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Ah.
Ow.

Having my hand burned,
I can't shoot my bow,

which means that
I really need to rely on fish.

Look at that guy.
He's huge.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, there's two.

I am attempting to
make the warmest shelter

this show's seen.

Everyone knows Rock House.

I think I can outdo it.

Wow.

The more I get into my body,
the longer I last.

This will be half the pike
in this pot.

Oh, my berry breakfast.

Ah.

First puke of "Alone."

I haven't used
the bathroom in ten days.

This is something serious.

Oh, God.

This is one of
the hardest things

I've ever done in my life.

I'm officially tapping out.

God, please
help me kill this moose.

I'm not tapping out.

I'd rather die.

Here goes nothing.

Whoa!

Yes!

Holy [bleep].

This is the harshest
location possible.

We're 125 miles
in the Arctic Circle.

I never had an environment
make me feel like

a complete amateur before.

Everything is
against us out here.

Mother Nature
went and bitch slapped me.

Looks like I got grizzlies
and wolves as my neighbors.

Holy crap.

They're just
hunting the shoreline.

Mother Nature is about
to dim the lights on us.

We're heading into
total darkness.

- Hey, bear.

The cold and the dark is
going to sap people's souls.

It really makes you wonder
if it's worth it.

There is no camera crew.

There's no support system.

I'm completely alone.

Yes!

People go in one way...

Stop bleeding.

And they come out
entirely different.

This is the most difficult

survival challenge
in the world.

$500,000. That's completely
life-changing money.

It's beautiful.

Whoever can thrive
the longest...

If they out here,
they ought to be afraid of me.

Whoever can
push through it...

- Wins.

I hope I made the
right choice coming out here.

God, please
help me kill this moose.

It's about 60 yards away
right now.

I can't believe it.

Now I can sing and shout
and chop trees all I want to.

I don't care
what the noise does.

I don't care
how much noise I make.

The biggest game here is down.

It's clear to me
that God is with me.

Oh, my goodness.

It's a beast.

This thing's bigger
than one of my horses.

There's no way I can flip
this animal over, though.

I'm gonna have to skin it off
the best I can.

I have to get the guts out
so that they won't

make the meat spoil quicker
in this warmer weather.

The leg is where
it's gonna be really hard

to skin it this way.

I've never butchered a moose,

but I've butchered
plenty of large animals

that I know how much work
this is gonna be.

Stomach lining fat.

This is
an all-consuming project.

It could take all day and all
night and all the next day.

This is, like,
a 60-pound liver.

And I know that I have to just
buckle in for this process.

Found the arrow.

All right.

Now I've got to make sure

that I don't lose any of it.

As I'm cutting
on this fresh meat,

the wind of this
is carrying far and wide.

And grizzlies
are gonna smell this.

I don't want to come
and find a giant grizzly.

I'm gonna clear this little
area and make a fire here.

And I'm gonna keep that fire
going all night

to mix
with the scent signature

so if grizzlies smell it,

they know that this
is a moose owned by man.

And I'll also be cooking meat
on that fire

while I work all night,

'cause I'm gonna burn up
a lot of energy doing this.

Think I'll cut the legs off
and take the top quarters off.

This nagging feeling
is growing in me...

That the weather
is not gonna cooperate.

That means I'm gonna have
to work like a maniac

to preserve this meat.

Mmm.
Yeah, that's tasting good.

I have to transport the meat.

I have to get it
into a place where

I can watch over it and
not let the birds land on it

and bears get it.

But I look at the sun
and I know that

I won't get it done
before dark.

Man, I hope
this weather drops cold.

Well, I've got the top half
of the moose butchered.

I'll butcher
the lower half tomorrow.

Round trip is a mile

back to where
I can drop it near my camp.

And then I start to calculate

how many trips
is it gonna take?

I mean, I'm already tired
from the day,

from killing the moose,

from butchering just over half
of the moose.

It's a big job.

Big job.

I'm a target for every bear

and everything else
in this whole region,

so I've got
to be smart about this.

Yeah, I can carry it home.

I can carry it home.

I've covered the carcass up
with the skin for the night.

There's a good chill on
tonight,

and I'm debating right now

which is more dangerous
in grizzly country--

to go work through the night
on it,

or to...

go tackle the other half
of it in the morning

in the daylight when I can see.

There's like 5,000 grizzly
bears in this territory.

So I've got to build a cache
that they can't get into.

So I've got a lot of work
over the next couple of days.

Either way, a lot of work.

Well, one thing I've noticed

since it's been
mild weather out

and I've got these, like,
thick winter boots on

is, my feet are
starting to suffer.

So I'm taking a piece
of black carbon,

and I dust that up
onto my toes,

and that keeps them
nice and dry.

I'm just grinding it up
into a powdery texture

and then rubbing that
into my feet.

So this is like
a medicated foot powder.

OK, so I have
to check my traps.

I'm feeling confident
in my trail.

Animals will follow the trail.

And then that makes
a successful trap line.

Making a trail is like
utilizing animal psychology.

They will follow the path
of least resistance.

So far, I've set
just rabbit snares

'cause I've just seen
so much sign.

But I haven't
caught anything yet.

Some fresh grass.

My plan is to expand,

to set some squirrel poles
as well.

I really want
to make sure that

I'm just focused on
getting animals all the time.

.

Oh, [bleep].

It's so hard.

OK, now I'm gonna
go look for the arrows.

Being out here,
it's a lot of tough work,

and I'm feeling anxiety
about everything.

I need to hunt more.

I need more fish,

and I don't really have
a way to release it.

It's a hard space
to be sometimes.

So out here,
I'm trying to stick with

that feeling of hope
that I can win.

I found it,
I found it, I found it.

Yes.
Ah.

I have all my arrows now,
so I feel much better.

Don't lose arrows.

Determination.

Success.

Gotta finish butchering

and transporting all the meat.

Hustling to get all my meat
out of the sun.

Still got a big pile
of meat to haul,

so I'll be busy
for quite a while.

I'm just thankful that
no bears have eaten it yet.

I slept a bit last night,
and I'm now finished

butchering and carrying the meat.

And my project today
is all building

the food cache cold storage.

Trying to save all the meat
from the hot weather

got me so ragged.

And I was just worried
all night long

that a bear will find it.

If I can get through
these next few days,

I'll be all right.

I'm gonna get to work.

Preserving and keeping this
meat is my biggest concern.

More than bears, birds,
anything else,

the enemy is weather.

It's still really cool
back here on this north bank.

And I'll work on
building something in the bank.

I got to keep this meat
so that I can smoke it all.

Everything comes down to this.

I have to do my best
to save the meat.

I'm definitely
burning a ton of energy

on this project
and the whole moose project.

But food security is worth it.

To preserve this meat,

it's not just saving it
from the warm weather.

I have to save it
from moist weather.

And if the weather
is anything in this area,

it's very moist and humid.

Now that
I've gotten this moose

and I have the meat,

tapping out,
that's not an option.

The pressure to win now
is intense,

so I better pull it off.

I'm gonna make a solid wall.

I need a bunch more of those.

Food cache is coming along.

I'm praying
for colder weather, quick.

Such a huge blessing
can also be a curse

if the timing isn't right.

But everything for me
this season

could come down to this.

There's no option on Earth
of wasting this meat.

Hopefully
this will be grizzly-proof.

Now, I'm gonna
put stakes out here

and then fix it all together.

It'll be a 7- or 8-inch-thick
front wall.

I'm not quite finished

with the outside
to make it bear-proof.

Almost.

But I'm gonna go ahead
and put the meat in.

I'm gonna line the inside
with these bows,

put a grate of sticks down,

'cause I want some airflow
to it.

I don't want to seal it off
'cause then it will go bad.

This is life here
for the winter.

I've got to protect it.

All right, guys.

Fort Moose Meat is done.

It's staked down well
back here.

And the bear is gonna
tear at it here

and he'll be able to put
no leverage back there,

and he won't think to go
back there and undo that.

So the locking log
lifts off...

Like this,

And I get the lid off...

and get the meat.

I think it should be enough,
but we'll see.

What a nightmare it's been.

Four days ago,
I sat down on a rock,

and there was this really
sharp protrusion from the rock.

When I sat down on it,

that thing hit me right
on the tailbone

and snapped my tailbone.

So I've been--

I've been gimping around
out here.

I'm not worried about it.
It'll get better.

It's just one more thing,
you know?

But anyway,

let's go check the net.

The first few days
it slowed me down a bit,

but not anymore.

I'm doing fine.

But I need to get a real
big win for me at some point.

Oh, I see something.

I see a fish for--
I see two fish for me.

That's the spot.

I guess that was
the whole deal,

'cause I played around
all over this bank.

That's just awesome.

Oh, man.

That one's just barely
hanging on there.

Better be careful.

Oh, my gosh.
Look at how fat he is.

Oh, my gosh.
He's huge.

Huge.

Oh, and he's got--

He's got a lingcod in his mouth
or something.

Oh, my gosh.
Look at this.

I scored big time on these.

This is just amazing.

All right, let's see
what's in your mouth, buddy.

That looks like a burbot.

I think the burbot was
caught in the net,

and the pike
came after the burbot.

All right, man.
You're dead.

You might as well let go.

Can I dump him out?

Look at this.

Oh, my gosh.
What a score.

What a freaking score, man.

All right.

It's been kind of
a rough start for me.

But when I lost
my fishing line,

rather than breaking
all over the country

trying to kill squirrels
and burning more calories

than what a squirrel
would provide...

I chose to teach myself
how to make a gillnet.

This is a turning point
for me.

Everything is going
to be different now.

That's two huge pike

and some of my favorite fish
in the world, which is cod.

If I had some potatoes, I'd be
having fish and chips tonight.

I'm feeling pretty good
about this.

I finally found some methods
that are working.

That is incredible.

Good enough for the chimney.

All right, we're back
on the shelter train...

'cause last night was cold.

So cold.

It was by far the coldest night
we've had.

And it kind of got me spooked.

I want to make sure this
is good as I can get it

and the insulation is all in.

I came out here knowing

I wanted
to get a solid shelter

and begin preparing
for winter.

OK.
We got a layer of horsetail.

Crossed it.

Staging myself for a long-term
situation is a priority.

It's just mud and grass
mixed together.

Yeah, big game,
if you get it,

then you got a real good shot
at winning.

But I'll tell you what, it's
a full-time job to process it,

to smoke it, to keep it
all safe from animals.

I mean, I want that steak
really badly,

but it's almost irresponsible

to take an animal
in this kind of weather.

Whereas if I wait
for it to get cold,

I can slowly make the cache,
and when I get an animal,

I can just pop it up there,
and I'll be ready.

Willow branches

working beautifully.

I've put spruce bows
across the whole top

of the shelter for insulation.

On top of that, I have
about 5 inches of horsetail.

My new shelter may be small,
but it's strong,

and it's gonna
be warmer inside.

Let's tuck this down.

The only thing
that can make you

a stronger outdoorsman

and survivalist
is to be able to push through

tough situations
and learn from them.

We got this damn thing
insulated.

Beautiful mud daub fireplace.

We just need a front door
and some final touches.

But if winter came tomorrow,
we would be fine.

This shelter

is fortified

for the Arctic winter.

Man, I think we got
this situation handled.

All right, this one goes out

to my nieces and nephews,

who were curious.

They'd say Chow Chow,
which is what they call me.

They call me Uncle Chow Chow.

They're curious how I'm gonna
brush my teeth out here.

So this is how.

You can either
just go at it

with just your spit,
some water,

or you can, uh...

you can just use
a simple piece of charcoal.

Throw it in there.

Oh, yeah.

Not too shabby.

All right.

Let's work on a fireplace.

I think we're in for a winner
like this show's never seen.

And so I'm gonna
keep working on my shelter

as my main priority
to keep myself warm,

to keep myself dry,
and to keep myself safe.

Oh, man.

I'm gonna call this
the bunker.

This is gonna have
so many layers,

and it's gonna have
the best fireplace.

I've just got
to be able to do it

without killing myself

and burning too much calories,

but I think
I can knock it out.

So I'm gonna throw some
of these stakes in the ground.

And as I build these rocks up,

I'll have dirt behind them to
fill in and keep all the sparks

and make it
a little more solid.

So now, rocks.

I'm no stonemason, obviously.

After college,
I did a lot of great jobs,

a lot of different jobs.

I joined the West Virginia
Air National Guard.

And that's one of the best
decisions I ever made,

getting to serve my country.

One leg up I might have
on some of my competitors

is my military experience.

That made me really good
at one thing in particular,

and military members
would know this.

I know how to just
shut up and color.

A lot of hurry up and wait,

but sometimes you just
got to get something done.

And we call that
shut up and color.

That's what I'm doing.

That one go about right there.

It's perfect.

So today,
I got quite a bit done.

I didn't eat today.
Um...

just didn't really
feel like it.

I'll be fine.

I'm just gonna go to bed.

And to me, it sounded like
they're really close,

but yeah, I don't--

I don't really know how
to tell out here,

as far as how far
sound travels.

Wolves scare me.

Got to get the shelter done.

'Cause I don't want to get
my face eaten off.

Last night was
the roughest night so far.

Those--

those wolves
would just not let up.

Luckily, nothing came up
against the...

shelter last night.

At least,
I don't think anything did.

That's all the more reason
to get that shelter

finished as fast as possible.

I gotta get to work.

I need to get out of
the temporary shelter.

I need to be as safe as I can
from any kind of predators.

And it's just gonna get colder
and colder and colder,

so I'm gonna push and do
as much in one day as I can.

Around about right there.

Like so.

It's gonna go about right here

and drop straight down.

That should make 16 feet.

Psh, psh, psh, psh.

Basically what I'm doing is

I'm cutting out these corners
of the ceiling.

I'm taking away
some of my space.

That way,
I have less to heat up.

I think in the long run,

that's gonna
be a pretty big calorie-saver.

Let's go shopping
for some poles.

I know that there might be,
like, the question of

why am I not going harder
after fish and after game?

I'm trying to set myself up
long-term.

When it comes to the cold,
like,

you're burning calories
to try to keep yourself warm.

And so I'm doing smaller

so that I can actually
move into it

and then I can just keep
adding walls to the inside

to provide more insulation
as it gets colder.

I think in the long run,
digging in,

framing up is the way to go.

And once everything's
together,

we'll just tie these
at the top.

It's a solid wall.

When I'm done, this place
is gonna be bomb-proof.

I gotta be careful
standing up so quick.

It's easy to forget
how much I haven't eaten.

Raining a little.

All right.
We need my tarp.

Oh.

Yes. Oh, yes. Oh!

New shelter.
New shelter.

I can stand up.

Oh, I'm so excited.

This tree has
a little bird's nest in it.

That's cool.

I wonder if this would be good
for starting a fire.

Probably.
A literal bird's nest.

Usually when you make a fire,

you take a whole bunch
of really dry material,

and you shape it into
a ball with a little crevice

in the center,
and you call it a bird's nest.

And here,
I literally have a bird's nest.

That's really cool.

So there's moose around here,
'cause there's moose hairs

in this bird's nest.

Save that for a cold day.

OK.
We continue the shelter.

So I would like to cut
all the poles for this side.

About...

I love my shelter.
It's a great shelter.

It's a simple A-frame attached
to a big tree, so it's strong.

One side is facing north,

so that's where the main winds
are gonna come.

I'm gonna leave all the trees
there to be a wind block.

And then the other side
is facing south.

And I'm thinking that
maybe I can capture

some radiant heat
from the sun

and then all the spruce boughs
is insulation.

It is small,

but I'm willing to sacrifice
a little bit of comfort

so that I'm staying warm
and safe.

♪ I need another tree ♪

I grew up out in the
trapline, being homeschooled.

And I always thought
my world was so small.

All I wanted to do was
just go to the real world.

That's what I called it.

So I went to university.

And when I got to the city,

I wanted to experience
everything all at once.

So I was going
to all the parties,

I was in all the sports.

I tried it all out,
from the good to the bad.

But I was trying
to fit in some other box

that was not me at all.

And then one day,

I had a complete
mental breakdown.

And I was hospitalized.

And my mom
came rushing to the city

and she's like,
"You need to come home."

And the first thing
that really healed me

when I got home
was the quietness.

There was no traffic.
There was no machines.

There was just nature,

and I could just really
be safe.

Oh, my God.

It's a marten hunting rabbit.

Hey.

Hey.

Oh, my God.

What?

This place is wild, man.

Oh, man.

Look at that.

Fresh rabbit.

I guess I'm skinning
some rabbit.

After my college experience,

the land healed
and gave me a new education.

It's like
I found purpose again.

Now,
rabbit skin is very fragile.

So if you want it
to be intact,

you kind of have to be gentle.

The Cree philosophy
of teaching is kinisitohten.

That's the Cree word for
"Do you understand?"

And that's something that

my dad has asked me
throughout my life.

"Kinisitohten?"

It's not a written language,

so the way that Cree people
teach is by showing.

And my dad isn't really, like,
explaining things beforehand.

I would just have to start
helping him out

and copying his actions
and figuring it out on the go.

And then eventually,
it becomes part of your body

because you've been doing it
with your own hands.

Inspect the liver.

So now, I'm just
gonna start slicing.

And then when you can say
"ninistohten,"

which means "I understand,"

that means you can
actually teach someone else.

And now
I'm showing other people

my knowledge, what I'm doing.

Whoo.
That's amazing.

All right.
Here it is, my rabbit.

Oh, my gosh.
It's so good.

Wow.

Thank you for this gift
of rabbit.

Normally,
I don't like rabbit that much.

But I must be out
here a long time,

because this is delicious.

That is so good.

I keep seeing fish hitting
on this point right here.

So I got this whitefish.
We're gonna try that as bait.

Try here.

A school of whitefish
in front of me.

Whitefish,
how do you feel about

a little bit of cannibalism?

How's that sound?

They're not into that, apparently.

I'm about ready to indulge
in a little cannibalism.

About ready to creep into the
next "Alone" survivalist area

and...

cut myself a femur to chew on.

Just kidding, of course.

Just kidding.

But I'm not kidding
about these whitefish

needing
to become cannibalistic.

'Cause this morning,

they were going bananas
all along the edge.

Now that the sun's out
and bright,

they moved out a bit.

Nature's gonna be throwing
curveballs left and right

every day,

but I'm ready.

There's a lot
of subtle cues in nature

that a lot of people
might not pick up on,

but you spend
enough time out there,

and you can read everything
sort of like a book.

You just got to know
what to look for.

Dude, come on back.

Pike's right at my feet.

Ooh.

Ah.
I lost him.

Dude.

That was insane, man.

Damn it, fish.

You're killing me.

We gotta go fish that river.

It's worth taking the time
at our money spot.

He stared right at me,

came up out of the grass
that I had it packed in.

There's a freaking mink

eating my meat
in my meat cache.

I better get
leather gloves in case

I have to grab him.

Mink can bite like the devil.

I'm going to scare it away.

It's in my meat cache
right now.

Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo!

Freaking mink.

There you go. Good.
Get out of here, you.

Yeah, mink tracks for sure.

He's run here two days
in a row.

I know he'll be back,
plus probably others.

Yeah, he chewed up the heart
really good.

Look.

That's the moose heart,

and he's eaten the whole
bottom end of it off.

So I have a problem now.

Any little thing
that gets in there

is going for the fat first,
so I'm gonna--

I'm gonna start
rendering this fat,

because the fat is the most
precious commodity out here.

It's hard to build
something out here

that would be mink-proof.

And pine martens are
the same way, same size.

They can get through
that stuff.

That's a big problem.

I've got to do something
about that meat.

I know one thing.

I've got to start
making some containers

and rendering the fat,

'cause the fat is the first
thing everything goes for.

And the fat is what
I need the most.

So I'm gonna start cooking
it down a bit each day

as fast as I can cook it
through this pot.

I don't know how else to
keep it away from everything.

I have to save the fat.

Starting to render this down
pot by pot.

It's sealing.

Yeah.

This birch bark lard canister.

And I'll make more
of these and just

fill them with rendered lard.

All right.

I should be moving
into my shelter,

but it's big enough, I think,
to smoke a whole moose,

so I'm staying in a tarp.

This is just one of many,
many huge hunks of meat.

What I'm gonna do is
just strip it pretty thin

and get it on a bunch
of skewers like this

and hang it in racks
inside the smoker.

This is good.
Putting up food in the fall.

Food for winter.

Some of my best
childhood memories

are putting up food
in the fall with my family.

I'm one of 11 kids.

We grew everything we ate;

green beans, apple sauce,
tomatoes, venison--

to keep it any way we could.

We didn't have a refrigerator,
you see,

we had no electricity.

Fresh stuff is
just so delicious.

I'm torn about smoking this
much meat right in my camp.

There's decent-sized
bear tracks that I've seen

three times now close
to my camp.

But I don't have the luxury
of choosing another option,

so I'm just going forward.

The silence out here
and the isolation

has really brought me
to a point of thinking

about other situations
in my life,

doubts that start
pouring into my mind.

It's all very dirty

because that mink
wallowed in it.

Not real proud of
my butchering right now

because I'm in a rush.

All it is is just functional
and adequate at the moment.

Nothing beautiful.

When I was a kid,

my parents viewed society
as becoming really godless

and wanted to protect
their children from that.

But at the time,
what I got instead

was the message
that God hated everybody.

I remember living
every day thinking

that I wasn't worthy of,
you know,

the food that I was eating.

Like, I could never
deserve to exist.

And I thought you could
compensate for that feeling

by hard work.

It's time to get
this thing done.

Look at all this meat.

Rows and rows and rows

and rows and rows of it
all the way back.

I'm just about to fire it up.

The smell of fresh meat
coming from there

is almost overwhelming.

And I've never had such an urge
to just eat it just like it is.

Controlling the airflow
to the fire

is what's gonna make
it smolder and smoke

and not just burn
and cook the meat.

So yeah,
I think it's gonna work.

As a child,
trying to be worthy of living

made me basically suicidal
through my teenage years.

And even afterwards
as an adult,

I remember it just
becoming such a reality for me

that I could not be enough
for God or for people.

But now, somehow,
out here with nature,

I'm starting to find a peace
and balance with God

about my story somehow.

Hoo.

This is a pot
of total goodness.

God's bounty.

So I'm gonna sit here
and eat my fill.

If I'm a tough person,

it's because of my dad
diligently teaching that.

I love him for that.

That's because of my mother,
the person who she was

raising 11 kids
and schooling them all.

I love her for that.

And out here,
I'm actually feeling

just incredible joy in my soul

that I exist, that I live.

I smell cooler weather
on the wind.

And I thank God for it.

Welcome, man.

Welcome to "Alone's"
first freaking rave.

I think this smoke's
starting to make

my head go a little bit wrong.

What is wrong with my head?

I'm not thinking nearly
as clearly as I'd normally do.

Ugh.

Let's go fishing.

Because Dub is hungry.

Couple more days of no food,

and I will probably
fall into a downward spiral.

Today has got to be a good one.

I need to start
focusing on food again.

There's my pike club
right there.

I'm gonna make a bushcraft...

situation here.

So this is gonna make it
so that when a pike hits,

this rig that I'm making

is gonna set the hook
automatically on the pike.

So this is gonna be...

pretty much what you call
an L7 trigger.

So it's two triggers
that sit together like that.

So when this trigger,

the top trigger,
gets pulled off, boom.

This stick...

that I'm carving right here...

is gonna get
jammed into the ground.

And then I'm gonna get a nice,
super spring-loaded tree,

and I can set the hook
on the fish.

Probably from about
age seven or eight,

I decided I wanted
to be a pro fisherman,

so I bought a bass boat

and won a bunch
of bass tournaments.

Turns out gas for bass boats
is really expensive.

There was a time I had
just enough gas in my boat

and my truck
to make it to the tournament.

But in the back of my truck
was a trash bag

filled with pop cans.

And in Michigan, they have
a 10¢ refund on cans.

I'm like,
"If I don't win it,

"I'm gonna have
to turn these pop cans in

and get, like, four bucks
and maybe get home."

So I risked all my money that
I had to pay the entry fee.

That's actually really easy.

So I'm just tying them.

Overhand loop.

Now, I want to tie it
right around the area

where this trigger is.

So I go there,
win the bass tournament.

I win, like, 5 grand.

And fortunately, I didn't
have to use my pop cans.

That's how poor I am
and how much I love fishing.

So we want one more loop.

Probably right about there.

And they fit on each other.

So when something pulls even
pretty lightly right there...

it's gonna pull this
trigger off that,

and this rod's gonna
spring like crazy.

Something's happening
on this one.

Something just hit.

That's definitely got it.

I'm gonna give it
a little line.

Hmm.

Hook set right there, boy.

He's coming.

Good size.

It's a really good size.

Hell yeah, little pike.

Yeah.

Yes! Dude.

Put them up
on these pine boughs.

Oh, hell.

I weakened ya.

And what I'm gonna do is

cast this one back out...

and let it fish
while I clean that pike.

There's gonna be
a time frame where

the river starts to freeze
and I can't ice fish.

Can't walk on the ice
till it's at least 4 inches.

So I'm gonna be snaring.

I'm gonna do hunting
and trapping, everything.

Fishing will not get
you all the way,

no matter how good you are
at it.

So I want to try
to bring this one in

without triggering it

and put a fresh piece of bait
on there.

And right then--look at that.

Right then,
something's grabbing that.

Look at that.

That line's moving right now.

That's game on.

Holy crap.
Are you kidding me?

Boom!

Got him.

Coming right at me.

Yeah.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
yes, yes, yes, yes.

Get in here, bro.
Mm, mm.

Yeah!

Thank you, spring pole.

He wasn't coming off
that big hook.

Oh, my goodness.

That is so amazing, dude.

Rod demonstration, done.

And I could not be
any freaking happier.

'Cause it's freaking
lunch time!

I love nature
more than anything.

Nature is honest.

People, in general,
are not honest.

But fish aren't
gonna lie to you.

The grizzly bear
is not gonna lie to you.

Grizzly bear is
just gonna kill you.

It's not hiding that fact.

So I strongly believe that

you're never
gonna beat nature.

But when nature
throws you a tidal wave,

you build a bushcraft
surfboard and ride it out.

I'm so happy
we got that spring pole.

Yes.

I'm gonna go get
some more water.

Look at that.

It's a happy family of swans.

That's what I want.

I want to start a family.

I really want my future kids
to see the possibilities

of a life living close
to the land.

And I hope that I inspire them
to follow in my footsteps

like I'm following
my parents' footsteps.

Got some water.

Boil it
and then get back to work.

I thought this would be
a really good spot

to set up a squirrel pole.

Because there is
a very active squirrel here.

I feel so alone.

I feel really alone,
and it's really hard for me.

It's hard for my mentality.

I just--I came into this game
so mentally strong.

I thought I was so strong.

And then I came out here

and I just feel like my brain
is struggling.

It's mentally really tough
out here.

I don't like it.

I feel like I'm going back
and forth

between feeling
great success here

and then feeling anxiety,

almost a sense of depression
coming in

because I feel
so disconnected.

I live in an isolated place,
far away from people

and I've spent
a lot of time alone.

But this feels different
somehow.

It's really isolated here.

I've chosen this path,
but this extreme sense

of being taken away
from my family and my culture

and placed in this environment
that I'm unfamiliar with

is really instilling in me

that feeling of what
it might be like

to be taken away
to a residential school.

I didn't think
that these feelings

would come up out here.

I thought this was in my past.

I mean, one place that
I feel most healthy

is when I'm in nature.

But for some reason, there is
a huge piece of me missing.

Oh, I just wanted
to be out here.

At the same time, I feel,

as an Indigenous woman,

I need to keep staying here,

that I need
to keep pushing myself.

It [bleep] sucks.

And everything is fine.
Everything's good.

My shelter is getting warmer.

I have food.

I'll just keep going.

Come on.
Just one more day.

Just one more day.

You know...

the more time I spend here,

the more I want to be
with someone that is from here,

the Gwich'in and Aleut.

I want them to show me
how much they love this land,

what they know about this land.

I came here with skills
enough to feed me,

to shelter me,
to keep me alive and thriving.

This is an amazing experience
for me.

But I wish I was with someone.

I just want to get through
the isolation.

So I want to go
check the fishnet.

Look at that.

.

It just didn't feel right,
keeping that fish.

I need to honor it.

I need to eat it with joy.

Ugh.

18 days.

I got this far.

I got this far.

Oh, what the heck?

I don't want to go
to that place again.

I don't want to have
another mental breakdown

that I can't come back from
that takes me years and years.

It's a delicate balance

and you really got
to be careful.

This is a nice place.

It'll always be in my memories.

It's time to call in.

Hi, this is Michela.
I'm officially tapping out.

I just couldn't deal with the
social isolation aspect of it.

I needed to be connected again
to people,

to my family, to my home.

It's been a really
beautiful time here.

I've had so many blessings.

And this competition
has made me understand that

I am
the Saskatchewan River Delta,

I am my home, I am my family,

and I really feel that
in my heart now.

It's really disappointing
to have to go home so early,

but this experience
has taught me

something even deeper
than I've ever known before.

Finally,
I can say "ninistohten"

because now,
I understand completely

how being Indigenous is more
than just living off the land.

We need community.
We need connection.

And I'm feeling
a really strong calling

to go home with a new sense
of how to share

what I know
about Cree culture.

I need to take people out
into nature,

onto the canoe trips,

and we can just
connect deeply to each other.

I came here to take care
of my family.

But now, I realize that
there's no way to separate us.

We're stronger together.

So I feel like I am
going home with a prize.

They're doing med check
sometime today.

I must be getting sick.

Kind of nervous.

How thorough is the med check?

My stomach
is feeling really lean.

I'm actually worried
about this med check.

OK, that's sore.

I've thought about
whether or not I should just

grit my teeth and fake it
through this check.

We need to officially extract
you for medical reasons.