All language subtitles for man.vs.wild.s01e13.kimberly.australia.dvdrip-momen

i'm bear grills

i've served with the British special forces

i've climbed to the summit of Everest

and cross the frozen oceans of the arctic now

i'm in Australia's outback

a vast wilderness

5 million visitors come here

every year to see these rugged lands

hundreds need rescuing

i'm gonna show the skills needed to survive out here

i'm flying over western Australia in a region

called the Kimberly it's an area the size of California

yet only 30

000 people live here and most of those by the coast

this place is wild

the outback has an extreme climate for 8 months of the year

it never rains

and it can get up to 130 degrees now it's a wet season

and it's even tougher humidity is often a hundred percent

which makes the temperatures feel even more unbearable

the ozzies call it

the suicide season of the thousands of Hardcore tourists

who come here

40 lose their lives every year to heat

snakes and cyclones

they say that if you get lost out here with no survival skills

there's a 75 percent chance you'll die

but i'm gonna show

how you can survive in this harshest of environments

if needed

i'll get some help from local experts and a camera crew

will follow me

it's suddenly just so hot

it was quite

nice and cool in the breeze of like hundred mile now slipstream

but suddenly you realize it is very very hot and it's also just

huge look at this

first thing find a vantage point to see where you are

the Kimberly may be the size of California

but this area of the outback has only one highway

across it for Millennia

this land has been completely

undeveloped and the only people who lived here

were Australia's famous

the aborigines

it's their skills and knowledge that

i'll use to show you how to survive in this wild landscape

wow look at that

and this vast landscape is typical of the outback

in northern Australia

it's a mixture of huge

scrub deserts

dry river beds and red sandstone cliffs

full of deep gorges it must be over 100 degrees Fahrenheit

it's devastatingly hot here

but first get your bearings

there's a major highway that runs to the south of here

about 150 miles away

but much closer and for northwest i know also

there are a few small towns

and there'll be plenty of dirt tracks

but first of all i'm going to work out

which way is northwest

and what i can do

is use the sun and my watch

and the technique in the southern hemisphere is you point

12 o'clock at the sun and halfway between there

and the hour hand is north

so that's north and that's northwest

so head northwest until you find a river

which should lead to the coast

but before heading out and for great outback

here's a little trick i'm gonna spread my parachute out as a

marker so it's visible from the air

and i'll leave an arrow pointing towards

the direction that i've gone

this looks like an alright place to climb down

the only thing is climbing like this

when you're unroped and you're on

your own is probably the most unforgiving thing you can do

and it just means you've got to get every single move

absolutely right

and one good tip to conserve your energy

when you're climbing try

and keep your hands in your arms at shoulder

height as soon

as they start going up all the blood drains out of them

and you fatigue much quicker

been going just literally five minutes

i'm just drenched and sweat already

it's a hundred and fifty foot to the bottom

but with rocks as flaky as this

you've really got to watch your footing

there's an American tourist out here in 2005

and he actually slipped

and then fell about 40 foot down

rock face is not dissimilar to this

but he actually survived

survived that fall

but then probably what he did was panic

it's then that he slipped

and he fell and this time he was killed

i thought it was pretty hot at the top of these cliffs

but what i had out there

at least was you know a bit of a breeze but down here

i'll tell you

it's just boiling

boiling and it's like i'm now entering these hot plains

and it feels a bit like i'm

out of a furnace

but definitely entering the fire

down here it's unbearably humid it may look green and lush

but it isn't the humidity is 100 percent

which makes a temperature feel more like 150 degrees

the sun is just so powerful

the danger of high humidity is that sweat can no longer

evaporate and cool you down

because the air is already fully saturated

with moisture that makes heatstroke

even more likely temperatures in the outback of Australia

have been known to reach up to 57 degrees

Celsius that's over 130 degrees

Fahrenheit is unbelievably hot

and the search and rescue guys say that

someone was dropped into the middle of that with nothing

no water within three hours they'd be dead

and the most important part of you to keep cool is your head

you have to reduce a risk of overheating

you could use your t shirt

but then the sun would sear your body

so if you're a guy all

you've got left

are your boxer shorts hat on some sort of protection

i'm ready to go

your head is

the most vulnerable part of your body and hat

will keep you cooler

but the big problem will be water

you might need to resort to extreme measures to survive

i'm in the Kimberly in north Australia

i'm showing how to survive in this hostile wilderness

you'll need water

but if there isn't any you can drink your own pea

and this is something i've

never done before

and i'm expecting it to be pretty horrible

but i need to keep those fluids going in

it may seem disgusting

but your own urine is safe to drink

and if i just peed on the ground

that's all those fluids wasted

there's no getting away from it that really is pretty horrible

it's like warm and it's salty

and not not my favorite

but i've got about a quarter of a bottle now

later as well

urine is actually 95 percent water and it's sterile when fresh

but only drink it when you're hydrated and drink

it sooner rather than later as it's a breedy ground for bacteria

the people who stand the best chance of survival

are the ones prepared to push the limits in 2006

three metscan fishermen

were rescued after a nine monthful deal adrift

on the Pacific Ocean

they drank turtle blood and their own urine

only because they were prepared to go to these extremes

that they are alive today

but urine alone is not going to be enough in this heat

you've got to find water and fast just at rest

you should be drinking

two percent of your body weight and water

every day that means about one and a half liters minimum

but in these conditions

you'll need that much just every hour

look at the scale of this

the combination of searing

heat and high humidity will take their toll

your sweat won't cool you down

and if you can't find enough fluids in this heat you'll die

and walk you through these bird trees now

and these are really typical of this whole Kimberly region

but what they do for me

is offer me a little bit of this precious shade

finding shade

like this can be a lifesaver

as is up to 30 degrees cooler than when you're in the sun

the people who know how to cope best in this environment

though other native Australians

the aborigines

the aboritiones have a very distinct attitude towards a land

and they don't see themselves as owners of the land

rather that the land owns them

as if they're kind of custodians of it

and it's this sort of respect and understanding

that is so vital for staying

alive in this sort of harsh environment

as the afternoon

and the clouds start to roll

in the sun's heat is beginning to cool off a little

hear that thunder

it's amazing you know sun

i'll tell you

it's gonna be rain within a few hours it's all moving this way

out here in the wet season

the intense humidity

and the tropical cyclones can lead to sudden thunderstorms

if you want to have a campfire for the night

you've got to collect some tinder now

while it's dry a lot of the bushes around here

are these k pop bushes

and look until that

just for these these leaves are soft they're furry

and they're kind of shaped like a maple leaf as well

but what i'm after is the seed pods that grow on them here

you go yeah look

pull this down

and let you see these ones here

pull this off and just inside is like this cotton wool

but this stuff is great for tinder for making a fire

just collect a few of these

and that will really help me

the k pop shells not only protect the seeds

but also help keep that cotton wool

tinder dry

the north of Australia

is one of the most lightning prone areas on earth

some storms have produced over 1500 lightning flashes

in just a few hours

you can see those dark clouds and over here

the blue stuff that's just moved

and that is all heading my way

if the weather closes in like this

you'll need some sort of shelter

yeah i need to get off this rock now

and make camp with storms come rain

and in the Kimberly almost

three foot of rain has been known to fall in only nine hours

and that can lead to treacherous flash floods

feel that wind going straight towards me and yeah

it's really sun to pull now

the bad weather is about to hit me

i've got minutes until the deluge begins even

though i'm not staying out here tonight

i'll show you how the aborigines would bill shelter against

this sort of reign

okay what i can do here is build

a bit of a bed straight across from here one brace

here one onto this ledge and the worst thing you can do when

it's torrential thunderstorm is just beyond the granks

all of this can just turn to water

so first thing is i need a platform

the native Australians use whatever

is at hand to do this sticks for the framework

Ivy for the cordage

and bunches of leaves make perfect roofing and bedding

god hear that and this is getting closer as well this lightning

and that's where the hundred percent humidity

has gone straight up in the air

and now it is pouring down and this is a wet season Kimberley

northern Australia

that's why

i was building a bed this five minutes goes completely dry

and look now a full of water

and you know the amazing thing is tomorrow

it will be all bone dry again by lunch time

look at that you see

that just pouring off this sandy outcroft

and my world has stopped raining

it's five minutes time so i want to fill this up

this is just like manor from heaven whoa oh

so nice

come on rave

i'm hydrated again

never even had a bit of a wash

but being drenched in the night is no fun

so make sure you build your shelter before the sun goes down

but a much bigger danger out here is lightning and in Australia

lightning strikes are responsible for ten deaths a

year and this storm is getting closer

i'm making my roof at an angle to help the rain run off

i put up a basic frame

made from thin branches

and i'm tying it all together with vines okay now

i just need as much green foliage

as i can just to cover this and that's gonna be my waterproof

i'm using eucalyptus leaves

they're plentiful in the outback and they make excellent thatch

and what i can also do

is use some of this smaller

softer stuff as a bit of a springy mattress

look at that

that is gonna be much more comfortable than that all

i now need is a fire to get these clothes dry

and the k pop tree shells have kept my tinder dry

got tinder

some kindling and some wood and then what i'm going to use

is light the fire is

this striker and this Flint

and Flint is an ancient way of lighting

lighting fires

and all this is is a modern way of doing it

and i strike the steel

along the Flint like that

and it creates that spark and the great thing about this is

that will even go

when it's soaking

wet put the Flint right down low and as i strike it

i'm blasting all that spark straight into it and look first time

and it's not surprising

the spark given off by the Flint is over 5 and 000 degrees

Fahrenheit and incredibly is brighter

than the sun all i need to do now is gently coax it

i think the feeling is when it suddenly rains as it brings

brings like fresh hope you know and suddenly at times

but it's just so dry and so hot you think how is it possible

just to sustain life here

and the answer is when it rains

Australia

really is it seems a place of extremes you know when it's hot

it's roasting when it rains it pulls and when it's beautiful

it really is spectacular

in the heat of the day in the Kimberly

you can expect 125 degree heat and energy sapping humidity

but even in this wilderness

there's food

this is a rock fig tree you can tell this

just because it has this very distinct

grey bark

and they often cling the side of just little cliffs

just like this

and actually if you look at the leaves

they're oval shaped and also

they're furry and the reason for that

is that that first stops them

losing a lot of their precious moisture problem

is all the fruits are up there

but climbing up to get the fruits is a risk

this sandstone is brittle

and can be greasy when it's wet so

i'm going to use some roots as hand holes to help me

the routes go deep into the cliff

so they should be strong and safe

okay

these are the guys have after

here we go and the first

one of these off all of this fruit is edible it's not ripe

but it's edible if you open up see

all of those fig seeds inside

and

all of those a really good vitamin c

it's pretty tasteless it's like kind of chewing on cardboard

but i know

it's good

i want to collect a load of these take them in my pocket

as many as i can

two more for luck

finding your way

across this fast landscape is difficult with

so few landmarks to help

the native Australians have their own

unique method of navigation

one of the reasons that the aborigines are in many ways

the ultimate survivors in the outpack

is that they use these songs that are passed down

from generation to generation

as a way of navigating through this wilderness

and what these songs do

is they act as like like a singing map

you know directing them between hunting grounds

water holes and good places to shelter

but i don't have the benefit of that sort of history

and that means sticking to my northwest bearing

and hoping that i'll eventually find civilization

food is hard to find in this wilderness

but you'll need to keep looking

or you'll just run out of energy

there's a spider there

a crucifix spider

and they're cool leaves just from the shape that

where they sit in their prey

and that cross like crucifix shape

and then all the web around it and

the web they spin is actually amazing

it's actually 50 times stronger than steel

and i was taught in the military

you can actually use spiders webs to help with wounds

and what you do

you collect it all up bunch it up put it in the wound

and it'll help

coagulate the blood that acts like a field dressing

but this spider here it does have some poison in it

but not enough really to harm it might just give a little nip

and so much the survival is about opportunistic hunting

and this is edible

here we go

and grab him here

squeeze his head and then

put him in

yeah

just tastes like kind of get some passing brain

spiders and other insects are always a good source of protein

but it's not really enough

and on top of that the rain water from the storm has dried up

in this heat you have to find something to drink

but here there's none to be found

coming off these hills not as easy as i thought

and there's obstacles everywhere you turn

and there's no way i'm gonna be able cross this

i'm in the searing heat

and humidity of Australia's outback water is scarce

and the territory is unforgiving

so is this 40 foot drop this gorge isn't looking too great

seven there

yeah probably about probably about 40 foot down here

but actually

this tree doesn't look too bad if i could just reach

that main trunk

i might well be able to just like monkey down it and actually

there was a hiker

a couple of years ago

who got lost and he found himself the top of gorge like this

and his only way out was to go down a tree

and he went for it and he managed it and he got out

it's a risky climb some roping up just in case

okay i'm still gonna get my leg round this tree truck

what i've got to do here

is really grip

just with my thighs and let them take the strain

and just balance my arms and try

and protect my family jewels

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there's water at the bottom of this gorge

but you can't guarantee

it's drinkable you have to find out first

where it's come from

it'll only be totally safe

if it comes from an underground spring

all i've got to do

is just keep following the stream up here to find

where it stops yeah

they're still going here

and yeah look

it's dry up there and this what happens

when it rains

it'll pull down here when it's dry like now

you'll see this like natural spring and this yeah

this is the source of it and if i dig down into this

however much water i take out it's just gonna keep refilling

this spring

water has filtered through the rocks to emerge as clean water

that means it doesn't even

need to be boiled

and what's happened here

is that all this water just gets clean naturally

as it filters through all the rock and the sand

and it's 100 percent safest stuff to drink

and the great thing is however

much of it that i do drink

this thing is just gonna keep welling up and filling up

you should keep following a river like this downstream

it will probably lead to a bigger river than the coast

walking has always been a big part of aboriginal culture

and for them it's about experience in the landscape

and learning to live with nature

and for me

i think so many of my early climbing expeditions were similar

you know it's about pushing my own boundaries

and through that finding my sense of identity

whoa look at that

whoo

after the hot plains coming across a river like this

will really lift your spirits

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i joke not when i say

it is searingly hot here and this water is just godsent

aborigines believe that the rainbow serpent made the rivers

as he traveled

across the land

and that serpent is a symbol

for both the creative and destructive forces of nature

these river gorges are testimony to that power

all around me are signs of flash

floods and debris now in the wet season

the wrists of these floods are even higher

where there is water

there is life and not all of it is friendly

look at this

there you come

we just leave his head on the ground

they're always calmest only got ahead on the ground like that

but this is yeah

this is a pretty common snake in Australia

and go just get his head yeah

he'll probably live off like rodents skinks

even other actually

other small snakes

and one thing that no shortage of in Australia are snakes

in fact i think it sound like 21 of the 25

most poison snakes in the world are actually in Australia

the aborigines have always lived in harmony with the land

only taking what nature can maintain and today

they are the only people in Australia

allowed to kill indigenous species

they would carry their life prey until they needed to eat it

but as i'm not a native Australian

i'm gonna let this snake go

as it's so humid

i don't need a shelter tonight i just sleep under the stars

it's kind of hard to sleep in the moment

just so i'm still just pouring a sweat it's so humid

but it has just given me time just to sit and look around

and listen

i can hear the river flowing as a distant plunder storm

so i can hear the old crack of lightning occasionally

and it's just gives me that time just to go actually wow

this is special

and it's just for me

a real privilege to be in somewhere so wild

but also so unique

and that for me keeps my spirits going

Dawn has broken over the outback in north Australia

as soon as the sun comes over the horizon

i can feel its warming rays

the temperature is already 90 degrees

Fahrenheit and rising

but at least i'm near water its time for an early morning dip

by following this river downstream

you could reach the coast for the danger as i head down

as this river is going to get wider bigger

and also

as it gets closer to the sea crocodiles and especially dangerous

for me

are the saltwater ones

in life or death situations

it's so important to set yourself a structure to work

within like a discipline and goals to have the way

i'm working in the moment is

thing we used to do in the army of

just when you're walking long distances

breaking it down and marching for like an hour

and then taking 10 minutes just sit down

rest find some shade bit of water

and then another hour and sticking to this timing religiously

it just helps break the day down

and what better opportunity to start than a fruit bush

what i'm sitting under here

is a wallaroo bush

and i can tell that

just from these oval shaped leaves with these yellow veins

running through it

but more importantly

because of these white berries that they've got

and these are edible

and they're also delicious

they sort of feel like blueberries when they

pop in your mouth you know

they've also got these seeds that are a little bit bitter

but you don't kind of notice

that just because the rest of it is so sweet

and so much the survival actually

is just about the psychology of it

you know things that give you a lift and keep you going

and these berries are just so sweet and tasty

and anything that makes you smile and will help you keep moving

is a good thing when you're out in the wild

but as a landscape alters

there are new dangers

everything's just changing now look

the weathers getting worse

the winds picking up but also

this river is really widening

which means it's prime crocodile territory

there are two types of crocodiles in Australia

saltwater crocodiles are the man eaters and they tend to stay

near the coast so far

i'm only seeing fresh water ones

but even these can attack hey look

look there you go

there's a fresh water crocodile 20 meters away

let's see if we're getting a little bit closer

there's only a small one

just keep an eye around as well

there

you go

these freshwater crocks are fast

they can run up to ten miles an hour a short burst

so you've got to keep your distance

see what they like here to all these shallow pools

that they're just basking in we've got

quite a lot of these pools around us guys this is key

okay this is a much safer distance to be

we're about 50 meters back now from the bank

but we need to keep that distance and keep following the river

though freshies are clearly

identified by their long thin snouts

there's another

they're all over the place freshies tend to attack

if cornered or surprised

i never want to find myself between a crock and the river

here further downstream you're more likely to run into saltwater

crocodiles and at this time of year

they often head upstream away from their usual coastal habitat

it's their breeding season

and that makes them even more aggressive

see that look

it's all gonna crop it up

you'll be alright in this distance

now these guys are the ones you want to watch out

for if he took me

he dragged me into the water death roll

and then ripped me

apart and the chance of surviving a saw water

crocodile attack in deep water are almost nil

amazing to see so close

but this means that salt is here

i don't want to be close to the river

i'm going to move back inland

salties have broad round noses

and are considered to be Australia's most dangerous animal

they're capable of biting with a force of one

ton per square inch

and scientists believe

that's even stronger than a tyrannosaurus Rex

they're responsible for over 60 unprovoked attacks in Australia

every year

crocodiles very rarely

miss their targets and recently there was

a guy canoeing in Queensland

and a crocodile came up underneath him

turned him over and took him never underestimates

all the crocodiles

they're one of our planets most ruthless and efficient killers

now you might

have to make a difficult choice in order to find the coast

you'd want to stick close to the river

but the salties can live over 500 feet

from the edge of the river

so as either wrists or crocks or wrists losing your way

this area though should be safe

because there are other animals here like the broga

a type of crane as well as the iconic wallaby

it's just like everything around here it's quicker than me

it's smarter than me

just better at surviving than me

forced back from the river by the salties

you'll be at the mercy of the searing heat again

signs of civilization don't always mean safety

finding this fence will give you little comfort

Australia has some of the longest fences in the world

one is over three and a half thousand miles long

that's 700 miles wider than the usa

the conditions here are really extreme

and it's extraordinary that anything manages to survive

but those who do like the aborigines have learned to adapt

and to work with this

unforgiving wilderness if Sony

then can you hope to survive Australia's great outback

what i've learned out here

is that the aborigines really are the ultimate outback dwellers

but they are also the

ultimate guardians of the land and in so many ways

it is us that

have so much to learn from their understanding of this

great wilderness