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This heat's unbelievable.

I just feel like I'm gonna pass out.

I'm gonna reach my breaking point, I think.

Ohh.

Whoo!

This is a gift from god.

What is that?

[bleep] get out of here.

Is that a crocodile? That's a [bleep] crocodile.

Narrator: In the world's harshest environments,

two experienced survivalists

put their skills to the ultimate test...

Oh [bleep]

...Without food, water, or clothes.

Just one victory, please!

Narrator: Now, on a rugged, sun-scorched coast

in the yucatan,

two strangers have to work together

to survive for 21 days...

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

luke: This whole thing is over. We're screwed.

I'm nervous. I'm not gonna lie.

Driving through this jungle here,

it's not looking like something that's very inviting, honestly.

My name's luke. I'm 35 years old.

I'm a tattoo artist out of southern california.

I'm pretty much self-taught in basic survival.

Lots of youtube videos, lots of reading books.

Just always been something that's bothered me

to not be able to do something.

I feel like my inner strength, honestly,

comes from my own pride.

I just need to do this to prove to myself that I can.

This is the moment of truth right here.

I feel like I've learned the skills that make it possible,

and I want to show the world that this is something I can do.

The heat and the sun, I think,

are my first-off concerns around here.

My name's alyssa, and I have a really strong background

in primitive survival skills.

The past few years, I've been working with at-risk youth.

We try to teach them important life skills

by surviving in the desert for three months.

That's where my experience comes from.

I believe a positive attitude

can get you through any situation,

but I've never done anything like this before.

I am nervous to take it all off and run around in the jungle.

All right.

I don't have a big ego.

I'm not one to even really like talking about myself.

So being able to complete this challenge

is just going to make me so much stronger as a person.

Here we go.

Luke: Oh, there's the water.

There's a lot of coral to deal with.

This is not gonna be fun.

Going to see my partner for the first time.

What I really want in a partner

is someone who has a sense of humor and skills.

That would be nice.

I definitely see someone down there.

[ chuckles ]

looks like she's enjoying that coral on her feet

about as much as I am.

Luke: Hello.

[ chuckles ] hi!

The day has finally come.

It has.

Hi. Hi, I'm luke.

Luke. Alyssa. Alyssa?

Nice to meet you, alyssa. Nice to meet you, too.

How are your feet doing there?

Good. How are yours doing?

They're in pain.

Found this stick on the beach.

It actually helps a lot with the coral.

I mean, that's how I noticed you was you had a large...

[ chuckles ]

um...

Yeah, so, what do you think?

I'm excited. It's beautiful.

[ chuckles ] awkward, right?

It is beautiful. Thank god for that.

Shall we get our stuff?

Yep, let's go see what we got.

Here, try this out. Oh. Thank you.

Narrator: For her one survival item,

alyssa has selected an ax,

while luke has chosen a pot for cooking and boiling water.

I was kind of hoping that we'd come across some crab,

maybe some lobster.

Either way, it's gonna be good for boiling water.

All that good stuff. We'll need that.

So, let's see what we got here.

Luke and alyssa have been inserted on the eastern tip

of mexico's yucatan peninsula,

along a rugged stretch of coast last populated by the mayans.

Under the blazing caribbean sun, razor-sharp coral

and deadly sea snakes are a constant threat.

By heading north over three miles of jagged beach,

they'll hope to establish a base camp

near the edge of the dense jungle,

and from there, try to locate one of several small cenotes,

or sinkholes,

the only reliable source of drinking water in the area,

but also a favorite hunting ground

of the island's large population of crocodiles,

which can grow to over 10 feet long.

Alyssa: What are some of your survival skills?

I like to think that I'm pretty well-rounded.

That's good to know.

I used to go out with my friends, like, once a year.

We'd go out for like four days at a time

and not bring any food or water

and just kind of live off the land, you know?

But I've always had an interest in it,

you know, kind of studied it,

watched videos online and stuff like that.

And...Ow!

Luke seems awesome. He seems really fun.

But you can read all the books in the world.

And when it comes down to it, you just need to practice

your skills in real-life situations.

That sun is pretty brutal.

Scorched the crap out of my feet.

The water's definitely gonna be important out here, too.

We're gonna get so hot.

Like, we're gonna sweat buckets.

Luke: I don't expect her to have

every survival skill in the survival handbook.

I don't expect her to know everything,

but as long as we can get along, I think that we're gonna have

a pretty successful experience out here.

Let's see what this area looks like right here.

We've got water somewhere right here.

Yep.

So, looks good to me.

It does to me, as well.

How are your shelter-building skills, do you think?

I think they're all right. How are yours?

[ laughs ] I think they're all right.

I think we can figure something out.

Ooooh!

This is soft.

Ohh, it's like heaven on my feet.

This would be, like, really good for, like, shade

with the rocks protecting.

Yeah, we can build a fire right here,

and that'll kind of block the wind a little bit.

If we can make it really deep and tall,

then we can skooch back into it for shade.

And we can always add, too, you know what I mean?

We'll have a mansion by the time the thing's over.

If it doesn't work tonight, we just try again tomorrow.

I like the way you think. I like your style.

All right, I'll go get some cordage.

All right, sounds good.

This thing's gonna be a taj mahal

by the end of a couple days here.

Alyssa: I think luke's ideas for the shelter

are a little ambitious, but I'm willing to give it a try.

We just need to get it done.

Then after that, we'll definitely get some water.

That's definitely gonna be a huge issue

with the sun and the heat.

Yeah, I can get a lot of stuff done with this thing.

What do you think? That's a good start?

This thing's gonna be big.

So, this is our gorgeous little home,

and I'm sleeping right now on the little bed that I made.

And it's actually pretty sweet.

Me?

I just found an ant crawling on my butt [bleep]

that's definitely a new one for me.

They're all over everything.

These things are relentless.

Alyssa: It's day 2. It's way too hot.

Luke: We're both feeling drained already.

The only thing on my mind right now is water.

This heat's unbelievable.

[ sighs ]

that sun -- it's just -- man, it drains you so quickly.

Alyssa: Today we decided we are going to go out

and go get some actual water from the cenote.

Narrator: If luke and alyssa are unable to locate and secure

fresh water from the sinkholes by the end of day 2,

the effects of extreme dehydration

will begin to quickly escalate from headaches and nausea

to eventual brain damage and death.

I don't think anything can get better

than when we get water.

The problem is we could end up walking a long way

to not even see anything.

Yeah. Aah!

You okay?

Yeah, there's lots of thorny stuff.

Yeah, it is...

Definitely watch your feet.

I stepped on, like, a whole foot full of them.

Aah!

Well, I'm starting to see water.

I was hoping to see a swimming pool.

It's dirty as hell.

Keep an eye out for crocodiles.

Luke: Looks nasty.

Formed by a collapse in the limestone bedrock,

the cenote contains extremely high levels of sulfur,

which can cause diarrhea.

And its dark, murky color is a warning sign

of other deadly contaminants from plant and animal life.

Oh, god. Looks like urine.

Luke: There's really no way of telling

what kind of bacteria is floating around in this water,

but at this point, it's the only water we've found.

So, hopefully, we can boil it

to the point where it doesn't make us sick.

Alyssa: The water that we have is gonna definitely

so it's definitely changed the rush to getting fire.

I'm just gonna go slow with it till things start building.

How are your hands doing?

Hands are okay, but shoulders are getting tired.

Nice.

You're doing awesome.

Oh, that [bleep] biting the back of my leg right now.

Oh, my hands are getting all slippery.

God, it smells hot.

It's not even making any...

Nothing.

It's just sitting there cooking the wood.

It's day 2.

We can't survive without water for three days.

Luke: We need water.

I mean, if we don't have water, then we're screwed.

This whole thing is over.

Luke: Ohh.

Nothing.

It's just sitting there cooking the wood.

Narrator: After two days in the sweltering yucatan,

luke and alyssa have had nothing to drink

and have yet to create a fire

to purify the only water they have.

Before departing, they were evaluated

by a panel of survival experts

and each given a primitive survival rating, or psr.

Luke displays great confidence

and has studied a wide variety of complex techniques,

but has never applied those skills

in a long-term survival scenario.

He scores a psr of 6.8.

As a youth survival counselor,

alyssa has amassed years of actual field experience

and is an expert in essential primitive skills,

but her passive nature could prevent her

from applying that knowledge effectively.

She earns a psr of 7.1.

Their scores will be re-evaluated

at the end of their challenge,

if lack of hydration doesn't force them to tap out first.

Luke: It is day 3.

We really didn't get a whole lot of sleep.

We really need to figure out

this whole lack-of-water situation

'cause it's really starting to hurt.

We're gonna start a fire.

Alyssa: The hand drill wasn't working,

so I wove some really good cordage

so I could make a bow drill.

Today is the day.

Alyssa: Today is the day.

Today is the magical day.

All right, you ready? Ready.

Luke: Our whole eating and water situation

is pretty much 100% dependent on the fire.

Okay, I think I'm gonna start cranking it.

Ready? Go.

Nice! That's it!

Ohh!

That's okay. Let's see it.

[ panting ]

good job. How you feeling?

I'm tired.

Okay, good.

[ panting continues ]

oh, god.

You good? I got to stop.

Here, let's look at what we have.

We'll take a break.

Looks really good.

No, it doesn't.

If it was an ember, it would look really good.

That's true.

Oh, my god, that's exhausting.

How you feeling?

[ sighs ] [bleep]

alyssa: I know that luke is frustrated,

but I really just like to look at the world in a different way,

thinking that, you know, everything's gonna go well.

And if it doesn't,

then you just change it and roll with the punches.

We could make -- we could try it with bigger bows

and then try again.

[ wood squeaking ]

nice.

Damn it!

You got it.

Ohh [bleep]

it's pointless if it's doing that.

I need a break.

Let's take a break from the whole thing.

Let's clear our conscience of it.

Luke: I'm kind of at a loss on the fire thing.

I really don't know what to do about it.

This is bad. We need to do something now.

You know what we could do

is see if we can make some kind of water filter.

We're not gonna stop working on the fire,

but it sure would help to have a little extra energy

by having some water in us.

I really like that plan.

All right, I'm gonna go see what I can find.

Might actually work.

Just test this to see if it holds water.

And it looks like we're in business.

The idea is fill one of these things with sand and rocks,

and that's gonna give us our best bet

on filtering that water out of those cenotes that we found.

Would you lookie there?

That's actual charcoal.

That's from some kind of burnt driftwood or something.

We crush that up, that's gonna make a real nice filter.

That's even better.

Everyone's heard of a charcoal filter.

Narrator: Charcoal and sand are natural filters.

If properly layered, they will absorb

the majority of the contaminants and bacteria

from the water as it passes through.

Okay, that's actually full.

Let me pull this out here.

Look at that.

It's working pretty good.

How's it taste?

All right, here goes nothing.

Ahh.

That tastes like amazing water.

Ahh. Oh, my god, it's refreshing.

If properly maintained,

the filter should work for the remainder of the challenge.

But without a fire for cooking,

the choices of food will be limited.

Is that gonna hold? Yeah.

Luke: As disgusting as they are, it's okay to eat the raw snails.

It's the best thing that we have

to get some protein in our bodies right now.

And there's pretty much an abundance of them out here.

Narrator: For their size,

sea snails are rich in protein and iron.

But to obtain a minimum amount of required calories,

they would have to eat about 65 snails a day.

Luke: This is gonna be our first real food.

Sorry. Ohh!

Is that the entrails? Yeah.

Cheers. Cheers.

Ohh! [ laughs ]

it's delicious.

Right here. Salty.

Luke: Plan for today is we're gonna go explore

a different part of the jungle and look for some more food --

something different than raw snails.

That's what I'm talking about.

Look at that.

Wow. Gorgeous.

It looks amazing.

I'm gonna climb in. I'm gonna go for a swim.

It's gonna feel so good.

Ohh. Whoo!

Ohh!

It is super-cold but amazing 'cause it's hot out here.

A big, like, shock to your system.

Ohh.

This looks fresher than the water we've been getting.

Actually, it smells like boiled eggs.

It smells like sulfur, farts.

[ both laugh ]

ohh, worst-smelling heaven I've ever been in.

What is that?

[bleep] get out of here.

Is that a crocodile? That's a [bleep] crocodile.

[bleep]

luke: [bleep] get out of here.

Alyssa: Is that a crocodile? That's a [bleep] crocodile.

[bleep]

dude.

I cannot believe we just saw a freaking crocodile that big.

So, take a pee right now here.

Today we're gonna try to get some fire going...Again.

I'd really like to start hunting.

I'm tired of eating snails -- taking snail pills for protein.

All right, so, I'm working on just a different idea.

I'm gonna fill each of these with rocks.

You wind this up. The cord winds around it.

The stick goes up.

So, when you push it down,

the momentum from the rocks in here

keeps it spinning to push it back up again,

and then you just keep doing it like that.

It's making a hole in that pretty damn quick.

It's hot. Want to try it?

Yeah. Let's do it.

Before it breaks. Hurry up.

Ready? Yeah.

I'll get it going.

Nope. It's out.

Oh, it's bending in the middle.

Yeah, that's what's happening. It's breaking in the middle.

This is done. It's shot.

Ah.

[ groans ] that really sucks.

Alyssa: I don't know what time it is,

but I haven't slept at all 'cause the bugs are so bad.

I don't even know where these bugs are coming from,

but just, like, constant, constant biting.

It's day 8, and did a little scavenging.

I found this, which could be very useful in starting fire.

Also found this.

Can probably use the bottom of that.

An idea that I have.

All right.

I've got a new invention.

Trying to do, like, a telescope type of deal.

The two of those put together -- it makes a pretty good beam.

You know, the inventions -- they may seem a little kooky,

but I'm gonna try everything that I can think of

until we get this to work.

Alyssa: At this point, no idea is a bad idea.

Maybe one of his inventions will work, and that will be amazing.

But until then, I am just gonna try

and stick with this bow drill and try on the cordage.

So, I'm finding that it looks like

I get a better beam of light

with just the single piece of glass.

But it's still not, like, really hot.

Honestly, I'm kind of giving up on this idea.

I just don't think the glass is good magnifying glass, you know?

Hopefully, this'll do.

All right.

This cord seems a lot stronger than any other one.

Strongest cord yet, huh?

It is.

Well, then, this is the moment of truth right here.

[ wood squeaking ]

see it?

Mnh-mnh.

I don't understand why it won't turn into a freaking ember.

I just cannot believe

it's this hard to get this fire started.

I really can't.

We've come so close every time.

It should have worked.

Yeah. It sucks.

Luke: It's an extremely frustrating process.

Probably one of the most frustrating things

I've ever tried to do.

I've run out of energy. I just can't keep going.

These damn flies are relentless.

And they bite!

Like, draw-blood bite.

Oh, yeah, you're dead.

[bleep]

luke: Ooh! Alyssa: Ooh!

Looks like we got a storm a-brewing.

I see.

Right there, coming directly at us,

is the biggest storm we've seen since we've been here.

Do you want to collect a bunch of rain water?

Yeah. Put some bamboo out and collect it with that, too.

What do you say we try to get a fire while it's raining?

Yeah, we could do that.

We could make some spears, start to make some traps.

Alyssa: There's plenty of things to eat around here,

and most of them require cooking.

All right, ready?

Luke: As soon as we get fire, we can start hunting,

and we can actually cook something if we kill it.

This...

Let me see if I can tighten this.

Yeah.

I want to make this so that it's not lopsided.

That's what's kicking it out of the hole every time.

Oh, my god.

Ohh.

Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Right there.

Oh, my god! Wait. Okay, okay.

It's a coal. It's totally a coal.

Here, get it in.

That's gonna be it right there.

Come on, baby.

There we go. There we go!

Fire!

[ fire crackling ]

there it goes!

Oh, my god!

It's finally here.

Oh, my god, we have fire!

All right, partner. Awesome!

Yes! Ohh!

That feels so good.

Luke: That's it.

We're able to start hunting now.

Let's hope we can have some success with that.

And everyone knows that fire keeps the bugs away.

This is christmas.

Luke: I'm so tired of these flies.

The first night that we have fire,

and I swear the smoke doesn't even scare them.

They don't even care.

It's been a long night so far,

and I still think we have a lot more to go.

Luke: Apparently, I'm [bleep]

there's no escaping them anymore.

They're just as bad out here on the rocks

[bleep] shelter. As they are on the [bleep] damn

I don't [bleep] care if this makes it on [bleep] tv.

[bleep] a hundred [bleep] I'm gonna sit here and say times.

This is [bleep]

I don't know if I can [bleep] not sleep for a [bleep] week.

[bleep]

luke: Vultures, in my understanding,

start coming around, waiting for you to die,

so that they can pick your bones clean.

Get out of here!

I'm not dying!

Narrator: After 10 scorching days in the yucatan,

luke and alyssa finally have fire...

Awesome! Yes!

...But have subsisted only on a meager diet

of sea snails and coconut.

Weak from the oppressive heat

and long trips to fetch water for filtering,

they must secure more significant sources of protein

if they hope to make it to day 21.

Luke: So, I'm trying to get an iguana with this trap.

I've got a stick right here, which is holding up a snare.

And I've got some coconut for bait right here.

I've pulled this log out so that the iguana has no choice

if he wants it but to come down the top of the log.

Hopefully, his neck comes through like this

as he comes toward here,

and it catches his neck like that,

and then he has nowhere to go

until I run over and slit his throat.

This is gonna be our fish basket --

fish/crab, hopefully.

It takes a lot of vines, but the good thing about it

is that you can just set it and leave it.

Let its magic do the work, hopefully.

Luke: There's an iguana checking out the trap that I set.

Oh, he's going toward it.

He's probably three or four feet away.

If he goes through that snare to get to the food,

I might actually have him.

Oh, he's going. He's going.

His head's, like, right at the snare.

Unless he goes down and to the side,

he has to go through it.

He's just sitting there,

but he's inching closer and closer to it.

Oh.

Oh, he's going to the left of it.

Oh, he's going around it.

Ohh.

Oh, no, it didn't get him.

It didn't work.

I need to set my traps better.

They suck.

Narrator: Over the next several days,

luke and alyssa continue to check their traps

and set new ones.

Luke: Iggy will come along here,

and he's gonna try to take a bite out of that.

It's gonna pop out.

This is gonna let the rock down, and it's gonna slam on his head.

I've seen traces of some decent-sized mammals around.

This is my opportunity to give us some really good meat to eat.

Got the noose, the bait.

If he steps on any one of these sticks

and he pushes this stick down,

and then he just can't go anywhere.

Every day, I'm just, like, just a little bit weaker.

So it gets harder every single day.

Alyssa: No crab.

Luke: Should we try a different hole, maybe?

Not now, to be honest.

I don't have the energy.

Alyssa: Our bodies are really feeling it.

I feel like they're starting to shut down,

and we're losing so much energy.

We expend a lot in the morning, and then towards the afternoon,

we just can't really move too much.

It's about 110 degrees outside, and it's really hot.

Our energy is just completely gone.

All I can think about is, like, food

and how much I want just so many different types of food.

I'm so hungry.

Snails are still there.

Nothing there.

Luke: [bleep]

and the rope kind of broke.

[ sighs ]

[bleep] I got to sit down.

You okay? What's wrong?

I just feel like I'm gonna pass out.

I've been reaching my breaking point, I think.

If you want, I can just go get the water.

I don't know if I'm gonna make it

all the way to the water and back.

Don't. I'll do it.

You should go back and rest.

Alyssa: Luke's really hurting right now,

and I mean, it's literally my job back at home

to take care of people who are kind of struggling.

So I just -- in those situations,

that's where I kind of thrive.

Luke: Seeing spots [bleep]

my body finally, like, hit its limit, I think.

I don't know how I'm gonna do extraction.

Alyssa: Luke's really struggling right now.

I'm getting really concerned for him.

I know there's a way for us to get some serious protein.

We have to.

Right now we are braiding these fairly dead palms

'cause we are gonna do some night crab hunting.

Narrator: Crabs in this area are nocturnal

and could provide the survivalists

with thousands of calories.

But alyssa's solution to hunt them at night

is extremely risky.

The razor-sharp rocks, you know,

as you get closer to the water

and it just gets treacherous there and it's dangerous.

And pitch-dark -- I just hope I don't crack my head

on one of those sharp rocks.

And then you have your torch.

I got it.

I'm gonna go closer to the beach a little bit.

Narrator: Even with torches, luke and alyssa's visibility

on a cloudy, moonless night is reduced by over 70%.

Luke: This is, like, the most jagged part of the rocks --

ow! -- That I would never walk on, ever, normally.

And I'm doing it at night.

[ gasps ] all right, quickly.

There's a really big one.

Where'd he go?

I moved for a second, and he's gone.

This is the last torch. It's going out.

I changed sticks for two seconds, and he's gone.

He was a big guy, too.

[ wave crashes ] ohh!

Great.

We're pretty much just done.

Narrator: Before beginning their 21-day survival challenge

in the sweltering heat of the yucatan,

luke and alyssa were both given

a primitive survival rating, or psr.

With the exception of a water filter,

luke's many inventions have failed.

And despite finally achieving fire on day 10,

they have only been able to secure raw snails for food.

As a result, luke's strength and confidence have slowly eroded,

while alyssa's quiet positivity has remained an asset.

Their decisions over the next four days

can still affect their scores,

but only if they're able to secure the protein they need

to make it to the end of their extraction.

Alyssa: All right, quickly. There's a really big one.

This is the last torch. It's going out.

And he's gone.

He was a big guy, too.

[ wave crashes ] ohh!

Great.

We're pretty much just done.

[bleep]

[bleep] hate my life.

Narrator: Weak from lack of food,

luke and alyssa are now several hundred yards from camp

with almost zero visibility.

Oh, my gosh, you can see how dark it is.

We can still look with our diary cams.

We're gonna get a crab.

I know it.

Ohh!

Aah! Damn it!

Aah! Ohh!

Where are you off to?

Aah!

This rock is like razors under my feet.

How you doing, luke?

I'm wondering how the hell you can walk on this so fast.

Here's another one!

Got him.

We got crabs!

Luke, I got another!

Nice!

He's struggling, though.

That one looks pretty big.

Got it.

Nice! I know!

We're eating crabs, yes!

Yeah, yeah, you get the big one.

We'll share them. We'll both have a big claw.

That's awesome. Good job.

My feet might be cut up. I'm not sure.

We got two crabs. You want to go back and eat them?

Yeah. Let's do it. Let's do it.

Alyssa: Two big guys.

Luke: Oh, man, those things are a good size.

Mmm.

That is amazing.

That is so good.

I'm so happy.

Happy girl. This is a happy girl.

Good job tonight.

Best meal ever.

You hooked it up big time.

Well, the day has come.

This is gonna officially be the last snail I will ever eat.

Ahh. [ belches ]

ahh.

Good riddance.

So, this morning, by the ocean,

I found a big, old bundle of rope, which is awesome.

Well, you ready to get this show on the road?

I am.

Narrator: To reach their extraction point in time,

luke and alyssa must move quickly.

Their destination lies six miles away,

near two landmark rocks on the other side of this peninsula.

The most direct route

will lead them away from the jagged shore

through densely packed, thorny jungle,

where the threat of crocodiles remains.

But they only have eight hours before the rescue vehicle

will have to turn around

and make the return trip to safety without them.

Time to make like a baby and head out.

Ugh.

We just need to get on the road and get there in time.

Let's do this.

Luke: How are your feet doing?

They're good. How are yours?

They're holding up.

Nice.

There's some thorn trees, so careful which ones you hold.

Aah! Aah!

There's those thorns.

[bleep] damn it, those things got me in every [bleep]

alyssa: There's thorns catching your hair and ripping it back,

and it's misery.

It's really, really, really difficult.

Ow! [bleep]

I got to get away from all these thorns.

All right, we still got to figure out

which way we're going here.

Luke: The jungle keeps getting thicker and thicker,

and if we keep getting turned around,

I don't know if we're gonna make it to extraction at this point.

We might have gotten lost.

We came out from right there, right?

Uh-huh.

So, I --

seemed like we would just keep walking.

Wouldn't go back.

Yeah, here we go. Okay.

We're getting near.

All right.

The ocean!

I'm so glad to be out of that.

I'm about to fall over, though.

Alyssa: Is that it?

Luke: Nope.

Not quite there.

Narrator: Luke and alyssa have miscalculated

and emerged from the jungle

over two miles south of the extraction area.

Luke: We can still make it to the extraction point on time.

We're just gonna make our way down the beach

as quickly as we possibly can,

and we're gonna get to that extraction point

by the time we need to be there.

I think I see the rocks ahead.

They definitely look like the ones in the map.

We're getting close.

We're getting there.

[ engine humming ]

did you hear that?

I hear something.

That's a car.

Screw this.

Oh, my god, we're so close.

Oh, I definitely hear a car.

Oh, yeah, that's a vehicle for sure.

That has to be it.

I see it! I see it!

Yeah!

We're here! We're here!

Yeah! Wait!

I am so glad to see you!

You're a sight for sore eyes.

Oh, my god.

Luke: Yes!

Luke, we're saved! Whoo!

Ohh! Ohh!

Yeah! We did it!

All right, partner!

We made it! We made it!

Oh, my god!

Luke: I'll be honest.

I don't think I could have asked for a better partner,

you know, under a stressful time.

That's what helped me get through,

but I think that I have a long way to go

before I can call myself an expert

because I found out a lot of things

that I thought I knew didn't work.

I mean, my confidence in myself has skyrocketed right now,

knowing that I just survived 21 days.

And I think at first, I sat on the sidelines for a little bit,

but now I'm ready to take kind of a leadership role.

Luke: Yes! Alyssa: Whoo!

Peace out, mexico!

Thanks for all the snails.

I'll never forget this feeling.

Narrator: The three-week challenge

took a great physical toll on both survivalists.

Alyssa lost 14 pounds, and luke lost 21 pounds.

After a final psr evaluation,

alyssa's steady focus and positive approach raised

her score significantly from 7.1 to 7.8.

Despite his difficulties and frustration,

luke ultimately persevered and improved from 6.8 to 7.2.

Alyssa: So, I'm eating ice cream since I've been home.

Mmm. So good to be back.

I just made it halfway to my car

before I realized I was barefoot.

You know, the brain's still wrapped around that beach,

I think, a little bit.

Narrator: They've both now joined

a select group of survivalists

who can claim they have what it takes to survive...

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