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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.

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

- It looks like frostbite.

- Holy [bleep]!

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

- They're just surrounding my shelter.

- A million dollars. "Alone" has never done this.

- This is high stakes, my man.

Good-bye!

- If you make it to 100 days, you're rich.

That's a huge factor.

Whoo! Now what?

- This is the Arctic.

That means that these

are gonna be harsh, harsh conditions.

It can reach down to negative 30,

negative 40 degrees.

Whoa!

- Nobody's made it 100 days

in places that weren't the Arctic.

An environment that's gonna get that cold,

I know it'll be harder and harder

to push through this.

- That's it.

And I'm alone.

- Black bears, moose, wolverines,

They're dangerous creatures.

Running into one of those is gonna be a reality check.

That's it. They're flying away.

- Oh, my God. This is awesome.

You can get hurt so fast. And one injury, that's it.

See you!

- No food, extremely cold conditions.

I'm expecting my worst nightmare.

- This is the Olympics of the survival community.

- Last chance to change my mind.

And now, I'm alone.

Alone, alone.

1 mean, anybody out there ever has any doubts

about this process, it's just me and this camera.

There's no green room.

There's no donuts.

Whatever's waiting for me in those woods.

Al right, 1 have 10 track down the camera equipment.

Oh, there it is.

Al right, 1 got to lug this thing around.

Whoa, look at that.

Looks like where a bear's been trying to get in this.

Oh, man.

They put me over here with Smokey the Bear.

That's got some nice teeth marks in it.

All right, Mr. Bear.

I'm gonna move myself to a different spot,

because as much as 1 want to,

I'm not ready to take on a bear yet.

Already and 1 just got here.

Fantastic.

What's up, guys, this is "Sean With the Wild."

I don't know about y'all, but I'm getting pretty tired

of eating grass.

1 do bushceraft videos and sell my stuff online.

I am an "Alone" show superfan.

I'm a student of the show.

I've watched every season, every episode multiple times.

And over the last few years,

I've been tailor making myself to win this show.

This would have to be much more insulated for the Arctic,

but it's lasted about a year and a half.

1 think my biggest strength is gonna be in bushcraft.

Having those creature comforts,

you're gonna stay a whole lot longer.

I do a lot of hunting out here

and always conscious of where game trails are.

I like to design my own traps.

Whoo!

A hundred days almost seems impossible,

but, you know, I'm doing this because it'll be

so much validation in my skill set.

1 live with my wife and my youngest daughter.

I'm gonna miss them,

but that's part of the game, you know?

That's why it's called "Alone.”

$1 million is a lot of motivation.

And 1 know that T'm gonna get what 1 want out of it,

and I'll make it to the end.

- We love you.

- I'll do what I got to do.

Okay, the first thing

I'm gonna wanna do is some scouting.

I'm gonna go ahead and get this bow strung up.

With the bear running around here,

kinda even the playing field a little bit

if he pops up on me.

Let's have a little look around.

This experience, to me,

is the holy grail, if you will.

From watching the seasons past,

it's more competition with yourself

than it is with the other contestants.

But going 100 days is gonna be the hardest.

When the snow really sets in,

the game's a little more sparse,

morale's gonna go down,

and that's when you find out how gritty you really are.

I love it out here. I love it.

Crap. What is that?

Boom.

Just got a porcupine.

Look at that.

I'm sure that's got some fat on him,

Oh, yeah, boy.

Everything pumping. Whoo!

My goal is 100 days.

11 can keep my weight up,

I have no doubt that I can make it that long.

Mm, he got some fat in there.

But for this show,

you got to kinda manage expectations versus reality.

1 have expectations,

but what the reality's actually gonna bring,

you don't ever know.

Mm-hmm.

That's why you wear the gloves.

You know, everybody has a plan until they get punched

in the face, but I'm doing good.

Gotta pay attention to the land and the animals.

One porcupine barbeque coming up.

Woot-woot! Yeah, yeah!

- Folding a tarp by yourself 101.

The wind is your friend.

Lay the tarp down. Even out the other side.

One fold. Is that floss?

Sure looks like some dental floss.

Hmm. No, little degraded.

Hmm, so quiet. I love the quiet.

Here, Bee, do you want this?

Come here. Take it.

1 am a biologist for the National Parks Service.

I grew up in a rural area and I've always been outdoors.

I love building.

I love coming up with novel solutions

to technical problems,

like using unfamiliar materials

to build a structure, and I started finding myself

wanting to do more and more extreme things in wild places.

I feel like I've learned a lot of lessons by myself

in the wilderness.

1 definitely can cope through hardship.

Working for the parks,

I've developed a lot of plant ID skills.

My strengths lie in reading the landscape

and understanding relationships

and the ecosystem.

$1 million is a life-changing quantity of money.

I think it would be hard to subject yourself

to this much potential hardship

without the idea of a reward at the end.

But ultimately, what 1 hope 10 gain

isn't really something tangible.

It's about the experience and learning from that experience.

Let's do a little walking.

1 wanna figure this place out.

This will definitely be the most difficult

wilderness challenge 1 have ever undertaken.

I think this season is going to be much more difficult

psychologically because in past seasons,

you knew that when it was your time

and you were the last person

that someone would come get you and tell you.

I feel like now, you don't know if at day 20

you're the last person standing or if at day 99

you're the last person standing.

But the goal of the competition

is to make to 100 days, outlast all others.

Squirrel friend, 1 hear you.

1 see you.

Worth taking a shot, 1 think.

I'm not a hunter, so I'm the only person

not coming out here with a bow.

But 1 have 10 have protein, so 1 need to adapt.

Ooh! Little high.

Is he gonna give me another shot?

Ooh, he didn't like that.

Ooh.

Oh, 1 got him.

Got a squirrel. Hoo!

I knew Little League Baseball was good for something.

- Time to heat up my porcupine.

We just got to get a fire started.

Crap.

Everything is wet.

Out here, the moss on the ground holds moisture in.

So anything you pick up off the ground,

you might as well forget it.

It almost seems impossible to start a fire,

even with a ferro rod.

And you cannot survive in the Arctic without fire.

Are you serious?

1 need a bigger ball of fluff.

Al right.

I decided to cut off the leg quarters

and cook them in a pot.

The rest will just cook slowly overnight.

Should pull it apart nice and easy in the morning,

be good breakfast.

Anyway, we're cooking some meat!

Mmm. Oh, that fat is so good.

You can't beat that.

Oh, yes. Thank you, Mr. Porcupine.

Mmm. Mmm-mmm-mmm.

Mmm. Mmm.

All right, take my pot down to the shoreline.

'Cause if there's one good way to get a visitor,

it's to have something in your sleeping quarters

that they want.

It's just getting dark, and I just fell asleep,

and 1 was woken by a danging sound,

which I know it was my cooking pots, so I'm kinda--

kinda, like, freaking out a little bit.

1 think the bears have probably found me again.

1 don't know of anything else that coulda knocked that

cooking pot around like that.

It's pretty heavy cast iron.

Either a bear or wolverine.

I'm trying to slip up and get my bow

and get down there and see-- see if 1 can see something.

I'm trying to move pretty quick here.

See if 1 can see anything.

What is that?

Something knows I'm here.

I'm not the only one out here.

I'm definitely not the only one hungry.

[bleep]!

Aw, crap.

Aw, dang it.

Hmm, yeah, there's definitely something been in my pot.

It's definitely unnerving. Something knows I'm here.

All right. Maybe I run him off.

Everything out here wants to take your food.

Everything.

I don't imagine I'll get any sleep, listening.

- Seven shares. Right on.

Are you ready for this?

Oh, there's some wicked bundles of spruce sap.

I'm just gonna chew some,

'cause this actually looks like, um, pre-chewed.

1 may regret this, but I'm gonna do it.

Did think that was cleaner.

Worst idea yet.

See if my snares produced.

It would be pretty wonderful to have a rabbit.

My main priority is to provide myself with enough food.

If I'm not actively hunting or fishing,

1 want to be passively hunting or fishing.

So my goal is to set seven snares a day.

Making to 100 days is going to be extremely hard.

I think psychologically it's nice to have

a definite end date, but that doesn't make it any easier

to physically get there, but 1 know how to put my head

down and just get things done when things are tough.

We've got snow again.

My profession is a wilderness snowshoe guide.

Day 15.

My husband and 1 do remote wilderness adventures

through minus-40 degree weather, snowstorms, slush.

Everyone's ready for a knock-'em-out, easy day, 10K.

1 have the ability to overcome harsh environments.

I'm still making my gill net.

Knowing what to expect in the Arctic,

that's going to be a huge advantage.

The only thing that would make me tap

is an injury or starvation.

My husband Dave, he and 1, we do everything together.

We are best friends, business partners.

$1 million is more than 1 could even imagine.

Having that money means that we can take more time

to live off the land and have the simple life.

- We got this.

- 1 want to show people how resilient women can be.

This is an opportunity for me to prove to myself

that 1 can do it without Dave.

1 have full confidence that 1 can make it until

they come and get me on day 100 with $1 million.

Hmm, that's my snare.

My first rabbit. Sweet.

Such a small guy. Noose was too weak.

This is awful.

1 just feel really bad.

Not everybody gets the chance to look in the eye

of the animal you're about to eat.

Out here there is no grocery store.

You can't just open up the fridge,

and when you have to kill your food,

you don't take it for granted.

Mmm.

- 1 see breakfast.

Ants just boiling out of that birch.

Bunch of them are getting away too--1 got to get them.

Here's a big one.

Out here, any little thing's good,

even if it ain't a major food source.

That one grabbed a hold of my tongue.

You got to make sure you eat their heads first,

or they'll pinch your tongue.

We'll eat stuff you'd never even touch back home.

Crunch down every bit of it, and drink the juice

and lick the bowl.

That might be about it.

Nobody got a clue what it's like to rough it.

I've been living off the land pretty much my whole life.

I don't do the pacifist,

"all one with the wilderness" bull[bleep].

I'm a registered big-game guide in Red Devil, Alaska.

That was a good shot.

1 do extreme wilderness hunts.

I'll spend all winter out there trapping.

1 call this my moose shot. 1am good at it.

And when I get bored, I got logging

and try to smash myself that way.

1 have this opportunity to make a million bucks.

That's huge in my world. That's big money, man.

There is nothing going on in my home life to make me

tap out of this, nothing.

You're gonna have to pull me out, because a million bucks

is just too much money.

I'm the ultimate wilderness machine,

and I'm doing this to show the whole world

I'm the big bull of the north woods.

What a beautiful lake.

There's a nice little beach here.

There's some old black bear tracks here in the sand.

I wanted to look in the sand, see if there's any fresh prints

of moose or whatever.

Small black bear, pad and toes.

Old sign.

Clear back, summertime old.

Oh, there's a big find right there.

This is what 1 didn't bring, and it's what 1 might need.

1 can untangle that and get

a hunk of serviceable fishing line.

It could pay off big time

if 1 can come up with some kind of hook.

Heading up the shoreline here to prospect for fishing sites.

1 think it's gonna take some very strong medicine

to be the last man or woman after 100 days.

You're gonna have to do things

you would never dream of doing.

You're gonna have to be tough,

you're gonna have to be smart,

you're gonna have to be aggressive,

and 1 got all that and a couple more.

There's deep water here, could be good.

I'm gonna go see if there's a bay on the next side.

Oh, [bleep]!

There he goes.

That [bleep] was close.

Looked to be about a 40-pounder, too.

How was that for some close encounters?

That was some pretty intense wolverine action there, man.

He popped up over that rock in my face, just right here.

But 1 didn't have a bow.

If he had been any closer, the axe might have worked.

But no good.

Hoo!

1 don't like him being around my camp.

Those things are notorious camp busters.

They're gonna steal your meat.

- Kinda worried about the bears coming, you know?

1 will be sleeping with my air horn in my sleeping bag again.

And the reason for that-- is 1 have bear spray also.

But the bear spray's gonna require me to jump up and move

and spray.

The air horn, 1 actually don't even have to move.

1 can just deploy the sound from inside the sleeping bag.

1 don't think my family wants me dying over anything, so.

The money would do a lot.

This journey and this experience

and getting to be here was because of a lot

of my hard work, but my wife and kids

had to sacrifice as well.

The way to repay them would be to get them that money.

So for me to stop anything short of the end

would almost be kinda like betraying them.

Good night. Love you guys.

- All right, people. Let's get cleaned up.

Oh, it's not warm.

Oh, damn it.

Oh, this feels weird.

Getting over it, though.

All right, good and warmed up.

Gonna do a bit of berry foraging,

maybe bring back a few mushrooms.

That's a juniper.

Coral fungus.

Al edible, as far as 1 know.

What is that?

Definitely seeing some tracks in here.

Pretty well-established little trail here.

Pretty matted down.

Used somewhat recently.

Tough to say in this environment.

Oh, [bleep], there's a bear.

It's coming my way.

It could be heading straight into my camp.

The smell of guts.

There's kind of two ways to go about doing this.

Leave him alone or go on the offensive.

All right, I'm gonna go toward the bear.

Erablewith nothing but a green tarp

between me and a bear.

Hoping 1 can get up there and head him off.

It'd be pretty thrilling if I had a bow in my hands

right now, wouldn't it?

I'm not the person who sits in the dark woods

and has the hair stand up on the back of my neck

as soon as there's a sound.

I'm the person that hears that thing

and silently goes toward that.

Before he gets the idea that 1 equal food,

I'd like him to have the idea that I equal scary,

loud noises.

I'm not gonna be able to get up that ledge.

Dang it.

1 think he got around me.

This is getting crazy.

I've only challenged myself in this way before

on my own terms.

Never in this way have the factors

been so completely out of my control.

Morning.

So much to do.

1 wanna finalize my shelter.

The days are gonna go by quickly,

and if 1 can forget about my shelter early on,

then that's-- that's great.

It's simple.

I'm a "keep it simple" kind of person.

Originally, 1 really liked the idea of the seven-pole pitch,.

That's how prospector tents are set up.

All right, in she goes.

But I wanted it to be narrow enough that the tarp

could go all the way to the bottom

for wind protection, because an airproof shelter

is gonna keep you a lot warmer than a leaky one.

I have to build that up, way up.

The Arctic is one of the most dangerous places because

you have to be on your game for everything.

Winter is coming, and winter is harsh and relentless.

It doesn't care if you're here or not.

On the gear list was a pair of gaiters.

1 sewed them together.

I'm going to use them as a door.

Don't hate, appreciate.

Through my career I've been able to inspire a lot of women

that are thinking that they can't do some things

that aren't necessarily womanly.

I want to be a voice for women to feel like they can

just get up and do it.

I'm stronger than a lot of guys, physically and mentally.

1 wanna finally have a woman win this show,

and 1 can be that person.

This is my new home.

Gotta say, big fan of my little caban.

It's just gonna keep getting better.

1 feel like my knee could use 3, uh, hot tub.

Maybe I'll order one on Amazon.

Do you think they give free delivery here?

When I left home, there was numerous nights crying,

telling Dave that 1 was scared.

But now that I'm out here, I'm not leaving.

Like, not happening.

- Morning.

Why do 1 have the Toys-R-Us song stuck in my head?

What the [bleep]?

1 think it's 'cause 1 thought, "1 don't wanna get up."

Which turned into "1 don't wanna grow up."

But I'm not gonna sing it,

'cause I'd like for it to go away.

I'm definitely hungry right now.

I'm setting snares and experimenting a little bit

with different methods, but I'm just keeping it

consistent, figuring out what's working

and what's not working.

Gotta start getting some food.

Everybody knows that's the name of the game here.

I've probably been getting about 500 calories a day,

something like that.

I'm pretty used to functioning on minimum,

but 1 am starting to feel the effects, you know?

And we're barely getting started.

Holy [bleep], 1 got a rabbit. {bleep) yeah!

Oh, yeah, buddy. Thank you.

Oh, thank God-- Oh!

It worked. I got you, buddy.

1 got you, bud.

Oh, hey.

Hey, bud.

Oh.

It's a hare.

Yes.

Oh.

He's got some weight to him. Hope he's not all belly.

Yes!

There's another one. Holy [bleep), 1 got two.

Oh, man!

Look at that.

I'm out here trying to last 100 days

in a harsh environment, and I've got a long way to go.

But I'm off to a good start out here, friends.

Let's try to keep it that way.

- For more on this build, and to see if I die

in the Arctic, tune in this Thursday night

to "Alone" on History Channel.

Or maybe I'll get mauled by a bear.

Tune in this Thursday night, only on "Alone"--No.

Tune in every Thursday night for "Alone" on History Channel.

How is that, is that a better view?

No, I'm in the dark-- No, I'm in the sun.

Welcome back. I'm Shawn Helton,

AKA, "Shawn With the Wild." AKA, bushcraft ninja.

AKA, Thor of the woods. AKA--I don't know.

1 don't really have any more.

Right now, 1 feel great.

1 haven't seen any sign

or heard any sign of the bears lately,

so I've been able to work on building a shelter.

I'm not going really fast, but I'm making progress.

What I'll try to do today is get some food quickly,

skip out on the shelter building,

just do a little relaxing.

What is that?

What?

Yes.

Holy [bleep], that's an old boat.

This journey just keeps getting

more and more absurd.

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

Nice workout.

You know, maybe 1 can raise it up with some rocks

and build a fire under the metal.

You got yourself a sauna or a hot tub.

How nice would that be, to be out here in the freezing cold,

and have yourself a little-- little spa treatment.

That's crazy.

First, 1 got to gel some water, bring it back up here.

It's a crazy day to be trying to go and taking a bath,

but nobody can argue with a nice, hot bath.

This is the low side, 501 should draw air from here

and ventilate out the high side over there.

Never thought I'd be starting a fire under a boat.

Oh, she's a-popping. Heat that water up, baby.

Nice and toasty.

Ooh, it's like a sauna in here.

It's hot.

It's hot.

Ah,

We can't forget this little piece.

Northwest Territory, who?

Arctic Circle, what?

I'm out here in a hot tub full of green tea.

Come on, man.

Keep my junk covered up with junipers.

1 told my wife 1 wouldn't get naked on TV.

Technically, this is not naked.

Think if 1 was back at home right now,

I'd be doing the grind at work,

day to day, nine to five.

Everything's hustling in my world.

Kids coming and going. Don't get me wrong,

I love them to pieces, but, you know,

there's people in and out of the house all the time.

Really no such thing as solitude.

This journey, this adventure, this was for me.

That's my reward.

Feels amazing!

Whoo!

Look at that. I'm pruning.

Man, if 1 can make it to the end,

that would be so cool.

All right, all right.

Man, that whole experience was amazing.

I'm gonna get us some water on.

All right, Shawn.

The heck is my fire steel?

My pants.

Come on, come on.

Let's drag everything out, it's got to be there.

Gotta be there. Gotta--Gotta be there.

Just got to.

Gotta be here, got to be here.

Come on.

Come on, God.

Please let me find this fire steel.

Come on.

1 know 1 just had it.

God, come on.

Okay, so...

1 got a bit of a problem.

Somewhere out there on that trail I've lost my fire steel.

That's such a hike, I'm so tired.

So tired. I got to find it, though.

I got to find it, so I'm gonna have to go.

Go back and rehike that whole trail

and hope 1 can find it.

Oh, man.

Okay.

Come on!

Come on, let's look for it.

Not having fire in the middle of the Arctic

is a serious situation.

Where is it?

Can't be out here without a damn fire steel.

That's your means of cooking,

and that's your means of keeping the predators away.

This can't be it. This can't be all of it.

This can't be the end.

[bleep] never gonna find it.

Fire's everything out here.

It's not only a means of cooking your food,

it's the only warmth you have.

There's no surviving the winter without a fire.

You'll die out here,

Just don't have the energy to pursue friction fire.

I've been struggling to start a fire anyway with a ferro rod

because everything was damp.

1 know what has to be done.

Hello, this is Shawn, and I'm officially tapping.

1 had everything.

I had all the pieces to the puzzle.

1 could do it.

I just can't do it without fire.

The hardest part of it is...

It's having to go back home knowing that

you've failed your family.

I'm sorry.

Sorry, guys.

1 can't survive out here without a fire.

I do have experience making friction fire.

Um, even in optimal conditions, I'm not--

I'm not the best at it.

And then to keep up that kind of--

keep up that kind of energy level and pace

over the next 90 days...

It's just unrealistic.

And there's no need prolonging the inevitable.

So 1 guess I'm done.

Being on "Alone" was my dream.

It consumed me for three or four years,

and 1 was able to achieve that dream.

But I wanted to tell a longer story.

1 wanted to feel complete.

All these things are causing these emotions.

Everything that you've worked towards and put into

into get here, is all gone.

Honestly, 1 don't really know what to do with myself now.

1 realized that when you think you've got everything,

and you have everything figured out,

how quickly it all can just go away just by making a mistake.

I'm your host, Colby Donaldson,

here with the participants of tonight's episode,

Shawn, Joe, Kielyn, and Roland.

We are ready to talk about everything we just saw.

As a fan of the show,

and having watched since season one,

it's really obvious that "Alone"

has a very high respect and regard

in the survival community.

Roland, tell me about that.

What is it that makes this series so special?

- This is the Super Bowl

of the survival world.

- How you doin', Roland?

- Hey, I'm on top of the world, man.

To be chosen for "Alone"

is beyond all ten of our wildest dreams,

and it is absolutely 100% authentic.

You stick a man or a woman out there

with nothing to eat, it's for real.

This is big-time.

- Love it, Kielyn, let's talk about

launch day.

What kind of emotions are going through you

as you're launching, as you're preparing

for this adventure?

- Yeah, it was just a lot of excitement

just to get things going and start to

implement your plans

that you had been making for, you know, months beforehand.

As soon as that helicopter dropped me off,

it was just silence.

There was a big, uh,

feeling of relief

that it was starting so it was like

now the game is on.

That's it.

The bugs are out.

And I'm alone.

- So Shawn, when you land at your spot

and the chopper takes off, drops you off,

and you truly, suddenly are alone,

take us through those first few moments.

- You kinda have it hyped up in your head

of what it's gonna be like,

and it's a pretty surreal moment

when the helicopter takes off

and you know it's not comin' back.

You know it's it and it's time to go.

- As soon as you find that hard case

that your equipment's in,

you realize that there are some scratches

on the outside of that.

Somebody had already discovered your camera equipment

before you did.

- Okay, so right back here behind me

about...30 yards or so

is where the...

bear's already tried to get into my camera case

before 1 even got here.

- What was that like, you know, having proof

that there are predators out there with you

that quickly into the experience?

- 1 wasn't expecting any kind of encounter

with a bear immediately,

so I had to start thinking in my head, you know,

if 1 do have this encounter,

you know, and I'm able to get a shot off,

for this kind of meat right in the beginning

would be huge, but then 1 also have no way

to procure that meat either, SO...

I kind of had to step back and be like,

you know, I might just have to let it go

if I do see it, because I'm not really ready

to kinda take on that kinda responsibility yet.

- Okay, Joe, 1 got to talk to you about, uh,

the squirrel--

one of the most accurate stone-throwing shots

I've ever seen. Then you decide

to chase a bear. What was sort of the logic, uh,

goin' after that bear?

- In my day job, I've actually done a fair bit

of bear hazing, or aversive conditioning,

where we actually go scare bears out of campgrounds

and picnic areas sometimes if they're, uh,

starting to behave badly.

So I'm fairly accustomed to chasing off black bears.

All right, I'm gonna go toward the bear.

1 really felt the best course of action

was for me to go, uh,

try to give that bear a scare.

It wasn't going to serve me in any way

to have a bear in my camp.

- Roland, didn't take long for you to have an encounter

with a wolverine. Tell me about that one.

- Yeah, the wolverine was...

wham, right in my face.

1 moved my hand down to have it on my axe,

and then, of course, he saw that movement,

pegged me, and went away.

That was a very exciting day, absolutely.

- Joe, looking back on that first ten days,

any mistakes that you made

that come to mind?

- 1 don't think 1 made any mistakes on the first ten days.

First ten days were really awesome for me.

- Kielyn, you feel the same way?

And 1 don't mean they could be big mistakes,

but goin' back, if you had to do it over again,

maybe something you woulda changed up in the early part

that you adapted to or learned

that maybe you changed

as the experience went on.

- 1 think like Joe 1 was really happy

with the first ten days.

You know, 1 knew my priorities

and stayed adaptable as well.

When 1 didn't get a spot for

you know, my gill net, then 1 just went right into

snaring rabbits and, you know,

1 was successful at that.

So 1 think, you know, 1 was prioritizing

and it was always changing, SO...

yeah, 1 was happy.

- Well, when we come back, we're gonna talk to Shawrst,

tell me what it takes to survive

something like this experience.

- Most people have no idea

what it's like not to eat.

We are so blessed in this country

with however many meals a day you want.

And it's--it's not like that when you leave.

That was a good piece of root right there.

Nice, thick outer shell,

and that's the part ya eat.

It came right off, that woody stem.

Breakfast finished.

And even for me that has experience,

or any of us that has experience like that,

to be dumped with nothin'--

you got your ten items and some clothes,

and that is it--

it's just a burden on the mind and the body.

- I've heard of something called "drop shock,"

you know, basically where you get dropped off

and all of a sudden, you forget everything

you were planning or going to do.

Did any of you ever experience that out there?

- 1 believe everybody would experience

drop shock, absolutely.

'Cause that's when it... comes down, you know.

Now we're gonna do this.

And your plan starts fallin' apart from there.

- Well, Shawn, you look like you were having' a great time

out there. 1 mean, you even ended up

with a hot tub.

You found all sorts of stuff out there,

In fact, we have some never-before-seen footage

of some of those items,

one of which 1 don't think anyone expected.

Let's take a look.

- Oh, man, oh--boom!

Ha ha ha ha ha!

That's a game-changer right there.

See what other kinda goodies we got around here.

Ha ha ha.

No way!

What?

Check that out.

Mm. I'ma droppin' them squirrels now.

Puh-puh-puh!

That's insane!

Get offa my lawn!

Look at that.

No holes!

I'm keepin' that bad boy.

Ha ha ha!

Look at that!

Love it!

- Shawn, tell me about finding all of those things

out there. - Okay, so that's one of

the things 1 kinda pride myself on

is bein' able to make use

of kind of left behind resources.

And I was able to find a lotta stuff like that

and several other items-- they would have

came in really handy for me.

1 started thinking to myself that, you know,

you've got a fair shot here to win this thing

with all these 'cause, like, I can guarantee

that nobody else was havin' such luck.

You know, and at that point, that may have been

when 1 started gettin' a little bit too comfortable

and a little bit complacent.

- When you lost your ferro rod,

we saw you go back and look for it for a few hours.

Um...tell me about,

you know, the potential of viewers saying

well, once he lost it, why didn't he, you know,

try to make a bow drill,

or why didn't he give it one more night,

go back out and look for the fire steel the next day?

Answer those questions for me.

- In the end there, you know,

there were several factors that led me

to believe that, you know,

it just wouldn't be a outcome if I didn't have a fire.

1 had the negative-60 degree bag.

1 could have made it on that.

1 could have forged on berries.

But the fire really was all that was

keeping the predators off of me.

- Yeah. Well, 1 know you wanted

to be a part of "Alone,"” for many years.

You've been watching from the outset.

Did the experience live up to your expectations,

in spite of the fact that you were out fairly early?

- Oh, yeah, it was 100%, you know,

everything that 1 wanted it to be.

And, you know, just gettin' there for me was a big deal.

Of course, I would have loved to have stayed

a little bit longer.

But I've always been a fan, and that's one of the things

1 kinda worried about in the beginning

was that, you know, if 1 had a bad experience

that I would kinda fall out of love with the show,

and that just really didn't happen, you know?

I would--a lot of people in the past

will say they don't wanna go back and do it again,

and I was immediately wanting to go back in

as soon as 1 came out.

- I just wanted to say that, uh,

you know, whether it was 10 days or 100 days,

that you should definitely be proud of yourself.

You know, there's millions of people at home watching

that, you know, wouldn't even dream of trying to do this.

And we wish we could have seen more of you out there for sure.

You were a fan favorite. - Well, thank you.

- Well, gang, that's it for "Alone: Tales from the Arctic."

I'd like to thank Shawn, Joe,

Kielyn, and Roland

for joining me today.

Make sure you tune in after each of the episodes.

We'll be right here talking with the participants.

And now, as we promised,

a sneak peek at the rest of season seven

of "Alone: Million Dollar Challenge."

We'll see you next week.

- A hundred days for a million dollars

definitely is a game-changer.

- That wolverine is after my fish.

- This is gonna be the ultimate survival test in the world.

- Oh, my God, a white wolf,

This is the Arctic.

It's extreme,

and we are all taking our own lives

into our hands.

- You're gonna have to do things

you would never dream of doing.

- There's a black bear.

1 could try and get one.

- Winter is coming, and winter is harsh.

Brr!

- 1 can't see anything.

- It doesn't care if you're here or not.

- No, no, no, no. This is not [bleep] happening!