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[ baboon calls ] hear that?

Lindsey: Baboon?

If it's one baboon, I'm fine.

If it's 20 baboons, I'm a little more...

[ baboon calls ]

...Aware.

Usually, they travel together.

Let's do this and get out of here.

[ calling continues ] he's close, though.

It's obviously a nest of something.

That could very well be a snake in there.

Hang on. Hang on.

Let me get out of the way a little bit more.

It's coming. It's going. It's going.

Son of a bitch. It's falling. It's falling!

Luke!

Narrator: For the next 21 days, one man and one woman

are taking on the ultimate survival challenge.

They will endure without food, water, or clothes

in order to survive the treacherous namibian desert.

Luke: I can't physically stand up.

Narrator: They will have to rely on each other, naked and afraid.

Luke: The baboons, they mean business.

My heart rate is up, my blood's pumping, my adrenaline's going.

Whoo!

But it's excited nerves.

My name is lindsey leitelt.

I am from pine mountain club, california.

I am a home-schooling mother of two.

So, we're on our way to the airport.

What do you think, babe?

I think you're nuts. [ chuckles ]

that's my full supporter right there.

I do endurance races and hike and camp.

I always go head first into a situation,

and I have the scars to prove it.

I've never tested my skills in a desert environment,

so this is gonna be a big challenge.

I want to prove to my kids and the world

that a mom can do this.

I'm gonna make it 100%. 21 days.

[ clicks tongue ] I got this.

Luke: Whoo-hoo-hoo!

[ laughs ]

my name is luke mclaughlin.

I'm from salt lake city, utah,

and I'm a wilderness field instructor.

I take at-risk youth,

and I show them how to live in the wilderness.

I do work with a lot of primitive skills.

I have a lot of experience with primitive fire.

At my program, I teach bow drilling every single day.

Watch out for thorns.

Instead of fighting against nature,

which is an impossible task, I try to seek balance.

I try to seek harmony.

Sometimes, my frustration gets the best of me.

When I get pissed, I get pissed, but I'm not gonna let it

stand in the way of me getting the job done.

[ sighs ] no turning back now.

I am not a naked person.

I'm not even a "walk around in a bathing suit" person.

There's nothing like, you know, baptism by fire, I suppose.

Here we go.

I think we're here.

As far as being naked goes,

I don't have a big problem with it.

I feel sorry for everyone else who has to see it.

Let's dance.

I think the most important thing in any survival situation

is your mind set, so I'd really like

a partner who's positive, a partner who is tough,

who's willing to hear me out on my side and try out some things.

Hi. I take it you're my partner.

I'm luke. Lindsey.

Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.

How you feeling?

Nervous. Yes.

I'm not a naked person. Are you?

Oh, yeah. I'm a naked dude, for sure.

Oh. Okay, well...

You don't, like, lounge around naked,

like, at home or anything like that?

No. Not at all. Really?

Yeah. It's so freeing.

Welcome to being my first. [ laughs ]

narrator: Luke and lindsey have chosen their survival items

to deal with the challenges

of namibia's unyielding vegetation and scarce water.

I have a pot. All right.

So, good for getting water, boiling it.

Food, whatever we have. Sweet.

I have trusty tomahawk

for splitting and chopping and digging.

Our map.

Oh, nice. Let's take a look.

The pair will spend the next 21 days

in namibia in sub-saharan africa.

In this bleak and unrelenting landscape,

they will have to navigate a dangerous terrain

littered with razor-sharp acacia thorns,

surrounded by a diverse array of potential predators --

the lethal black mamba --

the fastest and most aggressive snake on the continent.

Large predatory cats

including leopards that prowl the sparse water holes for prey.

And fiercely territorial chacma baboons.

The mountains are -- to our south.

And I'm guessing this blue is water --

our precious resource that we want to find.

Ready? Hey, lead the way.

A small crew will follow the survivalists

with instructions not to intervene

unless there is a medical emergency.

Watch the thorns.

Ooh. Right here and right there.

They're all over. Just right -- these guys here.

Luke: Ooh! [ grunts ]

oh [bleep]

ow. That's that son of a bitch.

Luke: My big fear, number one, is baboons.

Narrator: Chacma baboons live in large groups.

Any encroachment on their territory provokes aggression,

and their strength in numbers could easily take down

animals much larger than themselves.

Lindsey: I just hope that they stay away, at least until we move on.

Pardon for the balls in your face.

Lindsey: It's all right. I'm used to balls in my face.

I have two boys, a husband, and three male dogs.

Really? Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Luke: Lindsey's awesome.

She right off the bat was joking, thinking positive.

I hope lindsey has some of the primitive skills

that can help us out here, and we'll see.

Hopefully it goes well.

That way? Sure.

Lindsey: My first impression -- he's like a total mountain man.

He likes to talk.

If you swipe the grass, get a little protection.

But he's got really good information.

It seems like he knows his stuff.

Thank god there are no thorns here.

That is gonna make life easier for us for sure.

I'm really thirsty right now. I'm probably dehydrated.

Want to try out that water?

This looks really nasty, but okay.

I'll start digging here.

Most water sources, you want to be really careful.

Just to play it safe, you can dig close.

Basically, I'm getting to the water table underneath.

Not a lot of stuff grows in this.

Yeah, so this is drinkable water here.

Narrator: While safer to drink, ground water may still contain

toxic chemicals dangerous to humans.

These can cause headaches, diarrhea, and in severe cases,

the shutting down of major organs.

[ sips ]

hmm. Tastes a little earthy.

Just looks -- looks nasty, but it's not.

[ birds squawking ]

how you doing over there?

Uh... Oh, my gosh.

There's a dead carcass of some sort of deer type.

No way. Yeah.

Seriously? Yeah, it's a full carcass.

It doesn't even look like it's been gnashed on yet.

Beautiful!

That's leather, that's cordage, it's sinew.

That's wilderness gold.

Using the area's natural resources

is just one of the many skills that will be tested

during luke and lindsey's 21-day challenge.

A master survival instructor

with over 30 years of hands-on knowledge of primitive skills

has evaluated luke and lindsey based on their experience,

giving each one a psr -- a primitive survival rating.

Their abilities and primitive methods

were assessed and weighted according to

the specific challenges of the namibian desert.

Like that.

Luke has expert-level primitive skills.

Whoo!

But he's easily frustrated,

sometimes preventing him from accomplishing tasks.

He scores a psr of 8.1.

Lindsey's endurance gives her high strength and mental scores.

Whoo!

But untested in a desert environment,

her rating has been set at 6.7.

Their psrs will be reevaluated

at the end of the 21-day challenge.

Lindsey: He looks like a kudu, which is in the antelope family.

It smells awful.

There's flies everywhere.

So, yeah, I'm trying to figure out

what the hell happened to this guy here.

Did, you know, a lion or a hyena go after him?

And right now, I mean, I don't see any wounds.

I really hope that kudu didn't die

from the water we just drank.

Uh...

I think the kudu died of rabies because it did have

some junk around its mouth and it died next to water.

When animals contract rabies, they become extremely thirsty,

but the disease won't allow them to drink.

So, they actually die of thirst.

Narrator: The rabies virus moves from the brain to the saliva,

and the disease can be transmitted through contact

with brain tissue, spinal cord, or salivary glands.

Luke: Even if it is diseased,

this fur is super valuable as an insulator.

Usually, I could tan that hide with the brains.

It wouldn't be so stinky, wouldn't be so nasty,

but obviously, rabies, brains, spinal cord --

that whole thing, you don't want to touch.

What do you say we establish camp and then --

do what we got to do with this.

Yeah.

So, we're walking down, we look for shelter,

and we've seen the clouds billowing up.

If you're wet at night, you're miserable.

You're done. Your morale will get shot so fast.

How about just right on the flat part there?

It'll be out of the wind, out of the rain.

That's what we need. Uh-huh.

That looks promising to me.

[ thunder rumbling ]

[ sniffing ] ooh.

Stink?

Yeah, something's been living here.

[bleep] all over. Crap all over.

There's hair in that, so that's a predator of some kind.

Lindsey: The poop is actually quite big.

There are leopards out here, could be baboons.

That's a little bit daunting

to be sleeping where you know there is animal activity.

You know, it's disgusting, but looks like something

we could make work till we get our other shelter up.

Luke: To make a decent shelter, that's gonna take a couple days effort.

There are storm clouds brewing everywhere,

and so we really do need

to just probably count this as good tonight.

I might try to go get the kudu, make some quick cuts,

at least give us, like, some sort of a blanket tonight.

Maybe I go do that?

Yeah, I can pull grass. Cool.

Starting to get a bit cold, windy.

You can hear the thunder.

I feel really bad having him go out by himself,

but hopefully, he'll come back and have some warmth for us.

Narrator: On their first day in namibia, luke and lindsey are feeling

the effects of an unseasonably cold and rainy spell

that has hit the region,

dropping temperatures by more than 50 degrees by nightfall.

[ luke sighs ]

lindsey: Oh, man, it is really raining now.

Hope luke's doing okay.

Narrator: In these conditions, hypothermia becomes a major threat

and can lead to unconsciousness

in as little as one to two hours.

There we go.

Hey, partner. Hey.

Sweet.

It's -- I mean, it's super wet.

It's -- you know,

I'm gonna try to dry it out here real quick, but we'll see.

You look cold. I am cold.

[ chuckles ] yeah?

I put a layer of grass on the bottom of the rocks,

so at least it's a little bit cushy.

[ sighs ] okay.

I think skin-to-skin contact is happening.

There you go.

The hide smells like fresh meat.

I'm worried about large predators coming to us tonight,

but at least being protected on three sides

gives us a fair shot that we'll be able to protect ourselves.

[ thunder rumbling ]

still struggling with getting comfy.

No sleep. Zero sleep so far.

We got a long night still ahead of us.

It's still early.

We just know it's gonna suck tonight.

We're kind of just living with it.

[ animals grunting ]

we hear something out there, but...

Something was over there making noise.

[ grunting continues ]

sounds like baboons to me.

Hopefully, those baboons stay where they are.

[ animals grunting ]

something was over there making noise.

It is officially day 2.

Super early.

Lindsey: Don't seem to be here anymore. They went away.

We just had... The longest night ever.

...A miserable night.

We're gonna bust some ass today, get a new shelter.

Something that's waterproof.

And fire.

What is that?

These weren't here yesterday. Baboon tracks?

Those are huge.

Luke: The baboons, they can be kind of aggressive.

They mean business.

We really need to get a fire soon.

[ baboons grunting ]

might as well build it here, close to the cave.

We're trying to do,

like, almost like a sweat-lodge type shelter --

some saplings kind of bent over, do some cross lashings.

Once we got the structure up,

I'm gonna try to get some fire going.

Luke: How's that for a circle?

Yeah. Let's get to work. I need to heat up a little bit.

Need to move? Yeah.

Okay.

I really, really don't want to be cold tonight.

[ thunder rumbling ]

phew. God, that weather changes [groans] so fast.

Yep.

I know we have a long time,

but we kind of want to get our permanent shelter done

so we can have fire.

[bleep] sucks to waste a day when we still feel good.

It's just too cold to work through the rain.

[ thunder crashes ]

super motivated to get this shelter done today.

We cannot stay up for another 12 hours in our rock cave.

It is miserable.

Sun feels nice. It's a good change.

So, lower stuff, obviously, is underneath the higher stuff.

Just kind of like shingles.

The rain rolls right off, hopefully, if it does rain.

We're gonna try to get a whole bunch of insulation in there.

Just be covered in grass.

Hopefully, our heat will be held together.

This is big for us.

Oh, this is nice.

Lindsey: We're super excited about our new shelter.

Our morale is definitely up.

Well, I'm gonna go get some sinew.

Okay.

Get some wood, find some tinder,

and hopefully get some fire going later today.

Sounds good.

[ insects buzzing ]

luke: There's sinew all along the spine here.

Oh, yeah. Oh, look at that.

That right there -- that is what I'm after.

If I can make some good, strong cordage that's gonna last us,

there's no reason we shouldn't have fire tonight.

All right.

This is fire, hopefully.

Right now, here in this situation,

I'm trying a bow drill to get fire.

With a bow drill, with that sinew cordage,

it'll be easy to make fire.

Lindsey: Starting a friction fire is not my strongest suit.

Lindsey: That is so beautiful.

Do it for a living.

That felt really good and looked really good,

and I didn't get a coal.

Cordage is breaking. [bleep]

what if we used a smaller bow?

Yeah, it's just all unraveled now.

[bleep]

how do you feel about a hand drill?

Not with this wood.

[bleep]

now I have to go back to the disgusting, rotting kudu corpse

to try and extract some more sinew.

[ insects buzzing ]

[ panting ]

oh, [bleep]

this might be rabid.

There are maggots everywhere, blood everywhere,

and it's all ruptured, so there's nothing safe.

Is this cordage worth possibly getting rabies?

Shouldn't take that risk.

It just sucks without fire.

Lindsey: I don't want to sit here useless.

I want do do something helpful.

Oh, my god.

Who needs sinew when you have hair?

Right?

Hopefully, it'll be all worth it.

I totally believe in your skills for this set of hair.

All right. Thank you.

[ sighs ] I'm getting dizzy already.

Luke: My body's just starting to get a little bit weaker.

I know I got to start eating more food,

but fire -- it's everything.

It's survival.

Come on!!

[bleep] every time. God!

Lindsey: I know luke's feeling the pressure,

and I think it's super frustrating

not having the same materials he's used to using out here.

It's another very cold night.

We have to have fire.

It's really, really, really cold.

When we say cold... Shaking.

...We're not just, like, unpleasant, like,

"oh, I wish" -- like, cold.

Like, you're shaking the whole time.

[ baboons grunting ]

yeah, this [bleep] sucks.

Last night was brutal.

We're burning a lot of energy

that we don't have just shivering.

We cannot have another night like that.

It just -- I don't think any human can do that.

It's -- it's -- yeah.

It's really, really painful.

Lindsey: Fire is priority number one,

but I'm not super helpful with that.

What do you think our next priority is?

Should I try and forage for some stuff?

That would be awesome.

Okay.

Ooh. That's a big grub.

That's a lot of energy.

Bottoms up.

Not too bad.

A bit -- a bit earthy.

Subtle hues of poo I taste in there, as well.

Here's the raisin bush. Yes.

Not calorie dense, but it gives that extra little bit

of vitamins that we're losing every day,

and it's a nice, little, sweet pick-me-up.

Well, how was the haul?

Couple raisins.

Narrator: Though rich in calcium and magnesium...

I'm splitting them, yeah.

...Raisins will not replace

the energy luke and lindsey have lost.

Luke: Fire's so important for us right now.

Barely have any calories in my system.

We had fire, we'd be sleeping warm.

We'd be able to cook food.

I mean, it's everything right now.

As far as cordage goes now,

if I cut a thin strip of the kudu skin, make it --

might be durable enough to get a coal.

No way that's breaking.

I don't think anything's breaking that.

The big thing that's slowing me down with my bow drill

is, you know, the places I'm familiar with,

I know what grows there and what I can use for materials,

and here, I'm kind of guessing,

try lots of different combinations,

and you get smoke and you can never get a coal.

How the [bleep] is that not a coal?!

[ baboon grunts ]

I'm just really frustrated.

Well, I mean, I'm...Not -- not doing anything to help you.

I know.

I guess that frustrates me, too, when you just watch,

and all the ideas are coming from me,

and I just need you to, like, start doing things

and not need my initiative.

You know what I mean? Mm-hmm.

Do something, you know?

[ sniffles ]

we tried everything.

We've tried sinew and my hair and skin from a kudu.

I know he feels that pressure to get the fire,

and I just -- I wish there was something I could do.

Fire is not my thing.

I get so hungry.

Do you think we're doing real damage to our bodies?

If we had a fire, it would help.

It hurts. It hurts too bad.

Yeah. I don't want another night like that.

[ branch snaps ]

ooh!

Nothing seems like, you know, it's going our way.

I mean, I just need to, like, remember why I do this,

you know, and just, like, trust my gut and go with what I know.

My guts' been telling me try sage on sage today

because it's really hard wood. You know, hopefully, that works.

Everything just gets real tired real fast.

We haven't eaten in a while.

Here we go.

[ sighs ]

I have a coal. Gonna let it build.

Lindsey, come get sticks.

Yay. They're there. They're right there.

Sticks now.

[ panting ]

we have fire.

Oh, my god. Oh, my god.

Good job.

[ panting ]

it's really awesome.

I just got fire.

Finally.

I tried for days and days and days, you know,

and this is sort of my thing,

and I guess it was my ego that was, you know...

You know, making me think I should do better

and making me feel terrible and a lot of guilt and shame and...

I'll remember this moment for always.

Lindsey: We're just hanging around the fire.

You can see luke is enjoying the warmth.

Mm.

I'm just relishing in it.

Good.

Luke: Two humans that are naked with limited supplies

and we're already low on calories.

You know, the last thing you want to do

is go chasing around antelope and all that stuff.

There's just no way we're gonna get those,

and so as sad as it is,

you got to be, you know, opportunistic hunters.

[bleep]

this is life out here when you're living like this.

Night 13.

Sitting by the fire trying to stay warm.

[ grumbling ]

do you hear that? Luke: I do hear that.

That's my tummy. Wow.

Uh, yeah. Meat would be good.

I'm trying to use the strength of those back home,

and it's not gonna be easy.

Got a headache?

My eyes are really sensitive to the light.

Narrator: After two weeks without food, lindsey's body has begun

consuming muscle tissue for energy.

Eventually, neurons in the brain break down,

making it shrink, causing debilitating pain.

Lindsey: Luke's a great partner. I want to be here for him.

Physically, I know I can do this.

I do. I know I can.

It's just the mental part.

I want to be with my babies.

I want to be with my husband.

So, I'm trying to take it day by day.

Lindsey: Dreaming about food.

I know. It's killing me.

I can't -- my mind is, like, racing about it.

Can't stop it.

It's [bleep] awful.

Narrator: Luke and lindsey have gone almost three weeks

subsisting on raisins and raw cactus.

With an exhausting trek to extraction only four days away,

they need to find a more substantial source of calories.

[ baboon calls ] hear that?

Baboon?

If it's one baboon, I'm fine.

If it's 20 baboons, I'm a little more...

[ baboon calls ] ...Aware.

Usually, they travel together.

Yeah.

He's close, though.

I'll try to go around this way here.

There's a lot of cracks and crevasses here, so...

Mm-hmm.

There is a nest right here.

Oh, my gosh. What could've made that?

I don't know, but that could be dinner.

Do you think there's a way to get on top?

No, it's on an overhang.

I step on it, we all go down.

There's bone in it.

There's even a snake skin on top.

That's a big boy.

There could very well be a snake in there.

Could be a cobra.

If I'm poking at this, you just got to go somewhere safe.

Hope a cobra doesn't fall on me while I'm doing this.

[ baboons grunting ]

hang on. Hang on.

Let me get out of the way a little bit more.

It's coming. It's going. It's falling. It's falling!

[bleep] luke!

There could very well be a snake in there.

If I'm poking at this, you just got to go somewhere safe.

Narrator: After venturing out in search of food,

luke and lindsey come across a huge nest,

unsure of what may be lurking inside.

Hang on. Let me get out of the way a little bit more.

It's coming. It's going. It's falling. It's falling!

[bleep] [bleep]

oh, son of a bitch. [ birds squawking ]

oh! Aah!

I'm grabbing it. I'm trying.

I have -- I have two.

Luke and lindsey have found a nest of hammerhead storks --

very common to the namibian desert.

The juveniles have been in their nest

for approximately two months.

I got to get you. I'm sorry.

There's one that I bashed,

and he's under that rock over there.

Yeah, I got him pinned.

Man, that's a treasure chest.

Here -- here comes another one.

[bleep] he hit the rock.

I see him.

I got one.

You got a bird? Yeah.

If you hold him by the neck and kind of beat him --

just take his body and whack against something.

I hit him pretty good the first time,

so I probably could just snap.

You want him to be dead. You don't want to torture him.

Okay.

[ bird chirps, crunching ]

lindsey: As a mother, this is the hardest thing I've ever done.

Ooh, dizzy.

He's dead.

Ooh, hello.

It felt bad, but this is a huge meal,

and I really appreciate his sacrifice to us

and for our nourishment.

[ bird calling ]

we ended up getting all five birds.

This is survival, and that mama bird coming back

to find that all of her babies are gone,

that just breaks my heart.

Mmm.

Oh.

Ooh. That's good.

That's -- that's rotisserie chicken right there.

Oh, man.

Luke: I'm just so grateful.

Oh, yeah. That's the good stuff.

It feels so good to have this much energy in our bodies.

We desperately need this food in us

if we're going to get to extraction.

Mmm.

Yeah? Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Lindsey: You know, today, having five birds is beyond amazing.

I hate that we're eating them all in one day,

but we don't want them to go to waste.

I can't believe that. So amazing.

Being out here makes you so thankful.

I always say, "you guys need to thank daddy.

"he makes money.

He's out there working hard so we can have a meal."

luke: Food paired up with shelter, good weather,

fire, water still available.

I mean, it's just -- it's really allowed me

to appreciate this connection

with this beautiful, beautiful land.

I would say this day is the best one yet.

That's for sure.

You don't see any thorns, do you?

It's not an option to make it out of here without shoes.

We can't go anywhere. There's thorns everywhere, so...

Yeah, to get to the extraction point,

shoes are a must for us.

Here we are. Mm-hmm.

We have a long way to go.

Six or seven miles.

Narrator: To get to their extraction,

luke and lindsey will have to dodge the fierce sun,

grabbing shade where they can.

At the mercy of ambush predators

such as leopards and venomous snakes lurking in the grass,

they will pick their way through the thorn-filled landscape.

If they can make it to this dirt track,

they will be rescued by helicopter.

Lindsey: For extraction, to walk such a great distance,

we've got to get our shoes done.

All right, you want to get this guy back in the water?

The kudu hide has firmed up, so I'm soaking it,

which will help me mold it into a sandal.

We're using up the last bit of kudu hide,

so I have to be really careful

that I don't screw up these shoes.

Lindsey: She's not pretty, but she'll do.

All right, let's see how this goes.

What do you think?

Yeah, looks great.

The latest fashion.

It's pretty cool.

They look big now, but they'll shrink a lot when they dry.

Luke: Lindsey did an awesome job with these sandals.

She's really stepped it up with her skills.

Lindsey: This is huge.

It's awesome to finally do what I can to help the team

and making our way towards the extraction.

Feels good to be ending on a high.

And a storm front coming through,

so what the hell are we gonna do about it?

[ thunder rumbling ]

this sucks.

Lindsey: We're in our shelter, and it's not waterproof.

[bleep] it.

Aah! Aah!!

I hate this!

Damn it!

I'm soaking wet.

Luke: The river's getting higher and higher.

Of course we didn't grab our sandals.

They're floating down that giant river somewhere right now,

so the night before, we were supposed to start moving.

We've lost our sandals, we've lost our fire.

Just pretty un-[bleep]-real what just happened.

I doubt we're gonna make it.

Lindsey: What are you doing?

Why are you going in the water?

Luke: It's sterile.

"it's sterile." I wash myself with that water.

No, you don't. I do!

Okay, well, don't do it for the next hour

and you'll be fine.

I wash my lady bits and my armpits.

Narrator: Before they began their 21-day survival test in namibia,

luke and lindsey were both given

a primitive survival rating, or psr.

Luke has displayed impressive primitive skills,

and after a frustrating first week...

How the [bleep] is that not a coal?!

...He finally achieved fire.

Lindsey's stamina and resourcefulness

has shown she can draw from a deep well of strength.

Good job.

Their overall performance and psrs will be reevaluated

upon completion of their epic trek to extraction.

[ thunder crashes ]

luke: The night before, we were supposed to start moving.

We've lost our sandals.

Just pretty un-[bleep]-real what just happened.

[ thunder rumbles ]

nope. Not there?

[bleep]

I don't think I'd make it up the first ridge without shoes.

Right behind our shelter in the tall grass,

the thorns begin, and they are everywhere.

If we can't find our sandals, this is the end of it.

The hard part is it might be buried in muck, you know?

Yeah.

It's got to be, like, right in here.

Hey, look -- I found one. Yeah!

Here's another one. That's good.

Ooh, I got one!

Here's one more. I got them both.

Yeah. Thank you, universe.

This one's a little floppier than I wanted.

Didn't have a lot of time to dry out, but it's gonna do.

Luke: My biggest concern about the extraction walk,

you know, I guess it's two things -- one -- the thorns.

We don't know how well our sandals are gonna hold up.

Two would definitely be the weather.

It seems like today is just gonna be a brutally hot day.

You ready? I'm ready.

All right, due west.

Make sure there's no snakes

sunning themselves down there.

Ow! Just grab your legs.

All right, my shoes are just falling off.

Luke: The rawhide shoes that I have have been kind of hit and miss.

If they don't work, then I'm screwed.

Thanks.

That's better.

Tallyho. Tallyho.

Luke: [bleep] lindsey: Thorns?

They just go right through. [bleep] [bleep]

[bleep] me!

Look at this thing. Oh, my gosh.

Do you want to stop and retie?

It's just getting floppier and floppier.

My one sandal is basically like having

a soggy, wet, 10-pound sock on my foot.

This thing sucks now.

Super frustrated, so screw it.

Luke: All right, I'm just gonna take mine off right now.

I don't know how long my feet can take it,

but I don't have a choice.

Oh!

Hang on.

Oh!

Lindsey: Go to the right,

'cause on the left, there's a lot of thorns.

Now you tell me.

[bleep] [bleep]

[bleep]

[ groans ]

[bleep] damn it!

[bleep] [bleep] that hurts.

God. My ass.

[bleep] me!

[bleep]

what do you think about your sandals

just for the last bit?

Yeah, the sandal's not doing anything for me.

It is broken.

I'm exhausted.

[bleep]

like, I can't physically stand up. Crazy.

Few more steps. Few more steps.

I'm not moving.

You can do this.

So, you need to do whatever it is that you need to do,

and it'll be all worth it.

Okay, yeah. I go over there, I think I can do it.

Awesome. Let's go right now.

Let's start moving.

Luke: God.

Aah!

I'm just, you know, one step at a time.

Doing great.

Just man up and do it.

Few more steps. Few more steps. Few more steps.

We're getting there.

I see open grass.

Oh, my god, it's a road!

Yes. Yes, yes, yes! Civilization!

We made it! Ha! Whoo!

I can't believe it. I'm, like -- I have chills.

But I love -- do I hear a helicopter?

[ helicopter blades whirring ] yes! Ha!

Lindsey: As soon as we heard that helicopter, it was just joy.

Whoo!

Luke: I was definitely humbled by this experience.

I think the biggest takeaway from this

is growth through challenge.

Yeah, my frustration might get the best of me,

but I've learned what I need to work on with my skills

and what I need to work on as a person.

Whoo!

We're done! We made it!

Lindsey: It was super tough emotionally,

and being done is the greatest feeling in the world.

That was us for three weeks.

Luke: Lindsey really impressed me.

I think she found some personal strength from within

that she didn't know she had.

I don't know if I would've made it without her.

We did it.

He's the greatest partner I could've asked for.

He's my brother now.

Narrator: Over the course of the 21 punishing days in namibia,

luke and lindsey went through

significant mental and physical changes.

Luke lost a total of 25 pounds,

and lindsey shed 15 pounds.

Based on their performance, their psrs were reassessed.

Luke's frustration at failing to make fire

threatened his performance early on,

but his superb primitive skills and leadership

proved to be invaluable to their success.

It took a while for lindsey

to show how she could pull her weight for the survival duo,

but her overall compassion for her partner

kept them together through trying times.

This raises lindsey's psr from a 6.7 to a 7.1,

and luke improves to an 8.3, demonstrating once again,

it takes a special breed to survive naked and afraid.

Lindsey: When my kids are hungry,

I'm gonna just say, "go kill something and eat it."

narrator: This season, on "naked and afraid"...

Mother nature's gonna be my bitch.

I'm trying to see survival skills, and they're nowhere.

Whoa! Shark right there. Shark right there.

Okay, I take my fire starter, and you can go [bleep] yourself.

Man: Whoa!

I [bleep] hate being on this island with him.

I want to get the [bleep] away from him.

I am close to my breaking point.

Man: Nature is brutal. It takes no pity on anybody.

Ohh!

Get it. Get it. Get it. Go, go, go, go, go!

No!

The jungle is telling me we need to go home.