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We're halfway to the South Pole. We're going to be totally alone.

It's Tasmania. It's cold. It's rain. It's snow.

We're all going to leave changed forever.

Holy fuck. What is this place?

What have I gotten myself into?

We have to document this whole experience while trying to survive at

the same time.

Check it out.

Like a 60k win.

Mother nature's kicking my ass.

Did you hear that?

This experience is just as much a mind game as it is a survival game.

We got dinner!

What the fuck? There's a snake.

Oh, you fucker! Mum?

Suddenly going downhill very, very fast.

Oh,

my heart.

A $250,000 prize would change my life.

Whoops, stinking.

I'm not here for coming first if it means I'm going to kill myself.

I like you, Tasmania!

We're about to be dropped into the wilderness, far from everyone we know

and love, to survive against all the odds.

We're strangers in a strange land.

Wow.

What?

This is wild.

Do you know that feeling?

When fear and excitement are so next to each other, you don't know which is

which.

This is going to be the hardest thing any of us have ever done.

Oh, that's muddy.

Come on.

We are completely and utterly alone out here.

What have I done?

The only food we can eat is stuff that we catch.

Are you ready?

No, I don't think anyone could be ready. We have to live off the land.

Wow.

I am speechless.

Scary beautiful.

I want to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, the Palawa people.

There's no crew, there's no producers, there's zero contact with the outside

world. I can't believe that I'm going to do this. It's going to be so good and so

bad, probably at the same time.

Now that I'm out here and I see how difficult the terrain is to walk

through.

I was preparing for the worst case.

Mike Tyson says everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

The west coast of Tasmania is well known for its harsh weather conditions.

And it is one of the toughest places in Australia to survive.

Holy shit.

My new home.

Oh, my God.

It's a fight between nature and yourself, and that is a very hard thing

to come out on top with.

It's cold.

It's hard country. It's going to be very hard country.

But this is going to be home for the next couple of months. With my skill

set, I do have what it takes to win this.

The adventure begins.

We're only allowed to bring ten items with us on this journey, and I tried to

choose my ten items based on things that I would normally take bush anyway.

So here we are.

Things like my axe, my saw, my knife, sleeping bag.

Going, going, gone.

Whoa, here we go.

I'm prepared to stay out there for 90 days. All my stuff on my back.

See you guys.

But what if that's not enough? I'm not going to tap out at 90 days because it's

91.

Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for your beautiful country down here that you've

created.

We can tap out any time, but as soon as you press that button, you're tapped

out. It's the end of the game.

There's a $250,000 prize for the last person standing.

Here you go.

They'll be mine soon.

This is a mind game as much as a survival game.

Landed. All right.

Mental toughness will be the winner.

See you in two years.

Nothing but silence.

That's what we want.

What do you reckon?

So good, eh?

So I'm from Tassie.

You guys probably know this already.

Better get out of the swamp here.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Jesus.

It's pretty bloody serious, that shit.

And yeah, come along with me on this little journey.

It's a challenge.

Spirits are high.

It's going to get dark and nasty and emotional at times.

But you and me, we'll work through it, all right?

Yeah, beauty. I definitely think I've got more skills than the average person.

I do a lot of outdoor stuff.

you know, diving and spearfishing.

I catch a lot of my food.

Let's take a bit of fish on.

It's not a bad diet, is it?

Scallops and crayfish and sea urchins, abalone.

Bloody beautiful.

Come on.

Good boy.

Being completely alone, I don't think is going to be a problem.

Come on.

Yeah, good boy, there you go. Yeah, it is just myself and Billy, my dog. I

don't have a partner or children and that.

You know, I used to be in the army for many years.

I'm a veteran of the Iraq War.

I joined the military quite young and, you know, that gave me the skills to

sort of, like, just keep going and going and going.

The ultimate goal is to win. You know, I don't want to miss out on any time out

there. You know, I want that full experience.

Let's say goodbye, mate. Come on. Yeah, come on. You know, I don't want to leave

any what-ifs.

To be there from day one to day end.

Good boy.

I'm going to go now, all right?

I reckon.

Probably get some rain, but might have a quick walk for, all right, 10 minutes.

Into the abyss.

Every minute I'm here without a shelter, it's a very big gamble.

Man, it's thick.

It's a really thick bush.

How's that? Take, like, what, seven or eight steps?

And this is what it looks like.

Some really big dangerous trees.

It's a bit of flat ground here though.

I reckon I'll clear a bit of foliage in there and chuck a tent up.

I've come up with a little bit of a strategy. I think while I've... Got a

bit of weight on me and a bit of energy. I'll just crack onto the shelter

straight away.

And then once that's done and dusted, we'll start chasing some food.

Okay.

It's going to go all the way up here.

It's going to be my little house.

Just noticed something.

Check this out.

Wasps.

Oh well, looks like that were here first.

Oh, I just had one, I literally just had a...

I'll lift that

up a bit so I can collect some water.

Who knows, I might even stay here, this is not a bad spot.

Except for the waspies.

I've only just come into the bush where I've been dropped off by the boat and I

can hear something moving around up here.

Might be a little wallaby or something.

Nothing can prepare you for Lutruwita, but I just keep in mind and keep telling

myself that, you know, Palawa and Pakana people have survived here for millennia.

Oh, my mouth's so dry.

So before I do anything here, because I'm new to this place and I've never

been here before, it's important that I speak

to this place in my grandmother's language, in Te Reo Māori. And this is

true in both Aboriginal culture and Māori culture.

You know, Protocol 101 for any First Nations person, really around the world.

And the wind just dropped right there when I said that.

This sun coming through here is beautiful.

Kia koutou.

Kia ora tatou katoa.

hello lake hello trees this is

home it's stark it's wild it's brilliant

and

i want to i want to take it all in now because in

In a week and then in a month and then in three months, all of these trees are

going to be friends. This whole place, I'm going to know it as well as I know

my own hand.

So right now I want to kind of revel in the newness.

Oh, this moss feels amazing.

This isn't about defeating nature or conquering the wilderness. If you go in

with that kind of attitude, Mother Nature is going to slap you.

The only way to truly be at home in the wild is to have humility and to realise

that nature is going to break every single one of us open.

For me, it's about my own personal journey, learning how to be more deeply

at home in the wild and letting wild nature teach me how to be.

But I really have to get to work because that sun is going to go down really

fast.

Okay.

Time to get to work.

Holy shit.

It's like the craziest thing I've ever, ever done.

I don't know what to do.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

I'm doing this because we have this idea of who we are.

I know what I'm capable of. I've got tenacity.

I'm stubborn.

But then we're put in a situation where we're not with anybody and we can't talk

to anybody.

We have to deal with ourselves.

Never been truly alone ever in my life. I think I'm okay, but I won't know how

prepared I am until I'm actually on the land.

What do you want, darling?

Well, my life is crazy busy. You're hungry?

I've got people around me all the time.

We do love camping and Anne's going on a big camp, isn't she?

Katrina and I have been together for nearly 19 years and we've got four boys

and two granddaughters.

Do you want to put that one on the plate for me?

And all these animals.

It's chaos.

I'm a proud Wiradjuri woman.

Always put your knives back in your pouch so you know where they are. A big

part of who I am and our family is to be outdoors and connecting with country and

connecting with nature.

My goal is to be the first woman in Australia, First Nations, grandmother,

mother, to win this.

It's a lot of shit we've got to carry.

Fuck.

Just puffed.

Anyhow.

Alright, I'm going to make a digging stick.

I need to dig out this ground a little bit so I can at least get a fire

started.

That's a good one.

It's nice and heavy too.

I feel eyeballs on me.

Mentally, I don't know how I'm going to be when I am isolated and I worry

about where my head might go.

So many different noises here.

Something really smells.

Um, it could be a Tassie Devil den.

Um... We'll see.

It could be in here, actually.

But I can't see any carcasses of anything, so... Oh, you can... You're

for later.

I can smell something really pongy.

Fucking shoot myself if something comes out.

Wake up in a Tasmanian devil in my face wanting to eat it.

I'm just paranoid.

It's just those branches rubbing together that are making me nervous.

Did you hear that?

That was a tree falling.

Ooh.

Fuck.

Just not happy with what's above me.

This is fucking stupid. This is ridiculous.

Doing this.

Absolutely ridiculous.

It's gonna rain, I'm sure.

Oh, slippery.

You got that.

So thirsty.

Try and start out fire.

Something stinks.

You know what?

It'll be a fucking devil den, and I'll find out about it in the middle of the

night.

And then I'll shit myself.

All right, so I'm going to make my fire here.

Shit.

Oh, fuck.

That cannot ever get lost.

Ever.

So... This is going in the bra.

Stupid ferro rod.

Fuck.

That would have been dumb.

We've been allowed to bring ten items with us to help us survive.

And I chose my items based on my skill sets and my comfort.

and what I am able to use.

My strategy is fire first, shelter second, food, take it easy

and live in the moment.

No.

No.

Fucking hell.

Okay, I want to really get serious about this.

Come on.

Come on.

Yes. Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

There is a lot of mud here.

Go for a fish see if I can get a salmon or something for dinner tonight.

Also need to start a fire.

A little balsam water as well.

Still got a bit to do.

But yeah surviving here is gonna be very hard.

So if you don't start getting food in quick.

You're not going to last long out here.

My job is a hunting guide and I'm based in Western Sydney.

We did it, brother.

When it comes to hunting, I'm very highly skilled.

My strengths are hunting, fishing, tracking, stalking, archery, rifle

shooting. My mental strength, my way of adapting to what my surroundings are.

I'd describe myself as definitely an alpha male.

I love my wife and love my kids.

We are a very hunting family.

So my wife loves hunting.

We shoot together, ride bikes together.

It's a perfect match.

I think I've got the skills to go the whole way, just due to my line of work.

Being outdoors every single day.

About half the tools that I go hunting with, I'm not allowed to use on this.

My firearms, my bows.

If I could ring my bow and arrow here, it wouldn't be a survival show. I'd be

able to live out there quite comfortably.

Now it becomes a personal challenge. I can't blame my bow or my gun.

It's really just, if you fuck up, I can only blame one person, and that's me.

Lots of scat and shit around here, so I'm going to have to set up traps around

here.

It's literally like a forest of death.

Looks pretty scary to be honest like when you look at it looks like that

place from a Dark place from the Lion King All

right when you get set up

Here we are.

There.

Sweet. Oh, now, see? You can see the fire. I mean, that fire.

There. That's what I wanted.

And then, ta-da.

I don't know why I was doing that.

Oh, I'm not.

We're here. Okay, cool. We're all sorted now.

Boom.

Day one.

set the whole camera up and got the craps with it and i don't even have

anything to say so yeah

nice

little stream oh man a little waterfall

i'm gonna try this water you should always um

You should always boil water, they reckon.

And you should listen to them.

Don't always do what I do, all right?

But I'm gonna try it.

It's good to just have a little sip first.

Can't really taste bacteria, can you?

Rule one, boil your water.

You can tell me how to live my life.

Oh, I feel sick from the water.

Nah.

Tree hugging.

Just waking up to this every morning.

Cost you a mint to get this anywhere else.

So this is my shelter for night one. Pretty happy with it.

It's got two ridge lines and a front door that overlooks the water.

So I've started to collect these ferns.

Start laying these down for my bedding.

We'll just make layers and layers of these, roll out our sleeping bag on.

I do enjoy spending time out on country.

I like being out in the bush and sharing knowledge for our children is so

important, you know.

We're not rich people. We can't give them and fill their bank accounts up

with money, but we can fill their minds and their hearts up with the right

knowledge that'll do them well through their life.

You all right?

Daddy, get this one.

I'm a simple person, lead a pretty simple life.

Myself, my partner, Leanne, my son, Kobe, and my daughter, Coralie.

When you go bush, you go as a family, and every family member has a job to do,

but you're actually going to do this on your own, so you have to think about

everything. Well, you know, I'm not a survivalist, I'm not a doomsday prepper.

As a family, we spend a lot of time out bush.

Another crab.

It's a big one, Riley. You can eat that one.

You can eat him. I mean, here locally, we go and get kangaroo meat all the

time. We get kangaroo and we get emu.

And it's really important to us to have our children out on country.

Two eggs.

Learning just how to be out in bush and how to survive out there.

Are you going to carry them for me?

Thank you.

I'm going to take one photo with me.

I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, like whether looking at that

photo is going to make me more upset than I need to be.

I want to come.

No, Daddy's got to go by himself, okay?

I love you. For me, I'm doing this to really grow as a human being.

But to be honest, I don't know how I'm going to handle just being alone and

away from my family, especially that little girl.

That's going to be the hardest part, I think, for me, missing my family.

The trees are crazy, eh? Like, they're so old and ancient. They're all covered

in moss.

Plenty of wallaby scat around here.

Yeah.

Which is good.

Hopefully there'll be some food hopping around here later.

Okay, show for a clock.

Right, what are we fishing about?

It's time to get to work.

I've definitely got a sense of working against the clock and...

Feeling that the walk that I had and playing around by the shore was a kind

of drop shock.

Feeling a little bit, I don't know, stunned by being out here.

Because I don't have a sleeping bag, I really need to have a warm shelter and a

fire tonight.

Losing daylight.

Need to get a wriggle on.

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I'm under the pump.

Probably the thing that I like the least in survival is rain, and this place

rains 255 days a year.

My family think I'm bonkers, but they're not at all surprised that I'm

doing something like this.

I've spent my whole life deepening into ancestral skills and learning how to be

at home in the wild.

It's not the prettiest shelter in the history of shelters, but it's going to

keep me dry and that's all I really want.

I live in an off-grid shack.

It's so off-grid it doesn't even have power or running water.

I run camps and experiences that help people connect with nature.

I've got little fishies. You're going to love this.

Actually, it's not just fish. This is really good for eels.

How to make shelter, how to make fire, how to weave baskets, how to make tools,

how to track animals.

That is so, so beautiful, Jade. Like if I was sitting down, I can tuck my feet

in. See, that keeps me warm.

Yeah. I will be taking in a possum skin coat.

I have been making this possum coat with Jodie Edwards, my friend, and a lineage

holder for possum skin cloaks.

Sharing will help that continuation of knowledge and culture to go on.

I've been training for something like this my whole life.

I want to win this. I really want to win this.

$250,000 prize would change my life.

The only way I'm coming out of this is if they pull me out.

So there's this pretty cool trick.

If you're in a situation like I'm in right now where I'm running out of

light. So I'm going to use my...

t-shirt part of the sleeve and the cotton will

take a spark and then the sparks going

into the bit of t-shirt

catch it on fire and then from there i

can catch my tinder

Fire is probably one of my strongest skills and the number one law of

survival for me is conservation of energy.

Everything else comes from that and it's a simple equation.

I need to stay warm, I need to stay dry and Simple shivering is going to burn

calories that I would then need to go out and find.

I don't like doing the t-shirt thing.

Partly it's a matter of pride and ego.

However, when you're in a true survival situation, conservation of energy is

pretty important. And also, having everything done before dark

is also pretty important.

Big bubbles.

Yeah.

Oh, big bubbles, no troubles.

That's what I wanted.

I'll just let that roll on the boil like that for a few minutes.

I'm from a hot climate in the red dirt country in the Mallee where it's quite a

lot warmer than it is here in Lutruwita. So it's that cold climate that worries

me the most.

Night number one.

I'm just about to have a sip of this drink.

This well-earned drink.

Oh, look at the steam coming off it.

Oh, my God.

Oh, that's boiling hot.

Burnt my lips a little bit. I don't even care.

That's so good.

We have a story about Bullymar, which is the place that we go after we die.

And so that Milky Way there, that's Bullymar, that's the big river in the

sky. And all them stars, they're the campfires of our ancestors along there.

So, you know, if you feel alone, whether you're in the big city or if you're out

in the middle of the bush in the middle of nowhere, you can always look up at

them stars and see those campfires, you know.

You know, the story of Bulimah is one that I'll pass to my kids and, you know,

to my daughter and just want to tell her that, you know, long after I'm gone, if

she ever needs me, all she has to do is go outside, look up at the stars and

that brightest star that's shining that night, that'll be my fire.

Oh, here comes the rain.

Oh, he's already dead.

I've got a feeling this rain is going to set in.

It's raining cats and dogs down here.

It's relentless.

You are relentless.

Go home, rain. You're drunk.

Fuck.

Do I have enough firewood inside?

Yep.

Is there anything I need to do?

We'll see how the shoulder holds up.

I heard something moving past.

I don't know.

Man, this is crazy.

Absolutely crazy.

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outside is soaked.

Yeah, I've got Buckleys. I've got no chance of recovering that fire, which is

a bummer.

Which means I can't stay warm.

It was cold. It was cold last night, that's for sure.

It was freezing cold. I've never felt cold like that before.

And I also have another problem. I woke up this morning

and saw this.

Yeah, a bit of a fault in the roof of my shelter.

But one good thing is that I've got drinking water.

No fire to purify water, but I've got this.

The Palawa, when they were out here, they learned to love this place and love

Mother Earth and all that she provides for them.

And Mother Earth, country, would be telling them, this time of year,

midwinter, is not the time to be here. I have warmer places for you to be. I have

more food and resources in abundance in other places and move accordingly and

come back here when conditions are more welcoming and more hospitable.

This is my family here.

Leanne, my partner here, she's everything to me. She's a

really strong black woman.

I owe

her everything for giving me this beautiful son and this beautiful little

girl.

And this here, this is my little, my little Kerala bird, my little Apostle

bird.

I brought this photo with me and look

at it and it makes

you choke up a bit.

So in attempt to get a fire going.

Actually feeling.

I'm feeling a bit shit today.

Probably because I had a rough sleep.

It's wet.

And I miss my family a lot.

Fuck, this is so wet.

Sitting out here with no fire, not able to stay warm in the middle of a

Tasmanian winter is...

is not an easy thing to do.

Because I'm just thinking about tapping.

It's not lost on me that chances like this don't come along very often.

And sometimes you can overthink, like when you're by yourself a lot.

Time to look within and maybe I'll last a bit longer.

I've come from a place where, you know, I love my life.

And you know what? Hands down, I'd much prefer being there than here.

But you know this is my journey and this is about me and

how far I can go.

In every possible way, this experience is going to push me to my edges.

You wish you were me?

I can feel it already. There's just this wind coming.

The snow wind.

It's pressing down.

It's like a camp trip from hell where you just can't leave.

That fucking hurt.

Take away a human's food.

A lot happens to the mind. I'm losing my fucking shit, eh?

What's the point in life when there's no one to share it with?