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I'm Matt McConaughey. I'm on a glacier in Norway.

I'm about to be Running Wild with Bear Grylls.

Giddy up.

Bear and I have been trying to hook up

to do this for about 20 years.

Finally we've got this one together.

Here we go, man. 20 years in the making.

Enjoy. Looking forward to it.

Thank you, Moa.

The dog sled driver gave me

what's called anker, an anchor.

I have no idea

if we're gonna be using this somewhere today.

There's something about being out in Mother Nature that

the buzz is that you're just a little closer to the food chain

and where you are in the food chain.

And that's a natural high.

I've always thought, if I die,

if I go as part of the food chain,

I just feel there's an elegance to that, man.

It may hurt...

but if that happens, I'll feel like that was written.

We're not in Texas anymore, I know that.

Matthew McConaughey is a legend.

Say that again.

Matthew McConaughey is a true legend.

You bet I am.

His name brings to mind so many classic movies,

so many beloved characters.

All right, all right, all right.

From blockbusters to prestige television,

McConaughey has been a leading man

and an A-list icon for decades.

Truth hurts, baby.

Matthew also shares his wit and wisdom

as a best-selling author.

To get to know the man behind the legendary action

and heartwarming comedies,

I'm taking Texas' favorite son out of his element

and into the wilderness of Norway.

You can't be serious.

This is gonna be an adventure to remember.

All right, all right, all right.

Too late now, man.

We're here. I ain't gon' back down now.

I've got a feeling today's gonna be

a little bit about adrenaline.

That's a natural high I'm looking forward to.

Bear is the expert.

I'm coming to his office,

and we'll come out of here, hopefully both of us,

with a story that we'll remember.

Matthew and I will be traveling seven miles

through a remote glacial valley.

We'll make our way down sheer granite cliffs,

up steep rocky terrain, and through serpentine valleys,

eventually finding a place to make camp.

On day two, we'll attempt

the largest descent in Running Wild history

and navigate through a series of frigid arctic lakes

to get to our extraction point.

They say everything is bigger in Texas,

but wait till Matthew sees Norway.

Whoo!

The journey begins. I love it.

That was my first natural high right there.

Just swoop across the left, just a little bit of gravity,

making you feel real small, which makes you feel real good.

Very good, very good. Nice to see you, brother.

Hey, good to see you, man. It's been a while.

- You've been keeping okay? - Yeah.

Kiddos, all teenagers in the house now.

- I mean, it's crazy, isn't it? - How old are your kids now?

They're a little few years ahead of yours.

16, 19, and 22.

- Awesome. - Yeah, yeah.

- But we're still going. - Hell yeah, man.

And we're still married to the same women.

- Hey. - You know what it's like?

You can't take that for granted in life, man.

Because it's not the majority. It ain't happening.

And I love the fact that we've known each other a while,

and we said we'd figure this out at the right time.

- We finally did. Yeah, man. - First time in Norway?

- First time. - Beautiful.

Well, this is west coast, super remote.

This time of year, obviously, also almost daylight 24-7.

- All day long. - And the weather's nice today,

but the one constant about Norway weather

is that it will change.

- Happy? - I'm a happy man.

Good. Come on.

So our journey takes us basically south.

We can see a whole bunch of ravines, cliffs, lakes, rivers.

Just take our time down all of this sort of thing.

This undulating, pretty difficult terrain.

We're just gonna work buddy-buddy together.

We're looking for a big drop-off down towards this lake.

- Definitely not Texas now. - No.

This is a big respite for me, man.

I need to shake the city off of me right now.

Yeah, have you had quite a lot of city?

A lot of city, a lot of intellectual stuff, so.

Oh, you're in great company with this lot and me.

We'll bring the intellectual down a few notches.

Let's bring it down, man.

We have got some blueberry bushes, look.

Yeah, look. Blueberries.

There you go, try that.

What would be your foods off the land up here

for any long amount of time?

Well, it's a really interesting question

because so many of the great--

like, the World War II resistant Norwegian heroes,

they literally lived off reindeer moss,

which is this lichen.

I mean, they actually arguably saved the war

because the Germans were so close

to developing a nuclear weapon

with the hard water plants up here.

It was unguarded because it was established

that nobody could survive up there in winter.

And these Norwegian resistance guys

dropped down and they blew this thing up

and they survived for, like, 60 odd days.

They'd eat reindeer moss

that was in the stomachs of dead reindeer.

I mean, they actually were, like, proper heroes.

Okay, let's head that way and we'll drop around that bit.

Okay.

So, top of the mountain here,

we've got some cliffs, big thumping waterfalls.

The weather's pretty good at the moment,

but also I've known it horrific up here,

so we take nothing for granted.

That's eventually where we want to head down.

Okay, come with me. Watch the step here.

You want to stay on that south trajectory,

which means we're gonna have to drop off this cliff.

Okay, here we go. Be cautious here.

A pre-placed diagonal line that takes us all the way down

to the valley floor is gonna save hours.

It's quite committing though if you haven't done this before

because that exposure becomes quite significant quite quickly.

Okay, so we've got a line here tied all the way to the bottom.

Here we are. First time I guess we're gonna

get off our feet and rappel.

As we lower ourselves down,

we're gonna be clipped into this tight line,

and it'll take us away from the edge of the cliff.

I don't think down the face,

what it looks like is we're gonna be two lines

and kind of going off at an angle away

from the face of the cliff, which I've never done before.

When I do something like this or if I do, like, a stunt,

the Tesseract in Interstellar,

I wanna look the stunt coordinator in the eye.

I'm there shaking his hand in the morning going,

"How's your heart and mind these days, man?

You know what I mean?

You'll see me do it. It'll make sense.

Super straightforward. Trust the gear.

Okay, we get tied in. That's it.

Trust the gear.

Here we go. Here we go.

Down, down, down.

Keep going.

And then we're good.

So this will be the committing bit.

It matters when you initially drop off.

It's definitely more slippery and awkward than it looks.

You know you're technically strapped in.

You know logically you're good.

But it's still an abnormal thing to do physiologically.

That's part of the buzz.

Okay, we're good.

Harder work than I thought it would be.

It's definitely quite committing

if you've never done that before,

once you go over the edge and look down.

You'll definitely get what he's calling the buzz.

The unknown is what's exciting.

You start to feel smaller,

and that's the beginning of the humility.

You never take any of this for granted.

Just the sheer vastness of Mother Nature.

It feels live now, you know?

We'll go see what we can overcome.

And after you overcome it, then you start feeling bigger.

Right now, I'm feeling really small.

You're good. Pull it back and then go for it.

Okay, we're good. You're good.

Trust the gear.

I know mathematically and the science says

all this stuff can hold you, and I get it.

But I wasn't there when they were twining this rope.

And me...

...I just kind of wanted to see them do it.

Trust the gear.

Well done, Matthew. Good job.

Okay, well done, Matthew.

You get a core workout on this.

- Oh, yeah. - I didn't anticipate that.

Well, the thing is,

it's not like in a climbing gym, you know.

No.

Body sweat officially broken.

That's an A-plus core-ass workout right there.

Learned to trust it a little bit more on the way down.

I'm not quite there to the full-on surrender yet.

But we got a day and a half to go, so let's see.

In winter, this will be under, like, 20 foot of snow.

Your head's gonna be so full of random weird facts.

Yeah.

Here, look, we've got this nice stream.

It's definitely worth just having

a splash of water, hydrate.

99% of the time, you don't drink from streams.

Clear water isn't clean water.

The glacier is so close above us,

the likelihood of any contamination from dead animals

or even animals drinking in this bit of stream is really low.

This is as pristine and beautiful as you'll ever get.

I mean, this is God's fresh water right here.

You know, normally you've got to be careful when you see

mountain streams like that that look beautiful.

It doesn't always mean they're good to drink.

But just coming across that flowing pool

of beautiful Norwegian water is pristine.

It tastes amazing.

So when you do get a chance to rehydrate, take it.

This water here, that's better than any bottled water.

Even if they put that in a bottle,

it's better straight out of the source right there.

Let's have a quick stop.

Well, this could be worse.

This could be horrific weather, you know.

And we're not counting our chickens, 'cause it's Norway.

But at the moment, this is as good as it ever gets.

I mean, this is just beautiful.

Temperature's perfect.

There's not even a breeze right now.

So was your first thing you kind of got in the public eye

- was the Unsolved Mysteries? - Hmm.

- Remember that? - Mm-hmm.

Please don't shoot. No! No!

I wouldn't say that put me in the public eye.

But it was the first thing I did.

And I always like to say this.

They caught the killer two weeks later.

So I was like, "I must have done a decent job."

You were very good.

If you think back to that kind of time in your life,

were you thinking, "This is what I wanna do"?

Nah. I was in the right bar at the right time.

I knew the bartender, and he said, "There's a producer down

"at the end of the bar in town producing a film."

I went down and introduced myself.

He says his name is Don Phillips.

He says, "You ever done any acting?"

He goes, "Come to this address tomorrow morning at 9:30.

"I got a script for you. There's a role in there.

"You might be right for the part."

Next thing I know, I'm in this '70s Chevelle car

getting a lavalier mic put on.

There's not a word written for the scene.

And I've never acted before.

I'm sitting there going, "Who's my man? Who's Wooderson, right?

"What am I about?" I said, "Wooderson."

I said, "What do I love?" I said, "I love my car.

"Bam, I'm in my '70s Chevelle." I said, "I love rock and roll."

I said, "Ah, man, I got Ted Nugent's 'Stranglehold'

"in the 8-track right now. Two."

I said, "Three, I love to get high."

Next thing I hear is, "Action."

I drop it in drive and I think to myself,

"I got three of my favorite things already..."

"All right, all right, all right."

And that was the three affirmations

for the three things I did have.

First three words I ever said on film.

That's amazing. That's amazing.

And then drove out to Hollywood.

Showed up on that guy's couch.

Don Phillips, the guy I met that night in the bar.

Slept on his couch.

And I asked him, I said,

"Can I get an agent's meeting?"

And he started just yelling at me.

He goes, "You don't need a [bleep] agent's meeting.

"You're needing it too much.

"Hollywood smells you needing it.

"Hollywood will kick you out before you ever got in the door.

"'Cause what you need to do is get out of here and go

"with your mates from Dazed and Confused.

"Take your motorcycle somewhere and go ride somewhere."

And we got tickets to Amsterdam the next day.

Me, Rory Cochrane, and Cole Hauser,

our new friends from Dazed and Confused,

rode through Europe for a month.

Came back, wasn't thinking about getting an agent.

And about five days after I was back, he goes,

"Tomorrow morning, I got us a meeting.

"William Morris Agency."

He goes, "You ready?" I go, "Why, am I ready?"

He goes, "You don't need it. You just want it."

- Went in... - Yeah.

- Don was smart. - He was real smart.

He's up there now. But yeah, he was a legend.

But it isn't like it just sort of fell upon you.

You went to that bar to meet Don.

You found your kind of niche.

And then you kind of figured out, "What do I need to do"?

I was aggressive. But also, dude, I've definitely

had some grace shine down on me.

There's some things I look back that only make sense now.

That's beautiful and true.

Okay, we're gonna keep moving.

Otherwise we'll start getting stiff

and then it gets harder to move.

- Okay. Let's go this way. - Ah.

In an alpine wilderness,

there are always peaks and valleys.

We need to make our way up and over this next ridge

to get to camp.

It's a good way for Matthew to get ready,

as the terrain will only get more treacherous tomorrow.

So we're gonna head up over the top of this.

Over the top of this?

I'd asked our team to pre-place a rope for us

and a Jumar device, and I'm gonna use this device

to go up the rope, but it won't slide back down.

Again, it's physical, but it'll get us to the top.

We're gonna do what's called Jumar upping.

A classic technique.

Just goes one way.

I don't know exactly how this Jumar works technically,

but I'm about to find out.

Use your feet as much as you can.

So you're pulling, sliding,

and you get it then into a rhythm.

It's just a technique that climbers use.

Special Forces troops use it to get onto oil rigs and stuff.

It allows you to climb up, but not slip down a rope.

What goes down has got to come up.

So these Jumars are always quite awkward.

We had a core workout on the first thing.

This is gonna be a forearm workout.

That's what they say in nature. Core body workout.

I'm curious to see what gets fatigued first

on my body on this one.

- Okay, Matthew. - Yeah.

On your way up, just pick up dinner.

- It's just on that ledge. - Okay.

I'd ask the crew to leave a local delicacy for us

to eat for camp later halfway up this rock face.

So Matthew, that's it.

You pull, relax, put your weight in it, then slide.

As far as it will go. That's it.

You'll get the rhythm.

Oh, yeah, we got to use slack here.

There it is.

That's it.

Pull it all the way down,

all the way in.

The problem with most adventures

is people get out of the gate too quick.

I've learned that even working on sets.

I used to wake up at 6:00 a.m.

and fire out of bed and be like, "Let's go!"

And then by 10:30 in the morning, I'm pooped.

Well done, Matthew.

I've learned to pace myself.

It's a workout, isn't it?

It's a much more relaxing visual.

Well, see, when you're looking up,

it's much better.

Yeah, that's not as relaxing.

But now that I trust my Jumar...

Yeah.

- Oh, I see something. - That's dinner.

It's provided by the reindeers.

Looks like it definitely might need a fire.

Yeah.

Reindeer gift, huh?

Reindeer gift from the bull.

Perfect. What part of the bull?

The crew kindly provided from the reindeer bull

one of its testicles.

That's how much they love us.

A little reindeer.

Ready for the evening.

Sustain it.

Hyah!

You should be able to climb this up now.

- Use me, use me. - There we are.

Great.

I like the Jumar.

- It's hard work, isn't it? - Yeah, it's a good one.

- It's a good one. - I was, like, pouring with

sweat when I got to the top.

This one I dug quite a bit.

Really good upper body workout.

But again, a rhythm with it, the patience,

and really comfortable if you need to rest.

That was like sitting in a La-Z-Boy.

Jumar. I'm a fan.

Look at the tender hands. Look at the tender city hands.

No, it's good. It's good.

Look, the guns are firing.

Tender feet, tender hands.

Shake a little city off of you, McConaughey.

So, top of the Jumar,

rookie, first time Matthew, picks things up quickly.

He also managed to grab us dinner.

You know, it's like Norway's version...

what is it, of Rocky Mountain oysters.

Okay.

So that's what it is. Reindeer balls.

I'm taking it that's--

yeah, that's the left one, I believe.

Bear got the right one. So, we got one nut each.

[bleep] Look out for us tomorrow, man.

Okay, come on. This is why we came up here.

So now we can see the whole valley

all the way down to the coast.

Still south. That's west, the sea.

So, the Jumar saved us a bunch of time.

But both of us are pretty tired. We're a little bit colder.

So I'm gonna kind of cut through that little valley,

and really then we're gonna start looking for

a place to make camp.

This is gonna be a great place.

We've got water,

a little bit of flat ground,

and a view to die for.

Protected from the bad weather.

It's like in an amphitheater of mountains.

These one-man tents are great, so we're gonna get these up,

get a fire going, get the testicle cooking,

and we should be golden.

We can have a fire in the opening here.

Okay.

Water.

Need a pee in the night, easy.

Look at that.

- Well done. - Yeah. Killed that.

- You worked hard. - I enjoyed that.

You worked up a good, honest sweat.

- That's good. - Yeah.

It was a full-body workout. And it was long.

It's amazing, isn't it? And it's true that we usually

remember the getaways that were the most adventurous.

The ones that didn't have the silk sheets.

The ones that didn't have the piña colada under the umbrella.

Even though those are nice.

The highlight of the evening meal.

Ugh. Doesn't have a great smell.

I'm not gonna lie.

No.

What would you think that was if it was on the menu?

- Smell first. - You'd probably look for

a different restaurant.

There something about cutting into a testicle...

as a man, you can't help but feel pain.

You know, it's phantom pain.

Maybe that's how they describe it. Phantom pain.

You know, we have got that.

I mean, bull skew.

- Well, dinner's cooking. - Look at this.

I mean, the last time we met, you very kindly cooked us,

- me and my family, dinner. - Yeah.

You delivered these most amazing slabs

of proper Texan T-bones. It was awesome.

And I feel I've under-delivered. I'm not gonna lie.

But this is apropos for where we are.

- It is apropos. - 100%.

Your partnership with Woody,

has that been a fun thing in your life?

Yeah, he's a constant reminder for me to stay young.

Because he's a perpetual eight-year-old.

Oh, my gosh.

I mean, you can't get mad at Woody for

showing up barefoot three days late to your own wedding.

- Three days late. - Because you can show up

three days late to his own wedding and he don't care.

He's never gone through a front door in his life.

- That's so funny. - I've woke up next to him

in my bed between me and my wife,

'cause he snuck through the bedroom window unannounced.

- No. Are you serious? - Many times.

- That is brilliant. - Oh, he's great.

I always like to say, "I almost kissed my wife

"as many times as I have..."

How many years have you been married now? Thirteen?

What have you learned about marriage?

It's a challenge once you have children.

Sometimes we get down the track where it's so much

about the kids, and we look up and go,

"Oh, hey, how are you doing?"

I've got to remind myself-- I forgot who told me this

a long time ago, but the best example

you can give your kids is how you treat their mother.

My grandpa always said that, he said,

"Parenting in three words, example, example, example."

I think a man's a prince until he has children

and then becomes a king.

I don't think there's anything

more important that a man can do.

In fact, man, we're immortal.

That's the beginning of our immortality,

and hopefully we're lucky enough

for them to have offspring, and it continues.

To pass that down, I think that's the greatest art

that a man can make,

is being a good father

to a son or a daughter.

The rest is detail already.

Right?

- Should we try the testicle? - Hell yeah.

Look at that.

I would say it's improved with cooking.

Reindeer testicle.

Here's to today. Life, friendships, family.

Amen.

Hey. Hey.

Can I have another piece, please?

That's a hell of a lot better

than I thought it was gonna be.

That's a phrase you don't often associate with this show.

Rudolph.

That's really not bad.

Texture was six out of ten.

Taste was six out of ten.

If you just got out of your head what the heck it was,

you throw the right kind of spice on there,

some of my famous rub, char the edges a little bit,

you might have an eight out of ten,

have something you can put on the menu.

Happy?

Being out here is a heck of a gift, man.

Mother Nature is God's greatest art.

You've got a new book, a mix of poems and prayers.

Poems & Prayers.

Yeah, great. Where does that come from?

It just came from me looking around,

maybe something about getting into early fifties.

We go from being a child, you're naive and you're innocent.

Then you're skeptical as you learn things.

And then there's that fourth one people become, which is cynical.

That's the disease of aging.

One of the worst diseases we have is cynicism.

I'm not for foolish optimism.

I don't believe everything's always just rosy and great

and everyone's always telling the truth

and everything's just hunky-dory.

No, [bleep], it's not.

But to sort of tap out and go...

that's just the way it is.

It's just not ready to put a white flag on that.

And so I, myself, personally, was going,

"Man, I want more belief."

So, Poems & Prayers.

More mystical, more spiritual, more faithful.

Belief in self, others, potential, God.

I think life without any form of faith is...

life's hard enough as it is.

I don't wanna do it on my own.

Forget it. It's hard. You look at leadership.

You look at-- turn on the news.

The evidence doesn't give reason for belief.

You know? At least in the civilized world.

When you're out here like this,

you sure as heck get evidence for belief.

If I'm not finding it

in the world that I'm seeing around me,

maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.

It's a really fun day with Matthew.

He's a bright spirit.

He's such a grounded person as well,

motivated by life and by his family and faith.

And those are enduring things in life.

But both of us are pretty tired.

We're gonna definitely sleep well, I think, tonight.

It's a weird place because, obviously,

it never gets dark in Norway in summertime.

So, you just kind of put the hood up,

cover your eyes, and sleep.

Big day tomorrow.

Something comforting about a fire.

No walls, except for these mountains.

Trust the environment.

Whatever you say can blow in the breeze

as far as it wants to, and you've got a pretty good idea

it's gonna land on safe ears, whosoever ears they are.

Yeah, something comforting about it.

I've had three really good buzzes today, natural highs.

I've got a feeling there's a couple more coming tomorrow.

Okay, those worked.

First night in Norway in a tent.

It's not bad at all.

I got more sleep than I did the night before.

Now, the trickle all night was a little...

bedtime melody.

This feels like Norway now.

Okay, let's go.

Matthew and I have 1,500 feet of elevation still to descend.

So, we'll have to find our way down this granite mountain

and through a series of glacial lakes

to get to our extraction point.

The only constant with the Norwegian weather

is that it will change.

And this mountain sees a lot of rain, a lot of snow.

Watch your step down here. It's gonna be quite slippery.

♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪

Morale is always harder when it's raining.

I've learned that.

It's also where we distinguish ourselves.

You know, when you go anywhere that's new,

- you're hyper-focused. - Yeah.

We've still got some journeying between here

and where we're getting picked up, so a bit of hiking in

and eventually our way out of here.

Put a smile on. Keep going. Yeah, we're ready.

- Hello, guys. - Hey!

Yes, man.

There's slippery rock, by the way.

Look, this starts to drop off now.

Mm-hmm.

You see, this is gonna be steep.

We're gonna definitely need rope for this.

All of this rock is carved by glacial ice, so it's smooth.

And once that drop-off starting,

it's gonna get quite committing, I think, this.

You can see all the way down to the lakes there.

Yeah, I'm just anticipating this is gonna be bigger

than maybe it feels from up here.

That's probably about 800 foot down to that.

Yeah, it's definitely quite a bit more

than the first descent.

But we're obviously gonna be much steeper.

Fear of heights? Sure.

Yeah.

Okay, let's make a solid anchor point here.

So, obviously, we haven't got a lot of trees to tie off to.

These are the rocks. Not strong enough.

Have you got that talon from the dogs?

- Yes, I do. - Yeah.

You might have been thinking, why do we need this thing?

The terrain so far has been treacherous,

but nothing compares to what's ahead.

If Matthew and I are gonna get off this mountain,

we have to go down the longest rappel

I've ever done on Running Wild.

This is 800 feet of sheer granite rock.

But there are no good anchor points,

so we're gonna have to use the brake from his dog sled.

We'll stamp it into the ground,

tie it off, and make our way down.

- The anchor. - As long as the force

is that way, but as soon as you go like this,

it lifts out just beautifully.

I mean, it works because of all the force is...

Give that a kick in.

It's only dug into about that much,

you know, grass and soil.

It looks a little precarious, but as long as the angle is low,

which it's gonna be as we go over these rocks,

that's gonna hold.

- Okay. - Yeah.

We're using it as what it's called, an anchor.

But this time it's not stopping dogs,

it's holding the rope.

Trust the engineer.

I feel good about it. Plus Bear's going first.

You've got to really pull it to release it.

Keep it cranked open at the top.

You're lifting hundreds of feet of rope here,

which is super heavy.

It'll get easier as it gets steeper.

- Yes. - And once it gets steeper,

just lean back and trust the system.

Okay. Lean back and trust the equipment.

So, yeah, it's all good.

Probably another 20 meters of this,

and then it looks like it drops off, okay?

Yep.

This is where it starts to get a little steeper.

This is where it's gonna get scarier for Matthew.

You can see all the way to the bottom.

And the rope.

I needed what looks like every meter of it.

I like it.

Glad that anchor's holding.

So another big drop off here.

Let's hope there's enough rope even to reach, to be honest.

I thought I'd be near the bottom by now,

but still a long way down.

Wow.

Lean back and trust the equipment.

Okay.

So I knew we'd need a lot of rope

for that 800 foot in total.

Even with that, it's still just tickling the bottom,

about five foot left over.

So that was kind of at our limit.

I'm not sure what to expect,

but I trust who I'm with.

I'm not gonna be looking down singing songs.

I might be looking up singing songs.

♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪

♪ Lean back and trust your equipment ♪

♪ Lean back and trust your equipment ♪

The awkward bit is the start.

You know, it's at the top when all the nerves are there.

It's not yet vertical, kind of awkward ground.

You've got a lot of weight of rope.

Just trust and keep moving. Once it gets steeper,

it will start to flow and that rope will run smoother.

An adventure is gonna put yourself

in a place that you do not know.

I do not wanna do this, I've never done this before,

but I'm going to overcome that fear.

I'm usually better in real life than I am in my dreams.

In my dreams, I never get the girl. I don't make the jump.

I think belief is actually the original dream.

So, I've got to believe in myself.

Here we go, baby.

Do I have a plan? No, I'm gonna let it come to me.

I'm taking my time.

Play chess with the mountain a little bit.

This kind of thing is one of those drugs

that money can't buy.

This is not my necessarily comfort zone,

but the experience, I'm sure it'll be something

I damn sure remember.

People maybe have rappelled in a gym or on a climbing wall.

It's all nice and controlled, but it's different out here.

But he's got that glint in his eye

and you can't cheat your way there.

You've got to earn that.

This is why I love this stuff.

He's doing well. This is a big one for sure.

Yes!

Good effort.

That was a bit...

I've got to admit, it was longer than I thought.

You do have to trust your blind spot, man.

I'm betting I was a few inches further back, leaning back,

trusting it than I was on the-- the first one on that one.

It gives you more stability. You're feeling more balanced.

Once the body weight's bringing that down

and you're not having to force it,

you really feel much more control.

- That was good. - That was good.

That was a buzz.

Proper buzz number four, I do believe it was.

And the best one yet.

- Good job. That's a long way. - Thanks, mate.

♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪

So we're gonna keep following this up.

This will eventually lead to a lake,

and eventually our pickup's gonna be

- the other side of it. - All right.

So we're looking for the lake first of all.

We'll be following this river

up through this valley.

We've reached this final lake.

I have said to our team, leave me a really clear red bag,

and inside that is gonna be a flare,

and that's the flare we're gonna use

to call in the helicopter.

- Little red bag? - Yeah.

Check out your three o'clock.

Yeah, I thought that was a little fishing pot, actually.

Yeah, that is a red bag.

Yeah.

In typical fashion, our team haven't made it easy.

They've left it out in the lake.

Oh.

So close.

Remember, this is a glacial lake, so this is cold.

This is, like, a few degrees above freezing.

Looks like it's a swim to finish this journey.

In, out, dry gear on.

- Okay. - Hell yeah.

- Okay. - You ready?

This water is gonna be freezing, freezing cold.

Yes.

Okay, we're in.

Hey now!

What's this water, 35?

Hey.

Oh, boy.

Yes. Good morning.

Okay. If this is wet...

we're in trouble.

Okay.

- One flare. - Okay.

That's our way out of here.

We found the red bag with the flare,

which was not on land.

It was out in the water. Thank you very much.

It's not wet, we don't think.

This goes off, copter comes, and we're out.

This has been full of surprises.

Had four big buzzes, like, natural highs.

Great fear looking down, composing and doing it,

trusting the gear, trusting the people,

and then a conversation with Bear and I.

When you're out like this with somebody one-on-one,

you get comfortable a lot quicker

in a shorter amount of time.

I think the fact that you're both dealing with the unknown,

there's a natural bonding experience that happens,

which is really cool about getting out and out and about.

Oh, yeah. Whoo!

This has been a really fun journey for me.

Obviously Matthew McConaughey is such an icon,

but the fun part for me is the man behind the icon

and the values that he lives by.

It's about family, it's about faith,

but also I think he's someone that is determined

to live life on his terms and willing

to step into the unknown and tackle the difficult.

And that's rare in life, but it's beautiful.

Yeah, boy!

Bear, thank you for having me.

We've been trying to do this and come together

and take on these adventures for over 20 years.

We finally made it happen.

It was even better and more than I expected.

Hey, man. Keep it up. Just keep living.

Well done, brother.

Well done.

Running Wild!

Come on, baby. Come on!

Whoo!