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I've never seen thick bush like this. It's just terrible stuff. Should have

been a 15-minute hike, and now I'm lost.

Oh, there's the sun.

First time in Nova.

Standing in a ray of sunshine for days.

That feels good.

Bam! Rainbow trout up in this bitch.

Now I got food, now I got bait, and the fish keep coming.

There's definitely something outside.

Hey!

Hey!

This is the hardest terrain.

Patagonia is a different environment entirely.

Everything out here is so hard.

Patagonia is 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.

I'm just missing home right now.

You get a feeling of helplessness, like, why am I doing this? Oh, my God!

The last person left won $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. Go to bed hungry, wake up hungry.

Can't believe we did that.

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.

Right there on the tip of that piece of dead tree is a clump of old man's beard.

Hang in there.

Do a little target practice. Try and knock that off.

Brought the slingshot because I'm thinking there's a lot of small game.

So I'm hoping to be able to take some birds, some ducks.

A target. That's about 20 feet away.

That's about the distance I plan to be able to hit a bird with these stones.

Oh, nailed it.

Only took 18 shots.

That feels good.

Feels good.

My situation has been a bit discouraging.

Not having sunlight is so difficult.

And then the hill is so steep.

And really not happy with the amount of fish I'm catching.

So there's a duck out here.

And he's swimming along.

And I'm going to try to get a head shot on him.

That would be worth swimming out there for.

Dead on. That was great.

Oh, I love slingshots.

Oh, man.

I missed him.

He dove under.

Oh, I managed to scare him.

Oh, that sucked.

It's gone out even further.

Slingshots turning out to be much harder than I thought it would ever be.

So it gives me the idea.

I'll make a duck trap out there.

I'm going to get him.

Oh, I love my shelter.

It is so dang warm in here.

It's time for a home tour.

I've got some stew, some extra wood.

Nice fire. Two chairs?

Get out of here. Two chairs? There's a fish on the ready right there.

Got the bed all laid out.

So, next thing I'm going to do is work on the door, and that's it. Shelter

done, done.

Let's start on that right now.

All right.

So, I'm starting off

with some of this.

Older bamboo.

Then I'm going to sort of wrap this newer bamboo in.

I'm going to make two triangles with the old stuff so that it fits in my door

right there.

I want to have it open and close, which would be nice.

They say three half inches ties the devil.

I'd be four.

Just to make sure that devil's done.

All right.

Next step.

All right, we're getting there.

We're getting there.

All right.

Oh, that's awesome.

La-da-dee.

La-da-da.

Look at that.

It opens and closes.

Abierto, cerrado.

Abierto, cerrado.

A beautiful shelter!

I have no fish yet.

I can't believe I haven't caught any fish.

I set more trigger traps based on land to set the hook when a fish bites on the

hook.

But I'm not going to give up.

The lake is not going to have the best of me.

I have to get at least one fish out of that lake.

This is it, huh?

So I'm going to check the fish traps.

My family usually goes salmon fishing, ocean fishing at this time of the year.

And they're probably having a lot more luck than me.

There's a fish down there. Is there a fish on the line? There's something

pulling, I think.

Yes. There's a fish. Yes.

Okay.

It's stuck in the reeds.

Darn it.

I don't want to lose it.

I need to go get it.

Oh, I'm going to have to go in this icy water.

It's really important not to get all my clothing wet.

So I'm just taking my clothes off.

This is going to be so frigging cold.

I don't want to get hypothermic.

But I need that fish.

It's so frigging cold.

Oh, my God.

I just don't want to live with fish.

Whoa.

The line just broke.

I'm going to try to go for it.

It's so freaking... It's so cold.

It's so cold.

It's right there.

Oh, I want that fish.

The line just broke.

There's no one with this fish.

I'm going to try to go for it.

It's so frigging... It's right there.

Oh, I want that fish.

upset right now.

Oh, I can't believe I lost that fish.

My legs are freezing cold. They're red.

I learned my lesson today.

Sort of learned my lesson. That lake just keeps pounding me with losses.

This is the first day I've really felt alone, I think.

Just watching the biggest fish swim away today just made me want to have a hug

for my family.

It's just, I need that protein.

I found this plant.

I don't know what it is. I'm hoping it's a good source for tea and a good edible

plant.

When you're experimenting with plants, don't eat too much at a time. This is an

old bushman trick.

We're all in this together, so I'll try them out for you.

We'll see what these greens taste like.

Ah, the tea's kind of... doesn't have much of a flavor, the tea.

But the plant's good.

You know, hopefully it's a safe... Oh, no!

Yeah, no.

Hopefully it's safe.

I think we'll be okay.

The food situation's becoming the issue.

Just not catching fish like I did the first couple days.

Can't just keep going like a week at a time or anything like that without some

fish.

I'd hate to get forced out of here because of starvation.

So I got to really think about pigs seriously.

So I'm going to go check my snare again.

Oh, no.

Damn it.

Something happened with my snare.

You can see the line is strung out this way.

But nothing's in the trap, and my bait is gone.

See that?

It took my bait.

Now, I don't know if it was a bird or what, but something was here.

So I'm going to check the trail cam, see what happened.

So, I don't know if it's a fox. It's about the size of a coyote, it looks

like, though.

Whatever it is, they just keep taking the bait out of my snares.

So, it's kind of a catch-22.

I can't get pigs if something's stealing my bait all the time.

He'll be back.

He has to go.

And that would be food for me.

I've got no qualms about eating him.

He's eaten all my bait, stealing the chances of me getting a pig.

So it's the way it goes.

I'm watching the water.

I want to make a duck trap.

I was really hoping I'd be ahead of the game by now with the fishing, you know.

I'd be catching enough fish that I could be setting some aside.

It just hasn't happened.

I need more food.

Duck would be a great source of food.

He's too far away to hit him with a slingshot.

So today's going to be trap-making day.

I'm going to head down the shore, and I see a plank down there. This will be a

little float.

I think I'm going to hook a little propeller to it.

Whoa.

Found myself a surfboard.

Innovation and creativity are very important.

Nothing has come easy.

Everything takes a lot of work. Very tough, very tiring.

What I'm trying to do here is, make a little paddle wheel that goes in here.

We all have our strengths and our weaknesses. We all have different

abilities, you know?

Mine being the ability to make stuff.

And ever since I got my land off the grid, whether it's a knotted piece of

wood or a gnarled piece of garbage that I found at the dump, see the nature of

the thing and make that item into what it wants to be.

That's my passion.

Almost.

A perfect fit.

There, all joined together.

Little paddles.

To get my duck trap out there, since I don't have a boat to paddle out there

and set it, I was thinking about taking some of the elastic from my slingshot

and seeing if I can't make it wind up.

I guess that's all that's left is to try it out. But first, I'm going to try and

build like a little dock that I can walk out on and launch my boat. That would

get me out 30 feet further.

Patagonia is a place of extremes.

Nice.

It's possible that this lake could rise like a foot and a half for winter.

And that dock would give me something that I can walk out on when the

temperatures keep freezing cold.

Pretty sturdy.

I'm going to get the duck hunter ready and launch that.

So this is what we got going on.

As you can see, the propulsion to take it out there.

A rock with a line tied to it.

two of these and a line to a fish hook in a fish head which i'm hoping the

ducks will take and which they're apt to do and then they will tug on it which

will pull the rock off of here because they'll want to get away and i'll pull

it into the water and the rock will unravel and it'll pull their heads under

and finish them off and that'll be the end of the duck and dinner for me

Hi, Chris and the Duck Hunter 3000.

On your first mission, sink and destroy.

We are fishing for birds.

If all goes well.

I will be having duck souffle for dinner.

Duck soup.

Duck tartare.

Duck and dumplings.

Duck.

Whatever.

Yeah.

I'd say that's good.

Success.

Today was a good day.

You know, things are really shaping up. Looking forward to catching some bigger

game.

Catching that duck. And hopefully we can keep this going and see where it takes

us.

35 days of failing. I miss my family immensely.

But everything I'm doing here, I'm doing for them.

That fox has old fox meat. He's just reaching in to get the bait.

He has to go.

So I woke up to splashing.

And I come down to the waterfront, and the duck hunter is upside

down and almost back into shore as far as he can go.

It looks like there's a fish tied to the side of it somehow.

There's something going on.

She needs some ballast underneath to keep her from rumbling over when a fish

takes a bite and the rig catches her.

I wish I could have had it on film, though. That would have been cool.

Let's see if I can't bring her in.

Look at that.

It's caught a big fish, and he's all like, ah, this sucks.

Ha-ha.

Man, he's a good size. Look at him.

That's a nice-looking fish.

Catching fish with my duck hunter.

Did not expect that.

Duck hunter made her first kill.

Good girl.

You can go out on another mission.

Now.

Away you go.

Hopefully, next time I get a duck.

Every night I wake up, I have to use the bathroom.

I have to get up, put my shoes on, come outside in the cold.

So I decided to try and install my urinal.

Basically, it's just half of a hollowed log running out the back of my shelter,

braced by a Y-stick.

I'll show you easily how it works.

There you go. No more going out in the cold at night.

It's so convenient.

I may install one next to my bed when I get home.

I'm naturally extremely optimistic, but it's hard to be when nothing goes your

way.

And not too many things are going my way right now.

Nothing on my fish lines for a long time.

It's got to change.

Crazy. I've been a vegetarian against my will.

I'm curious, by just eating wild edibles, how much weight I'll actually

lose and when I will plateau.

Oh, man.

Pretty slim.

Like...

11th grade slim.

My energy level is lower, and I get tired faster.

Pushing through the brush over here, and I came across some, I think it's called

lengua de vaca, tongue of the cow.

It's an edible mushroom.

It's a big one too.

See how it looks like a tongue?

So I'm going to take this back.

That's a good score.

Pretty pleased with that.

Also down here, there's some plantains that I can eat right out of the ground.

And when food is not in abundance, anything you find...

It doesn't taste that bad.

It's like a bitter salad with no dressing, no croutons, no cheese, no

tomatoes, no grilled chicken or salmon.

That's basically what it is.

I don't know how vegetarians do it.

I don't like the vegetarian lifestyle.

I need some meat.

The fishing is not working out.

I got to try and get some larger prey.

I found some places where I think rabbits might be residing.

A low shrubby area.

Put some rabbit traps down.

A paracord's running low.

I'll use fishing line for my snares.

That should work.

I did manage to get up one rabbit snare.

And...

Hopefully tomorrow's the night I put some rabbit in my pot.

And just got to keep placing more bets.

Something's got to hit.

I just saw fish feeding here.

So I'm just going to cast off here for a bit and see if there's any bite.

Right now, my main concern is just not being able to catch some fish.

I'm definitely losing weight.

And I just need to get some protein.

Why are the fish not biting?

So I'm just going to check my trigger trap.

Oh.

Trigger was actually triggered.

We're going to bring in the line and see if there's anything there.

I'm willing to get wet for this just to get this fish.

I got a fish.

Look at the colors on this beauty.

It's all wrapped around the reeds and my feet are soaking wet, but I don't care.

It's going to melt all the reeds.

I'm so excited for this.

Oh my gosh.

I finally did it.

This fish will definitely keep me going for bed.

And I'm going to eat every piece of it.

And the entrails I'll use for, hopefully for bait.

Oh wow, it's so good.

It's work to be out here.

It's survival.

Battling the hunger.

I can't go a week at a time without any meat.

I mean, I really got to get some meat.

It might be feasible with some kind of trap to get a pig, but not when you got

foxes taking all your bait. So unless I get the fox, I

won't get the pigs.

I'm going to try a deadfall. The fox, he's used to coming to this particular

spot.

So I figured I'd set it up here.

I'm really hungry, and I'm feeling it, too. Starting to feel weak.

I'm desperate for some meat. It's protein and it's calories,

carbohydrates, whatever energy that I desperately need.

And the idea of the steaks...

He has to come in to get at the bait.

So I'll run a V this way, a V that way, and just make my row of stakes.

And then I have to find that fine line.

And see, I should be able to get a hair trigger there.

Okay.

That didn't take any pressure.

Yeah, all this work for a little clock.

He keeps coming back, and the bamboo that I had for a trigger is gone, and

the bait.

The fox figures out a way.

We've got to try something to get this character.

So I'm going to try something different. I'm going to do a lot touchier trigger

system on this one. I want to use a branch, kind of like a slide hammer.

But he's not afraid of my traps because they don't work.

It's in this area somewhere.

Oh, you.

I'm not sure if that tear trigger, but I got movement on that.

And, I mean, if this trigger doesn't work, then that worked pretty good. It

didn't take much pressure.

That's got the ticket.

I hope that fox appreciates the work that I've put into this.

I just hope he appreciates it.

Crap is still set, but the fox took my bait again.

It almost looks to me like he pulled the bait out the side.

That fox has outfoxed me way too many times.

See, he doesn't want to go underneath it.

See how smart he is?

He'll paw the bait to himself through the bamboo.

Yeah.

He's just reaching in to get the bait.

Unbelievable.

He seems to know it's a trap, but he knows how to get around it. He can

figure out ways to trick me.

That tricky old fox, eh?

I give up with him. I'm not spending any more time trying to catch that thing.

And as a survivalist, what you look for is practical solutions to getting by.

I can't chase a fox around through the wilderness of Patagonia.

I don't want to sound like a perpetual complainer, but nothing is going right.

I feel absolutely depressed.

It's easy to get negative in this situation.

The weather, the lack of food.

I just wish that I could just get on a plane and go home.

I don't really know how much longer I can keep going.

I keep thinking about the words of my daughter.

Even when you think you can't do it, Dad, just hang in there.

You need this.

And I just want to give her something in life.

Something of her own. A house. All I want to do is be able to build her a

house this year.

Maybe a little guest house for myself on the same acreage somewhere.

This chance is never going to come again.

But I'm really struggling to want to be here.

I knew that this day would come.

And it's just a terrible feeling in your heart that you just... You just...

want to be at home.

It's amazing how many breaks I need to take.

I'm like a little remote-controlled car.

You put in the fresh batteries, and that was around, that was like the first

week. And I can drive around, do all this stuff, no problem.

Run around, carry this, push this, chop this.

And then the batteries start running low, and you know, you can take out the

batteries and put them back in, and it'll go...

It's been 23 days since I caught a fish.

It's killing me to be vegetarian.

I'm going to go check my rabbit traps.

Hopefully something's in them.

I'm hoping against hope that today is the day my trap gets hit.

I could use it.

I need a big, fat, overweight rabbit.

I miss my family immensely.

But everything I'm doing here, I'm doing for them.

I'm missing important moments in my son's life.

I told them to take photos and keep a diary of the things that they do.

I can't imagine what being the last person to go home with all the prize

money will do to your life.

I'm going to take my wife on a vacation, pay off the house.

I'm going to take care of my parents.

I'd like to buy a little piece of neighboring property.

That's why I'm out here dropping weight like it's nobody's business.

That is very upsetting.

I had something run through here, get trapped, and chew his way out.

That is a big blow.

I had no more snare wire, so I was hoping I could catch them with my

fishing line.

I knew that the line would be enough to hold them. I didn't take into

consideration they would chew right through it, chewed right through it,

chewed it up in little bits.

That's bad news.

Why didn't I think that they would just chew through it? Because I wasn't

thinking, that's why.

Rabbits can chew through fishing line.

I set them all up, not even considering.

I have a lot of snares set out there for apparently no purpose.

What was I thinking?

Man, I had one.

We're going to go down to the stream and get some water to boil.

That's one thing I can't do wrong.

Get water and boil it.

At this point, there's nothing I want to do here except eat.

I don't have projects.

I'm not hiking anywhere.

I don't have the energy for it.

So I'm in a cycle of the same thing day in and day out.

35 days of failing.

That kind of stinks.

I don't know. I don't care.

Kind of irritated.

It's amazing how disappointments can sap your energy.

It makes it so hard to think that all I have to do is be like, I'm done, and

then I can be with my family. It's that simple.

Really missing them right now.

I want to be doing what they're doing where they're doing it.

I like to be around and be the protector and the strong one and the one that

takes care of anything and everything that's going wrong. I like that.

Something I'm mulling over.

I don't expect it to subside.

Kind of tired of being here.

I talk about getting out of here like I'm in jail.

I have the freedom to go whenever I want.

But I'm here for a reason.

My family.

I'm doing this for them.

I've already done it for me.

I could survive out here.

It was occurring to me as I was getting ready for bed.

Getting ready to climb into my filthy sleeping bag and put on my filthy hat

and sleep for two hours.

And I was like, man, I'd really like to be just sitting next to my wife on the

couch, eating popcorn, watching the show.

Right now, if you're commenting on the camera, I'm talking about the same

thing. Because it's all I can think about.

My family.

The need for them has far surpassed my desire to eat anything.

It's time to come see you guys.

This is Britt.

Okay, mate.

I think I'm ready for you guys to come pick me up.

Yeah, I'm 100 percent.

Just like that.

Going to sleep in a dirty sleeping bag and freezing and I'm hungry and my traps

have been failing for 35 days and I've got no fish.

And if I didn't have a family at home, I could do this.

But that's what that's what's driving me to get back there.

I'm missing stuff that's really important to me, so... Patagonia?

I love it.

But it's like a beautiful prison.

I'm not really tapping out.

I'm tapping back in to my life at home.

I can deal with the cold, the elements, the terrain, the hunger, the isolation.

Surviving is not the problem.

It's the longing for what I've left it on.

I have such an overwhelming love and adoration for my family and the bond

that we are that it's killing me to be away from it this long.

I need to be tapped in.

What the?

I'm hungry.

Making is my knack. It's in my nature to always be building and creating.

A nice sharp spike.

It would sure be nice to make a raft so that I can get to this other river over

here. But I don't want to fall in the lake.

I was up all night last night. I got some shocking news.