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[ Animals calling ]

♪♪

-Oh!

-Coming up on "Mountain Men"...

-Lucky got himself in a brawl here.

-Mm-hmm.

-...life on the edge is a battle...

-I'm stuck.

-...and when darkness falls on America's mountains...

-Unbreakable crusts, got to break through.

-No, we're going to get the hell out of here.

-...new threats emerge.

-I don't care for this at all.

-And the fight for survival becomes even more dangerous.

-Oh, [bleep] -Hey! Hey, hey, hey!

♪♪

[ Wolf howls ]

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-On Alaska's Kodiak Island...

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...bear hunter Mike Horstman has made a dangerous mistake.

-Adele, come!

[ Dog barking ]

♪♪

What was that? What's the matter?

What's going on, honey?

What do you got?

-Earlier today... -Sit.

-...in the press to fill his freezer with winter meat...

-I'm going to go see if I can catch another one.

-...Mike claimed two black-tail deer.

-There he is right there.

-But the fete burned too much daylight...

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-I'm very uneasy.

-...and now he's carving up a fresh carcass

in the pitch black on an island infested with hungry bears.

-For Adele to alarm like that and bark like that...

Adele, what do you smell? What's the matter?

...I can only assume that this is a bear.

-With visibility limited to the halo of his head lamp,

there's no telling if there's a predator lurking nearby.

While his 9-year-old hunting dog, Adele,

can sniff out a warning,

she's no match for a 1,000-pound bear.

-If a bear was to come up to me while I'm dealing

with this deer, I'd have no chance.

I got no defense here.

We're almost done here, Adele.

We're going to get the hell out of here.

-But with winter coming on fast,

Mike can't risk walking away empty-handed.

-Got the hide completely skinned.

Now all I got to do is peel these quarters,

put them in a bag and we'll be out of here.

I'm going to leave the guts, the vertebrae, the hide,

the head and, hopefully, he's going to be satisfied

with what he's got here and not follow my tracks.

-The kill site is just 2 miles from shelter,

but in the dark with 75 pounds of meat on his back,

it could take nearly an hour to get there through terrain

that's teeming with bears.

-I can't see anything,

so I really don't know what she's aware of,

but we're going to get out of here, go to camp.

These kind of situations makes me very uncomfortable.

We're running the risk now of everybody

finding each other in the dark.

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-In Montana, lion hunter Jake Herak is usually

down off the mountain by nightfall.

-It looks to me like the dog did a pretty big loop up here.

-Tonight, he's heading up in pursuit of a chase gone wrong.

Earlier today, Jake's team of Walker hounds picked up a scent

at late afternoon, but by the time Jake caught up

it was too late to call off the hunt...

-Hey! Hey!

Hey, hey, hey!

He's gonna jump.

Yep. There he goes.

Holy [bleep]

-...and the team took off for another round.

-Yeah, that's a big, big problem.

-It's a worst-case scenario

that puts Jake and his dogs at extreme risk

because mountain lions have far superior night vision,

and the dogs no longer have the upper hand.

-When you're running around out here in the nighttime,

about the only thing you can see

is about 10 feet in front of you.

-With limited visibility,

Jake relies on his emergency GPS tracker to locate the team.

-All right. Them dogs...

It looks like they're a couple miles ahead of me now.

-He hasn't seen any real sign of them for 3 hours,

but Jake's rule is that no dog gets left behind.

-It's getting pretty cold out.

I just got to keep moving and keep warm right now,

but there's no turning back at this point.

They're not quitting, so I'm not quitting.

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-The sun set hours ago in Arkansas,

but deep in the dark underground

beneath the Ozark Mountains,

homesteader and bladesmith Jason Hawk

is a man on a mission.

-You kind of lose track of time being in here.

I'm definitely starting to feel a little bit of fatigue.

-He's come to these caves in search of raw iron ore,

the key component of steel.

-The amount of savings that this could be is huge.

-Jason spends thousands of dollars every year on the steel

he needs to make the blades he sells.

Now he's gambling that mining the metal by hand

could give his business a boost and not a moment too soon.

Last fall, his family grew by one.

Now, with four mouths to feed, every penny counts.

-It's a good start.

Despite the extreme risks of this underground mission,

he's gotten lucky so far.

-I'm about halfway for where I really want to be on this trip.

-And he's determined to stay until he finds enough ore

to craft an experimental blade.

-I really would like to get at least 50 pounds.

Alright.

Oh. Hmm.

Iron ore is rust,

so we're looking for anything that appears rusty --

streaks on the wall, streaks on the rock.

Nope.

Thought that was maybe some ore for a sec,

but no bands, no color.

Come on.

I know you're here.

♪♪

Oh, this little area is looking promising.

It does seem to be a shortage of dry land here.

Yeah, there's definitely staining on the walls

back there, so we're on the right course.

♪♪

A lot of different mineralization.

-Jason is now a mile deep following the twists

and turns of an underground river to stay on course.

-It's an easy thing to get lost.

Like anywhere else, look behind you.

Remember what it looks like the opposite direction

because people will go in,

they'll turn around and go, like, "I didn't come this way,"

but there's only one way through,

and that's through the water,

so I'm just going to follow back the creek further,

see what else I can find.

♪♪

This goes back quite a ways.

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It's a little tight.

This is slick.

Hang on.

I'm stuck. Hang on.

My foot is stuck under something.

[Bleep]

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[ Groans ]

Son of a bitch.

-It's night in the Ozarks and deep underground...

-I can't see my foot.

The light is not penetrating the water.

It's definitely stuck.

It's not good.

[Bleep]

[ Groans ]

I just tore open the side of my boot.

[Bleep]

I have to do something about that.

Whew. I really need to patch this now.

It's a little tear, but it's in the sidewall.

That stitch runs the full length of my boot,

and when you're underground,

it's a bad place for things to go wrong.

I've got a classic screw driver.

I made a point on there instead of a little Phillips,

and that ought to act as a little needle.

Copper wire comes in handy for a lot of different things.

Generally I use it for snares,

but today it's going to wind up becoming thread,

kind of twist it up, double it over,

give it a little more oomph and strength.

There we go.

All right.

There we go.

♪♪

Throw a couple backstitches into here.

And that should be back in business.

-Still 25 pounds short of his goal...

-Alright.

Gear up the pack and down the road.

-...Jason presses on into the dark,

determined not to leave until he hauls enough iron ore

to try his hand at making steel.

-Alright.

Where's the ore, Mr. Salamander?

♪♪

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-In winter, the Great Alaska Range

gets just 4 hours of sunlight a day.

Homesteader Morgan Beasley has lived in the Far North

for 5 years,

and he's learned to get used to the darkness.

-I think it's about 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning right now.

I'm going to head up to the mountain and look for a sheep.

-He has no time to lose.

A hunter can only make a kill during daylight,

giving him just a short window

to bring home the meat he needs to make it through the winter.

-This is one of my last chances to do any hunting this winter.

That's about everything.

Ugh. Okay.

Say goodbye to Margaret and get out of here.

-Good luck. -Thank you.

Bye. -Bye.

-Morgan and Margaret already failed once

when they tried to target caribou...

-God, it's just amazing we didn't see more.

-I'm pretty surprised, too.

-...but came home empty-handed.

Now he's chasing their last best hope --

a local herd of Dall sheep

that live in the craggy peaks of the nearby mountains.

-I've got these skis this year,

a hybrid between the snowshoe and the ski.

They're a lot faster than the snowshoe.

-He's had luck there in the past, but to reach them,

Morgan has to trek 6 miles in total darkness.

-The whole idea is to get up into position before daylight.

-And there's another challenge --

2 feet of fresh snow.

It's unstable and unforgiving.

-Oh, [bleep]

Man, the snow pack down here is rotten.

♪♪

Snow is thick, a lot of hollow spots in it.

It takes a lot of effort to get through it.

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Well, here's the creek I've got to cross.

-The outside temperature is a bone-chilling minus-10,

and the water is 22 degrees.

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-Walking in the creek is way easier

than fighting through this slush.

You know, a little risky but I'm going to walk upstream.

I just hope I can make enough time

to get up to the sheep area before dawn

because we need some meat very badly,

or it's going to be a brutal, hungry winter.

♪♪

-Meanwhile, on a Alaska's Kodiak Island,

Mike is now just a mile from camp...

-Come here, honey.

-...but he's far from safe.

[ Dog whimpering ]

-Come here.

Stick with me.

-He's hauling 75 pounds of raw, bloody meat on his back.

-As I go, I constantly keep hearing noises behind me,

alongside of me, and at this point,

I have a very uncomfortable feeling.

-The scent is like a beacon to predators lurking in the dark.

Kodiak Island is home to more than 3,000 brown bears,

but all it takes is one.

-The Kodiak brown bears pretty much eat

anything they come across, and they can be very dangerous,

especially this time of year before they go into hibernation.

Wait.

It's either my imagination, or there's something behind me.

I'm just going to keep beating seed and get out of here.

Come on, honey.

-Mike is racing to protect the kill on his back

and to make sure the deer he claimed earlier

is still secure back at camp.

Eager to fill his freezer for the winter,

he pushed the limits to make two kills in a single day,

but the effort left him exposed in the dark.

-When these things happen, these kind of situations,

it's almost to the point of being embarrassing

that I let it happen,

that I wait till that late in the day

and that I took my shot right at dark,

but I wanted that second deer.

Maybe I pushed it a little too far.

-All he can do now is focus on getting back to camp safely.

-This is the last really steep part out of here

into this next saddle.

I'm going to be really careful.

I don't want to fall and twist an ankle or something,

but it's the shortest way back.

Hopefully she'll alert me if we have anymore encounters.

♪♪

Come on, honey.

Move, move!

There you go.

[ Dog barking ]

That can't be anything good.

O0 C1-On Kodiak Island, the hunter is being hunted.

-I'm on high alert.

-Mike Horstman is a moving target.

-I just literally feel like there's a bear on top of me.

-He's crossed nearly 2 miles of bear country

with a pack full of raw meat on his back.

-I'm going to just hustle right along.

Come on, honey. Move.

-But even with camp in sight...

-Well, I made it down to the beach.

I'm almost back to camp.

-...he's not out of danger

because his first kill of the day,

a 100-pound black-tail deer, is just as vulnerable as he is.

[Bleep]

♪♪

Come on, Adele.

Well, there's been a bear in here

and got my deer.

Pulled it off the meat pull.

You can see where it fell, and he drug it.

He carried it off.

The bear and the deer are both apparently gone.

-It's a frustrating end to a day that began on a high.

He's made off with it,

and hopefully that's enough dinner for him.

[Bleep]

-Mike bit off more than he can chew and is paying a price.

-I just lost half of my meat supply.

I worked a real hard, long day to get two.

I'm back to square one.

I only have one.

This is not the way

I wanted this trip to end, but at this point

I'm just going to take my pack off,

get some backstrap out and have some dinner.

I'm pretty hungry.

Adele is hungry.

♪♪

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There you go, honey.

What do you think of that?

I'm going to be short on meat for the winter.

I have to just try and get back out there and make it happen.

♪♪

-The sun has set in central Idaho where mountain man

Tom Oar is closing in on his destination

after a 500-mile drive.

-My brother just sold his ranch down here,

and he's going to move up to the Yak.

He's going to be my neighbor.

-Tom's older brother, Jack, is just about packed up,

but he's running out of time before the big move.

-He's got a week to get out of this place, so I thought,

"Well, I'll come down and help him get some stuff together."

Hi, neighbor.

-Pretty soon, pretty soon.

-The sale happened so fast that Jack was caught off-guard

in the middle of a last-minute job.

He's a master riflemaker who specializes

in 19th century American muzzle loaders.

-Well, what do you got going here?

-Well, I tried to build this rifle.

It's a Hawken .58.

-The Hawken is a legendary frontier firearm

once used to take down buffalo.

Today, it's a collector's item worth $2,000.

-So it looks like we got a long way to go on this.

-Indeed, we do.

-Well, what a challenge.

He's hoping to make a little money with this rifle

to get through the winter, so it needs to be done first

even if we have to go a night without sleeping.

Hell, I'm ready to help him.

-Tom is not a gunsmith, but Jack is counting

on the extra pair of hands to meet his deadline.

-The first thing -- This is called an under rib.

It gets soldered on underneath the barrel,

and these are ramrod loops that hold your ramrod in.

-The ramrod packs the powder and ball down the barrel,

which is why the under rib has to be securely attached

and requires a strong solder,

one that has to be heated thoroughly to 1,100 degrees.

-We want the seal there to get heated up.

-We have to heat the whole barrel up until

it's almost red hot

and then lay the solder out on the hot barrel,

and we'll attach the piece to it,

and then after it all cools,

it'll be one solid piece of metal.

Hopefully, this will work.

-When it gets hot enough,

you should see it settle into place.

Come on.

-You can see a crack under it.

-Well, then it's not seated.

We just don't have enough heat.

-We got to get that barrel super, super hot to melt

all that solder and that 16 inches that has to be melted.

By the time we get the torch to one end of it,

the other side has cooled off.

I can see it here, too.

Oh. Well, that's not good.

♪♪

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-It's almost midnight and minus-10 degrees

in Montana's Tobacco Root Mountains

where lion-hunter Jake Herak is entering his

sixth hour of a marathon chase.

[ Animal calling ]

-Ooh.

I haven't heard the dogs there for a second,

but it sounds like a couple of coyote.

-His dogs caught a fresh scent in the late afternoon,

and are still going strong.

They won't give up until Jake pulls them off the hunt,

but first he has to catch them.

-This definitely isn't the easiest route,

but it's the route I got to take,

definitely a lot better coyotes than wolves.

-The longer they're exposed, the more dangers they face.

At night, not only are mountain lions

more likely to mount a counterattack,

but coyotes and wolves are also on the prowl.

-Wolves just kill to kill.

They don't necessarily always kill to eat and survive.

They're attracted to the dogs barking,

and they'll come in and kill your dogs faster

than you can blink your eye.

[Bleep]

My GPS died.

Definitely not a good sign for me.

This is my lifeline for my dogs.

I've got to get moving.

I'm going to go ahead and track them the old-school way,

step for step.

♪♪

Alright. Here we go.

[ Dogs barking in distance ] Oh.

Oh, yeah.

I can hear the dogs again.

I got to get to getting.

The dogs finally came into hearing range,

and they're definitely treeing hard,

so the faster I get to these dogs,

the safer they're going to be.

Whoa!

Oh, [bleep]

O0 C1-A slip in the Montana night...

-Oh, [bleep]

-...launches Jake into a free fall.

-Whoa!

Oh.

Holy [bleep]

Oh.

Whew.

Got going a little fast there.

Oh, [bleep]

That's a big drop and nothing but rock below me.

That would've been bad.

That was way, way too close for comfort.

-With his dogs barking and within range

for the first time in 8 hours, he has no time to lose.

-I can hear the dogs below me,

so I'm just going to head straight for them.

-The dogs are trained to keep a lion in a tree

until he calls them off or until the cat jumps again

and starts another chase.

At this stage, the team is so fatigued,

a third-round tonight could be deadly.

-Good dogs!

Good boys!

-That's a damn good sight to see these dogs.

I can't see the cat in the tree.

Oh, [bleep]

Uh-oh. Come here, Lefty.

It looks like Lefty got himself in a little bit of a brawl here.

Ooh.

He's got a pretty good gash on his armpit,

and it looks to me like

he's got a couple scratch marks on his face.

Yeah, it looks like we're going to be taking a trip

to the vet clinic.

He definitely got in a scrap with that cat.

These cats carry some nasty bacteria in their claws,

so without taking care of this properly

and getting him to the vet and getting some antibiotics,

he might end up with a bad infection, and it'll kill him.

I didn't get eyes on that cat, but it really doesn't matter

because we're miles from anything now,

so it's time to get the hell off the mountain as fast as I can.

It's been a long night.

Hey, hey, hey! Let's go!

Let's go! Let's go!

♪♪

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-In Idaho...

-Reckon we need another propane torch.

-Yeah, I think you're right.

-Tom's brother, Jack, is under the gun

to complete a last-minute commission,

and progress is at a standstill

until they can get the barrel welds to hold.

-If we can't get this done before the move,

it's going to hurt because it's a $2,000 rifle

that he's wanting to pick up that money.

-Luckily, Tom arrived just in time to help out.

-Ready?

One torch just doesn't get it hot enough.

We got to have two torches going so we can get it going hotter.

-Well, I thought I was a trapper.

Now I'm turning into a gun maker, huh?

-Alright. Let's try it.

Let's see if I can set this thing on here.

♪♪

I think we should stop heating it...

-Let it cool?

-...and let it cool and see if it's going to stay.

-Don't see no crack.

We did get the ramrod piece soldered

to the bottom of the barrel.

Oh, it took us awhile, but we did it.

How you holding up with all this.

It's getting late.

-Yeah, well -- -We're getting it done, though.

-Yeah.

-If they can finish the rifle by daybreak,

Jack can collect his hefty commission

and get back to his most urgent task --

prepping for his move to the Yak.

-Now the next thing to do is to fit these keys so...

-Into the slot?

-Metal pins called locking keys

secure the barrel to the gun stock that

Jack cut from a solid piece of cherrywood.

-The old-timey rifles, they had these keys

that went through the forearm of the stock,

went through a little loop under the barrel

and came out the other side.

It holds it into place.

-Well, let's see if we can lock this barrel right in there.

-The tighter the fit, the more accurate the rifle will be.

-Building a muzzleloader uses a lot of exactness.

The way the wood fits with the metal, the closeness...

-There we go.

-...that's the kind of thing

that a person looks for when they buy a gun,

and there's a lot of detail that you have to follow.

-Kind of works.

Yeah, it will.

Still a lot to do, but we're going to get it.

-We got to put all these plates on and the trigger,

shape the stock.

-Well, then we're done.

I think this is going to take more coffee.

-I think it will, too. Yeah.

♪♪

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-In the Great Alaska Range...

-A little deep right here.

-...with no meat saved up for the winter,

Morgan is pushing through the night

to make the most of tomorrow's hunt.

Dall sheep live in the area's jagged rocky peaks,

terrain that's notoriously difficult to navigate.

The closer he can get tonight,

the better his chances are of making a kill in the morning.

-Okay. Watch out there.

-He's made good time trekking through the creek,

but with 3 miles still to go, he can't afford a setback.

-Ugh, getting a little too deep, too fast.

All it'd take would be one misstep, one fall,

and the hunt would be over.

I think that looks like as good of a place

as any to get out of here.

I think I played this creek as long as I can.

It's starting to get a little more narrow,

a little deeper, a little slicker,

so it's a good time to try to climb out.

Oh, get these skis on, get up out of this creek,

start moving up in to the higher country.

♪♪

The trees are starting to open up a little bit.

♪♪

Ugh.

Yeah, I think I see some rocks up ahead.

That should be the base of the ridge.

-After 8 hours of hard trekking,

Morgan reaches the base of the hunting grounds.

-I think I can get up through it.

-But to get within range of the sheep before daybreak,

he's got to go up into the rocks where they live.

-Get me up there before the sun comes up.

I don't want to get into anything too hairy.

That's all rock right there.

Should I really be going to the upper ridge in the dark?

I'm not sure, but at the same time,

without that meat in the freezer,

it's going to be an extremely hard winter on us.

-His visibility is just a few feet in any direction,

no bigger than the radius of his head lamp.

-Yeah, I'm just going to go for it.

-There's no way to know what may lie around the next bend

or over the next cliff.

-Oh, I think I can get behind this boulder

by going back in there behind it.

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♪♪

Yeah, behind it. Opens up a little bit.

I got to get up this little step here.

Oh!

Ugh.

O0 C1-[ Grunts ]

I made a pretty good little fall,

and luckily I'm in a bunch of powder snow,

and it just reminded me that I'm up here all alone.

Down in some crack in the rock,

you know, I could've gotten hurt.

I just got to be as careful as possible.

-This night climb is a risk he has to take.

If he and Margaret are going to survive the winter,

he needs every second he can

get to hunt down some meat come sunup.

-Okay, this is the second time.

There we go.

♪♪

Whew.

That move there was about the limit

of my comfort level climbing in here.

♪♪

Oh, yeah. Nice.

Yep, yep.

It looks like a nice break here.

Whew.

All right.

Yeah, it looks like it goes up to the top there.

That's where the sheep will be feeding.

I'm almost there.

♪♪

Yeah, cool.

I made it up to the top here.

It's a pretty big area where the sheep hang out,

so I just need to find a place to post up and wait for dawn.

Find a spot out of the wind here.

That's pretty good right up here against this rock.

I'll try to keep myself warm.

I got to sit here until dawn,

which is going to be another couple hours.

I'm here a little early.

I'm pretty tired, and I'm pretty hopeful,

but I'm a little nervous, too.

It was definitely a risky and strenuous night hike,

but we'll see if it was worth it when the sun comes up.

♪♪

♪♪

-[ Grunts ]

-Jason spent the night pushing deeper into a limestone cave.

-A dead end there.

-He's a man with just one goal...

-Ugh!

-...50 pounds of raw iron ore.

-I don't know what time it is, but it's getting to the place

that I'm having a hard time thinking straight.

♪♪

Wow.

Is that it?

Fracture points like this

are really going to be a good place to find minerals.

♪♪

It is slicker than snot up here.

Yeah.

Whew. I'm seeing ore.

It looks like there's a pretty decent little deposit up here.

There's ore.

I can see it.

I can see a whole little field of it.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's not like the mother lode, huge find itself,

but it's enough, and it's nice.

Everything is all loose and washed out of this mud.

I feel very grateful.

-Jason is confident now that he has enough ore

to attempt an experimental batch of his own steel.

-This cave has been very nice to me.

I don't know how much.

But between that and what else I got, I'm going to be good.

I am whooped, I mean, absolutely dog tired,

but right now I'm excited at the same time.

Next step -- making knives from scratch.

All there's left to do now is get the hell out of Dodge.

♪♪

♪♪

-Pretty gun, buddy.

-In Idaho, Tom and Jack's all-nighter is paying off.

-Jack and I worked through the night on the rifle.

We're sitting here, we seen the sun coming up.

-Now they're down to the final step --

attaching the flintlock firing mechanism.

-The rifle that Jack built is what they call a flintlock.

There's a piece of flint bolted to the hammer

and the piece of buckskin,

and when you cock the hammer back and pull the trigger,

the hammer falls and causes a spark that hits into the pan,

and that kind of explodes.

Them are sparks, huh?

-That should do it.

Let's load it up and shoot it.

-[ Laughs ]

We got it to the point now to where we're going to go out

and see if the thing can shoot, the big test.

-I'll load it up.

I think you should fire it off first.

-A muzzleloaded rifle is all loaded with black powder

that you put down the barrel.

Then you tamp a ball down on top of it.

-There you go. -Cock the hammer.

Set the trigger and pull it, right?

-Yep.

♪♪

[ Gunshot, metal clangs ]

-Good shot!

-There's just something about them rifles.

They just feel good.

When I came here, you know, all it was,

was a rough piece of wood,

and all the parts were in pieces and everything,

and to see my brother put that all together in as short as time

as what it took to do it was pretty amazing really.

-Congratulations. What a job.

-All right. -You did good, bud.

The rifle was good to get out of his way.

Now we can just go to packing and moving,

and I don't know how we're ever going to get it

all moved in the middle of winter,

but we'll give it everything we got, by God.

-Maybe we should take a nap now.

-Or eat some breakfast.

-Yeah. -Or something.

♪♪

♪♪

-As the sun rises over the Great Alaska Range...

-It could be right over this ridge.

-...Morgan is already on the move,

making use of every minute of daylight.

-So if I get a sheep, that's great.

It'll be some really high-quality meat,

maybe not enough to last the entire winter

but a, you know, darn good stretch of it if we stretch it,

but this is one of my last opportunities

to get an animal for the winter.

Weather is really moving in here,

so hopefully I can get a full day of hunting in.

-Dall sheep live on the steepest parts of the mountain

where the temperature hovers at minus-20 degrees,

and 45-mile-an-hour winds are unforgiving.

-I got to get up this slope,

and I'm hoping they're just right over there.

It's pretty complex terrain up here,

but it's one of the things the sheep like

because they can move, you know, from ridge to valley to ridge

and kind of in to these different hallows

and evade predators that way.

We're almost to the top.

I need to be really sneaky if I'm going to see them first

before they see me.

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-Following every ridgeline,

looking in every flat spot where they might bed down

and just kind of methodically scanning the hillsides

looking for any sign of them.

I don't see any tracks on the hillside.

Wait a second. Is that one there?

Yep.

Yep, there's a couple up there.

There's one right on the crest.

If they hang right there,

I might be able to sneak around right,

but the way this wind is blowing I'm going to have to get close,

100, 150 yards, to make a good shot.

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-Next time on "Mountain Men"...

-Stay with me now! Come on!

We're been out here way too long.

-There's no rest for the weary.

-Lefty definitely got pretty beat up.

Right now, it's just important for me to get

Lefty to the vet.

Oh, [bleep]

Um...

Uh-oh.

We got no juice here.

It's definitely a big problem.

-Mike refuses to back down.

-I still need to find one more deer so that

I'll have enough meat to make it through the winter.

-...until he gets his fill.

-Shh, shh.

I got a bear right here.

About 60 yards.

-And in Two Rivers, Alaska, Marty drops a bombshell.

Alright, baby, you got some of your gear together?

-Yeah.

-I've been thinking a lot about this.

I'm going to have Noah with me,

and I want it to be just me and her to be together out here.

-I want her to remember it as a special time

that she had with her father out in the woods.