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The place is so thick.

Yeah. I just messed my ankle up. I don't think I can do this. Is Josh okay? He

chose to pull himself out of the competition.

It's disappointing to be leaving so early.

Who's that?

I'm coming for you, bear.

Rugged as hell.

It's not fun trudging through this guy. I cannot stop thinking about Logan. I

think I can hear something. It's probably a bear. Sounds like it's

getting closer.

This is going to be an incredible challenge.

We're going to be dropped off in separate locations, and one of us has to

find the other. Angel!

I've got to wait on my brother.

Hopefully he'll be here soon.

Please come tomorrow.

I don't know where I'm going, how long I'm going to be out here. All I have is

a compass bearing.

It's a needle in a haystack. Can I even make it to base camp? Dad!

No way.

Everything around you is telling you you need to go home.

Please leave me alone.

If you don't work as a team, it's game over. I can't hold this thing up.

$500,000 would be life-changing. I know.

I feel like life is sucked out of me.

You're coming.

Excuse me.

It's slippery here.

The tide is on its way out, which is good.

It means I can walk the shoreline a bit better.

I've seen a couple limpets here, good size ones, just right in my vicinity.

One of the reasons I brought the knife that I brought, it's great for prying

limpets up.

Okay, not so good, actually.

I have just smashed the shell of the limpet, and I think it might just be

better to use my hands.

There it is.

The beauty about these babies is you can eat them raw.

I've never eaten one before.

Let's try it out.

Let me get it out of its freaking shell first.

Oh. Oh, gross.

Look at that. It just exploded guts all over me.

Mmm.

So let's give it a try.

Mmm.

Crunchy.

Crunchier than I thought. Just a little piece of muscle.

This is feeling pretty real now. I mean, I've got to just live out here. I'm by

myself. I have no idea what Jim's going to get to me. Jim's got to find me

through this.

That is terrible hiking.

That is pretty challenging.

I hope he's up to it, man, because it's concerning.

Jim is my older brother. We've been inseparable our whole lives. I think

we're built to do this kind of thing because it's just been ingrained into us

since we were little kids.

For a living, I work with my family's business, a map publishing company,

and I do a little freelance videography.

I'm Jim. I'm a professional adventurer and basically a content creator.

I think that we have what it takes because we have legitimate experience

out here. Bullseye.

I mean, we've been in the middle of remote northern Labrador with an intense

whitewater river in front of us and had to catch and forage and hunt for food.

The trap falls, snaring your bird. When we were a tiny kid, surviving in the

woods, it was like a fascination we had. And even though it's scary, we want to

test our ability.

and see if we can do it, because, I mean, that's the ultimate test.

Vancouver Island!

Woo!

I am concerned about the amount of limpets, that kind of stuff, around

here, because I'll probably exhaust that really quickly, let alone two people.

You know, I'm a big person, and, I mean, I need a lot of food, and my brother,

when he gets here, he's 6'5", he needs even more food, so we're going to have

to get other food sources.

I'm going to set up my gill net here.

I feel like if I can get in a groove and find sustainable food, then

I'm going to be having fun because I enjoy doing this. I enjoy being out

here, and I feel like I could stay here forever.

I set up my gill net.

Feels good.

Hopefully this produces some freaking fish.

Some winter chanterelles down here.

So I just have to go under.

I'm six foot five, so it ain't easy.

There we go.

Nice little stash of them I just picked there.

About ten more like that, I'll have a meal.

Ten more stashes, that is.

Oh, my Lord.

God, it's tough walking through this stuff.

All these salal bushes.

But no matter how hard this is, this is just so awesome.

Somewhere through this haunting, daunting wilderness, Ted will be

hopefully waiting on a seashore that's loaded with food and fish.

There's a lake right here.

My bearing crosses this lake, which is kind of a pain in the butt, which means

I'm going to have to walk around, and that's something that can cause you to

get mixed up. So what I've done is I've marked this side of the lake. I've

pushed these sticks into the water, and that's something to distinguish where I

am. And then I sighted with my compass that big white tree is right in my path.

going to be fun.

This is all happening at a perfect time in my life right now. I really wanted to

get into being able to do my video work full time. And I kept saying, well, when

I have more money, when I have more money, I'll do it. And finally, I just

said, you know what? Forget it. It's now or never. And I just went into trying to

be a full time adventurer with absolutely zero money in the bank.

And it's been a little bit crazy to say the least, but.

$500,000 would be life-changing for me.

It's going to be peace of mind. That's what I want to win.

Okay, and there's the big tree I sighted from the other side.

And then you can see the sticks that I jammed in the water.

This tells me that I'm on my bearing if I keep walking that way.

I'm trying to get dried out.

Everything is soaking wet.

I'm really anxious to get going today. But the best thing to do is just hunker

down and wait for the rain to let up.

Let's hope Logan's holding the fort down. I'm pretty sure he is. I hope he's

doing all right. He's probably worried to death about it.

But I told him to give me three days minimum to get to it.

For me, this experience with my son is the ultimate bonding opportunity.

Seeing my son become a man is a big deal for me. It's kind of like the dream

that's coming true for a father, you know.

Is this a courtesy call?

What's going on, guys?

Something going on with Logan. Yeah. We're going to pull you out. I'll bring

you over. All right.

Is my son all right?

I know he was worried about the animals.

Could have come upon a bear or a cougar or a wolf.

There's very dangerous, rugged conditions.

Just hoping that he's okay.

Is my son all right? There's very dangerous, rugged conditions.

Just hoping that he's okay.

What happened, Bob?

I thought it would be easier. The weather, the animals, the terrain, it's

done.

Well, I really just, I don't know, doesn't feel like right. Like I

shouldn't be doing it. Yeah.

Hey.

So, that's it.

All you can do.

You're all right. You didn't get hurt.

Put it behind you and move on.

This place hit me pretty hard.

I'm most disappointed in the fact that I couldn't stay here a little longer for

my dad.

He wanted to be able to get to me and do this together, but had my chance, and

I've made my decision.

It's definitely a very, very tough place to survive, and I'm glad that someone's

here to pull me out.

Naturally, I wish my son could have gone longer, but this was no joke.

Very dangerous, rugged conditions.

I don't think he was mentally prepared for this type of weather and terrain.

And he was thoroughly demoralized.

I wanted to carry on, want to keep going, but we came in this as a team. If

one person goes down, the team goes down.

So here's a real shame.

My T-shirt is soaking wet because it poured all yesterday.

And I'm going to have to put it on.

I can't hike in this sweater. I have to have it for tonight.

It's got to stay dry or I'll die.

If you're wet and it's 55 degrees, you're going to get hypothermia.

Oh,

oh,

oh, that was so unwelcome.

Oh, oh, I'll wake you up.

I better get going.

I had a bunch of stuff in there.

Got a lot of issues with this shelter I need to dial in.

So, today, I think I need to build my fireplace.

Everything is a bit damp, and I really could use a fire.

Man, it is just pouring today.

Poor Dave.

What I'm doing here is...

Digging a depression, which I'm going to fill with beach gravel, sand,

put some rocks, and then I'm going to build my teepee chimney over top.

Now I can start the chimney.

Okay.

You can do this.

You can do it.

The idea is the smoke will go out the top where there's air.

And then I can cover it with hemlock and cedar.

Cover the whole thing.

Hope this works.

All right.

I'm going in.

All right, guys.

It is time for fire.

We need this fire today.

Be a big boost.

Please stay.

Dave shows up today.

I will be able to get him some heat.

Nice to have a fire.

I hope Dave is doing good.

I hope he feels safe.

I wish he was here.

This ain't survival.

This is hiking in hell.

I'm going to tweak my knee a little bit. I'm going to twist it off of

that log.

You think you're going to take a little small step, and it winds up being a four

-foot drop.

moving again let's go i

chose to be a hiker taking in consideration that there is 11 years

difference between me and my brother chris but harder than it looks folks

harder than it looks but my brother's sticking it out of the coast somewhere

my motivation is to get there

It's right down this ridge line.

If I go down in that, I don't think I'm ever coming out.

That is steep, steep, steep.

I mean, where I come from, we don't even have mountains.

For my brother and I, our goal is to test our personal skills and see if we

have what it takes to thrive in the wild.

Good to see you.

Getting a chance to go to Vancouver Island, I think we were just bred for

it.

Growing up on a farm, it really, I think, enables you to deal with

suffering. It instills in you a work ethic.

And we've been practicing bushcraft skills, survival skills for many years

now. We go into a swamp or into a wilderness, and we procure food while

we're there, and we survive the best we can.

I have a lovely wife, Heather, and my two daughters. One of the hardest things

for me is going to be being away from them.

I'm leaving behind my wife and a 10-month-old daughter. When you go from

seeing those people every day to having no way of contacting them,

psychologically, it's really going to make you start missing home. That's the

one thing that people can't necessarily prepare for.

But we have a job to do, and ultimately our goal is not to be slowly dying on

the island, but thriving on the island.

All right, off we go.

Yeah.

Oh, man, you know when you're about to bust your ass.

There ain't nothing you can do about it.

We are having fun now, folks.

We are having fun.

Here to this point, I looked out there and I can see the ocean.

I really hope my brother's down in there.

It's been a hard trip.

I've been busting my ass going through those mountains.

I've been through really dangerous parts, really steep parts.

But right now, I look up and my bearing goes right over the top

of that mountain.

I can tell you right now, I don't see it. I don't see it happening.

Oh, yeah.

Climb that mountain.

I tell you what, my feet are rotted and soaking wet.

I didn't come here to do a hiking journey.

I'm going to throw up camp right here.

Maybe I'll feel better in the morning, but right now...

That mountain.

Breakfast of champions.

Hopefully today, I get to see Jesse walking to that beach.

It'd be nice to see his ugly mug right now.

I need wood.

Wood to build my shelter.

You know, I spend all day finding logs on the beach.

Cutting them and hauling them.

What am I staying out here for, huh?

Do I have a point to prove?

Nah, I don't.

I'm doing it for my family.

I want them to see this adventure with me.

See where it goes, for better or worse.

Whatever way it happens.

I would do anything for my family.

Anything at all.

My partner is Jesse. He's my brother.

I think we're uniquely suited for this type of adventure because of both of our

lifestyles, you know, his military background, and I'm a subsistence hunter

and commercial fisherman.

We are challenge seekers.

Being in the woods and having to survive up there is one of our funnest

challenges. It's not where you go, it's who you do it with.

That's why I like doing stuff with my family.

We're from Rango, Alaska.

We were kind of raised in this lifestyle, and we had some really lean

times. We was raised hand-to-mouth, and most of the food that we got was from

hunting and fishing.

It was such an obligation to have to go out and put food on the table for your

own family as a kid that now it's kind of turned into a passion.

The one advantage we do have is we'll keep moving. No matter how nasty it is

out there, we'll keep working for survival and to thrive.

We're stubborn, hard-headed, too damn stupid to quit. That's it. That's a

perfect way of putting it.

This is what I've been working on all day.

It's going to be a snug little cabin for me and Jesse when he gets here.

Once I get this done, I can stay as long as I want to stay.

Now I'm going to go drag some more logs.

Don't look at that.

Look what I found.

A basket.

You know what I see?

A crab trap out of this.

Dig the top.

Right here on the side.

Put a door in there where they can get in.

Make the tunnel for them.

This is going to be a crab trap.

I'm here to survive as long as I can with my brother.

And not only survive, I want to go and prosper.

Until we can't take it no more.

Until we find our breaking point.

Bear trail.

Crap. I see the ocean.

I see the ocean.

Ride's over.

So, made it down the hill.

I flouted on my butt.

Feels so good to get out of that claw right now.

On to the open beach.

So the first thing I have to do is find my route as fast as possible.

I just don't know how close I am to Shannon.

Man.

That's where I need to go.

I don't think I can slide up there.

Just go out of there.

Lead to a cliff on the other side and go out the back track and spend another

hour or two finding another trail around this little rocky bluff.

Or this could really pay off.

There might be actually good open shore, maybe an open path.

Just a way to make up a few miles that I've had to spend in the salal and the

bushes.

One of the big reasons why I want to get to Shannon so quickly is because in the

back of my head, I know him and I. The only way we're going out is by someone

getting hurt.

And Shannon's a klutz.

I got to make sure if he's getting hurt, I'm there to take care of him.

I just need to get to the coast.

We'll be faster on the coast.

We'll be there sometime.

Hopefully this brings me out to the beach.

Hopefully this brings me out to the beach.

This is way too rough for me to even try to get through.

It leads back into the swamp.

I've been to mountains, been in the jungle.

None of it is this hard.

Falling trees, the bushes.

It's all hard.

It's a beautiful day out.

There's actually blue sky. I do see some gray sky rolling in, but this is nice.

I think I'm going to try to catch a fish today because I'm freaking starving and

my gill net didn't catch anything yesterday.

Just cut down this stem off a huckleberry bush and make a pole to fish

with.

As far as bait goes.

A couple shore crabs.

Give it a shot.

You're kidding me.

Thanks.

I went to throw it out and the crab whipped off the hook.

That's just amazing.

What a disaster.

I've tangled my line.

Pretty bad.

Looks like I'm just going to be spending the next half an hour on tangling line.

So I'm pretty discouraged at the moment.

I haven't caught a fish.

I'm going to go check my gill net.

I kind of have a feeling there'll be nothing in it, but I'm going to go have

a look.

I saw earlier what looked like a stick wrapped up, but the tide wasn't totally

out yet, so I didn't want to go over and disturb it.

There's fish in my net.

A lot of fish.

I've got one, two, three, four, five

fish.

Five. Just when I was starting to feel a little down and discouraged, I'm

rewarded with this.

This is awesome.

Probably a big school here.

I've got a meat.

I'm feeling pretty tired and lethargic today just from lack of calories.

I walked maybe 15 feet back to the campfire, and I found

rainforest slug. They do exist here.

It's this, ladies and gentlemen.

Look at it. It looks like a piece of poo or something.

You know that times are tough when you're like, yeah, they get to eat a

slug.

I wonder how many calories that adds up to.

I don't know.

My slug is boiling.

What is a slug?

Is it a bug?

I don't know.

It may be a grub. My sliggity sliggity sluggity sluggity slug.

What time is it?

Time for some slug.

Not the best texture.

It's disgusting.

You know, there is kind of a

bit of a flavor I've tasted before, but the slime, the slime is,

something needs to be done about the slime.

That is gross.

That's gross.

Slug, slug.

Maybe I can.

Trying to think of what that tastes like.

Yeah.

I guess it tastes like survival.

It's going to be a long winter.

In a couple of days, Brody will be here.

I'm going to go ahead and work on putting out some of my trash, hanging it

out on some of these limbs to create a visible...

sign when he looks down into this cove i may not be on the beach and so i

want him to know when he looks down hey that's probably my brother

so i've got two pieces of rope i've got two jugs here

that have handles and should be pretty visible

I decided to make this trip because I haven't had an opportunity to spend time

with my brother like this. I'm 11 years older than he is.

So when I left for college, I was 17 and he was 5.

So this is a wonderful opportunity for us to spend time together.

And I really hope my brother and I are deeply connected by the end of the trip

in a way that we have not been able to have before because of our age

differences and different paths.

Here's my beach

Looking

forward to my brother getting here

You hear that? That's rain. That's rain right now.

It's been days of this.

Everything's wet. Everything's soaked.

There's no getting anything dry here.

50 pounds of equipment through this crap? It's ridiculous.

Whatever. I'm still doing it.

I'm still doing it because you guys put a challenge in front of me and I want to

f***ing do it.

I don't back down from challenges.

I push through.

The faster I get to Shannon, the easier it will be.

He's always in the back of my head.

Damn near impossible to go in a straight line in this stuff.

But my bearing brings me this way.

And I'm going to follow it.

Maybe I'm actually pretty close, Shannon.

I'd give it a try, but it doesn't seem like he's even close enough to hear my

yells. I mean, I got a few more miles to go.

Or he's near the coast so much that crashing waves is drowning me out.

So we'll see which one it is.

Yelling over here.

Over in that direction.

Maybe it's ghosts.

I don't know.

No response, though.

Wasn't him.

Okay, moving forward to get my parts from my crab trap.

Hopefully Jesse gets in today.

If not, I'm just going to keep pushing forward, and it's all about food today.

It's really hard working around up on these rocks up here. You know, it's hard

on your legs, easy to trip.

I'm all about the slow and steady. I just want to take my time and not get

hurt.

I think I'm going to use this as a door.

For my crab trap.

It might work.

A deep door won't work.

I was just thinking about home before I even came out here.

I wrote about 50 letters to my wife, and I gave them to a friend of mine, and I

told him, send a letter every two or three days.

And I just think that it's going to be something special for her because she

has a lot on her plate. She's taking care of all of our kids back home by

herself, and that's a tough job because that's what people don't realize is how

hard it is for the people that you leave at home.

And doing what I do, commercial fishing and subsistence hunting and fishing, I

never forget that.

Now I've got to find straight stick cover to top of my crab

top.

Still one good one in my hand.

Tears you up. It is unforgiving. Oh, my God.

I got to move.

I see a wolf.

He's so close to me. Look at that. Just full of berries.

I saw something moving down there. I think there's a pretty big bear here.

Energy level today has gone to zero.

I'm not really sure how much more I can take of this.

Rudy! I can hear something.