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Christina: The sun was kicking my ass.

I thought I was stronger than this, but [bleep]

narrator: 16 survivalists, all complete strangers,

took on the toughest challenge of their lives.

One man and one woman were paired up with the sole aim

to survive 21 days in some of the harshest environments

on the planet.

They had no water...

If I get dehydrated, I'm out.

Narrator: ...No food...

Going days and days without eating, I felt like passing out.

Narrator: ...And no clothes.

Steve: There wasn't a night that wasn't cold.

Spooning was pretty much the only option to stay warm.

Oh! [ groans ]

narrator: They faced physical and mental traumas

that no one could have ever anticipated.

Ryan: Heads up. Heads up. Heads up.

Narrator: Now, featuring more exclusive unseen footage than ever before,

the survivalists reveal the good...

Luke: There you go!

-Awesome! -Yes!

Narrator: ...The bad...

Christina: There was a point where you just kind of lose it

and you're just exhausted in every sense of the word.

[bleep]

narrator: ...The awkward...

My wife's gonna kill me.

Narrator: ...And the downright weirdest moments from their adventures.

Do you like my crown?

My sash.

This special episode sheds new light

on the highs and the lows from eight

of the most excruciating locations thus far...

This is, by far, the hardest thing I've ever done.

-You ready? -I'm ready.

Let's go.

Narrator: ...As "naked and afraid"

bares all.

Steve: This is freaking rough.

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zach: When I got to guyana,

I was looking around, and it's hot.

You're by the equator.

I was worried about sunburn affecting my body,

as well as finding water fast.

Good lord.

What have I gotten myself into?

My first impression of mexico -- it was just amazing.

It was gorgeous.

The jungle was awesome.

It was just beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

But I had a fear of spiders before I did the show,

so I was a little scared of the tarantulas.

I knew there were some big ones.

I've already seen a tarantula that was,

like, bigger than a squirrel.

That is making me a little nervous.

Definitely gonna have to watch my step walking through it.

That was a little terrifying.

Honora: We got out into the dunes in brazil.

They took that blindfold off of me.

I was just baffled.

The wind was intense, too -- the sun and the wind --

and the sand was so fine.

It was just, like, blowing in everyone's eyes.

Whoa, I have never seen anything like this before in my life.

Hakim: When I arrived in india, one of the things

that I was really struck by was the beauty.

It looked a lot like the mountains of north carolina,

so I felt really confident and comfortable.

Steve: First impression of mexico -- it was really humid,

it was buggy, and it seemed like I was just gonna get torn apart.

The mosquitos and the deer flies around here are nasty,

and they've already bitten me multiple times on the neck.

It's gonna be twice as bad when I don't have clothes on.

Afften: Our location ended up being

the [bleep] savannahs of guyana, south [bleep] america.

It was just nothing out there.

Just heat and sun and heat and sun and heat and sun!

It was nuts, and that was my biggest concern

is how are we gonna get out of the sun

and how are we gonna get out of the heat.

Narrator: It doesn't take long for each survivalist

to face their first awkward hurdle of the 21-day challenge.

This is very uncomfortable for me.

[ chuckles ]

narrator: Reality sets in

when the survivalists meet one another

in some of the most inhospitable locations on earth,

completely naked.

-I'm matt. -Honora.

My wife's gonna kill me.

What up?

[ laughing ] how's it going?

-I'm afften. -I'm zach.

-Nice to meet you. -You too.

How are you doing about the whole naked thing?

This is crazy.

[ frog croaking ]

jennifer: I didn't now how to react.

I was like, "oh, my god.

Everybody's staring at me because they have to."

there it is.

No use being shy now.

It was just so uncomfortable.

[ laughs ] -[ chuckling ] hello.

-Hi. -I'm jen.

Hi, jen, I'm trenton.

Here we are, so...

Yeah.

I don't really know how to react right now.

Yeah, well...

This is the most awkward thing

I've ever done in my entire life.

Yeah.

Not only am I in a foreign country I've never been,

I'm also naked in front of a stranger, so...

Here it is.

Charlie: I'm gonna meet a woman.

I don't know her, and I'm not sure how it's gonna be received.

I'm italian.

Italians are very touchy-feely kind of guys.

We're both naked.

Do I hug this girl? Do I handshake her?

I don't know what the hell to do.

-Hi. -Hi.

-Charlie. -Danielle.

-Nice to meet you. -So nice to meet you.

Very nice to meet you as well. You ready?

I'm so ready. Let's do this.

Let's get this party started. Come on.

I definitely see someone down there.

When you're standing on a beach

and there's a naked woman walking up towards you

and you're standing there completely naked,

it was very awkward.

[ both chuckle ] -hi.

-Hi, I'm luke. -Luke? Alyssa.

I can't speak for her, but I know I was doing my best

to blow it off as this is just part of the whole process.

Found a stick on the beach that actually helps a lot with the coral.

Yeah, I mean, that's how I noticed you

was you had a large...

[ laughs ]

I think she kind of slipped.

It was pretty funny because the moment after she said it,

she immediately regretted it.

I was hoping that no one would notice what I said, but...

Yeah, that did happen.

Narrator: Sometimes, it's the social aspects

that test the survivalists.

Sleeping naked with a stranger in freezing conditions

can be more than just physically uncomfortable.

Hakim: Keeping a fire going.

Still really cold, though.

I mean, there's just no sleep to be had.

It was horribly cold, and I was shocked.

I was like, "oh, my god, this is a lot colder

than I thought it was gonna be."

and, you know, I, like -- I was like, "this is happening.

We're snuggling," and he felt uncomfortable, and I could tell.

So, we're gonna try to lay sideways.

And every time, like, I'd be like,

"okay, you need to spoon me," and I would, like,

shove my ass into him, and he'd, like, push away.

And I'm like, "no, I'm freezing!"

hakim: I mean, you know, it was a little bit challenging

because we were both nude.

Phaedra: And I'd keep, like, scooting closer and closer

and he'd, like, make this noise, like, "ugh --"

like, uncomfortable noise.

And I'm like [bleep]

I'm like, "hopefully he gets more comfortable

'cause I need to stay warm."

narrator: Choosing an effective survival tool

can sometimes mean the difference

between thriving and barely surviving.

Honora learned the hard way

when she chose to bring a magnifying glass

to the sand-blown dunes of brazil.

Honora: So, I brought the magnifying glass

'cause you can use u.V. Rays to start fires

and disinfect your water.

What I'm doing is I'm using u.V. Light

to treat water in this husk that we found,

and then we can drink the water.

Water out there was plentiful and safe to drink.

That was one of the things that honora and I disagreed on

and I think one of the things that really contributed

to her not making it, was that she insisted

on using her magnifying glass

to treat some water in a coconut,

but she had to sit and direct sunlight for that entire time.

Honora: So tired.

It just kind of hit me.

Go take a nap in the shade.

I'm gonna drink some water first.

Then drink the water.

It's not ready.

I think from using my magnifying glass,

the way I was purifying my water,

I was staring at the light reflection on the water,

which is like staring at the sun.

Basically no matter how much water we drink,

we're gonna maintain constant levels of dehydration.

She spent a half-hour in the sun to get six ounces of water,

which would just completely outdo

any kind of benefit that it would have.

So, that was a horrible idea.

Like, it totally did me in.

Narrator: Armed with limited tools and resources,

sometimes thinking outside of the box can be lifesaving.

Afften: Being that we only had very few survival items,

while we were sitting in the watering hole,

I realized, like, we have to be able

to figure out how to use these items

in other ways than what they are used for.

I definitely think we should try

to use our packs to get these fish.

I think it's worth a shot.

Luke: Okay.

Well, what do you got?

This feels amazing.

Yeah, it does.

Look at them right freaking here.

There they are. There they are.

Look right there. Look right there.

No?

-Oh, we got one. -We got one.

Hey!

Master fisherman.

So, at first the fish were kind of on to us,

but after a while, we got them.

What was that?

'cause he was in the bag!

We actually got a few little fish from it,

so it was a good idea,

and we still got to sit there and relax.

Luke: Unbelievable.

Fish upon fish upon snail

and more fish you can't even see.

Narrator: Coming up...

"naked and afraid" continues to bare all.

Hakim: If you want to eat a worm, have at it.

I look like a hot mess.

[ chirping ]

-there he is. -What's up, buddy?

Steve: Holy [bleep]

[ birds squawking ]

narrator: Among the many

uncomfortable situations our survivalists encounter,

they can neither run nor hide

from the sensitive issue of hygiene.

Got to stay cavity free, right, mom?

Pine pitch is a bitch.

I ended up just, like, cutting chunks of my hair out.

I probably would've scared someone

if I had to run into them.

It definitely got pretty out of control.

Man: Don't worry,

you're not the first man I've filmed bathing.

Look, mom, I'm clean.

I feel bathed.

Jennifer: But do you feel clean?

I feel like my hair has, like, a brand-new texture.

You're just filthy. You're absolutely just filthy.

It's pretty gross.

I had to wash my hair one day, and by "wash,"

like, basically dipped my head in our water hole.

That water hole stunk.

It was disgusting.

That was absolutely the most vile thing ever.

I don't know what's my hair and what is dirt.

I'm pretty sure nobody is ever going to date me after this.

Stuck my head in a stagnant pool of monkey [bleep]

[ monkeys chitter ]

phaedra: You don't really know how dirty it can get

until you actually are in it.

It's kind of shocking.

Honestly, the worst part about the hygiene issue out there

is -- you know, it's not a big deal.

The wind's blowing. Nobody smells you.

But you get inside that hut, and the fire pit starts going,

and all you can smell is, like, rotten [bleep]

and, like, cheese.

I'll never get used to my own funk.

I smell so bad.

Hakim: At first, you start trying to clean yourself all the time.

I know phaedra did that.

But then after a certain period of time,

you just don't, you know, wash as much.

Phaedra: Get a little shower while you're here, too.

So, I was trying to be polite.

I was like, "hakim, I wash my chach every day.

I'm still, like, taking care of the parts that matter."

it'll make you feel better.

-No? -You say that I feel bad?

No, I'm just saying it'll make you feel even better.

Like, "maybe you should just go splash some water on that."

and he's like, "no, I don't like cold water.

I don't like it touching me."

I'm telling you, I wash down there,

and I'm, like...Happy.

[ laughs ]

steve: The mud is so soothing on all of the burning.

It's so good.

Yeah, as far as hygiene went, neither one of us really cared.

Dude, I look like a hot mess.

My hygiene was fine.

I had, like, the best smell ever.

I didn't stink the whole time.

It was pretty amazing, actually.

I think I smell so good today.

We didn't smell that bad. We couldn't smell each other.

[ sniffs ]

steve was stinking, like, really bad.

See the nice smell about here is

that it's all covered in urine 'cause we take about a step

and a half outside of the shelter at night to pee.

You're standing in it right now.

In the middle of the night, you're not gonna wander that far

from your shelter in order to go pee.

Right here.

Oh, all right then.

Narrator: While the lack of hygiene

can present a new level of discomfort

for the survivalists, oftentimes,

it's the jungle's smallest creatures

that pack the largest punch.

From india to colombia, the tiny attackers

seemed to be more of a nuisance than ever before.

Zach: The thing about the bugs is whenever you get any wounds,

the bugs during the day really flock to that.

You could have a hundred bugs in that little area

trying to get to that infection and spread that.

It's just -- it's an uncomfortable situation.

You got to find a way to wrap it.

It's pretty gross.

Christina: ♪ going to the jungle ♪

dude, look at the ants!

Ow, [bleep]

steve: I thought that was a snake you walked on.

Oh, god, that hurts.

Yeah, they are. [bleep]

[ laughs ] move!

The fire ants -- those things were just crazy

'cause they were, like, packs.

There were like millions.

Fire ants everywhere.

Yeah, they're literally covered on everything.

There are so many ants in the jungle.

Steve: We definitely got eaten alive.

Fleas, ticks, ants, and mosquitos.

-That ant that bit me... -Mm-hmm.

...I'm gonna bite that [bleep] back.

Yeah?

For sure.

Well, my shelter just caved in,

and it had a little spider in there

that was chomping on some mosquitos.

And I think I spooked him with the cave-in.

[ laughs ]

he got crushed up against me.

Oh, man.

Cave-in.

Oh [bleep] ow!

It bit me, I think.

So, it's, like, enflamed and yellow

around the bite already.

Looks like a --

like a strawberry cream-filled cookie, kind of.

Yeah, it's oozing a little bit.

I guess that's just life.

Time for another snail dinner!

Yummy!

What?!

Narrator: Buzzing, stinging, and biting, these pestering insects

drive the survivalists to the brink of insanity.

But sometimes the tables turn,

and it's these bugs, among other creatures,

that nourish the depleted survivalists.

One of the grossest things I think I had to eat

was the slugs and the snails.

It doesn't seem like it.

I'm like, "oh, it's escargot. Not a big deal."

but when they're, like, foaming and frothing on the fire pit

and that stink from the -- oh, god, it was horrible.

Let's get these guys out towards the edge.

That looks like it's gonna explode.

Um, I ate some worms.

I've been gathering. I found a bunch of worms.

-Did you? -Yeah.

-Good deal. -You want to split them with me?

Hakim: If you want to eat a worm, have at it.

Cheers.

And I go to swallow them,

and I swear those little bastards over there

are worse than the earthworms here

because they, like, fight for their life, okay?

Like, I'm swallowing these worms,

and they're crawling up my throat.

Oh, it's coming.

Just thinking about it even still makes me want to vomit.

[ laughs ]

you all right?

Honora: What's up, dude?

Matt: Not much. We got this little guy.

-Oh! -Something you want to eat?

Yeah, I'll eat that.

Awesome, man. Thank you.

How are you gonna go about eating that?

I'm going to cook him in the sun.

[ chuckles ]

mm.

I can see fluids bubbling inside its shell.

That locust tasted delicious.

It tasted like lobster.

Oh, god, I could eat like 10 more of these things.

Pretty much anything that flies, I look at as food now.

Oh!

[ laughing ] yeah, I'm stoked about this thing.

Matt: Honora loves eating bugs.

That's like a last resort for me out here.

See if I can remain vegan the whole time.

I could've eaten like a thousand locusts.

Just that one just tasted so good.

Not one part of this didn't taste good.

Luke: Check this out.

Little eggs.

Holy [bleep]

hard-boiled or over easy?

We found these eggs, and our first instinct

was let's hard-boil these things

and this is gonna be a really good meal.

I'm excited about the eggs.

They're not very big,

but they're gonna taste good, I have a feeling.

These eggs would be so good with tabasco sauce.

I just want to crack it open.

Yeah, that's what I want to do, too.

It came time to eat them, and I remember breaking it open

and peeling it back, and there was no, like, yolk

or, you know, whites, or anything like that.

Oh, god.

So, we cracked open the eggs hoping to see dos huevos,

and they were dos birds.

Ohh, you know we got to eat them, too.

What does it taste like? Chicken?

I can't wait anymore. I got to do it.

I can't sit here and dwell on it.

I think I'm just gonna swallow it.

-Want me to go first? -I'm terrified.

Luke: I literally just threw it in my mouth

and swallowed it like a big pill.

It was absolutely disgusting.

Get it? Went down?

-Yeah, mm-hmm. -Good?

I can't do this. Okay, I need to mentally prepare.

[ exhales deeply ]

I really don't want to do this.

[ laughs ] I tried to forget that moment.

[ burps ]

ewwww.

Narrator: Coming up...

Ryan: You're not gonna throw up, are you?

She getting -- she's getting sick.

I couldn't get out fast enough.

We got big bertha right here.

We got an eight-foot gator as our neighbor.

Narrator: Located in some

of the most ecologically diverse territories on the planet,

our survivalists get plenty of unexpected visitors.

Do you see the gator?

Yeah.

We got an eight-foot gator as our neighbor.

We got to name our neighbors -- big bertha.

That's what we're calling her.

Big bertha is about a 10- to 12-foot alligator

right behind our shelter

on the opposite side of the creek.

The very first day that we saw her there,

it definitely raised a little bit of concern.

We got big bertha right here.

We got big bertha right here, scratching her back on the tree.

[ gulps ]

there she is.

Right there.

As the days went on and we noticed

that she just kept going back

to the same corner across the creek,

we had this mutual kind of understanding

and respect for each other.

Ryan: That's definitely big bertha.

She knows we're here. You hear that, lady?

I definitely look at big bertha as a friend of mine.

I'd say I made a couple jungle friends out there.

There was a really cool interaction one day

when I was hunting with a barred owl.

[ hooting ]

he was up in the tree right above me.

You know, big, round owl face,

and he was hooting over and over and calling over and over,

and I was kind of calling back.

[ hooting ]

[ owl hooting ]

oh, he likes you.

[ laughs ] most owls do.

The following day, I went to go scope out another area.

Right in the middle of the swamp

was this beautiful barred owl feather --

crisp, clean, sitting above the swamp on some ferns,

and it was almost like he had left it there for me

after we had met each other the day before.

What do you do when you're boooooooooooooored?

So, I made a friend here named turtle.

So, we had a wilson moment.

I had a turtle shell,

and, you know, you get lonely out there.

Sometimes, you just need a friend.

Turtle is my buddy.

He's my pillow when I need him.

He's my friend when I need to talk to him.

[ sighs ] I love you, turtle.

It was an entertaining thing to do.

Make the best out of your situation.

Use a positive light on it.

What do you think we should do tomorrow, turtle?

Why would we want to have a caveman party?

No, there won't be any pretty ladies there.

Just me and you, dude.

Yes, I do have a dog.

Don't get jeal-- don't get jealous.

How many times are we gonna go over this?

Really, I don't know if losing my mind

is the right thing to call it,

but I know that you've got to keep yourself busy.

All right.

Good night, turtle.

[ animals calling ]

christina: Oh, there it is.

I see it.

Hey, what's up, monkey? See him?

There he is.

Hello, monkey.

Bring me a banana.

The first day on the challenge,

I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna find a monkey

and I'm gonna teach him how to bring me bananas.

He's gonna be my bitch for the 21 days that I'm here.

But, of course, they didn't get close enough for me to do that.

Um, oh, he's moved.

[ dripping ]

well...

Some days, mornings, they would come in

and they would just get in the tree

right over our shelter and give us a little surprise.

Steve: You're obnoxiously loud.

[ monkey grunting ]

you wake me up every morning.

[ urine dripping ]

and you could hear it hit,

kind of look up, and be like, "oh.

Good morning to you, too."

[ chittering ]

so, our buddy here has come to visit tonight.

-There he is. -What's up, buddy?

He's calling everybody over.

[ urine dripping ]

holy [bleep]

you got to be [bleep] me, dude.

Yo, monkey, you're getting [bleep] on our bed, dude.

The monkeys would pee on our shelter.

[ urine dripping ]

which is fine because, you know if it was raining,

steve and I would just pee in our shelter,

so we were fine with the pee on our shelter.

[ monkeys grunting ]

narrator: Coming up...

She's getting -- she's getting sick?

I couldn't get out fast enough.

You stink and you're stupid and you're [bleep] lazy.

Matt -- he doesn't do [bleep] as far as survival goes.

Not one [bleep] thing.

Narrator: When a man and a woman have to survive 21 days

in the worst conditions imaginable,

it's no surprise when conflict surfaces.

The daily grind and the fierce rigors of the environment

can push the survivalists to their breaking points.

Are you [bleep] kidding me?

You wanted some drama. Here it is.

Honora: Matt and I had a disagreement,

and we agreed to divvy up our building materials.

I'm keeping the palms since you carried up only one.

I carried up half of them.

No, you didn't, actually. We have it on video.

I've been saying since day 2.

I, like, said some things to him that I really didn't mean.

I was being a total bitch.

Go ahead. Do what you want.

I'm keeping the palm fronds.

You can keep the rest of your little palace.

I definitely wish that things had gone a little differently.

You also have a machete, so you can go ahead

and cut yourself more palm fronds if you feel like it.

Honora came in here and asked what I was doing.

I said making cords for another snare,

and she said, "that's not gonna hold anything."

and then that's when she kind of erupted.

I'm not eating a rodent, so if you [bleep] kill a rodent,

you're not wasting that [bleep]

like, you're [bleep] gutting it and cleaning it

or utilizing it for something else.

Matt: Yeah, 'cause you can't process game

because it seems like all your skills

were [bleep] read out of a book before you came here.

Speaking of doing things by the book,

who the [bleep] goes and drinks

straight out of a pond without treating?

It's a calculated risk.

It all just kind of cemented the fact

that spending two more weeks with her would be a rocky ride.

I have a genius I.Q., and I have been --

yeah, you keep reminding me of that,

and I've never met a smart person

that has to remind people of that all the time.

Matt's an idiot. I'm just here for myself.

I don't care if he fails.

I'm sorry, like, I'm not the fat kid here.

[bleep] smells like [bleep]

the fact that she resorted to personal attacks

just meant that she's feeling even more desperate,

and I rebuked some of her more ridiculous statements.

No, dude, you're a [bleep] pathological liar.

You stink and you're stupid and you're [bleep] lazy.

So, I'm over it.

I'm seriously over it.

I'm just going to do my own thing because matt --

he doesn't do [bleep] as far as survival goes,

not one [bleep] thing.

I'm not gonna waste my energy thinking about what matt wants.

Matt: I think it's beyond keeping the peace.

I just hope she taps out.

I can deal with this by myself.

Narrator: The punishing environments

have never taken as much of a toll on the survivalists

as they did in these eight locations.

3 out of the last 16 survivalists

had to raise the white flag.

Afften: I feel sick.

[ coughs ]

zach: You're not gonna throw up, are you?

Yeah.

If we can be honest,

my [bleep] was bloody day [bleep] 1

from [bleep] so much from eating

that [bleep] south american food.

My stomach was not good.

Luke: I'm not sure if afften prepared

too much for the challenge.

She had a lot of apprehension

about doing many things out there

that I would deem you should in a survival situation,

like going to the water or eat the food

or drink the water that we boiled.

I feel pretty full. I need a second.

There's a lot of different survival things

that you must do that she refused to.

Do you want to just go get mud on you real quick?

Um, let's just keep going.

I'll tell you if it gets, like, too extreme.

Just bad decision making in my opinion.

Afften: No, [bleep] that. Start over.

First off, [bleep] I ate enough while I was out there,

and I drank enough while I was out there.

I didn't realize at the time, but I was in

my little postpartum thing and got my period.

It was my very first period I had since I'd given birth,

and I had to deal with that [bleep]

ugh, I hate being on my [bleep] period.

Oh, my goodness. My eyes are gonna start sweating.

You wake up with, you know, blood all over your feet.

That's not something you really want to be doing, you know?

And then on top of that, I threw up five days in a row,

and after all that, that's why I left.

Are you sure you want to do this?

You're 100% sure?

Yep.

Zach: See you, girl.

See you.

[ amber groans, coughs ]

she getting sick?

Oh, that incident.

Um...

The day that amber got sick,

I decided I wanted to spend some time fishing.

Catfish!

We had both just eaten catfish, and all her catfish came up.

[ amber groans ]

it happened right in front of the shelter.

I couldn't get out fast enough.

Amber: I didn't mean to puke in front of the shelter.

It was profusely coming out of me.

I could not control it.

Ohh!

Ryan: I get sick when I see someone getting sick.

I just don't want to lose my lunch.

Ryan started saying, "oh, god, I'm gonna puke.

I can't -- I can't deal with puke."

I don't want to -- yep.

I just don't want to see it.

Ryan: I know everyone's not the same,

but I can feel what sickness feels like.

She was sitting in front of her pile of vomit,

and it's not something that I can really look at

at that moment, because I didn't want to lose my meal, too.

Okay.

Woman: Would you recommend that?

Man: Yeah, recommend a doctor come in.

Until further exam from a doctor,

once you get her inside a facility,

they can do some more testing to find out if it's dysentery

or some other bacterial disease.

Ryan: We've ingested all the same stuff --

the water, the catfish.

So, I don't know why.

Amber: I thought I got really sick eating the catfish,

but it was because one of the apple snails we ate

was not cooked all the way.

Funny story is I caught the apple snail,

I gave it to ryan to cook, he handed me half of the snail.

This is a little gooey right there, huh?

And I thought, "I think he cooked it all the way.

He said he did."

he did, right?

No, the apple snail was not cooked all the way.

So, apparently, when you don't cook apple snails all the way,

they have a parasite inside of them

that can cause you to have many tiny microworms.

So, I survived.

I have worms.

Narrator: Illness is often attributed to the brutal conditions

that the survivalists must face during the challenge.

But sometimes it's the choices made prior to the challenge

that come back to haunt them.

Matt: It's so rough without coffee.

Can't wait till I can have coffee again -- an espresso --

and not hate everything as soon as I wake up.

I had a headache keeping me up all night last night

from coffee withdrawals.

I think that was adding to the hangover.

Being out in a desert

with almost no food and just some water,

it was a big shock to my body, I think.

I was like, "wow,

this guy doesn't care too much about his body."

and I actually had stopped drinking all coffee,

all caffeine, all alcohol like two months prior

to going out on that challenge.

Honora was smart and kind of detoxed off coffee,

but I kept going on my pace

of 8 to 12 shots of espresso a day.

Sometimes 16.

Again, it's ironic that he lasted and I didn't.

[ laughs ]

do you want to grab firewood on the way back?

Or do you want to take these and I'll grab a handful of firewood?

Either one.

Steve was very adamant

about getting firewood all the time.

We need so much wood to get through the night.

We had to get firewood, but I couldn't do that all day.

I couldn't do it 12 hours straight.

I was like, "I won't do it."

so, the jungle queen goes to...

Christina mcqueen!

You like my crown? My sash.

Oftentimes, I would feel christina

would waste a lot of time and energy

doing things that really didn't contribute

to the survival aspect of our challenge.

I want to make a chair so I can sit outside and relax.

That's why -- by the fire.

And, you know, like, I could sit back.

Christina: I was over it, and that's why

I took the machete and I was making things.

Like, I made a flute.

If it makes noise, I will crack up.

It will be funny.

And you'll be very annoy -- annoyed.

Could be true.

We'll find out later.

I made a golf club.

Come on, go in the hole, go in the hole.

Oh! Not even close.

Okay, I forgot how heavy this is.

That's kind of like having a house,

not being able to pay your rent, and saying,

"I'm gonna get a new ferrari."

a flute, a chair, now a golf club?

And we haven't eaten anything substantial?

Meh.

Yeah, that was my bad habit, but, um...

I got through it.

[ sighs ]

well...

Narrator: Coming up...

Charlie, there's the boat.

Charlie: Yeah, right over there.

This challenge is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

Trenton: I could not wait to get out of there.

Oh!

Almost had it. It broke my spear.

After I missed the first alligator,

I woke up from having this dream of an alligator trainer.

He was using an aluminum boom stick noose.

I woke up, and I was like -- a light bulb went on

that I could definitely make one of those out here.

Put the noose over the alligator's head

and then pull from the end of the pole,

and it cinches around the alligator's body

or the alligator's neck,

and then you can control it from a distance.

And the fact that I got to use it, it was just awesome.

Alligator boom stick noose.

Whoo-hoo!

This is un-[bleep]-believable.

Narrator: Despite the excruciating pain and the unwavering misery,

some survivalists were able to form deep connections

with the nature around them.

Once you become so in tuned with nature,

things start happening.

You can see a little further, you can hear a little clearer.

You will feel a breeze and you know that rain is coming,

just off of a breeze.

That was one of the greatest experiences

that I've had in my lifetime.

Jennifer: To be put into a situation

where you fend for yourself and keep yourself alive,

it was just so empowering.

I feel like a completely different person.

It just kind of got me back to where I needed to be.

Longest, most enlightening three weeks of my life.

When I was out there, everything that I was hunting

and everything that I was foraging for

and all the land that I was exploring,

I just felt this unbelievably deep connection to all of it

because I was in balance with it.

Whoo-hoo!

And it felt really good.

Ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay!

Narrator: For those who achieved what they set out to accomplish,

extraction day was one they would never forget.

Steve: Want to mark the tree with me?

Yes, let's mark 21 days.

I remember the 21st day.

Steve and I carved out

the last day in a tree next to us.

Good enough -- 21.

Good morning, day 21.

All right, I made it.

I'm not out of here yet, though,

but it is the morning of day 21, and that's awesome.

Extraction day was bittersweet.

I was standing there at my shelter,

looking at the thrive sign, just looking at this place

that I had created as my home for 21 days.

It was -- it was emotional.

Half of me didn't want to leave at all.

Zach: Extraction day, I wake up, I'm in a cave,

and I think I'm gonna get the hell out of here,

and it's kind of bittersweet

because I'm looking at the sun rise,

and I'm thinking, "man, this is the last time

I'm gonna see the sun rise."

it's so beautiful out here,

but it's so freaking deadly, as well.

Here goes nothing.

Let's start this trek and get the hell out of here.

I think since day 1,

extraction is always in your mind.

You're always thinking about it.

Everything leads to extraction day.

-21 days! -21 days!

-That's it. -Awesome.

Just waking up and feeling like we did it, we can do it,

there was nothing that can stop us now,

nothing can get in our way.

Okay.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

It's a pretty good ways across there.

We came to this body of water, and I'm like, "oh [bleep]

they're gonna make us swim across this [bleep]

steve: I could not wait to get out of there.

For me, I just said the faster I swim,

the faster I'll be out of this thing

and the less chance I'll have

of anything taking me back down with it.

Christina: And I just remember swimming as fast as I could.

I'm like, "I'm almost there, I'm almost there."

and as soon as I could stand and started walking out,

that was, like, one of the best moments of my life.

Steve: The biggest lesson I learned

was the body's ability to endure --

the human capability

to just push through these blocks

that you didn't realize you could get through.

But we did it, and that was --

that was probably one of the coolest moments.

Holy [bleep]

let's get this raft in the water and get the hell out of here.

Yeah, let's go. Let's do it.

We didn't walk 30 feet

or three miles to a road and get on a truck.

What?

There's a caiman over there.

Our extraction lasted two days,

and it was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

Dani: Charlie, there's the boat.

Yeah, right over there.

That raft ain't coming here.

Looks like a swim, dani.

Charlie: And completing the extraction was my proudest moment.

All right.

We're in.

I wonder what that is up ahead.

Looks like a road.

Oh, my god.

Once we saw the road

that we were supposed to get our ride from,

it was almost overwhelming.

I felt like I couldn't breathe.

Hakim: There it is.

Go for it, girl, go for it.

I really felt like a million bucks

getting out of there.

-Oh, yeah! -Yeah! We did it!

The first thing I did when I got home was brush my teeth.

It was so much better having something feel clean.

Steve: Once I got home, I realized

that I missed the affection, human affection.

I'm a hugger, too.

Are you happy to have me back?

I think my mom was the most excited to see me.

She cries whenever I leave and whenever she sees me anyway,

so it was really nice to see her,

and everybody when I got back overwhelmingly said,

"oh, we had no doubts that you'd finish."

christina: The doors that this 21-day challenge

opened in my heart --

I never, like, really hugged my daughter

or kissed her on the forehead, you know.

And as soon as I got home, that was exactly what I did.

I missed you!

Oh, my gosh, it's been so long.

You look like you've grown or something.

Time to see the wife.

It's you!

Right when I got out of there, my wife, she started crying.

I started crying, and it was just such a moment

of "you did it, heck yeah."

and I had completed "naked and afraid."

it's an eye-opener.

It makes you appreciate everything a hundred times more.

Your worst day in normal society is easy

compared to your best day out there,

so, you know, it changes you.

It makes you appreciate things a whole lot more, and I do.

[ laughs ] I knew we could do it.

Couldn't have done it without you.

This challenge is the hardest thing

I've ever done in my life.

To celebrate that, I got a tattoo,

and it's a map of the country of colombia.

This is a milestone in my life.

Friends for life, charlie.

Friends for life, dani.

You're all right.