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I have no way to defend myself. I'm not sleeping here under a piece of canvas

with a bunch of wolves behind me. That was scary. That was enough for me.

Yes, I'm water.

So, built a boat out of a tarp and sticks. I hear some water running. Fresh

water, mountains, green.

Oh, yeah.

Hello, bear.

You stay on your side.

I got a big problem.

I lost my fair rod.

If that's the case, I have to keep this fire going indefinitely.

Rude. I don't know what to do.

This is going to be a bit... We have to film it, and we're totally alone.

Nobody knows what it's like here. There's 10 guys out here doing it. I'm

going to get sheltered. There's nobody here but me.

It's so hard doing this.

I'm scared to death right now.

I feel like I'm starving.

I'm ready to try to stop hoovering.

The last man standing wins $500,000.

I don't want to go home. I want to win.

It's the chance in a lifetime, but it's not worth dying over.

It's funny how time works here.

I don't think about clocks or the hour of day, but I look out at the ocean and

the tide now has become a clock.

So I'm starting to get into a rhythm. The first couple of days have been

challenging trying to find my groove out here and get in it and just fit into the

flow of nature.

We'll make the rounds here at the supermarket.

Let's see if we have seaweed.

The upper portion is the most palatable.

In my area where I live geographically, a lot of people come to me to learn

about plants and things like that.

Satisfying.

During my time here, being in an area that I'm totally unfamiliar with, I

don't know a thing about the plants, and I'm going to have to rely heavily on my

instincts about things and just observe and study and make decisions on what's

going on in that world.

Bullcrap.

Hmm.

Tastes slimy.

Yes, substantial.

Lucky for me, I'll eat about anything until you just get tired of it and say,

I want to go home.

Would you like green tea tropical or organic African nectar?

I'm going to go with the green.

Like I said, it's not a competition.

Against people, it's a competition against myself.

I think that's something that's common among everybody that goes to the woods.

That's why you go there.

It's our church. That's our temple.

That's where we get in touch with creation, creator, self.

And when you strip everything away, it gets pretty real.

This stuff is good, but...

They don't have anything on Nana's cookie.

So,

I

need to get some firewood, and I also want to build a cabin.

So I think it's time we do some serious work.

So let's drop the big tree.

Now I'm building the cabin.

I really want four walls around me that I can feel secure in.

If Big Bad Bear is going to come knocking on my door, I'm going to have a

few moments to be able to grab my axe, my spear, or whatever.

So close.

I found clay.

I scored.

It says right here.

There's a deposit of clay.

There's so much I can do with clay. I can make vessels. I can make... I can

chink in between a fireplace if I want to have an indoor fireplace, if I get

that far.

So I would be able to have a fire indoors with some stone and clay mix.

I'd be able to eat food in there and feel safe.

Plus, I'd just be able to dry out.

I think the real challenge is the psychology of being here, alone.

And if I can get four walls around me and a little fireplace, I know I can

last longer.

Woo!

Perfect.

Oh, my God.

That was a lot of work.

The first time I hauled logs out of the wood was with my pop.

We'd get firewood on weekends.

I was like eight years old.

And all I wanted to be doing was, like, watching Ninja Turtles.

I despised it.

Now I really like it.

But he did teach me how to move logs on my shoulder.

A couple times, a couple first times I did it, it was the most painful

experience. And then after a while, he's like, you know, there's a muscle on your

back that you can kind of balance stuff on.

And it isn't so bad as long as you have good footing.

And one day I found it and something clicked. I was like, oh, yeah.

Okay.

I just need to adjust it.

I got fire going, I got water boiled up, and that was great.

And I got some food in me.

And then after that, my plan was to start building my shelter. And I turned

around, and where I had set my fire steel on top of my jacket, I must have

grabbed my jacket without noticing my fire steel was there, and it went into

the sand or into the water, and the tide came up. And by the time I noticed, it

was completely gone. I searched for two hours for that fire steel, and it's just

not here.

It's just super wet.

Without a fire steel, what am I going to do?

I just can't believe I lost it.

I'm so frustrated with myself right now. It's such a stupid thing to happen.

There's a question fire here.

It's not even in the question.

It won't work.

All the wood is soaked.

So my options are stay here.

and drink water from the river without purifying or boiling it and risk getting

giardia or whatever else, I'll go home.

That said, I'm not going to have any fire to cook my food either.

I don't know what to do.

This is the worst.

I'd rather go home because I was missing my family or...

Anything else other than this, this is just stupidity.

I can't believe it.

I don't know what to do.

I don't want to go home, that's for sure.

It was a rough start for me.

Losing that fire still really got to me.

I don't know.

Maybe I'm just exhausted, but I just lost my will to be here.

I think I'm done.

I'm sorry to everybody I let down.

Sorry to my wife and my daughter and my friends and my mom.

I didn't realize what it was going to be like here.

It sucks.

I really didn't want to quit, but it's hard for me.

I think I hear my ride coming.

That's it, guys.

Sorry I couldn't last longer.

I've done such more than this. This is nothing.

Three days is nothing.

I guess I wasn't ready, you know?

That's it.

Obviously, if I can't even...

Keep track of me.

What am I doing over here?

Getting ready for this thing.

I constantly said I'll be fine as long as I'm not the first person to tap out.

And I'll guarantee you I am.

None of those other guys have tapped out yet.

Today's my first big shelter day, so I'm going to really get going on that

primary shelter.

And I'm excited. It's going to be a good day.

Okay, buddy.

Time to fall now, eh?

If you talk Canadian to it, it goes faster.

Hey, buddy.

Time to fall now.

This whole wilderness living skills.

bushcrafting. This is one of my main hobbies and career paths.

This is pretty awesome.

But in the back of my head, there's always just missing my wife and soon-to

-be child.

My wife is pregnant.

I made her pregnant. It's my fault.

The hardest part is not being able to talk to you.

No one's going to be laughing at you. Yeah, no one's going to be laughing at

me. The bugs aren't going to laugh for you.

It's a tough crowd, I hear you.

There's just a lot that I'm going to have to do by myself, but that's okay.

That's the big mental struggle that I should be doing more to provide for my

family and not just for myself.

The fact that I'm gone for a very significant part of home life is a big,

big deal.

I've been preparing myself mentally for this, but it's always hard.

Got the shelter looking okay, I think.

I'm just going to put up a quickie roof here. It's going to be kind of an A

-frame style.

It should shed the rain pretty well.

You can just tell we've got a huge front coming in.

So now is the time to prepare.

I think my biggest challenge will be mental.

But the animals, mountain lion, wolf, bears, cougar, I've always

been, you know, a little deterred about animals.

I've never had any problems with them, but that's going to be on my mind.

I've just been washed up right out in front of my camp.

What would you do with it?

I'm not starving right now, and I have no idea how it died.

So, I'm going to take it by the feet.

Look at it. I don't see any blood anywhere.

Well, birds can have parasites and disease.

I am not taking a chance of eating it, that's for sure.

Look at that.

It's a jellyfish.

So, I am whipping this.

over there behind those rocks because I don't want something coming along and

thinking it's a meal and right out in front of my campsite.

Actually, since I had him out of the water, he is actually starting to stink

a little bit.

I like being able to look across there and not see

bears.

Yeah.

That has me a little bit nervous. I got to admit.

I'm building a cabin.

I want to put time into making a really good structure because I know that out

here it's going to get cold.

it's nearing the end of the day and um i had this premonition

to check the clay source uh in the creek to see

how well it fires now the reason i was building the cabin was because on the

inside i could make a fireplace and with enough clay could fill in between the

stones and also make the wall fireproof you could add like a thick layer of clay

and it would never fire the logs

And I just did some preliminary testing on the clay. I made a few basically like

shapes and tossed them in the fire.

And it looks like it's inferior.

It's just not going to work.

Which basically means my cabin idea isn't going to work.

All these logs behind me, all that work.

I'm feeling pretty crushed right now.

Man, I worked so hard today.

I need a hug.

My mother was really concerned that coming out here I'd get crazy.

And I reassured her that that had already long since happened.

Nights here are long. That means more and more time sitting here in the dark.

$500,000 is a lot of money, but how much is the time away from your family worth?

Hey, Bear.

I'm just so discouraged right now because I can't find a place to put up

shelter.

Right now, it's not raining, but I believe it's supposed to rain for like

the next five days.

And this here was the time that would have gave me the opportunity to get a

shelter built these last two days.

And I haven't found a place to even build a shelter yet.

This is probably the crappiest shelter I've ever put up. It's just because I

don't have time. I could not find two trees that there wasn't, you know, a

bunch of stuff in the way. It's just... You can see here.

Here's the water.

There's my camp.

I'm about two feet up above that water line.

I'm kind of hoping it stops.

So...

Try to figure out something here.

The trees are huge.

Bushes, bushes, great big giant trees.

Everywhere. I don't even know where I would drop a tree in here.

I mean, yeah, look right here. I could make a shelter out of that. Sure I

could. I don't know how.

But... Look at the bear path right here.

Would you sleep on a bear path?

I, sir, as hell ain't going to.

And every damn thing in here is bear fat.

Yeah, look at this, guys.

Bear.

If this didn't have bears and cougars and, you know, the highest population in

North America, it might not bother me as bad.

I don't know.

I could start constructing something right here.

I would hear, you know, there's still bushes and stuff. If anything came

around, I would hear.

I guess.

Yep, this ought to be fun.

I'm out of my element.

There's no flat ground. It's all six inches of QE moss.

We can raise dead out of that.

It will keep me dry, keep me warm.

Won't keep me safe, but I don't think really much will out here.

I'll hear something scratching at the canvas or something does come along.

I got a lot of brush here. I like that.

You'll hear them coming to the brush.

And if it's a bear, kind of hoping I just have to say, hey, bear, and he'll

hear me and hear a human voice go away.

But I'm hoping.

I'm running out of daylight.

There's the sun.

And it's about to go behind that mountain. I have less

than a hand.

So that means that...

Less than an hour.

It's going to be dark here.

I don't know. That sun probably ruined that whole thing.

Been climbing around this island for a little while now.

Never ends.

There's a balsam fir in front of me.

It has these blisters.

See the humps?

They have resin in them.

And this resin is a good topical medicine.

I have all these little cuts and scrapes.

I'll try over it and seal it.

And the wounds won't be exposed anymore.

Spilling your guts on this camera plays hell with you.

It's volatile.

It brings you down so far.

And quite honestly, I don't know if I can bring it back up. I don't know.

You know, I thought maybe it's because I can't start a fire in this bush and this

moisture. But I think it might be something more than that. I don't know.

Maybe it's just, you know, missing home, missing my family.

I don't have any interaction whatsoever except for me and this camera.

And it's freaking me out. It's like I've never been alone like this.

Let's shut this off for a little while.

Been a pretty successful day.

Kind of getting into a groove.

Taking it day by day.

I went down this evening and ate more limpets and more seaweed. I'm going to

try to vary my diet a little bit.

I'm going to work on a cooking camp somewhere else, I guess.

And then I'll break out the net and the fishing gear and maybe even trap some.

Still missing home.

Still thinking about home a lot.

Hey, bear.

Hey, bear.

I'm sitting in here.

I was just charged by a bear.

I said, hey, bear.

And it just looked at me. I said, hey, bear.

And it just keeps on coming at me.

He just kept coming. He just kept coming.

I just backed away and backed into the woods.

I'm scared.

I don't know where he is. He could be into the woods circling behind me.

I don't know.

I'm just hoping he hears my voice and he won't come up here.

I don't know. He might come up here. He might.

I don't know.

All I can do is sit and wait.

I'm sitting in here.

I was just charged by a bear.

I don't know where he is. He could be into the woods circling behind me.

I don't know.

The big bear, too.

I just sent a distress call.

I hope it gets to them.

All I can do is sit and wait until I hear from them.

I'm scared.

My heart's still thumping.

Hello. I'm still here. I hear the bear back there somewhere.

He's out there somewhere. I don't know where.

I don't know if he's circling me or not.

I'm done, dude.

Yes,

yes, I'm tapping out.

Come get me.

Are you still there?

I hope they come.

So we've just hit the logging road out to Holberg, and we're going to dive off

that down to go and find Wayne.

Knowing that Wayne's in immediate danger, we have to go and search for him

now. There is no access by boat or plane. No one's willing to fly out at

nighttime. So we took the chance of the road.

You guys brought the flares, right?

Yeah, we have flares, spray, all that stuff.

Yeah.

Dan's GPS says this is going to take over three hours.

Yeah.

Heard him out back there at Crunch.

I don't know if he's circling around, what he's doing.

I don't know.

Hope they get here quick.

Sorry, whoever I disappoint.

Time to work.

lifetime, it really is.

But when you fear for your life, I mean,

quite a difference.

It's not worth dying over.

I think this is the easy part.

Once we get there, we have a pretty dense forest to get through.

Find him.

To be honest, I don't even truly know how we're even going to find him or give

him directions to find us.

I only have a tarp attached to me.

I've got pepper spray and a flare.

You know, that could do something, but I'd rather have a friggin' rifle.

I want out of here.

I don't know.

I just keep on talking to you because it eases my mind a little bit.

I'm just hoping he hears my voice and he won't come up here.

I don't know. He might come up here. He might.

I don't know.

All I can do is sit and wait.

All right.

This bit comes back.

Got you.

Wayne's location is pretty inaccessible at the moment because it's dark.

We can't get to him by air or sea, so we're going to have to go in and hack

through the woods as best we can.

We do have an approximate location of where he is from his GPS tracking

device. Whether we can get to him or not is a different matter.

It's pretty rough terrain out here.

I hope Wayne's okay.

We're going to have him for ages.

We need to get there as quick as we can.

And make sure he's alive.

See, I feel like if we, if the low tide, if we get... We're going to take a... If

we can't walk on this, we're going to hit another river and it might not be as

raging as the other one. We can just follow that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That'd

be perfect.

So maybe do that and then we can hand rail off that one. Yep. Just straight

down.

No update from Wayne in 35 minutes.

It's been a very slow grinding day, but we persevered.

I'm just maintaining, just doing it one day at a time.

Definitely missing some folks, missing home, but can't dwell on that.

You got to stay focused.

time it is.

Nights here are long.

And that means more and more time sitting here in the dark with nothing

but time to think about everything.

Think about life. Think about my wife and my family.

You know, my dogs.

You know, I mean, $500,000 is a lot of money.

But How much is the time away from your family worth?

We're on a rescue mission to go and find Wayne.

Wayne said he was charged by a big black bear.

He said it got within 20 feet of his camp, so he left his fire area and

stayed in his tent.

We haven't heard from him for ages, so we're a bit concerned.

I think that's our best option at the moment. It's clearer.

We've just got to be careful with our feet.

He's going to be straight out, and then we've got to look to the left.

We're still about a half mile from wherever he is.

Thank you. Bye.

Bye. There he is.

Yeah.

He's just out to my 12 o'clock now.

Wait!

Hello?

I was wondering if you're going to wait until morning.

How you doing?

Well, before you guys came, it's like, holy, I hope they come because it

sounded like there's something walking up in the bush up in there.

That bear is here.

I think he wants his beach back and he can have it.

I'm letting a lot of people down.

That sucks.

It does. It sucks.

But I know my family wants me back home, too.

Not happy to go home, no.

I feel that I am a survivor, but not when it comes to animals that can

chew me up and spit me out.

I don't want to be food.

And saying hey bear does not work.

Let's go.

Hey bear. Hey bear.

So it's the middle of the night. I just woke up.

and my fire almost went out.

It scared the crap out of me. I looked over, and there was nothing but just

barely embers.

I got up, and I sawed some wood, put some on. It looks like it's going to be

okay.

But what's not okay is there's a storm heading somewhere.

I'm not sure yet where. I see the flashes of light in the sky, and then I

hear the rumbles.

That's not good.

Hopefully the other guy's got the shelters up.

And I'm shutting this thing off.

Rain's just coming down.

And I'm realizing that this canvas is not at all waterproof in the slightest.

It's just a sponge waiting to get rained on. And it doesn't make for a very good

shelter.

The structure's not going to hold under any real rain.

So the last two choices to make depends on how much it rains.

But for now, it'll do.

Just barely.

The rain really restricts me to staying in camp. And it seems the more I stay in

camp all day, like the more I'm just, you know, inside my own head the whole

time. I have a lot of time out here to think why I'm here.

What's my goal?

Why did I come out here in the first place?

And I think

it's strange that I don't have an answer 100% right now

that's really the truth, that's really the

core reason why I'm here.

I'll keep you posted on that.

I'll keep you posted.

I'm either tired or I'm starting to relax, one or the other.

I just turned 40.

You look back at your life and think, where did it go? Just poof, here I am,

40 years old.

Next to a log in British Columbia.

How did it all happen that fast?

You want to be a good father, you want to be a good husband.

It's like when you get alone, you know, all of it comes up. Every mistake you've

ever made, you sit and analyze it, analyze yourself, and you just...

It's hard to strike that balance, you know, to live a life that's where you

feel like you do justice to everything.

My thoughts fluctuate between what's got to be done now and, you know, back

home.

I really miss my family.

You know, I start to question myself.

You

wonder

if the people in your life really know how much you love them.

to push my own limits. This is stupid.

It's just monotonous. The tide comes in, tide goes out. It's making me absolutely

crazy.

It's really easy in this type of environment to just become your own

worst enemy.

That was a weird sound. I didn't like that sound at all. If Bill wasn't a

predator, I'd just take everything and run. I don't even care.

Have you ever seen anything so delectable in your life?

My biggest problem is getting fire out here. I don't think I can close my eyes

again in this place.

Guys, I'm pretty sure I just saw a cougar about 10 feet from my front door.