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(sighs)

(dramatic music) - Wobbs.

Oh, Paraculum.

- This is quite a bit different wilderness.

The animals are as afraid of man.

- The memory of me starving is affecting my thoughts and actions.

- Look at that.

- This feels a lot more like home than Patagonia did.

- Boom.

- I know I'm going to be the last one standing this time.

- I'm stewing the best I can to get food out here.

I haven't had anything to eat.

I'm not surprised that hunger is what drove me out.

I'm just surprised that it was so soon.

This place may have got the best to me.

(sighs)

- For the first time ever on a loan, 10-pass participants return.

They come back with one goal, redemption.

- I deserve to be here and I'm back.

- I want to learn more this time than I did last time.

- Now we fresh hell awaits.

The cold is an incredibly strong punch in the

face in the punishing wilderness of Mongolia.

- We're in the middle of nowhere.

- Mongolia is a very unforgiving land.

They must survive in complete isolation.

- And during as long as they can, I'm just gonna

push and push and push until there's nothing left.

- The last one standing wins.

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- There's wolves.

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- For a time ever.

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- Just one little burst, over there.

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- Couldn't believe how loud that was.

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- Just for some pretty large cross river.

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- You've really gotta stay on your game with the predators.

There's a lot of things to think about and you're always

gonna have to be aware and be careful about what you're doing.

So it is really important for me to finish my shelter.

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- Okay, there's one.

Being able to come out here and get another shot at this

and see if what you learned the first time can be applied to a second time

on a new piece of land in a foreign country.

How could you say no to that?

- Won't be building no log cabin here.

- We gotta go long ways for a few street poles.

- My husband and I were on season four and we lasted 49 days.

Not a lot has changed for us from the previous

season until now it's been a very short time.

We're working on our property in Alaska.

On Vancouver Island, I definitely think our ability to build our shelter

the way we did was a strength for us and I'm proud

of how we work together as a husband and wife.

- We'll ultimately ended my time in the

wilderness with the resources of fish ran out.

- I want to eat, I want to eat something.

- It was definitely starvation that took me out of the game.

I just can't go on.

It's really hard to think that it was my fault we had to leave.

- This season, I really hope to capitalize on the game animals in the area.

I'm bringing you bow, I really want to hunt,

I really want to be successful at bringing in more calories.

I want to prove that I can do it alone this time.

I want to kill it out here.

I want to win, I should do it more than do it.

- So I got everything out of my shelter right now.

This is my front wall and I'm thinking right in here

that's where I'm going to make the fire pit.

I'm going to dig it out, add sand and gravel, and then I'll vent it here.

- I can't say if it's going to be harder or easier

than season four, as far as being with my husband or not being with my husband,

that will be an interesting thing to find out.

That said, there's a divisional labor

that doesn't happen when you're by yourself, so.

You have to do everything yourself.

Put it down in the hole.

That's pretty in it.

It's nice you have a fire in your shelter.

It's especially when it's raining.

A little fire like that, warm it right up in here.

That's not bad.

It's not terribly, terribly smoky in here.

All right, it's getting a bit smoky.

If I could pull that back up there a little bit more.

- Shelter is going to be very important.

That is the thing that gives you peace of mind for everything.

There are predators here, so there's just something

comforting about knowing you're enclosed in something.

And even if it's not great, it's better than nothing.

So shelter is huge.

It is my number one priority.

It's not as smoky in here.

This isn't too bad of a setup.

I'm pretty excited.

Oh, that was good.

I just, I just had a bath in the river.

Everything tastes really salty.

I think it's my own sweat.

Feels good.

Good to wash everything.

Shelter is on my mind today.

That's so important for me to build a home, because

that's going to be key for my long-term survival out here.

This can be a ridge pole right here.

This tree can be a ridge pole for the top of my lane too.

I have to get a shelter built quickly,

and it has to be a really, really warm shelter.

I need to balance everything I need to do and stay

healthy, because I still have MS even though I'm healthy.

I still have it.

It's a test for me.

All right, got these.

Some more ridge poles in here after I strip them,

and then I'm going to strip the birch rock off the side of these for fire tonight.

You're the Mongolia is one of the coldest places in the world.

The land here is extremely unforgiving.

Like you walk out and you will get frostbite sort of cold.

So if I can get my shelter warm enough and thick

enough, I'm hopeful that I can stay cozy and warm.

Take a little break.

Why is that taking so long?

It's my arms getting tired.

Bam.

Why is it so winded?

I don't quite what's going on.

I hope it's nothing.

I don't feel right.

All I can say is I hope it's nothing to do with MS, because that would suck.

I'm just going to tell myself that I feel fine.

And that there is nothing wrong with me right now.

My last major attack was in 2010.

There are signs that I get, like my icicles blurrier.

My nose gets tingling, or I get the tingling in

the back of my neck, or my muscles start popping.

There are signals to me, like, time to slow down a call.

And today, I'm not feeling the muscle popping

thing, or even my nose isn't even tingling.

Or my tongue's not even gone.

But I'm feeling the weight that I get with MS.

It's hard to describe.

It's like your legs and your arms get really heavy.

They don't quite function right.

And I'm feeling that pretty strongly today.

And that concerns me.

I'm going to let it get me.

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Day is day seven.

New personal best.

That's awesome.

Rock on.

It's all you can ask for is improvement.

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Today, I am going out to harvest all the looms up off we can.

There's a bunch of wild looms out there.

Their garlic, essentially, they look and smell

like garlic, and they grow the same kind of way.

I really am really excited I'm going to have a meal today.

And it was a guaranteed meal.

I don't have to go out and set a trap.

The looms aren't running away.

There's a lot of grassland that I can't see where my feet fall.

Out here in Mongolia, the Asian Pit Viper is pretty dangerous.

You just have to really make sure you keep your noise up

and you know where you're putting your feet.

So I'm going to make sure I'm armed, just in case.

I'm going to harvest all the wild looms.

I possibly can.

The act of day seven, so I was pretty deep into a really rooty soil.

There you go.

That's just from one loom.

There's a hundred of these things out here.

There's plenty left out here.

So let's keep going.

Hold the [BLEEP] Check this out.

It's a snake.

It's coiled up and ready to strike.

It's right there.

Oh, holy [BLEEP]

It's a pit biper.

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Oh, holy [BLEEP]

It's a pit biper.

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So I saw a snake on the trail.

Shout out to an arrow.

Cut it's head off.

There, right there.

Now it's mine.

I'm going to eat it.

Got myself a snake.

That's where I hit them.

Right there on the side.

I've eviscerated them.

First I'm going to skin the snake.

Start at the bottom of his belly.

I'll bring it all the way up in this centerline.

Got the snake.

Yeah, just ate something, sort of rat.

I don't know if you can eat the organs of the snake.

I'm never ate the organs.

I've always eat the meat.

But I'm really excited about eating today.

Right there.

It's a semen.

You just release all that now.

Yeah, it is.

I'm guiding them.

Not much meat on the snake.

At least not much meat on the snake.

Our part is going to right past that spine.

There's a hole still there.

Here we go.

I'm going to put it on my pot.

Cook it up.

I feel good.

Feel good about what I'm doing so far.

I'm doing the best I can.

Take the exact leg, check 'em.

It's all in here.

Other than lemmer bones and chicken.

Now it's hard to eat snake.

Tastes good.

There's so many bones.

There's a clean snake.

Bones.

I'm going to throw their mains away from me.

As you can see, like, two bites of a burger, I feel like.

Big mother [bleep]

I have a long-term shelter set up.

It's going to be a log cabin.

I've never built a log cabin before, so it's kind of a bit of an experiment.

Oh, yeah. That's the good stuff.

There's been some ups and downs with it and things that I'm learning along the way,

but everything seems to be coming together pretty well in Vancouver Island.

It never felt like it was a home.

I never felt like I was really there.

I felt like I was an outsider looking in.

I hope that building this cabin is going to help me to sustain myself

for an extended period of time, because I want to win this.

It's another beautiful day here in British Columbia.

I had some amazing times in Vancouver Island.

And I also had some of the lowest times in my life in Vancouver Island.

I set the feral rod down and it rolled down the fire pit into the fire.

If I can't get a fire, then I can't stay here.

What took me out last time was feeling burnt out,

feeling disconnected from my family and friends and community.

The isolation, you know, is difficult.

This season two experience itself was incredible.

Getting back was the hard part,

because within a couple of hours I was just like, "What did I do?

Why did I leave?

" I felt like I had quit something.

I knew was really important.

It was a huge regret for me.

Since I left Vancouver, I'm still teaching and

instructing primitive skills and wilderness living skills.

From the time I was a young kid, I was learning and practicing these skills.

This time around, I'm just going to really keep

myself occupied, keep my mind busy, work on projects.

This is the biggest caloric expenditure

that I'm going to see out here.

I know I'm going to be really happy with it when it's done.

It's going to be warm, weatherproof.

Let's have a quick look.

It's going to be a single-pitched cabin.

There's the fireplace.

There's my little door.

I still need to do a lot of chinking

and filling the gaps between the logs,

but the logs are setting in pretty nice.

Everything's coming together.

I'm liking it.

My body's feeling good.

It's still feeling strong.

Hungry, but hunger is just a part of the game out here.

I know where I'm at right now, compared to where I was at in Vancouver.

I'm feeling dramatically better.

It is hard when you're so strong all the time

and something like this kind of hits you

because you feel so vulnerable.

When you get MS symptoms, they formulate these different things.

I have tingling.

I have muscle popping.

I've got less energy.

My limbs are becoming increasingly heavy.

I do have access to nature and that's a huge healer.

I'm just going to roll with it.

I'm going to do my best.

I'm not f*cking leaving.

Time for a little exploration.

I found wild onions.

All right, this is just a single one.

Oh, wait, there's more.

The longer I'm here, the more I'm able to tap in

to what resources are here plant-wise and I'm finding new things every day.

But I'm not finding some of the other things I

used on Vancouver Island for management of MS.

I'm really deep in there.

Cool.

Now I've got

a whole bunch of onions for dinner tonight.

MS is a very strange disease.

It doesn't necessarily just take you down,

comes in waves and comes and goes.

And you might be able to be up and walking one day

and the next two days you're in bed and cannot move your limbs.

But I figure with enough breaks and some naps and

still working at a decent pace, I'm going to be okay.

I'm trying to stay positive because if I let

myself dip into the despair that my body is feeling

that I'm done and I can't let myself go there.

Wow, that's fast.

Love letting fires out here, that's for sure.

My overall philosophy with the 10 items,

you need to be able to guarantee that you can use all of the 10 items.

The other thing is what can I use to improvise and adapt and overcome.

I didn't bring fishing liner fish hooks,

but I figured I can improvise some hooks with my 20

gauge wire that I brought as part of my 10 items.

I can break down the paracord that I've brought into tiny, tiny strands.

And so I'm making a nice little huck fin

tight stick with a string and a huck and a weight on it.

I'm trying to break my record for catching fish this season.

During my time on Vancouver Island,

caught two fish and I think I'll be able to catch even more.

And my goalie, I better be able to catch more than two fish.

No sign of nothing.

Wow. I don't even know what to say.

I'm not getting a bite. I haven't even gotten my bait taken away from me.

Am I really that garbage at catching fish?

I'm going to head down to the old fishing hole,

dot bow and hand, and try to catch me some breakfast.

We do share this landscape with grizzly bear and wolves.

And so it's important to just walk slow, take your time,

always be scanning the area, always be looking around.

Well, here we are.

I just wrapped string around it, put a hook

on, put a grasshopper on, and toss it out.

Fish on.

You know, at this point they've just been hitting like crazy.

I'm getting about four fish a day.

Every cast, if not every other cast, I'm pulling in fish.

Just like that, he does.

I only fish for like 15 minutes a day, because

I don't want to take too much from the river.

Very nice.

You know, I'm slowly getting connected to this place.

And I'm figuring out what are the rhythms and patterns of this environment?

I'm eating fairly well.

I've been catching quite a few fish every single day.

Life is good right now.

Life is really good.

As I say in prompts, bone apple teat.

I gave it a little bit of thought, and I think the best bang

for my buck right now is going to be going back to camp.

And making some deadfalls for chipmunks.

It's really difficult to live day after day in the

woods with no success at getting yourself protein.

And it feels very vulnerable.

That should be good.

And there's actually a couple other areas that I'd like to set traps in.

The more these traps you set, the more likely you are to get something.

I'm going to fence off part of this other way, because like

any animal, it's going to take the path of least resistance.

So if I put this enormous rock like that, do a little arrangement,

you can basically guarantee he's not going to come in that way.

He's going to come in this way, and his entire body is

going to be underneath there when it goes cut thunk.

The enormous mental blow that I have right now

is the fact that I'm not getting enough food.

And that gives me a lot of despair about my situation and staying out here.

The thought of this experience ending this early is devastating.

I need protein.

On day eight, guys, when it rains, it pours.

I saw this very sweet grouse.

Tarmigan, I'm not 100% sure.

I plucked this guy right out of the tree, hit him right here in the behind.

You can still see the feathers on this guy.

Anyways, real sorry, I didn't get it on camera, but it's going to get in my belly.

So I'm happy about that.

If I can get a few of these a week, forget about it.

I hate that scene.

Let's see that.

Forget about Jesse.

Just forget about it.

I broke his ribs.

Oh man, I got it in with that shot.

Damn.

There's his lungs.

So you can see it.

This is hard.

Looks good.

Already pretty cooked.

Do you see that one out and everything?

The breast aren't done.

My legs are.

Did you say chicken or whatever it is, Tarmigan?

That bird hasn't really hit me calorie-wise yet.

It's just being digested.

But man, what it does to you are just mental fortitude.

So to pull food out of the land, my shelter is almost done.

I'm starting to think I'm going to be able to survive this thing until day 90.

I really feel like the weather is coming in.

So my first order of business really needs to be to

collect birch bark, to put along the edge of my shelter.

Oh, wow.

Whoop, baby.

Look at that.

That is a shingle.

Wow, we.

Yet another tree.

See how I know these knots usually make it harder.

That's usually a breaking point.

It takes a break for a sec.

I got that.

I got some things coming on again.

I got a good tree here.

But I have some.

So bad, that's sometimes right now.

So I'm going to sit for a minute.

Line up against this tree.

You can chill.

Out here in nature has always been my biggest healer.

So I'm going to power through.

I don't want to be anywhere else but here.

I'm going to go put my body, have the rest that it needs.

And then I'll come back to this task.

Here goes.

You're strong.

You can do this.

Camps right there.

The weakness in your limbs, kind of indescribable unless you have it.

The legs are essentially collapsing beneath me.

This had come on at home.

I would have had access to all of my herbs and everything that I do for myself.

I start feeling this way and I don't have access here.

I've used the plants the best I can but I need more than what I know here.

It comes a point.

It's just not safe to be out here.

If I can't walk and something big comes my way, I'm in trouble.

All right.

I'm going to have something to eat.

I'm going to drink.

All right.

I'm just going to get right here.

Oh, my God, I'm not.

Oh, I really wish that wasn't my gift.

I mean, the midst of a really bad MS attack I haven't been this second so long.

And I don't want to go home.

I want to be here so badly.

I have so much more than nine days in me.

I can't be out here not walking.

Oh, God, I think it's calm.

Oh, I'm having a really bad MS attack.

My legs aren't functioning.

So I'm going to need to know all they come get me.

Only right at the top.

That just been like every day.

It's like I can do one more day, I can do one more day.

And I've just been trying my best to do everything I do out here with the.

Even though, you know, going into a MS attack, I just kept

thinking, if I rest, if I do this, it will get better.

But it hasn't.

It's a guy fun.

Okay.

We have two ways to get out walk with assistance.

Or we can assist you out on a spine board.

It's going to have to be a spine board.

I can't move my legs.

A little bit more, I'm going to lift your legs up, okay?

I expected myself to do really well.

I had no reason not to.

I have the skills to be out here.

I'm determined.

I'm not lonely being alone.

I have everything it takes to be out here for a really long time.

And my body completely gave it on me.

I don't look at what I did this time as a failure.

I succeeded.

My body let me down.

But you have to try your hardest.

And I can say that I tried my hardest.

I didn't get it.

I'm hungry out here.

You are screwed.

I'm starving.

I haven't eaten in days.

So the first thing I'm going to do today is check my traps.

I'm going to go out to the field.

I really don't feel like I got anything last night.

I'm just not feeling it.

I'd say at the moment what's missing from my diet is

basically protein, vitamins, various carbohydrates.

You know, everything.

Basically there isn't a whole lot of a diet there in general.

How long can I push myself on zero calories a day?

Untriggered.

Untriggered.

Well, okay.

My trap went off over here.

It could have just gone off for no reason.

It could have just gone off for no reason.

Let's check it out.

All right.

This is like really getting me excited.

Okay.

Let's see what's up.

Oh, my gosh.

Gosh.

Oh, my gosh.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

(dramatic music) - Oh my gosh.

- Gosh.

(laughing) - Yeah.

I see him.

(laughing) - Yeah.

- Yes.

(laughing)

- Guys, I got first blood.

I did it.

I got a kill.

Yes.

Can you check this out, guys?

It's a bird.

It's one of those cute birds, but I mean, it's something, right?

- Today could actually be like a turning point for me.

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Definitely the smallest bird I've ever cleaned, but I see

meat in there, and I see more meat than it's on a mouse.

So we're plucking the bird rather than skinning

it, plucking ensures you get all the fat.

It's gonna make a nice little stew.

Basically, I went all the little bones and stuff.

I went them to all mush and melt together

so that it's just like all the same like stew-y broth.

So what I'm gonna do is let this cook slowly for like a long time.

I'm really good at starving, and I came into here with probably about 70 pounds

of emergency rations that are fastened directly to my skeletal frame.

But it's good to get some protein.

All those bird bones are completely melted down.

I'm gonna eat up this yummy Mongolian gravy.

We're gonna up a seat.

My delicious gravy mixture.

Oh, so good.

Okay, I've had better gravy, but like put that

on mashed potatoes and give it to me any day.

I'd be fine with that.

I'm just so happy to have this here.

Every ounce of food from the land is just like a crazy blessing.

It's looking pretty positive at the moment.

I feel like I definitely see some stepping stones

of what'll get me into the future of this thing.

I'm still in it for the long haul.

Holy cow.

This storm is so intense.

Oh, people could start dropping like flies.

I want to be in a place that feels like home.

I really do wanna win this.

Frickin' deer floating down the river.

Keep it warm to dance, people.

Whew!

There's my dance.

There's my fishy dance.