Over the years, I have done all kinds of survival challenges
all over the world, but I just got a call
from the "Naked and Afraid" producers with the opportunity
to do something I have always dreamed about.
A 14-day no-tools challenge. That's right.
No blade, no fire starter, no pot, just my bare hands,
my primitive skills and my partner.
And if I'm gonna do something this extreme...
...there is only one person
that I want out there with me.
- Dan! - Ky!
Oh my gosh!
I can't believe that you and I get to do
another challenge together! - It's gonna be tough.
- We don't have any tools. - We're going to Thailand.
- It's monsoon season. - Brutal.
Like damp, wind, rain.
This one is a completely other level.
This is going to be
probably one of the hardest
"Naked and Afraid" challenges ever.
We're gonna be faced every single day, every hour
with problems we've never really had to face
because we've had these tools that we've been relying on.
We're gonna have to find really creative solutions
I've never had to do before. - Look at that!
That there, that is a knife, as simple as that.
This friction fire method I'm practicing,
it's called the bamboo fire saw.
It's not easy.
I am sitting here in a Thai airport,
and look who I found!
Are you ready?
- Mentally ready. - And a little terrified.
- A little terrified. - A little terrified.
Healthy amount of terror, right?
So welcome to No Tools in Thailand.
Every time we go in, I'm like, "What the hell am I doing?"
And we're going in with nothing.
That's the island we're going to?
Two times I've gone hypothermic on "Naked and Afraid"
challenges have been in jungles, in monsoons,
this time of year in these places.
What number is this for you?
- This is my eighth challenge. - Eighth challenge.
- Oh, he's massive. - Oh, my God.
So I was season one in Louisiana.
We're in trouble.
And then I did Naked and Afraid of Sharks.
Oh, my God! Huge reef shark.
I did "Naked and Alone."
I've done a "Frozen in Montana."
- Oh, my gosh! - Beauty.
I've done a "Last One Standing in Africa"
and a "Last One Standing in Australia."
Yes!
Ky is a survival consultant and former
Hollywood stunt performer.
She's an expert in friction fire and trap making
and begins the challenge with a primitive survival rating,
or PSR, of 9.7.
There's a lot of monumental problems to overcome
that our entire survival depends on.
We're not gonna have a fire starter.
We're not even gonna have a knife.
What are we gonna collect water in?
- Yeah. - That's enough.
That's scary to me.
This is gonna be my sixth "Naked and Afraid" challenge.
Started on a 14-day fan challenge.
Here we go. Here we go.
Yes! We got fire!
Whoo!
Huge snake.
Second one, 21 days in the Chihuahuan Desert.
Oh, my freaking God!
Yes!
60 days in the Peruvian Amazon.
Are you serious? Oh, my God!
Then did two "Last One Standings."
And won the second one.
Yeah, you did it!
Yes! Whoo!
Oh, my God!
But this challenge is a whole new level.
Dan is a marine biologist
specializing in tropical environments.
He's a critical thinker with an uncanny ability
for problem solving.
He begins the challenge with a PSR of 10.0.
You ready?
This is gonna be the hardest one I've ever done.
Here we go.
If I'm going into a No Tools challenge,
I couldn't be happier than going in with Dan,
'cause I have seen how his problem solving mind works.
If we get through this,
it will set the bar for what's possible for primitive survival
on "Naked and Afraid" challenges.
- Very light. - Yep.
- Nothing in there. - Nothing.
- You ready? - I hope so.
- All right, let's go. - Let's do it, lady.
Located roughly 12 miles off the east coast of Thailand,
Koh Maphrao is a remote island exposed to the full force
of the region's violent monsoon season.
The island can receive up to 35 inches of rain a year,
but increasingly unpredictable rain patterns mean rainfall is
never guaranteed.
Dense bamboo forests thrive here,
swarming with relentless mosquitoes.
The forest floor crawls with stinging centipedes
and the deadly Siamese spitting cobra,
capable of spraying blinding venom
into the eyes of a threat.
But with no natural water source, dehydration will be
Ky and Dan's most critical concern.
- Whoo! - This is home.
This is quite rare, a rock.
This already has a sharp edge that we can do something with.
Definitely like an axe.
If anyone asks me what I would like in a survival situation,
the one item is always a blade.
And the reason for this is you can create almost anything
with a blade, and now that's taken out of the equation.
I do, however, manage to get myself a flake that I would
consider a blade asset out here.
I still reckon our priority is gonna be getting
this shelter up. Shall we find a good location?
I think we shall do that.
As I'm stepping foot on this beach,
all I can think of is everything that I have to do.
We're gonna need to set up some sort of shelter.
When it rains here, there's big,
quick monsoon bursts.
Shelter, it's gonna keep us dry and keep us non-hypothermic.
Without shelter, we're not gonna last out here.
Ooh, look.
- Ooh! - Coconuts.
Has it got water in it?
Yeah. You can hear water.
I mean, this is a big win, but this isn't the water source
we're hoping for. - OK.
Yeah.
The water situation here is not ideal.
We have some coconuts, but I mean, I don't know
how many fall out of the trees at night.
But now my biggest concern becomes shelter.
What about just this little flat area over here?
Like here?
- Between these two trees? - I mean, it's flat.
It wouldn't take a lot of clearing out,
so you think a long pole between these two trees.
I like that idea.
Without tools, Ky and Dan will build a lean-to
debris shelter using bamboo to create a frame
and adding layers of palm fronds to protect them
from the elements.
We picked our shelter location
because of the openness of the area.
We're gonna need to set up some sort of water catchment system.
That's gonna be one of the most important things,
and we can do that right near our shelter in this spot.
I'm OK with beginning to clear this if you wanna try
and find a long pole, maybe? - You read my mind.
I am gonna go get a big bamboo ridge pole for our shelter.
Oh.
Look at that.
I would not drink that.
I'm not putting that in my mouth without boiling it.
When you need to get water,
boiling is the easiest method, but we don't have anything
to boil it 'cause we don't have a pot.
On a regular challenge, I would look at this nasty hole
and be like, "I'm set, I'm wonderful, this is great,"
but this is basically useless.
At least for right now.
Like, we're not gonna be able to make a fire that quick
to boil it.
I'm not gonna be overconfident in our abilities and say
that we're gonna have fire right now.
It's gonna need to be coconuts.
Centipede!
One of the giant ones. Whoo, those ones?
Not good.
The Thai red dragon centipede is highly venomous
and formidable in size.
Growing up to 12 inches long, it's known
for its aggressive-defensive behavior
and an excruciating bite
that can be felt for five days.
This thing could take us out of the challenge.
I've been stung with a smaller one of these before,
and honestly, my thumb had pins and needles
for about two months.
So this is not something I wanna mess around with
in our bed space.
Oh, they're tough to bloody kill, though.
The head's off, and it's still trying to bite me.
Crazy beast.
This is useful.
Building a shelter with no tools is rough.
I mean, I don't have a machete to cut anything down.
- What have you found? - These are perfect.
They're just a little heavy.
Well, we just make sure we tie it up, lash it well.
- I'm already thirsty. - Yeah.
I gotta be careful.
The inner bark of this beach hibiscus
here is the strongest cordage
I've ever found in the plant kingdom.
It's absolutely incredible.
Ugh.
You want the longest, straightest piece you can
to get the cordage out of.
Never cut it with a rock before, though,
but all you really need to do is separate the inner bark.
That's why you want a nice, long piece.
Perfect.
Great.
I think with how heavy this is--
- Yep. - ...we're gonna need a middle
support beam anyway. - 100%.
We don't wanna make our own deadfall by accident
in the middle of the night.
Oh, look at how perfect this is.
That is so perfect.
Building a shelter with no tools
takes so much more planning and knowledge.
The only thing that's making this possible right now is
having Ky as a partner and both of us just being able
to come up with a plan quick
and agree on and then divide and conquer it.
Yeah. We need a machete.
Perfect! We can never have too
many.
God, it looks like we've got a shelter already.
We do.
We can start to put some debris on,
'cause we are gonna need a lot of these dead fronds
to keep this rain off us.
- Yeah. - Hopefully it'll rain.
Please rain!
First time in a challenge, I'm begging for rain.
The monsoon rains can be unpredictable out here,
so I am thinking of water.
I have some ideas for water catchments,
including a gutter style roof system,
which will catch and store a lot of water
and hopefully provide us with a good water source.
Cutting down live palms, it's easy
with a machete in the Amazon.
That is not easy here without any tools.
So we're using dry palms,
which requires more materials to make it waterproof.
- What you think so far? - I think it's beautiful.
It's fantastic.
I think that could actually keep us dry.
Day one of the very first No Tools Challenge
in "Naked and Afraid" history.
That is a pretty bomb-proof shelter, considering we're
out here on an island in Thailand in the middle
of monsoon season.
Shelter was one of my biggest concerns.
So I'm glad we had that need met.
Water is the next biggest concern.
We found some coconuts on the beach, but I'm worried
that we might not have enough.
And then I need a drink of water.
I gotta be careful with that.
You gotta drink when you feel thirsty,
because if you're thirsty, it's too late.
You're already dehydrated, right?
Yep. Just worry.
That's like the one biggest concern right now.
I am thirsty!
I'm trying to get into one of these damn coconuts.
This is why no tools is hard. I'm already feeling dehydrated.
These coconuts are so much energy to get into,
to get the water out.
And I feel like I'm losing a cup of water in order to get
a cup and a half out of this coconut.
Let's see if it even have [bleep] water in it.
God damn it!
Now we have to get another coconut!
Ugh! I need water.
I can't do this. For every drink of water.
If we don't have enough water when we're expending
so much energy trying to bash things with rocks
and not use any tools, you can get dehydrated so quick.
No!
[bleep] empty.
Without water, we're not gonna last out here.
Ugh!
2
Dan!
What?
I found another coconut. You never know, right?
There's--
I don't know.
Normally, when they fall on the ground,
they don't have that much water in 'em.
But I'm gonna try.
Let me see if there's water in it.
Yeah.
- There's water! - Yay!
Ooh!
You drink. You drink.
Mm.
It takes a lot of effort to get into these coconuts,
but taking my first sip of this water is amazing.
It's filled with electrolytes and other minerals
and obviously water, all these things that I really need.
But at the same time, I know it's not sustainable.
You can't just drink coconut water forever.
It'll give you the runs, and it could be very,
very unpleasant out here.
So it still just reminds me of the other things
we'd need to do to get water that's purified.
It does not look like any storm clouds building either.
We have such a clear day for monsoon season.
Holy cow.
This is a giant centipede, and this is where my head was.
That's a big one. That's a end up in--
hospital-for-free card.
But I have to kill.
Really big, over 15 centimeters in length,
maybe just cruising around by my head.
If I put my head on that, that would have been
extremely painful.
That could have even put me out of this challenge.
There's a lot of creepy crawlers in the jungle.
I wanna expend my energy on the water catchment system
before I try and expend my energy on fire,
as far as... - Yep.
...where I put my energy this morning.
I think it's important that we keep drinking.
How are you feeling? - Getting headach-y.
Yeah, me too. I've got a headache.
- OK, let's get these open. - Water has become the priority.
Fire is nice, but if it rains,
we wanna catch as much water as possible.
So our first plan is to build a gutter system for the shelter
to try and maximize any rain that we can get
out of the clouds.
Not a cloud on the bloody horizon,
but we'll get that up and then...
We'll just try.
The one [bleep] time I want rain.
During monsoon season, usually it downpours quick
and hard and it just lasts an hour or two.
So we're going to make a big gutter system.
It's gonna be an extension of our shelter.
Basically, we're thinking of halves of bamboo going down
into a bigger bamboo with holes in it that drain down
into bamboo reservoirs that can store all of our water.
OK, let's do something that's never been done before
on a challenge that's never been done before.
- Yes, Dan! - There we go.
Oh, that's great.
That's like two, three good gutters there
if we can break it off here somewhere.
Never before had to split it without a knife, but...
Ooh, we can shove a stick in that--
in that hole that it makes. - Yep.
And we can pull it through.
It'll be...
[bleep] yeah!
Yeah!
Whoo!
Look at that!
- Yeah! - Yes!
- Yeah. - I think we got enough, Dan.
Thirsty.
I'm already frothing at the mouth.
Yep. This is hot work.
I just need to rig up a little wall for the back.
You could shove it in here and tie it too.
Yeah, one there and then a wire stick.
The reason we're not rushing into fire is,
making fire in these conditions is gonna be really exhausting.
So we have to address the things
that we can't live without at the moment,
and at the moment, that is water.
I'm gonna put a beam down here which will raise
the bottom lip of the gutter, so rather having the gutters
going all the way to the ground,
they're just gonna rest on this shelf.
Eventually, we can put storage containers under here
that the water will drip into when it fills the gutters.
- Love it. - Just that.
- [bleep] thirsty again. - Yeah.
I feel like we're on the downward spiral
of the spirals right now.
Without a pot and a fire and a good water source,
we're just spiraling now.
I'm so impressed.
I really, really hope it works, is all.
I hope it [bleep] rains. I'm so thirsty.
Right now, we have a whole gutter system,
this whole beautiful thing.
But it's going into one tiny gutter.
And that probably holds maybe three, four liters of water.
So hopefully, then I can drill a little hole in the gutter
that can drain into this.
And ideally, when it rains,
this whole thing will fill with water.
All the rain should collect here,
go into this gutter system,
through this hole,
and into these bamboo reservoirs.
- We gonna get that rain. - Yeah.
Show it who's boss.
Well, we're as prepared for rain as you could
almost be, really.
Yep.
End of day two.
Let me tell you, if it rains, we are set.
And it's definitely our biggest concern out here.
I am so thirsty.
And it's dangerous to go to bed thirsty
on a "Naked and Afraid" challenge.
Like, you need to listen to your body and drink
when you need to drink, but it's not that easy.
We really, really, really need water.
I think we're both getting pretty dehydrated.
'Cause you need water.
You can't really do anything to, like, conserve the water
in your body other than sweat less.
So we have to, like, hedge our bets
and hope that it's gonna start raining soon.
So we put a lot of effort into building
this water catchment thing today.
My head is [bleep] throbbing.
I'm a little nervous about this, but crossing my fingers
this pays off.
[bleep] thirsty.
2 ♪
Another glorious, rainless day in paradise.
I mean, monsoons do come out of nowhere, but...
this weather's getting pretty desperate.
So my plan today is fire, fire, fire, fire.
I think this is good for the bow drill for now.
I made some beach hibiscus reverse braided cord for a bow
for a bow drill fire.
I've collected some dead beach hibiscus this morning
and a good bow drill stick.
If we can get fire, there's a chance that we might
be able to start boiling some water in bamboo.
It's not a hugely effective method, but it's better
than waiting for it to rain
or relying on these coconuts dropping, so, um...
fire would definitely be a game changer.
Ky and I have both made primitive fire many times,
but most of the time when you're doing friction fire,
you're in a nice dry environment,
you have the ideal materials,
but I've never made it in this environment,
in a humid rainforest.
Everything is impregnated with salt and moisture,
so I'm nervous. - Let's see what happens.
My main thing at the moment is to try and see if I can get it
to move smoothly and to see if I can start to create
some kind of heat out of the board and the spindle.
I don't know if that's just dust or if it's smoke
coming up there. What do you think?
I think you just started to get smoke at the end.
OK.
We will make fire.
I think...
I think we're gonna need to build a strap
because I can't get enough tension on it
with this short a bow. - Yeah, OK.
I'm just drenched from that little effort.
We don't have a lot of energy to burn,
so I need to figure out
pretty quickly what's working and what needs
more time to work.
So, bow drill, looking promising,
but needs a bit more work.
OK, so pull.
Just gotta keep tension on it. Let me pull you to me.
There we go. That's it.
There you go.
The reason I love the strap drill
is because it doesn't take as much energy and effort
to get a coal.
What it does take, however, is teamwork.
Keep that tension on it.
A bit more weight on the bearing block.
[bleep].
OK, so we've got dust, but it's too light in color,
so it's never gonna ignite.
So, that means either we're not putting enough pressure on it
or the materials aren't gonna produce what we need, so...
Every time I got to the point where I was putting
more pressure on it, it popped up.
Right, so maybe that is the fact that we don't have
an amazing bearing block.
Because the spindle wasn't straight and the coconut cap
bearing block isn't the best, Dan was having a little bit
of trouble about getting the correct weight on it,
and we couldn't even get any smoke.
What we are competing against here is the environment,
and nothing is ideal.
Oh, this is not gonna work.
I'm gonna have to go back to the drilling board, I think,
I can go look for some fire saw supplies.
Yeah. I'm gonna look around
and see what I can figure out.
We're new to this environment.
We're still understanding the materials, so there's a lot
of problem solving that's gonna have to go into
this fire making.
It's all about problem solving.
This stuff, if it holds an ember really well,
would be a perfect asset to have.
If you pull apart the fishtail palm,
there's this powdery material
in between the palm fronds that if you collect it
and put a spark into it, it can hold the ember.
I tried this a million times at home, and I couldn't get it.
I've practiced the bamboo fire saw at home, and it involves
a hearth board, and you're gonna move that
back and forth in a sawing motion over a saw,
which is another piece of bamboo, creating friction.
Thought is the hot ash will come up,
collect on the bamboo tinder that you have there,
and create a nice little coal.
You're doing good.
That's good. Oh, the board's splitting.
It's all right.
It's not even burnt-through.
But it's getting some good color, so we know
we need a tougher bottom bit.
I'm trying as hard as I can, putting all of my muscle
into it, and I am barely getting smoke.
- Are we through yet? - No.
OK.
This method sucks. I think I need a drink first.
Yeah, I'll get this open for you.
It's so much more exhausting than it looks.
It looks exhausting.
Definitely a calculated risk
with these friction fire methods.
We are sweating our asses off and burning a ton of energy,
and all that sweat's just making us more and more
dehydrated and we don't have enough water to keep us going
in the coconuts.
A little nerve-wracking, though, 'cause I still have
never been in this position in a challenge on day three
where, you know, all of your needs
are not fully secured.
Until then, we're gonna keep trying to make fire.
This looks like a piece of really good fine-grained rock.
I mean, it's almost looking like flint.
You can see that the outside has been slightly oxidized
with a bit of iron because of the reddish color.
It's probably looking like the purest bit
of flint potential we found out here.
I found a piece of flint on the beach that seemed
to have an iron oxide coating.
And what I do know is,
flint and iron can make a spark.
If this has a really strong iron oxide crust,
it might actually produce something.
I can't see it in daytime, but it smells like it.
I can smell it here. It smells like a match.
- Smell that? - Yeah, yeah.
Flint is what the cowboys used to use.
They'd, like, strike their knives or a bit
of steel off it. - Mm-hmm.
But we're going even pre-steel
with the way we're existing.
Yeah, we're back to the Stone Age here.
- It's sparking! - Amazing!
- Oh, that was a strong one! - Did you see that?
- Did you see it? - Yeah.
Come on. You're sparking.
Just give me the right one.
- I'm curious to try this out in the dark. - Mm.
- Go to get it on the way down. - And see where all the sparks are flying.
Yeah.
Dan and I can smell that we're getting a spark,
but we just can't see it.
We decide that this method is probably best left
till nighttime, where we can see the spark
and aim it into a good tinder bundle.
All right, tinder bundle's ready.
Night three.
We are...
trying fire starting again with the flint method,
with the iron oxide crust on the other flint chunks.
I mean, I can smell 'em.
Both Ky and I are exhausted
and dehydrated and depleted, but cautiously optimistic.
See if you can catch these sparks.
Oh, wait, I've got it. Oh, yeah.
- Yep. - Yeah?
Yeah, yeah. You can see them really easily.
Wow, look at that!
- Amazing! - OK.
- Now that we can see 'em... - Yeah, you know
how to direct them.
I almost got it.
It caught for a half a bit, I don't know.
I'm getting great sparks,
but they're not catching on that fluff.
You are getting some good sparks there.
Oh, my goodness.
Yeah! Oh, my God!
Oh, my goodness!
Dan!
2 - Oh, my God!
Oh, my goodness!
Dan!
Oh, my goodness!
- Holy cow! - We did it!
Oh, get it under there! Get it under there!
Quick! Keep blowing!
Oh, my gosh! Get it in there!
Just put it under.
Oh, my goodness! Whoo!
- Holy cow! - We did it!
- Oh, my goodness. - Whoo!
OK, now let's just keep this down 'cause this is
our roof that's gonna go.
- Whoo! - We did it!
Final puzzle piece!
- Oh, my God! - Now it looks like home!
We've got our big shelter up. Bomb proof.
Water catchment system. Fire!
On the night of night three!
I'm so happy. That's food.
That's water. That is sustainability.
And we did it with our bare hands.
- Good night, my dear. - Good night.
Well done. Sleep well.
Let's have some breakfast.
I want some roast coconut and hermit crab, please.
Now we have fire.
My new favorite thing to do is hunt the big hermit crabs.
The jungle's just alive with these cheeky little buggers.
That's so cute.
Honestly, I can't think of a cuter crab
that I've ever seen in my life.
But I'm starving, and I gots to eat.
Check out the size of this one, Ky.
Amazing.
That's like almost two mouthfuls.
Yeah, look at all that meat. Just like a lobster.
- That's like a solid claw. - Yeah.
Gooier than I expected.
It's like that poop sack, in lobsters, you know?
I thought maybe the heads would be delicious, like lobsters.
They taste like stomach bile, but the little back shrimp part
of the body, but sort of like this juicy liquid pop
of shrimp flavor.
That was delicious.
Now that we got fire, we know we can boil water,
but we've been conceptualizing how.
But we still don't have containers that you can boil
water in that won't fracture, so it's a little bit harder
to figure that out.
We don't have very many coconuts,
so we're trying to figure out what we need to do.
What I'm praying for is rain.
Not a cloud in this beautiful sky.
Excuse me. I'll be back.
OK.
Apparently, man cannot live on coconuts alone.
We've both got to the stage where
the amount of hydration we're getting from the coconuts
themselves are being waylaid by the effects on our stomachs.
So once you start to get an upset stomach,
then the water's not staying in.
How was it?
Just milky water coming from my butt.
Oh, no.
Oh...
What?
I think I have to go out to the beach
and go to the bathroom. - Uh-oh.
Yep.
Very uncomfortable.
I think maybe the coconuts have got to him.
Are you all right?
Yeah.
OK.
I just had one of the worst poop experiences of my entire life.
I think I went to the bathroom 16 times in one session,
just like groaning in agony.
Oh.
- Are you OK? - Barely.
- That was so unpleasant. - Oh, I'm sorry.
The diarrhea just came straight through me.
Oh, my God.
Like, just, I swear, milky white,
just like the coconut water.
Oh, and I had like waves of nausea,
I had to push it out. Oh, my God, that was terrible.
Don't wanna do that again.
This coconut water, it's coming in
just as fast as it's going out.
And it's making me nervous.
I can't believe we're this late in the challenge
and we still haven't gotten purified water.
We have to secure some other water source.
God, now I don't wanna drink more coconut water.
2 I had a rough moment last night.
These coconuts are not doing my system well.
And while they still taste delicious,
I'm wanting to drink them less and less.
I need to find another source of hydration.
- Just rain! - I know, I know.
It's monsoon season out here right now in Thailand,
but climates around the world have been super unpredictable,
and this is proving to be that as well.
It's been dry for days, and the rain is our source
of fulfilling one of our major, major, major needs right now,
which is water.
Dan and I have decided to check out whether
the fresh water source that he found the other day
is brackish or not.
- Fresh. - Fresh.
All right.
Test number two is creating a water container
to boil in.
Let me look over here.
I'm gonna take another look at the bamboo grove today.
And I think we're gonna be able to find some that are still
hung up, but sort of freshly dead,
that aren't all splintered.
I know you can boil in green bamboo,
but with no tools,
trying to cut into green bamboo can be extremely dangerous.
When it's splintered, it's just like dealing
with a bunch of little razor blades.
So I wanna see first if this works with dead bamboo.
- What about this one here? - Here's the thicker end.
It looks quite solid.
We can burn right through on either side of a node,
over here and over here.
And then I would have this nice container.
I would bash through one of the nodes right here,
and I would have a whole big vessel.
I might be able to just boil in it.
That'd be a good lot of water, too.
Now that we have fire,
we can use fire to cut those into drinking vessels
and vessels to boil water. - Hot coals coming your way.
The plan is to build a fire right here
and then burn through the center of every other section.
In a minute, when this is more burnt through,
I'll pick up that end and try to break it.
OK.
- Oh, beautiful. - Yeah, we burnt it.
Probably not the best day for us to be working with fire
in this heat with the amount we're sweating out,
just even standing here.
But we don't have much choice in the matter.
This is what we have to do this day to kind of ensure we're
gonna continue to survive out here.
Fire is causing stress fractures in the bamboo,
which could spell death to a container to boil water in.
- Huh. - I feel a little worried.
We're at a really high-risk versus reward scenario
right now.
And if we've taken this higher risk and we don't get
any reward, then our chances of survival in this scenario
go downhill very quickly.
All right, Dan, the moment of truth.
Please let something work for water.
To boil this water, we're going to tie the open end
of the bamboo up and angle it down, and the entire section
that has water in it will be right over the flames.
All right, here we go.
Cross your fingers and toes.
I'm crossing everything.
Once that's boiled, it should be pretty nice.
I've drank plenty worse water.
Please work.
Ooh, it's warming up.
Like, I can feel the difference in the temperature there.
I think it's starting to steam as well.
It just needs to get hot enough to boil because it takes
upwards of 70 degrees Celsius to kill all viruses
and pathogens that are gonna make us sick in that water.
Yeah.
- Oh, is the pot on fire? - Yep.
Could you help me really quick?
- Yeah. - Kind of see
where it's tied there.
- Yeah. - I'm gonna just, like,
rotate it.
- Thanks. - Should we put it out?
I mean, it's gonna catch on fire.
Ooh.
- Yeah, hear that? - Yeah.
Check out the size of this split.
It's huge. These kind of stress fractures,
exactly what I'm worried about.
Water-- it's already wet here, which means water is coming out.
It's leaking. [bleep].
- Badly? - Yeah.
OK. How close are we to boil?
- Not close enough. - All right.
I don't think it's done. I don't think it's gonna work.
[bleep].
Yeah, we best get it off the fire.
.
Ugh. All that energy we burnt today.
Seriously.
God damn it!
I don't think there's any other time
in my entire "Naked and Afraid" career where I've been
afraid like this, that I might not make it
to the end of a challenge.
My stomach's gonna pay for this tonight.
That I might have to be tapped out for dehydration
is very, very scary.
It's the afraid part of "Naked and Afraid"
is hitting me right now.
And there are very few times I've experienced that,
to be honest.
It was so close.
This place is just a hellscape!
It's a crazy storm, wherever it is.
It sounds like it's coming from the south.
Yeah, I think.
More rain!
Is it raining?
Real rain?
Like a little bit.
That it's rain.
- Whoo! - Oh, my God!
- Finally raining! - Oh, my goodness!
- Whoo! - Whoo-hoo-hoo!
2
That is rain!
Whoo!
- Oh, my God! - It's finally raining!
Oh my goodness! Whoo!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Rainin' for real now.
So far, the shelter's holding up.
I'm hoping our rain traps are filling up.
Check it out.
Oh, it's working! Yes!
Oh, my God.
Dan, we-- we did it! Look at this!
- Oh, my God, you have to try it. - Yeah.
Amazing!
I love it when a good theory works.
This is the rain we needed.
Yeah!
Yay!
We're at the halfway point today.
We're at day seven.
It hasn't rained once up until now.
It's possible it won't rain once up until we leave.
We needed this thing to work right the first time,
and it worked, and worked perfectly,
and I could not be more happy.
I mean, we're not out of the woods,
if it never rains again, but--
- You like the water? - Yeah.
Yum, that's good.
I'll drink this one and give it back.
All right.
Finally, I'm feeling hydrated, which is making me feel good.
I feel strong. My mind is in it.
And I'm excited for the rest of this challenge.
There are a ton of crabs in the intertidal area here,
which is a great food source.
So I wanna make a spear to be able to dab them.
- Whoa. - Perfect.
- Look at that. - Boom!
- That went really well. - It's great.
With this bamboo, I'm making a four-pronged spear.
You take the end of it, split it two ways with a rock,
in this case, normally a knife.
Put down some sticks as wedges to spread the four prongs apart
and tie it shut.
This creates four different points that are spread apart,
giving you a lot more surface area to be able
to catch something.
Pow!
Might as well test this out.
Got one.
- Got him. - Got him.
Delicious.
Look at all these crabs. We're eating good.
We are into the thriving stage now.
We are spreading out,
taking advantage of the resources around us,
and eating like champs.
Like, we feel like we are completely set right now.
We know we can thrive out here.
We have fire, food, shelter, water.
It really feels like we've made it.
Cheers.
Gonna have a little sip of this water before we go to bed,
you want some? - Yeah [bleep].
So we've just discovered that the water in our reservoirs
has become stagnant or gone off somehow.
I mean, it smells kind of bad. It tastes a little bit funny.
And I'm actually really worried.
I mean, stagnant water,
is that gonna make us sick? - It's not great.
Like maybe bacteria that could grow in it
because it's stagnant, right?
Yeah, correct.
I can't believe we're still battling this water situation.
Tomorrow, we're gonna have to start building our raft
if we wanna get out of here.
And in this heat and sun, it's gonna require
a lot of hydration.
I'm actually getting pretty concerned
that if we don't sort this water situation out soon,
we might not even make it to the end.
Ugh!
2 ♪
Today we start our raft build,
which is going to be an exhausting project.
It's gonna be a long, hot day to harvest
raft materials. - Yeah, it is.
It's heating up already.
The water in our reservoir is starting to smell
and taste a bit off.
And drinking stagnant water is one of the riskiest things
you could do on a challenge. So we are praying for rain.
If we just get one good rain now,
it could fill up everything
and we can really just concentrate our focus
on the task at hand, which is to get off this island.
Let's do a drawing.
What we were imagining is five
to six pieces of bamboo plus the two outriggers.
This raft that we're building is going to be
like a catamaran.
It's going to have five or six pieces of long bamboo
in the middle that we sit on, a beam in front and a beam
in back, connecting to two stabilizers,
one on either side.
And that will help us maintain stability in the open ocean
and stay buoyant.
I think it'll move through the water better as well.
- Oh, absolutely. - OK.
- Yep. - Good plan.
You can build a raft with tools.
I've done this many times before.
It really does require a saw or a knife, but I do think part
of the key of Dan and I being able to get to this level
of success is our problem-solving
and adaptability.
Fire is our only tool we need today.
We're going to use the fire method
to cut the pieces of bamboo.
Right there.
We've already collected a bunch of cordage.
All we need to do is burn the pieces to the right size
and lash 'em together, and I think we're gonna have
a nice ocean-going raft.
There's one.
- One down. - Seven to go.
Dan's brilliant plan of two at a time.
Jesus! How's the penis?
Fine.
She's durable. What can I say?
Trying to do all this without being hydrated
makes me a bit nervous,
especially in this heat of the day.
Yeah.
And then that's five wide.
Plenty of room for us to sit in the middle.
This is a part you don't wanna just phone in.
When we've left this island, our lives will depend
on how much attention to detail we've done now,
and I'm gonna overkill it.
All right.
Welcome to your evacuation vehicle.
Beautiful.
I just need a second. I gotta hydrate.
Yeah, why don't you sit for a second?
It has been a hell of a day, but it is really concerning.
You can see there's not a rain cloud in the sky.
There is not a cloud in the sky again.
Say we try to boil this again in dead bamboo,
but not let it catch on fire.
We've got a brutal extraction coming up
and we really need water.
And it's not a really smart survival strategy to just hope
to the gods for more rain.
So we need to pivot now and figure out how to fix this.
We know that you can boil water in bamboo,
just not exactly sure how.
Yeah, I guess as long as it's suspended over coals,
not over the flame.
Well, how far off the coals do you think it should be?
I think a couple of inches off the coals.
Otherwise, the heat's not gonna be enough, I don't think.
If we apply heat to the casing without flame, we've got a good
chance of getting a boil.
What do you think about that?
I think it looks good.
I also think a smaller container is probably better,
'cause it's gonna be able to heat the water up faster,
and then it's not as susceptible
to the heat for as long.
- Uh-oh. - What?
It started to split a little bit.
Oh, no.
Even though it wasn't on flames,
but I just raise it up a little higher.
We can go even slower.
OK.
Oh, gosh.
- This is desperation right here. - See the splits?
Yeah.
Stress fractures.
I'm really trying not to get my hopes up.
Normally, heading into extraction, you're hoping
for a big protein win,
but this is the first time in any of my challenges
where we just need water.
- Water is very hot, though. - Is it?
- It burns me, yeah. - Amazing.
Ky and I are sitting by this fire, dehydrated,
I'm feeling headach-y again,
and everything is riding on getting this water
to boil right now.
It's leaking a little bit.
Just don't look at the back, Dan.
Just don't look at the back.
I think we're about to have a burst.
2 Welcome to "What Kind of Survivalist Are You,"
the bed edition. We have two options here.
Firstly, we have the more minimalist approach,
which is just
some bamboo slats off the ground.
It's pretty uncomfortable.
So it's minimalist, took me no effort at all,
and I can sleep pretty well throughout the night.
Next, we're going to introduce you to the Dan Link special.
I am a fluffy, wonderful bed of sand
with a coconut husk hip divot... - Ooh!
...extending at least eight inches down,
cushioning your hip like you were
on a pillow-top mattress.
This comes with a slight risk of scorpion and centipede,
but a tenfold return in sleep productivity.
Those, folks, are your two options.
Are you a uncomfortable bamboo minimalist?
Or are you a pillow-top sand, comfort artist?
Take your pick.
2 - See the splits? - Yeah.
Stress fractures. It's leaking a little bit.
I think we're about to have a burst.
Are we?
It sounds like it's boiling though.
- Can you hear that bubbling? - Yeah.
- I think that is boiling. - You think?
Yeah.
- Oh, it is bubbling. - Yes!
Boiling water!
All the pathogens and bacteria and viruses are now destroyed.
Yay! That's huge.
That's another day of living out here, Dan.
- Easy. - Good job!
That's a big relief.
I am so proud that we can boil water.
I'm not worried about rationing water for the first time
in this challenge.
That...
means we can thrive. - OK.
No matter what the weather does, we've got water handled.
Now we can drink water, we can be hydrated,
and we're set.
We've got everything we need now for extraction.
What does it taste like?
It tastes like bathwater, leaves, and sustainability.
All right!
Time to go.
Thank you for keeping us warm from day three.
It's always bittersweet leaving these places,
because you've basically set up a home.
And I made it with no tools, so that just makes it
even better.
All right.
- Whoo! - Whoo!
Nice.
All right, well, she floats for now.
The way I think, it's not over till it's over.
I've had too many extractions where I feel like
I only just made it out. So I'm nervous about the raft.
I'm nervous about these bamboo poles lasting 'cause we just
had to pick them up off the ground
rather than chop new ones for ourselves.
So I'm concerned they might be rotten,
and I'm worried that Dan and I
are gonna end up swimming out there.
She seems solid.
So I just think we head out
into one of these deep channels and shipping lanes.
- I mean, that's our best bet. - That's our only bet.
Without a map, Ky and Dan must paddle across three miles
of open ocean to the nearest shipping lane.
With rough seas and winds gusting up to 25 knots,
they'll have to time their route perfectly in order
to locate their rescue vessel and signal for help.
If they miss it, they could drift for days.
All right. Let's get out there.
Tide's coming in, so we might need to paddle
quite strongly to get out.
It is more windy out here!
These waves are getting bigger.
I'm glad we put these stabilizers on.
These waves are getting crazy!
We're working hard to get out into this shipping lane.
The closer we get into the open ocean,
the bigger the waves get.
They're smashing our raft around,
and I'm hoping she'll hold.
Let's get to extraction.
I am going as strong as I can.
Ooh.
It's so hot out here.
And we're getting dehydrated quickly in the sun.
Yeah, I'm tired.
Oof!
- Dan, is that sails? - Something.
- It's sails! Whoo! - Whoo!
- Over there! - Yeah!
Oh, they've seen us! They're waving!
Yay, Dan!
It's this big steel-hulled sailboat,
and it is veering straight towards us.
Whoo!
We realize this is what's going to bring us to rescue,
and we are just beside ourselves.
- Whoo! - Thank you!
We've been on that island for a while!
- Weeks! - For weeks!
Yeah! Whoo!
Dan! Whoo!
- We did it! - Whoo!
- Yes! - Oh, my God.
No Tools Challenge completes!
We crushed it!
These 14 days were the most challenging I faced
since I started my "Naked and Afraid" journey.
I've been picturing this moment
for months and months and months now.
I've been calling myself a primitive survivalist
for six, seven years now.
And I've learned a lot about surviving out here.
Yes! Yes!
Whoo!
But year one of that, I don't think I would have been able
to handle this challenge. It required a lot of knowledge.
Ky and I came out here, and we're so aligned
with no tools.
It didn't come without struggle.
It didn't come without challenges and having to find
novel solutions to all these different problems.
But we were able to thrive.
We've turned what was completely unknown,
what was thought to be nearly impossible
into the possible.
Dan lost 16 pounds and maintains his perfect
primitive survival rating of 10.0.
Completing this challenge brings his total survival days
to 199.
- I'm so proud of you. - I'm proud of you.
I'm proud of us.
Oh,
The best partner I could have asked for.
- Me too. - Undisputed queen
of "Naked and Afraid" right here.
Well, I don't know about that.
It was so much harder to meet every single basic need
without a tool.
Yeah, baby!
Everything that could take minutes with tools took hours,
even days, without them.
There are a lot of things that made Dan and I
a really strong team.
We both try and see the positive of the worst situation.
I've never seen lightning like that.
Dan, you did it!
I think our partnership has evolved nicely.
This challenge has just strengthened those bonds
and shown us both that we can rely on each other
for anything.
We are capable of living without anything.
It's just the doubt of ourselves that prevents us from trying.
You decide the path you wanna walk.
I did that. I can do anything.
Ky lost six pounds, and her PSR rises to 9.9.
Her total survival days completed climbs to 155.
- Yeah! Whoo! - Whoo!
[bleep] yeah!
No Tools Challenge complete!