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- Whoa.

That was a pretty intense head rush.

- That sound like a bear.

- I got the cabin looking pretty good.

When extremely cold temperatures come,

I know that I'm gonna be warm inside of my cabin.

Just these really bad abdominal cramps.

Ugh, can't pass.

It's Jesse. I have to tap out.

I know I'm letting my family down.

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.

1 have quite a few mice living in my shelter.

It's slowly getting worse and slowly getting worse.

I'm just scared to death that

the mice are gonna get into my gear.

There's all this grass and brush and stuff

in my shelter that he can hide under.

1 don't know where he is.

Today, 1 think I'm gonna tear

my bed apart.

I'm going to lay out all the grass,

just to see if there's any mouse nests in there.

Vancouver Island had a little bit of a mouse problem too,

but when I left,

they had quite a bit less of a mouse problem.

A mouse is completely destroying my gear.

It's like me against him now, and it's--now it's personal.

I'm so frickin' pumped right now I'm shaking.

1 finally, finally, finally caught the effing mouse

in my paiute deadfall.

Just frickin' squished like a damn pancake, baby. Bazinga!

Oh, this seemed like a good idea at the time.

Why did 1 do this?

Well, potentially,

that wasn't exactly the smartest thing I've ever done.

That was a lot of work.

I'm not sure of the benefits.

There was no mouse nest.

I am very surprised that this time is this similar to

Vancouver Island where the mice

are coming out to haunt me again.

My name is Larry Roberts, and I do not like rodents.

- What if all of my footage was this close?

Oh, that hurt my stomach, 1 started laughing so hard.

Like, every single scene...

Was this close.

Oh, my God.

Oh, there goes the camera.

Oh, crap. Okay, calm it down.

That was a moment of insanity.

So with that said, it's time to get up.

1 think today's gonna be a good day for fishing.

I feel it.

The water's at a good level today.

There we go.

That's a good one.

1 can't wait to take fishing--

rent a canoe and go out.

I know he's gonna love it.

There we go.

Time with my son is what I look forward to

more than anything else.

He's not just my son; he's my friend.

Can't wait to watch all of the amazing things he's

going to do, and to be front and center for all of them.

There we go.

This one feels a little bigger.

See, you catch one more, and then you want to keep fishing.

1 got one more grasshopper in my pocket.

How about 1 give it a few more minutes?

My strategy is working

basically exactly as 1 thought it would.

I am pleasantly surprised with the amount of fish I've been

able to pull out of the water.

1 wonder if anybody's doing as well as me with the fish,

'cause 1 would define what I'm doing as

"killing it" with the fish.

Good haul.

This one has a big belly right here.

Wonder why. It's a small fish with a big belly.

Just had a really full stomach.

Wow. Gonna have to cut that open and see what that is.

Thing has been eating.

There's the grasshopper that

was there, and this is what else was in there.

You kidding me?

Look at that.

That looks like a mouse.

Let me get it all the way out.

That's incredible.

I don't want to be limited

10 how many fish 1 can hold, and right now 1 am.

1 need to try smoking my fish,

so I'll take a whole line of fish,

string it from one rafter to the other,

and then just keep a good, smoky fire going all day,

and after a while, they'll firm up and they'll find their

groove, and they won't slide off, so it'll be fine.

Everything is perfect right now.

It's really smoking that stuff up.

Big plumes of direct smoke.

Operation: Smokehouse.

- One, two,

three, four,

five,

six, seven...

eight fish halves, so that's pretty good.

Um, let me show you my smoking setup here.

So I've just been smoking these...

Right on my chimney,

and then 1 go ahead and take this guy...

Stick that boy on top of there,

just to help

keep the smoke trapped inside.

Hopefully, by tomorrow,

1 should have some well-smoked fish.,.

My body's taken to this lifestyle.

1 feel good.

I feel like I've, um, leveled out in some ways.

The fish are biting, grouse are singing.

Grouse is just a great sort of change of diet,

which is really, really nice.

1 haven't gotten any in a couple of days,

so let's see if I can get some grouse.

I've been hearing one kind of sing a little bit to the...

east of me, east of my camp.

I think out here it's important

to just walk slow, always be scanning the area.

1 don't want to hurt myself while I'm here.

Stepping on a rattlesnake or a pit viper is gonna throw

you out of the game.

There's a grouse right there.

I'm gonna try to sneak by and get it.

1 missed it.

You could hear the hit.

It was a "pff" sound.

There's feathers all over the place.

Just not a kill shot. Just got off by a feather, you know?

There he is again.

There he is again.

Got him.

It was a successful stalk and kill,

about a 20-yard shot through some brush.

Dinner tonight is not a bad full grouse here.

Pretty happy about that.

Smoker's certainly doing a good job.

Check that out.

It's amazing to know that the way that I've lived my life

for the last ten years is

culminating to such abundance out here.

One of the best parts of doing "Alone"

season two was this guy comes up to me and he goes,

"My Kids go outside all the time and they play at "Alone;

and you've been a huge inspiration to them."

That one experience was probably the best

compliment 1 could have got.

Those kids are gonna grow up

a little bit more connected to the land.

That motivates me to stay out here.

- All right, so welcome to the Green Glow Psych Ward.

I'd rather be just about anywhere but inside

this shelter right now.

These rainy days are brutal.

It's cold, I don't want to go outside,

1 don't want 10 be in here...

and it's just a monotonous day.

It's gonna be tough.

Need my blue sky for my mental health.

How in the world did 1 survive Vancouver Island? 1 don't know.

I had a white tarp, for one thing.

Huge difference, white tarp.

Not this green psych ward shelter I'm living in.

It's not good-- not good for the mind.

Just sitting here staring at the fire, hoping the rain slows

down or stops today at some point so 1 can get outside.

I'm pretty sick of myself. Yep.

Had all about enough of me as 1 can stand.

Whoo! It's a party.

Party of one. That's me.

- No, 1 don't think it's--

the rain is lightening up at all.

1 don't think the sky is either.

It's my wishful imagination.

I'm not sure how much more I can handle today.

So I'm just relaxing, sitting here,

watching fly sex--gross--

and thinking about setting a trap.

This diet of constant fish is making me feel pretty good,

pretty clean, because it's so fresh and such a drastic

change from my normal diet, but I'm also finding that it's

not providing me with the energy 1 need,

the fat source 1 need;

it's not giving me the calories I need,

so I'm not feeling as high energy as I normally would.

1 know that there are all types of weasels and badgers

and wolverines, scavengers that run around here

so 1 don't have 10 go way up to make a trap.

1 can make a trap 20 feet from my door.

The flies are crazy. The flies are crazy.

If I were to catch something in the middle of the night

and it's out there howling,

I've got to go out in the dark and dispatch it.

Hopefully it'll be something that will not have

a pack of somethings with it.

- 1 want to set a freestanding trap,

not one that's attached to a tree that's rooted.

Be cool if there was something like a wolverine or a badger,

something neat like that.

Not really hoping it's a bear.

It would be out here angry as hell

with a tree attached to its limb.

The first one of these I've ever made,

so just want it to work.

There's the loop right here.

1 used silver.

See how it blends in so well.

And then there's the fish head hanging inside the loop.

The loop is attached on the lower notch,

fish head on the second notch, and the engine on the third,

and all that ripe-smelling bait is back there.

And you know how the system works.

It tugs, that releases, this lifts, that pulls.

Maybe it'll completely upend something and--who-who-who,

bam!--slam it on the ground over there.

The concept of handling something in the pitch

blackness does not totally thrill me.

Wow.

1 don't know.

- Tired this morning, 'cause of all the animal traffic outside.

I'll go check out my trap.

And 1 might just--oh!

Dangerous part.

Damn. Look at that.

Now that right there is a moose track.

Look at the size of that hoof.

That is one impressively large animal.

Wow. Let me tell you,

man, when they come running around my camp in the middle

of the night, it's no joke.

You start hearing these animals all the time in and around you,

the evidence they're leaving, the sounds they're making.

This is a lot different from Ohio.

1 mean, we don't have animals

that could possibly do so much damage.

We're in a situation that, if something horrible

should happen to us,

it's scary to think that I could be stuck

here in the woods for hours if nobody's coming to help me.

It looks like 1 was correct.

Something came up here.

I'm trying to see if the bait is still in there.

It's not.

My anchor stick came out of the ground.

So I need to create another one of these, and I'll make it,

like, this long, and I'll pound it way down in there,

and I'll reset this trap tonight, and, you know,

try and land some game, get some valuable, you know, meat.

- I'd like to sharpen my knife.

Let's see if we can figure this out.

So usually what 1 do is 1 keep working it until 1 get a burr.

Wow, it's got a burr already.

Holy cow.

Extra coarse, it looks like, then.

And then 1 just flip the side and go 1 a finer.

1 heard something running.

What the ?

It still sounds like I's over there.

What the hell is that?

1 hit a cormorant. That's a big bird.

I think T hit it.

I'm gonna go after it.

I hit it.

1 don't know how bad 1 hit it.

Ah, dang. It got away.

1 needed that.

1 hurt something else out here.

I don't like that.

1 don't want to hurt things.

1 have no result.

Damn it.

- I'm so thankful.

1 see blotches of sunshine coming through my tarp.

1 can get out of here today.

I'm gonna climb that ridge over

there, way 10 the top, so 1 can see over the other side.

Be nice to get up a little higher and just kind

of survey the country a little.

Tm gonna take a basket, see if 1 can find some birch bark,

some berries, some chaga, maybe.

Stuff ain't gonna be around much longer.

It's really dying off.

I'm just hoping the weather holds.

1 feel like there's weather moving in.

1 don't know if I'm making the right choice.

Definitely would not want

to get stuck out far from camp in bad weather.

All right. Made it to the ridge.

Now 1 can climb.

I just feel so lonely--these clouds and this darkness.

1 feel like an abandoned child out here...

like they left me behind.

Uh-oh. It looks like it's coming.

Do 1 keep going, or do 1 tum around now?

1 don't know.

I'd hate to have to come back and try this again.

That.

Two rose hips.

There's another one there,

Very ripe.

You basically just suck the pulp right off the seeds.

Hope the weather holds.

Coming up on this birch tree.

That looks like chaga. That is chaga!

Finally. Look how high it is.

Tm gonna get a stick, see if 1 can knock any off.

Chaga likes these big, mature birch trees.

Success.

1 got all kinds of pieces--

really nice, big chunks too.

Oh, that's awesome.

Yay!

All right. Good score.

You know, there's gonna be people who say,

"What a waste of calories and energy to climb this ridge,"

and I'll I've got to say is,

I'm only gonna be here one time for my whole life.

I've got one chance to climb

this ridge, look at this view, and take it all in.

You think I'm gonna sit in camp

twiddling my thumbs conserving energy?

No way, man. I'm gonna go out and live it.

Whoo! There is an end in sight.

See what 1 see up there?

That looks like the top of something.

I'm almost there.

I wonder what it looks like on the other side.

Oh, wow,

Wow.

Look at that.

1 made it. Yeah!

1 see my river. 1 think that's my camp.

Snakes right around, a big loop.

The wind is picking up,

like this huge front just pushed through.

I don't want to linger here and get stuck in a storm.

Holy cow.

It's threatening.

Oh, no.

1 want to be anywhere but here.

Just anywhere.

Looks like rain in the valley now.

Just now feeling some sprinkles of rain.

I'm getting down off this mountain.

Definitely don't want to be wet.

Oh, 1 don't like that, hearing that coming. Scary.

This kind of weather doesn't bring out the best in me.

Not at all.

Doesn't bring out the warrior or the tough girl.

None of that.

We're home.,

weather has moved in, 1 got to move out.

1 didn't want to be stuck up there,.

I was up there a lot farther than I thought.

Almost there.

Oh, 1 just--1 can't bear much of that shelter,

crawling back into the green, smoky tarp.

And what if this storm lasts two days with no windows,

no friends, no family, no cat, no dog?

Just loneliness and darkness.

Yeah, it's easy to get in your head

and just talk yourself right out of being here.

Easy to do. So many reasons to go.

You're hungry, you're--a shower would be amazing.

It's just the loneliness.

There's just a loneliness here that sinks in after a while.

You're just--it's overwhelming.

You just want to be with people.

That's what was cool with doing season four with Dave.

Life's meant to be shared.

This time, it's just me.

It's too quiet.

You know what's hard to think about?

All you have to do is make a phone call, and you can be

in a bed tonight, you can have food tonight.

Like, once you start getting

into that headspace, it's really hard to come out of it.

- Well, I'm up.

It is oh-dark-30, and the mice are just

frickin' going to town, man.

Just, "Shh, shh, shh, shh.

"Whew, whew, whew.

Shh, shh, shh." Just all over the place, man.

They are just driving me bat crazy.

Boom!

God, they're just insane.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, the little bastards.

I wish I could stomp their little guts in.

Oh, 1 was ready just-- I had to get up, man.

1 was ready to destroy my shelter.

1 mean, just destroy it.

1 was gonna go off.

Ugh.

Little bastard mice.

Run me out of my own bed.

I'm gonna make a fire, get my hands warm.

I'm just frustrated.

I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I'm hungry, and I'm hungry.

I'm hangry.

Little bastards!

God.

- Yesterday has messed with my head

on many levels,

but mostly emotional.

It's been these highs and lows,

like real high and real low.

There's a mouse coming up.

1 hope he goes for my trap.

Then I'll have killed him.

If you don't want to die, then 1 would suggest you leave.

- If you don't want to die, then 1 would suggest you leave.

[trap thumps

Killed him.

Al right.

Knocked him on the head.

Died just outside of the trap.

Cook and clean you in the morning, buddy.

- I've got three mice off of that one trap.

They just kept coming, and 1 kept setting,

and they kept coming, and 1 kept setting.

Even more came out afterwards.

Um, I'll accept any meat that I can get,

so 1 plan on eating those guys today.

Definitely working on the emotional thing.

I want to learn the land.

Killing is just something that is part of this Earth,

and it's got to be done,

but it hurts, and it's not easy for me.

1 don't remember that so much

in Patagonia, but I think now I'm gonna have to face it.

- 1 have been dealing with the mice

for up to a month now, of them waking me up

and pitter-pattering around my shelter,

but now they're sleeping,

'cause they like to party all night and sleep all day.

You know, it's these little things

they don't tell you about.

They don't tell you about the mice...

when you're--when you go to survival school.

They just say, "Just survive, man. Just survive."

They didn't tell me about the mice.

All right, well, I'm pulling out all the stops today, boys.

Wake up, mice! Wakey, wakey!

Wakey, wakey, mice!

You wake me up, I'm waking you up!

You want a little bear spray?

1 hope that it just filed

their little lungs with toxic fumes.

There. That's it.

That's all of it, you frickin' things.

1 should air horn them too.

That's fun.

Smells kind of peppery and refreshing in my shelter.

Little peppery.

Is it a little peppery in there for you, folks?

- 1 don't know what I'm gonna do.

The trauma that 1 experienced on Vancouver Island

is suddenly coming back like it was yesterday.

- 1 absolutely can't deal with the green glow in there.

It is a mental roadblock for me.

I can't be in that shelter and be happy about life.

- Killing's hit me a bit, definitely.

Right now, 1 just-- 1 mean, 1 feel raw

and a little overpowered by it.

- Hey, guys.

Turns out I'm pretty sick of hanging out with myself.

And I'm pretty lonely. It gets to you after a while.

You just--the quiet of not sharing the experience.

It just kind of eats away at you.

And, uh...

starving sucks.

It has been so incredibly

humbling to go through this twice.

1 feel like this time, because

1 was alone instead of with Dave,

it's a bit of a redemption.

It's a bit of a chance to prove

on my own the skills that 1 have.

But there is this recollection of Vancouver Island.

1 don't want to go there again.

1 don't want to get that hungry again.

This is enough hungry.

This is enough cold.

This is enough loneliness.

It's enough of the green monster.

It's like, "Okay, this is over."

Leave with a smile on my face.

And that's what 1 choose.

- Whoa. Check it out.

There are a lot of predators in this area.

Just hope that if 1 stay away

from them, they're gonna stay away from me.

- I'm literally starving.

1 will eat anything.

Ugh! Gross!

- Yikes.

I've got to hunt deer, and I'm

gonna put every last ounce of energy I have into that deer.

- I just heard something.

Let's go check it out.

In the grass, and it's still over there.