Original subtitles

[ birds cawing ]

lee: Ah, that hurts.

Watch it. You're standing in leafcutters.

Biggest ants I've ever seen.

-I just walk fast? -Just walk fast, yep.

Lee: And they have nasty bites, too.

Leann: Ow!

This is a brutal environment.

The sun is intense.

Leann: I've never had a sunburn this bad,

and it's agony.

Ahhhh!

Ugh.

I have a breaking point.

Who knew? [ cries ]

[ thunder crashes ]

-are you okay? -[ moans ] ah, that hurts.

♪♪

narrator: One man...

[ tarzan yell ]

...One woman...

Whoo!

...Alone for 21 days to face the wrath...

Woman: Stop raining!

...And fury

of the most hostile environments on earth.

Aah!

[ animal growls ]

they have no clothes, no food, no water.

I want water.

Do they have the skill and the will...

Fire!

...To overcome the most brutal survival challenge

of their lives...

Naked and afraid?

Lee: There's no way we're gonna be able to survive here.

Pretty much wherever you go,

there's something to eat in texas.

Ready? -Yes.

[ snake hisses ]

lee: My kids love to eat snake, and so do I.

It's like a sweet chicken.

Gypsy. -Something...

Lee: Here, try this. Tell me if you like that.

I like it. It's good.

I have no stamps yet.

It's been like 43 years,

and I've never been out of the country,

so this should be pretty fun.

♪♪

oh, my god. This place is devastated.

What did I get myself into?

There's trees down everywhere,

and it looks like this jungle's been torn apart.

♪♪

narrator: Shortly before the challenge,

a deadly category-three hurricane

tears through the southern region of nicaragua.

Extreme winds and torrential flooding

devastate the region,

claiming the lives of over 20 people.

In the wake of the hurricane

lies the remnants of indio maíz.

This once-lush rainforest is now leveled to the ground,

and with the tree canopy blown away,

the sun is now a constant threat.

Much of the wildlife has been killed or displaced.

The animals that have managed to survive

are disoriented, unpredictable,

and aggressively territorial

as they fight to protect what's left of their habitat

in this depleted terrain.

Will two survivalists be able to take on

this apocalyptic rainforest,

where even the wildlife is struggling to stay alive?

-- Captions by vitac -- www.Vitac.Com

captions paid for by discovery communications

lee: It's a jungle without a canopy.

It looks uninhabitable.

That hurricane just destroyed everything.

The whole canopy on the top has been stripped off

by the hurricane and now is in the bottom,

and so everything's growing up over it

and there's tons of places for things to hide --

all the vipers, the poisonous spiders,

the jaguars.

The animal patterns have changed.

Everything has changed here.

My name is lee. I live in blue ridge, texas,

and I'm in commercial roofing.

I'm married with six kids.

I want to prove to myself that I have that mental strength

to push myself through the hardest thing

that anybody could ever do.

I've really maxed out my career.

I think it's gonna give me a lot more confidence

to move on and maybe do other things with my life,

to take me to a different level.

Narrator: As a snake wrangler

and primitive fire expert,

lee brings an elite level of experience

to this challenge,

but with limited exposure to the rainforest,

this post-apocalyptic environment

will test his skills to the limit.

Lee starts with an initial primitive survival rating,

or psr, of 7.7.

I don't know why I'm so scared of falling out of this boat,

other than crocodiles. [ laughs ]

in this environment,

we just don't know what to expect

from the hurricane damage.

There is a tremendous amount of sunlight

that we wouldn't have normally had otherwise in the jungle.

My name is leann. I'm from anchorage, alaska,

and I'm an accountant.

There's a saying in alaska --

"the men are men, and so are the women,"

so we can prove ourselves just as well as any man.

I moved out when I was 16 and went in the military,

worked really hard,

slept maybe two hours a day

while I was going to college, working full-time,

being a mom, and being a soldier.

Narrator: Leann's experience as a military veteran,

competitive bowhunter, and single mother

makes her adaptable and mentally tough.

But having never left alaska,

she lacks exposure to any type of tropical environment,

least of all a devastated rainforest

now exposed to the scorching nicaraguan sun.

She begins with a psr of 6.1.

♪♪

well, that looks, um...

Looks like a natural disaster hit, for sure.

Being naked -- I got the hot-mom bod.

[ laughing ] so this is not gonna matter.

It's just a suit.

I think my biggest strength out here

is gonna be the hunting and the fishing.

I would have rather been in the pacific northwest

where my skills are more suited to,

but I'm taking on this challenge

to make my state of alaska proud,

give a good name to all the alaska women.

Kind of a little bit nervous now with all my clothes off.

Can I do it? Absolutely.

♪♪

well, I guess this is it.

Taking off your clothes --

I think that is what really makes this the hardest challenge

because you're giving away and stripping away

every ounce of protection.

21 days, here we come.

This place is nasty.

It is wet. I'm sinking up to my knees.

♪♪

how are you? -Doing great. How...

[ laughing ]

I see you signed up for the same vacation as I did.

[ laughing ] right? It's crazy, huh?

Yeah.

Whoa! [ screams ]

[ laughs ]

hello. Here. -[ laughs ]

-how you doing? I'm lee. -I'm leann.

[ laughing ]

nice to meet you.

This is a muddy place, isn't it?

Yeah.

-I fell like five times... -[ laughs ]

no big deal.

Where are you from? -From anchorage, alaska.

-Oh, really? -Where are you from?

-I'm from dallas, texas. -All right.

So should we see what we got in our bags?

Yeah, absolutely.

-So I brought paracord. -Awesome.

Hunting, snaring, trapping, bow, fire.

So how are your fire skills?

Fire skills are good. Very good.

I'll bring my "a" game.

Bring your "a" game? All right.

What did you bring?

I brought something for morale...

[ laughing ]

-...A little mosquito net. -That is awesome.

We can use it for different things, as well.

Similar -- definitely keep the bugs off of us.

Fishing, as well, so... -That is awesome.

We're gonna rock this thing now.

And I see we have a machete, as well,

so I would say we have everything we need.

I got a map.

Lee: Definitely don't want to stay in this,

so this over here seems to be higher ground.

-Sounds good to me. -All right.

♪♪

-ahhhh! -[ laughs ]

ouch. Okay, navigator.

Ugh!

Narrator: Lee and leann head to higher ground

in search of drier land and cleaner groundwater.

Decomposing animal and plant matter

have likely contaminated this swampy wasteland,

and the flooded jungle floor

has become an ideal breeding ground

for swarms of mosquitoes that carry deadly diseases,

like malaria and dengue fever.

Oh, that doesn't feel good. Ah!

Careful where you step. -Yeah.

The only thing I really want to watch is my feet.

There's, like, sticks poking out of everywhere.

Ugh! [ mumbles ]

good times.

[ distant howling ]

-hear the howlers? -Hmm?

Hear the howler monkeys?

Leann: A lot of the different species of monkeys

got killed off from the hurricane, I guess.

They just don't have the habitat.

-Wow. That's sad. -Yeah.

Completely changed the whole ecosystem.

♪♪

is that the skin from one of those spiders?

Oh, my god. A spider.

-Heh. -Agh!

Narrator: The wandering spider is known

as one of the world's deadliest.

Its powerful neurotoxic bite causes loss of muscle control

and kills by paralyzing and asphyxiating its victim.

Well, good. At least we saw one dead.

That is awesome.

Sun. -We're gonna be crispy-fried.

Oh, yeah.

You got red hair, and you are white.

I'm just putting some mud on my shoulders.

Otherwise I am...

That sun will take me out.

-Beautiful. -Oh...

Leann: Guess that's my only competitive advantage

with hair.

Oh, yeah.

I'm still gonna get fried.

You're gonna get fried.

Narrator: Because nicaragua is located

only 800 miles from the equator,

unprotected skin can burn in under 10 minutes here --

five times faster than in alaska.

♪♪

oh, what's this?

Man, this is, like, perfect in here.

It's shady.

There's big logs we can span between

if we just put the sticks across

right there for our bed,

and then put our a-frame like that.

We could put a fire right here,

and we'd actually have a little bench by our fire.

That will work.

♪♪

leann: We settled on this spot

that already had a natural down tree

that we could use as a base of fort

for adding or building our shelter.

I'm getting along with my partner really great.

He is very skilled and knowledgeable.

Lee's been doing a lot of the cutting,

but I'm trying to reciprocate, of course.

I feel like I can't help you.

You can't, really, without the machete.

Leann: Definitely not familiar with this environment

compared to alaska.

I know the rain is coming

so I'm just gonna start making some containers for water.

Lee: My partner is trying to contribute

as much as I'm contributing,

and I think it's gonna work out good.

-Can I do anything? -[ laughs ]

yeah, you can hold just right there,

if you want to hold.

-Hold it. Okay. -[ chuckles ]

leann: He's the lead-the-way kind of guy,

and that's great, but I also don't want him

to feel like I'm slacking at all.

Leann: My skin is fried.

Lee: All we have to do is put a canopy over it.

Shade?

I'm tired, a little dehydrated.

Need water.

Lee: I do roofing for a living

so if I fail at my roof...

-If you fail? -...I'll change careers.

Leann: Glad I got stranded with a roofer.

♪♪

and it's gonna be a rough night.

We can make it work.

We'll make it work.

[ animals growling ]

[ groans ]

my muscles are cramping up.

I need water.

Oh, dehydration sucks.

♪♪

leann: Bug night. [ groans ]

[ insect buzzing ]

♪♪

agh. Being eaten alive by these black ants.

Just horrible.

Ow! [ groans ]

oh, that hurts. [ groans ]

♪♪

-worst night ever. -It was kind of bad.

Not much sleep. I slept a little bit.

Leann didn't sleep.

-Pretty much never. -No.

Trying to roll around and maneuver on the bed

with the sunburn on my butt was horrible.

[ gasps ] oh!

That could have been bad.

Having the mosquito net only halfway on my legs

was awful,

and then I got so many ant bites

on my feet last night.

The ants -- not mosquitoes.

♪♪

wow, am I thirsty.

I'm guessing it's probably 90 degrees out.

I'm just dripping sweat.

I'm losing a ton of water.

I'm gonna go over here and dig a hole

and see if water comes in.

Lee: Water in this environment is huge. Huge.

They say three days without water,

but not in this environment. There's no way.

♪♪

leann: Without fire, we can't boil water,

so lee is digging a trench.

He's gonna go down, I think, about two feet

to check to see if there's a natural water source

that's gonna come up from the ground.

The carbon in the soil will actually purify it.

Narrator: To avoid ingesting any parasites

from contaminated surface water,

lee is digging a seep well.

It's seeping in.

Yep, we got water.

Oh, my god.

Now I just got to get it out of the hole.

That's beautiful.

As the hole fills with groundwater,

carbon in the dirt filters out potential contaminates.

We'll let it sit for about a half hour.

Everything will settle down.

You can drink right off of it.

♪♪

we are gonna check our water.

We have water! [ laughs ]

can I see? Whoo!

That's kind of sexy-looking water.

Oh, that tastes so good.

That tastes, like, perfectly clear.

♪♪

definitely need a better cup.

Doesn't it taste good, though?

It does. It tastes wonderful.

It tastes, like, wonderful.

Oh, god. Beautiful water.

[ laughs ]

it does seem like I'm doing a ton of the work.

She can't do quite as much as me,

and her sunburn's really bad,

so it doesn't bother me to step up

and to take on a little extra work.

Somewhere along the road,

I know that I'm probably gonna go down,

and hopefully she can step up

and do the extra work until I'm back on my feet.

This is burnt from a tree fire.

We're gonna try and use it as a hearth.

I don't know if it will work, but it's worth a shot.

Now that we have shelter, we have water,

we want fire so we can cook some food.

Even as I sit here,

there's a lizard sitting right there staring at me,

but we're not gonna kill him unless we know we can cook him.

So we're not gonna waste it.

♪♪

think it's gonna work, leann?

Of course it's gonna work.

You got this.

Let's see what we can do.

I'm gonna put more leaves on the shelter

to protect us from the sun.

Ooh, we got some smoke.

♪♪

yeah, this wood's smoking,

but it's not even blackening,

which is what it should do before a coal forms.

♪♪

anytime you see it when it's just not blackening,

usually means your wood is too sappy.

This is not gonna work.

♪♪

it's the end of day 2.

We have a bigger shelter.

The mosquito net is properly placed.

So, hoping that we don't get as many bug bites

as we got last night.

We just have to worry about the bugs

that are inside the shelter tonight,

and we weren't successful today at making fire.

Hopefully we'll have something tomorrow.

♪♪

♪♪

I thought I had, like, a high pain threshold.

Not for sunburns.

[ chuckles ]

every cell is like, "you're an idiot."

lee: Today we're gonna make a trip down to the river --

jump in and wash our bodies and our cuts and our sunburns.

And we're gonna see if we can source some food

or whatever's down there by the river.

♪♪

ugh! Damn ants, everywhere.

Narrator: The jaws of leafcutter ants are so powerful,

they can pierce through skin.

Watch it. You're standing in leafcutters.

Their painful bites can easily become infected

in this type of environment.

-I just walk fast? -Just walk fast, yep.

Ugh.

♪♪

this is the river right here.

The water's all mucky.

Definitely have to watch out for the snakes

and the crocodiles.

Leann: Snakes and the crocodiles.

[ monkey howls ]

the monkey's staring at us.

Oh, yes, he is.

You see the howler monkey?

Yeah.

He's like, "who the hell are you?"

we are king of the jungle.

Yep.

♪♪

hopefully we scared away all those crocodiles.

Yep.

This doesn't look very promising here.

Narrator: Bacterial infections are also a threat.

Floodwater mixes with everything below it,

including animal waste,

and the increased levels of bacteria in the water

can cause flu symptoms and intestinal issues.

Ooh. That's cold. Wow.

Oh.

Look at the color of the water,

'cause all the trees from the hurricane went down,

so now all the trees are in the water,

so all the tannin's from the plants.

It's so orange right now,

we can't even really see the bottom.

[ gasps ] ahh!

Feels so good on my sunburn.

Ahh!

Ahh!

Don't know that was. It just bit me hard.

[ monkey howls ]

♪♪

♪♪

[ monkey howls ]

♪♪

yeah, there's definitely something there.

Bastard.

[ gasps ] ow!

-What? -Something bit my boob.

-Really? -Yeah.

I'm getting out of here. Agh!

Yeah, that's not a bad idea.

♪♪

it's starting to get very cold.

The breeze is picking up.

It's making it a little chilly, so...

I don't know how my fire stuff's staying dry.

Narrator: In a tropical storm,

freezing rain can cause the temperature

to plummet more than 40 degrees in minutes.

Exposed sunburned skin is especially vulnerable

to rapid drops in temperature.

We're gonna put up a temporary little ramada.

This is where it's gonna be our fire area.

We want to be able to dry some of our stuff out.

'cause unless we got something over our head,

there's no way we're gonna get a fire in this.

♪♪

I'm gonna start working on fire.

That will definitely keep us from getting hypothermia.

Definitely.

♪♪

leann: Oh. The sun's out.

We're gonna see blue sky.

Lee: All right. Let's see what we can do here.

You want to grab that end of the bow

and do it with me?

♪♪

♪♪

longer strokes.

There you go. There you go.

All right. -Ooh!

About done.

All right.

♪♪

get that wood ready.

♪♪

it's so wet.

Ugh! Seriously?

Yeah.

It's damp.

-All right. -[ sighs ]

lee: I'm frustrated right now.

That's the first time that I've had a coal

and a tinder bundle not go to flame.

Without fire, there's no way

we're gonna be able to survive here.

♪♪

[ insects chirping and buzzing ]

lee: [ groans ]

oh, my god. Oh, oh.

[ groans and sighs ]

♪♪

ugh.

♪♪

ugh.

You still want to throw up?

Yeah.

Oh, even my joints hurt.

[ groans ]

my head's just pounding.

We can keep you out of the sun.

Lee: Not for sure exactly what's going on

with all my symptoms.

My body right now feels like someone

took a baseball bat and just beat it up.

I can hardly move.

You need to drink some water.

No, I haven't drank any water.

Leann: I really worry because I rely on him.

Lee: I have a lot of fear that this could be

the onset of something worse.

[ groans ]

leann: He's colder, so we have to come up

with a solution for his body temperature.

[ groans ]

I'm just gonna get the banana leaves for his cover.

I'm getting a little bit more worried

about being out here by myself.

Are you okay? -[ moans ]

♪♪

[ groans ]

oh, my god.

[ groans ]

oh, [bleep].

♪♪

cast camp to medic. Lee needs a medic asap.

Medic: On our way.

[ groans ]

lee: Oh, my god.

[ groans ]

cast camp to medic. Lee needs a medic asap.

Medic: On our way.

[ groans ]

♪♪

medic: You feel numbness in your body?

All my fingers and everything's just numb.

What he really needs is to get out of here.

We need to take you to the medical tent,

so we can observe you overnight.

[ groans ] ahh.

-Yeah. -Okay.

♪♪

narrator: By morning, the medics are still unsure

if lee is suffering from a bacterial infection

or a more serious threat.

Medic: So, lee, we got to run some lab tests on you,

and this cannot be done in the field.

We want to have more data

to know what we're dealing with.

Yeah, there's a possibility that this is dengue fever.

We're gonna have to medically evacuate you.

Okay.

Narrator: Dengue fever is a potentially deadly

mosquito-borne disease that can thrive

in this hurricane-ravaged wasteland.

Much like a bacterial infection,

it causes headaches, fever, vomiting,

and debilitating muscle pain.

Because he's exhibiting many of the symptoms,

lee is immediately evacuated to a hospital

where he'll be tested and treated.

Forced to leave the challenge only five days in,

lee's psr drops from 7.7 to 5.9.

♪♪

leann: So today is day 5.

I feel bad for lee

'cause he has had to go to the clinic

and probably has, like, dengue fever

or some weird, weird thing.

But he won't be able to come back,

so I guess it's all me. [ sighs ]

♪♪

biggest fear right now is gonna be,

am I strong enough to complete this without him?

Can I get through 21 days?

I'm going to try for fire again,

but lee had a lot more experience than I do

with a bow drill.

Ugh.

I would really like to have fire.

♪♪

ugh! We're gonna have to tighten this up a little.

♪♪

that sucked.

♪♪

my sunburn looks really disgusting right now.

[ chuckles ]

what the heck?

[ groans and whimpers ] ahhhh!

♪♪

ugh, look at all of the blisters. Ugh.

Narrator: Skin is the body's largest organ

and its first line of defense.

Leann: It's not sweat, people. [ chuckles ]

narrator: Leann's newly formed, fluid-filled blisters

provide an extra layer of protection

between damaged skin and the sun,

but if these blisters rupture,

they can expose the body to infection.

Leann: When I lay down or I scratch it,

it's gonna be -- it's gonna hurt really bad.

I'm not looking forward to that.

♪♪

[ groans ]

♪♪

just moving around because of my sunburn.

A lot of my blisters pop moving around.

[ sighs ]

can't take much more sun on my skin.

♪♪

I definitely didn't expect to be alone.

If lee was still in the challenge with me,

we probably would be a lot further along

because we can divide and conquer.

Being alone sucks.

My stomach is starting to make grambling noises

like I'm hungry.

I'm just gonna go for a walk.

If I can bring back some heart of palms,

I think it would be awesome.

Oh, damn.

Sunburn hurts more than a bug bite.

Ohh.

I see palm fronds.

I could hack away at that palm tree.

That'd be awesome.

Come on.

Fall down already.

♪♪

awesome. [ laughs ]

the sun is starting to melt my sunburn,

and it hurts. [ sighs ]

I've never had a sunburn this bad,

and it's a lot of pain. [ gasps ]

narrator: As part of the healing process,

pressure continues to build inside leann's sun blisters,

making every step more agonizing.

Avoiding more sun exposure is the only way

to prevent her blisters from rupturing.

Leann: The sunburn is splitting,

so that's just causing agony.

And my ankles are just, like, super swollen.

I don't know. And some bug bites.

This is almost unbearable.

I can't take much more of this. [ grunts ]

the sunburn on that side is popping open and drying out,

and it hurts.

And then this up here

is starting to form blisters and popping,

and it's very painful.

Hopefully it's only for like another day,

'cause I can't take much more of that. Ugh.

♪♪

day 8.

Zero sleep.

My sunburn is absolutely horrible.

[ sighs ]

I cannot get out of my tent.

There's just not enough shade.

Narrator: Now that leann's blisters have ruptured,

her skin's last line of defense is compromised.

With no jungle canopy to provide shade,

she must remain in the shelter in order to avoid

further sun damage and a serious infection.

♪♪

leann: Day 9.

Yeah, the shelter lockdown is not my favorite.

Very slow, confined.

A little bit like prison.

Not enough, but something.

I'm going to have to be creative in my head --

look around, watch the wildlife,

play musical crickets.

[ crickets chirping ]

♪♪

leann: Day 10.

Today is arts-and-crafts day.

The goal is to make something that I can wear.

If all goes well

and I finish my clothing to cover both,

I might be able to get out of here.

I've been in here for three days,

and my chest doesn't look the greatest,

but it feels a lot better.

I feel ready to get out of here and stand upright.

Hopefully everything holds together as well as I planned.

Ohh, ohh.

Oh, my god. [ exhales ]

♪♪

I probably look ridiculous. [ chuckles ]

I'm free.

I'm just so happy to be outside. [ laughs ]

♪♪

right now I just need to get some food in my tummy

to help with recovery,

but also with energy and strength.

Sugarcane --

it's nice and purple, should be sweet --

which I'm gonna try to chew right now.

[ sighs ]

delicious.

Today, one piece of sugarcane.

Narrator: In the last several days,

leann has only consumed 50 calories

from the heart of palm.

The additional sugarcane brings her caloric intake

up to 250,

still leaving her severely weakened

and struggling to stay warm.

The howler monkeys are out, so there's either a storm coming

or they're just trying to say goodnight.

[ monkeys howl ]

as soon as they start going at it,

then I know it's gonna be game on.

[ monkeys howl and grunt ]

♪♪

[ thunder crashes ]

[ rain falling ]

[ thunder crashes ]

♪♪

♪♪

[ thunder crashes ]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[ insect buzzing ]

♪♪

no more -- oop.

[ chuckles ]

[ chuckles ]

[ laughing ]

♪♪

♪♪

leann: Day 12.

[ voice breaking ] last night really sucked.

♪♪

[ crying ] yep, that was the worst

because it didn't stop.

It's cold and wet.

My skin is still very hot.

I'm trying to stay dry with one leaf.

[ cries ]

so I'm trying my best to stay in the game, but...

...I have a breaking point.

Who knew? [ cries ]

ah.

My body temperature continues to drop,

and my body is shutting down.

But after all the suffering I've endured,

I am not quitting now.

♪♪

so I know I have to improve my situation

and get up out of the shelter.

Narrator: For the last three days,

leann has barely moved or eaten,

and the extreme drops in temperature

brought on by the rainstorms are making it even harder

for her metabolism to create heat.

Leann: The goal on the walk is to warm up,

but I'm walking so slow,

it's not enough to get my body heat up.

And I'm hoping the banana leaves

will help create some body temperature --

create, like, an incubator.

[ thunder crashes ]

♪♪

♪♪

no.

No, no, no. [ grunts ]

more rain.

♪♪

this [bleep] sucks.

I'm walking, I'm chopping,

and I'm doing everything I possibly can

to bring up my body temperature,

but it's not doing me any good.

The rain -- it's painful.

It's falling very hard on my skin and my sunburn,

and I can't bear the pain,

so I'm trying to make it back to the shelter.

♪♪

[ thunder crashes ]

leann: [ gasps and groans ]

♪♪

[ groans ]

♪♪

[ sighs ]

♪♪

♪♪

narrator: Lack of food and severely burned skin

on 80% of leann's body

have weakened her immune system

and caused her body's thermal regulation to malfunction.

She's now at risk of hypothermia.

[ radio chatter ]

narrator: The medics are called in to evaluate leann's condition.

Leann: Okay. [ gasps ]

I'm gonna throw up. Ahh!

Narrator: Leann is in stage-two hypothermia,

and if her temperature continues to drop,

she's at risk of internal-organ failure.

Medic: Cast camp to base. Cast camp to base.

We're gonna have to carry her out.

This is a medical evacuation.

♪♪

[ medics talking indistinctly ]

leann: I'm disappointed that I didn't complete the challenge.

Just the accumulation of sunburn and the hypothermia --

it was just too much.

I do believe I have a strong willpower,

but I'm freezing to death, and I just can't continue.

♪♪

this experience was different than I expected.

I could never get past the basic shelter, water --

could never get to fire,

and without fire, there is no way possible

that I was gonna be able to finish this challenge.

♪♪

narrator: Despite displaying incredible mental fortitude,

leann's strong will wasn't enough to survive

the brutal jungle of indio maíz.

Leann: That sucked.

Narrator: Extreme sunburn broke down her body,

and a final storm knocked leann out of the challenge

with hypothermia.

After surviving 11 days on nothing but sugarcane

and heart of palm,

leann lost a total of 12 pounds.

Following her medical evacuation,

leann's psr drops from 6.1 to 5.3

proving that in a post-apocalyptic rainforest,

it takes the toughest mental and physical skills

to survive naked and afraid.