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[MUSIC PLAYING]

The wind is really picking up.

I need to get the hell off of this rock.

[GROANING]

Oh, I'm having leg cramps.

[BLEEP]

[GROANING]

Oh, [BLEEP] I've got a fire.

I don't really have time to [BLEEP] around.

I feel sorry for myself.

There's something screaming outside.

I'm just going to go and see if I can't find it.

In Olón's coldest location ever, 10 participants fight to survive the Arctic.

The Arctic is one of the most physically demanding places on Earth.

It's so freaking cold right now.

Battling sub-zero temperatures.

This climate's harsh, it's extreme, it's mean, it's got teeth.

Get caught out here.

I'll wind out here in trouble.

Vicious predators.

Heard something big moving back there.

Me against the wolverine right now.

And isolation.

There's nothing to fill that void.

It's just you left alone with your thoughts.

How long will they endure?

Hose is on fire.

I'm scared, but I don't want to touch it.

This is the most unforgiving landscape I've ever seen.

The last one standing wins.

This environment will strip away everything and anything you thought you had.

So I need to deal with this scenario here, because it's pretty freaking disgusting.

I'm going to show you the survival

manicure, Arctic style.

First, I need a soak.

Imagine if I went into a spa right now.

I can hear the soft music playing,

all the colors of nail polish you get to choose from,

and the lady's horrifying face looking at my nails.

Look at that.

Like, look at that.

That's pretty good.

Now, I'm going to rinse that out.

I'm going to make a squirrel soup tonight.

Oh.

You know, there's just these highs and lows

that I'm going through.

And frankly, I'm coming out of the lows really good.

I'm just, like, trying to focus on all the great things.

Like, I have food gathered, whole wheat mushrooms,

crowberries, blueberries, and a squirrel soup.

So that is just good.

I'm going to try just a little chunk.

[SQUIRREL SOUNDS]

Without a say, it's actually pretty good.

You know, I've had some injuries that could have gone south.

And to have them heal so quickly has been miraculous for me, really.

I feel like I've been taught something there about-- holy [BLEEP]

Oh, [BLEEP] I've got a fire.

Holy [BLEEP]

Holy [BLEEP]

House is on fire.

I've got to push it over.

All of it.

Oh, [BLEEP] god.

[GRUNTING] Come off it.

Come on.

[GRUNTING]

No.

Come on, fire.

Oh, stop burning.

[BLEEP]

It's just-- [BLEEP] --raging.

Come on, snow.

Put the fire out.

[BLEEP]

[BLEEP] Come on, fire.

Stop burning.

[GRUNTING] Come here.

Oh, [BLEEP]

[GROANING]

[GASPING]

I just-- I started my house on fire.

Everything's on fire, and I think I got it out.

It was blazing around me.

Like-- that was seriously so scary.

Like, I have no idea how I'm not burnt.

Maybe I am.

I don't know.

But I was seriously pulling off burning logs.

Look at my hands.

They're just trashed.

Like-- oh, [BLEEP]

Gosh, it's terrible.

I saw that fire, and it was just high.

And before I knew it, like, I was too late.

Who's a good girl?

Who's a good girl?

I hate when people talk to their dogs like that.

I don't hate it.

It just makes me mad.

Who's a good girl?

Would you want a biscuit?

You want a biscuit?

Good girl.

Good girl.

Although, if somebody talked to me like that right

now, and they were like, do you want a biscuit?

I'd be like, yeah, man.

Yeah, I do.

Yeah, I do.

Yeah, I do.

Give me a biscuit.

I couldn't sleep last night and this morning.

Probably nothing in my sets today.

It was a storm last night.

But I'm still going to go check swamp grass, Susie.

Well, guys, I got both good news and bad news.

Good news is we didn't lose our barrel.

Bad news is [BLEEP] got trashed.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Every step I take feels like failure.

The only thing keeping me here is stubbornness and the hope

that my traplines are going to produce something

more for me in the next couple of days.

Like, that's it.

I don't get some proper food.

I'm [BLEEP] for sure.

We got to get to the trapping grounds

and see if there's any more snares I can set.

I don't have a bow, so I can't hunt big game.

And with fishing out, trapping is my only food source.

It's the only thing that's gotten me any food.

And at this point, it's the only thing that is going to get me any food.

So I see there's nothing in my first set down there.

No track, still nothing.

That's kind of a useless set, that one.

I don't know why I leave it up.

Wishful thinking.

I thought I'd have a little bit more trapping opportunities.

Turns out, not really so much, eh?

Uh-oh, there is a boat of lightheadedness.

I haven't really had that before.

Uh-oh.

Oh, you guys, I want this so bad.

Oh, [BLEEP]

It doesn't matter how hard my resolve is.

It doesn't matter how hard my heart is.

He needs more of that food in it.

Holy crap, the shoreline is totally iced up.

Because there's a bear coming to get my [BLEEP]

Oh, [BLEEP]

God, I can't believe I burnt down my shelter last night.

I can't believe I'm laughing about it.

It was really scary.

Considering the big windstorm we had, it's like some sort of miracle I'm OK.

I need to work really hard today and work

on fixing this shelter up.

The older the poles get, creosote and char happens to the bark.

So I'm just going to have to try to pack tightly branches and trees, green ones only.

But all the ash and the soot, they'll get caught on the bark.

And it'll form this kind of dust that I'm going to just scrape

off every five days or so to make sure that it doesn't hold a spark.

I know, I'm just walking at a slow ass pace.

I just have to.

This shelter setback is going to take me two, three days.

And I'm going to have to put out a lot of energy.

It's going to take something a little off of me.

I'm happy with the work I got done.

But that was like a lot of effort.

I don't know how many calories I burned today, but it was way too many.

You should not be wasting energy rebuilding shelters so late in the game.

So I'm trying this new thing out here.

Apparently, it's all the rage.

It's called breakfast.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, mama.

Whoopee.

You know, the funny thing is, I want more than anything else

for my wife and kids to be out here.

What I'm going to miss is my little girl's birthday.

My wife, she's big into birthdays.

She is good at them.

My daughter wanted a camping birthday,

and she made this cake that looked exactly like a fire.

I mean, it was so cool.

She's a good mom.

(fire crackling) Well, now what?

(dramatic music)

- Give me a V, give me an I,

give me a C, give me a T,

give me an O, give me an R, give me a Y.

What's that spell?

Victory.

(dramatic music)

- As of late, the fishing, it's hit or miss.

So I'm going to check my trap line.

(dramatic music)

I've been having a hard time.

I'm lethargic.

I've had severe leg cramps, and I know that's due to a deficiency.

I'm missing something.

I need to get some food in me.

All right, so it's that time again to check my trap line.

I'm going to go into the forest here a little bit and see what I can see.

I'm also looking for, you know, paw marks, prints, anything like that.

So let's head on up.

But I'll be damned.

Look what I got myself.

Nice snow hare.

Look at that.

Outstanding.

(dramatic music)

My heart is so full.

I'm so grateful for the abundance here.

This means so many things.

This means longevity in the game.

This means more days out here without cringing hunger pains.

That's quite a bit of meat.

Its entrails mean that I have bait.

I'm just so grateful.

I have such an attitude of gratitude for this abundance.

Smells amazing.

(speaking in foreign language) Enjoy.

One of its kidneys.

Man, it just feels good to have meat sustenance,

you know, just happening in your mouth.

It's so frigging fantastic.

Oh, this is all meat right here.

Oh my God.

Today was a good day.

I feel good.

I'm in a great headspace.

And I put together a better plan for...

(dramatic music)

There's a bear coming to get my (beep)

They could just be feet away waiting.

I feel like I want to launch a bear banger out the

top of my shelter just to make sure it moves away.

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

Holy (beep)

Bear came to my shelter and circled it numerous times,

unafraid of making noise, any of that.

Began trying to find a way in, kind of scratching at my

bowels around the sides, messing with some cans that I have.

When my arrow was ready, I thought about just taking a shot on it

over, it was over here, you know, on the side of my shelter, but...

I didn't know where to shoot at high, low.

(beep)

That was eye opening.

It now knows I'm here and it now knows I have food,

which means I'm gonna probably have to make a few changes here around camp.

I'm gonna have to wait till first light.

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

Out here, you often wonder, are you predator or prey?

And I think whenever you take on the mentality of a predator, I am going out here,

I am gonna hunt, I'm gonna kill, I'm gonna feed myself.

It switches the way you behave.

You're far more aware, you're far more focused,

you're looking for that opportunity to pounce.

What I need to do is get creative.

It's hard to hear them walk through,

so I need some kind of detection system.

So what I wanna do is I wanna overload my offense to the right side.

I'm gonna take this rabbit carcass, right?

And I might just put it under a big rock

and that way he'll have to kind of dig for it

and kind of root for it, but he'll stay in that area.

Make it easier to get a shot off.

So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take all my

baits and I'm gonna just pile it right here.

I'll put this big rock on top.

I want it to make some noise, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put small stones

in this can so whenever it gets disturbed, I'll

hear it, even if I have waves and wind, hopefully.

So there's my setup.

I put all my eggs in one basket right here outside of my tent.

I have a shooting lane right here if he comes down this trail.

I have a shooting lane here.

If this frigging works, I'll go down the Hillbilly Hall of Fame.

(dramatic music)

(wind whistling) Morning.

Just kind of scanning the area.

The bay is starting to ice up.

Those lighter colored patches are all ice.

It's neat to finally get to the bottom of all these sounds I've

been hearing at night 'cause at night when it gets really cold,

some of the things kind of go crazy out here.

There's just loud slams and it sounds like rockfall, except it's consistent.

Okay, just coming up on the fishing area.

Oh, is there a fish in there or is that the guts?

Oh, hallelujah, I got another fish.

Sweet.

I am experiencing goosebumps right now on my entire body.

Everything is tingly right now.

How much this means.

Oh man, that is so sweet.

Every time I check my net, I risk slipping into the water.

Epithermia is definitely one I think about a lot.

It takes out more people outdoors than anything else.

So, got a BFD.

Just don't want to end up not being able to get out if I go in.

Oh, it's a different kind of fish.

It's a white fish, I think.

I'd say that's about a, ooh,

19 or 20 inch fish.

And hopefully it's pretty tasty.

I hear these are delicious actually, so I'm looking forward to eating this guy.

Another week's worth of food there.

I was just thinking about, you know,

how my life would be different with the prize

money from this and making it less abstract.

Making it less of a like, oh yeah, you're going to be wealthy.

Well, what does that mean really?

There's a lot of people who are wealthy in the world who have miserable lives

and they squander whatever they have anyway.

So, I don't want to squander any of it.

If I'm going to have money, I'm going to buy

some land and I'm going to work that land.

To be able to put all my work in one place

where I can see it accumulate and turn into my life, oh, I want it so bad.

I just have to remember that if I do this,

it'll be the last time I have to survive.

No more worrying about it.

No more worrying about whether I can pay rent.

I can just live.

Short of an emergency, I'm not leaving here until they come get me.

My first bite of Lake Whitefish right here.

Very light.

Good.

Pretty lucky guy.

(dramatic music)

A little frosty out here.

Lake's freezing over.

Look at that business, guys.

I have to really be careful not to slip with my backhand handle it.

Oh, she's slick.

(dramatic music)

Fresh water, man.

Oh my God.

I'm still tired, but I'm going to go check my snares.

They tell you about the hunger.

They tell you about the loneliness,

but I've never heard anybody talk about how weak they are.

I gotta take it slow and easy, that's for sure.

Ain't got no energy.

I gotta get some more calories in me, for sure.

My body's not going to be able to withstand that for long

if I don't start getting some protein inside of me.

Let's go through this area.

We'll find something hidden in these spruce trees I haven't seen before.

Oh, hold on.

There's a little gravel track down there.

You dirty (beep)

Look at that, I got him.

Look at you guys.

Look at that.

Look what mama got.

Look at...

I got him.

(crying)

Oh my God, a rabbit.

Oh, frick.

I need more of these rabbits, that's for sure.

But for today,

today I get food.

And today I have extra for a while.

Oh my God.

As I said before, mentally I'm in this game, you guys.

Like I'm in it.

I want this so bad.

So bad.

I want to be here and I want this.

I want all of this.

Thank goodness.

(dramatic music)

Holy crap, check it out.

If you can see behind me, the shoreline is totally iced up.

The weather has super freaking shifted.

So as often happens, all of a sudden I'm really

motivated to jump on some shelter things.

There's no questioning that all of a sudden it is Arctic winter.

Let's go harvest some poles then.

I am not prepared for it to be fully snowed in yet.

Just to haul these up.

I mean, I've been preparing.

I knew this was on its way at any time now.

It's just, I can only do so much at once

and there's always more preparing one can do.

Hard work.

All right, so I have this whole pile of poles down here,

all for the exterior wall.

Let's get going 'cause time is a wasting.

Log cabins are nice in that you can seal them well, but wood is not very insulative.

You're losing a ton of your heat.

So in order to have it be actually insulative

and hold heat, you need airspace in the middle.

So I'm doing double walls.

So it's basically like a log cabin inside a log cabin.

So lovely to be outside right now in this clear night.

Definitely cold, but I'm working hard.

The temperatures are plunging a lot at night,

which is part of why I end up doing a lot of construction

in the dusk because being active is really helping me stay warm

and it's making the night feel way less long and oppressive.

Okay, well, it is late.

My headlamp is about to die, but I am pretty darn psyched with this job.

(dramatic music)

All right, check it out.

Ah, my beautiful east wall, just like I've been picturing it,

all nicely insulated in between with spruce boughs and chinked with sphagnum moss.

You can see the double layer effect here

and the interior peeled wall all nicely chinked.

One of the big things is get it totally sealed.

So the dual wall system with insulation in

between, I'm trying to get that everywhere.

My hope is that once I have the cabin more dialed in,

that I'll do more serious, big game hunting missions.

So yeah, I've got big plans still.

(dramatic music)

- So a nice little nap.

I was able to get myself re-centered.

Came outside and you see where this can is right here?

Right there?

That's where the other one was and it's out here now.

See?

I didn't hear a thing, but then again, I was sleeping so deeply.

So trying to look around here and let's see what else I can see.

Yeah, here's...

Yeah, that's fresh track.

Here and here and through here.

And it's smaller, so it looks like a fox.

So a little old fox came in,

tried to give himself a quick meal.

- They're making the effort to come by and grab whatever's available.

- And it's screwing up my plan to try and attract a bear.

I really need that bear to come to my camp.

Love to (beep) have it.

Come on, man.

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

Holy, am I happy about that bunny.

I know that if I can just keep some food inside my

belly, that nothing will send me home from here.

Game change for Michelle.

Love for my husband to come find me here, you know?

Hope he remembers to bring back my wedding ring.

I miss wearing it.

I mean, he'd take it off in the airport before I got on the plane to come here.

He said, "You put that ring on me.

"Nobody allowed to take it off but you," you know?

I didn't bring a picture of my family because they're with me in my heart, yes,

and all those things, but they're not with me here on this journey.

I'm here by myself.

I'd like to pretend that they're here with me, but they're not.

They're waiting for me to be done.

And that's the way I look at it.

Like, you don't look back, you've already been there.

You look forward, 'cause that's the way you're going.

I'm not done here yet.

I have something for you guys.

(hums)

♪ It's unfortunate that I got caught ♪

♪ But she's gonna enjoy all of me ♪

(hums)

I hope there's more bunnies where this one came from.

Got his ears up, but now his face is flattened.

Look at, look at those little whiskers on there.

His little mouth hole.

See?

Looks like a little tongue.

Whiskers, eyeballs.

That's right.

I know what I'm doing.

I didn't want to forget to do the puppet show for you guys.

♪ Pop goes the weasel ♪

(suspenseful music)

(suspenseful music) Okay.

Good morning.

Last night I went fishing, got skunked.

They weren't even biting though.

There's nothing.

So I think I went out a little too late.

So I'll go out earlier.

Other than that.

Miss the family.

Miss the family like crazy.

Oh, I'm excited to see them.

My new favorite to lay in your sleeping bag and dream about is Thanksgiving.

We went camping for Thanksgiving with the grandparents and the kids.

And so in my mind, I set it up where the tents are gonna go.

You know, which sleeping bags are gonna go to which kids.

And oh no, what do I do about pads for them to sleep on?

And I just think through the whole process and I love it.

And I can sit in my sleeping bag

and think about that for hours.

It is a hard day today.

I missed my daughter's birthday.

So that kind of sucked.

She's getting really good at reading

and God, I just want to listen to her read a book to me.

Other than that, sunny, beautiful.

Yeah, let's go fishing.

'Cause that's kind of the most exciting thing in my life right now.

You know, I have food in my food storage.

I can get more food.

All my physical needs are met.

There's nothing that needs to be conquered.

There's nothing other than this absence, this void, this emptiness.

That's the time.

Time has now become my enemy.

I'm really bored.

Like on a scale of one to 10, I'm like a 12.

Well, the fish aren't biting.

There's moments where you just, you think what the heck am I doing out here?

This is stupid.

I've got a life I love.

You know, the most important things in the world to me are somewhere else.

Why did I leave them?

But the flip side of that is I don't want to embarrass them or shame them.

And so you're kind of stuck.

You're going to stay.

No wife wants to watch her husband quit.

I'm over this place.

I mean, I got six fillets still to eat, so it doesn't matter about the fish, but.

It's just nothing here.

Just time.

Just killing time.

Just wasting time.

I'm waiting for something.

I'm going nuts.

I'm going absolutely nuts.

I'm going to take you.

I'm getting prepared to move inside a little bit more.

Use this shelter to its fullest.

So I'm going to move my drying rack over

into the smoke a little bit more.

This is my life now.

This is what I do with my time.

And there is a lot of it.

There's a lot of it.

There's a lot of it.

There's a lot of it.

There's a lot of it.

There's a lot of it.

And there is a lot of it.

Time.

When you're on deployment, there's things you can do to distract yourself.

Sometimes you can put movies in and watch four movies that night to kind of tune out.

You can touch base with the kids.

You know how their day was.

You know what's going on.

But here, there's nothing.

So you've got this catch 22.

'Cause if you sit here and you don't spend your calories,

then you get really depressed and miss your family.

But if you go do something, you're burning all your calories.

When I joined the military, you know, I was an unattached single guy.

And now I've built this life around these

kids that are my universe, my world, you know,

and my wife that I absolutely love and cherish.

In my suit of armor that I'm building up for the show,

I never realized that that was the biggest chink that was going to get me.

(dramatic music)

I don't know what happened.

I woke up this morning.

Just trying to think about things to film,

think about the routine, go fishing, chop wood.

I keep thinking, how long will you stay?

How many days is good enough?

I pull out the picture of those kids and I look at them

and I think, who the hell cares about ego, pride?

I miss knowing how their day was.

Anyways, I think I'm done.

(crowd cheering) It's Nichols.

I am officially tapping out.

- Hi, Brady.

- Hello.

I thought, I mean, I was really confident coming into this.

I thought it was going to be about

who could outlast the hunger and the cold and all that,

but that stuff's easy, like warm, dry, comfortable.

I've got another week and a half's worth of food stored up there.

It's not that, it's just sitting here waiting for time

to pass while my little kids are doing their thing

somewhere else and it's just driving me nuts.

Screw the ego, I don't care anymore.

You know, I'm done waiting for time.

Originally, I thought I was doing this for the money.

I thought I'd come out here and this money would be

life-changing, but it's just money comes and money goes.

It doesn't change who I am.

I'm not going to sell myself for it.

The money would be great, but I got a job.

I do well.

I just, I don't need it.

I miss being happy.

I miss being a dad and I'm missing my kid's life.

And 100% being a husband and being a dad are my joy in life.

That's what I live for.

That's what I love.

That's what makes life worthwhile to me.

So now it's going home.

And there's going to be some little three foot boogers

that come running and I get to go play with those kids.

You know what I mean?

And life continues.

(gasps)

You son of a bitch.

That dirty fox got my rabbit.

Just going to let him wear himself out as much as I can here.

Hope everything holds.

No, no, no, no, no.

Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.

No!

It bit me, like, bad.

Now I really want to kill the wolverine.

(growling)