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On Bear Grylls, welcome to Fiji and
this year's Eco Challenge Adventure Race,

the world's toughest race.

Below me in every direction
is some of the toughest,

most rugged, most dangerous
terrain in all the world.

Steep mountains, sheer
cliffs, treacherous rivers

and miles and miles
of dense tropical jungle.

Eco Challenge was a
yearly event that spawned

the worldwide adventure
racing phenomenon.

And now it has returned.

Bigger and more
punishing than ever before.

Sixty-six teams from thirty
different countries have

descended on Fiji to
compete in this iconic race.

This unique sport allows all
experience levels on the same course.

From elite teams racing for the podium...
For us, it's to make sure that we win.

...to courageous rookies...

You have to finish this.

Like, have to.

...whose goal is simply to
complete this grueling expedition.

I have no clue
what to be afraid of.

I'm about to find out.

Teams will travel 671 kilometers
over the next eleven days.

Each day will present a new array of
relentless challenges, designed to break

them down physically,
mentally and physically.

Oh, my God.

That was so hard.

And emotionally.

Emma.

How long is this?

They'll endure some of the most extreme
conditions they've ever encountered.

Along the way, they will pass
through 31 checkpoints... Yes!

...and locate five
hidden medallions.

I am so puzzled right now.

This is an expedition
with a stopwatch.

Yeah, here we go.

And the clock is always ticking.

I'm coming!

If they sleep, they lose time.

If they get lost, make
mistakes... We're lost!

...fall behind and miss the cut-off
time... Pedal throw, pedal throw!

...their race is over.

Mayday, mayday.

I don't mind.

I don't think I mind dying.

And they must do it all without
the help of modern technology.

Dan!

I need help!

Relying only on their wits,
their experience and each other.

But no matter what, all
of them are gonna suffer.

We've got a team down!

A team is down!

What year is it?

The mid-year.

This is the World's
Toughest Race.

I know this is the
World's Toughest Race.

I was at the last race
in Fiji and I tell you what,

that was the hardest thing
I'd ever done in my life.

The

World's Toughest
Race is about to begin.

671 kilometres of mountains,
jungles, rivers, ocean and swamp.

And it is brutal.

Remember the keys
to your success here.

Number one, you've
got to respect the wild.

Do not underestimate
the distances.

Number two, embrace the hurt.

You're gonna get blisters.

Blisters heal.

Get over it.

Number three, the World's Toughest
Race, we never leave a team member behind.

If one of your team gives up,
gets injured, the whole team is out.

Are you ready to do this?

Yeah!

We're gonna get you to the boat.

66 boats.

One for each team, awaiting
alongside this jungle river.

Each with a detailed map and
supplies for an epic expedition.

North, south, east, west.

I've never done adventure
racing before and I am so scared.

Two things I'm certain of.

Number one, not everybody
is gonna finish this course.

And number two,
some real heroes.

They're gonna emerge.

And they're probably
the unlikely ones.

These are the very cornerstones of what
makes great adventurers and great racers.

Continue paddling towards
checkpoint one at Leleuvia Island.

We have no idea what to expect.

Like, that is probably
my biggest fear.

There are just so many unknown elements
that it's really hard to plan for this.

Nathan is within five meters
of the anchor of the Blue Boy.

If we want to continue to be
a champion team, we need

to race like champions
from the start of this race.

It's finally time, huh?

This is it, guys.

Three!

Okay!

Hold on.

Five!

Two laps.

I'm fine.

I'm fine.

The nervous tension
here is insane.

Stop.

Stop.

The whole thing flips
there in the water.

Back, back, back, back.

Man overboard.

And literally within ten seconds
of that start, the first boat capsized,

flipped, has created a
massive backlog here.

Oh, hang on, hang on, hang on.

Look, here we go.

New Zealand's capsized.

That's the top adventure
racing team in the world.

And off to a shaky start.

We can't move.

Don't even hit it.

No plan survives first
contact with the enemy.

The enemy here is the
wild, the terrain, the river, and

each other, and also those
nerves that make you shaky.

The world's toughest
race is underway.

The world's toughest race stretches over
671 kilometers and is split into five legs.

Today, teams will tackle just a small
portion of the first leg, which consists

of this river paddle that
leads teams to the vast ocean.

Team New Zealand, has reached the world's
toughest expanse of the Pacific Ocean.

After 65 kilometers of crossing the open
ocean, they reach a remote jungle island

of Overlau, where they face a challenging
20-kilometer loop around an ancient

volcanic crater before
heading back to their boats for

more ocean navigation
through the darkness of night.

But right now, the biggest movers in the
race are the favorites, Team New Zealand.

After suffering a flipped canoe right
at the start, they're making a rapid

recovery, passing
through the slower teams.

Nice work, Stu.

Nice work, Nath.

Our race had a
bit of a funny start.

We quite promptly capsized our Kamakau
canoe, so, yeah, that was a little bit

embarrassing, but
these races are obviously

really long, and there's
so much that can happen.

Well, watch this.

Watch this here.

The advice I give to the rookie
teams is just to pace themselves.

I think it's very easy to
get lured into the fact that

it's a race and forget that
it's actually an expedition.

A lot of rookie teams, I think,
will just start too fast and won't look

after themselves, won't look
after each other, and things

just can sort of start to
spiral out of control after that.

Hop!

One more.

It's going to be a long
five hours sitting out here.

Just behind New Zealand is a newly
formed American team comprised of both

experienced and rookie racers
competing together with a unique purpose.

Great ride.

Yep, taking that
current with us.

Stay out of that right side.

Let's take this water
movement out with us.

Team Onyx represents the
color of the people on our team.

I started racing in 99.

As I raced on and off for about a 20-year
span, in the middle of that, I realized

that there was no one
else who looked like

me, and so I figured
that this was the time.

Fast waters to the right,
choppy waters to the left.

That's why I'm trying
to keep a straight line.

Fast waters into fast water.

We're the first
African-American team to

compete in an
ultra-endurance expedition race.

Regardless of what color, creed,
religion you're from, everyone has a

place, everyone has an
opportunity, and it's just

having the drive and
determination to want to do it.

There you go.

Pull back over to the
right just a little bit, Chris.

Stand in smooth
water right here.

Our team captain, Clifton, and his goal
was basically to put together a team of

just, you know, black
explorers and just

really try to diversify
the sport a little bit.

I also just kind of want to be a role
model for other children of color and,

you know, LGBTQ community and go out
and show them, like, hey, there are other

people like you out
there that are doing

events like this, and
that would be awesome.

Ah, we're in Fiji, boys!

You!

This!

Hey!

Having a party.

Hi!

Already 10 kilometers behind the leaders
and in last place is a mixed group of

military veterans and civilians,
all first-time adventure racers.

I'm Hal O'Reilly, and this is
my first year in adventure racing.

Here we go, guys!

We're doing it!

Yeah!

We're made up of two civilians
and two combat veterans.

Yeah.

Keith and Gretchen are both
veterans who were wounded in combat.

Yeah.

I'm Gretchen Evans.

I served in the military.

I've been in the
military for 27 years.

I was deployed to Afghanistan
from 2005 and 2006.

I was out visiting troops one
day, and rockets started coming in,

and they were coming in
really hard and really fast.

Around landed.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

When I woke up in Germany,
there was a young Army doctor

who was standing there,
and he had a dry race board.

But he flipped that over, and he
had written the words, um, you're deaf.

I'm thinking, am I
just deaf right now?

Am I going to get
my hearing back?

I took the board, and I
wrote the word forever.

And he nodded his head.

It was, that was awful for me.

It just went from being this highly
functioning soldier with a career to zero.

If I can take anything from
this injury and turn it into

good, then the injuries didn't
take anything away from me.

It's okay.

No regrets.

It's okay.

Whoa!

There are areas of our lives
where we are broken, but

that doesn't mean any of
us are functionally broken.

We are unbroken.

Bye, guys!

We'll see you later!

Wow, you suddenly
realize how small these

boats are when you see
them on the big ocean.

They just look tiny.

This ocean crossing
should not be taken lightly.

Any navigation error can result in
teams getting caught outside the reef and

potentially stranded in the
middle of dangerous open ocean.

And if they choose not to
use their sails, teams could

be paddling for up to 12
hours in the scorching sun.

And that's going to
put the slower teams at

risk of not making the
day three cutoff time.

Below those front runners,
wow, they're gunning it.

Veteran adventure racers Oregon
Bend Racing are out to an early lead.

It's going to be interesting to see if
they get their sails up, because really,

once they're into ocean, it's like
30 kilometers to the first checkpoint.

Despite their flip at the start, New
Zealand has already passed 60 teams,

and they're hunting down
Oregon's Bend Racing.

So that New Zealand team, the
head of that crew, a guy called

Nathan, he's like the Michael
Jordan of adventure racing.

If I was the other teams, I'd be looking
at these guys as the top, as the elite.

One of the main reasons I'm here is
because my teammates, who I've raced a lot

with in the last decade, have
never done an Eco Challenge.

So when it was announced that Eco
Challenge was coming back, I think it got

a lot of excitement around the place,
and certainly with my teammates.

So they were
keen, and here I am.

A successful team has many different
components, but one of the big things that

we have in our team for
success is having Sophie.

She is an incredible athlete, and
Sophie's also a doctor, which can be really

helpful, should we have
any problems out there.

I'm probably more nervous for this
race than I have been in a long time.

It wasn't that long ago that I was sitting
on the couch, breastfeeding all day long.

My son's eight and
a half months old.

I just don't know how
I'm going to go physically.

But it would be cool if other women were
inspired to get out there after having a

family, and, you know,
know that they can do it.

Team Ben Racing is now only
minutes ahead of New Zealand.

And this is where you've got
some decision-making to do.

Are you going to just use your muscle
power and keep paddling, or are you going

to get these sails up and
try and harness the power

of the wind, use nature,
conserve some energy?

These are their decisions, but
they're big decisions, because

what they decide now can
have huge implications later on.

Why aren't you
putting your sails up?

We're not putting the sails up
because it's not windy enough.

And we're obviously doing
okay paddling, because we're in

the front, so might as well
stick with this for a while.

Ben Racing has been
together for many, many years.

I joined the squad five years ago,
Steve and shortly after me, and Jason and

Dan have been together
racing for 15, 16 years.

We had been training
pretty hard on the outrigger.

Disappointed that there
wasn't really enough power.

There wasn't really enough wind
to make the sailing worthwhile.

But Dan Stodigal, he's
really the horse of the team.

He is extremely strong.

So we were cruising along
in the paddle and felt great.

Yeah!

Woo!

Racing, it provides a really
important piece of structure to my life.

It gives me something to lean on
when things are difficult in other places.

And so to me, I'm hoping that
we can, like, push pretty hard.

Trailing the leaders and
just reaching the sails up

point is a team of twin
sisters representing India.

I'm Tashi, and I'm the team
captain for Team Khukri Warriors.

In the team, I have
my twin sister, Nungshi.

We need less wind for the
landing because they're not...

Tash and I, we didn't
grow up thinking we'd

be mountaineers or
explorers or adventurers.

But once we got into
the field, we realised this

was a passion that was
waiting to be discovered.

And we never looked back.

Tash and I became the first
twins to climb Everest and the

first twins and siblings to
have done the seven summits.

Initially, when we got into
extreme mountaineering,

we realised there
were very few women.

You know, coming from India society
and people thought this was crazy.

It meant a lot for us in
terms of setting a trend in the

country for young women and
girls to kind of take up the sport.

And that kind of
became our mission.

That's the island.

So we wanted to prove,
really, that the girls in

India are strong and
they can achieve anything.

Keep going.

Keep going.

We're not saying
we're better than boys.

All we're saying is we
are as good as boys and

we can compete with
ourselves to get there.

Turn right, turn
right, turn right.

Our goal is to make it
to the finish line, for sure.

I thought I saw a stingray
or something on the left.

Wow.

Keep going.

One, two, three.

Hop!

After five hours in the relentless Fijian
sun, Bend Racing's aggressive paddling

strategy has paid off and they're the
first team to arrive at checkpoint one.

Over the vast expanse of the course,
there are 31 separate checkpoints where

teams must briefly stop, get their race
passport stamped, time and placement

recorded before moving on to
the next section of the course.

Feeling good?

Yeah, feeling great.

I mean, look,
you're smashing it.

It's good.

You know, hitting the first
checkpoint was a really high moment.

That was really amazing to finish
that short section in a great position.

It feels really good to go fast.

You'd think, be efficient, use the power
of the wind, but actually you were so fast.

Yeah, well, we've
been practicing.

Yeah.

Think we're checked out?

Paying off.

You know, these
guys are paddling.

You'd think, you know, use the power
of the wind, you know, are you burning

through your energy
when actually you've

got a natural release
source to do the work.

Yeah, the answer, I don't, we
don't know the answer to this yet.

You know, are they
burning it out too early?

Or can they keep it going?

I don't know.

12.20.

Did you even try the same?

No.

Really?

They haven't talked
about it that much.

And why, what did you think?

Just not enough wind.

Yeah.

Like, you might have
gone about the same speed.

Yeah.

But, yeah.

And do you not worry about, like,
conserving energy for that you saw?

We weren't too worried today.

We might regret it later.

You're amazing.

Keep going, guys.

Respect.

As the slower teams
filter through checkpoint

one, more teams have
been using sail power.

Good paneling, guys.

Team Endure, a father and son team with
a special bond, is far behind the leaders

and is conserving energy
for this long expedition race.

My team captain is Travis Macy,
who happens to be my captain.

And my son.

If you guys want a different cadence,
just start counting, Dennell or Shane.

We have Dennell, Ballengee,
and excuse me a second.

I don't know if you know this
or not, but I've got Alzheimer's.

And from time to time, I
can't remember things.

You know, particularly
people's names and so forth.

Okay.

So, you know, I hope
that's not a problem.

But I just thought I
ought to tell you about it.

My dad, Mace, began adventure
racing in the early days, 1995.

Throughout my teenage
years, you know, most

of my friends wanted
to be Michael Jordan.

And I was out there
riding my bike and

running in the woods,
pretending I'm my dad.

You guys, do you want to go?

As we started planning for
the world's toughest race,

the original plan was for
dad to race with stray dogs.

His original team, who had done all of
the previous eco-challenges together.

And for me to race with another
team that was potentially an elite team.

To, you know, maybe
making a run for a high-placing.

Here, dad.

Dad was diagnosed
with Alzheimer's.

And that's news that hits
anyone like a ton of bricks.

And it's been very
hard for all of us.

You got some more
on your face there.

A little bit.

Yeah.

We need one after dad.

Yeah.

As things progressed, we realized it
probably was not a very good fit for dad

to be out there with his
older teammates, who

may not be as well
prepared to support him.

And probably even more
so, it was just wanting

to be in it with him, to
do the race together.

We didn't dawdle.

Good job, you guys.

Keep it up.

To do this race with
my dad is a priceless...

once-in-a-lifetime experience.

And I am far more excited to go out here
and race with dad and go slow and try to

make it through than I would
be if I was racing for the podium.

Getting a little tough,
but we're still having fun.

So tell him either that.

You don't even give
that command right.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

That's the point.

All right, do as you like, then.

We're having our moments.

The two of us are
having our moments.

Sometimes it's surreal
to me what we do.

What me and my twin
have done together, because

we're best of friends
and worst of enemies.

Like, oh, like on the
thing, it's your fault.

Do this right and do that right.

It's like, give me a break, man.

I can make my own
decisions sometimes.

Even for the Eco Challenge, when
we were, like, deciding a team captain,

she automatically
became the team captain.

I don't know how that happened.

I wasn't happy.

I wish I was.

But, yeah, I can't believe
she's still the team captain.

It's hard to live with that.

I have to take a breather.

It's a twin thing.

She's like, nah, she'll
never do it again.

Never again.

But our fight only
lasts about five minutes,

and then we're
best of friends again.

Checkpoint one of the
world's toughest race.

Let me tell you.

We're giving
ourselves a high five.

Moving on to checkpoint
two, as fast as we can.

How's that speedo
working out for you?

Oh, the speedo's
working great for me.

I tend to think that I'm kind
of a shy person, yet when

you see me racing, I
definitely like to be noticed.

Wow, that sun
just really came out.

That sun, holy moly.

I brought a speedo for every day of this
challenge, because, I mean, what would not

make someone smile other
than, you know, just some random

black dude running around
in the woods in a speedo.

Yeah, here we go.

And I just make it happen.

Woo-hoo!

Are we in first place?

Ah!

When I crossed the finish line in Eco
Challenge 2002, the first two people that

I greeted were my daughters, and it was one
of the most defining moments of my life.

We're sailors.

Now, having the opportunity to
race with them as grown women is...

I've been looking
forward to this for so long.

Lauren.

What?

Why did you tie
this so aggressively?

I did.

That makes more sense.

We're freaking sailors.

I got into adventure racing from
watching my dad adventure race,

and somewhere along the
line, I kind of picked it up as well.

My family is very unique.

We're very goofy
with each other.

We're very close.

I think any team doing
this sport is really close,

but adding the family
dynamic is interesting.

OK, we're paddling.

We're paddling.

Everyone get a paddle.

After leaving Checkpoint 1, teams face
another 17 kilometres of ocean navigation

before they reach land
again at Checkpoint 2.

Here, they'll embark on a grueling journey
of a 20-kilometre island trek before

returning to their boats and heading out
to find the first medallion of the race.

So there are five different medallions
hidden throughout this course,

one for each leg of the journey.

So we're going now to where
the first medallion is hidden.

OK, here's the reef.

OK, into a hover, then
we're going to bring it down.

And one race of each team is
going to have to free dive down.

It's about 15 or 20 foot
to the ocean floor, and

then they've got to locate
this hidden medallion.

One medallion.

They're going to need a
big breath of air for this.

All you've got to remember
is some of the lead

teams are going to be
doing this in the dark.

It's going to be hard.

We're now over seven
hours into the race.

If this was an Ironman, they
would be nearing the finish line.

There we go.

But these teams still have to endure
over ten days of non-stop racing action.

Oregon's Bend Racing are hanging
on to first place, despite being chased

relentlessly by reigning
champions New Zealand.

Nice leg.

Bend Racing is the first team
to arrive at Overlau Island.

And checkpoint two, which
serves as the beginning

and the end of the
treacherous 20-kilometre loop.

This is an 11-day race.

We know a lot of
these racers, and we're

definitely capable of
being the top US team.

But the question is, how
do we stay in this emotional

state of believing that
we can keep going on?

Each one of us has a kid under a
year, and we know that the faster we go,

the faster we get home to
our kids and our families.

We will cross the finish line.

There's no doubt in my mind.

Unless somebody is completely broken
and they won't let us go on with three,

we will finish the race.

As Oregon's Bend Racing
hustles to prepare for the

jungle trek, Team New
Zealand is right on their heels.

The question is, how long will Bend
Racing be able to keep up this pace?

We've got to keep
this train going.

It's hot out here
without a breeze.

It's a little rough.

Keep moving.

So what do we need to do here?

Chris is going to
put our hats on.

I'm going to fill my bladder up.

Nath?

Cheers.

We're leaving.

Gotcha.

We are supposed to...

Oregon's Bend Racing wastes little time and
pushes forward to keep ahead of the Kiwis.

A little surprised,
a little psyched.

All the paddle training
has been paying off.

And we'd like somebody
to turn the heat down.

Expect a little
more wind out there.

All right.

We've got to jog you down, Stan.

You OK?

Nope.

Nope.

I might be able to
jog, but I'm not OK.

It is amazing just
looking down on this.

Dense jungle, steep ravines.

And what I'm going
to be interested in,

though, is who is in
these front runners now?

Because is it going to
be the ones that were

using muscle only
and not using the wind?

They were paddling.

They didn't put their sails up.

They went like rockets.

But are they still going
to be going like rockets?

And it's going to be amazing to see
what condition some of the leaders are in.

Sit down.

Don't put your head down.

OK.

I'm pulling out my water.

I don't think
we'll need to refill.

I'm going to do foot care
right across the stream.

You're there, little guy.

There is our engine
crossing the ocean.

And we might have
ran the engine a little

hot, so we're giving it
some time to cool off.

Being up at the top of the pack with all
the other teams coming up right behind us,

we just got excited about moving
and kept the forward progress.

And it just got too hot for Dan,
and he basically started to overheat.

It's a really tough pill to swallow when a
teammate, so basically the whole team,

kind of, goes downhill and
then you watch the teams pass

you and it's like, oh my
gosh, this is so demoralizing.

We've just got to
keep him moving.

It's going to be hard to
tow him up the mountain.

So, manifest
mountain climbing, Dan.

Positive energy
mountain climbing.

Hopefully if we can just get him into the
night and let his body temperature drop

some, then he'll bounce back
and be super strong again.

And a lot of it, too, is mental.

You know, once you get in a hole,
it's hard to let yourself climb out.

Because you feel so horrible.

You know, trying to race
competitively, it would be

great if we could just stop
until everybody felt better.

But that's not a way to
finish the Eco Challenge.

And we know that enough.

You know, that big of a
guy, when he goes down,

it takes all three of
us to nurse him along.

If I go down, you know, somebody, he
can put me on his shoulder and somebody

can carry my back and, like, they
can do whatever they want with me.

Dan takes a little more work.

But, you know, we're
willing to do it, so...

And he's willing to let us,
so that's the important thing.

OK.

Good job.

Thank you.

Anybody give up?

Lead teams are now
moving from Checkpoint 3 to

Checkpoint 4, the
summit of the island trek.

To find the next checkpoint, teams must
demonstrate not only expert navigation

skills, but also the
ability to endure the

extreme heat and humidity
of this remote island.

Having overtaken Oregon's Bend Racing
and claiming the lead for the first time in

the race, Team New Zealand have completely
rebounded from flipping their boat at the

start, challenging other
elite teams to keep pace.

We were actually quite happy.

If you can be racing
conservatively and be in the lead, I

think mentally it puts you in
a good head space as well.

It sounds crazy because our team has
won more races than any other team in the

history of the sport, but
that gets pushed aside,

and we just focus on the
process and on the basics.

Because we'll be going at a pace that is
good for us, and the reality is that that

pace is going to be too fast
for just about every other team.

Ten kilometres behind the
leaders in the middle of the pack

is a rookie team from America
with a unique racing pedigree.

I think we've done 126 Ironmans.

Yeah, buddy.

I'd like if you add all of ours.

Up.

We did something called the 50,
which is 50 Ironmans, 50 days, 50 states.

And everyone told
us it was impossible.

My name is James Lawrence,
otherwise known as the Iron Cowboy.

We're underdogs.

This race eats
Ironmans for breakfast.

But the Iron Cowboy?

That dude's a bad, bad man.

And he's here right now in
Fiji to take on the toughest race.

Sonja's been part
of my life since 2010.

I'd never heard of
adventure racing.

It was all foreign to me.

She wanted to do it.

And she said, who's the
craziest Ironman I know?

And it was this guy.

And I just thought, Iron
Cowboy, it's got to be.

If I'm going to put
together a team of Ironman

athletes, I'm going
to call the Cowboy.

Holy hell, we're
going to be there.

And I'm going to
give Bear Grylls a big

slobbery kiss when I
see him on the finish line.

As the sun begins to set on
day one, several more teams

arrive at checkpoint two
to begin their jungle trek.

You all good, Dad?

Yeah.

Where are we going?

You going to the water?

Yeah, we got a road
walk for a little bit.

I think for our team
specifically, we have

unknowns related to
Dad's cognitive function.

Feel heavy or does it feel okay?

Kind of sorry.

We're really going to
have to watch out for that.

We're going to sleep a lot more
than we've done previously in races.

We leaving?

Yep.

Here's Trav, right here.

You leaving?

No.

Here we go.

Here we go.

Got it.

17.46.

Thank you.

His visual-spatial awareness
has become impaired,

and that's truly going
to be a team effort.

We're confident that we can do
it, and that's why it's a team sport.

I'm a mountain guy.

I don't get into the water very
often, so... Yeah, pretty much.

As the full darkness of night sets in,
the pro teams are returning to their boats.

Good job, guys.

Lapping the rookie teams, who are
just now finishing the ocean paddling.

How's Gretchen doing?

Hanging in there.

Yeah.

Spirits are high?

Yes, sir.

Okay.

Indeed.

This location is checkpoint two for
teams arriving from the ocean, and it also

serves as checkpoint five for the
teams that are finishing the jungle trek.

Getting back out?

Yeah.

Stay safe.

Awesome.

It is one of the only
times in the race where

the team is able to
get out of the boat.

This is where rookie teams will cross
paths with the pro teams, getting a visual

on how fast these elite racers
are moving through the course.

I think it's amazing to
watch people do their

sport when they are
good at it, you know?

So, I mean, it is pretty
cool to watch that,

although I think we
held our own quite well.

Unfortunately for us at this time,
New Zealand, which is a great team,

is already well ahead, but, you
know, that's to be expected for them.

We're at checkpoint two.

We've got some
good time to get ready.

We're getting dry, getting
off the water, heading

to our jungle trek and
getting our race started.

You know, we're a ground team,
so we're looking forward to this part.

As the back of the pack heads out on their
jungle trek, the lead teams have pulled

away and are approaching
the first medallion.

The ocean medallion is located five metres
down on the darkness of the ocean floor.

Grab the line there
straight, if you can.

I'll show you what...

Approximately five
metres off the anchor of the

Blue Makaboi, between
the anchor and the island.

So, pretty much underneath us.

There's something down there.

Captain Nathan Fave volunteers to
do the night dive for the Kiwi team.

I can see some stuff over there
below the boat more or less.

Watch out, that stone.

I'm not quite sure
what I'm looking for.

Well, see, there's like... There's
some sort of stone or something below.

Oh, no, I see it.

It's on the boat.

Did you get it?

We've got to go to the shore.

Back on Overlau, Team Unbroken is one of
the last teams to reach checkpoint three.

But facing difficult night-time navigation
and terrain with a deaf team-mate,

the team must
weigh their options.

So, four is located
on the ridge below.

Option one.

At this right there, that we came
up, we could travel that way back.

Option B.

We could follow this trail and
then bushwhack our way through.

Uh, here's my read.

Okay.

My instinct at this
point in that we're tired

is we go back so we
follow a path that we know.

This was a hard day today.

Since we knew the route back to checkpoint
two, we decided it was in our best

interest not to get lost
in the jungle at night.

And also because my
lip reading capability

diminishes greatly if
I can't see your face.

So if it's dark out there,
even with the red lens

on their heads, I can't
always see their lips.

So we're almost reduced
to just hand signals.

Team Unbroken is making
a potentially costly decision.

Choosing to skip the shorter jungle
route to checkpoint four, opting instead to

double back to the start
of the trek and climb up

to checkpoint four from
the other side of the ridge.

This dramatically lengthens the
overall distance of the trek and puts their

chances of making the day
three cutoff in serious jeopardy.

We're fine with that now, but at some
point we're going to have to make up time.

We're going to have to take
the less safe route at some point.

We're going to have
to take some risks,

otherwise we're not
going to make it to the end.

I agree.

Decided to make a
command decision, I guess.

We have a team captain.

It's not a democracy.

I gave him my input.

We all gave him input.

At the end of the day,
that's his choice to make.

Personally, I think we
should have pushed through.

Once I'm in go mode,
it's hard to turn it off.

Yeah?

Yeah, we'll head back.

OK.

I'm trying to make a call as a captain
that we're tired and worn out and I think

we're going to get out
there and get turned around.

Let's do it.

We just hooked
it up a long road.

We're going to turn
around and hook it back.

Make it a good time.

Hope it works out.

Meanwhile, the other trailing teams are
continuing through the night, moving past

checkpoint three in
search of checkpoint four.

I don't know where you guys are
headed, but... There'll be a pro point.

Just keep on coming
wherever you go.

We climbed up.

There's the mountain now.

We're climbing uphill.

So we climbed here.

Go down.

Backtracking a little bit, but
generally heading in the right direction.

Keep grabbing the bamboo, Dad.

It is slippery.

You can hang on.

Probably a little bit further
up and maybe over here.

My only concern is that
I'm here in a river on the left.

And according to this, I should
be here in a river on the right.

We just got here.

Did you tell them it's hot
as balls on this island?

It's like a sauna.

I feel like I'm in hot yoga.

Now over 14 hours into the race,
early leaders Oregon's Bend Racing have

slowly moved down the leaderboard
and find themselves in 57th place.

Dan, you okay?

As they struggle to get Dan to the
peak of the island track... All right.

Dan's health is
rapidly declining.

He got really hot in the
boat and just couldn't recover.

And has been dealing with
temperature regulation and...

Dan!

You okay?

You know, Dan's a big
guy and he just bonked hard.

I'll take it then.

Nice work, buddy.

You did it.

You're here.

Just soak up the breeze.

Take breaths.

He was in a really
bad state of heat stroke.

His eyes changed color.

His voice changed.

His whole body was seizing up.

Is there water up here?

No, we have no water.

I have some water right here.

We have little sips.

You can take it all.

How far to the... to you?

Dude, it's going to take
us 10 hours in this place.

It's not worth it.

Like, we can't move
with you like this.

We just got to get you
better so that we can

actually get down
before we all turn into you.

We've all got to work
together as a team.

Grab your cap.

Hold it.

Caps are okay.

Doing whatever we can
to get him moving forward.

The entire race basically
hangs in the balance.