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

It's slowly getting worse.

Wake up, mice!

Wakey wakey! You want a little bear spray?

- I'm looking forward to

getting my long-term shelter built.

It's gonna get chilly,

and it's gonna get chilly pretty quick.

1 am sleeping in the big shelter tonight.

- I hit a cormorant. It got away.

1 hurt something else out here. 1 don't like that.

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

This is enough cold.

This is enough loneliness.

It's enough of the green monster.

This is over.

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 is 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.

- Good hunting trip.

1 just caught a grouse today.

And I realized that I had hurt the leg a while ago.

So that makes me feel good...

that 1 could put that one out of its misery,

and then 1 can have a good breakfast,

'cause 1 was hungry.

1 am hungry.

I'm starting to feel that fatigue

that goes along with the hunger,

the first time I've really started to feel it.

But seventh grouse.

Very thankful about it.

For a while now, I'm feeling the responsibility

that goes along with killing something.

It shocked me how difficult it is.

You know, you're gonna struggle through it,

suffer through it.

But then I think you have to set yourself up with

an understanding that this is life.

And you just do what needs to be done.

So now hunting is just accepted.

I hit a cormorant with an arrow the other day,

and 1 wounded this animal,

and it got away.

It's really weighing on my mind.

1 need to figure ouy, how am 1 going to get

another cormorant without hurting it?

So I'm thinking I'm gonna build an atlatl.

An atlatl, it's basically a spear-thrower;

it's much larger than an arrow,

And 1 realize that a cormorant

isn't going to be able to fly away

with that stuck in there.

It's getting there.

So, this is the thrower,

Put your fingers through there,

Then you've got a long spear, and you--

gives it extra power.

It's funny; I carved so much at night

last time in Patagonia.

Then it was like, oh, yeah,

let me carve a chess set,

let me carve a fox.

Now I'm just thinking of...

just coming up with different hunting techniques.

So here's my atlatl.

Got two fingers in there.

That guy like that.

Beautiful, beautiful artsmanship, right?

Beautiful craftsmanship, right?

So, anyways, we're gonna--

what this guy does is just goes in there.

There's a little hole right there, set it there.

Bring it along, and--

oh, that's nice.

It needs some-- I need to clean up

the dart a little bit, but it looked good.

The thing for me is, I've got to make sure

that 1 find things to keep my mind moving forward

instead of just being dead-stop.

Because if I'm dead-stop, man,

I get in a depressive state.

And 1 want to be--

1 want to understand what 1 need to do 10 stay,

you know what 1 mean?

That cormorant's toast.

- I'm still not fully awake.

There was this male red deer last night,

doing his thing, his bugles,

and I could just imagine when he was like--

I was laying there in bed thinking...

You know, he's just calling out.

"Hey, girl.

"Why don't you just come on right over?

"We could hang out, you know, do our thing.

Just crawl all-- crawl on over into my bed."

It's kind of what I imagine he was saying,

specifically in that voice too.

Let's see what's the plan for today.

I might try to just fish all day.

Definitely starting to feel

the lack of energy due to calorie deficiencies.

It's like I'm living on minimum wage here,

and I'm kind of living day-to-day

as much as 1 possibly can,

so mainly the thing that I'm focused on

is finding a long-term food source,

that being a deer or a lot of smoked fish.

My survival strategy isn't

necessarily about energy conservation.

Fish on.

It's about finding ways to live out here.

Ah, .

There's a correlation between how I'm feeling mentally

and emotionally and the amount of food that I'm getting.

Not having food is making things

a little bit more difficult on me.

Oh, !

1 can't get discouraged.

1 want to make sure that 1 put as much energy

into every aspect of my life out here.

1 feel ike 1 can be successful

if I'm really persistent.

If you haven't been to a spot in a while,

they just, uh...

They forget.

I'm not sure what it is.

It's just a nice little boost at a time when you need it.

Every little bit counts.

I've been out here a long time,

and 1 st can't believe that

I'm actually out here and I'm doing it; I'm successful.

And 1 will be the first one to tell you

that there are times when 1 have my doubts.

All the fish on camera here.

All right, well, I'm calling it at nine.

Nine's a good number.

That gives me five-- after dinner and breakfast,

that gives me five fish to smoke.

Ten halves, which is pretty good.

It's damn good.

1 just heard something

that scares the out of me,

Sounded like a mastodon.

Suddenly, I wish I'd put the door on my shelter.

I don't think I've ever heard a noise like that

that made me worried while 1 was sleeping outside.

Like that, kind of,

Only really loud.

It was like, whoa.

1 think it was a wild boar.

My shelter door's going back up,

from now on.

The woods are awake tonight.

That was close.

Let's go check it out.

Where are you, you piece of ?

1 just heard something in the grass.

And it's still over there.

- That thing last night,

1 want to say that was a wild boar.

It's the only thing I could think of.

1 don't know if they...

I mean, I've raised pigs.

I've raised domestic pigs quite a bit.

But I've never been out in the woods with wild boar.

It sounded like it could've been down by the deadfall.

I'm gonna go down there and check that out.

It could be caught in my trap.

1 feel pretty good about that deadfall.

1 think its killing capacity is pretty good.

That stick is where he's gonna step,

hopefully step on that,

and then bring the weight down, crashing down.

I need to build a little bit of a cubby,

so they can only come in one way,

and then get a bunch of sticks

and lay across that trigger stick.

With that trap right now,

1 can take, probably, 2 hundred-pound animal,

1 would think.

1 just can't even tell you what--1 mean,

what the emotion would be

if 1 were to catch something in that deadfall.

A pig would just be...

1 would just be beyond ecstatic.

1 would have the biggest damn barbecue Mongolia's ever seen.

Damn it.

Yep.

Bait's still in there.

There's the bait.

You accept the fact that you're sharing

territory with predators.

Some people might freak out and tap.

But all I want to do is kill them,

and then eat them.

The weather's gonna be a challenge

when things start getting colder,

and if you have no calories when it's below zero,

you're gonna be screwed.

- Ooh, those socks,

coming right off that sun drying.

1 feel like they're right out of the dryer.

Oh!

Somehow, this camera is still alive.

Everything looks good,

so we're gonna keep filming with it.

I've yet to prove myself in the protein realm.

1 need to get a fish out of that river and into my belly.

First thing I'm gonna do today

is check my fish trap that's way out in the lagoon.

So it's a long walk.

Hopefully there's something in there, anything.

Literally, one crawdad, I'd be happy.

Okay.

Well...

I'm gonna show you what we got.

So, if I'm being honest,

1 don't know exactly what this is,

but it looks an awful lot like a leech.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, it's definitely-- they're leeches.

It appears they've been sucking on this mouse blood.

About the grossest thing you can eat

is a leech who's been feeding off of mouse blood.

Bombs away.

I don't even know if you can eat leeches.

That's probably, like, the last thing

1 would want to eat.

All right, back to camp.

1 guess we can haul 'em back home

and use them for... Something?

No fish.

Pretty pathetic.

Another day in paradise, right?

- And let's see here, what have we got cooking?

Oh-ho-ho!

What have we here?

We have Mr. Long Tail,

caught in Larry Robertson's trap.

Smushy smushy.

"Smushy smushy,” said the big frickin' rock.

Oh, tasty, tasty, baby.

Yeah!

Mousie selfie.

Flat mousie selfie.

Out here, all I think about is food.

That's all 1 think about.

And 1 think about how 1 can get more food.

I have to always be adapting

to what my circumstances require.

The wind's blowing like crazy,

but I'm still gonna try and work on my net a little bit.

I've lost too many fish by trying to just pluck

them out of the river after 1 get them close to me.

So I'm making my own net

so 1 won't have that problem anymore.

Come on.

It's pretty awesome.

I've been working on this thing for quite a while.

I'm just gonna flex this willow.

I want to bend it, eventually, into a circle.

Now I'll take one of these strands of paracord,

and I've just got to keep going around.

This country's wearing on me.

I'm tired of the wind,

tired of the storms,

tired of the heat,

and I'm tired of the bugs.

You're wearing on me, Mongolia.

I liked you at first, bud,

and I still like you,

but your attitude

is starting to piss me off.

Vancouver Island was hardcore.

It proved to me that I'm tough.

Not many people get to go as far as their breaking point.

1 was lucky enough to get there once,

and it left a serious mark on me.

This particular experience has been pretty painful.

But sometimes the lessons

that you really remember are remembered through pain.

1 just hope that this is going 10 help me

when 1 go back to the real world

to help make my life

and my relationship with my family a better one.

I'm gonna take a break here.

Wind.

This place.

Damn it!

You're either screaming hot,

storming,

or windy in a fire season,

you,

Just calm the down.

Calm down.

- Wind comes from one direction,

and the clouds come from another.

It's an odd place.

The weather has just got me down a little bit.

Tie a little stop knot.

Try to do a jam knot.

Finish it off with maybe a half-hitch here.

Just like that.

It's done.

Might as well give it a try.

There is a wonderful bend in my river

that 1 am calling "Steady Eddy "

and I'm pulling quite a few fish out of this area.

It's a sure meat supply

that is making me feel extremely capable

in my abilities to feed myself.

1 got a fish with my net, man!

Oh, and I had the camera pointed the wrong way.

1 got a fish with my net.

I landed him with my net!

Right on!

And that's a big sucker, too, man.

That's a grayling, just a fat one.

Oh, man, 1 got--look,

my mission is complete, man!

You know, sometimes you just need a good

morale boost out here.

Sometimes things just seem a little overwhelming.

What this journey has taught me

is to refocus on the small things.

It's amazing how something like this

can change your attitude.

That's a nice grayling right there.

And I landed it with my net.

1 mean, not that there's anything unusual with that.

I've done it at home with the same sort of net,

but out here, man, out here.

Out here, 1 made this net, 1 made this fishing pole.

Out here, I did it.

Should've left the handle on this stick a little longer.

If not the longest grayling,

for sure the fattest one I've caught.

This one was fat.

This sure is a lot better experience when you enjoy it.

- Fire good.

Man, anybody that doesn't have

a fire in their shelter is freaking crazy.

Crazy.

1 don't know how-- 1 couldn't do it.

It's getting cold.

Working on different types of bushcraft projects

is a big thing for me.

I love thinking of different ways to get animals.

At this point, for me,

ideally is-- what's gonna happen is,

1 want to get a deer.

I want to be able to take one large life

and get a lot of food out of it.

Right now I've got a great trail,

really nice trail.

1 mean, you can see that trail.

Wow, a lot of old, old rubs.

There's a lot of action, a lot of movement in here,

so I'm gonna set up a tree stand to see,

get me a little higher,

disguise me, and disguise my scent a little bit.

The tree stand is just beautiful

as far as getting you a higher perspective

on the land so you can see what's coming.

Just a good way to ambush big game.

What I'm doing is pulling up logs

and just putting them over branches.

I'll set it up in a triangle fashion,

so that 1 have plenty of room 10 sit,

and then I'll tie those in.

Yikes.

I like climbing...

so that helps.

But if one of those branches breaks...

Let's hope they don't.

I'm 50 years old,

so I'm not a young spring chicken anymore.

My body is not like it was when 1 was 20,.

So there is a concern

about putting my body through these stresses.

But I want to be here so bad,

so it's worth it for me.

Not bad for not eating anything today, huh?

That's the point. I want to eat.

If I want to stay out here, I've got to hunt deer.

It's a huge caloric expenditure.

It's a lot of energy,

but if I want to stay here,

that is what 1 have to get.

And I'm gonna put every last ounce of energy I have

into that deer.

- Look like an old,

like, blind,

albino coal miner.

I definitely need to put on another one to two layers

before 1 go out fishing.

It's definitely chilly outside.

I've never tried to fish when it's this cold out.

But there's a little bit of sun peeking out,

so maybe some of the fish will come near the top water.

Much cooler than yesterday.

Come on, this is my spot. 1 need something here.

1 don't know, ever since 1 scored really big here,

not a nibble, not a splash.

It's been a cold day.

It could be that the fish are deeper

and just don't want to bite anything today.

Ooh.

Hear that?

There's something blowing in.

I haven't had much activity, and it's cold.

This stinks.

There are swirling areas

where the waters slow down and it's cold,

so I'm having to move from area to area

depending on the climate to see where the fish are going.

And I'm having no luck with anything

in this vicinity whatsoever.

No fish.

The Mongolian cold

is definitely becoming a factor now.

1 mean, it's present all the time.

I don't know what I'll do yet.

- It's definitely getting colder.

Lots of frost this morning on the ground.

So it seems like the last couple of days

have really been affecting the activity of the fish.

1 really need to branch out

and figure out different sources of protein

other than fish, in case the fish, you know,

one day just completely stop.

Priority number one for me today,

thinking I might try to go for a little walk

and continue to just look and scout out

for good hunting areas.

Seems like a good day for grouse.

They have a really beautiful high-pitched call.

My dad and my uncle,

we've been putting in for an elk hunt in Utah

for the last seven years,

and, of course, this is the year that we got it.

And so they're hunting while I'm here.

So my plan is to find a place to hunt

and hunt hard every day,

to kind of be close with them,

and experience what they're experiencing.

Brings me a little closer to them,

even though we're across the world from each other.

There's a grouse right there.

He was five feet away from me.

He done flew away.

He's gone now.

Whoa.

Check it out.

Large skull.

Looks like probably the red deer.

The shape of the upper jaw is one of an omnivore.

There's a lot of predators in this area.

We do share this landscape with wolves.

And so I just hope that if

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

All right, let's go.

We're far away from any sort of medical help.

We're taking a big risk just in being this far

disconnected from the outside world.

- Can you believe food is in such short supply

that I'm drying out the skin

so I can eat a little bit

of the fish remnants that are still on the skin?

Waste not, want not, right?

Next time Campbell goes to the garbage can

with a fish spine on his plate,

I'm gonna be like, "Hell, no, boy.

You better sit down and suck on that spine.”

1 remember watching my dad,

mom and dad.

They would leave a chicken bone so clean it looks like

you could put it in the Smithsonian.

I'm definitely feeling what I'm eating isn't giving me

enough energy to do what I need to do anymore.

And it's cold.

It's unforgiving.

Ah, warm feet. Finally.

All right, Mongolia.

1 see you're serious.

We're approaching winter,

and my diet consists about 99% of fish.

But as it's getting colder,

the fish start getting less aggressive.

So I'm like, okay, there's never gonna be any fish here.

It's a big problem, and in the end,

I'm hoping that it's not detrimental

to my stay out here.

It's crazy.

It seems like not too long ago, I was stripping off my socks

and stepping into the river to cool down.

Now I'm stripping off my stocks

and sticking them into the flames to warm up.

- What a pathetic beard.

Moustache.

Scraggles.

I'm becoming a man.

Let's roll. Huh!

Ever since I've been in Mongolia,

I'm not getting enough food.

When you go without protein,

it really hurts you big time.

Fish is the last piece

of my Mongolia puzzle.

But it's not working out.

I'm not catching anything,

and the fish trap came up short.

So 1 figured,

maybe let's try something else.

I think I'm gonna take today

and actually make a gill net.

I've got a few long pieces of paracord,

fully intact.

All right, guys, gill net 101.

Make a little triangle

in approximately the correct shape.

Take both lines together,

Simple overhand knot.

Bring it through,

pull it tight,

and repeat several hundred times.

I'm losing weight very, very fast.

And at this point,

I'm craving food.

I think there's a hungry scale, where first,

you start craving ice cream and pizza.

Then, after a while, you start craving vegetables

and Brussels sprouts and things like that.

And that just means

I'm literally starving.

It's a good size net, 1 say.

Good size net.

So, basically, my entire system

is going to be based off of a nice, thick willow.

The line is going to be connected to the willow...

So that 1 can extend it out into the river.

So the gill net is actually

going to be weighted down with stones like this.

It has to be weighted down heavily,

because even if it's just a net,

that river will take it and throw it against the wall.

It does not give a darn.

This river is just hardcore.

Come on, come on, come on, let's go, let's go.

You got this, son.

Aw.

Oh, come on, you little punk.

It's very easy to become frustrated.

You look around and you say, "Hmm,

"these traps aren't working.

Where is there any more protein for me to get?"

So my gill net needs to work.

1 need 10 start catching fish.

Almost.,

Oh, man.

So, basically, that's exactly

what 1 didn't want to have happen.

This river is so strong...

To work for so long on something,

you're like, "Oh, it's got to work out, right?"

1 don't feel super good

about my situation at the moment.

You know, 1 feel like, what am 1 doing wrong

if 1 can't get a stinking fish out of my river?

Honestly, 1 feel very down

about not being able to score

more protein at this point.

1 thought that there would be more stuff

out here for me to get.

It looks like fishing is kind of

off the menu for the moment.

And I'm literally starving.

When your wife and kids look at you,

what kind of man do they see?

You want them to see someone who gives up

as soon as things get tough?

1 don't want that.

And so I feel, at this point,

that 1 will eat anything.

So what we're doing tonight

is we are cooking up the leeches

that we got in the fish trap

that I had put over in the lagoon area.

Gonna do this even though I'm not 100% sure

if you even can eat leeches.

Whoa, it smells bad.

I don't like it.

1 don't like it at all.

One leech.

So we've got nine leeches and a snail.

I'm gonna boil them for, like, five full minutes.

I do not want this to be, like,

slightly undercooked

and get some kind of crazy worm thing in me.

What are the odds that this tastes good?

Ike, 1 wonder what the odds are

that I pop these in my mouth, and I'm like,

"Whoa, man,

what a tasty, delicious meal."

I'm gonna put a wire through them and roast them.

Oh, if this was smell-o-vision,

you guys would be getting it.

All righty, one leech kabob, coming right up.

Bon appetit.

Oh, what the heck.

Let's get these, all four, all at once.

Still, like, deciding if I'm gonna throw up or not.

Wow.

Gross!

Gross.

Ooh, gross.

Yuck.

- Gotcha.

Mouse snack before 1 go to bed.

- Out here is a fall

to almost certain death.

Just be careful.

Three deer.

I've got to haul ass.

- I'm alive, Mongolia!

I don't know why that makes me want to cry, but it does.

I'm alive!