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[adventurous music playing]

[jeff] yo, steven! Here you go.

[groans]

-nice. -[laughs]

the bayou boyz!

[jeff] yeah, baby!

Come on, louisiana.

-Our next-door neighbors... -[jeff shrieking]

are continuing to process wood.

-And break it into pieces... -Nice.

[laughing maniacally]

dude. Heard you over there.

...Just moments before the hunters' hour.

-Yeah, oh! -Success.

-[matt] and they're over there... -Yeah!

-...Cracking sticks. -God is great, baby!

-Talking. -Probably takin' this whole damn forest today.

Hollering back and forth to each other.

[jeff hooting] this is what we live for!

Yep.

That's what we're dealing with.

Good job, dude.

[whooping]

-[ryan] so much for the hunting today. -[matt] yep.

[suspenseful music playing]

I see a fish in the back.

[matt] as the weather gets colder, a lot of these alligators are gone

and ever since our rowdy neighbor showed up last week

the nutria have disappeared

and we haven't eaten more than just a little fish here and there in a while.

So, right now we can't afford any missed opportunities.

Something's bound to want it.

-Getting 'em? Yeah, baby! -[grunting] yep.

[dramatic music playing]

[rylie] stay on.

Got it?

Oh, he swallowed it good.

Yep, yep, oh you're up in a tree.

-[ryan] ow, oh, no! -[rylie gasps]

oh, god!

You were up in the tree, it got hung up in the tree.

-Oh, no! -I had him in my hand...

-[rylie] oh, no. -...And then it swung back out 'cause of the tree.

[jeff] that fish you guys just got just got away.

Yeah, that thing got away at the shore.

-I had it in my hand. -Son of a--

-[rylie] did it get the bait? -It took the bait. *bleep* fish got himself.

-[rylie] so close. -Ugh! I was like...

Argh, he must've just wasn't on there quite good enough.

Timber. [laughing maniacally]

[narrator] nine miles to the west,

max and ej are reeling from the loss of their partner...

I owe it to the challenge to tap.

[gary] I can't do it anymore.

Sorry, man.

...And are nearing the end of their meat reserve.

-[ej] sucks, man, that this is our first meal without gary. -Yeah, I know.

Definitely, uh, there's a hole today. For sure.

[max] yeah, like a void.

Today will be the second day without gary. To not have him here is...

Is...

Bizarre, you know. It's kind of a weird...

Weird feeling, you know, to not have his energy,

not have his contagious... Just...

Presence. Losing him is like losing ten people.

Large void.

Yeah.

So we're going down to get the canoe, try to get it stoked up.

Max and I are laying sticks along

the canoe to help burn it out. So we're getting a little fire going within the canoe.

And as it burns down, we're gonna put mud on the side

to make sure it doesn't burn through the canoe.

-We gotta mud the cracks. -Yeah.

[narrator] starting with a 500 pound cypress tree,

ej and max will need to burn and remove 70% of its mass

to achieve the ideal combination of weight and buoyancy.

[ej] I wanna see if we can give it a shot so we can get this going then.

Well, we'll figure it out.

[max] we're now focusing on this canoe to help move in and out of all these...

These canals, and be able to fish off of it and to create

more opportunities when it comes to resources and food for our team.

This is... This is our best option.

Uh-oh. Just heard some thunder.

We're backed up against the wall on time.

There's a front coming in from the north, it's dropped by five degrees,

but we just gotta get moving on this canoe.

There you go.

This is an extremely challenging situation at the moment.

I've got rain coming down.

I need fire to burn out this dug-out canoe.

I really think if I can get this thing really cooking,

uh, we'll be okay.

I hate rain days.

[jeff] yo, steven!

[steven] it's kinda looking like some rain's coming in.

Um, I don't think it's gonna get warmer, dude.

No, I think it's, I think winter's not coming. Winter's here.

[jeff] yeah, I think it's gonna stick like this.

[steven] we gotta start busting up this shelter 'cause

it's gonna get cold.

I'm gonna go start chopping crazy palms.

[jeff] no sense in putting effort in to make it last 40 days.

Their shelter's built to last 40 days. That would be ridiculous if we built

a shelter like that.

[steven] jeff doesn't seem as anxious as I do about getting the shelter done.

Let's, uh, put a shelter together

that we think is worth the effort.

[steven] let's even this out so we can have a nice, good night tonight.

[jeff] sounds good.

[steven speaking]

-[rylie] a change in the weather. -[ryan] mmm-hmm.

And we got lucky with some warmer days.

But, uh,

looks like colder-- colder weather and some rain coming in.

-[matt] definitely. -Mmm-hmm, weather is turning.

[dramatic music playing]

[max] oh, boy.

Didn't want to get caught out here in this.

And we are back to the shelter.

[ej] ooh, that's a cold wind.

Yeah, that's not good.

[max] what a downer, huh?

[dramatic music playing]

yeah, we'll need to tie 'em on here, kinda like team up.

One of us can hold 'em in place from the outside,

one of 'em can tie 'em from the inside.

I'm gonna cut some materials for the sides.

-And then I can help you tie. Does that work? -All right.

[steven sighs]

-is everything okay? -[steven] no, dude, I'm just--

I'm cold and I'm wet and I'm terrified.

-Yeah, I know... Yeah. -You know?

I feel like it's coming. I feel like it's not, I don't feel like it's going away.

I think we're good, man. Honestly, once we get these on the roof, man, um...

I mean, we're... We're doing great. Yeah.

[jeff] with the possibility of colder temperatures

I see a definite shift in steven's mood.

He's legitimately worried.

[steven] I hate being cold and wet and rained on.

Hypothermia is a real thing. And we're naked.

Um... In the swamp. And I'm walking around crotch-deep in frozen water.

And last time I did that, I was in alaska.

[matt] when we hit that cold front for ten days

all of that was from the north.

Their shelter is facing...

The open face is facing north.

Exactly north. And that means when that cold comes in

and the rain comes in it's going to blow right directly under their...

-Yeah. -And if they won't have a dry spot in there...

They should have had a shelter that's fairly waterproof and warm by now.

They both have some of the, you know, most days on this challenge,

but what they don't realize is,

-like, you can't survive hypothermia. No. -No.

-If it, like-- -hypothermia doesn't care

how many days you've had on the challenge at all.

[steven] we're literally using the framework of our raft,

use that as a front face firewall

and reflecting wall for the heat.

Boom.

[dramatic music playing]

[steven] we have to finish our shelter today.

And not only that, we have to do it in this rain. We don't have a choice today.

[jeff pants]

our sleeping area is staying completely dry in the shelter.

But on the outskirts, we're getting some water pooling.

[rain pouring]

[thunder rumbling]

[matt] we're ready to weather the storm.

[rylie] we are bone-dry,

the shelter is warm and cozy.

So, we can pretty much just chill for the rest of the day.

[ryan] yeah.

And that is absolutely huge in survival.

No mercy.

Mother nature shows no mercy to us.

[jeff shivering] that thunder,

that could be the cold front.

Which means the cold could hit by this evening.

[steven] oh, it's gonna hit this evening.

Yeah.

[steven] it'll be probably one of the coldest naked and afraid nights.

Ever.

[thunder claps]

[crickets chirping]

[rain pouring]

[intense music playing]

[thunder rumbling]

[jeff] it's been raining all night.

Terrible.

You think, I should start-- do you wanna move the palms out of the way first?

Mmm-hmm.

[steven] okay. I'm gonna take every single one of them.

Every damn palm, yep. Figure...

We'll use every one?

[jeff] after last night, I absolutely appreciate

steven's feelings about working on the shelter.

There is nothing more painful and torturous

than a cold rain while you're naked and hungry

out in the wild.

I trust you with palms.

You trust me with firewood?

Absolutely, yeah.

And then once-- let's each destroy that job.

[steven] and we'll just do it all day long.

[jeff] okay.

-[steven] just all day. -Okay.

All damn day. That sounds good, bro.

[ej] it's still cloudy out.

Rained on and off throughout the night.

Pretty wet, but, uh... Gotta eat.

[ej] our food supply is now down to jerky.

Hopefully honey hole over here will bring us a couple more catfish

so we can get some more nutrients in ourselves, and that's gonna help us a lot.

Oh, wow, the tide's gone out.

If I can get at my poles now.

I got... Whoa, whoa, whoa! Don't fall in the drink!

This may be too much for me.

I can't go up to my crotch yet. [chuckles]

whoa!

I was saying. [chuckles]

it's been about 17 days since my testicle injury,

where the swamp tried to steal my manhood from me.

[branch snapping]

[ej screams]

[ej groaning]

I've had to adjust how I operate...

[groans]

...But I'm tired of it.

Because I gotta go 60 days.

When you get your wings clipped, a guy like me,

in a survival situation...

That could almost sometimes be a death sentence.

All right.

All we caught was hyacinth, looks like.

And we need to rebait.

Since gary's been gone,

we've not had the golden touch around

to get fish on the line anymore.

Oh, man.

The things we do

to try and find some breakfast.

[intense music playing]

[ej] everything came up empty.

Very disappointed this morning.

Not having any fish on the line.

Not having gators on our gator lines.

Woke up this morning to this...

Dreary day.

It'd just be nice for us to get one more big kill.

We need fuel 'cause we've gotta finish the dug-out canoe.

I'm feeling a little blue.

Ah, I can feel it, in your spirit.

If there's anything I can do to pick it up.

Oh, man, you're fine. I'll be all right.

I know... The loss of gary and then this,

today being the day it is.

[max] I'm sorry.

[ej] it's okay, man.

[max] you know, I'm no-- no stranger to

losing partners, I've lost three partners

in three hours in panama,

but it's completely different.

Just straight-up miss him, you know, that's my boy.

You build-- you build bonds out here.

[max] you know, gary's one of the toughest *bleep* out there,

and he-- he got taken down by the smallest thing.

Yeah, you never know. So-- so it's a little terrifying.

[intense music playing]

[thunder rumbling in distance]

[steven] we need to make the last few improvements to chill.

We're blocking off a few areas that might allow some wind in at night.

And we're also gonna finish the top of the shelter

and make sure we get no drips inside.

[ryan] it is flipping cold, the winds are up.

The rain's been on and off, almost like a tropical storm.

That means colder weather, colder winds, colder stormfronts are on the way.

[ominous music playing]

[matt] it's weather like this, it's also a really hard time to fish.

Knowing a front is coming in, often pushes the water out.

[ryan] oh, there we go. Here we go!

-Oh, yeah! -[matt] oh, yeah, oh, yeah!

-Let me get down. -[ryan grunting] oh!

[matt] that's a *bleep* monster! That's the biggest one yet.

[ryan] *bleep* yeah! Yes!

Fish head soup for today!

[matt] last thing you do, don't fall.

Oh, my god, that's the biggest one!

[matt growls] yeah!

-Here you go, buddy. -Whoo!

Now we're talking.

Yes!

-Tell you what, right here... -Dude, that is the size of my...

-That is longer than my arm. -Yeah.

Good, uh, this is 10 inches here.

I'd say 10... 20... About 32-33 inches.

-And fat. -We're gonna be eating--

we're gonna chop-- like, I don't even know how we're even gonna cook that.

-[matt] this is fat, liver, eggs. -Caviar.

[ryan] caviar of one fish.

This right here, is probably more nutrition, more calories, more fat

than some people eat on a 21-day challenge.

Just in the pot lid.

[thunder rumbling]

[intense music playing]

we are currently looking at a very wet and damp canoe.

We're facing issues because

we've created a bowl that essentially has collected water.

And we need to burn out the bowl to continue burning out the canoe,

um, making it harder for it to burn.

I'm gonna start hacking again,

get down a good bit,

clear that out, burn some more.

So we wanna make sure we get down far enough that we can sit in this thing.

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

[ej grunting]

that rain didn't do us any favors, did it?

[ej grunting]

feeling a little weaker today, huh?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

[ej] max is having a tough day. Gary tapped,

and, um, he's having a tough time dealing with it.

He's a little sad, he's a little depressed.

But, um, we'll continue to soldier on.

[clanging]

[ej] I'll get on there next.

[max grunting]

it'd be nice to have gary here. One extra swinger.

*bleep*

[exhales]

[groans and exhales]

[max] oh, *bleep*, fire hardened it.

[ej] we got it. We got it. Just take a break.

[sighs]

[max] just not in the mood today.

[max speaking]

[ej groans]

come on, max.

*bleep*

[max] I'm just kinda over it, really.

I feel at this point, I don't have anything to prove.

You know, I know it's a 60-day challenge,

but I don't really give a *bleep*.

You know, I'm just kind of over it, been here for too long.

I'd have no problem with leaving here.

I could just tap out.

[whispering] me and max have been working hard on the dug-out canoe.

Chopping and hacking with the pulaski.

He's upset. Really, really upset.

And the loss of gary may be too much for him to overcome.

I don't know, I hope not.

I hope he's mentally tougher than that.

I'm pretty worried that he's gonna say, "I'm good.

Bye."

what's up, buddy?

How you doing? Just figured I'd come up to check on you.

[max speaking]

[ej] that's okay, 'cause that's how you feel.

-That's your truth. -I appreciate that.

[max speaking]

[ej] I'm trying to stay in a really positive mood.

I really want to get in that water but,

you know, I still...

You know, have to take care of myself, be good to me

and swallow my pride and...

Let the jewels finish healing up, so...

-[max speaking] -yeah, I need a bath, though. That's...

[ej] can't get in the water yet.

This sucks but

today I'm hoping that the stiches will be removed.

[medic] how's it going?

[ej] good.

I'm ready to get them out.

It's been hampering, so...

Let's see what she says.

[groans]

-[medic speaking] -[ej] I feel good.

No problems down here.

[medic speaking]

[ej] I'm starting to get really pissed.

I don't... I don't say that lightly.

If it was up to me, these damn stiches would have been out on day three.

Everything else has been healed except for this one little spot.

It's like being a bird and having your wings clipped a little bit.

[medic] does that hurt?

I mean, it doesn't hurt, it's just irritating.

[max] I give all utmost respect

to ej to sticking around because,

as a man, and you hear

that your testicles got ripped open,

I think that that would be,

that would be the straw for me.

So, I got to be there, be a good partner.

Do everything I need to do in order to thrive out here.

Ej's the man,

so to be with the godfather,

one of the pioneers of naked and afraid,

is such a blessing and opportunity

that I don't want to let him down.

[rylie] we've got ryan's famous

bowfin liver and eggs.

More fish on the skewer.

[ryan] it'd be nice to have beer.

[rylie] and we intend to continue the same momentum

all the way until the end.

[matt] yeah!

[steven] that is a cold breeze, baby.

[jeff] that is a cold-ass breeze.

Good work, man. It's coming together good.

[steven] let's hope so.

[rylie] they've been working-- this is the most I've seen them work since they got here.

[ryan] we can just hear jeff and steven

all day long, in the rain,

chopping firewood, getting palms,

shoring up their shelter.

You can tell that they're miserable.

[jeff] good job, dude.

We're bayoued up now.

That's a good job on the shed.

I'm going in. I gotta dry off.

I'm thinking we did score a big win today with that huge fish.

[ryan] biggest fish we caught since day one.

-And it's... It's so cold. -Yeah.

And I just think... Like, we should give this to our neighbors.

[ryan] hmm?

-Not 'cause we're full. -[rylie] no.

[ryan] no, I know. I'm not saying that, I mean...

So because these winter days are here,

this maybe the last fish we catch for a while.

So to give our last potential meal

that we might have for the next few days,

that's a big deal.

[rylie] we're just giving it because we're in a position to give.

That's an amazing gift.

Especially from what, you know, you experienced in the philippines.

[rylie speaking]

[matt] yeah, let's do it.

You wanna hop over really quick and...

-Sure. -Yeah.

[rylie] I have been reflecting on when

jeff acted like a *bleep* back in the philippines.

[jeff] oh, my god! Yes!

-I'm gonna get fat. -[woman] hell yeah.

[rylie] but for us, that was two years ago.

I don't need to be nasty. I don't need to shove it in his face.

I'm over it.

Hey, fellas, can we borrow you for a second?

[steven speaking]

we saw that you guys have been working your asses off today,

and, uh, we got-- we got a big win.

[steven] oh, my god!

We got a 30-pound fish.

-[steven] dude! -Are you *bleep* kidding me?

It's been hanging, smoking, but it still needs to be cooked.

You guys are awesome.

-[ryan] you have been working hard. -[steven sighs]

[matt] that's what it's about, man. It's about being out here with you guys.

-It's probably one of the worst days... -[rylie] of course!

You guys can get a hot meal.

I mean, it's been... You guys have been chopping wood all day.

Yeah, and we were just like this is too much for us.

And, plus, like you say, it's gonna be cold and we could be stuck with nothing

for a while.

I was in the arctic circle and I wasn't this freaking cold.

[matt] rylie helped me to remember that legends, they are not born.

Legends are made by the choices and the actions they decide to take.

[jeff] dude, thank you, guys, so much.

[rylie] yeah, you guys enjoy your dinner, and if you need anything...

Thank you so much, guys.

-...Holler. -You guys, too.

[steven] we're exhausted, and team savage comes over

and they give us half the tail-end of a big bowfin,

which is a good two pounds of meat.

-What a generous thing! -[jeff] yeah.

Just amazing... Just-- I love those guys.

-That's amazing dude. -[jeff] awesome.

[steven] after all this bonus insulation and everything,

I feel really happy with how this turned out.

-[jeff] yeah. -Like, it's dark in here.

-[jeff] it is, yeah. -It is dark and that's good.

I mean, dark means there's no light,

and no light means no air is getting out.

So I think we're gonna have a good night.

[jeff] yeah.

[jeff speaking]

[steven speaking]

[steven] it's getting cozy in here.

[ej] the ground's pretty cold this morning.

Walking on it and it's wet.

Starting to feel the pressure to get food for us.

I am frustrated.

I've got a situation where I've gotta wash my nuts.

I am a patient older man,

but, you know, I'm not one that takes handouts or has people do things for me.

These fricking stiches, just want them the hell out.

I do need food, too.

We need fuel, 'cause we gotta finish the dug-out canoe.

Got some squirrels running around here.

Just looking to see on this trail if there are any fresh deer tracks,

but I don't see any.

So it looks like my target audience today is squirrel.

Oh, there he is. All right, come on down. Let's play.

Let's play.

*bleep*

damn.

It's hard to get these little guys

'cause they're small,

they jump around limb to limb.

Frustrating.

[max] I've been pretty bummed.

Me and gary had an incredible run.

But...

You know, I got ej,

and, um... I'm done with crying.

You know, I gotta pick myself up,

dust myself off.

Gary wouldn't want me dragging around.

It's a cold-ass morning.

Since gary left, we haven't really gotten any new food.

You know, this is a 60-day challenge.

We gotta eat every single day.

We need to have food in our stomach

in order for us to perform...

Especially as it gets colder, we need more calories.

And it's tough.

You gotta check your lines, though.

You know, you gotta do all the things that you need to do in survival.

Wow. The tide is insanely low right now.

Crazy.

-[splashing] -oh, we got a catfish, baby!

We got a catfish!

Catfish in the morning, baby!

Oh, damn!

What's up, cat?

That's how we do it out here, fam.

-Ej! -Yeah.

We got breakfast.

-How many did you get? -Just one.

[ej] that's good enough.

I'm gonna go up and check the other lines.

Maybe we'll be able to get one each on this cold day.

[max] okay.

These nutrients

are so essential.

We need this dug-out canoe done.

So we need the energy

in order to, you know, really get this thing done.

Without the energy, we're toast.

Ah-ha!

[max] you got one?

Ah-ha!

[max whoops]

let's go!

Yeah, baby!

[ej yelling] yeah!

[growls]

what you got?

I got one in here, but he's in this pickle, man.

I've got him. Here, hold this.

Well, give me a chance, young buck.

[max] I got him.

-You know, I am capable. You know this, right? -I know.

[murmurs] oh, yeah.

[sighs]

[whoops] there you go.

-Here's your knife. -Hell yeah, brother.

-Thank you. -You're welcome.

*bleep* yeah!

-Enjoy cleaning that one. -Huh?

Enjoy cleaning that one.

-You want me to clean it? -Yeah, you just got it out.

Okay. [laughs] sounds good.

-I'll go check the other lines. -All right.

Hell yeah, well...

I guess I got two fish to clean.

[ej] can't ask for anything more than that, two catfish for breakfast.

What I could use is a little courtesy.

You know, I'm still capable. I didn't appreciate that.

I'm double-fishing. [laughs, slurps]

trying to help bring it in for the team...

Busting my ass.

You know, just trying to get a couple victories on my own.

I just felt a little disrespected.

Well, we'll have a discussion on this.

-Listen, man. -What?

-I just want to clear the air right now. -All right.

-[ej] listen, man. -[max] what?

-I just want to clear the air right now, man. -Yeah.

I just wanna say

-over there a moment ago... -Yeah.

...I just felt a little disrespected.

I didn't get chance to even have a shot at getting the fish out.

And I know it's just a fish...

'cause you just jumped right in there, I was like...

Dude, I didn't even get a chance.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that. I was just--

and I know you were probably just thinking about my balls.

Exactly. I was literally just jumping in there,

so you didn't have to worry about seeping in too far.

And I was like already in the action.

-I'm sorry, I'm just... -No...

You know, sometimes I just get on that line and just go for it.

I meant no disrespect.

-I appreciate that. -Yeah.

I just wanted to clear the air. You know how I am.

And then I disrespected you by saying, "enjoy cleaning them,"

-oh! No, no, no no-- -I just apologized for that

on my end,

'cause that was... I just...

I went and dropped to a different level.

-Dude, don't even worry about it. -Okay.

-And sorry about-- sorry about that. -It's all good.

-Dude, no disrespect, bro. Yeah, love you, too, man. -I love you.

I appreciate it. I just wanted to air it out.

Yeah, no,

I appreciate you putting it out there

-'cause I'll do the same when I feel... -Absolutely.

-...Feel the same way. -Cool.

[max] you know, I'm not here to take anybody's wins.

I'm a team player and that's what it's all about.

It's just trying to play as a team,

and I respect that we can talk about that as men

and just put it to the wayside.

Oh, man. These fish are really starting to be hard to come by.

Yeah.

One of those days when god just says,

"time to get moving on."

[max] you can have the big one, dude.

[ej] I'm good with the tail.

You know how much I love the tail. [chuckles]

-mmm. -Good?

Oh, yeah, dude.

[max chewing] it's like...

I feel like the opportunities are sort of dwindling.

We've thrived here as much as anybody could.

We better start planning on getting the hell out of here.

[ej] I agree with that.

The resources are starting to run out.

That water behind me, this swamp, it's cold.

And gators, we haven't seen them in a while.

So we really need to start thinking about getting closer to extraction.

It's time.

[sighs]

[jeff] while steven's out hunting this morning,

I'm gonna head over and check my fishing lines.

The first morning I've been here

that I haven't found a fish.

Our shelter's holding up

and yesterday team savage

gave us the tail section of a big old fish that they caught.

But we need to get more food if we're gonna make it to the end.

[steven] I'm trudging. I mean, I'm crotch-deep.

There are so many twigs and fallen trees

out in the thicker grass.

All over the place.

You can't tell anything from anything else

and it's making the hunting so much more difficult.

[exclaims] it's just a *bleep* snake.

[whispers] where'd he go? There he is.

There he is.

A big cottonmouth.

Right there.

[grunts]

that's why it's dangerous

to walk through the swamp.

Just like that,

you could be a dead man.

There may be cottonmouths.

It's cold...

A lot of rattlesnakes.

This could have ended my challenge... This guy right here.

[panting]

look at what I almost stepped on.

-Baby water moccasin. -Wow, bro.

-Yeah. Literally... -Dude.

Went right underneath my foot.

It's not a lot of meat.

But I think it'd be awesome fish bait.

Cut that up into half-inch chunks. Half-inch pieces...

And I think it's something new.

-Yeah. -We can use the guts, we can use the meat.

-I like that plan. -Yeah. I think it's a good plan.

I don't think I've ever used

a snake as fish bait before.

Out here in the swamp,

you gotta use everything and everything

because you won't know when your next opportunity is going to be.

[max] we should probably go check on our canoe,

-see what progress we can put into it today. -Yeah.

And hopefully we can get out of here within the next couple of days.

I hope so. I think it'll be a good push.

We got a lot done so far.

-The other day, that last day's burn... -Yeah.

...Really got us over the hump, I think.

So I think we go down, look at what we got...

-Yup. -...Make a plan.

Good to see the sun even though the wind's blowing.

[max] it is howling. [exhales]

and it is cold.

-[ej] oh, yeah. That looks great. -Oh, man.

-Wow. A lot of progress. -[max] a lot of progress.

Get this thing burning for the rest of the afternoon.

This canoe has been quite the daunting task to undertake.

It's tough and grueling work.

But we still have to make it to this extraction.

And without it,

there's no way we can get off this island.

There we go.

[max] this canoe was a log.

It doesn't have the same hydrodynamics as a canoe.

In order for us to offset that,

we need to have a form of outrigger or support system

that will counterbalance any sort of tippyness.

If it goes to the left, it'll be buoyant on the left-hand side.

If it goes to the right, there'll be weight on that left-hand side.

[max] this is gonna be the pontoon to our outrigger for our canoe...

[ej] there's no doubt it--

...We could flip.

And if you fall in this water in the swamp with this wind,

man, you can get the hyperthermia really quick.

So we're plaining and shaving the tree down to get the bark off it

so it'll be easier to dry out. It'll be more buoyant

and then save all these shavings here

in case we need to make a fire on the way, we'll have dried out good tinder.

It's called smart survival, thinking ahead, don't waste any resources.

[matt] so, today, it is freezing cold outside.

The wind has switched directions.

We're getting clouds in from the gulf.

And you can tell right way, we are about to hit some kind of front.

So there's almost nothing more vital than a solid collection of firewood.

-[rylie] my feet are completely numb. -Oh, man.

-[rylie] if you wanna go ahead, I'll carry it. -Okay.

[ryan] it's an extremely cold wind

which is unsettling, because it could be bringing even colder weather.

There ain't nothing biting.

No, nothing.

Water is too cold. Nothing is rolling, nothing is biting.

Check my line.

Oh, my god.

I don't think I have ever used a snake as fish bait before.

Holy *bleep*!

Literally frozen. That fish is solid as a rock.

The catfish I just caught, it's so cold right now,

it's literally like he came out of an ice box.

Our fish are freezing out here.

That's how you know winter is here.

It's always riskier to do this kind of stuff in this cold weather because

you can't feel your hands, you can't feel your feet.

You're dealing with a really sharp knife and a slippery catfish.

You know, the cold does a number on everything,

it does stuff to you physically,

messing with your brain, mentally.

All these things are recipes for kind of a disaster.

Right now, it is as wintery as possible.

It feels like snow is in the air.

That's how bad it is.

So we have to make the shelters

as good as we can possibly make it

and just hope the weather gets better.

Rylie, is that hole right about here?

Yeah, that's exactly where it is.

[matt] from inside the shelter,

I can see light in a few different spots.

And, I'll tell you what, if there's light going in, then heat can go out.

So, I got rylie on the inside right now

helping me find these holes. From the outside, you can't see them.

It would need to go more towards your stick?

[rylie] yeah, this is the hole. It's through.

[matt] this is the first time

any xl has ever been put in a place

where it's progressively turning to winter.

We've lost a lot of fat. This is getting...

To where it will be the worst of the worst for the next 14 days.

Sorry it took so long, man, but I got us dinner.

-What? Oh, dude, good job. -Yeah! Yeah. Thanks, man.

I had to go in, it was so cold.

[jeff] oh, my god! It is cold, buddy.

And it's gonna drop probably another 25 degrees.

-[steven] oh, yeah. -Tonight.

Gosh, I feel miserable.

I can't even explain to you, how cold it is.

But just look at my breath. [exhales]

we're naked, we've got nothing but a deer hide each.

And so hypothermia is absolutely possible tonight.

Ooh, baby, it's getting cool out here, bro.

[rylie speaking]

so, without a doubt, tonight is probably the coldest that we've ever seen.

I think it, so far, is...

It feels colder than any challenge I've ever seen before.

[rylie speaking]

[matt] we're doing the best we can, but this is no place for naked people.

No place at all.

[ej speaking]

[max] as soon as you start dipping down into the freezing--

freezing realms, it is no joke.

Ej is just trying to get comfortable over here.

-[ej] my eyelids are frozen shut. -[max chuckles softly]

[max] just gotta make it through the night,

and hopefully, it starts getting warmer after this.

'cause... Don't know how many more nights we could pull of like this.

Winter is no longer coming, because winter is here.

[steven] it is cold outside.

And when I say cold, like, frost on the ground.

There is no dew, um...

I'm not gonna go outside. I'll peek through here.

You can see that, through the fog and the mist and the frost on the ground,

it is frozen outside.

You can literally see your breath.

Walking out in that naked is a death sentence.

So we're going to wait this out because

we're not dumb.

[matt] we have frozen feet. Frozen extremities. Other ones are burned.

You get so close to a fire that one side of your body feels like it might boil,

while the other still feels like it might freeze.

Think ryan trying to shake his feet out.

Rylie's cooking hers like a rotisserie.

It is truly cold.

And into the winter

I step full force.

It's below freezing. It is that cold.

-I-- -we're talking less than 32 degrees.

The mud, you can't even squish it.

-The mud is like rock-hard ice right now. -Yeah.

-Whoa! -My feet are turning into ice blocks pretty quickly

so I'm going back inside.

-[matt] go, go, go. -Going in.

-[rylie speaking indistinctly] -[matt] back to the fire.

[rylie] we kinda do have to hunker down in the shelter.

We got just about two weeks to go, so...

Let's see what we can do.

Hopefully, we don't freeze to death.

[max] ah, man, it is cold out there.

[ej] okay. Holy cold.

Wind's hocking out there.

Obviously, old man winter is showing up.

Last night, it was like he was trying to knock the door down.

It was frigid. The wind was slipping in

every little crack it could.

It is frigid out here.

[medic] hey.

[ej] hi.

Ready for this?

[ej] yes, I've been ready for a while.

Today is the day I'm so excited to celebrate,

'cause them stitches should be coming out.

I'm so happy this day is here.

[max] how's it looking, doc?

[medic] it looks good.

You're at the point where you don't really need the stitches in anymore.

-Here we go. -[medic] let's do this.

Nine stitches to go.

The medics taking the stitches out as we speak

right here

and it's freezing.

I'm ready to get these out though.

The day has finally came.

[max] wow. You did a number on your balls, bro.

[ej] yeah. Sure did.

[max] if that was my situation, I would tap out.

No way no how I'd still be here

if I had a hole in my ball sack.

This guy is cut from a different cloth.

[medic] that was the last of the stitches.

[ej] is it out?

[medic] it's out.

Freedom!

Yes!

All intact. Still here.

This is great, because now, I'll be able to do much more work.

I can do all kinds of good stuff now.

Unleash the beast.

In the last quarter!

[yelling triumphantly]

[matt] our environment's changed.

It's turning winter.

Yes. The water levels are lower than we've ever seen them.

And the cold-blooded reptiles I think are...

-[rylie] they're done. -...Are history.

During the winter, we have to change tactics

to hunt.

The cold-blooded animals, they're not gonna be a target species

for the rest of this challenge.

Think we're gonna have to,

you know, start thinking about

land animals.

[rylie] woodland.

Woodland creatures.

Yeah. Warm-blooded.

It is freezing cold outside, but we still have almost two weeks to this challenge

and we can't hunker down in the shelter forever.

We need to find food, we need to find something.

And the only way to find it,

we gotta go from scales and reptiles

to fur and woods.

-[ej] the final burn! -Yeah, final burn!

Nice.

Here we go.

-Oh, yeah. -Oh, man.

[ej] that looks great. That's look really good.

Wow. A lot of progress.

[max] a lot of progress.

We've dug out a lot of the canoe.

Everything's nice and wide at this point,

but we still need to get down further

and focus a lot of our energy

burning in the center

in order for us to, uh...

Get this ship sailing.

-Nice. Let's get on it. -Righteous. Yep.

So right now, I'm currently mudding up

the edges of our canoe.

This will allow it to continue burning through the canoe

instead of burning our edges and really

compromising the structural integrity of our canoe.

Yeah, we should let this burn.

And then come back when the coals are down a little bit more.

Yeah, baby!

Ready for the pontoon.

Okay.

[ej] using our own ingenuity putting the, uh,

pontoon for our outrigger over the burning canoe

to help dry it out, get some of the moisture out.

And then we just gotta cut it down to size, it will be ready.

That'll dry her out, right?

[max] yeah.

[max] we're almost out of here. Couple days,

it will be smooth sailing.

We just gotta make sure that we take care of this burn tonight,

because this is the most critical

most pivotal burn of this entire process.

[ej] I'm gonna head back, I'm freezing.

I need to get warmed up.

[max] oh, me too.

All we have to do tomorrow is make some final touches...

Take the raft apart, so we have all that paracord.

-Yeah. -Then tomorrow, we put the pontoons on.

Then we'll be packing up

for greener pastures.

Let's finish this strong.

That's right. For sure.

I'm just praying for like a ten-day warm... Warm spell.

[max speaking]

[ej] a warm front's pushing into the area. And then, there'll be a little rain.

[max] I'm gonna go check the canoe.

What the *bleep*?

Ej!

[ej] what?

[max] we gotta put that out.

[ej] holy crap!

*bleep*

[ej] ow! That's hot!

This could be a disaster!

[ej] ow! That's hot!

This could be a disaster!

[max] I'm a little worried about this side wall right here.

-We gotta mud that down. -Okay.

The wind was blowing in such a direction that

the right side of the canoe, the fire was more intense

and the walls were thinning more than we wanted.

We had to get into action mode, get mud on them,

cool them out,

and I think we got here just in time.

This could have been disastrous.

The whole canoe could have went up.

That was close.

[max] so close.

All right, my spear.

And we're good to go.

I would say it's at least 10 to 15 degrees warmer than yesterday.

You just never know what this place is gonna give you.

When the sun's out, we gotta do what we can

and utilize the daytime while we can.

We need a big meat,

especially with dwindling resources and the cold weather.

[rylie] are we gonna bring the bow, just in case?

-Yeah, oh, yeah. -All right.

[matt] today, rylie and I are going woodland.

We've got to continue to move further and further into the woods

to find these animal sites.

[rylie] oh, my god, there ain't nothing in this thing.

I'm out here, uh, in this untapped area

that is, uh...

Much more wide open.

A lot less swampy as far as knee-deep over here.

So I'm gonna keep moving around, exploring this area.

[rylie] not a frog, not a damn cricket.

[matt speaking]

[rylie speaking]

[matt] oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Got him.

[rylie speaking]

[matt] yeah.

[rylie] here he is. Here he is. Other side.

[matt laughing]

I knew it! I knew it!

I said we're gonna *bleep* get something today.

-Hell yeah! -*bleep* yes!

[rylie] seeing it was incredible. Just this crazy crack shot

of matt just aiming for

the smallest little gray head squirrel

on a gray tree. It was just insane.

Squirrel shot about 15 yards out of a tree.

Head shot.

[matt] out here, I realized real quick,

you gotta adapt, improvise,

and get what you can get.

If I need to shoot a squirrel out of a tree,

I'll shoot that squirrel.

Right now, we'll take anything we can get.

[rylie] we'll have to save the brain for-- ryan loves that.

[matt] a little brain candy.

I can't believe we're leaving tomorrow, man.

I know, man, I can't believe it.

I'll finally leave this place and see something else.

Yeah.

Max and I are getting an early start today.

We got a lot of work to do.

We're stripping the raft of all the paracord.

As a survivalist,

you don't leave any vital resources behind.

Every little thing we got,

setting up for success.

It's the homestretch, but it's still a long ways from home.

Knocking out tasks, getting this done, it's exciting.

I'm gonna work on my paddle.

[max] nice, dude. That was awesome.

Thanks, man. Dang.

That's enough power cords

to take care of what we need to do.

Hopefully.

[ej] all right. Let's start scooping and dumping.

[max] this looks really good, man.

We gotta attach an outrigger,

we have to finish shaping up the bow,

just make sure it's water ready.

[ej] I have to able to fit in here.

Right now my hips are just too big,

so I'm gonna shave this down on the sides a little bit,

try not to take too much off,

so I can at least fit in there.

[max] ej, this looks so good.

[ej] final stages, baby, the final stages.

[both grunting]

-look at me. Probably hold it like that. -Yeah.

One, two, three.

[grunts]

-there we go. -Perfect.

[max] bush craft wise, this is next level.

This is sick, dude.

Here we go.

Man, this is amazing.

Yeah, buddy.

♪ rowing down the old canal and swamp ♪

these things are gonna work out perfect.

[max] hopefully, this thing actually floats

'cause if water gets into it, we're essentially sunk,

and that is two weeks' worth of protein, effort, firewood to burn this thing out.

It's a lot effort that we put into this,

and if we sink this thing, we're pretty much stuck on this island

and we have to figure out how to get to extraction some other way.

[ej] tie it off right here

and we'll have us an outrigger canoe.

Doing good work, brother.

-Ah, bring it here. -Me too, brother.

[birds chirping]

[rylie] who's ready? Ready for snacking?

[ryan] kidneys are on your right, liver's on the left.

That's so good.

Tastes like chicken.

It's been a while. You know, it is delicious.

I wish they were way bigger, you know.

[ryan] especially with this cold snap last night, I had to touch 30 degrees.

I think we're gonna have to start thinking about

greener pastures with untouched resources.

[matt] right now, we're starting to think

it's time to travel through the unknown destination, closer to extraction point

that hopefully has the stability to get things forward.

What if we could go and move spots,

find a spot with some hogs, bear, something big,

you know, they're out there and the only way to find them,

I think, is we're gonna have to keep going.

Even if it means, you know, suffering a little bit

-and building a new shelter and getting established. -It's a risk.

-It's a big risk. -[rylie] yeah.

-[matt] go big or go hungry. -[ryan] go big or go hungry.

[max] today is the day.

We are heading out on our dugout canoe.

We're 50 days into this thing and we still have ten to go.

Unmarked territory for pretty much all the survivalists here.

So, to earn this, it's gonna be pure grit

to get through a 60 day challenge.

What concerns me the most when we leave here,

will we have a shelter that's gonna keep us warm

for the duration of this challenge?

And resource-rich, when it comes to our staples, catfish, gator.

Some pivotal moments coming up.

This is where our legacy is built.

[ej speaking]

phew.

Thank you, island.

Thank you for everything.

You'll be a part of our life forever.

It's bitter-sweet today.

I'm gonna miss this place.

Farewell, my friend.

[ej] been here a long time. Ready to go.

[max] I'm gonna put this skull on the front here.

[ej] yes.

[howls]

[ej] let's name this baby.

Gator rater.

[max] gator rater's badass.

All right, let's check something out here.

Look at the map.

-And here's where we're at. -Yeah.

[max] yeah, I mean, we gotta head north.

Yeah, up to that waterway.

[narrator] still 13 miles south of their eventual extraction point,

max and ej have identified a large wooded area,

six miles upriver, that they hope will provide

the high ground and big game they'll need

to survive the last ten days of the challenge.

[ej] one, two, three.

[grunting]

there it is. Gotta get over that knob.

[max] we have a lot of potential hazards.

Gators, freezing cold water,

we don't know where we're going

and we're just hoping that this thing floats.

If we get this thing in the water, and it's a no go,

that is two weeks' worth of energy that we wasted.

[ej] barbarians, ha!

[max] no sudden movements.

[grunts]

and our outrigger isn't as vamped as we'd hoped.

As soon as we clear this part, I think we'll be all right.

Oh.

I'm getting a little water in here.

All right, all right. Just relax.

[ej] we've just gotta lean more to the left.

Okay.

All right, there we go. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, we're good, we're good.

[ej] it's floating!

[max] it floats!

All right, brother. Whoo! Look at what we're doing.

That's beautiful.

[max] it's two weeks of culmination,

blood, sweat and tears,

but, you know, we gotta finish this thing strong

and the only way we know how.

Gotta put it all out on the line.

-Let's get freaking rowing. -Okay.

[ej] we put a lot of work into this thing and now to finally be on the water

and getting to new grounds is just amazing.

What do you think, max?

This is so sick.

One of the dopest things I've ever done.

-[ej] yeah, baby! -[max] yeah!

[jeff] we haven't caught a fish in a couple of days now,

which is crazy because we were bringing in four, five a day.

Come on, god.

I'm hoping, hoping that we might get lucky once again.

[grunts]

oh, man.

Nothing on this one.

Winter's here.

Winter's definitely here.

The weather's changed, so we should think about moving closer to extraction.

-Assuming from the map, extraction is higher ground? -Yeah.

We're probably gonna have decent fish in there.

-In addition to maybe something else. -Yeah.

It's day 50.

And there are one of us that's done.

After 50 days out here,

we've been through everything.

We've been through, crotch deep in mud.

We've been through hurricanes, we've been through venomous creatures.

This environment is the hardest that I've ever survived in.

I've never had a place

break me down and be broken like this place.

Consistently tries to, every single day.

I'm gonna give it to, get moved.

So steve and I, we're thinking about moving closer to extraction.

We wanna meet with team savage.

And see what their thoughts are.

[jeff] hey, guys!

[steven] hey, you guys wanna have a little pow wow?

-Sure. -Sure, what's going on?

We might be moving closer to extraction soon.

-Oh, yeah. -We were thinking the same thing.

-Judging the way the weather's been. -Yeah?

Right now, this water is leaving us.

-Yeah. -Yeah, the winter is bringing the tides too far.

-The lower the water gets, the less fish we're gonna get. -Oh, yeah.

What resource we had, have been depleted.

The weather's dropping, the temperatures are cold.

There's just a lot of reasons why we should pull up stakes and head to higher ground.

Not to mention, we need to get closer to extraction.

Yeah, so I know when we move to the next location,

yes, it makes more survival sense to do separate shelters

and separate fires, but it might be nice to put in extra work

to do a big, you know, group.

And really, this is kind of the...

The... The merging up of people, of resources, of ideas.

And so, I don't even think we need,

you know, ground rules.

You know.

One thing I would love us to all do it as much as possible,

-is by keeping human footprint down as much as possible. -Totally.

If we could be quiet as, you know, not chop wood

first thing in the morning, not chop too much late in the evening,

yeah. [indistinct]

-[all laughing] -don't make me yell.

[chuckling, laughing]

then it just keeps stuff closer.

-[both] yeah. -And ideally,

they get there, we sneak into that position.

And the game is like there.

-Yeah. Yeah. -Right.

-They would wanna keep us around as long as we can. -[both] yeah.

You know, there is one negative thing when you try it like this.

And that is the noise.

We happen to have a couple of people,

the yellers, the howlers.

And that out here, it's one of detriments to our survival,

but, you know what, I'm not gonna let that deter me.

I think we as a group,

-we are stronger together. -Absolutely.

-We travel together. -Hundred percent.

We continue to head north or we are gonna head towards the land.

Oak trees are gonna mean,

-you know, there's more squirrel, more deer, more... -Yeah.

We're definitely gonna be getting

out of this marsh.

And that's what's important. I mean...

There is a lot of land up here.

And this is almost the biggest area on the map.

There's a river flowing through there.

[narrator] without a direct water route to the north,

the survivalists face a four mile journey by foot,

to reach this large wooded area,

six miles from their extraction point.

Yeah. We actually built a bridge.

-Yeah. -It goes north. It goes north.

-We take the bridge. -Yeah.

And we keep going.

We just found some of the tallest point here.

That'll probably be a good place to dock or we can go all day.

We been going for hours.

Left to right, freaking thighs in water in this thing.

Hopefully that tinder bundle is still dry.

Yeah, for sure.

I think up ahead here.

Yeah, that looks like a good place. Good cover.

Seeing good, big oak trees in here.

-Let's get up in there and see what we got. -Okay.

There is a...

We gotta get a shelter up for the night and get a fire going.

Yeah.

-All right, that's it. -Up.

All right.

I'm freaking exhausted.

[exhales] oh, look at these deer tracks.

-Oh, hell yeah. -I like this place already. [exhales]

look at the size of these snails.

-Holy crap. -Those are huge.

-People pay good money for that. -It could be good even.

This looks like the highest ground we're gonna find in the area actually.

Leaves on the ground.

Some are dry.

-Yeah? -Yeah, it's nice.

Holy *bleep*.

I think we got a back wall.

Whoo! Look at this beautiful...

Oh, look at this beautiful oak.

-Max? -Yeah.

-This is gonna be the spot, right here. -Oh, for sure.

You know the pirate jean lafitte?

-He bent a small oak tree over like this. -Yeah.

-So he knew where his treasure was. -No way.

We could be sitting on millions of doubloons of dollars.

Dude, but this is our treasure for the night.

-We gotta set up camp. -Absolutely hot.

We could probably set sort of a lean-to up here.

-Probably on this side 'cause north is over here. -Yeah.

-And then we could put the fire right here. -Right here.

That will be a perfect reflector for both of us

while we will have this lean-to right here.

How about I get working on a fire

-to get us something going real quick. -Yeah.

-I'll start trying to figure out the shelter situation. -Yeah.

I'm tired, we've been rowing all day. My back hurts.

My knees are killing me. But max and I

have arrived. The barbarians have landed on the beach!

I'll already took this cypress from the cypress bark.

I'm building this makeshift lean-to.

It's really something really temporary for the night.

And preventing any weather to come in from the north side.

So we got the north side shielded and we got fire underneath this oak.

Feeling, feeling stressed out.

Feeling like we are against the clock right now.

Whoo! I hear fire.

I smell fire.

You got that fire?

Fire!

Yeah.

Hey, this is gonna be *bleep* great, man. Whoo!

Man, these are better than the ones we had.

Definitely.

It's not gonna be pretty,

but daylight is going down

and it's gonna get cold.

Settled in for the night.

It's gonna be a cold night.

Last three nights have been pretty chilly.

Tonight's gonna be no different.

The only difference is gonna be,

we don't have the warm chateau de la swamp to help us.

But we got a good fire going.

A lot of firewood.

And we got our pelts, and that's all we can do.

That's our situation for the night.

It is...

Freezing cold right now.

And we are just hanging on tight,

getting our fire stoked.

Wrapped up in our pelts.

This is gonna be a long night ahead.

You can feel the temperatures dropping.

We are thankful for this fire.

It's what's keeping us in the fight right now.

It is damp and wet.

Cold and wet.

Those are the type of things that take you out of the challenge.

Now that's is hyperthermia.

That could have been a bad, bad decision for us to have moved.

[narrator] the xls or xl success metric

calculates each team's likely percentage

of completing the 60 day challenge together.

Mother nature shows no mercy to us.

[narrator] after finally shoring up their shelter...

We're bayoued up now.

[narrator] ... Jeff and steven were able to weather

the most severe conditions of the challenge.

It is cold.

[narrator] but as temperatures have dropped...

Hyperthermia is absolutely possible tonight.

[narrator] ...So has their steady supply of protein.

It so cold right now.

Our fish are freezing out here.

That's how you know winter is here.

[narrator] and for their neighbors...

It is that cold.

[narrator] ...The onset of winter

forced a change in strategy...

Think we're gonna have to,

you know, start thinking about land animals.

Got him.

[narrator] ...That led to a small but impressive win.

I knew it. I said we are gonna *bleep* get something today.

[narrator] but with ten days remaining in the challenge...

We are starting to think we're gonna travel through unknown destination,

closer to extraction point.

[narrator] ...Both teams realized

their strength in numbers.

-Really, this is kind of the merging up of... -[both] yeah.

People of resources, of ideas.

[narrator] now as they prepare for a difficult land trek north,

their xls metrics are recalculated for a 5% team.

And their chance of completing the challenge together

is set at 54%.

After the loss of a teammate...

Barbarians, ha!

...Max and ej's extensive canoe project paid off

as they headed north for higher ground.

You sure it look like where we're at, brother?

A lot thicker.

[narrator] and discovered a land full of promise.

Oh, look at these deer tracks.

-Oh, hell yeah. -I like this place already.

[narrator] but now they face a freezing night without a complete shelter.

We just need something really temporary for the night

and prevent any weather to come in.

And that's all we can do. This's our situation for the night.

[narrator] as a result, their two-man xls metric

is set at 36%.

It is freezing cold.

That could have been a bad, bad decision for us to have moved.

Turning this

hide from a maximus,

turning it into a little backpack

to help carry some of the stuff today.

Tying my quiver to it.

Arrows are protected, got my fishing kit

and a couple of things I can strap on to it.

Should be good way to make it kinda make the trek.

No matter what, hell or high water, we're travelling north.

We are in search of a better spot on the way to extraction.

Extraction is a long way south

and the only way to get there is to walk.

So, it's unknown.

Somehow packed up, pretty much.

Oh, boy. Skull.

Got a fire starter.

Beard comb for ryan, hair comb for riley.

Some extra cordage.

Arrowheads. Then we have fishing line with two hooks.

I think that's everything.

-Moving day, baby. -Moving day.

We are going north?

-Which means dry ground. -Yep.

Here is... We are all pretty much packed and ready.

I'll get all my snares over there. Got my

pair of cords.

Wrapped up all my braces and brackets from my snares,

my pelt, pretty much prepped and ready.

And we are gonna hit the road, baby.

Get the gator head and my spear and bow.

-What do you think? -I'm gonna wrap the fishing pole.

Ryan, can you put the backpack?

I've got my backpack and the water pots.

We are traveling light 'cause we are probably going far.

-Savages. -Hello.

-[chuckles] hey. -You all packed up?

-Yeah. -Good to go.

Yeah, we are all ready to go.

-You can handle the journey? -Yep.

-Yeah. -It's gonna be a heck of a journey.

This is become our homestead. It's become a place that we have learnt

every square inch of.

But you know what?

If you wanna go and you wanna exceed in a bigger ways,

sometimes you have to leave everything you know.

Welcome the unknown and that's exactly what we're going to do.

[rylie] let's be careful, these are the ones that are moving today.

They're moving every time someone steps.

I've walked this so many times, you know? Holy *bleep*.

Holy *bleep*. Would that be a bad way to start the trek, huh?

-I know. -Somebody going in the drink, oh, my lord.

[grunting]

[max] nice, dude.

[sighing in exhaustion]

seat for now.

[max] in the morning,

last night was cold, [clears throat] real cold.

You know, fidget, probably into the 40's.

So...

We gotta focus on

creating a shelter that is gonna...

Keeps us warm as humanely as possible.

This cold, will zap you of all your heat.

And, um, every time you get zapped of heat,

you're gonna burn calories that warm back up.

And we're at a point where we don't have free calories

to give away besides setting up shelter,

hunting and doing the very necessities of survival.

[ej] so today we need to sharp our wall on the northside.

And build a matching one on the southside.

Yeah, I got it.

We're, uh, working on the shelter.

And here we're gonna do the same thing here on the other side.

Work it around, this is just the first layer.

[grunting]

[ej] oh, this is gonna look great.

-Good exercise gives us warm blood on a cold day, huh? -Oh, yeah.

This portion of the challenge,

it's all about winning these nights.

These cold nights.

[ej] good work. Good work.

This is a cold mud right here.

It's brutal, but at least we're not working through knee-deep water.

Yeah, at least we're not walking in that foggy stuff.

So this hike is definitely chilly.

The mud on our feet is chilling us to the bones.

But at the same time, we know it's a means to an end.

A means to a new destination.

And we're just gonna trekking through this because

there's a home out there somewhere waiting for us.

Rylie, how're you holding up with the cold?

Well, I'm pretty sure I had feet.

-[both chuckle] -don't know if I still have feet.

At least you can't feel how bad they're doing.

[rylie] we're up to our ankles in mud

and the mud's frozen and...

Your feet, you're getting so hard and so frozen that stepping on all the thorns

and all the sharp punji sticks and all these things,

you're thinking, "that should hurt."

and it doesn't. So, that's alarming.

Check out this tight little canal.

Yeah.

Yeah, this is a good sign. Guys, look at all the snail shells.

-Oh. Hey, hail the snail. -There's ton of them.

Hail the snail.

[rustling]

hmm.

-Hey, guys. Check this out. -What's that?

Yeah, what does that look like?

-It looks like a dugout canoe. -That's a primitive canoe.

It's an outrigger...

I smell smoke.

-Somebody's got a fire out. -Oh, my god.

Oh, this is gonna look great.

-It's gonna kill you. -Yeah.

[indistinct shouting]

listen. Hear a bunch of...

What?

-Think I see naked people. -What?

-I think I see people. -Hello?

Hello?

[all laughing]

-[all whooping] -yeah!

[all shouting]