[dramatic music]
♪
[Person] I'm slowly dying.
How far can I go?
♪
[Aaron] Oh, my God, I got my chance.
♪
[Person] The "Alone" World Championship.
- Ugh!
[Person] Doesn't get any better.
Got him.
[Person] Going up against some of the world's
best bushcrafters.
Fire!
- This ain't a beauty pageant. This is a survival challenge.
[Person] It takes a little bit of insanity
to wanna stay out here alone.
[Person] Ah!
[Person] Bear.
[yells]
- But I think I might have that little bit of insanity.
[laughs]
♪
[Person] We are in one of the most
harsh environments on the planet.
[Person] The Beaufort Delta,
in the shadow of the Richardson Mountains.
- Yeah!
[Person] 125 miles into the Arctic Circle.
[Ziga] I am so far away from the place I belong to.
[Person] Whoa!
[Booth] There's gonna be a bitch slap of reality.
- This place is [bleep] brutal.
[Person] Being alone out here, it changes you.
You do lose your mind.
But maybe you find some of your soul as well.
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
[Person] What a day to be alive.
♪
- This terrain is [bleep] brutal.
[groans]
[whimpers]
- Perfect.
- Ooh.
- Beautiful ivrulik.
Amazing.
Hunting a female with the son is not allowed.
I hope I can get another shot.
Awesome.
♪
[Person] Yes!
[Aaron] Sorry, dude.
[animal squeaking] - Shh.
Trap line produces.
First solid meal.
We're on the right path.
♪
[David] Man, I [bleep] miss my wife and kids.
♪
I am officially tapping out.
There's not a thing in the world
worth trading time with your family.
♪
[Andrew] This is the World Challenge of "Alone."
So as a Welshman, I'm flying the flag
for our ancestral skills in a way that nobody's done before.
This is about as surreal as it can get.
[Poldi] I think if you're a part of any first ever,
it's pretty exciting.
But could be an easy win or it could be impossible.
- Hopefully I won't see that thing for quite a while.
I want to prove that the United States
is better than anybody.
♪
[Aaron] [bleep] Arctic Circle.
Day one, man.
Holy [bleep].
[laughs] I gotta stop swearing.
- Whoo-hoo!
[helicopter whirring]
♪
Nice one.
♪
[laughs]
All alone.
Crazy [bleep], man.
They dropped me off in [bleep] middle of nowhere.
[laughs]
Oh, man, alone.
[laughs]
[shouting] You hear that?
[chuckles]
[sighs]
[grunts]
[sighs]
I'm here.
It's happening.
So many mosquitoes here.
[grunts] Well...
[bleep] loads of them.
Okay, first things first.
Let's do some exploring.
♪
The first thing to do is obtain data.
It's not hot yet.
It's a scientific approach,
seeing what is out there and looking for the resources.
A lot of Labrador tea.
[bleep] flies.
They will eat me alive.
♪
[grunts]
Ooh,
it would be so amazing to do some fishing.
♪
Oh, [bleep].
Bear.
[tense music]
♪
And a wolf, a big one.
Nice one.
And another footprint.
♪
And more and more and more.
There are so many footprints all over the place.
But I'm definitely not afraid of wolves and also bears,
because I'm quite used to being in the wilderness.
Look at this.
Super huge wolf.
Gosh.
But maybe I underestimate how it is
when the big guys are coming.
So it might change if I have a lot of encounters with bears
and they are not so pleasant as they are in Slovenia.
Look at this guy.
Black bear.
And wolves and bears and wolves.
Wow. And all these [bleep] flies.
In my ears, in my eyes.
I never saw so big ones in Slovenia.
Bah!
♪
Slovenia is definitely one of the wildest countries
in Europe.
One of the most common footprints.
Bears.
More than 60% is forest and it's still quite intact.
Forest, forest, forest.
So me and my brother went to the forest just as kids.
We fell in love for this outdoor life.
So we actually started a survival school back in 2014.
We are really focused on to build from scratch
everything they need to survive.
If I win half a million dollars,
I would definitely increase our survival school,
Gozdovnistvo bushcraft and survival school in Slovenia.
[man speaking Slovenian] [laughter]
And maybe buy a small property out in the woods
where my family could spend their time.
They are my inspiration.
My wife, she's super stubborn and she doesn't give up.
[baby laughs]
I would also like to show my son what he might achieve
if he really goes for something.
As fish biologist, I have advantage
over other participants.
I understand how fish are moving,
what kind of food they are looking for.
Whoo-hoo!
I'm very proud to represent Slovenia,
coming from one very small country,
and I would like to show
it doesn't matter where you're coming from.
- Show them who's the boss.
[Ziga] If you're really passionate about something...
See you guys!
You can succeed.
Ooh,
look at these guys.
Might be a place for my temporary shelter.
Whew.
A really nice spot.
It's much better without flies.
And basically, it's like a flat shelf.
And I have a really,
really nice view down to the river.
So basically, I could set my fish lines
and just observe them while I'm doing other stuff up here.
Another thing is it's a really nice shooting range.
Will be sufficient for a couple of days.
And later on, I will look for more permanent shelter.
And now, guys, I'm super thirsty.
It's time to start preparing water that I will drink.
We are here in lowland.
And water, it has a lot of different
parasites and bacteria.
So treating water is really important.
But I don't have a ferro rod to make fire easily.
These rubber boots are luckily waterproof,
so I will just fill one completely with water.
Luckily, I have a very cool technique
to get drinkable water.
And this can give me advantage
because I can go without fire for a very long time.
Okay.
I will use my shemagh.
Actually, I could use also T-shirt or whatever.
So the idea is, if you put it like here
and you leave it like this, you realize that at some point,
water will get up to higher point.
So I let it get over here
and into the pot.
When water travels through this shemagh
or any piece of cloth,
this is actually the principle of capillarity.
And you can see it's getting wet and it's spreading.
And the point is that water and very, very small particles
can travel easier than bigger particles.
So it's filtering.
And I might speed it up to make it double.
And I know from my previous experiences
it is gonna be good enough for drinking.
Look at that color difference.
In Slovenia, I have been out in the wild
for so many times without ferro rod.
And for me, this competition is not only about winning.
It's also about testing my skills
and showing to the world that you can do anything
with less gear.
Look at this. Nice.
♪
Cheers, guys.
[gulping]
♪
- All right.
Well, I'm here.
I wanna go check some stuff out,
but I gotta get my gear organized first.
I don't wanna lose anything.
One of the first things I'm gonna do
is create a strap here
for my Leatherman.
Yeah, I've only been here friggin' 20 minutes,
and I'm already like, okay, don't lose your stuff.
Don't lose your stuff.
I lose my multi-tool, I'm just done.
Game's over.
Put a loop here in the end.
♪
There we go.
That's the no lose plan.
Put everything back.
♪
Got my bow.
And I think I'm just gonna walk,
you know, see what I can find.
♪
Wow.
This is happening right now.
That's crazy.
Ha, yeah!
Made a perfect shot.
My name is David Booth.
I don't really know if I could have hit him better.
I grew up in Palmer, Alaska.
Good morning, sir.
I was a high school principal.
I bring the wilderness with me everywhere that I go.
I just recently retired.
I loved my job because I was able to make a difference.
But now I need another challenge.
I need something to push me as hard as I can be pushed.
In my 52 years in Alaska,
this is what I was raised to do.
Every time I go into the woods, really, I'm going home.
I've been a hunter my entire life.
I've hunted every animal that walks this land.
I owned a fishing guide service for 23 years.
I've caught every fish that swims in this water.
This area is my backyard.
That's a huge advantage.
One snowshoe hare.
I've been snaring since I was a kid.
I recently moved to Mountain View, Hawaii.
I'm trying to live sustainably.
$500,000--that provides me
the rest of my life with adventure.
This is the first "Alone" World Championship.
I'm representing America.
That's gonna push you even harder.
I don't see myself being anywhere but the winner.
♪
There's a pretty heavy trail right here.
I think I'm just gonna head back this way.
We're here at fall time.
Look at this bank.
It's beautiful.
Looks like I got a decent spot to fish.
As far as the animals here,
it's probably the most dangerous part of the year.
Caribou are coming into rut.
They're full of adrenaline.
And grizzly bears are trying to get full before wintertime.
They're hunting the same animals.
Beaver.
Like to find him.
Winter's coming, and they're gonna do
whatever they can to prepare for it.
I gotta boil some water. I'm thirsty.
I haven't drank yet, so I'm gonna do that right now.
♪
Just gonna make a little spot for a fire.
♪
My end goal at the end of this
is to see how hard I can push myself.
This is a personal challenge.
♪
This is a world championship contest.
I believe that us in the West
have a considerable advantage because
our life is based on practice and not theory.
♪
Some of the competitors are very highly skilled.
They've been to fairs. They've been to camps.
They've watched YouTube videos.
They've made all kinds of cool stuff in their backyard.
But, um,
there's gonna be a bitch slap of reality in a month.
♪
[rustling]
What was that?
♪
Oh, [bleep].
My ferro rod.
I gotta get it out.
Damn it!
[tense music]
- My ferro rod's on fire.
[bleep].
Damn it!
♪
It turned to ash.
This is real [bleep] bad.
♪
I can't light a fire.
♪
This is a [bleep] taco. [grunts]
♪
Well, I was that guy.
I'm that guy.
♪
I started my fire,
set my ferro rod off to the right,
and forgot I set it there for so long,
and I burned my ferro rod up.
That's gonna make it pretty damn tough
for me, you know.
That's gonna make it pretty tough.
I need my ferro rod as much as I need anything.
I'm in the Arctic. I gotta have fire.
I can't drink this water. I can't cook my food.
I can't heat my tent. And I did it immediately.
Oh, [bleep].
I can't believe it.
I said I can't lose my stuff.
And I know that about myself. I lose things.
[groans]
All I had to do was tie it to my waist like my multi-tool.
♪
I only got, like, an inch of ferro rod.
That's not going to last very long.
♪
Bow and drill is not one of my best skills,
and not something I was planning on
leaning on when I got out here.
I guess I'm Friction Fire Dave from now on.
[bleep].
♪
[exhales]
Welcome to my world.
There's lots of good-looking material.
I think I'll go for a small walk,
just grab my bow,
and see what I can and can't see.
But it looks great.
It looks really good.
So excited.
♪
I can't believe that I am here.
I know that there's so much to do,
but I keep telling myself just to slow down,
like, keep things nice and simple right now,
and just focus.
Just got to the first bit of mud,
probably 50 meters away from where I got dropped off.
Bunch of tracks here.
Best of all, caribou tracks.
Right next to them
are bear tracks.
Not that fresh, but fresh enough.
I live in New Zealand.
I have zero experience with grizzly bears.
[clicks tongue]
♪
We shot a massive, massive Chamois buck.
The odds I was fighting to even get a shot
into this guy is just so lucky.
Super stoked.
I was brought up in New Zealand on a small farm.
Just out here doing a bit of daily exercise.
I live on the West Coast
of the South Island of New Zealand.
That's where I started to just enjoy
and appreciate the fresh air
and the excitement of adventure.
I probably spend close to 100 nights away from home hunting.
I believe bowhunting is my bread and butter, for sure.
That's what I live for.
I remember getting my first compound bow when I was 13.
I shot my first deer with it,
and then it was just a real floodgates open.
I wanted to partake in this competition
to build my mental game.
This is the perfect environment
to push it to the very, very edge.
It's unreal.
I've got an amazing view of the mountains.
I still live at home with my parents,
and they support me greatly.
Having the chance to win this large amount of money
to help out my family-- that would be phenomenal.
To represent New Zealand on a world stage
is definitely nothing but excitement and pride.
I believe I've got more than enough
of what it will take to be the last person, for sure.
♪
I'll make some snares.
And just trying to avoid getting bitten by bugs
or getting sunburnt is today's task.
One of the biggest priorities of what I need to do,
it's mainly food.
It's a blue sky and it's a beautiful day.
I'm not worried about rain.
So instantly, I'm gonna go out
and try to get something for dinner tonight.
[mumbles]
My first bit of protein.
A mosquito.
Everything counts out here.
I need to have as much food as I possibly can because I know
I'm gonna need quite a lot to sustain myself,
sustain my body to be here.
Let the games begin,
and let the hardest [bleep] here be crowned champion.
Okay, maybe set out 20 or 30 snares just around here.
[softly] I see something.
Ptarmigan feeding on the water's edge.
♪
No way.
I'm gonna go put a stalk on them.
They definitely know I'm here.
We'll see what I can do.
♪
[bow thuds]
Missed.
♪
Come on down, buddy.
♪
[bow thuds] Got him.
Well, that was rather exciting.
I just headshot my first ever grouse.
Oh, man, I'm so excited.
This place, this is gonna be it.
♪
Kind of means a lot early on in the game.
You know, it's only one bird,
but now I've got feathers to make lures and flies,
bones to make needles,
and a little bit of protein for the next couple of days.
♪
Stoked.
What a way to start this competition off.
Wow.
[dramatic music]
♪
- Good morning.
Took me a long time to fall asleep
because of my screw up yesterday.
Yeah, I--
I'm trying to estimate just how many fires
I can start with what I got left.
I can start quite a few.
One thing I gotta do is
I'm not the best friction fire starter.
So I think today,
today I'm gonna have to work a little bit better
on a shelter so I have a really good area
inside that shelter to make fire.
I thought my whole thing out here
would be food and shelter,
but now fire becomes just as important.
♪
God, I wish I wouldn't have done that.
♪
I'm gonna move this stuff over, clear this land,
and just get started.
♪
For a permanent shelter,
I've decided to build a basic A-frame.
Put my tarp over it,
and I'll put logs and moss on it after that.
That will carry me through
the really cold nights that are gonna come.
I'm gonna start collecting some poles.
♪
I have done enough exploring
that I know I have good resources here.
♪
There's some swamps upriver from me.
There's dense willow patches.
Those are the type of areas that I'm gonna have
the opportunity to set snares.
I want to build a good base for me to sleep in,
then I'll be a lot more serious about hunting stuff.
♪
Aww, damn it.
This is like being on "The Truman Show."
You know, like, ooh, everyone's watching me.
[wind whooshes]
Everybody's seeing my mistakes.
♪
We're making plenty of them, I guess.
I know there's people at home that'll judge me
for the mistake that I made with my ferro rod.
I'll beat myself up enough.
Slow progress.
♪
Growing up, I was a wrestler.
You walk out there in a wrestling match
and you're gonna shake the guy's hand
and the goal is to pin him,
but sometimes you find yourself on your back.
You have to take a deep breath and you say,
okay, now it's time to wrestle.
And that's the same thing out here.
Things are not gonna go smoothly.
That will definitely work.
Every one of us, me especially,
are going to make mistakes.
Put the rest of my stuff in here
and let's go for a short walk.
I've seen beaver sign on the edges of the river.
♪
I can't light a fire until I have a large amount of food
because I'm only gonna be able to light
so many fires with what I got left of my ferro rod.
What's going on here?
If I can catch this beaver, I can smoke it
and have food for several weeks.
You see where he's coming up here.
He goes right through here.
Then I can work on my shelter,
practice with a bow and drill and get better at it.
I just need to tie it down.
And then I can really make a run out here.
We've got a pretty easy spot to snare.
Pretty cool if I could catch a good-sized beaver and smoke it.
♪
[Poldi] Yesterday, I shot a grouse,
and instantly I can use the grouse guts for bait,
which is great.
These are my assorted fishing hooks.
So I'm gonna put a wire leader on it.
Just play it safe starting off if I catch a pike.
Okay. All right.
My strategy for gaining food is gonna be a blend
of fishing and hunting
and seeing which ones
are gonna be the most lucrative.
I'm putting energy into trying to explore
every sort of nook and cranny of my block.
♪
We're about to be in a [bleep] beaver scrap.
♪
Crazy.
Definitely mapping out my area in my head.
I'm seeing great potential
for what I think I need to win this competition.
I've just walked to a new point here.
This lake looks phenomenal.
I'm just gonna use a float out of some bark.
All right.
First cast in the Northwest Territories.
I'm feeling quite at home in this location.
It doesn't feel like I shouldn't be here,
and it's really comforting.
I've got fresh water, good-looking lake
that I'll be able to go fishing
within five minutes' walk.
I don't think there's much else I could
be asking for in a location.
♪
[splashing]
[bleep] day two.
[bright music]
Wow. My first ever pike.
I've never even seen a pike in real life.
It's a tiny one, but it'll be dinner.
Hey, beauty.
This place is good.
♪
Pretty amazing turn of events.
These guts are working a wonder on the pike.
Many more to come.
[softly] Holy [bleep], there's a moose over there.
♪
You won't be able to see it, but it's over on that beach.
It's moving pretty quick.
♪
I'm gonna wade across this channel.
It's just on the other side of this island here, over there.
♪
Getting a moose is super important
to stay here for a long time.
Being able to tap into a large amount of its fat stores,
I could just hang out here forever.
♪
It's pretty deep over there.
[tense music]
♪
The wind's perfect.
I'll put my pants on.
♪
Holy [bleep].
That thing's huge.
♪
[tense music]
♪
- [softly] Wow.
I could have taken a long shot,
but I decided not to.
I just don't wanna wound something out here.
No point. It's only day two.
It's still so hot.
And that moose will live for another day.
♪
So cool.
She could see me the whole time.
A little bit too far.
Yeah, anyway,
I caught my first Northern pike
and I saw my first ever Canadian Moose.
What a day.
[dramatic music]
♪
[Ziga] [bleep].
Screw you guys!
What are you going to do now,
black flies?
You can't get me.
But I also don't see much.
It's--yeah.
Welcome to the North.
If you like black flies, you will definitely enjoy here.
♪
Okay, now it's about food.
So putting a lot of snares.
I know that in long term,
this is some kind of hunger game.
So getting food as soon as possible
is very important for survival.
♪
That looks nice.
Okay.
So my food strategy is mostly passive, because basically,
I'm not a hunter.
Nice one.
I'm not really aiming for big game
unless it comes and I see it,
or I see very obvious footprints
and I might follow it.
But I won't spend too much time on active hunting.
I don't want to waste too much energy.
So snares are for sure a very good way to get meat.
It's just good enough.
Okay, done with snaring.
Everything looks good.
♪
Definitely this is not a place for permanent shelter.
No way.
It's super nice, panorama view.
Look at these guys.
The problem is,
it's facing west.
Especially later in winter,
sun is gonna be very low behind these mountains.
The only option is to go more south.
Another thing is, the longer I'm here,
the more snares there will be out,
and I will have to move all of them.
So I think it's the sooner the better.
My plan was first to move after a week,
but I realized it's better to move as soon as possible,
because you're investing your time
to set up snares,
fish spring pools, and all other stuff.
It's a lot of energy.
So it's very important to find
optimal permanent location quickly.
♪
It's gonna be definitely a challenge
because it's super difficult to pass this terrain.
[softly] I don't like too much what I see here.
We are on the edge of taiga forest.
It's muddy, swampy, super thick vegetation.
This is the reason why, historically,
not many people lived out here.
♪
It's so important that you have easy access to water,
to berries, a fishing spot,
or location where you can put snares.
So there are many, many different things
which is difficult to find.
Quite exhausted.
Very long walk.
But I think it's worth the effort
because it makes a difference on the long run.
♪
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Oh, you know, guys, this looks like
a location for permanent shelter.
[yells]
[dramatic music]
♪
[Aaron] Season 13 temporary cribs.
This is my sick house for
hopefully no longer than a week.
[grunts]
And the inside.
Bed right here.
♪
Pack right there.
Try to close this up
so these [bleep] bugs don't get me.
So yeah, today's agenda is
get to work on my permanent shelter.
♪
[grunting]
♪
[sputters]
Yeah, I like it here. It's nice and mossy.
[sniffles] Lots to work with.
So we just gotta get some--
we need six skinny poles.
Okay, let's get after it.
My strategy is to get my shelter built right away.
This looks like [bleep] work.
Then I can focus on hunting, fishing, and acquiring food.
Timber.
I'm gonna make a log cabin.
It's a hybrid lean-to, just built out of logs.
[grunting]
♪
I need to harvest a bunch of logs about 8 to 10 feet long,
and I'll stack them high on one side,
make a roof down to a low side,
and then just put the walls up.
[exhales]
This shelter is gonna be a lot of hard work.
It's gonna take a lot of energy.
But I believe that it will be beneficial in the long run.
[grunts]
I plan on staying out here for a very long time,
so I want something that's out of the weather.
I want something that will keep me warm during
the cold months and feels like home.
Oh, my goodness. [laughs]
We are eating, ladies and gentlemen.
Growing up on a small hobby farm, my childhood,
a lot of it was hard work.
There's another good chunk of meat.
My dad was an avid outdoorsman.
My grandpa as well.
Every weekend, we were camping, hunting, fishing.
[Person] Oh, yeah. Nice fish.
[Aaron] I've killed many moose in my day.
[arrow thuds]
My top three survival skills is definitely hunting...
Oh, bullseye.
Mental toughness, and then bushcraft.
Yeah, these feel good.
You know, I fought mixed martial arts.
I've played rugby.
I've played pretty crazy sports.
And this is the scariest, hardest,
craziest thing a person can do.
This season's definitely different,
especially it being the World Championship in my country.
So there's added pressure there.
Push her into the snow. She's working.
I will show how gritty and tough Canadians are.
[gunshot]
And not go down easy or at all.
- See you later.
Good luck to ya.
[Aaron] In about 90 to 100 days,
I'm gonna be the winner of season 13 of "Alone."
That's me.
Buh-buh bye!
- Bye.
♪
[Aaron] Hard work out here logging.
It'll be worth it, though, I tell you.
I don't know if you're gonna see anything, but...
[squeaking]
I wanted to try to get some fish lines in the water
so I can have some passive fishing
while I build my shelter,
but I don't have bait.
[trills tongue]
I need this squirrel.
[dramatic music]
♪
[bow thwacks]
Man, I haven't missed like that in years.
♪
[bow zips]
Oh, my God, Aaron.
♪
[bow thwacks]
What the [bleep]?
♪
[bow thwacks]
I'm so disappointed in myself.
Oh, my God, I can't believe I just did that.
I don't know how they missed.
[scoffs]
That's embarrassing.
I'm gonna be looking for arrows.
Holy jeez, Aaron, you're so dumb.
[dramatic music]
♪
[Ziga] Oh, guys.
You must be kidding me.
We have a bunny.
Oh, man.
That's really nice catch, actually.
Thank you, bunny.
♪
Oh.
What a cutie.
♪
I knew that snaring is gonna be very important,
so I'm really happy to have my first hare.
But I'm not gonna cook it right now because
today I'm moving everything to another location.
Bunny.
They're quite small, actually.
But seems quite fatty.
Big belly.
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
Tomorrow, there's gonna be a rabbit soup.
♪
I have to move all this stuff
and I'm glad that I'm moving as soon as possible
because later on, I would have only
more and more things to move.
♪
That's it.
I'm leaving my camp to move
to a new location.
Here we go again.
Very long walk.
[dramatic music]
♪
[Aaron] Not too many more trees to cut down.
Put in a lot of hard work, so hopefully it pays off.
[exhaling]
'Cause if it doesn't...
No such thing as it doesn't.
It will work.
Hard work pays off always.
[grunting]
Man, if I had that squirrel right now, we'd be fishing.
Such a dummy.
Got a couple snares out now.
Hopefully acquire some food that way.
If not, we're just gonna fast another day.
Longest I've ever fasted, ten days.
Don't wanna do it again.
But if I can't get a squirrel or anything else to get fish,
we're doing another day.
It started to rain. It's good enough.
So I'm gonna get everything under there.
♪
Gonna be a sick little home for 90 days.
[dramatic music]
♪
[squirrel chittering]
It sounded close, so I'm gonna go in there
and try to get him.
♪
[squirrel chittering]
[squeaking] There he is.
Right there.
Too high.
I need to start taking responsible shots
and not shooting when the squirrel's in the trees.
I can't just be losing my arrows.
♪
One more shot. Please, give me one more shot.
I promise I won't miss.
♪
[bow thuds]
Oh, my God.
♪
Oh, this squirrel's been my nemesis.
♪
Sorry, little buddy.
Had to be done.
And now we can get some fish lines in.
♪
This is huge getting a squirrel today.
Now I got bait for my fish lines,
and hopefully they'll start pulling in fish.
♪
So I'm gonna just get some tall, thicker willows
or alder.
♪
Just making a notch in the tree so that the line can sit.
And then I'll tie some fish line on it, probably 50 feet.
Put a hook on the end that I can put bait on,
and put a weight on each of them.
Get her swinging.
♪
I'll get like six lines up and down.
♪
Get out of here, rain.
♪
If I can start hauling in fish, I'm telling you,
I won't be going home.
But right now, the moose hunting begins.
♪
[imitates moose bellowing]
[imitates moose call]
[softly] It's so quiet right now.
That moose call should carry a long way.
But I don't know if moose call much around here
because of all the grizzlies and wolves.
I'm gonna keep walking.
My hunting strategy is to find a big game animal.
Moose, caribou.
I carry my bow with me at all times.
[softly] I'm just looking on both sides.
Looking for sign, looking for anything.
It'll be exciting to see some fresh moose tracks.
I'd rather not see grizzly.
As I walk, I always call, just because
it's getting close to prime time moose hunting.
And once the rut comes into full effect,
I'm gonna harvest a moose.
See, here's those tracks.
♪
What the hell is that?
♪
That was definitely something.
That's the problem with calling moose.
You call grizzlies too.
♪
[dramatic music]
♪
[Aaron] I don't like that.
Let's give it a minute to walk away.
♪
Definitely wasn't a moose.
So either a wolf or a bear.
So I'm just sitting here on the bank waiting.
♪
[groans softly]
[bleep] it. Let's go.
♪
Hopefully it wandered off after it got my scent.
I can sneak behind it and get back to my camp.
♪
If not, we're gonna have a duel.
♪
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
Loaded.
Just getting all my weapons ready.
Bear spray's got the lid off.
Bear banger's loaded.
Air horn.
And that's all I have.
I've been charged by bears.
I've seen big grizzly bears.
I've been real close to them,
and I don't wanna be around them.
[softly] There's some bear [bleep].
So I will be cautious and move properly around them
and do the smart thing.
Getting close to where the action is.
♪
On this episode of "Alone,"
watch how Aaron
gets eaten by a bear.
♪
[bleep] jumping in that river if it really gets after me.
♪
[laughs]
What a loser I am.
Hilarious.
Now, where did he go?
Let's follow his tracks again.
He went up here.
Probably swam back in the water.
I don't know.
That's so funny.
I was ready to spray a bear, shoot a bear banger,
had my horn ready to go.
It's a beaver.
That's the problem with not having binos,
and having [bleep] eyesight.
Let's get back to camp.
♪
All my fishing lines are in.
♪
Holy [bleep], got a fish.
♪
[breathing heavily]
Oh, no, no, no.
[grunting]
[groaning]
♪
Holy [bleep], what a [bleep].
Sorry about the language.
Holy macaroni.
We just caught Moby Dick.
[grunting]
[laughs]
Yeah, buddy.
What a tank.
[laughs]
Thank you, squirrel.
Holy Toledo.
[sighs]
That's a pig.
Hoo-hoo, first fish, baby.
Oh, we can breathe a sigh of relief
and eat.
Yes!
[dramatic music]
♪
- Oh, well--
ha, I start everything with "well."
Okay.
I'll try not to start with "well" every time.
Okay.
So-- [laughs]
That's another one. How do you start?
You can't just start, can you?
You just have to say "well" or "so."
Today I'm feeling pretty good,
despite having not eaten anything.
But I do have to start looking for food.
I made up some snares, so I'm gonna make a start
on my trap line, get those calories in.
So wish me luck.
♪
You can't go into an environment like this
and just sit down and hope everything's gonna be good.
Your shelter's not gonna build itself.
Your fire's not gonna light itself.
I need to go forward and deal with the things
that need to be done practically.
This is a spot with a lot of hare activity,
but there's no obvious place to put a snare, so...
All the trees are very widely spaced,
so it doesn't make sense to put a normal snare here.
So what I'm gonna do instead
is build a hare trap.
Probably best if I show you.
I am focusing my attention on snaring.
I'm seeing a lot of sign of smaller game.
There's rabbit droppings.
Just got my four cross members.
This is a multi-phased game.
In the early stages, the priority
has to be to keep my calorific intake up.
Our first beam at this point.
The early part of this, I'm expecting to be busy.
I'm gonna be building my shelter.
I'm gonna be fishing.
I'm gonna be foraging,
hopefully hunting some big game as well.
And then as it gets much colder,
the resources become more scarce,
I will be conserving a lot of my energy.
Now then, we need to block off
all the alternative routes into this
so that they have to go through the snares.
The environment that I'm in isn't quite the same
as anywhere I've ever been before.
This is a whole different world from what I'm used to.
Wales is a very temperate climate.
It very rarely gets below zero.
Okay.
There we have
our complete
snare compound.
This is Bannau Brycheiniog,
or as it's known in English,
the Brecon Beacons National Park.
I'm a professional bushcraft instructor.
Okay, so I'm just gonna set up my drill.
I've always thought I'm kind of a jack of all trades.
My archery skills are solid.
And I'm not too bad at fishing as well.
But I think my real advantage is the fact that
I've got a very adaptable mindset,
and I'm hoping to pull all of that together
into this environment and make it work for me.
Here we go.
Being 51, I think now I'm more methodical
in the way I approach things.
Some of the younger guys, in a short-term situation,
they're gonna outrun me.
But I see this as more of a hare and the tortoise,
and I'm definitely the tortoise in this game.
So firelighting with Ruby.
Get that birch bark shaved up root.
Looking good.
I think the biggest thing I'll miss will be my family.
My fiancée, Julia-- Julia
And my daughter, she's 12, Ruby.
She'll miss me a lot,
but she started watching some previous episodes.
Oh, nice shot.
She said don't come back without the money.
Half a million dollars would be life changing.
Nice.
It would pay off the mortgage.
It would give us a lot of freedom
to travel more as a family.
I'm very confident that I have the psychology to do this.
I'm gonna use every skill that I have.
I'm gonna adapt and I'm gonna persevere.
Whatever it takes to survive and to win.
I don't feel like I'm just doing this for myself.
I'm doing this for Wales.
[rain pattering]
Still raining.
There's not much point in just sitting here wasting time,
so I'm gonna make some more snares
and take them out as soon as it stops.
And by making these before I go out,
I don't have to waste time while I'm out and about.
I'm making the most of this damp and miserable day.
I'm feeling quite cheerful, actually.
I think it's because of the rain reminds me of home.
[laughs] I feel like I'm back in Wales.
Ah. Anyway.
Wales has a lot of the ancestral skills.
We're a very strong and resilient nation.
And I like to bring those skills alive again.
As a Welshman, I'm flying the flag
for our traditions and our ancestral skills.
I've gotta do well out here for myself
and also for Wales as well.
♪
So I've, uh,
made a bunch of these
and I'll be setting these all around my site.
And, uh,
hopefully,
that will get me a squirrel
or two
because I'm starting to get really hungry now.
[tense music]
♪
- I hope I don't lose my arrows.
♪
It was just rainy all night,
so I'm already dressed in my winter clothes.
But, guys, now I'm here
at the location where I want to be
and which I think is gonna really benefit me.
Probably today, I will also finally start the fire,
cook this hare,
and have proper meat.
First meat since I'm here.
Yeah. [sighs]
If I want to stay long here,
I should go, go, go.
♪
Okay, guys, I like to go down and check some snares.
♪
Oh, man.
Bunny.
Wow.
♪
I have to fix this.
Time to make fire.
♪
Everything is still super wet.
Conditions are not perfect,
but let's find appropriate material.
If I want to eat, I have to have fire.
The problem is, it's much more rainy than I expected.
And then it keeps on being wet all the time.
♪
I'm not sure about this,
but it would be really nice to start cooking,
then finally get some proteins.
For our survival school,
we didn't have any mentor or whatsoever.
The most of our knowledge
comes from being out in the wild.
There is, of course, strong individual factor
of being stubborn and not giving up and so on.
But this is the way how you learn a lot.
♪
Here we are with all parts ready.
These here are two trees
where it's kind of a bit more dry under.
[suspenseful music]
[sticks creaking]
♪
[sighs]
Nope.
If there would be sun, there would be no question about it.
But in this
weather conditions,
I have to try to make a fire today.
[sighs]
No pressure.
It's just for real now.
♪
[breathes deeply]
♪
[creaking]
♪
Come up.
♪
I have it.
Okay.
I have it. I have it.
Don't die now.
You're smoldering.
♪
[bleep] humidity.
[sighs]
It's simply too wet here.
[sighs]
Still no fire.
[grunts]
[bleep].
Not with this wood.
Not in this weather.
Gosh, I just can't make fire.
But I know not to freak out,
and I should just think what I can do better to adapt.
Okay, guys.
All of those...
wood pieces are going to be teddy bears
for me tonight.
I have to take fire more seriously now.
No more excuses.
I will try tomorrow.
[dramatic music]
♪
[Booth] Time to go get some water.
Since day one, I've been drinking the river water,
and I'm not boiling it.
Because I burned up my ferro rod,
I'm gonna have to light fire sparingly.
I've drank this water before in Alaska.
It's flowing.
I'm just gonna have to risk it.
A bunch of rainwater in here.
I can't go without water.
You can go hungry, but you can't go thirsty.
That's gonna be completely debilitating.
Not bad.
Arctic rainwater.
♪
Walk down and check my beaver snares.
I'm gonna wait to start a fire
till I have a large amount of food
because I wanna use that fire in order to preserve it.
And I'll pay the consequences if they come.
♪
Everything's harder to do when you're not eating.
Definitely a lot tougher.
Nothing in that one.
You know, shoot, I'm struggling.
Dan Gable said after wrestling, everything is easy.
Well, he's not exactly 100% right.
This is actually pretty tough.
I thought it would be hard, but it's even harder
than I thought it was gonna be.
♪
I gotta find some food.
♪
What is that?
♪
God.
We got a pretty good size beaver here.
♪
I gotta kill him now.
I need a big stick.
[grunts]
♪
That's a big ass beaver.
Man, he's almost free.
♪
Now he's not.
Got him.
Looks like I'm smoking a lot of beaver.
Pretty awesome.
This has just given brand new life
into my entire "Alone" experience.
I have a chance.
This actually might turn out okay.
It almost tore up my anchor, the beaver is so big.
It's a monster.
Probably close to 40 pounds.
♪
I'm gonna be real tired hauling him back.
[grunts]
I just got him on my back.
Now I gotta skin him out.
♪
All right, I'm gonna get the guts out of him
real quick right here 'cause I don't want that up by camp.
♪
Beautiful friggin' animal.
His hide is so nice.
Castors.
And that's what makes a beaver a beaver.
Super smelly suckers.
♪
By the time I get the guts out of it, eat the organs,
I'm gonna have 30 pounds of meat here.
Save some liver.
This one animal could last 30 days.
And in those 30 days, I'm gonna catch other stuff.
We'll haul him back, start smoking him.
♪
I don't know if I can get a fire started.
I'm gonna try.
♪
Ever since my ferro rod caught on fire,
I have been thinking about what happens
if I can't get this fire going with this ferro rod.
[grunts]
I'm gonna kind of hurry before this stuff gets wet.
I'm only gonna get so many scrapes on this.
♪
That's all I got.
♪
[scraping]
Come on.
[scraping]
♪
It's all rough from the fire.
It's like lava or something.
Come on.
♪
[groans]
[bleep].
I can't light a fire,
I'm [bleep].
[dramatic music]
[Booth] [grunts]
[scraping]
♪
I need something that sparks and burns for a moment.
That's what ferro rods do.
When this ferro rod heated up, it changed it.
It's like I have a piece of flint in my hand.
♪
It's just not gonna work.
[sighs]
♪
I can't live out here without fire.
But that beaver's just gonna rot.
I can't--I can't dry it. It's so damn rainy.
♪
I'm so mad at myself. Damn it.
[sighs]
Why didn't I just keep my fire going
after my ferro rod went out?
That fire could still be going.
It's harsh and wet and windy,
and I am not confident in my skill in friction fire.
I don't think I can do it.
♪
I could just sit out here and starve
till I got too cold
without a fire.
I could probably do that for a couple weeks.
But what's the fun in that?
I can go without food for a long period of time.
I wrestled.
I know what it's like to be hungry.
But that's not what I came out here to do.
I wanted to come out here and survive.
♪
And letting that beaver spoil,
that's not doing the animal right.
♪
[groans]
♪
Felt confident in everything else
that I was doing out here.
♪
I can't believe I let this happen.
[beeping]
♪
This is David Booth. I'm officially tapping out.
[bleep].
[dramatic music]
♪
I would have never guessed I'd have been out this quick.
Not even for a second.
I had my land figured out.
I knew where the resources were.
But I couldn't recover from that first mistake,
my ferro rod.
When you're doing something like this,
this remote and this serious,
you have to slow down
and think about what you're doing all the time.
One mistake like that will just end it for you.
It's certainly gonna make you humble.
I'm probably not gonna talk much smack
'cause everybody can remind me of this now.
Oh, yeah, remember when you were on "Alone"?
Four days, sucker.
[somber music]
♪
This is not at all how I wanted this to end.
The emotion that I have is shame, to tell you the truth.
Just, man, I could have done better.
The worst thing about tapping out
is that I really am embarrassed
'cause I think my family thought
that I would have done amazing out here.
They're going to see that I wasn't amazing.
Out here, I've seen too many times
people with a bow and drill, they've all struggled.
I didn't wanna be naive enough to think,
well, they couldn't do it, but I can.
♪
I left my ferro rod on the bank.
It was nobody else's fault.
That's what I'm the most disappointed about.
But who knows what would have happened
if I wouldn't have done that?
♪
- There's really no need to starve out here.
There's so much in the way of foraging
and just natural resources everywhere.
Look at these alder cones,
which I've just foraged.
Now, these are edible as well.
Yeah.
Ugh.
Oh, man.
I think I'd rather starve.
Let's go and catch a fish.
♪
I've checked all the snares this morning,
and there's no sign of anything going near them,
let alone in them.
I need to find better solutions rather than
doing the same thing over and over again,
expecting a different result.
So today I think I'll try fishing.
There are so many fish in this river.
It's just
how do you get them out of the river
and into your belly?
We're a successful species.
That all comes down to our ability to adapt and overcome,
which is exactly what I plan to be doing today
and for however many days it takes
to win season 13 of "Alone."
So now you have it.
You're stuck with me. [chuckles]
♪
It's not easy to fail at things,
but I'm trying to stay as calm as I can.
To not allow negativity to get in.
♪
We've seen it with so many previous contestants
where things will play on them.
Thoughts, thoughts about home,
unfinished business,
things that they hadn't resolved before they left.
And I've come into this with a clear head.
So I know I just need to allow myself
to focus on the challenge that lies ahead.
I'm pretty confident I can adapt.
♪
[rustling]
Nothing.
Okay.
[squeaking]
Sorry, dude.
[dramatic music]
♪
[thunk]
Well, this was unexpected.
I caught a squirrel in one of my rabbit snares.
♪
This one won't go to waste.
I'm very grateful for this gift.
And anything left over is gonna be used for bait.
So I've got high hopes that this squirrel's life
is that one break to get me producing food here.
So hopefully that squirrel is it.
So I'm just gonna go and clean this
and make a stew.
♪
Five days in. Feeling pretty good.
Feeling good.
[dramatic music]
♪
[rustling]
You don't care at all.
I will definitely go for it, but not now.
I have some more stuff to do.
Now let's focus on fire.
♪
Okay, guys.
Overnight, I kept my bow drill
set up here,
and now I've put it in a sleeping bag
to keep it warm
and dry.
And...
That has better--
feels better than yesterday.
I mean, of course, there is no sun,
but it's kind of not as humid as yesterday.
So I will give it a try.
♪
Okay.
♪
I know that my friends were quite worried
that I'm going into this competition without ferro rod,
and I see now it is definitely a risk.
The problem is, I really did not expect
so much wet conditions.
And I know that if I don't get fire for a very long time,
at some point, I would have to tap out.
♪
A bit more.
♪
Wow.
I think I have it.
Okay, okay, okay.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Keep on going.
Now tinder.
♪
[grunts]
Don't blow too much
because you have to retain the heat.
I think this is enough air coming.
This is working.
Just let it go.
♪
Keep on going, baby.
I should start blowing before all does burn.
♪
[large inhale]
Fire!
♪
Whoo!
Bam!
Have it!
We are eating bunnies tonight.
A lot of bunnies.
♪
So this is my first fellow,
which I caught on day three.
And it seems to be totally fine.
So let's start.
As a scientist, I can reanalyze
where I was successful and where not.
I have realized that my failures can be good
because you're looking for ways to adapt
and observe nature and learn from it.
Here I'm drying
three bodies of hare.
In the pot, entire one.
Here I hanged two livers and kidneys in the end.
And those are stomachs.
I'm getting quite hungry now.
I mean, this is, in a way, also what fuels science.
Maybe somebody would also come up with
some unique ideas what I could have
done differently and better.
I'm really curious how it tastes.
♪
[chuckling]
♪
Here comes fat.
♪
Oh, yeah. Livers.
I'm really happy to be out here.
It's gonna be a long journey.
A long, long one.
Kidneys are the best part.
So let's do this.
[dramatic music]
♪
[Poldi] The weather's getting colder.
I need to get my permanent shelter up.
Freeze frame photo.
[bow thuds]
- Oh, my God, oh my God, oh, my God.
♪
[Person] Holy [bleep].
It's the moose.
♪