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What did I just do?

Holy cow. All alone.

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

It is really rugged over here. My sight 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 is just not something that I guess I was ready

for. Look at that.

A complete skeleton.

Maybe I'm sitting in a damn Puma pill zone.

This is the hardest terrain.

Patagonia. It's 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.

She's 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!

What is that?

It's just how far you can push yourself and what you're able to do. You don't

have anyone to lean on. Oh, my God, I got a family!

Go to bed hungry, wake up hungry.

Can't believe we did that. Ready, guys? It's going to come down to mental

endurance and food deprivation.

First to be dead in a week at this rate.

Whoa, that's a big cat.

Not a lot of energy.

The second I got out of this water, both those were cured.

Every Saturday. Every Saturday.

Let's do it one last time.

I'm enjoying it out here.

I'm really enjoying it.

I feel more and more like home.

That insatiable desire for being outdoors and living with the land is

very, very strong in my life.

You know, it's a survival experience that I've done many, many walkabouts.

I've been tested quite a few times in different environments, in 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 this for almost 20

years. I teach survival and bushcraft skills. So this is sort of giving me a

little bit of an edge.

I'm doing this for many reasons, one of which is going to 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 skill set a little bit.

Put all those together. You got Patagonia in the mix and look out.

See y'all.

All right. Bye, guys.

Now, kids, oral hygiene is very important.

Charcoal.

Much better now.

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

of the equator.

Wilds of 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.

I've made myself bone lure with a couple holes in it from small bones.

I have a feeling if I want to stay a long time that I'm going to need to

figure out how to be sustainable out here, how to catch fish on a regular

basis. What do I need to do?

I'm excited to figure out this land I'm about to learn from.

This is another country. This is another continent.

Oh, hell yeah.

Oh, look at that.

Oh,

it's

just falling off.

I feel like you guys are going to see a lot of ecstasy from me.

Oh, my. Oh, my.

It's freaking good.

It's good.

Be quiet.

Came out here to get away from alarm clocks.

Birds?

Birds!

They're just doing it in unison?

Like, what the hell?

This is ridiculous.

All right.

Day five. Let's do it.

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

Still doesn't feel real. 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 be putting calories into your body.

My game plan right now, I'm going to try to make a fish trap.

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

In the middle of the end, I'm going to 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 trying to figure out what I'm capable

of.

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

I know I've 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.

I want to be here the longest.

I want to win this.

Fish will swim in from here and hopefully get confused and stay in here.

And I'm going to put some brush over top so it's nice and shaded.

I think it looks good.

Only time will tell.

Do you ever have those thoughts where it's like, how did I get here?

From the backcountry of Canada to the jungles of South America.

So are you going to miss me?

Yes. My girlfriend Kristen is going to 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've got a huge opportunity in front of you here to make your mark. You're

going to do really well.

The interaction with the whole family, that's what I'm going to miss the most,

and just the love that they give.

I'm going to be knowing that everything's still rolling back home and

here I am in the middle of the bush.

This is literally going to be the hardest thing I think I've ever done in

my life.

You've 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've got

to be able to adapt and you've 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 going to go for a walk.

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

fish.

Nature's one of those things that doesn't give a shit if you're here.

Keeps on going.

I think I found some puma scat.

Nothing in these woods is going to have bone in their scat as well as hair.

This is 100% puma.

Those things hung from above, too.

And that is maybe a five-minute walk from my camp.

Less, two, three minutes.

I got to keep my eyes open now.

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 the 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.

Put some pincushion moss on the top of it to soften it. I don't want to put

this sharp wood up into the top of my ceiling and maybe pierce it.

It might be a little tall, but we'll see.

There we go.

Okay,

I was just walking along the shoreline, and I am stuck.

In the friggin'

quicksand mud that's back here.

I'm like above my boots. It's like, oh my gosh, my boot is stuck in the mud.

Oh my.

I can't even get out.

Just walking along and I'm stuck.

Oh my gosh, it's like quicksand.

I'll 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 a forester.

I definitely am pretty independent and driven.

My family consists of my husband, Tyson, and our two children, Kaya and

Angus.

Family means everything to me, and it was my decision to leave them.

There's going to be a bit of guilt behind that.

I've worked in forestry for 20 years. We work in areas where you're climbing

up hills in the rain and the swell and you run into bears.

People say to us, like, why would you want a job like that? But I just love

challenging myself.

My main goal... are to have the opportunity to self-reflect and to put

my skills to use.

My strategy overall is just to keep busy.

I think I can

focus on the task at hand, but I know it's going to be difficult.

Being a forester and biologist.

I have a really extensive plant-based knowledge.

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

getting vitamins.

So this is a Gulf area plant.

So I'm going to get as many of these as I can while I see them because they're

probably going to drop in the next week.

I need to get prepared for the upcoming winter.

I can dry these out and I can also make syrup 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 I'll be thinking of you, Kaya, when I'm eating these berries.

It 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 you got no shampoo.

Gotta look good for the camera.

Good luck on that one.

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

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. I've been a drywaller

for 37 years.

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

Well, you know I'm going to do good.

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

There he is.

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 going to be like a possepredic or whatever they're called.

The more comfortable you make it, this will be good.

It can actually be enjoyable living off the land.

What the heck is making that noise?

I definitely heard him 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.

Ha!

That's just like Robin Hood there.

It's time to find my paracord.

I'll go set a snare.

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

Oh, man.

It's a big zip.

Nothing I can do at this point.

Time to get back to work and get some stuff done.

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

It allows me to have dry firewood inside.

We'll 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, my God.

Jeez.

Jeez.

Ow.

It is hard to live here.

It's hard to walk here.

One bundle done.

Okay.

Now for the rest.

Oh, man.

What a day.

Being tired and lack of sustenance, lack of calories, and just no food puts

myself in danger.

I need to be able to think smart out here.

Unless you know how to work with it, everything here, it's going to hurt you.

It's going to take you out.

Throw these 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 firewood dry, too.

Roots.

My balls, roots.

I see how people tap out on days like today.

Today's the day I lose it.

Right now, it feels like the land's rejecting me, and it's really not a good

feeling.

I've got a road rash on my neck and face.

I'm carrying a bamboo.

Anyways, smiles all around.

Burned so many calories fighting through this bush. First to be dead in a week at

this rate. Oh, my God!

So I'm going to show you guys what I'm having for dinner tonight.

It's not fish.

I'm having orange peel, lichen, and chara berries in a watery soup mixture.

So I'm getting my vitamins and minerals, but I definitely need protein.

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

So I'm going to try that one out.

I've never made one of these before, so it's a bit of a...

Work in progress.

And what I'm going to 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 will

release and the 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 going to set our trigger.

You just want it resting there too.

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 going to make several of these.

I can just go and check them in the nasty weather that's upcoming.

Morning on day eight.

And it's still raining.

What a dreadful day.

I've tested myself. I'm testing myself.

Yeah, you know, I thought coming into 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 geez, this is way, way, way harder than I thought.

But I can't get down.

The minute you start getting depressed and feeling sorry for yourself because

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.

These are just going to be my base posts.

I'm going to do one here, one here, and then another one over here.

And then once I get more bamboo, I just slide them in along that and stack,

stack, stack.

And then I'm going to tie off 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 pushing smoke in, and it'll reflect heat back in towards

my shelter.

Now I gotta go get bamboo.

Now is the hard part.

Which means I gotta walk up into that again.

That's what I'm going through.

The forest is hard to walk in regardless here.

But now everything's soaked, so everything's going to be ten times as

slippery.

Whoa.

Man.

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

This is the hardest terrain I have ever, ever worked in.

Wish I had a machete.

Why am I doing this in the rain?

Just trying to plant a root as to how I can get in here.

I am freaking scraped up, beat up. I'll tell you that much.

She didn't hit that bamboo.

Cut myself.

Oh, my God, I tripped over a log.

My axe doesn't have its face on it.

The function of my hand.

If it doesn't stop bleeding, I might be... You asked.

I rolled into the bottom of the act. I think that's when I cut it.

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.

Oh, my...

I cut my arm.

It just won't stop bleeding.

All right.

I can't take off the tape there because I'm going to start bleeding again. It

looks as though it's got some debris in there as well. Okay. I can't do that out

here.

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 this life, it's just hard to accept.

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,

or able to get a deer.

Use it like a throwing knife, just throwing at a duck or a bird or

something, you know.

Maybe not throwing it out there and losing it would be very smart, but when

you only got 10 to something, your 10 survival items, you know, it's not a

lot. So they all got a dual purpose.

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

I love that shovel.

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

I'm going to set my snare today, trying to figure out how to do it.

I'm going to go to one tree. I'm going to 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 going to be fantastic if this works, you know.

I can 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 this rail.

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

Should have been a 15-minute hike. Now who knows where I am.

And now, I'm lost.

Hey!

There's definitely something outside.

Going to have fish dinner tonight.

If I continue catching fish like this and I can't eat them all, I've got to

figure out a way to preserve them.

My shelter roof collapsed.

Lack of calories are rocking me.

If there's something on this line, I'm just going to go in for it. Let's do

this.