1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,520 [music playing] 2 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,040 NARRATOR: The south island of New Zealand. 3 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:29,480 It's an epic place. 4 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:31,440 It's wet. 5 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:35,160 It's cold. 6 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:37,880 It's snowy. 7 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:41,440 If you don't respect the environment here, 8 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,160 it will slap you hard. 9 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:47,080 I just need to bring some food in. 10 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:50,680 It's a male. 11 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:51,920 Look at that stonker. 12 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:53,320 [laughs] 13 00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:54,960 Last night was pretty intense. 14 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:56,920 Tehre was deer all around me. 15 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:58,160 It was freaking delicious. 16 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,360 I know how tough it's going to be. 17 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:07,040 Terrible wail of doom. 18 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:08,680 WOMAN 1: You got to feel safe. 19 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,920 Otherwise, you just die out here. 20 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:13,960 Oh my god, I miss them all. 21 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,680 It doesn't feel as bad as it looks. 22 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:19,080 It feels worse. 23 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,800 MAN 1: Oh, this [bleep] just goe 24 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:23,360 Jesus. 25 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,480 I'm scared enough to have an emergency tap out in my hand. 26 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,640 MAN 2 The last person standing may take home $250,000. 27 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,760 I just got these pains in my chest. 28 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:38,320 Somebody help me! 29 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:40,000 WOMAN 2: He's not answering the phone. 30 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:43,600 We need to talk about a chopper. 31 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,320 [gasps in pain] 32 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:41,360 It's like a lost world. 33 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:43,840 JASON (VOICEOVER): There's a real beauty here, 34 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,360 but there's also a real element of danger. 35 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,480 We need to be prepared for deadfall, for earthquakes, 36 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:52,760 for flash flooding. 37 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:55,720 Wow, this is crazy. 38 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,080 TAMIKA (VOICEOVER): Out at rock whirls up inside of me 39 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:08,120 a sense of strength and power that I've never experienced 40 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:09,960 on any other land before. 41 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,200 This is gorgeous. 42 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:13,680 I can't believe it. 43 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:14,760 TAMIKA (VOICEOVER): These mountains 44 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:17,720 are home to wild boar, goat, deer. 45 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,800 And if I can just get one of those, hunt them, 46 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:22,800 I might survive. 47 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:26,920 LEANNE (VOICEOVER): When you look out 48 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,000 and you see those mountains overlooking the lake, 49 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,080 it has an ancient feel to it. 50 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:34,720 Great. 51 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:35,600 Thank you. 52 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:39,400 [exhales] 53 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:41,760 LEANNE (VOICEOVER): But it's also scary. 54 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,320 ANDREAS (VOICEOVER): This is one of the most daunting things 55 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:47,640 I've ever done. 56 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:49,760 But we're now allowed to hunt with bow and arrow. 57 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,560 It's something I'm comfortable with 58 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:55,000 and I have done for a long time. 59 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,600 Probably the steepest country I've been in. 60 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:57,840 ANDREAS (VOICEOVER): We all think we can do it. 61 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,680 But the only thing we can really do 62 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:01,440 is compete against ourselves. 63 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:02,680 Things just got real. 64 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,120 ANDREAS (VOICEOVER): And it's petrifying. 65 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:07,920 SUZAN (VOICEOVER): The whole game is a mental game. 66 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,280 Everything is about the psychology. 67 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:12,760 I know there's fear in me. 68 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:17,840 Can I sustain myself as a human alone in a wild place? 69 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,560 So it begins. 70 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:21,520 It's going to be cold. 71 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:22,920 Real cold. 72 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:27,000 No one will hear you scream out there. 73 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,640 KRZYSZTOF (VOICEOVER): We have to survive completely unaided. 74 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:31,360 So long. 75 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:32,680 Farewell, and amen. 76 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:34,000 KRZYSZTOF (VOICEOVER): The fauna and the floor 77 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,240 are completely different back home in Australia. 78 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:37,880 Look, it's just a tiny little speck. 79 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:38,480 Look at it go. 80 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:39,840 Look at it go. 81 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,200 It's going to get real cold tonight, 82 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,280 and those look like rain clouds. 83 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:49,400 Time to get to work. 84 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:50,760 RICK (VOICEOVER): I have absolutely no way 85 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,440 of knowing how other competitors are faring. 86 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,240 I only know how I'll be doing. 87 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:58,120 Catch you later, guys. 88 00:04:58,280 --> 00:04:59,520 Thanks for everything. 89 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:00,880 RICK (VOICEOVER): 10 of us go into this challenge, 90 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,200 and only one of us will be the winner. 91 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,160 JACK (VOICEOVER): Hunting's not a sport. 92 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,800 To me, hunting is an instinct. 93 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:15,400 Thank you. 94 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,120 There are big moments in life. 95 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:20,600 And for me, this is one of them. 96 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,960 MIKE (VOICEOVER): It's just us, our cameras documenting 97 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:26,120 our survival. 98 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:27,960 Completely alone. 99 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,240 I am so-- 100 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:32,840 --pumped. 101 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,720 MIKE (VOICEOVER): $250,000 prize for the last person standing. 102 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:40,920 And it would mean the world to be the last person. 103 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,960 CHACE (VOICEOVER): The lake sits at 200 meters above sea level. 104 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:45,840 Also runs just as deep. 105 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,720 Everything about this place is intimidating. 106 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:55,640 We are totally alone in a whole new world. 107 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:56,720 Time to arrive. 108 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:00,960 CHACE (VOICEOVER): You have to be 109 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,600 willing to give up everything to come here and win, alone. 110 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:09,840 Nobody else here but me. 111 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,800 And there they go. 112 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,040 There they go. 113 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:32,920 And that's it. 114 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,240 I'm alone. 115 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:38,640 And the midi flies already here to greet me. 116 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:40,480 Namu namu. 117 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,120 Good day, fellas. 118 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:43,720 I'm your new housemate. 119 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,520 [squawking] 120 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:50,880 It's unreal how big this place is. 121 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,000 Even if I wanted to get out of here, I don't-- 122 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,040 you'd have a hard time making it back to society from here. 123 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:01,560 [chuckles] 124 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,760 So let's go have a look, eh. 125 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,000 First things first, don't walk anywhere-- 126 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:13,680 --without your bow, huh. 127 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:19,400 CHACE (VOICEOVER): I'm absolutely stoked that I 128 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,920 can have a bow in this season. 129 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:23,520 [gunshots] 130 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,520 I'm a combat engineer in the Australian Defense Force. 131 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:28,960 Joining the army was the best thing for my Indigenous 132 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:30,360 heritage, really. 133 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,400 Because I'm part of the Indigenous Pre-Recruitment 134 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,680 Program and fostered a lot of love there. 135 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,960 As far as my ancestors go, I am Quandamooka man. 136 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,320 Think of worse ways to spend the day. 137 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:44,640 I've literally been hunting my whole life. 138 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,720 I go hunting at least once a month, yeah. 139 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:48,320 And it's just what I do for fun. 140 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,360 It's what I do in any time I get off. 141 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,440 I go out, and I do exactly like what 142 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,240 I'm going to be doing here. 143 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,840 If you miss, you don't eat, you know? 144 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,280 I never miss. 145 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,520 [laughs] 146 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,400 Yeah, I've hunted with rifles, bow and arrows, spears, 147 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,280 boomerangs, and even just a knife at times. 148 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,720 Not out there being a killer, I'm out there being a hunter. 149 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,440 You know, it's-- they're totally different things. 150 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:14,800 He was born for this. 151 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:16,080 He's prepared. 152 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:17,480 Love you, baby. 153 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:19,080 Mom is my biggest fan. 154 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:20,880 And so is me grandparents. 155 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:21,680 Love you, Grandma. 156 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:22,880 I love you, too, darling. 157 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:23,600 Pray for me? 158 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:25,120 Yes, I will, honey. 159 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:26,560 You want to do it for them, too. 160 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,240 Prove your grandpa I'm as tough as he thinks I am. 161 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,160 $250,000 would be game changing. 162 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,080 Buy me a big old farm. 163 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,040 Then have my family and my own-- 164 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,760 my horses, and just start living that life, you know? 165 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:42,200 CHACE (VOICEOVER): The number one thing 166 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:45,440 you need when you're hunting with a bow is patience. 167 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,720 Because you don't always get on to something. 168 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,880 Sometimes it takes a bit of time to get used to animals 169 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:52,080 in different areas, too. 170 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:53,560 And they're not all the same. 171 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:55,800 Let's keep looking, shall we? 172 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:57,720 CHACE (VOICEOVER): Like red deer here are not the same 173 00:08:57,880 --> 00:08:59,000 as red deer in Europe. 174 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:00,800 They're the same animal. 175 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,240 But you know, they're going to act different. 176 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:15,360 OK. 177 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,760 I'm talking quietly now, because it's a rub tree. 178 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,520 Some stags come through here and give that tree a bashing. 179 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:32,000 They're right here. 180 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:33,720 They're right here. 181 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,000 I can hear the water. 182 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:01,320 Feel the air. 183 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:06,640 Oh. 184 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,680 I am just so happy to be here. 185 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,600 I don't even feel like doing a shelter or a fire. 186 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:14,440 I honestly just feel like sitting here. 187 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:19,040 OK, I'm not-- I'm not going to do that, I promise. 188 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:20,520 I've got stuff to do. 189 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:22,920 I'm just going to collect some tinder, because I think 190 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,320 that's all I'm going to have time for tonight. 191 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:27,200 Shelter, tinder. 192 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:31,520 Even if I don't light it tonight, 193 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:32,920 I'll be ready for tomorrow. 194 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:40,080 These make great fire starters. 195 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:42,200 Leptospermum. 196 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:43,520 We'll have a tea tree. 197 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:46,880 I just want to take a little bit off each tree. 198 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:50,240 I don't want to take too much. 199 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,040 It'd be nice if I could walk along here and not 200 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,680 see what I've done, really. 201 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:57,080 God. 202 00:10:58,640 --> 00:10:59,320 TAMIKA (VOICEOVER): I feel a bit like an animal at the moment. 203 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:00,840 I'm shaking on the inside. 204 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:07,000 And it's like this 50/50 scared versus pure exhilaration. 205 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,600 Just try and stay calm. 206 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,800 Let's go have a little look around. 207 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:13,480 Get my shelter. 208 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:15,920 TAMIKA (VOICEOVER): The winds can be ferocious here, I know. 209 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,880 And I want to make sure that I don't hate myself later 210 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:21,320 when the wind's howling. 211 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,720 So shelter is number one. 212 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,720 I definitely have been labeled as being determined, 213 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:34,160 and I think that's come from just my childhood of adventure 214 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,960 and hanging out with the boys and choosing careers that 215 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:42,440 have really made me step up physically and mentally. 216 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:47,080 So I think I have found somewhere I really like 217 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:52,240 and a view to die for. 218 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:53,880 Close to my water. 219 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:57,120 I definitely want to look at what's up. 220 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:02,480 Yeah. 221 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:04,760 I reckon we might be-- 222 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:05,640 might survive. 223 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:10,920 It's a little bit of elevation. 224 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:17,360 Yeah. 225 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,040 I'm loving it. 226 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,800 It's never been more in the forefront of my mind 227 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:24,560 that I'm just going to be so cold. 228 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:51,000 Absolutely awesome. 229 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,480 Ooh, rocks a bit slippery. 230 00:12:58,640 --> 00:12:59,360 Look at this. 231 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:00,400 Look at this backdrop. 232 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:09,200 This is the most incredible thing I could ever possibly do. 233 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:10,760 This is home for the next three months. 234 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,520 And that rainbow, that rainbow is just still sitting there. 235 00:13:16,680 --> 00:13:18,400 It's like it's hanging around just for me. 236 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:20,640 In fact, it's getting stronger. 237 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:21,200 Magic. 238 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:31,720 MIKE (VOICEOVER): My strategy day one-- 239 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,040 build a shelter, get a fire going. 240 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:40,720 Survival has been a passion of mine for over 20 years. 241 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,760 It's been given to me from my parents, from my dad. 242 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,960 So it's been a part of my life since I can remember. 243 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,000 In my line of work, I provide mental and physical resilience 244 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:50,840 training. 245 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:51,840 What have you just become? 246 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:52,640 Accountable. 247 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:53,720 Why? 248 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:55,080 Because you said you're going to do. 249 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,840 Resilience training allows you to push the physical 250 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,520 and emotional barrier, which came off the back of my career, 251 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:02,960 I think, in rugby. 252 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:04,840 I had the good fortune of playing for the Australian 253 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,120 under 21s. 254 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:08,120 I played for Queensland, now known as the Reds. 255 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:10,480 And I played for New South Wales, now known 256 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:11,320 as the Waratahs. 257 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:12,720 How are you doing? 258 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:17,240 And being 60 years of age comes with just that, 259 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,680 60 years of experience. 260 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,600 And I personally see it as an advantage 261 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:25,080 when I go out onto the land. 262 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:26,440 See you, sweetheart. 263 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:27,840 MIKE (VOICEOVER): I think it would also be great-- 264 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,160 See you, Mark 265 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:30,280 MIKE (VOICEOVER): --to be a lovely inspiration 266 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:31,440 to my children. 267 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:32,440 I love you. 268 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:33,880 Love you too, mate. 269 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:35,200 MIKE (VOICEOVER): As a single dad for quite a while, 270 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,600 I just know they would be so proud. 271 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:40,000 Bend at the knees, please. 272 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,120 Deadlift. 273 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:46,920 Oh Jesus, I'm weighting that. 274 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:48,520 Let's go. 275 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,640 MIKE (VOICEOVER): What I want to show my children is there are 276 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:53,400 no boundaries. 277 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,000 There are no age limits. 278 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,880 And even as you enter into the-- let's just say the last third 279 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,800 of your life, there's so much more opportunity for you 280 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,320 to be able to strive for. 281 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,800 And that is my anchor point. 282 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:10,040 Keep it simple, sexy. 283 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,600 MIKE (VOICEOVER): The ability to handle pain and discomfort, 284 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,720 I would say, is my superpower. 285 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:28,760 I'm willing to push myself to my ultimate limits to win. 286 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:36,400 [chuckles] 287 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,040 Go away. 288 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,680 Go away-- away. 289 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,680 MIKE (VOICEOVER): You know, I've set the pass mark at 60 days. 290 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,520 One day for every year of my life. 291 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,040 But to me, the benchmark is 100 days. 292 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:58,200 And I am prepared for 100 days. 293 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,040 That's not too bad. 294 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:01,600 This place is alive with them. 295 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:06,280 That'll do for tonight. 296 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:25,840 I'm just knocking up a quick maul. 297 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,840 I'm going to use that wide area there for clubbing 298 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,000 and have this part as the hand gliding. 299 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:32,920 [scraping sounds] 300 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:34,120 One way around. 301 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:41,120 [tapping] 302 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,400 And is rough and ready as it is. 303 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:46,480 It will suffice. 304 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:51,080 Let's get that tarp up. 305 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,240 Let's get that shelter above me. 306 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,720 Water, shelter, fire, food. 307 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:58,360 Swap the orders around. 308 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,080 This is all about shelter at the moment. 309 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,040 I'm well hydrated. 310 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:03,480 Stack of water this morning. 311 00:17:06,360 --> 00:17:09,000 Been pissing like a racehorse. 312 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:12,080 [tapping] 313 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:19,960 RICK (VOICEOVER): I do believe I have what it takes to win this 314 00:17:20,120 --> 00:17:23,800 due to my skills, my background, my knowledge, and my wisdom. 315 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,400 I'm sure this location will throw everything at me. 316 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:43,360 RICK (VOICEOVER): I don't know what looms 317 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,840 over the top of these hills. 318 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,000 All I know is whatever's out there is unpredictable 319 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,120 as far as weather. 320 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,200 And that can make life very difficult 321 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:56,760 if you're not prepared for it. 322 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,160 Namu namu. 323 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,640 They're drawing a bit of blood already. 324 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,720 They're bigger than what we have in Australia. 325 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:23,440 And they're persistent. 326 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:25,320 They don't want to go. 327 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:26,960 But I don't want them there. 328 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,200 Now here we go. 329 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:05,800 This is pretty cool. 330 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:10,440 I'm not the only living animal walking this beach. 331 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:16,360 I got deer tracks, and they're fresh. 332 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:17,760 They got throw forward. 333 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:22,440 They lift their foot to move forward. 334 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,920 They throw forward a bit of sand, and that's fresh. 335 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:29,560 That's a good sized deer. 336 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,080 You're watching one of those games 337 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:38,560 where you see the symbol comes up. 338 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,120 It could be food or medical. 339 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,360 Like a game of Fortnite. 340 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:47,320 Not that I play Fortnite. 341 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:52,840 But this just has added a whole new dimension 342 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:54,120 to where I am now. 343 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:55,680 It's turning on another sense. 344 00:19:55,840 --> 00:20:03,560 It's turning on my eyes and ears to know that I'm not alone. 345 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,000 There are deer that have wandered along this beach. 346 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:10,240 Recently. 347 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,520 I get the feeling I'm being watched. 348 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:49,320 I can hear something. 349 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:59,080 Every now and then, I hear something. 350 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:03,520 I don't know, it's not a-- it's like, you know, 351 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,800 that single stepping crunch. 352 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,400 A little break of a stick or something. 353 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:11,960 I've heard two today. 354 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:18,160 But I am in no position to be hunting anything, 355 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,880 even if it is anything. 356 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,520 In my family, bow hunting was pretty much everything. 357 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:25,920 Yes, lovely shot. 358 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,720 I think growing up, I always looked up to my dad. 359 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:31,680 He just put a bow and arrow in my hand and-- 360 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:32,520 Beautiful. 361 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:34,160 --said, let's go get food. 362 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:35,520 So I'm pretty experienced with the bow. 363 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,200 We did enter a lot of competitions. 364 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:41,440 And yes, I was an Australian champion. 365 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,040 I just want to show you where I live. 366 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,520 It's like a little gypsy wagon, but on the back of a truck. 367 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:51,040 Not only do I live in it, but I also work out of it. 368 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:52,880 Home is outside for me. 369 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:56,640 So every day, I'm out there in the elements. 370 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,920 Cooking by the fire, growing food, foraging food. 371 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:05,080 In the last five years, I've been cooking plant based only. 372 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,040 See, I haven't eaten meat for about eight years. 373 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,920 I think the things that could send me home on Alone 374 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:16,160 are definitely starvation and lack of food. 375 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:20,720 I've thought a lot about how I'd feel if I had to kill animals 376 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:21,840 again. 377 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,280 And I think the higher level of care 378 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,280 that an animal gives to its offspring, 379 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:27,800 the harder it is to kill it. 380 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:33,120 So I'll start with fish, and I'll work my way up. 381 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:34,880 Animal trail. 382 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:39,160 It's pretty big. 383 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,000 So I'm guessing deer. 384 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:48,040 And they're able to step over quite high logs. 385 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,640 And then their next step. 386 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,840 And you can even see, like, disturbed soil. 387 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,160 TAMIKA (VOICEOVER): I've been veggo for a lot of years now. 388 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,800 And it's not because I don't love the taste of meat. 389 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:10,600 TAMIKA: Be the deer. 390 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,480 TAMIKA (VOICEOVER): If I kill my own, if I hunt my own, 391 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,120 I know that their suffering is so minimal. 392 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:24,320 But I'm probably not really ready for that yet. 393 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,040 So I'm goddamn hoping I catch a lot of fish. 394 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,680 But that doesn't mean I'm already preparing myself 395 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:35,680 and looking around and doing all the things that you need 396 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:37,240 to do if you're hunting. 397 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,600 CHACE (VOICEOVER): A lot of energy goes into hunting. 398 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,200 And, you know, if you're going to be a hunter, 399 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:07,880 you need some gatherers at home. 400 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,680 And if you don't have gatherers at home, 401 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:12,440 you need to be the gatherer. 402 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,000 Because that's where your money's at. 403 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:19,800 I found a few of these supplejacks around. 404 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,800 But as you can see, they're all getting 405 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,000 munched on pretty regularly. 406 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,600 It's a deer or something. 407 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:30,800 Coming through here. 408 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:31,960 Hungry. 409 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:33,000 Looks like they like these supplejacks. 410 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,080 And I found one here. 411 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,240 Look at that. 412 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,240 The first bit of native food I've found. 413 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:43,680 Nice and supple, as I suppose the name suggests. 414 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,240 Come down here where it breaks. 415 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:47,480 Got there. 416 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:51,720 Nice one. 417 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:55,560 Keep this face mask on because, as you can see, as soon as I 418 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,800 stop, the midgies come on in. 419 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,520 I've already found myself dinner in the form of that supplejack. 420 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,720 I would like to cook it, so if I can get a fire going for that, 421 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:14,720 that'd be nice. 422 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,360 So I'll just snap this stick here. 423 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:17,600 Found it. 424 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:18,800 It's a bit dry in the middle there, see? 425 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,600 Dry timber. 426 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,120 So all I'm going to do now is-- 427 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,400 [cutting sounds] 428 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,520 --make myself some nice flaky bits. 429 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:42,840 And that's going to be my tinder for starting this fire tonight. 430 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,680 CHACE (VOICEOVER): I've only got 10 items, you know. 431 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,400 And I couldn't bring some items in sacrifice of other items. 432 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,080 So you need to sort of figure out ways to get around 433 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:51,080 these things. 434 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:52,640 I didn't bring an ax. 435 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,080 I just brought a knife, and I made my knife nice and big 436 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:59,200 so that I could use it for snapping up my kindling 437 00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:00,080 and stuff like that. 438 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,000 And you just go to-- 439 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,800 you know, you figure out what you can and can't 440 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,640 do with what you can bring and then figure out 441 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,400 which ways you're going to substitute the things you 442 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,040 couldn't bring once you get there. 443 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:16,880 Having some dramas here. 444 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:20,360 Fucking bastards. 445 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:50,440 Come up here. 446 00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:00,080 Everything is just soaked through and sodden. 447 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,240 Wow, I'm so not used to this. 448 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:06,920 This is really dense. 449 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:08,440 Really wet. 450 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,080 LEANNE (VOICEOVER): Come from dry dirt, red dirt. 451 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,560 So this is the complete opposite. 452 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,320 Wow, this is crazy thick. 453 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:18,960 LEANNE (VOICEOVER): It's not going 454 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:22,880 to be easy as it would normally be just going bush and setting 455 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:24,240 up camp. 456 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,560 So what I'm bringing from my own culture 457 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,920 is respect for the land. 458 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:31,120 Hey, little fella. 459 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,360 Little birds just following me around. 460 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:40,440 OK. 461 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:45,120 Just need to get some sticks to peg my tarp down. 462 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:50,000 LEANNE (VOICEOVER): I don't think 463 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,520 I'm going to give up easy. 464 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,680 My biggest strength will be that I'm nunya. 465 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,600 And that means stubborn, because I am very stubborn. 466 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:02,160 And I'll go and go until I figure it out. 467 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:07,240 Or till I get the result that I want. 468 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:14,200 And hopefully the end result is being tapped on the shoulder 469 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:15,840 by Rob. 470 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,240 So Rob is my partner, and he was in season one of Alone 471 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:20,600 Australia. 472 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,080 Don't get sulky and tap out after one night. 473 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:24,240 I won't be doing that. 474 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,360 [chuckles] 475 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,760 I'm an Aboriginal heritage programs officer for National 476 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,640 Parks and Wildlife Service. 477 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,000 I'm 42. 478 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,960 I'm from Mildura, and I'm a Barkindji Aboriginal. 479 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:43,240 Growing up on country, you learn to be self-reliant. 480 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:44,680 ROB: See all the abbeys? 481 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:49,480 That starts from the time you're born right through. 482 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,640 I've learnt so much from my dad. 483 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,640 We didn't grow up with a lot of money. 484 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,560 Dad provided by, you know, going out bush, getting wild meat. 485 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,960 You learn by observing. 486 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,600 Go hunting or use a rifle to get meat. 487 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,320 I can fish and I can track. 488 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,200 I can read tracks. 489 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:12,040 Learning to read country, read animals and how they move 490 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,480 and why they move the way they do, you know, 491 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,000 that helps you to hunt them. 492 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,200 Oi, Mummy's leaving. 493 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:24,440 The ultimate goal is to hopefully win the money to buy 494 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,880 myself a little bit of land. 495 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:28,880 Good luck, eh. 496 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:29,800 Thank you. 497 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:31,600 Don't tap out after one night. 498 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,120 Sandflies are really bad. 499 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,560 LEANNE (VOICEOVER): I want it so much because I guess 500 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,920 as an Aboriginal person, you know, we've had so much taken. 501 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,120 And this is just my way of getting a little peace back. 502 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:54,040 Because that money will buy me my very own little piece 503 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,640 of land. 504 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:01,040 And not have to go and ask a white landholder, you know? 505 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,200 Well, my shelter's done. 506 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,720 I should be OK for tonight, at least. 507 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:31,760 Everything's wet. 508 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:34,280 Everything's soaked. 509 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:38,400 CHACE (VOICEOVER): Going into this experience, 510 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,640 my biggest strength is my adaptability. 511 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,760 Being a combat engineer itself, you know, 512 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:44,520 you have to think outside the box 513 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,560 to get things done with limited amount of tools, 514 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,360 without the right equipment. 515 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,840 And that nearly happens all the time. 516 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:59,200 So if at first you don't succeed, what do you do? 517 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:03,680 You drop your showbag and you throw your lollies everywhere. 518 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,240 No. 519 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:06,960 You just try a different way. 520 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,280 So I went up the hill there and I found this stuff 521 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,200 in a big old dead tree. 522 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,840 I think we're pretty much cooking with gas now. 523 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,680 Now that was a mission, huh? 524 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:27,680 Far out. 525 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,000 Day one, though. 526 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:30,360 Got the fire going. 527 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,400 Although it's not, you know, imperative to my survival 528 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,920 right now, it is-- 529 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,680 it's really good for upstairs, you know? 530 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:51,120 It means a lot to be able to accomplish this in such [bleep] 531 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:53,520 conditions, honestly. 532 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,400 Everything's wet, everything's moist. 533 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,680 But this just means a bit more life at home here. 534 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,480 I'm going to cook that supplejack now. 535 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:15,920 You can't eat it raw. 536 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,160 I heard it's better if you cook it, 537 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:22,120 so that's what we've done here. 538 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:23,040 Let's try the top. 539 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,280 Apparently the top's the-- 540 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,640 --the most subtle of the jack. 541 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:36,920 Geez. 542 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:38,080 Nah. 543 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:39,440 It's just straight up asparagus. 544 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,720 That's-- that's what it tastes like. 545 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,080 Tastes like asparagus. 546 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:44,320 Looks like asparagus. 547 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:45,680 It tastes like it, too. 548 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,200 MIKE (VOICEOVER): Having done resilience training for so long 549 00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,600 will certainly equip me for being out there alone. 550 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,640 I want to be able to test how far I can actually go 551 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:18,240 I'm knackered. 552 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,040 It's been a big day. 553 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:24,600 And I'm knackered. 554 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,320 [squawking] 555 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,680 Can you hear that? 556 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,080 [chuckles] 557 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:55,040 I hope you can. 558 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,760 It's a sound I've never heard before. 559 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,560 And boy, have I spent some time in the bush, 560 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,240 but I've never heard that before. 561 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:08,200 Have you? 562 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,080 I actually had a really good night. 563 00:34:48,240 --> 00:34:50,760 The bed was worrying me. 564 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,440 And although it reminded me a bit-- 565 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,640 you know when you go for-- 566 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,840 well, some people get really drunk when you're younger 567 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,520 and go to a festival. 568 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,960 And you stagger in your tent, and you realize 569 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,760 you've set up on a lean. 570 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,560 And there's lumps and you ache and you're freezing, 571 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:13,720 and you're just too drunk to do anything about it. 572 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,360 So I was sort of expecting that kind of feeling. 573 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:18,320 But it wasn't. 574 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,640 It was really cool. 575 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,240 The new day. 576 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:28,800 So anyway, I was so keen to walk this land and see what's here. 577 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,920 Oh my god, there's so much happening in this forest. 578 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:49,040 I love foraging, and I have studied herbal medicine. 579 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,200 And I found this thing. 580 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,120 It's so slimy. 581 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,960 Oh yeah. 582 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,080 It kind of says, don't touch me. 583 00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:00,800 That's why I poked my finger in it. 584 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:09,640 Massive. 585 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:16,960 Oh my gosh. 586 00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:24,920 All right. 587 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:25,800 We might keep going. 588 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,000 Just look at that. 589 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,680 Seriously. 590 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,600 If I didn't have to eat, I could just look at that all day. 591 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:46,600 At what point do I switch from, this is so beautiful, to, 592 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,400 I'm so hungry? 593 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:58,680 Still got that mindset that I'm OK, that I'm fed. 594 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:00,960 My body feels fed. 595 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:01,960 So-- 596 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:06,400 So I haven't switched yet. 597 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,760 RICK (VOICEOVER): The motivation for me at 58 years old, 598 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,520 to realize that that life is just getting started. 599 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,800 I'm physically and mentally at some of the primest time I've 600 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:43,640 been in my life. 601 00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:50,400 I heard the average person dies six years after they retire. 602 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,160 That scares [bleep] out of me. 603 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,880 The fact that you spend your life working, 604 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,520 and that's the result at the end of it. 605 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:03,640 Don't retire. 606 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,000 Keep doing the stuff you love in life 607 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,000 and just do it to the best of your ability. 608 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:08,840 Live your life to the fullest. 609 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,320 That's what I'm about. 610 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,160 [water splashing] 611 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,640 I am the captain of my ship. 612 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:37,360 I am the father to my sons and a husband to my wife. 613 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,400 I am the brother to my siblings. 614 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,680 And I am my own king. 615 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,840 RICK (VOICEOVER): I'm a former SAS soldier. 616 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,400 I've taken those skills into the bushcraft and survival arena, 617 00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,040 and I work a lot with fathers and sons and families 618 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,600 to teach them a skill set that I have come to love and enjoy. 619 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:03,200 I've done it pretty tough before, 620 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,640 and I'm prepared to push through those barriers again. 621 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,560 It is about doing it for my family. 622 00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:12,880 My wife and I have been together for 30 years, 623 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:18,000 and a key drive is that this will create for the future, 624 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,040 giving her and the boys things that maybe they haven't had 625 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,840 for the last 30 years. 626 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,000 Sort of feels real, doesn't it? 627 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:30,640 [laughs] 628 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,040 It's been a little bit more of a challenge 629 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,240 than I thought, getting this fire going. 630 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,720 RICK (VOICEOVER): I don't see tapping as being something 631 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:48,560 that I'm likely to do. 632 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:51,960 What I do is teach people the fundamentals of survival. 633 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,040 Teaching them the priorities. 634 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,360 How to create fire with very little. 635 00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,080 How to find water, how to filter it. 636 00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:00,680 How to make a shelter. 637 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,400 So they know what sequence to put them in to give themselves 638 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,920 the best chance of getting back to loved ones with a heartbeat. 639 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,960 Me old beard had a little bit of a pyro trim. 640 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:19,280 Bit of a singe. 641 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,160 It's a good thing it doesn't actually flare up. 642 00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,520 It just sort of singes the end of it. 643 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:28,320 But certainly no hairdressers out here, 644 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,760 so it's not a bad thing. 645 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:34,640 Yeah, got that rustic look to it. 646 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:39,800 I'm also going to utilize the hollow of this tree 647 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:46,160 trunk, which will lend itself to being 648 00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,720 able to get some dry kindling. 649 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,560 If it was a bit bigger, I'd sleep in there. 650 00:40:55,720 --> 00:41:00,520 Fire is such a key component to survival. 651 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:05,440 Whilst it's not always considered the first priority. 652 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,400 Well, generally not in Australia, it's not. 653 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:14,880 But once you move into cold environments, 654 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:19,240 it definitely takes on a whole new meaning. 655 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:23,480 But if can heat up this rock, that's 656 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:28,640 going to get sat inside my little wood cave. 657 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:33,920 That warmth will go a long way to drying out this material 658 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:34,640 even more. 659 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:52,480 Got to get a fire going. 660 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,600 Let's clear this area first. 661 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,720 [taps] 662 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,040 Hello, my friend's back. 663 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:03,920 Hello. 664 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:05,880 What are you doing back? 665 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:07,320 Hey? 666 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:08,040 Cool. 667 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:17,000 That little cheeky bugger was trying to take my lifejacket. 668 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:18,440 Hey. 669 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,480 I'm not meant to disturb you, but you can't have it. 670 00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,960 I might have to be on the-- 671 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:25,960 on patrol tonight. 672 00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:27,840 MIKE (VOICEOVER): I've had some very dear mates of mine, 673 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,920 great rugby players, people have associated with rugby, Rugby 674 00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,280 Union, who have unfortunately taken their own lives. 675 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:38,400 And that saddens me. 676 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:43,240 And I see with men, let's say of my vintage, 677 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,440 that-- we can lack direction. 678 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:49,120 When the children grow up and leave home and we've 679 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:52,000 worked so hard all our lives to get to a certain place 680 00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:53,600 where we want to be. 681 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,400 And when it all may disappear, there's often a journey lost. 682 00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,280 Where do I go now? 683 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:05,040 And the outdoors has helped me heal in a very real way. 684 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,200 I feel connected. 685 00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:08,800 I feel free. 686 00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:09,280 Come on. 687 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,280 Oh yes. 688 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:12,960 Oh yes. 689 00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:18,120 I just saw my first worm. 690 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,000 There it is. 691 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:21,600 Oh, stop it there. 692 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:23,360 We do have worms. 693 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,160 Yee-haw. 694 00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:27,200 That's a good sign. 695 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:28,520 That's made me happy. 696 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,960 MIKE (VOICEOVER): The vessel I live in is 60 years old. 697 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:43,640 And bottom line is, I could fall over and I could pass away, 698 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,240 and nature would still continue on. 699 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:48,840 Getting a sweat up doing this. 700 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:54,760 Getting stiff. 701 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:55,560 Getting cold. 702 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,720 [snapping] 703 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:14,680 It's a bit a bit damp. 704 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:16,280 I should still get it, though. 705 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:17,160 Let's get this. 706 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:24,600 [groans] 707 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:31,480 I'm knackered. 708 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:34,360 See what happens. 709 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,720 [coughs] 710 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:46,480 Get some dried tether tomorrow. 711 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,840 [coughs] 712 00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:58,800 Really, really tight in my chest. 713 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:00,400 Oh god. 714 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,040 How perfect is this? 715 00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:42,360 Feel privileged to be here. 716 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:56,640 I'm under no false illusions that things will get tougher. 717 00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,440 Way tougher. 718 00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:00,760 That's what I'm here for. 719 00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:06,920 It's like rocks on stillwater. 720 00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,960 You know that means. 721 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:11,240 We've gotten privileged. 722 00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:15,720 I feel every father or father figure 723 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:22,720 it's just been time teaching a young bloke how to skip stones. 724 00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,160 RICK (VOICEOVER): I think it's extremely important 725 00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,000 to have a good relationship with my sons. 726 00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,920 I know even at this stage they're-- 727 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,600 you know, they're men now, 24 and 26 years old. 728 00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:44,680 And they still look at me and look at the way 729 00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:46,280 I treat their mother. 730 00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:50,120 I find that's important, that they see love and respect. 731 00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:54,280 She's been my rock and soulmate all of my life. 732 00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:11,240 It's my wife's 60th birthday. 733 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:12,640 Happy birthday, my darling. 734 00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,200 You're probably about 4,500 kilometers away. 735 00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:23,320 I guess I wish I was with you. 736 00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:27,560 But I'm with you in my heart. 737 00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,840 I feel like we all miss our families when we're apart. 738 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:52,440 I think when they say absence makes the heart grow fonder, 739 00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:53,880 that's what they're talking about. 740 00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:00,720 I think you realize how much you take people for granted 741 00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:05,320 or just don't fully appreciate them until they're not 742 00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:06,080 around you. 743 00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,640 Make the most of those times that they are there. 744 00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:20,080 Would have been quite a celebration, our 60th. 745 00:48:20,240 --> 00:48:21,880 Celebration's for my wife. 746 00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,080 Good night to my darling and good night to my boys. 747 00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,800 [groaning in pain] 748 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:14,800 [phone ringing] 749 00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:26,000 WOMAN: Hello? 750 00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:27,240 Are you there? 751 00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,160 Hello? 752 00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,600 I just got these pains in my-- 753 00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,160 I've got these pains in my chest. 754 00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,960 I'm so scared. 755 00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,920 [groaning in pain] 756 00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:55,760 [phone ringing] 757 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,520 MAN: It's going to get colder and wetter as the weeks go on. 758 00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:39,920 RICK (VOICEOVER): You don't realize 759 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,480 how hard it is until you're just here by yourself. 760 00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:43,920 I wouldn't go back. 761 00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:45,520 [chuckls] 762 00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:46,760 I'm here to win. 763 00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:48,000 I'm targeting 100 days. 764 00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:50,680 And if I get to 100, I can just keep going. 765 00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:51,560 Beautiful. 766 00:50:51,720 --> 00:50:53,200 Three days without Tucker. 767 00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,040 That's a long time. 768 00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:56,440 We need to bring some food in. 769 00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:57,880 Look at that! 770 00:50:58,040 --> 00:50:59,360 Two stonky trout. 771 00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:00,760 That's just lovely. 772 00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:01,440 [honks] 773 00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:02,880 The hell is that? 774 00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:04,400 (WHISPERING) I thought I saw something. 775 00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:05,880 Definitely something big. 776 00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:06,520 Look at that. 777 00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:07,760 He's right there. 778 00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:09,360 There's actually something to eat here. 779 00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:10,360 Come on, come on.