1 00:00:15,538 --> 00:00:16,988 - Holy . 2 00:00:17,092 --> 00:00:19,611 A bear had ended up stealing fish out of my cache. 3 00:00:19,715 --> 00:00:20,716 He just started a war. 4 00:00:22,442 --> 00:00:25,203 - Every day I'm here, I will fight missing my son. 5 00:00:25,307 --> 00:00:26,963 But that's why 1 have to block it out. 6 00:00:28,620 --> 00:00:32,072 - I can build a raft, paddle out, and start fishing. 7 00:00:32,176 --> 00:00:34,454 No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no! 8 00:00:37,457 --> 00:00:40,460 - I just stabbed this musk ox to death. 9 00:00:40,563 --> 00:00:42,496 I'm worried about a wolverine or a bear 10 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:43,808 getting on this thing. 11 00:00:49,124 --> 00:00:50,642 Male narrator: For the first time, 12 00:00:50,746 --> 00:00:54,198 ten participants will fight to survive the Arctic 13 00:00:54,301 --> 00:00:58,443 for longer than anyone in "Alone" history: 14 00:00:58,547 --> 00:01:01,722 a grueling 100 days. 15 00:01:01,826 --> 00:01:03,069 - This is the ultimate challenge. 16 00:01:04,587 --> 00:01:07,625 - 100 days in the Arctic is no joke. 17 00:01:07,728 --> 00:01:09,351 If they can endure, 18 00:01:09,454 --> 00:01:12,285 they'll win the biggest prize ever: 19 00:01:12,388 --> 00:01:15,046 $1 million. 20 00:01:16,427 --> 00:01:17,669 - Oh! 21 00:01:17,773 --> 00:01:18,981 - Oh, . 22 00:01:19,085 --> 00:01:20,396 - You can't tap out 23 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:22,329 when there's a million bucks on the line, 24 00:01:22,433 --> 00:01:23,330 - Oh, my gosh. 25 00:01:24,952 --> 00:01:27,541 - How hard can you work for $10,000 a day? 26 00:01:27,645 --> 00:01:28,956 - It looks like frostbite. 27 00:01:29,060 --> 00:01:30,165 - Oh! 28 00:01:30,268 --> 00:01:32,201 - Oh, . 29 00:01:32,305 --> 00:01:36,861 This is "Alone: Million Dollar Challenge." 30 00:01:36,964 --> 00:01:38,449 - They're just surrounding my shelter. 31 00:02:15,175 --> 00:02:16,314 - Good mornin'. 32 00:02:16,418 --> 00:02:17,660 Welcome to another episode 33 00:02:17,764 --> 00:02:20,594 of Great Slave Lake's "Cribs." 34 00:02:24,736 --> 00:02:26,704 Inside my shelter, 35 00:02:26,807 --> 00:02:28,257 I've got all my dried fish 36 00:02:28,361 --> 00:02:30,811 and then dinner for tonight on top. 37 00:02:30,915 --> 00:02:33,952 If we move on, we've got our kindling and our fuel wood. 38 00:02:34,056 --> 00:02:36,541 We've got where 1 sleep, 39 00:02:36,645 --> 00:02:38,716 we got my chair, and yeah. 40 00:02:38,819 --> 00:02:40,545 I really love my side table. 41 00:02:40,649 --> 00:02:42,064 Beyond that, 42 00:02:42,168 --> 00:02:44,066 the antlers 1 found, 1 put up top 43 00:02:44,170 --> 00:02:45,826 just as fire prevention, 44 00:02:45,930 --> 00:02:48,104 and 1 also put these rocks up top 45 00:02:48,208 --> 00:02:49,865 because from underneath, 46 00:02:49,968 --> 00:02:52,971 all those sparks were going up into this 47 00:02:53,075 --> 00:02:55,250 and making me real nervous. 48 00:02:55,353 --> 00:02:56,423 So... 49 00:03:00,393 --> 00:03:01,566 That's my shack. 50 00:03:01,670 --> 00:03:03,327 I'm in love with it. 51 00:03:11,783 --> 00:03:14,855 Good news: nice fresh snow on the ground. 52 00:03:14,959 --> 00:03:17,651 Makes great for tracking, hunting. 53 00:03:17,755 --> 00:03:21,966 It's really nuts how much things have changed 54 00:03:22,069 --> 00:03:24,002 in the last ten days. 55 00:03:24,106 --> 00:03:26,764 I've looked at fish as my main priority 56 00:03:26,867 --> 00:03:28,214 since I've been out here, 57 00:03:28,317 --> 00:03:30,699 but trying to change my mindset a little bit. 58 00:03:30,802 --> 00:03:32,356 1 saw promising tracks, 59 00:03:32,459 --> 00:03:34,323 so I'm gonna add a rabbit snare 60 00:03:34,427 --> 00:03:35,842 or two or three or four. 61 00:03:39,259 --> 00:03:40,847 So we got a really good rabbit trail 62 00:03:40,950 --> 00:03:42,607 going right through here. 63 00:03:42,711 --> 00:03:45,196 Let me go ahead and pop a snare. 64 00:03:47,129 --> 00:03:49,338 I can be thankful I've done so well 65 00:03:49,442 --> 00:03:50,822 so far with food. 66 00:03:50,926 --> 00:03:52,341 When 1 came out here, 67 00:03:52,445 --> 00:03:54,136 1 thought, it's gonna be the worst-case scenario, 68 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:55,827 there's not gonna be any food, 69 00:03:55,931 --> 00:03:58,451 it's gonna be really, really tough finding it, 70 00:03:58,554 --> 00:04:00,176 and now, 71 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:04,042 the last five days have been exactly what I expected. 72 00:04:04,146 --> 00:04:05,320 1 think we're gonna see 73 00:04:05,423 --> 00:04:07,805 my body go through a transformation, 74 00:04:07,908 --> 00:04:10,946 doing okay to not doing so okay, 75 00:04:11,049 --> 00:04:12,982 but I'm gonna keep my spirits high 76 00:04:13,086 --> 00:04:16,020 for catching rabbits. 77 00:04:16,123 --> 00:04:18,505 Can't just make a loop, right? 78 00:04:18,609 --> 00:04:20,093 You wanna make it to where, 79 00:04:20,196 --> 00:04:21,819 when the rabbit touches the bottom, 80 00:04:21,922 --> 00:04:22,820 it closes 81 00:04:22,923 --> 00:04:25,305 much further... 82 00:04:25,409 --> 00:04:27,583 than what you originally had it set for. 83 00:04:29,723 --> 00:04:31,449 Now it's about finding a good anchor. 84 00:04:34,141 --> 00:04:37,144 Then I'm gonna check my other trap line. 85 00:04:40,803 --> 00:04:43,254 All right. Just came across this. 86 00:04:43,358 --> 00:04:46,464 There's rabbit fur and blood and no rabbit. 87 00:04:46,568 --> 00:04:47,845 That sucks. 88 00:04:47,948 --> 00:04:49,812 I was really looking forward to catching that guy. 89 00:05:01,548 --> 00:05:02,618 Fox. 90 00:05:04,413 --> 00:05:06,829 And... 91 00:05:06,933 --> 00:05:07,865 fox urine. 92 00:05:07,968 --> 00:05:10,419 See that little yellow speck? 93 00:05:10,523 --> 00:05:12,490 This fox came up here, he's marking his territory, 94 00:05:12,594 --> 00:05:14,009 so there's a lot more fox in the area, 95 00:05:14,112 --> 00:05:15,666 so great. 96 00:05:17,184 --> 00:05:19,083 1 went from food 97 00:05:19,186 --> 00:05:21,741 and catching food and stuff 98 00:05:21,844 --> 00:05:25,469 to zero food and competition for my food. 99 00:05:27,298 --> 00:05:28,506 Hoo! All right. 100 00:05:28,610 --> 00:05:31,682 It's getting real. 101 00:05:58,191 --> 00:06:00,918 - Pretty dark in Rock House. 102 00:06:01,021 --> 00:06:03,541 That's one drawback, 103 00:06:03,645 --> 00:06:06,544 having it all tight and insulated. 104 00:06:06,648 --> 00:06:09,409 No light. 105 00:06:09,513 --> 00:06:12,239 Yesterday was all butchering, 106 00:06:12,343 --> 00:06:14,587 hacking and slashing, 107 00:06:14,690 --> 00:06:16,796 and then got it all to camp. 108 00:06:16,899 --> 00:06:18,349 You got to get as much distance 109 00:06:18,453 --> 00:06:21,317 between the kill site and your meat as possible. 110 00:06:24,217 --> 00:06:27,393 Boy, he had a set on him. 111 00:06:27,496 --> 00:06:29,809 We're gonna clean skin his nuts off. 112 00:06:31,535 --> 00:06:34,123 In old times, they always made pouches 113 00:06:34,227 --> 00:06:37,748 out of the buffalo scrotums. 114 00:06:37,851 --> 00:06:42,131 There's a musk ox scrotum pouch. 115 00:06:42,235 --> 00:06:44,927 Yeah, they're big and they're already pouch-shaped, you know? 116 00:06:45,031 --> 00:06:48,275 No sewing involved. 117 00:06:50,381 --> 00:06:52,590 Here's the nut. 118 00:06:52,694 --> 00:06:55,731 Great Slave Lake oyster. 119 00:06:55,835 --> 00:06:58,527 Musk ox testicle. It's big. 120 00:06:58,631 --> 00:07:00,598 Big as my hand. 121 00:07:00,702 --> 00:07:03,083 Testicles, they're good. 122 00:07:03,187 --> 00:07:05,431 I'm not kidding. 123 00:07:05,534 --> 00:07:08,364 I want that 100 day title as much as the money, 124 00:07:08,468 --> 00:07:11,057 so we're gonna eat this 125 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:12,852 from the horns to the hooves. 126 00:07:19,030 --> 00:07:21,964 This is gonna make an award-winning soup. 127 00:07:22,068 --> 00:07:24,898 Yeah, they're fatty. They're rich. 128 00:07:25,002 --> 00:07:28,695 There's all kinds of goodness in a set of nuts. 129 00:07:28,799 --> 00:07:30,628 The Eskimos that 1 hung out with 130 00:07:30,732 --> 00:07:32,078 up on the Kuskokwim 131 00:07:32,181 --> 00:07:34,598 always put a high, high value 132 00:07:34,701 --> 00:07:36,531 on the fat of the animal. 133 00:07:36,634 --> 00:07:39,223 1 might not know the science of it and things, 134 00:07:39,326 --> 00:07:42,053 but 1 know about the fat behind the eyeballs. 135 00:07:42,157 --> 00:07:44,884 The Eskimos always eat the nose off the moose, 136 00:07:44,987 --> 00:07:48,335 so therefore, I know to eat the nose off the musk ox. 137 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:50,096 Perfect. 138 00:07:50,199 --> 00:07:51,718 Pot's full, 139 00:07:51,822 --> 00:07:54,480 and now we're set up with tenderloin. 140 00:07:56,551 --> 00:07:57,931 Oh, baby. 141 00:08:03,143 --> 00:08:05,905 Holy . 142 00:08:06,008 --> 00:08:08,390 Day 100, there ain't gonna be 143 00:08:08,494 --> 00:08:12,428 a whole hell of a lot of that musk ox left. 144 00:08:12,532 --> 00:08:14,500 It turned out perfect. 145 00:08:17,882 --> 00:08:19,746 Last bite. 146 00:08:21,334 --> 00:08:23,647 Oh, dear Lord, that was so good. 147 00:08:26,132 --> 00:08:30,101 A guy can just flop. 148 00:08:30,205 --> 00:08:31,862 Feels good. 149 00:08:35,521 --> 00:08:39,248 Everything's really coming together in Rock House. 150 00:08:39,352 --> 00:08:42,286 It sure is. 151 00:09:11,349 --> 00:09:13,938 Making the guitar has now inspired me 152 00:09:14,042 --> 00:09:17,355 to make a good size eating bowl. 153 00:09:17,459 --> 00:09:20,289 That's not just a crafting. That's a need. 154 00:09:20,393 --> 00:09:22,844 Would just make life so much easier 155 00:09:22,947 --> 00:09:25,812 to be able to transfer my food into the bowl 156 00:09:25,916 --> 00:09:27,745 and then 1 can use the pot to boil water, 157 00:09:27,849 --> 00:09:31,404 so I can have boiled water and my food at the same time. 158 00:09:36,409 --> 00:09:37,652 Oh, yeah. 159 00:09:40,551 --> 00:09:42,726 Yeah, 1 think this should do quite nicely. 160 00:09:53,219 --> 00:09:54,634 I feel very in sync with the land, 161 00:09:54,738 --> 00:09:55,946 with what I'm doing. 162 00:09:56,049 --> 00:09:57,533 I feel like I'm doing the right thing. 163 00:09:57,637 --> 00:09:59,052 1 don't feel, like, any need 164 00:09:59,156 --> 00:10:01,814 to go and absolutely pillage the land 165 00:10:01,917 --> 00:10:05,231 and just catch and catch and kill and-- 166 00:10:05,334 --> 00:10:08,475 I've got almost two weeks of fish fillets 167 00:10:08,579 --> 00:10:10,167 up in the food cache, 168 00:10:10,270 --> 00:10:12,307 which could be looked at as a month of food 169 00:10:12,410 --> 00:10:13,515 in survival mode. 170 00:10:15,448 --> 00:10:17,174 Oh, Joel. 171 00:10:17,277 --> 00:10:20,384 Just keep going. 172 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:24,837 Al right. 173 00:10:24,940 --> 00:10:26,355 Let's head back to camp. 174 00:10:35,917 --> 00:10:37,435 My legs are heavy. 175 00:10:41,543 --> 00:10:44,201 My legs have taken a toll out here. 176 00:10:44,304 --> 00:10:46,237 Yes, I've been eating, 177 00:10:46,341 --> 00:10:49,793 but I feel I've lost a lot of muscle on my legs, 178 00:10:49,896 --> 00:10:51,311 especially my calves. 179 00:10:53,210 --> 00:10:55,143 The physical fatigue 180 00:10:55,246 --> 00:10:57,076 that comes with this whole experience 181 00:10:57,179 --> 00:10:59,975 is freaking tough. 182 00:11:00,079 --> 00:11:03,910 Like, they have that saying, "bone tired." 183 00:11:04,014 --> 00:11:06,568 1 know the meaning to that saying now. 184 00:11:10,537 --> 00:11:14,369 Legs, legs, legs. 185 00:11:29,384 --> 00:11:32,387 I'm looking for a decent size bowl. 186 00:11:32,490 --> 00:11:34,803 I want no little itty-bitty. 187 00:11:36,632 --> 00:11:39,808 It's hard to physically keep up with the workload 188 00:11:39,912 --> 00:11:41,327 and then doing other fun projects 189 00:11:41,430 --> 00:11:42,638 that you wanna do, 190 00:11:42,742 --> 00:11:45,469 being on your feet all day, you know? 191 00:11:45,572 --> 00:11:46,919 Wow, guys. 192 00:11:47,022 --> 00:11:48,748 That's coming along. 193 00:11:50,267 --> 00:11:51,613 Freaking arm's about to fall off, 194 00:11:51,717 --> 00:11:53,891 but it's coming along. 195 00:11:53,995 --> 00:11:56,273 But most of all, it's so hard 196 00:11:56,376 --> 00:11:58,896 to be completely out of touch, separated, 197 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,105 such a long distance from your family, 198 00:12:01,209 --> 00:12:03,556 from a young kid just learning to speak. 199 00:12:03,659 --> 00:12:05,972 Just probably can't comprehend what's going on. 200 00:12:06,076 --> 00:12:08,147 He was here every day, and now he's gone. 201 00:12:08,250 --> 00:12:09,148 Why? 202 00:12:14,049 --> 00:12:16,224 He's a tough little bugger, though. 203 00:12:16,327 --> 00:12:18,053 I just have to keep doing what I'm doing. 204 00:12:18,157 --> 00:12:20,538 1 just got to keep myself in the right headspace. 205 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:26,890 Really, really makes you feel good. 206 00:12:26,993 --> 00:12:29,133 I've been wanting this for a while, 207 00:12:29,237 --> 00:12:31,653 and it's now in the making. 208 00:12:31,757 --> 00:12:33,344 So get some coals in here 209 00:12:33,448 --> 00:12:35,243 and burn it out and clean it up. 210 00:12:35,346 --> 00:12:38,384 By tomorrow evening, be eating out of this thing. 211 00:13:09,001 --> 00:13:11,175 Being freaking paranoid. 212 00:13:11,279 --> 00:13:12,832 I hear it, a little noise, 213 00:13:12,936 --> 00:13:16,629 and I think it's, like, something in my food cache. 214 00:13:16,732 --> 00:13:18,148 So come on. 215 00:13:18,251 --> 00:13:20,184 Let's just go and take a quick look. 216 00:13:20,288 --> 00:13:21,841 Just go and make sure. 217 00:13:29,815 --> 00:13:31,368 Oh, 1 don't see nothing. 218 00:13:31,471 --> 00:13:32,541 Let's see. 219 00:13:35,303 --> 00:13:37,408 Damn it. 220 00:13:37,512 --> 00:13:39,065 Get outta here! 221 00:13:57,773 --> 00:13:58,671 - Damn it. 222 00:13:58,774 --> 00:13:59,914 Wolverine. 223 00:14:00,017 --> 00:14:01,260 Get outta here. 224 00:14:01,363 --> 00:14:03,055 Get outta here. 225 00:14:03,158 --> 00:14:04,090 Hey! 226 00:14:04,194 --> 00:14:05,920 Get outta here! 227 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:12,858 There he goes. 228 00:14:12,961 --> 00:14:15,584 Get outta here, wolverine, 229 00:14:15,688 --> 00:14:17,690 It's my food cache, hear me? 230 00:14:20,037 --> 00:14:22,074 Bugger! 231 00:14:22,177 --> 00:14:26,009 Well, he wasn't up there, but 1 bet he was trying. 232 00:14:26,112 --> 00:14:30,185 1 am, just for safekeeping, gonna take just a few steaks 233 00:14:30,289 --> 00:14:34,603 'cause 1 don't have any food spare in the shelter. 234 00:14:39,229 --> 00:14:42,197 Oh, God. My sixth sense just kicks in. 235 00:14:44,061 --> 00:14:46,892 Oh, ! 236 00:14:46,995 --> 00:14:48,617 He did pull some fish down. 237 00:14:49,825 --> 00:14:51,689 So he gets up here. 238 00:14:51,793 --> 00:14:53,174 No way! 239 00:14:53,277 --> 00:14:55,107 He pulled it out through the bottom. 240 00:14:55,210 --> 00:14:56,625 Damn it. 241 00:14:56,729 --> 00:14:58,248 This is all coming in the shelter. 242 00:15:00,422 --> 00:15:02,873 Not leaving it out here and letting it get eaten. 243 00:15:06,635 --> 00:15:08,223 Bugger! 244 00:15:08,327 --> 00:15:09,362 How much did he get? 245 00:15:12,745 --> 00:15:15,299 I've got one, 246 00:15:15,403 --> 00:15:18,440 two, three... 247 00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:22,341 Part of one that is-- 248 00:15:22,444 --> 00:15:24,757 this is what he didn't manage to get. 249 00:15:24,860 --> 00:15:27,208 It was on the ground. 250 00:15:27,311 --> 00:15:30,694 Four, five, 251 00:15:33,421 --> 00:15:34,732 He's taken about ten-- 252 00:15:34,836 --> 00:15:37,943 he's already eaten about ten pieces this size. 253 00:15:39,530 --> 00:15:40,566 Damn it! 254 00:15:40,669 --> 00:15:42,671 That does not leave me with a lot. 255 00:15:42,775 --> 00:15:45,467 Welcome to the winter in the Arctic. 256 00:15:45,571 --> 00:15:47,642 Everything just wants your food. 257 00:15:59,447 --> 00:16:00,896 Al right. 258 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,485 Maybe 1 could scrape four days out of that, 259 00:16:03,589 --> 00:16:06,626 but I had stores for, like, you know, ten days. 260 00:16:08,387 --> 00:16:10,389 All that effort, 261 00:16:10,492 --> 00:16:12,563 those calories spent 262 00:16:12,667 --> 00:16:14,910 in building that food cache and that brush wall 263 00:16:15,014 --> 00:16:15,911 and that... 264 00:16:18,466 --> 00:16:20,882 Nope. Didn't matter. 265 00:16:20,986 --> 00:16:23,022 If he wants it, he's gonna get it. 266 00:16:23,126 --> 00:16:27,613 Just shows me that it's, like-- there's just no stopping 267 00:16:27,716 --> 00:16:29,649 an animal like that when he's hungry. 268 00:16:31,893 --> 00:16:34,378 Man, what a tough place to keep food. 269 00:16:36,346 --> 00:16:38,141 What a tough place. 270 00:17:09,655 --> 00:17:12,658 - This is my brain pouch. 271 00:17:15,868 --> 00:17:18,353 There's the brain in there. 272 00:17:18,457 --> 00:17:21,115 I'm wanting to put a little bit on my gloves. 273 00:17:21,218 --> 00:17:23,117 That's gonna tan that so nice. 274 00:17:25,809 --> 00:17:27,811 Little bit of this goes a long way. 275 00:17:33,058 --> 00:17:36,371 You can just feel how greasy it is. 276 00:17:36,475 --> 00:17:37,717 Like lanolin. 277 00:17:39,961 --> 00:17:41,204 Good thing we tended to 'em. 278 00:17:41,307 --> 00:17:44,621 That'll help keep 'em from cracking as well, 279 00:17:44,724 --> 00:17:46,278 this brain juice. 280 00:17:50,661 --> 00:17:52,456 See how that looks? 281 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:54,424 Now, you can tell it got oiled. 282 00:17:57,979 --> 00:17:59,843 1 just want some on my hands. 283 00:18:02,604 --> 00:18:05,297 It's like putting lotion on. 284 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,092 My hands are sore. 285 00:18:07,195 --> 00:18:09,197 You can't believe how sore my hands was 286 00:18:09,301 --> 00:18:11,406 from building Rock House. 287 00:18:11,510 --> 00:18:14,237 It's even good for chapped face. 288 00:18:16,584 --> 00:18:19,311 When the wind blows your face and chaps it. 289 00:18:23,038 --> 00:18:24,730 1 don't think we're gonna eat this brain. 290 00:18:24,833 --> 00:18:26,249 We're gonna save it for... 291 00:18:30,425 --> 00:18:32,117 Skin and leather treatment. 292 00:18:34,153 --> 00:18:36,811 Everything has a use out here. 293 00:18:39,848 --> 00:18:41,505 Aw, yeah. 294 00:18:41,609 --> 00:18:44,370 Nice and supple now. 295 00:18:44,474 --> 00:18:47,684 Now they're ready to go build meat cache. 296 00:18:53,207 --> 00:18:56,589 1 have to move the meat away from Rock House, 297 00:18:56,693 --> 00:18:59,454 so I'm gonna build a meat crib 298 00:18:59,558 --> 00:19:01,353 that's gonna be just like a log cabin, 299 00:19:01,456 --> 00:19:03,355 notched on the ends, 300 00:19:03,458 --> 00:19:06,116 and we're gonna fit 'em tight so nothing can get in there. 301 00:19:09,430 --> 00:19:11,432 It'll be bulletproof. 302 00:19:11,535 --> 00:19:14,642 And I'm gonna clear all the poles I need, 303 00:19:14,745 --> 00:19:18,508 you know, to 100 yards from Rock House 304 00:19:18,611 --> 00:19:20,544 in a straight line. 305 00:19:20,648 --> 00:19:22,443 That way, I can look out my door 306 00:19:22,546 --> 00:19:24,686 and see down here. 307 00:19:24,790 --> 00:19:28,173 I'll shine my headlamp and hopefully see eyeballs. 308 00:19:28,276 --> 00:19:29,243 Well, hopefully not, 309 00:19:29,346 --> 00:19:30,554 but if there's something around, 310 00:19:30,658 --> 00:19:32,798 I'll see eyeballs. 311 00:19:32,901 --> 00:19:35,594 I think I'm gonna cut little poles 312 00:19:35,697 --> 00:19:36,974 and place on the bottom. 313 00:19:37,078 --> 00:19:39,908 That way, they'll be pinned under these ones. 314 00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:41,151 Then it'll have a floor. 315 00:19:41,255 --> 00:19:42,463 It'll be damn hard 316 00:19:42,566 --> 00:19:44,706 for anything to come in under it that way. 317 00:19:58,755 --> 00:19:59,652 Ha. 318 00:20:03,277 --> 00:20:07,142 My mother died while 1 was preparing for this quest, 319 00:20:07,246 --> 00:20:10,353 so I'm trying to remember her a little bit through this all, 320 00:20:10,456 --> 00:20:13,045 but 1 know if anybody's with the Lord, she is. 321 00:20:13,148 --> 00:20:15,530 That woman was devout, man. 322 00:20:17,601 --> 00:20:18,982 So she's probably got her finger 323 00:20:19,085 --> 00:20:21,398 on some of this too. 324 00:20:21,502 --> 00:20:23,297 Hi, Mom, You hear me? 325 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,091 I'm here, 326 00:20:25,195 --> 00:20:28,474 Rock House, building my meat cache. 327 00:20:28,578 --> 00:20:31,132 Thinking of you, Mom. 328 00:20:31,236 --> 00:20:33,272 Not bad. 329 00:20:33,376 --> 00:20:34,653 Pretty damn good, actually. 330 00:20:34,756 --> 00:20:37,414 That's a tight little cube we got happening there. 331 00:20:39,554 --> 00:20:42,074 1 know 1 was kind of a difficult... 332 00:20:42,177 --> 00:20:44,145 little [bleep] to raise up. 333 00:20:44,249 --> 00:20:46,078 I sure hope some of the stuff I've done 334 00:20:46,181 --> 00:20:49,012 has made you proud though. 335 00:20:49,115 --> 00:20:51,014 I'll see you soon, Mom. 336 00:20:51,117 --> 00:20:52,602 I'm right behind you. 337 00:20:56,399 --> 00:20:58,849 That's it for the walls. 338 00:20:58,953 --> 00:21:00,506 It turned out pretty good. 339 00:21:00,610 --> 00:21:03,268 Now that's a lot of freezer space. 340 00:21:03,371 --> 00:21:06,478 Now we need eight big, heavy stakes, 341 00:21:06,581 --> 00:21:07,858 about yo high. 342 00:21:09,446 --> 00:21:11,345 They're gonna be driven in each corner, 343 00:21:11,448 --> 00:21:13,933 inside and out, 344 00:21:14,037 --> 00:21:17,937 and then tied at the top with my fencing twist. 345 00:21:18,041 --> 00:21:20,561 You won't be able to pull a log outta here no how. 346 00:21:22,873 --> 00:21:25,980 Pretty snug. 347 00:21:26,083 --> 00:21:27,775 Oh, yeah. 348 00:21:27,878 --> 00:21:31,226 That's tightened that end right the hell up. 349 00:21:31,330 --> 00:21:32,745 Do it half-assed, 350 00:21:32,849 --> 00:21:34,575 a wolverine will jump right in there 351 00:21:34,678 --> 00:21:37,440 and have a party. 352 00:21:37,543 --> 00:21:40,546 I'm building the meat crib wolverine- and bear-proof. 353 00:21:44,723 --> 00:21:47,657 I got a big game Kill, and I'm gonna win this baby 354 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,106 if I'm smart. 355 00:21:49,210 --> 00:21:52,351 I cannot let nothing get this meat. 356 00:21:52,455 --> 00:21:54,491 I ain't putting it up in the [bleep] damn air, 357 00:21:54,595 --> 00:21:56,113 'cause that don't work anyway. 358 00:21:57,770 --> 00:21:59,910 Climb like a [bleep] acrobat every day 359 00:22:00,014 --> 00:22:03,500 just to see how much [bleep] damn meat got stolen. 360 00:22:03,604 --> 00:22:05,502 You don't keep a [bleep] wolverine down. 361 00:22:05,606 --> 00:22:06,986 1 don't care if you skin the bark 362 00:22:07,090 --> 00:22:09,610 off the whole [bleep] damn tree. 363 00:22:09,713 --> 00:22:12,440 There ain't nothing out here a wolverine can't climb. 364 00:22:16,030 --> 00:22:17,272 Lock it in. 365 00:22:23,658 --> 00:22:26,489 There by a beaver. 366 00:22:29,077 --> 00:22:31,735 What a [bleep] damn ordeal. 367 00:23:06,632 --> 00:23:08,116 - Have 1 mentioned this is the only diet 368 00:23:08,220 --> 00:23:09,704 I've ever been on? 369 00:23:12,431 --> 00:23:14,468 And I'll tell you what, 370 00:23:14,571 --> 00:23:18,057 1 do not recommend this diet. 371 00:23:18,161 --> 00:23:20,128 I'm sure there's better ones out there. 372 00:23:22,752 --> 00:23:24,512 But if you want fast results... 373 00:23:27,032 --> 00:23:28,896 Maybe this is the one for you. 374 00:23:30,932 --> 00:23:34,280 This place went from fruitful with bears 375 00:23:34,384 --> 00:23:38,353 and fish and berries 376 00:23:38,457 --> 00:23:41,184 to the first real snowfall, 377 00:23:41,287 --> 00:23:43,393 and now there's nothing. 378 00:23:43,497 --> 00:23:45,706 But this is survival. 379 00:23:45,809 --> 00:23:47,432 I've got to keep pushing forward. 380 00:23:49,295 --> 00:23:50,711 Gonna check my trap line. 381 00:23:50,814 --> 00:23:51,850 1 might get lucky. 382 00:23:57,752 --> 00:24:00,548 I don't know if it's a good thing 383 00:24:00,652 --> 00:24:02,619 or a bad thing when 1-- 384 00:24:02,723 --> 00:24:05,104 walking down, 1 see a good patch of reindeer moss 385 00:24:05,208 --> 00:24:06,692 and I'm like, yeah! 386 00:24:09,937 --> 00:24:11,594 This is a humbling experience, 387 00:24:11,697 --> 00:24:14,838 gathering moss 388 00:24:14,942 --> 00:24:18,152 for your food, right? 389 00:24:18,255 --> 00:24:21,362 But reindeer moss isn't gonna do it. 390 00:24:21,466 --> 00:24:22,950 I got to find food. 391 00:24:28,542 --> 00:24:31,234 What is that? 392 00:24:35,514 --> 00:24:37,551 Oh, my gosh. 393 00:24:58,192 --> 00:25:00,643 - All right. So hey. 394 00:25:00,746 --> 00:25:02,921 Came out here today 395 00:25:03,024 --> 00:25:05,475 and... 396 00:25:05,579 --> 00:25:07,132 we trapped this guy. 397 00:25:10,238 --> 00:25:12,378 Little fox. 398 00:25:12,482 --> 00:25:13,656 Caught him 'round the waist. 399 00:25:13,759 --> 00:25:15,140 He's not injured. 400 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,352 Coming out here and seeing an animal in your trap 401 00:25:20,455 --> 00:25:24,356 that has this much food, 402 00:25:24,459 --> 00:25:25,737 it kinda sucks. 403 00:25:31,466 --> 00:25:33,192 1 haven't really eaten that much. 404 00:25:41,373 --> 00:25:43,030 But sometimes, you just got to do the right thing, 405 00:25:43,133 --> 00:25:45,377 so we're gonna let this guy go. 406 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:46,481 We're gonna try and do it 407 00:25:46,585 --> 00:25:48,587 without getting injured, obviously. 408 00:25:48,691 --> 00:25:50,071 But we don't wanna hurt him. 409 00:26:06,501 --> 00:26:09,884 Life isn't all about gaining stuff. 410 00:26:09,988 --> 00:26:12,197 Sometimes, the biggest gains you can get from life 411 00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:13,681 are just by doing the right thing. 412 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,204 So... 413 00:26:19,307 --> 00:26:20,550 this is him. 414 00:26:23,449 --> 00:26:25,037 This little guy is fine. 415 00:26:25,141 --> 00:26:26,211 There's nothing wrong with him. 416 00:26:26,314 --> 00:26:28,593 So we're just gonna let him go. 417 00:26:32,251 --> 00:26:33,425 Al right. 418 00:26:33,528 --> 00:26:34,840 Gonna go check the rest of my traps. 419 00:26:46,956 --> 00:26:47,922 Yeah! 420 00:26:48,026 --> 00:26:50,960 Got myself a rabbit. 421 00:26:51,063 --> 00:26:53,825 Look at this guy. 422 00:26:53,928 --> 00:26:56,690 Pretty sure 1 just gave him a heart attack. 423 00:26:56,793 --> 00:26:58,105 Super happy. 424 00:26:58,208 --> 00:26:59,382 Man! 425 00:26:59,485 --> 00:27:02,316 I snared a fox today, I let him go, 426 00:27:02,419 --> 00:27:06,354 and 1 was able to snare a rabbit. 427 00:27:06,458 --> 00:27:08,287 Fuzzy little bunny. 428 00:27:08,391 --> 00:27:10,704 Got food again. 429 00:27:10,807 --> 00:27:11,843 Great day. 430 00:27:11,946 --> 00:27:13,258 I'm gonna get him outta here real quick 431 00:27:13,361 --> 00:27:14,673 and go check the gill net. 432 00:27:21,162 --> 00:27:25,477 1 truly, truly believe that was karma. 433 00:27:27,375 --> 00:27:29,861 I just had a trifecta of a day. 434 00:27:31,690 --> 00:27:34,003 1 got a fish! 435 00:27:35,901 --> 00:27:37,351 Man! 436 00:27:37,454 --> 00:27:41,182 I been waiting to catch another fish for so long. 437 00:27:41,286 --> 00:27:42,943 Yeah! Whitefish! 438 00:27:44,807 --> 00:27:46,498 It's really neat being able to take things 439 00:27:46,601 --> 00:27:48,742 from the water and from the land, 440 00:27:48,845 --> 00:27:50,709 especially all in the same day, 441 00:27:50,813 --> 00:27:51,952 and give back. 442 00:27:57,543 --> 00:27:59,787 How's that for a day's catch? 443 00:28:02,859 --> 00:28:04,309 Man, 1 can't be happier. 444 00:28:04,412 --> 00:28:06,725 1 am so happy. 445 00:28:08,382 --> 00:28:11,143 Yeah! 446 00:28:11,247 --> 00:28:14,008 If I didn't believe in karma before, 447 00:28:14,112 --> 00:28:15,665 1 am a believer now. 448 00:28:34,891 --> 00:28:36,065 - So here's my thoughts. 449 00:28:37,929 --> 00:28:41,311 This is the front end corner of my shelter, 450 00:28:41,415 --> 00:28:43,693 and I'd like to build this little box 451 00:28:43,797 --> 00:28:46,109 in the corner here for-- to store my fish, 452 00:28:46,213 --> 00:28:48,146 keep them fresh. 453 00:28:48,249 --> 00:28:51,080 Cut ourselves a digging stick. 454 00:28:54,739 --> 00:28:56,085 After the wolverine's visit, 455 00:28:56,188 --> 00:28:58,639 I can't leave the food out in the food cache. 456 00:28:58,743 --> 00:29:00,020 Obviously, he's still gonna get it. 457 00:29:00,123 --> 00:29:01,469 So what I'm gonna do 458 00:29:01,573 --> 00:29:04,438 is I'm gonna make a little bush refrigerator. 459 00:29:04,541 --> 00:29:05,991 I'm just gonna dig down, 460 00:29:06,095 --> 00:29:08,373 around about a foot is what I'm shooting for, 461 00:29:08,476 --> 00:29:11,203 and then also pack snow inside there. 462 00:29:11,307 --> 00:29:12,895 Hopefully, the geothermal cooling 463 00:29:12,998 --> 00:29:14,379 and the insulation of the ground 464 00:29:14,482 --> 00:29:16,001 will lock in that temperature. 465 00:29:28,220 --> 00:29:31,327 That is pretty good right there. 466 00:29:33,363 --> 00:29:35,710 Next, I'm just gonna use stakes 467 00:29:35,814 --> 00:29:38,403 and spruce boughs to create some insulation 468 00:29:38,506 --> 00:29:41,026 and the structure for the box so it doesn't collapse in. 469 00:29:45,030 --> 00:29:45,962 Kay. 470 00:29:46,066 --> 00:29:49,345 All the hard work's done now. 471 00:29:49,448 --> 00:29:51,105 Oh, man. 472 00:29:51,209 --> 00:29:53,694 Everything 1 do... 473 00:29:53,798 --> 00:29:56,145 is just so exhausting. 474 00:29:58,285 --> 00:30:00,252 I feel like I'm lacking electrolytes 475 00:30:00,356 --> 00:30:04,809 and definitely feel my body going into full ketosis. 476 00:30:04,912 --> 00:30:07,984 There is definitely a reduced pep in the step. 477 00:30:12,817 --> 00:30:16,372 Just try and create a good seal around. 478 00:30:20,755 --> 00:30:23,586 Mmm. Such a nice smell. 479 00:30:26,347 --> 00:30:28,073 The trick is to compact it 480 00:30:28,177 --> 00:30:30,213 very good. 481 00:30:31,836 --> 00:30:34,528 We'll put just a couple of these in the bottom 482 00:30:34,631 --> 00:30:38,497 just so we don't create frostbite on the fish. 483 00:30:38,601 --> 00:30:40,154 And then let's load 'em in. 484 00:30:42,674 --> 00:30:45,332 1 don't really want the fish on top of each other 485 00:30:45,435 --> 00:30:46,609 so that they don't have that moisture 486 00:30:46,712 --> 00:30:49,198 trapped between them. 487 00:30:49,301 --> 00:30:52,408 Now we compact everything in spruce boughs 488 00:30:52,511 --> 00:30:54,893 to add insulation. 489 00:30:54,997 --> 00:30:56,584 Yeah, and the lid goes on top. 490 00:30:59,691 --> 00:31:01,658 And there we go. 491 00:31:01,762 --> 00:31:03,557 Beautiful. 492 00:31:03,660 --> 00:31:05,455 From now forward, 493 00:31:05,559 --> 00:31:08,596 I look forward to keeping some frozen fresh fish at hand 494 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:09,597 all the time. 495 00:31:14,188 --> 00:31:16,915 We're gonna be making a fire very soon, 496 00:31:17,019 --> 00:31:19,297 but I'm still not satisfied with the firewood. 497 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:20,608 1 still need much more. 498 00:31:26,511 --> 00:31:28,478 Kay. Let's do some cutting. 499 00:31:35,451 --> 00:31:37,591 I've worked a lot of hard jobs in my life, 500 00:31:37,694 --> 00:31:39,524 like working in sewage tanks 501 00:31:39,627 --> 00:31:42,665 and working, like, without sleep for a couple days 502 00:31:42,768 --> 00:31:45,047 and, you know, being at sea with machinery broken down 503 00:31:45,150 --> 00:31:47,290 that 1 got to repair at 4:00 in the morning, 504 00:31:47,394 --> 00:31:50,293 and it's all taught me how to work hard 505 00:31:50,397 --> 00:31:51,570 and just get in the right mindset 506 00:31:51,674 --> 00:31:52,744 of "just get it done." 507 00:31:57,231 --> 00:32:01,339 The $1 million prize is definitely a big motivator 508 00:32:01,442 --> 00:32:02,719 to get to day 100, 509 00:32:02,823 --> 00:32:05,412 so I will push my body to its limit. 510 00:32:17,355 --> 00:32:18,597 Frick. 511 00:32:57,050 --> 00:32:58,051 Oh, . 512 00:32:58,154 --> 00:32:59,811 Oh, . 513 00:33:01,399 --> 00:33:05,368 Oh, legs, oh, legs, oh, legs. 514 00:33:05,472 --> 00:33:07,336 You're giving up on me. 515 00:33:15,171 --> 00:33:16,793 I've already asked so much of my body, 516 00:33:16,897 --> 00:33:18,381 I just hate to keep abusing it, 517 00:33:18,485 --> 00:33:20,866 but I don't wanna leave. 518 00:33:25,457 --> 00:33:27,321 Ah, it sucks. 519 00:33:34,328 --> 00:33:37,021 Joel, do not let this bum you out. 520 00:33:39,885 --> 00:33:41,749 Come on, Joel. Just come on. 521 00:33:41,853 --> 00:33:43,751 [bleep] pull yourself together here. 522 00:33:50,896 --> 00:33:53,071 It's not the nicest position to be in, 523 00:33:53,175 --> 00:33:56,143 but it's just how it is. 524 00:34:21,410 --> 00:34:24,792 - Cravings this morning... 525 00:34:24,896 --> 00:34:27,554 just a cup of coffee with cream. 526 00:34:29,694 --> 00:34:32,145 I'd take a croissant on the side. 527 00:34:32,248 --> 00:34:33,732 A croissant. 528 00:34:37,288 --> 00:34:38,910 Fresh. 529 00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:46,711 1 got up this morning with my bow in hand. 530 00:34:46,814 --> 00:34:48,437 You never know what's out there. 531 00:34:50,922 --> 00:34:53,511 Today is the day to get something... 532 00:34:55,478 --> 00:34:58,619 To make me feel like I'm still on top of it. 533 00:35:00,380 --> 00:35:02,175 What a way to live. 534 00:35:10,114 --> 00:35:11,839 Food'll do me good. 535 00:35:18,087 --> 00:35:20,538 Oh, look at all those moose tracks. 536 00:35:23,989 --> 00:35:25,059 Right there. 537 00:35:32,066 --> 00:35:33,137 There. 538 00:35:36,312 --> 00:35:38,970 I'm okay with trying to stick with snaring rabbits, 539 00:35:39,073 --> 00:35:41,455 but I'm not giving up with big game. 540 00:35:48,152 --> 00:35:51,362 Hopefully 1 catch something today in my snares. 541 00:35:54,882 --> 00:35:56,194 Empty. 542 00:35:58,300 --> 00:36:00,060 The reason I'm doing this 543 00:36:00,164 --> 00:36:03,788 is because 1 want to do my husband, Dave, proud. 544 00:36:06,031 --> 00:36:07,688 Nothing. 545 00:36:09,690 --> 00:36:11,658 And 1 wanna do myself proud 546 00:36:11,761 --> 00:36:15,282 because I know that I'm blown away 547 00:36:15,386 --> 00:36:17,767 with Dave and his abilities. 548 00:36:20,322 --> 00:36:22,841 We joke about the money a lot, like, "Oh, if we win, 549 00:36:22,945 --> 00:36:25,879 we're gonna get a boat that doesn't leak." 550 00:36:25,982 --> 00:36:27,846 Nothing. 551 00:36:27,950 --> 00:36:29,400 And, like, "Oh if we win, 552 00:36:29,503 --> 00:36:31,643 then Dave's gonna go to the South Pole." 553 00:36:33,714 --> 00:36:36,269 So there's lots of things that, you know, it'd be like, 554 00:36:36,372 --> 00:36:38,271 "Oh, if we win..." 555 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:41,653 Nothing. 556 00:37:00,776 --> 00:37:02,226 Nope. 557 00:37:03,951 --> 00:37:05,850 Done checking my traps. 558 00:37:05,953 --> 00:37:07,369 No bunnies today. 559 00:37:35,051 --> 00:37:36,812 It knows I'm here, you know. 560 00:37:36,915 --> 00:37:39,332 It's running away. 561 00:38:27,069 --> 00:38:28,242 Damn it. 562 00:38:48,608 --> 00:38:52,336 Just the prospect of having that much food. 563 00:38:53,544 --> 00:38:54,579 It's like... 564 00:38:56,926 --> 00:38:58,825 It was right there. 565 00:39:10,837 --> 00:39:12,666 That's the good news right there. 566 00:39:12,770 --> 00:39:13,978 That's good news. 567 00:39:16,325 --> 00:39:18,051 They're coming 'round here. 568 00:39:20,812 --> 00:39:23,021 So 1 shouldn't give up. 569 00:39:43,801 --> 00:39:44,767 - Look. 570 00:39:49,254 --> 00:39:51,015 So the little short-tailed weasel 571 00:39:51,118 --> 00:39:53,707 just poked his little head. 572 00:39:53,811 --> 00:39:55,951 He was right there. 573 00:39:58,505 --> 00:40:00,334 There he is. 574 00:40:00,438 --> 00:40:01,922 Hello, little friend. 575 00:40:07,100 --> 00:40:08,964 What do you think you're doing, little dude? 576 00:40:15,867 --> 00:40:17,421 1 have so many things to do, 577 00:40:17,524 --> 00:40:20,389 but instead, I'm playing with the short-tailed weasel. 578 00:40:23,012 --> 00:40:24,980 Really, 1 should probably just scare him outta here 579 00:40:25,083 --> 00:40:26,222 so he stops coming in, 580 00:40:26,326 --> 00:40:29,743 but it's kinda nice to have a little friend. 581 00:40:29,847 --> 00:40:31,296 That's the problem. 582 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,851 The animals that are gonna, like, take my food-- 583 00:40:33,954 --> 00:40:36,129 1 kinda like 'em, so... 584 00:40:36,232 --> 00:40:38,096 I'm not really motivated to kill them. 585 00:40:44,551 --> 00:40:48,141 There--geez--they go. 586 00:40:48,244 --> 00:40:50,384 You gonna come back, or was that it? 587 00:40:57,771 --> 00:40:59,980 All right, trap line, here I come. 588 00:41:01,948 --> 00:41:04,778 Keeps getting colder around here. 589 00:41:04,882 --> 00:41:07,091 And it is windy. 590 00:41:08,886 --> 00:41:11,233 It's drier. The snow's drier. 591 00:41:11,336 --> 00:41:14,581 So Arctic winter, here we come, 592 00:41:14,685 --> 00:41:17,377 Now the adventure really begins, right? 593 00:41:19,862 --> 00:41:21,243 I'm burning tons of calories 594 00:41:21,346 --> 00:41:23,383 because this place is beautiful 595 00:41:23,487 --> 00:41:25,627 and I'm just hiking all over it. 596 00:41:25,730 --> 00:41:29,354 So 1 need to be focusing any calorie expenditure 597 00:41:29,458 --> 00:41:31,978 towards food procurement. 598 00:41:32,081 --> 00:41:33,151 Oh. 599 00:41:35,671 --> 00:41:38,467 1 caught a rabbit. 600 00:41:38,571 --> 00:41:41,297 Poor little guy's frozen solid, 601 00:41:41,401 --> 00:41:44,887 but we have a sweet little-- 602 00:41:44,991 --> 00:41:47,372 a sweet little bunny. 603 00:41:47,476 --> 00:41:50,824 So that makes me very happy. 604 00:41:50,928 --> 00:41:54,690 Oh, my heart is seriously overflowing 605 00:41:54,794 --> 00:41:57,106 with joy and gratitude. 606 00:41:57,210 --> 00:41:59,281 Just yesterday, 1 was all worried, 607 00:41:59,384 --> 00:42:01,939 you know, that I was losing so much weight 608 00:42:02,042 --> 00:42:04,010 and not getting enough food, 609 00:42:04,113 --> 00:42:07,669 and then 1 get blessed up with a rabbit. 610 00:42:13,813 --> 00:42:15,642 Oh. 611 00:42:15,746 --> 00:42:18,024 Another rabbit. 612 00:42:18,127 --> 00:42:19,991 It's a two-rabbit day. 613 00:42:23,167 --> 00:42:24,962 You're too big to see. 614 00:42:31,002 --> 00:42:32,590 White as the snow. 615 00:42:32,694 --> 00:42:34,903 Sweet, sweet little guy. 616 00:42:37,837 --> 00:42:39,735 All right, let's keep going on. 617 00:42:44,947 --> 00:42:46,811 Oh, my gosh. 618 00:42:46,915 --> 00:42:48,433 There's another rabbit. 619 00:42:48,537 --> 00:42:49,814 Three rabbits! 620 00:42:49,918 --> 00:42:51,989 Oh, my gosh. 621 00:43:02,344 --> 00:43:04,795 Are you kidding me? 622 00:43:04,898 --> 00:43:06,279 Four. 623 00:43:06,382 --> 00:43:07,867 What? 624 00:43:07,970 --> 00:43:10,559 What? 625 00:43:10,663 --> 00:43:14,736 What did 1 do to deserve this good fortune? 626 00:43:17,946 --> 00:43:19,085 Oh, my gosh. 627 00:43:19,188 --> 00:43:20,673 Look at this abundance. 628 00:43:23,330 --> 00:43:27,645 We're going back to camp with four rabbits! 629 00:43:27,749 --> 00:43:29,405 Look at this! 630 00:43:29,509 --> 00:43:31,407 Can you believe this? 631 00:43:36,136 --> 00:43:39,174 These rabbits gave their life for me, 632 00:43:39,277 --> 00:43:42,211 and it's powerful to know 633 00:43:42,315 --> 00:43:43,868 it takes a death 634 00:43:43,972 --> 00:43:46,699 for me to have energy for the day. 635 00:43:46,802 --> 00:43:50,185 That makes me appreciate that I have life, 636 00:43:50,288 --> 00:43:52,290 that I'm alive. 637 00:43:52,394 --> 00:43:54,534 1 wanna be connected to my food, 638 00:43:54,638 --> 00:43:58,193 and out here, 1 get to be. 639 00:43:58,296 --> 00:44:01,196 Thank you, Great Slave Lake! 640 00:44:01,299 --> 00:44:03,336 Thank you, Arctic. 641 00:44:03,439 --> 00:44:04,855 Thank you for feeding me. 642 00:44:04,958 --> 00:44:08,030 Thank you for teaching me. 643 00:44:08,134 --> 00:44:11,896 This place is raw and wild, 644 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:13,967 and I'm becoming a part of it. 645 00:45:01,808 --> 00:45:03,672 My thoughts have been with the Hadza 646 00:45:03,776 --> 00:45:06,123 for all they've taught me. 647 00:45:06,226 --> 00:45:09,367 I felt compelled to thank the land in Swahili. 648 00:45:23,209 --> 00:45:24,693 Last night was pretty miserable, 649 00:45:24,797 --> 00:45:27,109 I'm not gonna lie. 650 00:45:27,213 --> 00:45:29,767 Just could not sleep. 651 00:45:32,011 --> 00:45:34,220 I just--it's getting worse and worse. 652 00:45:38,638 --> 00:45:42,884 My legs will collapse from underneath me. 653 00:45:42,987 --> 00:45:45,438 When I lose balance, 654 00:45:45,541 --> 00:45:48,372 my mind will tell my leg to move out to stabilize myself 655 00:45:48,475 --> 00:45:49,718 and my leg just won't do it. 656 00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:54,274 And the bottom line is that 657 00:45:54,378 --> 00:45:56,242 1 just don't trust my body anymore. 658 00:45:58,727 --> 00:46:02,144 And after half of my fish has been eaten 659 00:46:02,248 --> 00:46:04,181 by Mr. Wolverine, 660 00:46:04,284 --> 00:46:06,528 1 don't have the energy 661 00:46:06,631 --> 00:46:09,945 to go and get back on track with food again. 662 00:46:10,049 --> 00:46:13,915 1 am now risking my safety a little bit. 663 00:46:21,336 --> 00:46:25,064 1 promised my wife, made her a promise. 664 00:46:25,167 --> 00:46:29,033 The deal is that if my body gets to the point... 665 00:46:31,518 --> 00:46:33,797 Where 1 can't be safe, 666 00:46:33,900 --> 00:46:36,040 that 1 would call it. 667 00:46:36,144 --> 00:46:38,180 And 1 have to keep that promise to her. 668 00:46:40,873 --> 00:46:44,221 What's so important to me is that 1 choose 10 go. 669 00:46:52,850 --> 00:46:55,059 Hi. This is Joel here. 670 00:46:55,819 --> 00:46:58,028 1 am officially tapping out. 671 00:47:05,311 --> 00:47:06,726 Disappointed in my body. 672 00:47:06,830 --> 00:47:09,694 1 can't help it Tm just disappointed. 673 00:47:09,798 --> 00:47:12,076 I just would've loved to have gone home 674 00:47:12,180 --> 00:47:13,595 with that money, you know? 675 00:47:13,698 --> 00:47:16,184 But that's not gonna happen. 676 00:47:30,474 --> 00:47:32,510 It's come to that time. 677 00:47:35,237 --> 00:47:38,033 My mind is so rock solid. 678 00:47:38,137 --> 00:47:40,691 So alive out here in this place. 679 00:47:40,794 --> 00:47:44,143 I could go for so much longer. 680 00:47:44,246 --> 00:47:45,385 It's just my body's not giving me 681 00:47:45,489 --> 00:47:47,974 what I need anymore. 682 00:47:48,078 --> 00:47:52,013 And I don't wanna go home in a-- 683 00:47:52,116 --> 00:47:55,050 don't wanna go home in a heap. 684 00:47:55,154 --> 00:47:56,224 It's time. 685 00:47:56,327 --> 00:47:59,572 1 have to go. 686 00:48:03,887 --> 00:48:07,442 I am very conflicted about leaving the Arctic. 687 00:48:07,545 --> 00:48:10,514 1 feel like 1 was forced to. 688 00:48:10,617 --> 00:48:13,586 I feel like I've let my wife down a bit. 689 00:48:13,689 --> 00:48:15,899 She sacrificed a lot 690 00:48:16,002 --> 00:48:17,797 for me to be away for this long, 691 00:48:17,901 --> 00:48:20,593 and I just would've loved to have gone home 692 00:48:20,696 --> 00:48:23,492 with that money to reward her. 693 00:48:23,596 --> 00:48:26,840 I'm not certain how I'm gonna move on from here, 694 00:48:26,944 --> 00:48:28,463 but 1 do know one thing: 695 00:48:28,566 --> 00:48:31,017 it's experiences like this 696 00:48:31,121 --> 00:48:34,158 that really make you realize what's important in life. 697 00:48:34,262 --> 00:48:37,230 The real blessing is my family. 698 00:48:37,334 --> 00:48:39,819 That is the most important thing to me in my life 699 00:48:39,923 --> 00:48:41,441 above everything else. 700 00:49:04,533 --> 00:49:06,397 - I get to look at Max today. 701 00:49:07,951 --> 00:49:09,435 I like showing him off. 702 00:49:13,922 --> 00:49:15,786 Look at that baby. 703 00:49:15,889 --> 00:49:17,857 1 pull my picture of my son out every ten days, 704 00:49:17,961 --> 00:49:19,859 and 1 look at him, and 1 think about him. 705 00:49:19,963 --> 00:49:21,826 And I've done that to kinda make sure 706 00:49:21,930 --> 00:49:24,484 that my head's in the right place, you know. 707 00:49:24,588 --> 00:49:26,314 1 make cute kids, 1 know. 708 00:49:26,417 --> 00:49:27,315 Crazy, huh? 709 00:49:33,838 --> 00:49:36,358 It's just not good weather to be outside. 710 00:49:36,462 --> 00:49:38,671 Maybe I'll start working on a horse for Max, 711 00:49:38,774 --> 00:49:40,880 a little toy horse, like a wooden horse. 712 00:49:42,986 --> 00:49:44,988 Never made a horse before. 713 00:49:48,301 --> 00:49:51,408 I've got a block to work with. 714 00:49:51,511 --> 00:49:54,135 Might help if 1 draw it out and then cut it out. 715 00:49:56,102 --> 00:49:57,586 Horses are a passion of mine 716 00:49:57,690 --> 00:50:00,210 and something that 1 strive to get one day, 717 00:50:00,313 --> 00:50:01,452 and 1 really hope 718 00:50:01,556 --> 00:50:03,834 that Max gets to grow up with horses. 719 00:50:03,937 --> 00:50:06,768 Horses and animals and a small little farm-- 720 00:50:06,871 --> 00:50:09,081 that's something I'm trying to do for Max. 721 00:50:09,184 --> 00:50:10,565 I'll make it happen one day, bud. 722 00:50:12,498 --> 00:50:14,155 So here's the horse. 723 00:50:14,258 --> 00:50:15,880 I just took a board and burnt it in, 724 00:50:15,984 --> 00:50:19,091 and 1 cut it about that thick, split it. 725 00:50:19,194 --> 00:50:21,162 Damn good horse. 726 00:50:24,441 --> 00:50:25,545 If I won $1 million, 727 00:50:25,649 --> 00:50:27,340 I'd take it and I'd just buy a house 728 00:50:27,444 --> 00:50:28,824 in the country 729 00:50:28,928 --> 00:50:30,792 in order to have the type of house 730 00:50:30,895 --> 00:50:33,967 that Max can grow up with the same things that 1 had 731 00:50:34,071 --> 00:50:36,004 and to let him pick his path in life 732 00:50:36,108 --> 00:50:37,247 and what he wants to do. 733 00:50:37,350 --> 00:50:38,765 Hey, does he wanna work with animals? 734 00:50:38,869 --> 00:50:40,215 Does he wanna work in the city? 735 00:50:40,319 --> 00:50:41,354 Either way. 736 00:50:41,458 --> 00:50:42,804 But 1 wanna make sure 737 00:50:42,907 --> 00:50:45,841 that he at least has that childhood growing up. 738 00:50:45,945 --> 00:50:47,360 That's what I'm trying to do. 739 00:50:47,464 --> 00:50:50,329 I'm trying to give him a life that I think he'd love. 740 00:51:03,031 --> 00:51:04,929 It is not easy at all to be out here 741 00:51:05,033 --> 00:51:06,690 feeling that you're missing everything 742 00:51:06,793 --> 00:51:08,864 that your son's doing for the first time. 743 00:51:08,968 --> 00:51:11,281 I'll never be able to get that back. 744 00:51:11,384 --> 00:51:14,318 When I get back, I'll have to reintroduce myself. 745 00:51:14,422 --> 00:51:15,699 I'm gonna get there, he's gonna be like-- 746 00:51:15,802 --> 00:51:16,941 he's gonna look at his mom 747 00:51:17,045 --> 00:51:18,978 just like, who the heck is this? 748 00:51:19,082 --> 00:51:20,324 The whole point of this is to show him 749 00:51:20,428 --> 00:51:21,912 that quitting isn't always an option 750 00:51:22,015 --> 00:51:24,087 and to push through the hard times. 751 00:51:26,330 --> 00:51:29,920 Once we reattach this leg, 752 00:51:30,023 --> 00:51:31,956 it'll look something like that. 753 00:51:33,165 --> 00:51:34,752 That's better now. I'll fix it. 754 00:51:36,927 --> 00:51:38,584 Let's see. 755 00:51:47,869 --> 00:51:49,146 Ya! 756 00:51:49,250 --> 00:51:52,322 1 just lit my [bleep) shelter on fire. 757 00:51:52,425 --> 00:51:54,324 That's not good. 758 00:51:54,427 --> 00:51:55,532 Ah, we're gonna have to fix that 759 00:51:55,635 --> 00:51:57,499 real [bleep] quick! 760 00:51:57,603 --> 00:52:00,157 Oh, ! 761 00:52:00,261 --> 00:52:01,641 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 762 00:52:01,745 --> 00:52:04,299 [bleep] you. [bleep] you! 763 00:52:06,336 --> 00:52:07,544 Nope. Nope. 764 00:52:07,647 --> 00:52:10,098 This ain't happening. 765 00:52:10,202 --> 00:52:11,341 Oh, . 766 00:52:12,963 --> 00:52:14,689 Holy ! 767 00:52:21,834 --> 00:52:24,664 - Welcome to "Alone: Tales from the Arctic.” 768 00:52:24,768 --> 00:52:26,010 I'm Colby Donaldson 769 00:52:26,114 --> 00:52:30,325 here with Roland, Mark, Callie, Joel, and Kielyn, 770 00:52:30,429 --> 00:52:33,673 discussing everything they just went through. 771 00:52:33,777 --> 00:52:35,468 Before we get into Joel's tap-out 772 00:52:35,572 --> 00:52:37,505 and find out what he's doing now, 773 00:52:37,608 --> 00:52:39,265 let's talk about day 40. 774 00:52:39,369 --> 00:52:41,440 Now that winter has set in, 775 00:52:41,543 --> 00:52:44,270 a lot of you are seeing that those food resources 776 00:52:44,374 --> 00:52:45,547 are beginning to dry up. 777 00:52:45,651 --> 00:52:47,963 Joel, how much of a factor is that, 778 00:52:48,067 --> 00:52:51,622 in terms of just the resources and how they change 779 00:52:51,726 --> 00:52:52,934 as winter sets in? 780 00:52:53,037 --> 00:52:55,039 - They change pretty drastically, 781 00:52:55,143 --> 00:52:57,110 and it was almost like a light switch went off. 782 00:52:57,214 --> 00:53:00,700 I noticed a drastic increase in predators. 783 00:53:00,804 --> 00:53:03,462 Look at that--four, five toes. 784 00:53:03,565 --> 00:53:04,980 Part of the weasel family. 785 00:53:05,084 --> 00:53:07,776 We'll have to keep an eye out for him. 786 00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,193 To think of all this work and calories 787 00:53:10,296 --> 00:53:13,057 that I'm using to lose to a wolverine. 788 00:53:13,161 --> 00:53:15,267 Be devastating. 789 00:53:15,370 --> 00:53:17,510 Rabbits were blending in with the environment, 790 00:53:17,614 --> 00:53:19,892 so they were much more challenging to see and hunt, 791 00:53:19,995 --> 00:53:21,894 but the fish seemed to still be active for me, 792 00:53:21,997 --> 00:53:24,379 so that was always my go-to. 793 00:53:24,483 --> 00:53:28,245 Good old fish eggs. 794 00:53:28,349 --> 00:53:32,767 - Mark and Callie, you two have a similar thing going on 795 00:53:32,870 --> 00:53:35,287 in what Mark describes as karma. 796 00:53:35,390 --> 00:53:36,598 Okay, Callie, 797 00:53:36,702 --> 00:53:39,360 you let the weasel live to see another day, 798 00:53:39,463 --> 00:53:41,914 and Mark releases that fox 799 00:53:42,017 --> 00:53:43,364 that was in his snare. 800 00:53:43,467 --> 00:53:45,745 Do you feel like, Callie, 801 00:53:45,849 --> 00:53:48,714 you know, there is something in your actions 802 00:53:48,817 --> 00:53:51,026 when you're out there and how the world gives back? 803 00:53:51,130 --> 00:53:54,409 - 1 certainly believe that we reap what we sow, 804 00:53:54,513 --> 00:53:56,411 and any relationship I'm in, 805 00:53:56,515 --> 00:53:57,895 whether it's with a person 806 00:53:57,999 --> 00:53:59,656 or animals or the land, 807 00:53:59,759 --> 00:54:01,105 1 want it to be in balance, 808 00:54:01,209 --> 00:54:04,212 and I want to be giving as much as I'm receiving, 809 00:54:04,316 --> 00:54:07,284 and so 1 wasn't there just to take everything 1 could. 810 00:54:07,388 --> 00:54:09,666 1 wanted to also be a caretaker 811 00:54:09,769 --> 00:54:11,323 of that land as well. 812 00:54:11,426 --> 00:54:13,359 - Mark, do you agree with Callie 813 00:54:13,463 --> 00:54:16,845 that, you know, releasing that fox from your snare 814 00:54:16,949 --> 00:54:18,295 had a direct effect 815 00:54:18,399 --> 00:54:20,746 on you then later catching some fish that day? 816 00:54:20,849 --> 00:54:22,506 - Yeah, absolutely. 817 00:54:22,610 --> 00:54:24,715 What I thought was exactly what Callie described. 818 00:54:24,819 --> 00:54:26,165 Doing the right thing, 819 00:54:26,269 --> 00:54:27,891 and the right thing is gonna come back to you, 820 00:54:27,994 --> 00:54:30,273 and it was just absolutely evident there, 821 00:54:30,376 --> 00:54:32,033 so it was good. 822 00:54:32,136 --> 00:54:33,414 - One of my favorite parts of the episode 823 00:54:33,517 --> 00:54:36,658 was when we get the "Cribs"-style tour 824 00:54:36,762 --> 00:54:37,866 of your home there, 825 00:54:37,970 --> 00:54:40,869 and knowing how much you cared about 826 00:54:40,973 --> 00:54:42,837 and the pride you took in your shelter, 827 00:54:42,940 --> 00:54:45,426 it had to be a major blow when that thing caught fire. 828 00:54:45,529 --> 00:54:47,566 - Tell me about that. 829 00:54:47,669 --> 00:54:49,568 - Yeah, when that thing caught fire, it was game on, 830 00:54:49,671 --> 00:54:51,915 because I spent a long time and a lot of work 831 00:54:52,018 --> 00:54:53,606 and a lot of energy making that thing, 832 00:54:53,710 --> 00:54:55,228 50 right when 1 saw that roof on fire, 833 00:54:55,332 --> 00:54:57,023 it was time to take action. 834 00:54:57,127 --> 00:54:58,128 - Well, and the truth is, you know, 835 00:54:58,231 --> 00:54:59,509 the longer you guys are out there, 836 00:54:59,612 --> 00:55:02,408 your shelter basically becomes a big tinderbox. 837 00:55:02,512 --> 00:55:05,549 All the material you're using just continues to dry out. 838 00:55:06,447 --> 00:55:08,932 Roland, does that play a factor 839 00:55:09,035 --> 00:55:10,692 in determining what type of shelter 840 00:55:10,796 --> 00:55:13,592 and how you build your structure from the outset? 841 00:55:13,695 --> 00:55:15,248 - Yes, it does, Colby. 842 00:55:15,352 --> 00:55:18,182 It has a lot to do with living in the woods. 843 00:55:18,286 --> 00:55:20,840 Everything 1 do in camp, 844 00:55:20,944 --> 00:55:23,567 the way 1 move around camp and work in camp 845 00:55:23,671 --> 00:55:26,708 all reflect a healthy respect for fire. 846 00:55:26,812 --> 00:55:29,884 - Let's switch the conversation to big game for a bit. 847 00:55:29,987 --> 00:55:32,852 Roland, now that you have the musk ox, 848 00:55:32,956 --> 00:55:36,304 you must be feeling pretty positive at this point, right? 849 00:55:36,408 --> 00:55:38,927 - Oh, yeah, it was a high. 850 00:55:39,031 --> 00:55:42,103 It's probably the greatest Kill of my whole life. 851 00:55:42,206 --> 00:55:44,450 Oh, Lordy! 852 00:55:44,554 --> 00:55:46,176 Lordy Lord! 853 00:55:46,279 --> 00:55:48,212 Mwah! 854 00:55:48,316 --> 00:55:50,249 - Let's talk about that brain for a second. 855 00:55:50,353 --> 00:55:53,148 For anyone who hasn't brain-tanned an animal, 856 00:55:53,252 --> 00:55:55,323 how important is it to have that resource? 857 00:55:55,427 --> 00:55:57,601 - Stuff you can do with brains is real important 858 00:55:57,705 --> 00:56:00,121 in long-term survival, 859 00:56:00,224 --> 00:56:02,365 and 100 days is long-term. 860 00:56:02,468 --> 00:56:03,642 1 mean, its a good asset. 861 00:56:03,745 --> 00:56:06,645 - And, Kielyn, speaking of big game, 862 00:56:06,748 --> 00:56:10,649 we've now missed two opportunities with moose. 863 00:56:10,752 --> 00:56:12,271 How frustrating is that for you? 864 00:56:12,375 --> 00:56:15,032 - It's frustrating, but it's also a part of it. 865 00:56:15,136 --> 00:56:17,483 You know, 1 came into this whole experience 866 00:56:17,587 --> 00:56:20,624 knowing that 1 was not a big game hunter. 867 00:56:20,728 --> 00:56:22,108 Just practicing. 868 00:56:22,212 --> 00:56:27,079 But that 1 was willing to take as many opportunities 869 00:56:27,182 --> 00:56:29,737 and use strategies to get big game. 870 00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:32,084 You know, I've been calling moose since day one. 871 00:56:33,396 --> 00:56:36,088 So it's not just happening upon these moose. 872 00:56:36,191 --> 00:56:39,678 You know, I've been working towards those encounters 873 00:56:39,781 --> 00:56:43,578 and the timing so far hasn't lined up for me yet. 874 00:56:43,682 --> 00:56:44,579 - Yeah. 875 00:56:44,683 --> 00:56:45,580 Callie, where do you stand 876 00:56:45,684 --> 00:56:47,548 on the need for big game 877 00:56:47,651 --> 00:56:50,171 in this entire experience and process? 878 00:56:50,274 --> 00:56:52,449 - Yeah, 1 mean, 1 was hoping for big game, 879 00:56:52,553 --> 00:56:55,452 I think, like everybody, because it's huge security 880 00:56:55,556 --> 00:56:57,385 to have that much food laid in, 881 00:56:57,489 --> 00:57:00,423 and there's endless resources on a big game animal, 882 00:57:00,526 --> 00:57:02,045 but you know, big game does come 883 00:57:02,148 --> 00:57:03,564 with a mixed blessing, though. 884 00:57:03,667 --> 00:57:06,429 If I got a big game animal, then at that point, 885 00:57:06,532 --> 00:57:09,155 all of my energy would be going towards protecting it, 886 00:57:09,259 --> 00:57:15,714 so it's definitely, you know, a mixed bag. 887 00:57:15,817 --> 00:57:18,682 I'm here with Roland, Mark, Callie, Joel, and Kielyn. 888 00:57:18,786 --> 00:57:22,065 Joel, expand on the comment you made in this episode, 889 00:57:22,168 --> 00:57:25,655 when you said everything in the Arctic wants your food. 890 00:57:25,758 --> 00:57:26,759 - It really humbles you. 891 00:57:26,863 --> 00:57:29,037 When you're out in the environment 892 00:57:29,141 --> 00:57:32,903 where you feel like you're a little out of your depth 893 00:57:33,007 --> 00:57:35,458 and you know, these animals, these wolverines 894 00:57:35,561 --> 00:57:37,736 thrive in this type of environment, 895 00:57:39,082 --> 00:57:40,290 All that effort 896 00:57:40,393 --> 00:57:44,639 that 1 put into building an elevated structure, 897 00:57:44,743 --> 00:57:46,538 not even an issue for him. 898 00:57:46,641 --> 00:57:48,919 Man, what a tough place to keep food 899 00:57:49,023 --> 00:57:51,991 on the outside. 900 00:57:52,095 --> 00:57:54,028 1 really was in their territory, 901 00:57:54,131 --> 00:57:55,754 and they knew exactly what they were doing, 902 00:57:55,857 --> 00:57:57,894 where I was learning a lot as I was going. 903 00:57:57,997 --> 00:58:01,449 - Well, and you knew there was a wolverine in the area 904 00:58:01,553 --> 00:58:03,762 even before he got into your food cache. 905 00:58:03,865 --> 00:58:05,936 1 mean, you even made an alarm for him. 906 00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:08,629 Here is some never-before-seen footage 907 00:58:08,732 --> 00:58:10,700 of you doing just that. Let's take a look. 908 00:58:12,736 --> 00:58:15,394 - So this is a musk ox carcass, 909 00:58:15,498 --> 00:58:20,917 and 1 spooked a wolverine eating on it today, 910 00:58:21,020 --> 00:58:22,712 and 1 couldn't get that on camera. 911 00:58:22,815 --> 00:58:24,265 But this is a fresh kill, 912 00:58:24,368 --> 00:58:27,199 and it's not very far from my shelter, 913 00:58:27,302 --> 00:58:29,822 and I'm kind of hoping to use that to my advantage, 914 00:58:29,926 --> 00:58:32,584 because I'd hunt the wolverine for meat. 915 00:58:32,687 --> 00:58:34,068 1 think he's gonna come back 916 00:58:34,171 --> 00:58:36,622 and try and get the marrow out of these rib bones. 917 00:58:39,452 --> 00:58:44,009 I'm gonna take all these bones... 918 00:58:45,700 --> 00:58:47,219 Kind of put them in a pile... 919 00:58:49,566 --> 00:58:53,052 And then I'm gonna use the two tin cans that I found today, 920 00:58:53,156 --> 00:58:55,641 put a couple pebbles inside, 921 00:58:55,745 --> 00:58:57,747 and I'm gonna put this on top of the carcass. 922 00:58:57,850 --> 00:58:59,438 I'm hoping that that'll alert me, 923 00:58:59,542 --> 00:59:02,786 and 1 can come out and take a shot. 924 00:59:05,893 --> 00:59:08,654 1 think he's gonna come back. 1 really do. 925 00:59:08,758 --> 00:59:10,104 - All right, Joel, 926 00:59:10,207 --> 00:59:12,693 did the wolverine ever trigger your alarm? 927 00:59:12,796 --> 00:59:15,834 - No. No, the wolverine never triggered the alarm. 928 00:59:15,937 --> 00:59:19,700 1 figured that he might have been scared off of the area 929 00:59:19,803 --> 00:59:22,357 and wouldn't come back, but man, was 1 wrong. 930 00:59:22,461 --> 00:59:23,773 - Yeah. 931 00:59:23,876 --> 00:59:26,154 Roland, you took a totally different approach 932 00:59:26,258 --> 00:59:27,915 to the food cache. 933 00:59:28,018 --> 00:59:31,021 Where did you come up with the design idea for the meat crib? 934 00:59:31,125 --> 00:59:33,748 - Well, that's just engineered out of my own head. 935 00:59:33,852 --> 00:59:37,200 It had to be something nothing could penetrate. 936 00:59:37,303 --> 00:59:39,202 It had to be bulletproof. 937 00:59:39,305 --> 00:59:42,585 The platform thing 1 knew would give me problems. 938 00:59:42,688 --> 00:59:44,345 - Well, I've got to say, 939 00:59:44,448 --> 00:59:47,866 that is indicative of Roland's experience 940 00:59:47,969 --> 00:59:49,419 in the northern bush, 941 00:59:49,522 --> 00:59:52,905 and it is my lack of experience with wolverine. 942 00:59:53,009 --> 00:59:55,390 1 honestly underestimated the animal, and... 943 00:59:55,494 --> 00:59:56,391 Hey! 944 00:59:56,495 --> 00:59:57,876 Yeah, it was a failure, 945 00:59:57,979 --> 00:59:59,636 and I definitely learned from it. 946 00:59:59,740 --> 01:00:01,845 - Well, and at this point, you know, 947 01:00:01,949 --> 01:00:04,468 all of you are ruminating on family. 948 01:00:04,572 --> 01:00:07,368 How strong is that pull back home? 949 01:00:07,471 --> 01:00:08,749 Mark, I'll start with you. 950 01:00:08,852 --> 01:00:09,888 - So when it comes to survival, 951 01:00:09,991 --> 01:00:11,786 you want food, water, shelter, fire. 952 01:00:11,890 --> 01:00:13,892 You could care less about family, 953 01:00:13,995 --> 01:00:14,893 especially in the beginning. 954 01:00:14,996 --> 01:00:17,343 What's going through my head? 955 01:00:17,447 --> 01:00:20,346 Work, work, work, work, work. 956 01:00:20,450 --> 01:00:21,554 That's what's going through my head. 957 01:00:21,658 --> 01:00:24,419 But the longer you're out there, 958 01:00:24,523 --> 01:00:27,250 the more you miss what you already have, 959 01:00:27,353 --> 01:00:28,492 which is those relationships, 960 01:00:28,596 --> 01:00:30,046 and talking to stuff like that. 961 01:00:30,149 --> 01:00:32,462 - And what viewers don't realize, 962 01:00:32,565 --> 01:00:33,566 if they've never done something like this, 963 01:00:33,670 --> 01:00:35,292 is that one day 964 01:00:35,396 --> 01:00:37,087 feels like the longest day 965 01:00:37,191 --> 01:00:38,917 you've ever experienced in your life, 966 01:00:39,020 --> 01:00:41,816 but it does give you so much time 967 01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:44,198 to dwell on things that are important 968 01:00:44,301 --> 01:00:45,509 to you in your life. 969 01:00:45,613 --> 01:00:47,201 - Well, and continuing on with that, Joel, 970 01:00:47,304 --> 01:00:48,720 in terms of introspection, 971 01:00:48,823 --> 01:00:50,894 a million dollars is a lot of money. 972 01:00:50,998 --> 01:00:54,173 But at some point in this experience, 973 01:00:54,277 --> 01:00:56,486 does it become maybe less important 974 01:00:56,589 --> 01:00:58,488 than it was when you first arrived out there? 975 01:00:58,591 --> 01:00:59,800 - Yes. 976 01:00:59,903 --> 01:01:03,148 I did have a lot of introspection out there 977 01:01:03,251 --> 01:01:06,289 and realized I have it so good. 978 01:01:06,392 --> 01:01:08,705 I have health. I have a family that loves me. 979 01:01:08,809 --> 01:01:10,949 The money would have just been the cherry on top, 980 01:01:11,052 --> 01:01:14,124 but 1 knew that either way, when 1 go home, 981 01:01:14,228 --> 01:01:15,574 1 need 10 count all my blessings, 982 01:01:15,678 --> 01:01:17,300 because 1 am rich in every way. 983 01:01:17,403 --> 01:01:20,752 - Joel, tell us about that process of transitioning back 984 01:01:20,855 --> 01:01:22,892 after 40 days of being out there. 985 01:01:22,995 --> 01:01:25,170 - Oh, that process is absolutely miserable. 986 01:01:25,273 --> 01:01:26,758 When you're out there, 987 01:01:26,861 --> 01:01:30,623 you tap into a total different level of consciousness, 988 01:01:30,727 --> 01:01:33,488 where you feel so alive 989 01:01:33,592 --> 01:01:35,111 in a way that you've never felt before, 990 01:01:35,214 --> 01:01:37,251 and when you get put back into this environment, 991 01:01:37,354 --> 01:01:38,735 you feel so overstimulated. 992 01:01:38,839 --> 01:01:41,911 All you want to do is just clutch onto that feeling 993 01:01:42,014 --> 01:01:43,153 that you had out there, 994 01:01:43,257 --> 01:01:44,672 and everything in the modern world 995 01:01:44,776 --> 01:01:47,571 is just slowly trying to suck it back out of you. 996 01:01:47,675 --> 01:01:49,090 That, 1 deal with every day, 997 01:01:49,194 --> 01:01:51,955 you know, and I'll probably deal with it for a long time. 998 01:01:52,059 --> 01:01:53,543 It's a constant battle. 999 01:01:53,646 --> 01:01:55,165 - Looking back on this experience, 1000 01:01:55,269 --> 01:01:57,754 any regrets or anything you might have done differently? 1001 01:01:57,858 --> 01:01:59,791 - I wish I had just laid down 1002 01:01:59,894 --> 01:02:01,240 and just waited it out 1003 01:02:01,344 --> 01:02:03,864 and maybe pushed out another ten days. 1004 01:02:03,967 --> 01:02:05,900 - Kielyn, what did you think, watching this show, 1005 01:02:06,004 --> 01:02:07,143 when you saw Joel tap out? 1006 01:02:07,246 --> 01:02:08,454 - 1 felt for him, 1007 01:02:08,558 --> 01:02:10,974 because it could have happened to any of us, 1008 01:02:11,078 --> 01:02:13,218 and you are out there, and you are doing it, 1009 01:02:13,321 --> 01:02:14,909 and you made the best decision. 1010 01:02:15,013 --> 01:02:17,360 1 think you should be really proud of yourself. 1011 01:02:17,463 --> 01:02:19,362 - Thanks, Ki. That means a lot. 1012 01:02:19,465 --> 01:02:22,606 - Well, that is it for "Alone: Tales from the Arctic." 1013 01:02:22,710 --> 01:02:26,956 I'd like to thank Roland, Mark, Callie, Joel, and Kielyn. 1014 01:02:27,059 --> 01:02:29,441 We'll be speaking with the participants all season long 1015 01:02:29,544 --> 01:02:30,787 after each episode, 1016 01:02:30,891 --> 01:02:32,789 so make sure you stay tuned in for that. 1017 01:02:32,893 --> 01:02:34,584 Until then, and as promised, 1018 01:02:34,687 --> 01:02:37,380 here's a sneak peek at next week's episode 1019 01:02:37,483 --> 01:02:39,416 of "Alone: Million Dollar Challenge." 1020 01:02:40,797 --> 01:02:43,835 - 1 really want to track this porcupine, 1021 01:02:43,938 --> 01:02:45,491 but we got a wolf. 1022 01:02:45,595 --> 01:02:48,046 There's a lot of competition for food. 1023 01:02:48,149 --> 01:02:49,702 - The fox. 1024 01:02:49,806 --> 01:02:51,774 It's not afraid of me. 1025 01:02:51,877 --> 01:02:53,534 Go away! Go away! 1026 01:02:53,637 --> 01:02:54,604 - Uh-oh. 1027 01:02:54,707 --> 01:02:57,296 Huge prints. Lynx. 1028 01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:58,297 Damn! 1029 01:03:00,265 --> 01:03:01,542 He found my cache. 1030 01:03:03,371 --> 01:03:04,717 - Did 1 just hear a wolf?