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I'm bear grills

I've served with the British Special Forces

I've climbed the summit of Everest

and crossed the frozen oceans of the Arctic

now I'm in the remote Scottish Highlands

millions come here to witness as ancient and wild land

but each year 60 people need rescuing

I'm gonna show the skills needed to survive here

I'm in the most northerly point of the UK

in the remote Scottish Highlands

this is classic fishing climbing and hiking country

there's almost 1500 square miles of spectacular rivers

peaks valleys and huge malls and most of it

is untarxens and Middle Ages

that's why people come here

I'm heading into a mountain range

that attracts over half a million tourists every year

this area gets the most

extreme weather of anywhere in the UK

and last year 7 people lost their lives here

the winter storms that can roll in here

from the Atlantic

can bring with them winds of up to 170 miles an hour

that's the equivalent of Hurricane level 5

and with those

can come treacherous subzero temperatures

if needed

I'll be getting some assistance from local experts

and a camera crew

will follow me

the low clouds are forcing us to fly

at only two and a half

thousand feet above the mountains

much lower and the jump can be fatal

I usually parachute at 10 000 feet or more

at this height there's no room for error

I've landed in

pretty horrendous conditions

but I'm down at these

I'm 4,000 feet high on a mountain plateau

but this sudden cloud cover is so thick

I can't

even see the sun to work out which way I'm facing

this is the reality of weather in Scotland

you know it can change so fast

and you see all of this miss

it's really making visibility

minimal

even though I can't see more than 30 feet in any

direction

I can still figure out which way I need to go

as I head off into the mist

a freezing blizzard closes in around me

the snow is now blasting in all directions

it's hard to feel where the wind is coming from

but the ice on the rocks shows me the wind direction

see down here these ice particles

these are really helping me maintain my direction

and this wind now on these high plateaus has really

picked up

it would be so easy to lose my bearings

but what these little things are they're called rhymes

and what happens is this moisture

hits the rocks and then freezes

it starts to grow these particles out towards the wind

so really these are like reverse flags

and it's just another indicator

of where this wind is coming from

I've got to keep my head down out of this freezing wind

my face is going numb

this window is just getting

super strong

and if it builds anymore

really I'm gonna struggle even just to stand up

this wind's now gone noticeably stronger

and often what happens

when the wind hits steep slopes or cliffs

the wind gets compressed and then accelerate

so this is telling me

I might well be getting close to some slopes like that

the fact there's suddenly so much stronger

if you find yourself in this kind of situation

you have to take real care where you tread

a steep slope

mixed with all this wind or snow

is a deadly combination

and I am walking straight into an avalanche zone

the angle of this slope is between 30 and 40 degrees

and that's classic avalanche angle

where is windy like this

there's a real danger

of wind slab

avalanche and

wind slab is the most common sort of avalanche

in Scotland just because of how windy it is

and it takes very little

to trigger an avalanche

and on faces like this

there is a way to work out how avalanche prone is

and what you need to do

is dig an avalanche piss

this will show you how stable the snow pack is

and if I get across to an area like this

all I need to do is dig down

through the soft snow

until I get to the bottom

now there you go you see harder

hard compact snow underneath

and then dig down the side

again through the fresh low to this icy stuff

and then across across here

and then what I can do

pull like this

and if that's well bonded

it's not going to move

if it's weak though

all of this slab would just slide down

this snow pack seems solid

and it should be safe enough for me to climb down

I still want to tread carefully

as most avalanches are triggered by people

every year

an average of 160 people throughout the world

are killed by them

I met a family recently

who had been caught in a huge avalanche

and when it stopped

they completely disorientated had no idea

which row is up and which row is down

and what they did

was then spit

to work out which way was up

and then dug

their way out

and it was only their quick thinking

that saved their lives

gravity will mean your spit will always go down

and when you know which way to dig

you've then got to move fast

anyone trapped in an avalanche

will suffocate in about 15 minutes

soon I drop under the clouds

and I face with a vast frozen landscape

it's now 10 degrees Fahrenheit

and I want to get across this as fast as I can

but the snow covered Heather is really slowing me down

this area is so

exposed that there is

no Protection from the freezing wind

this is why the Scottish weather

can be so dangerous

you get this combination

of these freezing Arctic winds

along with this driving damp wet snow

and that combination literally just sucks the heat out

of your body and is why if you're not prepared

this sort of weather

can kill in a matter of just a few hours

there's no way you can find shelter up here

you've just really gotta keep moving

keep your hands in your feet working

and keep heading downhill

trying to get out of this weather

in 2006 two climbers were caught in a storm

they tried to walk to safety

but the conditions got worse

they couldn't find shelter from the winds

and the next day

their bodies were found

only 1 mile from the parking lot

one of the main reasons

that people get into travel up here

is that they come up to Scotland inequipped

and they just underestimate

just how ferocious the weather can be up here

as I head down

thankfully the wind starts to ease

I'm steadily losing height

and hear the snows melting and draining into a stream

if I follow this stream dam

it should leave me off this mountain

you've got to wash your step

walking in thick snow like this

there are dangers everywhere

see there's a snow bridge running straight under that

that would be so easy to walk on

and not realise

it's beginning to get dark now

maybe one hour of light left before the winter sun sets

at 5 30

but then the stream leads to a sheer 40 foot drop

and there's no way

I'll be able to downclimb this

this is just gonna be a slippery tube of moss

water

rock and then snow and ice

I really need it

try and find another way up

and run

the light is now fading fast and it's getting cold

at night up here

it can be as cold as minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit

too cold to survive without shelter

there are more than 25

000 deer roaming wild in the Scottish Highlands

we can show you how a dead deer

could help you survive a freezing night

God looks just being completely mangled

looks blood and guts everywhere and he's a little stag

I want to try and get him

out of it God really

really stinks as well

this meat's gonna be no good to eat

what I might be able to do is

let's just use

use fuck over he stinks just use the fur off him

and to give me some warmth and give me some protections

only a dragon out of here she

in survival situations

you have to take advantage of every opportunity

nature provides

the fur on this deer is really thick

and it's coated in oils making it waterproof

there you go

get him on his on his back like that

you see how his stomach

is pretty bloated there

which means he's been

dead a little bit of time

and what I want to do here

is just go from

down the bottom

make a little incision

I want to be pretty careful not the pierce the gut so

I want to keep the fur as clean and dry as I can

once you've got a bit of it going

like this and here you see just where skin

separate from the main carcass

really then you want to use

as little knife as possible

and you can just get your hand in

with your fist down

and then to something roll it

and push

push it off

and becomes a lot easier

and a lot quicker

see look I've just done double mounting that bit

not from this bit

the meat really stinks

if it was fresh it would be perfect to eat

I want to get the skin off in one piece

the Scottish Highlanders used to use deer skin

to make shoes

they wore them with fur on the outside

and got the nickname

rough footed Scots

you can now use this fur though as shelter

okay that is

the fur

off

and look at that

and dizzinous

people all around the world have used furs like this

you have for centuries for both Protection

for the weather

and also for warmth

I'm not going to stay much longer

but if you got stuck here overnight

this is what you can do to keep yourself alive

I can hardly see

and I just need to use what nature

has provided me here

but just up just a little bit

there's like if you can see the

little gap

between there where the snow's melted against the rock

it's made like a little hollow

and that's gonna be great

it's gonna get me out of the wind

that was the most

important thing

there are a couple of other things I can do

that would help

I haven't got a hat

but what I can do

is it provides one

and all I need to do for this

is take my fleece off here

just

with my knife

cut through

cut through the arm of it

once it through that

just give it a stretch

and put it

straight under my head like this

and that's gonna

keep some of the warm thing

might look a bit dark

feel a bit dark

but it's gonna work

let's Jackie Becker

you lose 40 percent of your heat from your head

your body temperature only has to drop by

10 degrees for you to end up unconscious

and then I pull this

gray big skin and fur over me

stinks like anything

but at least

keep me hopefully warm and dry

yeah that's quite good

this carcass

really stinks

it's also started raining

and I'm beginning to get quite cold now

I also need a pea

this is just boring

I don't want to just

waste the pea but it's

doing into the snow

what you can do

is use your pea to help keep yourself warm

it won't last very long

but it's better than just peeing into the snow

this will give an instant hot water bottle

with

overnight temperatures and minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit

you need to know what you're doing to survive

blizzards in the Scottish Highlands

this miss is just really clagged in now

and it makes it really disorientating

and you see how

easy it is just to get lost and lose your bearings

but often though when it still winds like this

it means the mist hangs around on the mountain tops

and what I'm hoping is if I follow this stream down

just maybe a few on defeat I might drop out of it

I need to move quickly to get warm

and to get off this mountain

walking in this mist

I can see why the early Highlanders

believe the mountains were haunted

by evil spirits and why they rarely came up

into these high grounds

10 000 years ago

this whole area would have been covered in massive

glaciers that carved out these immense valleys

just dropped under this cloud now

look

sunny

my first view

of one of these just huge valleys

and that is spectacular

I'm standing on the

edge of a massive horseshoe shaped cliff

and I know that the side with the thicker snow cover

faces north as it gets the least amount of sand

so if I head straight down this snowbank

I'll be heading north

well I'm off the snow up there

I'm down now in front of this rock

actually

a lot of this is now loose enough

for me to be able to screen run

but the technique for doing this

is just keep a low central gravity

and keep your balance

and when you do start to go

don't resist it

you know go with the flow

get this right and it's easy the quickest way down

and into another of these huge valleys

there have been people living here since 4000 BC

and the early Highlanders

had a reputation for being incredibly tough

and to survive in these freezing conditions

they needed to be

if you're in this

open landscape and need to check which way to go

even in this bleakness nature provides clues

what I'm seeing as I move through this valley

is there's quite

distinctly more moss growing on a lot of these rocks

on one side

than the other look this is much better

and what this tells me is well this moss

is actually north facing

this will get less sunlight there'll be more moisture

and all of this

will grow

and it's a good reliable indicator of north and south

even in the cold it's easy to get dehydrated

you need to drink at least half a gallon of water a day

but there's a way of finding water out here

that is safe to drink

that's what I was looking for

I keep seeing this

this red stuff around and what this actually is

it's called sphagnum moss

if I pull a bit of this out

you can see it

but you can actually use this as like

a minor antiseptic

what it contains is iodine

you can actually drink from it

the moss itself

I will clean a lot of the dirt away

and then the Iod inside

I will kill a lot of the bacteria

all you need to do is squeeze it and drink

Spagna moss is used in organic water filters

as the fibers in the moss

strain out dirt and heavy metals

in this cold damp weather

the moss slowly rots and forms a dark

heavy soil called peat

when this soil dries out it burns like coal

and the Highlanders use blocks to dry peat as a fuel

when it's waterlogged though

this stuff is a nightmare to walk through

there's over 20 square miles of this wet marsh bog here

and some of it can be extremely dangerous

there was a guy out here

how he got stuck in a bug for four days

and his life was only safe because a farmer found him

alive but unconscious

but if you did go into a bug like this

you need to know

what to be able to do to get out of it

so what I'm going to do here is just

strip off and do it myself

and the last thing I want out here where it's cold

is soaking wet clothes

a thick layer of algae

covers the surface of these MUD pits

this makes it so hard to distinguish

between what you can walk across and what you can't

now I'm gonna feel a little bit stupid

if I walk across it absolutely fine so here goes

oh God

this stuff just stinks

and really the first thing is just this is freezing

freezing coals

and you need to fire that urge

of panic

and try and keep calm

cause the more you fight it

the more's gonna suck you in

but the way I want to go up

is this way

because this is where I know it's solid enough

and then just swim with big

light strokes

to the end

and that you see just where my hands got caught wrapped

all of these roots

and this is why these things are dangerous

that has to be

one of the worst stink beds I've ever been in

and what I can do just to get some of this off me

is use some of this moss

use that just to scrape

scrape this off

I'm sure I could feel bits of dead animals in there

it felt like bloated stomachs under my feet

that's a death pit for any sheep or deer that fall in

it's like a sewer

of about three cities going into one

little hole

when the ground dries out in summer

that MUD will be thicker

and there'll be even more roots

and that makes it even harder to get out of

usually this moss just

clean some of this

horrible stuff off my face

but it's time to get dressed and moving again

I'm in the Scottish Highlands

moving down from the mountains towards the vast

Pine Forest

these rivers are full of brown trout

but in winter they are in deep warmer water

making them so difficult to catch

out here there's just hardly anything to eat

you see these mushrooms

these mushrooms here

and it's always

it's always

tempting when you come across mushrooms in the wild

just to eat them

especially for me because I love mushrooms

but actually the reality of them is

as almost 80% of mushrooms to come across

are actually poisonous

there's also almost zero nutritional value in them

so really unless you're 100% positive identifying it

just leave them alone

this is a good place to fill up my water bottle

it's a fast flying river and the water is cold

bacteria grows slowly in cold conditions

so I don't need to boil this water before I drink it

this is fox poo here and I tell that because it's black

and it's also got like tapered ends

and this is what they do

they often do it on high ground like this

as a way of marking their territory

but what's important here

if you look closely at this

you can see some rabbit fur

just on the outside of it

rabbits don't hibernate through winter

they are my best chance of decent food

but they're almost impossible to catch by hand

all of this here is just

perfect territory for rabbits

you see open grassland long grass Heather

lots of little runs that are gonna lead between

the burrows

and where they're feeding and where they're drinking

and this is gonna be a good place for me to set some

snares and all I'm gonna do is use some of the paracord

tie my bottle together

and yeah you can use any sort of string really

if you haven't got this

you use your shoe laces or your boot laced

take this and then just put a

little knot in the end of it

thread that through there

and I've got then a simple

noose

with a sharp stick as a steak

I'm ready to set my snare

and what I'm really looking for here

are just these runs

look I don't know if you can see this

really clearly

it's like really like a rabbit's motorway

you know and they'll use these

just go back and forth between their burrows

and where they're feeding and where they're drinking

and what's really important

is not to set the snares

near their burrows

they're

especially weary when they first come out of them

you want to set them somewhere they're familiar with

and they're using just back and forward

and really I want to do as little work as possible

near the site

you know I don't want them to be

smelling me so if I lay it here

I want to make sure this steak

is really well in the ground

so if I do catch something

it's not going to be able to pull it out

and then

take a couple of just little twigs

and put one either side

of the actual run itself

and then take the noose

and I want the noose ideally

to be like about 5 finger height

off the ground

so it catches the head

and its ears and big enough

for being able to get its ears through

and just a bit bigger

the fifth size is good

okay

I'm gonna set about

four or five of these

and hope that I get something

I have to be patient and leave these traps out

overnight I'm heading into the forest now to find

somewhere to make shelter

I'm not staying the night

but this would be a pretty good

place to make your camp

I've got some Protection

amongst the trees from the weather

a nice soft pretty dry grass and a foot is insulation

and I've got a stream nearby

and what I can do is just use what nature's

already provided

the branch of this fallen tree

can act as a backbone for half domed shelter

it's the best shape as it has no corners

the air keeps circulating and that will keep me warmer

once

I've got this in place

then all I then need

there's a load of pine bows

just a drape over the top of this

thick pine branches

provide insulation and waterproofing

as many of these branches I can interweave

as possible measeals support themselves

and it just gives it a bit of strength

to get a fire starter quickly in these damp conditions

I'm looking for Nature's Fire Lighter

these dead birches

are really good to use

as tender and I can tell their birches just from their

silver limbs and it's very distinct

white bark

but the bit I want is

all of this outer bark here

and once you've got this you crush this up

because the amount of oils that's in here

and this will take a spark really well

with sub zero temperatures at night

a fire can make all the difference

what I've done here is just

build up a bit of a bank of these logs

which acts like a fire reflect

and this is going to reflect

hopefully a lot of the heat and my fire

are back into the shelter

I've got a base here

of wood the idea of this is to lift the fire

off the wet ground

and also allow the air to circulate

pile of kindling and then this birch tinder

and what I'm doing here is just

scraping off the outer bark

into like shavings it's almost like big sawdust

but it's this it's gonna ignite really easily

get my Flint

and I hope this goes

okay

here we go

give it loss of oxygen

whoa open up

there you go

and you can hear that crackling

and that's all of those natural oils

burning

as the twigs start to dry out

they start to burn

it's like kind of sizzling like gunpowder

using the cup from my water bottle

I can now make myself a hot drink

well what I haven't got is anything good

to eat but at least I've got a shelter

I've got a nice roaring fire

which is good for morale

and then the next best thing

cup of boiling water on the go

for me to make a nice cup of tea

and all I need to do is grab some of these pine needles

and turn them off

and then put that

into the MUD

and that's really good vitamin C

this is gonna keep my cool temperature up as well

people all around the world

have been drinking pine needle tea

for centuries

pine needles weight for weight

have 5 times as much vitamin C as a lemon

and they taste pretty good

there's no clouds and it's a cold night

but this Pinewood creates an intense fire

alright getting this flight

stoked up properly again

and now I'm gonna go

and see if I've any luck

how were my traps

rabbits were brought in and released in the 18th

century for food

there's now 9 and a half million rabbits in Scotland

and they're an agricultural pest

my traps didn't catch anything overnight

but I've got a rabbit here to show you what to do

if you do get lucky

hold him down twist his head

grab his hind quartered

and just break his neck like that

if you're in any doubt after that just give him

a really good

hit on the back of the head

but that's him

him dead

pull this out

taking back

skinning

and cooking

that's breakfast

doesn't look like there's anything

in any of these other traps

so I want to dismantle these

as always kind of golden rules just to never leave

snares set once you finish with it

to cook a rabbit

slice through the underbelly

peel back the skin and then pull out the guts

okay this is gutted

and ready to cook and what I'm gonna do is make

like a really simple

prong to spit roast it

this prong needs to be 2 foot longer than the rabbit

so that the carcas fits in the middle

and there's a foot

length at each end to balance it over the fire

the best meat is on the back legs

and I want to pin them flat to cook them fast and even

over a hot fire

an adult rabbit will take about 30 minutes to cook

let's give this a try

look at that

taste

that rabbit

wow tastes amazing

really good

now it's quite

you know game taste is always strong

strong meat but I like that and it's delicious

it's a great breakfast

but I now need water

and to start following the river down

Scotland

sun to rain again

in winter it seems just a rain here all the time

but at least these trees in this ancient Woodland

are giving me some shelter

all of this here

is Caledonian Forest

and Caledonia was a Roman name for Scotland

but in the Middle Ages

almost all of the north of Britain

would have been covered in forest just like this

across the Scottish Highlands

people earn to living by cutting down the pine trees

and sending them to the shipyards on the coast

some of their old homesteads

have since been converted into mountain huts

for hikers

don't know if you can see

just through the trees there

across the gully there's a building

and that might well be my ticket out of here

but I'm on the wrong side of the river

and there's nowhere to jump and it's too fast to swim

you often get these in the mountains in Scotland

they're known as bothies and you know

people don't always

uh don't always live in them

but they act as like a refuge

and I know one couple

who got completely lost when they misread

uh their compass

and they headed off east instead of west

and they would have died

if they hadn't come across one of these

to act as a refuge

this river is a major obstacle

that White Water is impossible to wade through

and the banks are too wide to jump

a pine tree though is falling across the river

if I get down to the bank

I can see if I can make my way across it

these huge pines of shallow routes

and are easy brought down by high winds

this one straddles the widest point

but it could be the way

over these rapids and up to the hut

I should be able to get across

I get across this

my only concern is whether

this is rotten

it looks like it's been here quite some time

it feels pretty sturdy

and I know that wood rots slower in colder climates

I'm hoping this is going to be strong enough

last year though in the UK

over 80 people died by falling into rivers

what I've got to do here is just

really grit with my thighs

and then just use my hand to lift myself up

and shift my body along

but this is all about just keeping

keeping your balance

and I guess also keeping your nerve

either way I'm pretty committed now

with all of this moss

and rotting wood and water

it's literally just like

grease up here and I do not

want to end up down in that

falling into this fast flowing freezing White Water

in all my clothes would be a disaster

what's awkward

just getting over all of these

dead branches

and it's not doing my manhood much good either

these old dwellings can be a real

safe haven for anyone who's lost

and hikers

will often leave supplies in them for others to use

looking pretty

pretty deserted

well it does look like

somebody's been doing some work in here

before I've turned up these bothies in Scotland

and literally it's been like a wood burning stove

prelaid fire

we've even known it have like a little tin of

sugar and tea bags

but there's nothing really I can use

the builders won't be working here in winter

walking through this Heather is tiring

and it's hard to see what you are stepping on

it's the third time I've done that in an hour

it's getting boring

losing my whole leg of footing all these holes

but survival is about trying just to keep positive

even when you're cold and tired

think about what matters most

your family your friends

whatever it takes to keep yourself moving

in Scotland the types of terrain are just so diverse

you see over there that the trees suddenly change

you know they're lighter and they're also in these rows

and that means one thing a plantation

but what you'd be hoping for

is that it's a logging plantation

it's where there's logging there's trucks

and where there's trucks

there's roads

but in this area

there are hundreds of

thousands of acres of these tree farms

but they'll only be logging a few areas at a time

these nom

native pine trees are planted less than 3 feet apart

I want to keep a straight path through these trees

but it's not easy

all of this is

poke your eye out

Forrest all these spinny little branches

not making it easy

the trees are so closely packed

that the light fades even faster in here

it's so easy to get disorientated and lost

look

definite signs

of logging

the wood is freshly cut

the ends look clean and I can smell the pine resin

where there are fell trees there's often people

now you know you're safe

the harsh beauty of this Scottish landscape

has remained unchanged for centuries

it's a place I love

and one of the few areas left in the UK

who still has his raw and untamed spirit

it's a truly magical place