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i'm bear grills

and i'm gonna

seek out some of the most extreme challenges

in the most dangerous locations on earth

where having the right survival skills

can mean the difference between life and death

i've come to the Sahara desert

one of the hottest and deadliest places on the planet

that is just huge three

and a half million square miles of burning sand

the size of the us

every year people die trying to cross

it scorched by the highest recorded temperatures in the world

cause this sand is burning hot

being stranded here is like being cooked alive

you've got to go there

this heas is killing it's gonna be my biggest challenge

yet in one of the most inhospitable places on earth

this place is relentless

only the toughest can survive

i'm gonna show you the extreme lengths

you need to go to to stay alive

in a death trap that is the Sahara

i'm in Morocco in north Africa

flying into the Sahara desert from the Atlas mountains

it's enormous

a quarter of the African

continent and sprawling across 11 countries

it's a harsh arid wilderness that can cook you and kill you

if you don't know what you're doing

there's no way out of here just staying alive

is your only hope if you get lost out of here

the two most likely things to kill you are dehydration

and he stroke

and both of those can come on in a matter of hours

the chopper's hovering at 8000 feet and it's time to go

i've got a few basic survival tools

and my camera crew are coming with me

this must be the hottest desert

i have ever been in you know summer time in Sahara

is over 130 degrees heat you know

just touching

touching that sand

you can almost not hold your hand down longer than a few seconds

the only escape from here is the atlas mountains

hundreds of miles away but in this furnace of a desert

you'd never get that far

you've just got to stay alive until

you're found you need to keep a cool head

so i'm going to make an Arab style headdress out of my t shirt

in this heat

your brain would sizzle and your body would shut down

before you knew it

you'd be a snack for the vultures and the last thing

i can do just to help keep me cool

is just to then heat on this t shirt

and it's not very nice

but it will help keep me cool

and this is something i've actually done before in the desert

but really anything you can do in this sort of heat

so keep your head cool

it's gonna prolong

how long

you can survive if you wrap this around your head

it'll buy you a few extra hours in heat

that feels like you're being slow roasted and believe me

it works i've heard an extraordinary story

of a mother who saved her kids lives in the desert

by covering their heads with clothing soaked

and pea sip up ready go

to survive out here

you need food

but above all water that's not easy in this barren wilderness

which gets just three inches of rain a year

only the hardiest creatures can live here

and you've got to grab

what you can check out this little guy

ahh want to wash out for him

this is a little camel

spider and these are try and get them to be still there you go

these are like a cross between a scorpion and a spider

and they can grow actually up to about 6 inches long

but they're pretty aggressive

brutes and soldiers in the desert have known

if you're quite afraid of these

let you see what he's chasing it looks like he's chasing me

but it's my shadow

he's after even he wants to escape the burning sun

and these guys can move pretty fast at about

like 10 miles an hour

and that's faster

i can walk up here in the sand you okay here we go

he's edible and he doesn't look very nice

but the dangerous bit of him i don't know if you can see it

but let's hold him down there

those pincers that can give a nasty knit look

he's just trying to he's trying to even bite this

but the rest of him if i get rid of

that is that a moment

come here

and that was a nasty bit

his front legs and the pincers and then all of this

is edible and actually look at that

that's just soft goo and god knows what's inside

that i'm not particularly looking forward to eating this one

but it's gonna be good bit of protein and energy

thanks explosion of puss in my mouth

pretty gross

but it'll keep you going and because he's just a morsel

he's more of a lifesaver than you might think eat

little and often

and you'll be fine eat too much

and your digestion burns up water

making it even more vulnerable to dehydration

it can come on in just hours

and it's a killer

i've only got about a litre of water in this bottle

but really in this heat

i need to be drinking a minimum of a litre of water every hour

but one way i can make this water last longer

is just to keep it in my mouth

and therefore

keep my mouth and my throat moist it's a simple survival trick

but one that will buy you a few extra hours

which is crucial if you're gonna stay alive out here

you can last for up to three weeks without food

but without water in the desert

you'll be lucky to live beyond 24 hours

it's vital to find a source of fresh water

you have to get as high as you can to spot

any clues of where you might find some

god it's just horrible to kind

it's like trying to climb mountain of trico

you know you take one step forward and then you slide back to

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you see that's on the horizon it looks like some tree tops

so that's where i'm gonna go

you need to be quick before

the wind picks up in the blink of an eye

this harsh heat can turn into a vicious blinding sandstorm

there are two ways down this

there's a slow plodding way that's gonna take forever well

there's a fast way when it's this windy up here

i just want to be down

lean back and take big strides

well

what took about 45 minutes to climb up

down about five seconds

good

on my way

the saharan winds sculpt the sand

dunes into their distinctive shapes

and you can use them to work out

which direction to head in and what happens

is that the prevailing wind comes from the northeast

from the Mediterranean

and it blows the windward side

of all of these dunes into these long shallow slopes

and then on the leeward side it's shorter sharper

steeper so i can tell northeast is over there

which means northwest is that way

that's a direction you travel towards the atlas mountains

but don't think you're gonna be able to walk that far

you need to find ways of just staying alive

and hope that someone rescues you in quite

a precarious position of it

i'm in the Sahara desert in north Africa

your chances are walking out of here a slim

the battle is just to stay alive and if you reach

one of these palm trees

it could be a lifesaver food

water and a bubble shelter

one of your biggest enemies in the desert can be heat stroke

and it can come on so fast

literally like just over an hour

and i've seen soldiers get it before

and they're just completely incapacitated

but the first signs of it are just having a headache

and just being really fatigued

and if you don't find yourself

a shady spot soon

that's gonna get worse

you're gonna stop sweating

as your body tries to conserve fluids

and then you're gonna get dizzy

and if you don't get treatment

you can die and already

you've had one of our crew get heatstroke

he's had to be evacuated

and really this does it his proving in many ways

one of my toughest assignments yet in this sort of heat

you can lose nearly a liter of water

an hour and you wouldn't even notice if you don't drink

you won't have a hope you need water whenever

and wherever you can get it

i kind of thought from a distance that

maybe there'd be an oasis or something here

but there's not

but the moroccans do say about these day palms

that they have their heads in fire

and their feet

often in water

so i just don't know

where it might be worth trying to dig down a bit here

the only risk of doing this is you end up

just sweating more and losing more

valuable fluids

look

it's just all bone dry down here

but never give up bone dry

just a drop of water is better than nothing

and an old army technique

i used might do the trick

a dew trap scrape

a hole about one and a half feet deep and line

it with a few palm leaves

and then the next thing

i do is put rocks in on top of these

and it's these that are going to actually

collect the moisture and the way

it works is as these rocks cool down

overnight and then the sun comes up

you get that contrast between heat outside

and the cool rocks

and that causes condensation to finish

the trap add more leaves on top

what little water

there is in the parched air

won't evaporate and overnight

the stove should collect a few precious drops

i should do rocks are dangerous

though they're great hiding places for deadly scorpions

yeah here's one to show you

that this is actually

a fat tail scorpion

and these are one of the most poisonous scorpions in the world

look at this watch

if i put that there

it's trying to strike it and actually

this has enough venom to kill a man if i was stung

by one of these scorpions

and i didn't get any help i could be dead within six hours

the venom attacks your nervous system

which means convulsions

and ultimately heart failure at least 100 people die

every year in Morocco from scorpion stings

and you can actually eat these

even though they're super super deadly

you can eat them but the first thing i want to get rid of

is his stinger and look him

strike strike strike

hold him down

take his head off

and then you can eat this bit

i spotted some dates at the top of this palm tree right

at the top

and those would be really good energy if i just get to them hey

let me grab that camera

if you've gone ours without fluids

you've got to get something to replace them fast

there are dates at the top of this palm tree

we should do the trick hopefully

i get myself some supper it's about 30 foot tall

but i reckon i could shin up it but watch out for loose bark

it can cut you to ribbons

need to be look this is the stuff

you've got to keep your feet pressed into it

like that and not put all your weight on one of them

hard work on the arms

what

okay i'm just gonna cut cut these down

in quite a precarious position up here

my arms have been rubbed raw

by the bark

but i found a good number of these dates

and they don't look they don't look very ripe

but actually dates are the best desert food mass of sugar

lots of energy vitamin c

but also lots of minerals to replace the salt

that i'm losing sweating here

so let's try it

yeah really really bitter

but i want to eat as many of these i can

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cut myself and for once the desert's on your side

the heat can help to heal any wounds

you're gonna make camp here

the first thing you didn't need to do

is find yourself something to insulate yourself

the heat's attacked you all day

but just when you could do with it at night

the desert has other plans

a mattress of woven palm

fronds

should help you survive sand has no tools see bad insulators

take a lot of your heat away

so that will just keep you off the sand

temperatures can plummet to freezing at night

so if you were to sleep out

you need a fire there's no shortage of dry wood

and it's worth trying a friction

firelight and all you need to do is break it like here

and that's gonna be my base

and then out of this just make like a spindle

smooth off the spindle knick

a hole at the base

and start spinning the stick to try

and get an Ember and the key

with this is not rushing the early stages

of it just take your time and you want to do at least a minute

maybe in two minutes of just steadily building up the heat

at the bottom of this spindle

and then you need to really go for it to get it going

let's see

what we've got here

ah

you dog

ah

it's gone out what effort

and this time it hasn't worked and you know in many ways

i need to conserve my energy

it's no good just sitting here

pulling a sweat going through that again

this time i was going to try the Flint

and hope that makes it work

and if you would have spent the night out here

this would be really a great camp

and you got a bit of bedding sun setting

and you got nature's tv

but never forget the forbidding

Sahara

is also home to some of the world's deadliest creatures coming

very gently

got Cobra

i'm in the Sahara desert in north Africa

showing how to stay alive in the hottest place on earth

if you keep calm and new survival techniques

you can make it through this relentless heat and maximize

your chances of being

rescued one of the best ways of avoiding the real killer heat

of the day is to get up early and get moving

before the sun gets too strong

you know but out here even by like 9 a m

it can be over 120 degrees and also when you're getting

dressed check all your clothes

and also your boots for scorpions when the sun comes up

they seek like shady hidden away

dark places

they're nocturnal and a pair of shoes is ideal for them

water's always your main priority

so i need to check my dew trap to see if i've got any

just a drop will help and what i'm hoping here

is that

because this stuff is heated up that the rocks underneath

should have stayed cool

and then that contrast should give a little bit of condensation

let you see

you know i mean it's not it's not much

but it's better than nothing

if you've had a campfire

use a charcoal to protect your eyes from the sun

it reduces a glare and stops your corniers from frying

this is why you'll often see

like sportsmen with these streaks of black across her nose

cover as much as you can especially your head

the last thing you need is heat stroke

come on

the Sahara has to be the emptiest larder in the world

but resists a temptation to satisfy your hunger

with just anything like the desert gourd

and look they look like really delicious watermelon

but they're not and let's cut this open

if you try to eat this it would be really bitter

and it would make you sick

so it's actually going to dehydrate you further

but what they do have is good

antiseptic and anti inflammatory properties

so if you got like you know been by a snake stung by a scorpion

you could put this on it and it would help and actually

the local nomads out here

they'll use this wipe their backside with it

and will help their hemorrhoids

but i don't need that

where some plants might make you sick you've got to know

where to look to find something safe to eat

between us the crew

managed to catch one of these little sand fishes

and these are like little lizards

but what's amazing about this guy is

that he uses his arms and his legs to actually

like swim under the sand

and if i let him go

if i'm in deep sand

he would just shoot shoot away straight into the sand

and like borrow

like a meter deep

and that's his way of getting away from predators well

let's let him go here and to see what he does this sand

is hopefully not too deep

so he should probably head for the deeper sand but they're fast

and look you've seen already burrowing his way in here

see that look at it amazing

oh there is

got her again

that's how fast

this little feather is just like disappears into the sand

but actually he's also good food

i'll just get rid of the head personally i find them overrated

but the rest of the body looks delicious

it's like a kind of big mix of blood

guts and scales

better than nothing pick me up in the baking hell of the desert

the sun is now at its highest and hottest

and it's a heartless enemy

really the heat out here is just relentless

and we've just had to evacuate another of the crew with heat

stroke and it kind of feels like they're dropping

like flies but really

it's like trying to live and survive all day and night inside

a very hot oven

finding shade for me and the crew is critical

but the desert is always full of deadly surprises

got Cobra keep coming

very gently of the four kinds of snakes in the Sahara

the Egyptian Cobra is one of the most dangerous

the chances of you coming face to face with one are slim

but this one's been bought here for me

to show you how to deal with it

the first thing you gotta do is just keep absolutely still

this one's around four foot long and if you didn't stay still

this is what would happen

it can strike up half its body length and under a second

they go see that hood coming right out

and these guys move so fast to kill almost hundred people

a year in Africa these

are you guys seeing strike that always back off slowly

and never corner a Cobra

but give it room to make a getaway that's why

i want to give this guy a really good

berth out and leave him alone

come across this in the night

though and it could be all over for someone

but it's the merciless heat out here

that is always a major killer

and the Sahara still has plenty to throw at you in

your struggle to stay alive

you know the more you fight the scene the more

it's gonna pull you in

i'm in the Sahara desert in north Africa

the heat's a killer

there's hardly anything to eat

and there's barely a drop of water to help you stay

alive and right now i'm searching for shade any shade

see that look tree over there

we've got to go there this heat is killing got to find shade

ah

this shade really is a lifesaver

that sun is so strong

so strong

already feel it's cooler

much cooler

it's weird just as one tree growing in the middle of it

desert of just dunes and dunes

i don't know how this thing even survives

this tamarisk tree is perfectly adapted to the desert

its roots burrow down as deep as 50 feet way

way too far to be able to dig for water

but at least the leaves provide life saving shade

one thing i can do to cool myself down

even more

is just dig down into the sand and make like a trench to lion

and actually if you just dig down

just literally half a foot it can be up to 60 degrees cooler

so it's worth

a little bit of effort just to try get down

let's get myself something to dig with

suddenly

there's a real difference in the temperature of the sand

this stuff is roasting

this is cooler

but this is significantly cooler get down a bit more

so i'm actually getting it

heaven

avoid moving in the hottest part of the day a few hours

either side and noon if you travel only at dawn and dusk

you'll probably survive for a day longer

even if you didn't have water

what water there is is often out of your reach deep underground

but sometimes tiny desert springs

bubble to the surface

but don't be fooled this could be lethal quicksand

which has been known to swallow

vehicles and people whole fall into this

and you've been in big trouble

i'm gonna show you how to get out of it alive

and what's nice about this stuff is the more you fight it

the more it pulls you in and let you suddenly realise

there's not just this crust the sand that you thought

but actually it's all of that clay and water

and each time

you pull it try

and pull your leg up the suction just pulls it back in

that's why these things are so dangerous

and the reason these can actually

kill people is not because they swallow you

it's because they just don't let you out of it

and the killer is that the sun

okay i want

to be trying to get out of this place now quicksand

is twice as dense as your body so in theory

it should be impossible to drown but if you panic

you just get sucked in further

and you won't have a hope of getting out

that's really tempting just to reach out and grab a hand

but actually in many ways

that's the last thing you want to do it's dangerous you

then pull somebody else into the same situation you're in

or you could dissicate your shoulder

but getting out of here is a battle only last year

two young teenagers were out

looking for food on the bottom of a muddy lake

and both died in quicksand

so the way to get out of this is to try

and pull

your legs up towards the surface

really the number one rule is keep calm don't fight it yeah

the more you fight the thing and the more

it's gonna pull you in

so just try to control your breathing

and try and maneuver your chest onto the surface

try and get a leg out

and then just monkey call your way out

it feels like i've got lead boots on

first thing you've got to do

is get these muddy clothes off if you try walking far like this

you're just going to get massive rubbing all the way

under your armpit and inside your legs

and you'll be rubbed red roll in half an hour

so you want to strip off and try and get as much the grit off

you as you can

if you don't the grit in

your armpits and grind

will make your skin erupt into horrible infections and boils

and if sand clogs up your sweat

clans you could end up with painful prickly heat rash

which is unbearably

itchy never give yourself any more trouble than you need

once you've got most of the grit out

quickly get your clothes back on

so the sun doesn't see your flesh

to stay alive in the desert

you can cover more ground if you travel at night

but there are hidden dangers this place is ideal

for scorpions and for snakes

i'm in the Sahara desert in north Africa

in one of the most extreme environments on earth

i've crossed vast sand Dunes

which could be 10 times a height of the statue of Liberty now

i'm in the rocky desert

known as Amada

it's mile after mile of desolation

spanning a fifth of the Sahara

and it's a playground of deadly creatures

i'm going to show you how to stay

alive

you get quite a lot of these Acacia trees

dotted throughout the Sahara

and i can tell it's acacia just by look at

look at the branch here get these very thorny thorny branches

and this is really classic African tree

but what i want from this tree is

the gum on it

if i just break this off

this acacia gum and they use this actually

as a base and like syrups and in candies and in chewing gum

what i can do

is just pop it in my mouth

and it'll give me something just to suck and get the saliva

going my mouth is dry dry

the acacias are a good

indicator

that you're closer to the foothills of the atlas mountains

and they're your only way out of here

if you can make it that far

now the heat of the day is dying

this is a much better time

for you to be moving through the desert

and all of this area here is called hamada

which means it's desert littered

with these like fist sized tennis ball sized rocks however

the danger moving through here at this time of day is

that this place is ideal hiding for scorpions and for snakes

if you can conquer your fears of what might be lurking out

there walking a night more than doubles

your chances of survival in any desert

but you'll feel more isolated than ever

in the silence of the dark

good thing about moving at night time is that at least

it's going to keep you warm

and on the whole the pros are moving at night outweigh

the cons i reckoned yes

they're going to be more snakes

especially in this sort of hermodre area

but at least you don't get that scorching heat of the day

walk with a heavy

footfall so the vibrations

let any snakes know that you're around

hopefully they'll get out of your way

the best way of navigating

a night in the desert is just to use the stars

and in the northern hemisphere

the most reliable one to use is the north star

but the way to find the north star is to use the big dipper

or the plow and what you do

you take the start of it

follow the handle round down to the bottom

and then

you take the last two and the distance between the last two

you multiply it four times one two

three and four point directly at the north star

there's a running race that goes through the Sahara

called the Marathon de Sarble

that's one of the toughest foot races on earth

and there's a story of one guy who got lost in a sandstorm

and he was out on his own for nine days

and he stayed alive by drinking bat's blood

but eventually in desperation

he tried to end his life by slitting his wrist

but he was so dehydrated his blood was so congealed

it wouldn't even run out of him

he was eventually rescued by desert nomads

and it was them that saved his life light temperatures

drop to freezing

so if you need shelter and warmth

do something about it

before it's too cold or too dark what you can use

is just what nature's provided all of these rocks

and all of these

have been baked boiling hot by the sun during the day

they're really good insulators

and they're going to hold their heat well

so you just need look for a good area to build a bit of a rock

wall around you

try and move some of these ideally

you should do this in daylight

so you can see any scorpions

which love this type of terrain

and just as an emergency former shelter the bourbons

we use it as well

just a way of keeping them warm through the night

if they're caught out the black rocks of the Hamada

get hotter than the sand during the day

and they retain their heat nature's own radiator and perfect

if you need to rest okay

it was pretty basic

but it should do and if i dig on my way into this

carefully without this lodging everything

i can actually see already

feel the warmth of that

and i'm sheltered from the wind behind me

if i nestle down into that

there's heat radiating off all of these rocks

and it probably wouldn't be the best night you'd ever spend

but it could well save your life

if you're caught out on this hamada

okay

i'm gonna keep walking

we'll leave that you never know somebody one day might use it

keep your wits about you

and you can cover more ground at night than in day

possibly around 20 miles

but there's more trouble to

come some of the desert's most poisonous plants these are deadly

i'm in the Sahara in north Africa

showing how to survive in this extreme desert environment

if you are lost in this part of the Sahara

your only way out is to head for the atlas mountains

but it's miles and miles of deadly terrain to reach them

somehow you've got to stay alive

virtually nothing grows in the desert

and what little there is isn't always what it might seem

however tired you are

however hungry you are unless you know

what you're doing

you're putting your life on the line

you're moving through the desert

and suddenly you come across see sort of bushes

you might think great you know food

looks like manor from heaven

but you be wrong these are deadly

and what they're called is calatropis

and you tell that from these big leaves

and these like fruit that look like avocados

but if i break this

you get this milky sap

and you do not want to get that on yourself

to get that in your eye

it will blind you try and eat any of this

you'll probably be sick for days

and to give you an idea of how potent this is

the bourbons will use a sap from this to cure warts

that's how strong this stuff is

even camels the ultimate desert survival

machines can't take these one bite of a calatropus plant

and they've been known to stagger

around in circles for hours

to stay

alive out here means getting water dried up riverbeds are rare

but they could be the answer to your prayers

what i've been looking for

is i've been moving through

this gully are just areas of telltale signs of water yeah

things like the vegetation around here

any greenery that needs water for life

i've also been looking for areas

where the river at one point would run in

but then struggle to run out of and you can see here

if you look one point

the river would have flowed along

and then there's this like dip and then it begins to go up here

so what would have happened a pool of water would collect here

and as it's dried

it would soak into all of this

you can actually see the color of the sand here

it's much darker than around here

so i reckon if i dig down into this

i might well find water

the best place to dig

is sandy soil on an outside bend rain soaks in very quickly

but deeper down you might find water Lucy

you've already signed just a few inches under it

look at the color difference

it's definitely moisture dam here

i'm really in a desert

this dry even to find this sort of stuff cool

pretty moist sand is a real result

but how am i gonna get the water

let's keep digging see what happens try to think of

a plan

maybe just use t shirt

wrap that up

and then just start to wring it

and any moisture in this will get forced to the bottom

and then hopefully out

not very much

but i'm definitely getting enough just to wet my lips

wet my mouth

well better than nothing

okay

just keep moving on

all of these foothills

here are the southernmost tip of the anti Atlas

which is a giant volcanic range

that extends out from the Atlas mountains

but from here

it doesn't look like any obvious route through them

but there are clues that now you may not be far from help

don't know if you can see that

but somebody is definitely carved maybe looks like

maybe a gazelle and these are probably old berber drawings

and this is what these guys would do they carve into the rock

the images of the animals

they were hunting but what i just find amazing

is that these drawings have survived for that long against

such powerful forces of nature out here

all this area is hunting ground for the berbers nomads

who have lived in the Sahara for thousands of years

and are masters of desert survival

your chances are getting rescued are now much higher

next time in a special episode in the Sahara

i meet the Berbas

the desert's ultimate survival specialist sample

a Berba delicacy never eaten raw goats testicles

before learn how to deal with a deadly enemy that can kill you

cross a lethal toxic salt pans in the blistering

heat this place is just relentless

and discover

some of the most stomach churning berber survival techniques

as i take on my bigger survival challenge

yet to show you how to stay alive in the Sahara