[suspenseful music]
South Is of New Zealand, it's an epic place.
It's wet.
It's cold.
It's snowy.
If you don't respect the environment here,
it will slap you hard.
I just need to bring some food in.
Oh.
It's a male.
Look at that stonker.
[chuckles]
Last night was pretty intense.
There was deer all around me.
It was freaking delicious.
I know how tough it's going to be.
Terrible wail of doom.
You've got to feel safe.
Otherwise, you just die out here.
My god, I miss them.
[sobbing]
It doesn't feel as bad as it looks.
It feels worse.
Oh, this [bleep] just got real.
Jesus.
I'm scared enough to have an emergency tap out in my hand.
The last person standing, they take home $250,000.
[phone tone]
I just got these pains in my chest.
[gasps] Somebody help me!
Well, you need to talk about it tougher.
[moans]
Things just got real.
There's a real beauty here but there's also
a real element of danger.
So long, farewell, and amen.
We're now allowed to hunt with bow and arrow.
It's something I'm comfortable with.
[sighs] Everything is just soaked through and sodden.
I can hear something.
I haven't eaten meat for about eight years.
At what point do I switch from this is so beautiful to I'm
so hungry?
I've got deer track and they're fresh.
I'm not alone.
Oh, Jesus, the weight in that.
I'm willing to push myself to my ultimate limits to win.
[coughs and spits]
[phone tone]
What's happening with you?
I've got these pains in my chest.
[tense music]
CREW: 600 meters out.
Mike, we're just coming out to you.
How are you going?
I'm scared actually.
Yeah, yeah, I could tell on the phone.
So what time did it start?
At 6 o'clock.
6 o'clock, so it's going to be going on four hours.
Yeah, yeah.
And did you say it's worse when you're lying down?
Yeah, yeah, it just goes bang.
It's really up here in my chest.
Really, really sore?
I think what I would like to do if you don't mind, just check
your numbers, um--
Yeah, sure.
You're not on any medication, are you?
No, none at all.
Yeah.
So let's just check your blood pressure there.
It would just come really intensely.
And
So I think what we need to do Michael is get you checked out
properly because you will need to have an ECG.
Yeah.
But to do that is probably the easiest to do on the boat.
Are you OK with help to get on to the boat?
Yeah.
Come with me.
Take it nice and slow.
[groans]
So if you want to lean back on to the bag
there again so you don't have to be completely flat.
Is it worse when you move your arms around or necessarily--
It's not, it's not.
It's just deep breaths, you know?
How old are you?
Now?
60.
DOCTOR: Yeah, I understand.
Yeah.
It'd be a pretty scary experience.
Yeah.
MICHAEL: At my age, whenever you think about chest pain,
you can't help but think it could be something drastic.
What is my limit?
Have I reached my limit?
That's why I made the call.
I'm just going to take this off
and then you can put your shirt back on.
So that looks pretty good to me, yeah.
But we'll need to do formal ECGs just to make sure.
Yeah, well, we might just go.
Yeah.
[engine whirring]
[groans]
You did the right thing, Mike, to call us.
Yeah.
MICHAEL (VOICEOVER): My whole life,
I've just tried to be strong, trying to be tough,
trying to nurture everyone around me.
This "Alone" experience was for me.
It was something I wanted to do.
Winning "Alone" and winning the prize
would have been a world of difference to me and the kids,
but I think my kids are really proud.
I thought I was going to die.
I really thought I was going to die .
And it's not my time.
It's not my time to die.
[intriguing music]
So yeah, today day three, I think I can feel a bowel motion
coming on.
Sure, you didn't want to hear that.
Too much information.
[music playing]
Nothing's been stirring.
This morning, we're going, hey, it's about time.
If, when I go to the toilet, you're
probably wondering about toilet paper, it's old man's beard.
Not this beard.
This one.
That, handful of that, like sorbent four ply.
Let me find something a little bit more moist.
This one, a bit more scratchy.
To be kind to the old butt, I think I'll go old man's beard.
[music playing]
Today I'm going to modify my current sleeping situation.
It won't be nothing too fancy, but I want to get in there
and change the bedding system.
Whilst it might not seem priority, it sort of is.
If my sleep deteriorates or I get a wet backside
from bad weather coming in, then that
can play with the headspace.
And I don't want nothing in there playing around.
There's a very slight decline this way,
which doesn't have me necessarily rolling down
the hill, but you're aware of it when you're sleeping.
So with my log, I tend to lay it as a retainer.
I'm just trying to recess this in a bit
and then build all this area up with more debris
so that it gets me up off the ground a little bit more.
Once I get some insulation of those
leaves back over the top of this,
I think we'll be laughing.
With my skillsets as a bushcraft and survival instructor,
I feel I'm very prepared.
I've recently taken to the social media platform of TikTok
to share my survival and bushcraft knowledge.
I actually have followers that I lovingly called bush tokers.
Good day, bush tokers.
Yeah, good day, bush tokers.
Don't start chewing away on plants and berries and seeds
and things, unless you're absolutely sure.
There are some plants in Australia
that are pretty unforgiving and you'll end up in a hurt locker
or a diarrhea or vomiting.
I just had a cricket jump into the campfire.
So that's pretty secure there.
If it does move, I'll just drive in a couple of stakes, which
I may do anyway just to ensure it doesn't shift
during the night.
My secret weapon will be my life skills.
Out here, you need to improvise, overcome, adapt,
use whatever's around you to achieve
what it is you're trying to do.
This will definitely take me from any moisture that
may be coming up.
The reason I'm taking on this challenge is for the experience
and to push myself as far as I can be pushed.
I believe I have what it takes to be here
at the end of the series.
OK, so that's task complete.
One bed modified.
It's GSD day, Get [bleep] Done.
[music playing]
Underwear, good size.
I'm going to make a makeshift bag.
So I can fill it up with berries and whatever I can find eating,
so at least, I have something in my stomach tonight.
Let's finish this off with a reef knot
and then it should be good.
There you go, got a bag.
[intriguing music]
I'm a personal trainer by trade, model by occupation--
[camera shutters]
--hunter and gatherer at heart.
All right, so this is the my meat freezer
where I'll keep wild meat.
This is some pork, so two roasts.
And this is some goat.
We'll come home, break up whatever we caught,
I'll butcher it, date it, vacuum seal it, put it into freezer.
I class myself as an ethical hunter.
I want to get a good shot.
I want to respect the animal.
Yeah, that's right.
And I get to take that resource and use it.
Back up, buddy.
I get meat.
I get everything else.
I'll try to utilize as much as I can.
So let's take a hike now and then.
Try to make use of it, learn.
I was born in Sweden.
My mom worked as a butcher.
You know, she'd buy a half a pig or something, cut it up,
put it in a deep freezer.
But hunting is something I took up later in life.
So I'm well and truly capable of feeding myself in the bush.
I gained a lot of weight for the show,
probably carrying in excess of 15 kilos
more than I normally do.
I can win.
I can do this and I can win it.
I think I have the skills to do it,
but mother nature will always have a big finger in the game.
I've got my bows and arrows all set up
and I'm going to walk, see what my land has to offer.
[music playing]
Food's going to be a priority in the first couple of days.
Just got to slow down the weight loss as much as I can.
And to do that, I need to eat.
Massive tree is down.
This looks swampy.
[groans]
That's a slight slip.
This is freaking ridiculous.
You have no idea of how dense this is.
Most of the forest looks like this.
To be able to hunt with a bow and arrow,
you need to be able to read animals.
You need to be able to be stealthy enough to sneak up
on them and get close enough to get the shot.
Animals are far superior to humans.
They see better than us.
They hear better than us.
They have better senses.
I need to find out what's actually
in the forest before I--
hey, this is a good find.
That looks like red deer scat to me.
That means there's a red deer in this area.
It's fresh and big.
That would feed me for three months.
My motivation has gone up.
There's actually something to eat here.
It's hard to move quietly.
One set of hoof prints.
Looks like a deer.
[exciting music]
I saw something between the trees.
[music playing]
[bird chirping]
I thought I saw something between the trees.
I can hear something in front of me.
It's definitely something big enough
to snap a couple of twigs.
[bleats]
That was the first animal I heard, but he walked off.
Hunting for deer, it's just a lot harder than I thought.
Like, everything is damp and the bushes dense ass.
I did a big stalk, did a big bush bash.
I haven't had the best of luck, have I?
You know what?
I'm going to get some berries.
I know I said this was a hunting but I've
got to have some dinner.
They look a little bit like tree tomatoes actually.
[music playing]
I wonder if you boil a soup on them.
Oh, I found a tree fern.
Oh, something more to eat.
This is good.
I'll take one leaf.
I'll try to cook it up and we'll see.
My forager bag.
I actually walked further than I thought.
I want to be back in good time to make a fire
and eat my berries.
[music playing]
Who is that handsome devil?
Hmm.
[music playing]
[humming]
All right.
[groans]
We haven't had rain yet but I know a place that gets, like,
seven meters of rain annually.
Chances are it's definitely coming
and it'll be coming hard.
[humming] So we might start work on the permanent shelter.
In order to be able to survive in the wilderness,
building the shelter is essential.
We need to be prepared for the roaring winds, subzero
temperatures, snow.
My name is Krzysztof.
This is my place.
[music playing]
I've been living here since 2010 and I've been slowly trying
to turn this into my little slice of paradise.
I do pretty much everything around the house myself.
I'll fix things.
I've built a rock wall, built a smokehouse.
Definitely a Jack of all trades.
Ever since I was in nappies, growing up,
I'd be out camping with the family
and that's been something that I've been doing my entire life.
I can hunt.
I can fish.
I'm an agriculturalist, so I've got a pretty strong grasp
of fish and what fish do.
And eat your greens.
How they feed, how they like to school.
Fishing line.
This is paracord.
Stubborn is the word.
If I dig my heels in, I dig my heels in.
Well, guys, this is it, I'm targeting 100 days.
And if I get to 100, I can just keep going.
Bye, baby.
Erin, my partner is super supportive.
She is 100% behind me.
I'm incredibly confident.
This competition was built for me.
I'm here to win.
So to build this shelter, I've decided to start
with just the basic a-frame.
I was thinking about how I'm going to join these two
pieces together so they're going to come in like this.
I don't want them--
I don't want them like this.
Want them like this.
So what I figure is I'll cut a little groove in this one
and a little notch in this one, so you can basically
go like that.
If I want to make something, I'll generally build it first
in my head.
I need a hammer.
I'll improvise things where I need to.
I'll adapt where I need to.
And then I'll overcome the problems.
That's one side.
So I've seen a lot of pictures, I've
read a lot of information about different shelters
and how they're built. Beautiful.
And this has been like the first real opportunity to do it.
Feel like it was made for it.
So that's the water pushing pot.
And once we get a good base layer going,
we'll just cover it with BUSH matter and rinse and repeat.
So I've decided, rather than using moss,
I'm just going to use all this detritus that's down here.
It's perfect for the chinking.
And that'll prevent any wind sweeping through the shelter.
I'll feel good once it's sort of enclosed.
I want to be comfortable and I feel that being comfortable
is the key to winning.
When the weather goes to crap, I've got somewhere
to hide out, keep warm.
Beautiful.
[intriguing music]
Already, that sun's dropped behind the clouds
behind the mountain over there and it's freezing already.
This is what I shredded up this morning
and laid out on the rocks in the sun to dry.
I can use that for my fire tonight.
It's definitely been an adventure.
And my mom used to always say, live life to the fullest
and do what makes you happy.
Oh, I miss her so much.
Family is everything.
Can I have a big cuddle?
Rob from season one is my other half.
We've made a beautiful family together.
Jump on 5.
LEANNE (VOICEOVER): We got our big boy Kobe, a little girl
Karali.
[chuckles]
LEANNE (VOICEOVER): The ultimate goal
is to win the money to buy Rob, Kobe, and Karali a little bit
of land.
Oh, it's very bright.
I have to have a fire.
[music playing]
Fire is very important to aboriginal people.
Like, you have a fire to cook with, to boil your water,
but the smoke from a fire is also protection.
Fire makes you feel safe.
Imagine going camping or being stuck in the bush
and not having a fire.
Smoke keeps those sandflies away as well,
so that's a good thing.
Just thinking about a poem we used to recite every morning
when I went to Worawa Aboriginal College.
It was written by the founder of the school, Hyllus Maris.
I am a child of the dreamtime people, part of this land
like the gnarled gum tree.
I awakened here when the Earth was new.
There was emu, wombat, kangaroo.
No other man a different hue.
I am this land and this land is me.
I am Australia.
I thought that was such a beautiful poem.
[soft music]
I really miss my family.
I know they'd be at home and they'd have a lovely fire going
in the backyard as well, probably thinking about me.
Being away from my family, like, that's not normal for Rob.
We do everything together.
Everybody has a role to play.
And being here alone, you've got to do it all by yourself.
Those berries I found and picked today,
I chucked them in some water and then one little stalk
of the tree fern.
Just want to see how it turns out boiling.
It's a bit of a soup.
Like, it looks horrendous.
I don't know if you can see.
It's just leaves and a brown yellow juice smell.
I'll try this fern first.
Oh, Jesus.
Well, it's severely fibrous.
Can't eat the stalk in the middle.
That is what comes out of it.
It's basically like sawdust.
Let's try what the juice tastes like.
Can I get it down?
Sure.
[grunts]
Oh.
Can't survive on berries for very long.
For me to be able to stay here long term,
I'll have to be successful at hunting and fishing.
I got to get my [bleep] together and find some protein.
All right, that's it for tonight.
Good night.
[intriguing music]
TAMIKA (VOICEOVER): In this little spot,
I don't get any sun here.
And it's beautiful here but it's freaking freezing and it's wet.
I've seen nothing here.
Like, every time I check water and I just see--
I don't see much here at all.
Where there's sun, there's more birds.
There's more worms in the ground.
There's more plant food.
Yes.
So I've chosen a new location to build my permanent shelter.
I'm going to take a chance and I'm going to move to the sun.
But there's a bit of a hike.
I don't know it wouldn't be a K away.
It's probably as the crow flies, 400 meters.
500, 600 meters.
I've got no idea.
Just prep yourself and hump that gear over.
All right, that's me.
[groans]
It's a big amount of energy to move.
My problem is food, lack of.
Because energy out here is everything.
I'm actually excited to go over there.
Oh, imagine spending a day in the sun building shelter.
Oh, God, I could dry my underpants.
I could just them, him, I reckon, in, like, a day.
[moans]
I know it will be so good.
It's worth it.
I'm just so tired.
You've got to constantly be making sure
what you're doing is safe.
Now be careful.
Slow down here.
[groans] You're kind of in a little bit of a blur, you know?
And the simplest of things just sometimes is not so simple.
[thud]
That freaking hurt.
Take a breath.
God, any slower, I wouldn't be moving.
I feel like I'm running a slow, painful marathon.
Oh, I've arrived.
[chuckles] The relief.
Just look at this sunlight over here.
It was just such a big effort today.
[moans] And I am just incredibly exhausted.
I'm so happy though.
Hello, you beautiful thing.
So relieved to be here.
But I'm not out of the woods yet.
I need to build a shelter.
I need to build a bed and I need to do it before nightfall.
[music playing]
[sighs]
Well, I'm getting a little bit hungry.
I want to go chase one of these bloody stags down.
I know they've pissed off back up the hills,
so I'm probably going to have to bust my ass getting up
that mountain behind me here.
You need to have a lot of energy before you go out
and spend such a huge amount on hunting.
So I'm just going to try fishing today because it's a good way
to get, you know, good food.
I am a very confident hunter.
It is what I am good at.
But my biggest strength is my adaptability.
I need to catch some fish and catch some food.
We got four lines out now.
That'll do.
More lines, more chance to catch fish.
[music playing]
We'll just sit here for the day, keep an eye on them
and spend the day on the beach.
Wait for a fish to bite, I guess.
Not much else to do today.
There we go, we just got something on this line.
Oh, brother.
Come on now.
Please be a fish.
It is a big eel.
He's doing the death roll on me.
Come on now, my brother.
Oh, I think it's a big eel.
That really sucks.
Come on.
Oh, you silly bugger.
What did you do that for?
It's all right, I'm not going to hurt you.
You're too slippery to get a hold of.
It's a shame we can't eat them.
A lot of food right there to be letting go like that.
Come on.
[chuckles] He's got my hook.
Oh, that's proper in his gullet.
Oh, well, I'll have to just cut it out.
It's a loss of a hook anyways.
Come on, here, mate, you'll be all right if you stop moving.
There you are.
[sighs]
Yeah, it's a shame.
It's a real shame.
Along down that beach.
I like fishing and all, but not when it's like a chore
like that.
I'm so bored at looking at them bobbers.
Hoping that a fish takes it.
But I will give it another crack.
It's not the end of my fishing endeavors here.
See what tomorrow brings me.
This stick is pretty heavy so set it there.
My mood is down.
Four days without Tucker is a long time.
I miss my kids.
I miss my home.
I miss my partner Rob.
I was highly considering tapping last night.
Anyways, I didn't bring a picture of Rob and my kids
because I thought that would be the reason I'd
want to tap and go home.
But what I did bring was a picture of my mom and dad.
And they've always made me believe I can do anything.
[sobbing]
They've both passed.
They both passed of cancer.
She was in her early 40s.
Like, she would have been around my age.
Everything I've done in life is to make them proud,
and I know they are.
[birds chirping]
It's my dad that gave me the love of being out bush.
And mom would always say live life to the fullest.
Don't worry about what other people think.
It doesn't matter.
You only live life once.
Do what makes you happy.
But right now, I think they'd be saying, you know,
family is the most important thing.
And if you want to go home, go home.
Because I could be at home in the bush with my family,
making memories and living every day in the moment
because you never know when someone's going to go.
[somber music]
[dialing on phone]
[intriguing music]
Hello.
Yes, this is Leanne.
I'm officially tapping out.
Ready to go.
This has just made me realize how important family is.
It just makes you think, why be here alone
when I can be at home making memories with my kids
before it's my time?
I guess that's my biggest realization.
I don't want them to miss out on having me around.
I'm done and I'm happy with the decision.
I'm not going to have any regrets at all.
Life's too short.
No amount of money in the world is worth
being away from my family.
The day I arrived, there was a little fantail following me
around.
And then I didn't see him the second day or the third day.
And then today, leaving, the fantail came back.
I just thought, you know, this is the right decision.
He's sort of come to say goodbye.
At least, I beat Rob by just one night.
So I'm happy with that.
We really do put our family first.
Well, I guess it's this experience that really, really
makes you realize that.
I need to build a shelter.
A-frame.
Tripod actually because I got nothing here.
And my bed will just be over this side.
I'm just going to simplify it down big time.
I'm not having guests.
It doesn't need to be pretty.
It just needs to do a job.
And I just need to get this done before dark.
There's all sorts of reasons why you come out here
to a place like this.
A big part of it was pretty simple,
I just want to challenge myself.
So I think I'm doing it about now like today.
I don't want to actually run myself down too quick.
But no matter what, I've got to get this bed done.
I think we're getting there.
[grunts]
Oh, you are going to put that on, aren't you?
[chuckles]
Well, that was good to find out now.
[music playing]
Being out here all alone, it's 100%
not about what you own, how much money you make,
what you look like.
That'll make a good outside one cause it's a bit--
it's just-- thicker-- you and what abilities
you have to keep you alive.
[exhales deeply] I'm done.
It was just such a big effort today.
I had to, like, start again.
I can't wait for the time that comes when I can just come out
of the shelter and just spend all day looking for food.
[intriguing music]
As soon as you jump out of bed, bang,
you're getting smashed by these midges.
They're never ending.
They never stop coming.
Can't even put my shoes on quick enough
without them just smashing my feet.
Alls I want to do is do some fishing again today,
give it another crack.
Seems to be a bit of current in the lake today.
Yesterday, it was a bust.
Didn't catch any fish and lost a hook.
That naughty eel.
What do you do?
Just going to keep fishing.
[suspenseful music]
Oh, the sun's finally out.
Maybe that'll get the fish moving.
All right, there we go.
We just got something on this line.
Let's find out.
Come on now, buddy.
What have you got for me?
Oh.
[chuckles] We've got a fish on here.
[uplifting music]
Yoo-hoo.
Check him out.
Oh.
Oh, first fish.
How lucky is that?
Well, mate, you're not a bad size too.
You'll do for my dinner.
Bloody hell.
Hang on, let me just--
these midges keep getting in my bloody eyeballs.
Holy moly.
Hey, he's not too bad, hey?
Yoo-hoo.
Beautiful colors, right?
[clicks tongue] Yee-ha.
How good is that?
I'll cook him up for tea tonight, hey?
Cool.
Geez, that makes me feel good.
I had no idea the bastard was even on there.
Oh, God, he's slippery.
A bit of fish guts, put them here for bait.
going to absolutely pig out tonight.
Now I'm going to try to fit this whole damn fish
in this two-quart pot.
[chuckles] Maybe I've got to cook him in two lots.
Doesn't really matter.
Look at that, beautiful pink.
Isn't it just lovely?
Mm, it's going to tastes so good.
Whole fish for dinner, eh?
Well, let's have some tea.
Ooh, la, la.
Oh, sure you know what trout tastes like.
It's even better now.
But this is it, day five knocked on the head.
If I just keep this up, this will be me.
Now I'm going to survive and stay out here for as long
as it takes.
Last night, there was deer all around me.
[tense music]
Oh, I think I've got a couple of 100 bites on me now.
Lots and lots of mirror berries.
My heart rate's going quite fast.
That might take me out.
I thought I heard something.
Where's my shovel?
[groans]
Oh, [bleep]