win for my family,

every single day.

Save you for later.

Kind of feel ke 1 need to poop, but 1 try,

and I'll sit there for 10, 20 minutes, and nothing.

Oh, man.

1 feel nauseous. 1 just feel--just beat up.

I'm a little worried about my pine bark diet.

Human bodies don't really digest cellulose,

so it's probably breaking it down a different way.

Maybe it's that.

Maybe 1 haven't eaten as much as 1 thought 1 have,

and I've just eaten enough to keep me full,

which is not much, because my stomach is small.

Or I've started getting clogged up.

11 get constipation out here,

1 don't know what 1 can do.

1 really don't know what 1 can do.

- 1 have a very active day ahead of me,

and so I'm just grabbing some water

from up here on the tarp.

I've just let it gather right there.

Every time 1 need a drink, 1 just take a scoop.

Ah, just the right amount

of bird poop and ashes and dirt.

To Mongolia, and to freedom.

Wow.

What was just green

is now turning yellow.

Everything around here knows that it's fall now.

Like, the season has changed. It is not summer,

It is fall, and you can see it.

All these colors reflect it.

That means it's gonna get chilly,

and it's gonna get chilly pretty quick.

So right now, I'm looking forward

to getting my long-term shelter built

so that I have four walls and a roof

for when we get our first snow.

So today is gonna be a major shelter day.

So far, I've spent about five days working on the shelter.

1 got one wall blocked off and initial framework done.

So what we're gonna do is,

we're gonna put the tarp from the old shelter

all the way over to the new shelter

and finish all the walls.

Let's get cracking.

Time to take 'er down.

Out with the old, in with the new.

So the shelter is a framework

of maybe 4-inch or 5-inch thick willow poles,

and every last bit of it

is gonna be what I need to stay comfortable

and stay out here for as long as 1 possibly can.

Time to assemble ze bed.

This is all part of my original plan

to find a really good spot for a shelter.

Like, take your time finding it.

Don't just throw up the fastest shelter you can.

I made that mistake last time.

- Well, I've gotten a lot of flack

for my shelter from season one.

You know, 1 did a quickie shelter,

and it was good for a while,

and then when the storms started coming,

it was bad, bad stuff,

Oh, yeah, that'll definitely do for tonight.

Time to get cranking on this back wall.

It's weird, with this experience,

because the longer you stay out here,

the longer you stay away,

the more fulfilling,

the more joyful, the more memorable,

the more rewarding this experience will be.

All right, we'll call that good for the night.

Nearly finished. This is exciting.

1 can't believe 1 did that in, like, a day.

1 am sleeping in the big shelter tonight,

and 1 am super, super excited about it.

I'm really happy with the shelter

because there's a drive for me,

other than the money.

It's that this experience is richer and purer

the longer it is.

- This is by far my favorite coat when I'm out here.

It's warm but light.

[animal bellowing distantly]

Oh.

1 didn't know red deer did that.

Oh.

I love the mountains,

and I love the sound of elk in the fall.

That tells you a lot.

It's like, well, it's fall, and it's beautiful,

and always tells you that the leaves are turning,

and you're in the mountains.

What could be more beautiful?

Just come up with the idea

that I'm gonna go hunting in the canyon.

Heading across these plains

up into that canyon right there.

Here we go.

Exploration,

getting to know more of the area.

These are things that 1 live for.

Definitely feel myself getting skinnier.

1 don't want to starve myself.

1 don't want to wither away to nothing

like I did in Patagonia.

It's coming into winter.

1 need big game

to have a sustainable amount of meat.

One deer, it's less life that I have to take.

Okay. I'm gonna go meander around a little bit,

just to get to know the area.

1 feel alive when 1 walk with a bow in my hands.

My senses are heightened.

1 can smell the air.

1 can feel the wind on my cheek.

Ah, here we go.

Nice game trail.

1 heard something.

- A grouse.

I had the shot on it,

and then my arrow goes into this grouse,

and the bird flies off with my arrow.

Started tracking it down, and got that grouse,

but it was obvious that 1 had hurt this animal.

Arrow broke its wing clean off.

I don't want to cause suffering

to any animal or being.

I don't hunt to kill.

1 hunt to eat.

I tell myself, is it better

to kill one large animal for many meals?

Or a bunch of small ones?

One deer.

It's less game, less life that I have to take.

1 mean, Tm hurting these animals.

And it hurts my heart.

So what do I choose, to be oblivious?

Do 1 choose to be a vegetarian?

Do 1 push the button?

Or do I keep killing?

I've killed five grouse,

a squirrel.

God, man, that's a lot of pain.

That's a lot of pain.

The hunter left because he couldn't hunt anymore.

- 1 woke up worn out, man.

1 have a headache, abdominal pain, exhausted.

Not feeling great.

But I'll push through.

1 always do.

I've eaten probably 1/2 pound,

if not more, of pine bark in the last three days.

But since probably day eight,

I haven't had to have a bowel movement.

So 1 want to make some flour with my pine bark.

The flour should be a lot easier for my body to digest

than just straight pine bark,

so I have hopes that it will help push everything through.

I'm going to have to use a rock.

Crush, crush, crush, crush.

This'll be pretty good.

Nice handle up here.

I've never made flour before, so you know, here's--

here's to firsts.

There's the consistency of it.

Stomach, man.

Uh, my lower abs are tightening up,

or at least, like, the inside.

Ah, okay.

Ahh,

Yeah, that's--

that's come back a little bit.

It's like I need to fart, but I can't.

Go away.

Ahh,

Ahh, it's...

Lay down. Lay down.

Ohh.

Ugh.

Shh.

Shh.

Oh...

This is a lot of pain.

Ahh,

It's like someone's pulling barbed wire out of my stomach.

1 don't know what to do.

Ow.

All right, this is--

this is too much.

To all my brothers and my sister,

I'm sorry.

I'm really sorry.

This is Jesse. I'm--1 have to tap out.

I resent having to go out like this.

Big, bad Green Beret gets taken out by his stomach.

1 think they're here.

Just this really bad abdominal pain.

Really bad. 1 mean, really, really bad.

1 did so much,

and 1 got taken out because 1 can't poop.

The largest part of me wants to stay.

Even with the starvation, 1 can keep myself going.

But man can't live off bark alone.

I should've maybe not go so hardcore on just pine bark,

but, man, when you've been hungry for that long,

being satiated even for one meal

was an incredible relief,

I put a lot on this.

1 really wanted to use the prize money

to help my large family, help them out,

and say thank you for everything

they've done for me in my life.

1 know Tm letting my family down.

It's very crazy to hear extremely large animals

just feet from you.

1 don't want to go outside.

- Oh, no. This huge front just pushed through.

Definitely don't want to get stuck in a storm.

1 heard something running.

What the hell is that?

I think T hit it.

- 1 have quite a few mice living in my shelter.

I could stomp their little guts in.

Boom!