Original subtitles

[dramatic music]

♪

What did I just do?

-Holy cow. -All alone.

Check it out!

I'm just so looking forward to the future here.

[squeals]

It is really rugged over here.

My site is almost completely uphill

It's impossible to walk through.

I keep thinking about my wife

and three kids that we're adopting.

The thoughts are overwhelming.

I am tapping out.

Being alone's just not something that

I guess I was ready for.

Look at that.

A complete skeleton.

Maybe I'm sitting in a damn puma kill zone.

♪

This is the hardest terrain.

Patagonia is a different environment entirely.

Everything out here is so hard.

Patagonia's no joke.

Are you willing to give up who you are

for what you will become?

It's Patagonia for God's sake.

Patagonia!

It's tougher than I ever imagined.

Just missing home right now.

You get a feeling of helplessness,

like, "why am I doing this?"

Oh, my God!

The last person left wins $500,000

and is a badass.

-Bam! -Ugh.

[animal growling]

What is that?

It's just, how far you can push yourself

and what you're able to do.

Yeah!

You don't have anyone to lean on.

Oh, my God, I got a fish.

Go to bed hungry, wake up hungry.

Can't believe I did that.

End of the day, it's gonna come down to mental endurance

of food deprivation.

[cries]

Person'll be dead in a week at this rate.

[animal growling]

♪

Whoa, that's a big cat.

♪

[sighs]

♪

[groans]

♪

[groans]

♪

[laughs]

Whoo!

♪

Whoo!

Woke up this morning and, uh,

I had a little bit of a chill.

Not a lot of energy.

Second I got out of this water--

[laughs]

Both those were cured.

Uh, every Saturday.

Every Saturday.

Let's do it one last time.

[yells]

♪

[laughs]

♪

Kind of enjoying it out here.

I'm really enjoying it.

Place is feeling more and more like home.

Come on, Dave!

Let's see those climbing moves, man.

That insatiable desire for being outdoors

and living with the land,

it's very, very strong in my life.

-[laughs] -What?

Yeah, you know, survival experiences,

I've done many, many walkabouts.

I've been tested quite a few times

in different environments and different atmospheres

with different amounts of gear.

44 days is the longest that I've gone outdoors

in the wintertime.

I'm prepared to do this, because I've been practicing

for this for almost 20 years.

I teach survival and bush craft skills,

so this has sort of given me a little bit of an edge.

♪

I'm doing this for many reasons.

One of which is gonna be build a connection to the earth.

To live, as well.

I mean, I believe in living well

and experiencing life.

Another reason that I do this is

to push my skills set a little bit.

Put all those together, you got Patagonia in the mix,

and look out.

-See ya all. -All righty.

-I love you all. -Bye, Dave.

Now kids, oral hygiene is very important.

Charcoal.

See?

Much better now.

[laughs]

♪

I have never been to this part of the world in my life.

I've never been south of the equator.

Uh, wilds in Patagonia, Argentina,

are familiar, yet very, very different from home.

And this,

I want to be my home for the next year.

♪

Going after food is my biggest challenge.

I'm ready to go fishing.

[chuckles]

♪

I made myself a bone lure with a couple holes in it

from some old bones.

♪

I have a feeling, if I want to stay a long time,

then I'm gonna need to figure out

how to be sustainable out here,

how to catch fish on a regular basis,

what do I need to do?

♪

Got one!

I'm excited to figure out this land.

Lot to learn from.

This is another country, this is another continent.

♪

[laughs]

Oh, hell yeah!

Oh.

Look at that.

Oh. [laughs]

♪

Oh, it's just falling off.

♪

Oh.

[chuckles]

I have a feeling you guys are gonna see

a lot of ecstasy from me.

Oh, my--oh, my!

It's freaking good. [chuckles]

It's good.

Mmm.

♪

♪

[birds cawing]

Holy--be quiet.

Came out here to get away from alarm clocks,

you birds!

[birds continue cawing]

Birds!

They're doing it unison, or what the hell?

Oh, my God.

[birds continue cawing]

This is ridiculous.

[birds continue cawing]

♪

All right, day five, let's do it.

♪

Still can't believe I'm doing this, to be honest.

Still doesn't feel real.

And I know I'm doing it, but...

♪

I get to camp out here in this wild, wild place.

I mean, it's crazy.

It's really crazy.

Now, if it could just work with me.

Not a lot, a little bit.

♪

In order to be successful out here...

You got to have sustenance,

you got to--you got to be putting calories into your body.

[sighs]

I got to get some fish.

♪

My game plan right now,

I'm gonna try and make a fish trap.

And the way I'm gonna do it is I'm gonna make an M.

And in the middle of the M, I'm gonna leave it partially open

so the fish can swim in.

♪

The reason I'm here is for life lessons.

I'm here to grow as a person.

Just try to figure out what I'm capable of.

But, at the end of the day, this is a competition.

I know I got a huge competitive streak in me.

I'd feel accomplished if I beat either 56 or 66 days.

Above and beyond, the first and second season,

but I want to be here the longest.

I want to win this.

The fish will swim in from here,

and hopefully get confused and stay in here

and I'm gonna put some brush over top

so it's nice and shaded.

♪

I think it looks good.

♪

Only time will tell.

♪

[sighs]

You ever have those thoughts where it's like,

"How did I get here?"

From back country, Canada,

to the jungles of South America.

♪

-So are you gonna miss me? -Yes.

My girlfriend, Kristin's, gonna be the hardest thing

that I'm leaving behind.

Whatever I want to do in life,

she's pushing me, she's driving me

to accomplish my goals.

She's always there for me, like the rest of my family.

You know, you've got a huge opportunity in front of you here

to make your mark.

And you're gonna do really well.

The interaction with the whole family,

that's what I'm gonna miss the most,

and just the love that they give.

I'm gonna be knowing that everything's still rolling

back home and here I am in the middle of the bush.

♪

This is literally gonna be the hardest thing I think

I've ever done in my life.

You got this game plan, but now all of a sudden,

you're in this location that you've never seen before

and that game plan might go out the window.

You got to be able to adapt and you got to be able to

overcome these kind of situations.

This is the challenge of a lifetime,

this is the one thing that I know

I have been training for

and I've been trying to do,

and now it's here.

It's about me doing what I love

and I want to see how far I can go.

♪

I'm gonna go for a walk.

Just forage around, see if I can find some wild edibles

till I get me some fish.

♪

Nature's one of those things that...

doesn't give a [bleep] if you're here.

♪

Just keeps on going.

♪

♪

[bleep]

♪

Think I found some puma scat.

♪

Nothing in these woods is gonna have bone

in their scat as well as hair.

This is 100% puma.

♪

Those things hunt from above, too.

♪

And that is...

maybe a five minute walk from my camp.

Plus two--two, three minutes.

♪

I got to keep my eyes open now.

♪

[leaves rustling]

♪

[wood snapping]

♪

[wood snapping]

♪

♪

♪

Another day.

Feeling motivated.

Ambitious.

Stinky.

♪

It's time to get to work.

I have a pool of water on the top of my tarp here.

♪

So I'm thinking that I actually might

steeple my roof right in the middle.

And raise up that middle of my roof to a peak

and have all the water run off.

I don't want any water sitting up there.

Eventually, it'll start seeping.

Or if it's snowing, it'll just sit up there

and freeze and crush my roof.

There's my beam.

Put some pincushion moss on the top of it to soften it,

'cause I don't want to put this sharp wood up into

the top of my ceiling and maybe pierce it.

♪

Might be a little tall, but we'll see.

♪

There we go.

[sighs]

Yeah, that got it all down.

♪

Ugh.

♪

[groans]

♪

Okay, I-- [laughs].

I was just walking along the shoreline

and I am stuck...

in the freaking quicksand mud

that's back here.

Like, above my boots, it's like--

Oh, my gosh, my boot is stuck in the mud.

[chuckles]

Oh, my.

I can't even get out.

[laughs]

Just walking along, and I'm stuck.

Oh, my God, it's like quicksand.

[grunts]

Ugh.

[grunts]

Oh, jeez.

Show you what my boots look like.

My family's probably sun tanning right now,

and I'm freezing my ass off.

♪

I'm a biologist and forester.

I definitely am pretty independent and driven.

My family consists of my husband, Tyson,

and our two children, Kaya and Angus.

I'm already here.

Family means everything to me

and it was my decision to leave them.

There's gonna be a bit of guilt behind that.

I'll miss you guys.

I'm gonna miss you, too.

I've worked in forestry for 20 years.

We work in areas where you're climbing up hills

in the rain and the snow and you run into bears.

People say to us, like, "Why would you want

a job like that?"

But I just love challenging myself.

[indistinct yelling]

[children giggling]

My main goals are to have the opportunity

to self-reflect and to put my skills to use.

My strategy overall is just to keep busy.

-Hug. -Where are you going?

I just have to go away for a little bit.

-I love you. -Mm, I love you.

Oh, gosh.

Bye.

I think I can focus on the task at hand,

but, um, I know it's gonna be difficult.

[crying]

Being a forester and biologist,

I have a really extensive plant base knowledge.

It's an advantage to me in terms of getting protein,

getting minerals, getting vitamins.

So this is, uh, gaultheria plant.

So I'm gonna get as many of these as I can

while I see them, because they're probably

gonna drop in the next week.

I need to get prepared for the upcoming winter.

I can draw these out and I can also make syrups

and some jam out of these.

I really need to stockpile and prepare for those times

when there are absolutely no calories available.

You have to be like a bird and a squirrel

and store your food away.

I just had a flash that my daughter wants to paint her room

kind of this color, so...

um, I'll be thinking of you, Kaya,

when I'm eating these berries.

♪

♪

That shouldn't take too long and I'll have some warm water.

♪

Got my homemade comb.

Try to get the knots out.

♪

Hard to keep your hair clean when, uh, you got no shampoo.

♪

Got to look good for the camera.

[laughs]

Good luck on that one.

Doesn't really matter what I look like out here, I guess.

I'm not going to the mall.

One thing that's starting to irritate me

is these nose hairs, though.

You just get a little flame, and then you just kind of

sniff it in.

There.

That's all it should take.

That's how you shave in the bush.

♪

Being from a small town in the Rockies,

everybody fishes and hunts and camps.

Everybody does things that are bush-oriented.

♪

That's about my distance right there.

I'm a drywaller.

Been a drywaller for 37 years.

♪

I go camping in 30 below all the time just for fun.

I spent months in the bush by myself.

Experience goes a long way.

Most of the people that I'm up against

are half my age.

Seems like almost everyone has husbands and wives

and I've been a loner for the last 20 years.

The only close family member I have

is my daughter, Jeanette.

♪

Jeanette keeps me motivated.

She keeps me on my toes.

♪

She said, "Dad, if you're not the last guy out,

don't even come and see me."

So that was her way of motivating me.

♪

There's three reasons, basically, I'm doing this.

It would be nice to be able to make my daughter proud.

The money could mean not having to hang drywall again.

And just for the whole adventure.

-Now, you know I'm gonna do good. -Good luck.

So, if I'm not back in a year, come looking.

[both laugh]

There it is.

[laughs]

Fish for breakfast!

♪

My goal is to live off the land

for a year if I have to.

Fingers through the gills,

break the back of its neck.

Now it can't get away.

♪

So far, my opinion is that I've been doing everything right.

My shelter's in a good spot,

close to my food, close to my firewood,

close to my water for drinking.

Take all my moss now.

Dry enough.

♪

Now I'm making a comfortable bed.

♪

It's gonna be like a "pasta-predrict,"

or whatever they're called.

The more comfortable you make it...

This'll be good.

It can actually be enjoyable, living off the land.

[water babbling]

[animal bellowing]

♪

[whispers] Something over there.

♪

[animal bellows]

♪

♪

♪

[animal bellows]

What the heck is making that noise?

[animal bellows]

♪

I definitely heard a squealing.

♪

I hear them, but I haven't seen any yet.

You can't shoot at something if you can't see it.

So I don't know how feasible it would be

to get one with a bow.

Hah!

That's just like Robin Hood, there.

♪

It's time to find my paracord.

I'll go set a snare.

♪

♪

Just looking in the water.

See if I see anything.

All right, so I'm just gonna go check my trap now.

♪

Oh, man.

It's big zip.

♪

Lack of fish has definitely humbled me.

♪

Nothing I can do at this point.

♪

Time to get back to work and, uh,

get some stuff done.

♪

I have a shelter in mind that I want to build.

It allows me to have dry firewood inside.

Gonna go cut some bamboo.

The only problem is, there's none really

in the close proximity of my area.

Which means I'll have to hoof it.

♪

This is a nice sprout of bamboo,

it's probably got 30 shoots in it.

♪

Oh.

Oh, my God.

Jeez.

♪

Jeez.

♪

[grunts]

♪

Ow.

It is hard to live here.

♪

It's hard to walk here.

♪

One bundle done.

All right.

Now for the rest.

♪

Oh, man, what a day.

♪

Being tired and lack of sustenance, lack of calories,

and just no--no food puts myself in danger.

I need to be able to think smart out here.

♪

Oh, my God.

[exhales sharply] [bleep].

♪

All right.

♪

Unless you know how to work with it,

everything here, it's--it's gonna hurt you,

it's gonna take you out.

♪

What are these [bleep] roots?

All these things do is trip me.

Look at these things.

Trip wire, trip wire, trip wire, trip wire.

All this just to keep my [bleep] firewood dry, too.

♪

[bleep] roots!

[bleep] my balls, roots.

♪

I see how people tap out on days like today.

♪

Today's the day I [bleep] lose it.

♪

Right now, it feels like the land's rejecting me.

It's really not a good feeling.

♪

I got road rash on my neck and face

from carrying that [bleep] bamboo.

♪

Ugh.

[bleep].

♪

Anyways...

smiles all around.

♪ ♪

So I was gonna show you guys

what I'm having for dinner tonight.

It's not fish.

[laughs]

I'm having orange peel lichen

and chaura berries

in a watery soup mixture.

I'm still getting my vitamins and minerals,

but I definitely need protein.

I do have a trigger deadfall trap in mind for fish.

So I'm gonna try that one out.

♪

Never made one of these before, so it's a bit of a

work in progress.

♪

And what I'm gonna do is cut it off

at the top of the branch,

and then make triggers, two triggers per set.

This will be going into the ground once I sharpen it.

I'll modify this point

and then I'll have another one

like this attached to my fishing line.

So once the fish pulls on it, the two tension points

with release and a hook will be set,

and I'll be able to reel the fish in.

♪

Okay, it's down there, it's floating.

The line's set.

And now we're gonna set our trigger.

I just want it resting there to...

♪

♪

So the trigger system is set for fishing.

The sapling's bent over, the two pegs are connected

just at a fine point,

with the thought that when the fish actually

bites onto the hook,

that will get pulled out and it'll set the hook in the fish.

So we'll see what happens.

♪

And I'm gonna make several of these.

I can just go and check them

in the nasty weather that's upcoming.

♪

♪

♪

I'm already on day eight.

And it's still raining.

♪

[sighs] What a dreadful day.

♪

Oh, I've--I've tested myself,

I'm testing myself.

Yeah, you know, I thought coming to this thing,

I don't know, I thought I'd be stronger.

Just based on doing long-term survival

and living off the land.

But, jeez, this is way, way, way harder than I thought.

♪

But I can't get down.

Minute you start getting depressed

and feeling sorry for yourself 'cause you can't do something,

That's when you start to break.

♪

So I just got to keep trying new things.

Start some work on my fire reflector.

So these are just gonna be my-- my base posts.

♪

Gonna do one here, one here, and then another one over here.

And then once I get more bamboo,

I just slide 'em in along that

and stack, stack, stack.

And then I'm gonna tie off at the base up here

so then it'll be a wall of bamboo all the way up,

and then hopefully it'll block some of the wind, push smoke in,

and it'll reflect heat back in towards my shelter.

♪

Now I got to go get baoo.

Now is the hard part.

Which means I got to walk up into that [bleep].

Again.

♪

That's what I'm going through.

♪

Forest is hard to walk in, regardless, here.

♪

But now everything's soaked,

so everything's gonna be ten times as slippery.

Whoa.

Man.

Not a good day to be out here, I'll tell you that much.

♪

This is the hardest terrain...

I have ever, ever worked in.

I wish I had a machete.

♪

Why am I doing this is the rain?

I'm just trying to plan a route as to how I can get in here.

♪

I'm freaking scraped up, beat up.

I'll tell ya that much.

♪

Should be getting at that bamboo.

♪

[bleep].

[grunts] [bleep] cut myself.

♪

[grunts]

[bleep].

♪

♪

[bleep].

Cut myself.

♪

Oh, my God, I tripped over a log.

My ax doesn't have its face on it.

♪

[bleep], [bleep], [bleep].

♪

I don't want to go home.

♪

I don't want to go home.

♪

Starting to lose function in my hand.

♪

If it doesn't stop bleeding, I might be [bleep].

[bleep] you, ax.

♪

I rolled into the bottom of the ax.

I think that's when I cut it.

♪

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.

♪

Oh, my God!

♪

Hi, I cut my arm.

It just won't stop bleeding.

-All right. -Bye.

♪

[sighs]

♪

♪

[bleep].

[bleep], man.

♪

♪

-Stitches? -Stitches.

I can't take off your tape there,

'cause I'm gonna start the bleeding again.

It looks as though it's got some debris in there, as well.

-Okay. -I can't do that out here.

[bleep].

Okay.

♪

I wanted to do so much more here.

♪

I felt my entire life had led me to this point.

♪

One split second takes everything away.

♪

But, um, it's life.

♪

It's just hard to accept.

♪

It's all over now.

♪

♪

[metallic scraping]

♪

Loving this shovel.

Nothing like having a shovel with a sharp edge.

Man, this is the tool to have.

♪

Having a shovel that can do multiple jobs

is super efficient.

I can dig a hole,

use it for bushwhacking.

Use it for hide scraping,

were I able to get a deer.

Can use it like a throwing knife,

just throwing at, uh, a duck or a bird

or something, you know?

Maybe not--throwing it out there and losing it

wouldn't be very smart, but, uh,

when you only got ten of something--

your ten survival items, you know,

that's not a lot.

So they all got a dual purpose.

So I'm pretty happy so far with my shovel.

[laughs]

Oh, love that shovel.

♪

I got to get on trying to get one of these pigs somehow.

♪

I'm gonna set my snare today.

Try to figure out how to do it.

I'm gonna go to one tree,

I'm gonna go to another tree on the other side of the trail.

Like that, and then that will go to that tree.

Take some fish guts, hang it from a line,

and when they go for that, they might get snared.

♪

It's gonna be fantastic if this works, you know?

Like, can you imagine getting 150 pounds of meat

instead of just a one-pound fish every second day?

♪

Well...

I'm hiking and hiking through the bush here.

It's thick as hell.

♪

I've never seen thick bush like this.

You can't even crawl through it.

It's just terrible stuff.

♪

I mean, look.

♪

Oh, boy.

♪

I got off the trail.

I've got to find my way out of here.

♪

Should've been a 15 minute hike,

now who knows where I am.

♪

And now I'm lost.

♪

[animal grunting]

Hey!

There's definitely something outside.

♪ Gonna have fish dinner tonight ♪

If I continue catching fish like this,

and I can't eat 'em all,

I got to figure out a way to preserve them.

[bleep]!

My shelter roof collapsed.

Lack of calories are rocking me.

There's something on this line.

I'm just gonna go in for it.

Let's do this.

♪