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(sighs)

(dramatic music) - Oh my gosh!

- Yeah, I see them again!

- I got first blood!

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

- Yeah!

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(beep)

- I'm not thriving or surviving, I'm just lasting.

God, it's half killing something, but at the same time, I gotta eat.

- Freaking deer, cloning down the river.

It's heartbreaking that I wasn't able to bring down that deer.

I need to tap deeper into my resolve and determination.

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

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They come back with one goal, redemption.

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

- I wanna 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 till there's nothing left.

- The last one's standing, width.

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(dramatic music) - Look at that.

- People should work together like ants.

In the end, we pretty much just have all one common goal, right?

Health, happiness, family, food, some fun.

These ants work tirelessly to fight this thing, and no wind, too.

They have the numbers.

This thing has no defense.

It's pretty crazy.

- It turned out to be a nice day, huh?

- Okay, let's go catch some fish.

- We got three grasshoppers in my pocket.

- My fishing strategy right now is definitely grasshoppers.

I just scoop up a pocket of 'em.

I'm catching good fish every day.

- Yeah, there he is.

Now, my next spot.

I didn't feel like I left Patagonia, and I failed, but I'm here to redeem myself.

I'm here to go the distance.

- Ooh, 10 grasshoppers, 2 bells, 2 fish.

- This offer, I'm surprising myself and my success, a rate at which I'm having it

is so great that it is almost making me laugh at times.

(crowd applauds) - Where you at?

- You have to see me.

- Bad news.

- This is absolutely the most success I've ever had fishing everywhere.

If I'm procuring food at this rate,

and I don't have to have that as the first and foremost

thought in my brain, then I can focus a lot more

in other things to make me more successful in other areas.

- I took out that hole, nine fish.

This is a lot of weight.

Not bad for about two hours of fishing, maybe two hours.

- I got dinner.

- Holy (beep) - Look at that.

- That up here looks suspiciously like claws.

I see these little ones next to it.

(birds chirping)

Seeing these tracks is putting me a little bit on edge.

- My number one fear is being ripped apart by a grizzly.

If a bear is giving indications of that being his

territory, I'd rather find another territory of fish.

(coughs)

- We're totally immersed in this wild king then out here.

I mean, there's no filter between all these animals and us, there's no buffer zone.

They roam where they want, and we're just here at there, mercy.

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Tell me it's crawling.

It says feed me.

All right, what's on store for today?

Well, I really need to eat.

There's no way to hunt right now.

I'm not seeing a deer.

I think they're so small.

They barely get above the vegetation.

So you need the vegetation to die back as fall and winter sets in.

I think they even see them.

So I am hoping for a fish.

Got one floating line out.

Nothing biting on that.

Gotta think about trying something else.

So I think I want to make some kind of a spinner to look at the track of the fish.

It's sort of trying to make a little spoon out of this piece of pine.

If I can make a little hole right here with my all.

I can put on a piece of wire.

Maybe it would spin in the water with my hook.

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There it is, in theory, my homemade lure.

Sometimes the day it seemed to go fast and then sometimes they just drag on

lack of food, it dominates your thoughts.

You gotta keep yourself busy.

That's why I just invent things to make even if they're kind of goofy.

Well, here's the finished at least one container.

I got out of the birch bark.

Four days worth of birch bark chain.

So look cool.

Can't let your mind take over about what you're missing,

what foods you want, what your people are doing.

Yes, dear teeth.

I think the thing I think about the most

and it happened last time too is you're making plans for your life when this is over.

Like you're thinking about everything you're gonna do and everything you wanna do.

Here you're just kind of static.

You're just existing.

It eats at you, for sure.

Why aren't the fish biting?

Now let's just look into myself in the camera.

Man, I'm scared because I got them thin.

I really need to start getting some actual calories in.

Whoo, wow.

It's not Vancouver Island, it's Mongolia.

Vancouver Island just go down to the beach

and grab some seaweed when you didn't do very well

fishing, you hear that the fight for every scrap.

I mean, I have to add these solid food for five days.

I would eat anything.

Oh, no, I gotta think.

Looking around, there's a lot of pine trees.

Pine inner bark is starvation food.

I think that's what I'm gonna have to get into.

Eating pine bark.

One tree can supply me a long time of food.

Definitely need to get the calories in me before it becomes a big problem.

I'm tired of this starvation game.

Let's get this bark off at our bark.

This whiteness, that's the xylem.

What I'm gonna be harvesting is the xylem.

The blood vessels that bring all the good nutrients

from the soil up to the leaves and the branches and the rest of it.

Yeah, I can easily slide my knife up and eat that.

I wanna make sure I only go a little bit down.

Just peel it down.

You just eat it.

I don't know what a screw me, guys.

Pine bark is good.

I'll keep me alive.

It might be coming to the dab, eating the moat.

So I have it out here.

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That's only like a bear.

Can you hear that?

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If a bear comes close to my campsite,

I hope that it doesn't come pushing through my front door

'cause it's really the only weakness of my shelter.

Keep my bear spray and bear horns safe or handy just in case.

It'll come to the front door and put an error through that door.

No hesitation.

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(dramatic music) So it's weird.

You just get accustomed to all the sounds like you know when you're at home.

And you hear a noise that triggers something in your brain to be out of the ordinary.

And that's what I heard last night.

Whew.

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That's a great day.

Let's see.

Everybody's heard bear sounds on a nature show is around TV and they have that.

(grunts) Kinda sound.

I grabbed my bear spray and my bear horn

and just kind of listened for something to see if it was gonna happen.

I'm gonna encounter when I'd rather be in the daytime.

I don't want to get surprised by something.

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I'm definitely seeing a lot of evidence of bear activity, not too far from my camp.

So I'm gonna beere scrunchies.

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I just hide my face.

Look how thick there's a, there's your big clothes.

Not something I want to feel across my body.

I knew they were here.

It doesn't make me comfortable,

hopefully I'll just be able to avoid any sort of confrontation.

Whatever you don't want to do is run into a mother with cups.

Yeah, I want to.

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Anyone has to have pretty uncomfortable hunger pains fairly early this morning.

So I might take a few more dandelions than what I have been digging.

Just so I have something to eat like in the morning and in the evening.

You nice if I caught another fish while I was out here.

I'm losing weight pretty rapidly,

but that's to be expected from my lack of calories.

Come and dig and stick.

Just go dig up some dandelions.

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I sure looked out with how many dandelions

are here even though I don't care for them.

There's something happening when I stand up and I'm getting these head rushes.

They worry me a little bit.

I know I had head rushes bad on Vancouver Island, but not that bad.

I'm hoping they'll go away.

While I harvested quite a bit of dandelion.

So, let's go fishing.

♪ Head rush ♪

♪ Head rush ♪

♪ How come I get a head rush ♪

I need some fish, man.

Lots and lots of fish.

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(beep)

That was a big one, too.

God, that's disappointing.

Come on, man, I need more fish.

Let's go.

Please, Mongolian.

Please, let me get this fish.

I got one. Thank you.

Oh, (beep) yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Oh, thank you, Mongolia.

Thank you, Mongolia.

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Oh, a head rush, head rush.

Time to cook up some beetles.

What a needed morale booster, nourishment, and when I just can't say enough about it.

Whoa.

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Well, that was a pretty intense head rush.

I've never had a head rush like this before.

This is the worst one I've ever had.

I blacked out.

I hit my head, just very, very glancing, but it could have been pretty bad.

I'm laying on my back and I'm staring at the

sky thinking that is a really blue, pretty sky.

And then slowly, my brain fog starts to lift,

and I realize I'm in Mongolia and I'm on my back, and I just fell.

I think those dandelions have been dehydrating me pretty bad.

The problem is, I think those dandelions are a diuretic,

which makes you pee, and if they make you pee,

then they're keeping my urine color clear.

So I'm thinking that I'm hydrated when I'm really not.

I'm hoping that cut the dandelions out of my diet,

at least temporarily, will correct these head rushes.

It's disconcerting to tip over from a head rush.

So that's something that I really need to watch.

Something small can turn into something big

out here in the wilderness if you let it go.

We are out in the middle of nowhere.

If you do something catastrophic, you're just screwed.

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That's a good piece.

Got up in the morning.

I processed part of that log.

That gave me a lot of food.

I could eat all that, or I could dry it up.

And tried to make some flour, which could be three days worth of bread.

Two quarts a pot of food.

It's a couple days right there.

I couldn't eat all that one day.

I guess I could.

I have food laying outside.

I have more food hanging up.

I have a lot of food right now.

It's all pine bark, but it gives me carbohydrates and amino acids.

It just doesn't give me protein in fat.

(scoffs)

Pine bark is me gas.

Oh.

Now I'm a little worried about the constipation.

I've been eating well for the last, what, two

days, but I haven't had to have a bowel movement.

I'm in the spiritual nature of this show for me.

We're doing this financially for my family.

I want to help each and every one of them out.

Going on my pot.

Love my family.

That's why I wake up every single day in that shelter and negotiate with myself.

All right, get up, boil your damn water, get some food, get your shelter built.

I would do that every single day until I win for my family.

Every single day, same view of later.

Kind of feel like I need a poop when I try.

I'll sit there for 10, 20 minutes and nothing.

Oh man, it's all nauseous, I just feel beat up.

I'm a little worried about my pine-brought diet.

Even bodies don't really digest cellulose,

so it's probably breaking it down a different way.

Maybe it's that.

Maybe I haven't eaten as much as I thought I

have, and I've just eaten enough to keep me full,

which is not much because my stomach is small,

or I'm starting to clogged up.

If I get constipation out here,

I don't know what I can do.

I really don't know what I can do.

(upbeat music)

(birds chirping)

I have a very active day ahead of me,

and so I'm just grabbing some water from up here on the tarp.

I've just let it gather right there.

Every time I need a drink, I just take a scoop.

Just the right amount of birds poop and ashes and dirt.

And to Mongolia, and to freedom.

Wow, what was just green is now turning yellow.

Everything around here knows that it's fall now.

Like the season has changed, it is not summer, it is fall, and you can see it.

All these colors reflect it.

That means it's gonna get chilly, and it's gonna get chilly pretty quick.

So right now, I'm looking forward to getting my long-term

shelter built so that I have four walls and a roof when we get our first snow.

So today is gonna be a major shelter day so far.

I spent about five days working on a shelter.

I got one wall blocked off, and initial framework done.

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna put the tarp

from the old shelter all the way over to the new shelter and finish all the walls.

Let's get cracking.

Time to take her down, out with the old, and with the new.

So the shelter is a framework of maybe four inch

or five inch thick wheel of holes, and every last

bit of it is gonna be what I need to stay comfortable

and stay out here for as long as I possibly can.

Time to assemble zibed.

This is all part of my original plan to find a really good spot for a shelter.

I take your time finding it.

I'm just throw up the fastest shelter you can.

I made that mistake last time.

I've gotten a lot of flack for my shelter from season one.

No, I did a quicky shelter and it was good for a while.

And then when the storm started coming, it was bad, bad stuff.

Oh yeah, that'll definitely new for tonight.

Time to get cranking on this back wall.

It's weird with this experience because

the longer you stay out here, the longer you stay away,

the more fulfilling, the more joyful, more memorable,

the more rewarding this experience will be made.

All right, we'll call that good for the night.

Nearly finished, this is exciting.

- Can't believe I did that in like a day.

I am sleeping in the big shelter tonight and I am super, super excited about it.

I'm really happy with the shelter.

- Because there's a drive for me, other than the money

that this experience is richer and pure for longer it is.

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This is my farm, my favorite coat, what am I on here?

It's warm but light.

Wow.

I didn't know a red deer did that.

I love the mountains and I love the sound development in the fall.

That tells you a lot.

It's like, well, it's fall and it's beautiful.

And I always tell you that the leaves are turning

and you're in the mountains.

That could be more beautiful.

Just come up with the idea that I'm gonna go

hunting in the canyon and across these plains,

up into that canyon right there.

Here we go.

Exploration, getting to know more of the area.

These are things that I live for.

Definitely feel myself getting skinnier.

I don't wanna start myself.

I don't wanna wither away to nothing like I didn't have to go in yet.

It's coming into winter.

I need big game to have a sustainable amount of meat.

One deer is the last life that I have to take.

Okay, I'm gonna go meander around a little bit just to get to know the area.

I feel alive when I walk with a bone in my hands.

My senses are heightened.

I can smell the air.

I can feel the wind on my cheek.

Here we go.

Nice game, sure.

I heard something.

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(dramatic music) A grouse.

I had the shot on it and then my arrow goes into

this grouse and the bird flies off with my arrow.

It started tracking it down and we got that grouse,

but it was obvious that I had hurt this animal.

Arrow broke its wing, clean off.

I don't want to cause suffering to any animal or being.

I don't hunt to kill.

I hunt to eat.

I tell myself, is it better to kill one large animal for many meals?

Oh, a bunch of small ones.

One deer, the last game, last life that I have to take.

I mean, I'm hurting these animals.

And it hurts my heart.

So what do I choose to be oblivious?

Do I choose to be a vegetarian?

Do I push the button?

Or do I keep killing?

Kill five grouse, a squirrel.

Oh, man, that's a lot of pain.

That's a lot of pain.

[sighs]

The hunter left because he couldn't hunt anymore.

Uh, woke up worn out, man.

I have a headache, I don't know pain.

I'm exhausted.

I feel a great.

But I'll push through.

I always do.

I've eaten probably a half a pound, if not more, of pine bark in the last three days.

But since probably day eight, I haven't had to have a bowel movement.

So I want to make some flour with my pine bark.

The flour should be a lot easier for my body to digest than just straight pine bark.

So I have hopes that it will help push everything through.

I'm going to have to use the rock.

Crushed, crushed, crushed, crushed.

It's pretty good.

Nice handle up here.

I've never been flour before, so, you know, here's to first.

There's consistency of it.

Still like, man, my lower abs are tightened up, or at least, like, the inside.

Ah, OK.

Yeah, that's-- let's come back a little bit.

It's like I need a fart, but I can't.

Go away.

[MUSIC PLAYING] Ah, ah, ah, ah.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I saw that.

Oh, I can't pick this.

Can't make it through this.

This is just a lot of pain.

It's like our tour muscle is healing.

That's how it hurts right now.

It's like someone's pulling barbed wire out of my stomach.

I don't know what to do.

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Ow.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

All right, this is too much.

It's all my brothers and my sister.

I'm sorry.

I'm really sorry.

This is Jesse.

I have to tap out.

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I was going to have it go out like this.

Big, bad green boy I get to take an out by his stomach.

I think they're here.

It's just really bad abdominal pain.

It's really bad.

I mean, really, really bad.

I did so much and I've got to take it out because I can't poop.

The largest part of me wants to stay.

Even with the starvation, I can keep myself going.

But man can't live off bark alone.

I should have, maybe not go so hardcore on just pine bark,

but man, when you've been hungry for that long,

being satiated even for one meal was an incredible relief.

I put a lot on this.

I really wanted to use the prize money

to help my large family help them out and say thank you

for everything they've done for me in my life.

I know I'm living with my family down.

It's very crazy to hear this daily of large animals.

To speak from you, but don't want to go inside.

No, no.

This huge front just pushed through.

Definitely don't want to get stuck in the storm.

There's something running.

What the hell is that?

I think I hit it.

I have quite a few mice living in my shelter.

I can stomp their little guts in.