All language subtitles for Life Below Zero S11E03 No Guarantees_track3_[eng]

NARRATOR: For Alaskans
living off the land,
timing is everything.

CHIP: Get it, baby girl!

NARRATOR: Vital resources
are only available
for a brief period...

CHIP: Hurry up,
it's getting away.

NARRATOR:
And then they're gone.

GLENN: If everything goes
right, it's only gonna
take one to kill a moose.

NARRATOR: One moment can make
or break the entire season.

At the point of no return.

CHIP: There's caribou
scattered all along that hill.

NARRATOR: Alaskans must
do whatever it takes to get
what they need to survive...

CHIP: It's hard to shoot
in the wind like this.

NARRATOR: Before
time runs out.

AGNES: Ah, my gun is freezing.

(theme music plays).

NARRATOR: In the fall,

Glenn Villeneuve
embarks on his most
critical hunt of the year.

GLENN: My name is
Glenn Villeneuve.

I live 200 miles north
of Fairbanks in the
Brooks Range of Alaska.

I'm a 60-mile walk
from the nearest road.

My nearest neighbor lives
I don't know how far away.

I picked this place because
nobody else was utilizing
the resources here.

It was a place where I
could go hunt, trap, fish,
live as close to the land

as I wanted to.

And it's the place
I consider home.

It's early in the morning.

It's just barely starting
to get light out and
this is the first day that

I've decided that
I wanna look for a moose.

With almost nothing else
to eat, I can get by for
six months on a moose.

Okay, that has a razor
sharp edge on it now.

That'll shave hair
right off of my arm.

When you're eating very
little carbohydrate like
I often am out here,

I have to get about
three quarters of my
calories from fat.

Mm. Fat is hard to find.

A lot of animals
don't have enough fat
to go with the meat.

The really critical
thing is to get a moose
with a lot of fat on it.

This is the time of year
when the moose are mating and
the bull moose stop eating.

And every day that
passes, the longer it
takes me to get a moose,

the leaner that moose
is likely to be.

This magazine holds
four rounds, but if
everything goes right,

it's only gonna take
one to kill a moose.

When I pull the trigger
and that moose drops, that's
six months food right there.

I have to be really
careful not to make noise.

More often than not,
I've detected moose by ear
rather than by seeing them.

A lot of times, it takes
10 days to find a moose before
I get a good shot at one,

so I just have to
be patient and pace myself,
keep my energy going so that

I can get a moose and then
still have energy left
to get the moose home.

I just heard a moose.

I gotta get across
this wet area before
I can start calling.

Once I get on the other
side of the water, I'll try
to get him on good ground.

If I kill him
in this wet spot,

it would be a disaster
trying to get him out of here.

Hunting on foot,

I can't cover nearly
as much territory as
if I had a motorboat or

I was in an area where I
was using a four-wheeler.

I see a big moose.

I can't tell if it's
a cow or a bull.

I can't see the head yet.

I can't see the antlers.

It's a cow and a bull.

I can only shoot bulls.

If I can get that
bull, it's gonna be worth
dragging it down from here,

but I can't go much further.

(moose calls).

They keep moving further
away from me into the forest,

further and further
away from the lake.

And I really need to get
them close to the lake
so I can get him home.

The bull's right
behind the cow.

I can't shoot right now.

It moved.

It takes days walking
around to find a moose.

Then you gotta get
close enough to it.

I'm just getting way too
far away from the lake.

If I had to move a moose
from here all the way down,
I'd have my hands full.

It would take me a few
days probably to get it home,

so I've pretty much
given up on this one.

It's a beautiful moose.

That's too bad.

It's just a beautiful bull.

Every year that I've
been out here, I've
always gotten a moose.

And it's always scary
because there's always the
chance I don't get one.

And if I don't get a moose,
it would be really hard
for me to live out here.

CHIP: We're always
thinking about the future.

You know, you wanna
stock things up.

You wanna prepare
yourself for later life.

All that stuff.

You watch your kids grow.

You think about the things
you wanna accomplish,
and you work towards them.

But you know,
we live in today.

We enjoy every day for today.

AGNES: Carol, you gotta get
you a weapon of your choice.

NARRATOR: Chip
and Agnes Hailstone spend
their summers in Kiwalik,

harvesting meat for
the winter and teaching
their daughters

native hunting methods
critical at this time of year.

AGNES: There's not very
many ducks or geese flying,
so they must be molting.

So, we're gonna go out and
go take a walk towards the
lakes and ponds back there,

and go see what the
birds are doing.

CHIP: The summertime
the females are off
raising their babies,

and the males all fly
to lakes and stuff.

And when they molt, their
feathers are coming out
and their growing new ones.

They're flightless for
about maybe a week or so.

They're grouped up
for mutual protection.

It gives a chance of getting
a bunch of ducks at one time.

The thing is that birds leave.

They migrate south and
we don't see them until
next May, next June.

So it doesn't give us
much time to get at them.

QUTAN: Woo, watch out, pup.

Sorry!

AGNES: We're not gonna
use any firearms, but I am
gonna carry some in case the

bears or other
animals come around.

But we're gonna take our
clubs and our paddles.

CHIP: Whack it.

This is a harpoon.

If there's a duck or
something I can spear
it or I can whack it.

Yep, beat it in the head.

AGNES: This is actually
a legal way to hunt.

It's way cheaper to
do a hunt this way.

We don't have to use
any ammo or anything but our
energy to try to catch them.

Shall we?

CHIP: Yup.

AGNES: Come on,
puppy dog. Let's go.

CHIP: These are big mud flats.

This is where the
valley meets the ocean.

It's a little
deep here, girls.

This is swampy, mushy, marshy.
This is a very difficult walk.

Climb aboard.

AGNES: Ugh!

CHIP: There's a lot of places
where the moss is really deep.

There's a lot of places
where the mud is really deep.

People trip, twist their
ankles, fracture their ankles.

All kinds of bad things
can happen on this tundra
when you're walking it

with heavy loads.

So you try to take it
as light as possible.

AGNES: We reached
the lakes, Qutan.

You gotta keep
you girls' eyes open
for ducks now and stuff.

CHIP: Why don't you guys
get on that side, and
I'll go along this edge,

and see what I can knock out.

AGNES: Try not to
go too far ahead.

CHIP: Just don't shotgun
(inaudible), good luck.

AGNES: Yup.

CHIP: Good luck, ladies.

GLENN: For me, living
involves hunting and
killing in order to live.

It's the natural cycle,
part of the cycle
of life and death,

and I'm participating in
it every day out here.

It's my fifth day hunting
moose now and I'm over
in an area that I know is

a good spot for moose
at this time of year.

I'm gonna move down in here
carefully this morning and see
if I can find a bull moose.

Living up here in the
Arctic in the winter, it
takes a lot of energy.

It takes a lot of food.

I eat a lot.

I eat about three pounds
of meat every day.

Meat and fat, that's
what sustains me
in the cold weather.

(moose call).

Here he comes.

See, he's waving his antlers
at me just like this.

He thinks I'm a
moose right now.

He's coming to fight me off.

He's got a cow over there.

He doesn't want me
mating with that cow.

He wants that cow for himself.

He's gonna go out in
that open field, I hope.

I just gotta get
lined up for the shot.

(scraping noises).

GLENN: He doesn't want
me mating with that cow.

He wants that cow for himself.

(gunshot).

I got him.

I got him. He's down.

That's a nice
looking bull too.

There goes the cow
that was with him.

She's out of here now.

She's in estrus.

She's mooing and mooing.

She's wanting to get bred and
he thinks that I'm another
bull coming to take his cow.

He doesn't want that, so
he came over here to fight.

He was over here
to chase me off.

This is the fifth day
looking for a moose.

I've walked about 25
miles looking for this
moose around the lake.

It's dead.

If I had very
little else to eat,

just this moose
here would feed me for

almost six months.

It's really an important
moment for me to
get a moose like this.

It was a lot of work, but
I got him and I got six
months food right here.

It's a good moment for me.

I would rather live this
way by hunting than by
buying my food in a store.

That's the way
I live out here.

It's the natural cycle.

CHIP: We're always thinking
about the future, and
saving food for tomorrow.

You know, you can't hold onto
it like money in the bank.

You gotta let it go.

It all disappears.

It's a consumable commodity.

So, we're always
looking for more.

NARRATOR: In Kiwalik,

the Hailstones
only have a few days to
hunt ducks when they are

molting and flightless.

CHIP: Just baby ducks.

AGNES: There goes puppy.

I've been watching the
puppy dog, and it's been
running all over the place,

and I haven't seen it scare
any birds or ducks up yet.

So, we're just gonna keep
going around the lake.

CHIP: There's a
bunch of ducks.

Oh, right there.

CHIP: Keep walking,
keep walking...

CHIP: You got it!
Get it, hit it again!

You got it.

Get it, just reach down
and grab it with your hand.

Hurry up, it's getting away!

AGNES: Grab it before it go.

CHIP: Hurry up, grab it,
it's not gonna hurt you!

CAROL: Oh, get him, ooh!

CHIP: Just wring its neck.

AGNES: That's
called cup of soup.

We got a cup of soup.

We always call them when
they're small like that.

They're just right for
just a cup of soup, but
that's Carol's first one.

So, we'll get to have some
real good soup broth later.

Right on, Carol.

Got a duck without
a shotgun shell.

Carol duck.

That's how you
girls have to do it.

CHIP: Carol got herself
a duck, sight unseen.

I pointed it out to her,
and she, she whacked it.

Did a good job too
of bringing it in.

So, I was pretty
happy with that.

We'll flip the duck up
in the rafter, and save
it 'til we get some more.

One little duck ain't
gonna feed nobody.

AGNES: Yeah, one duck is not
gonna feed all of us, ah?

CHIP: Nope, that's
alright, it's a start.

We'll get a couple more
ducks tomorrow maybe.

NARRATOR: The next morning,

it's the Hailstones'
last chance to
hunt flightless ducks,

an important resource
for the family.

AGNES: So, you guys
wanna just get ready
and go do this again?

Qutan?

Go find more ducks and all?

CHIP: This is another
day in the life, but today
I think we're gonna go

look for ducks again.

If we wanna get some
ducks, we just gotta find
a nice bunch of them.

It's not always easy.

Certainly every pond doesn't
have a duck, and there's
thousands of ponds here.

This is a tidal
flats down here.

So, ducks shift from
area to area as they feed,
but we're gonna find where

there's a big group
of them somewhere.

Gotta be a big group
of them somewhere.

Ready, kiddo?
Come grab your harpoon.

Try not to bend
those, baby girl.

TAN: Okay.

CHIP: Buh bye, puppy.

Too bad you can't come.

You scare away too many ducks.

Come on, kiddos.

Ready?

AGNES: Even though we're
kind of sore and tired from
walking yesterday all along

the lakes and stuff,
we're still gonna
go do this again today.

'Cause we have just a short
limited time we can actually
do this while the ducks and

birds are all molting
and they can't fly
and get away from us.

So, we're just gonna keep
on walking sloughs and lakes,

and just hopefully come
across a flock of birds.

What do you see over there?

CHIP: I think I see ducks,
but I don't know what kind.

So, gonna go have a look.

AGNES: Yee!

AGNES: Feathers?

CHIP: Yup.

AGNES: Yeah, molting ducks.
We're getting close.
Let's keep going.

What they do is just
keep running trying
to get away from us,

and we have to
really keep moving.

They're a little
excited, but hopefully
the birds will calm down,

and we'll have another
chance at getting some.

Oh, they're coming to us.

QUTAN: They are, where?
AGNES: They're right there!

QUTAN: Right where?
AGNES: They're coming
out of the water.

QUTAN: Right there.
I see them. I see them.

CHIP: Oh, man!
There's loads of
them over there.

QUTAN: Come on! Let's go!
AGNES: They're coming to us.

CHIP: I see them.
They're really watching us.

AGNES: So how we
gonna do this?

CHIP: You go wide this way.

Me and Carol will go wide
this way if you take Qutan.

Just keep lines on where
we are, and do some
good shot gunning, ah?

AGNES: Yeah.
CHIP: Yup.

Don't be afraid to
use that shotgun.

Me and Carol will block off
the rest on the way and we'll
whack them with our sticks.

AGNES: Come, Qutan.

Ducks are moving.

We gotta get down low and
start getting over there.

CHIP: Let's go.

AGNES: Yeah, they're
just hiding in the grass
someplace around here.

CHIP: Get it, baby girl!

AGNES: Into the water!

You got it, you're
stepping on it!

CHIP: Get it, baby girl!

AGNES: Into the water!

You got it, you're
stepping on it!

CHIP: It turned.

Chased that one and it
got to the drink before me.

And I don't swim
as good as a duck.

So I chucked a harpoon at
it and missed it again.

So such is life.

Well, we'll just
keep on going.

I think there's a bunch
of black heads over here.

I thought it was the wind on
the grass but I'm pretty sure
it's either ducks or geese.

If it's ducks all male,
ducks will be good.

If it's geese and you don't
see babies and it's just
a bunch of adult geese,

those are good too.

Oh, look at that.

AGNES: Oh.

CHIP: It's geese.
You girls just follow me.

Even if I pass them
up you girls hit the
ones that I pass.

Okay?

Come on Carol,
you stay with me.

AGNES: Come on, Qutan!

Go Carol, you can make it!

CHIP: Come on, baby girl!

Right there. Hurry!

Yeah, get him in the head.

Only in the head.

That's a good job, Carol.

AGNES: There's one, yee!

Oh, there's another.

CHIP: Baby, stop!

Right in front of
you, right there.

Ok, hit it,
there you go, good job.

Break its neck.

AGNES: I got two right here.

Yee! I got it.

CAROL: I got one, dad!
CHIP: Good job, girl!

AGNES: I got one more right
here coming directly at me.

I got it.

CHIP: These are fat geese.

AGNES: Hey Qutan,
what's going on?

Did you round any up?

QUTAN: I tried to over there.
AGNES: Oh, did they get away?

QUTAN: Yep.

CHIP: It's all teamwork.

Even though my daughter,
Qutan, didn't kill one, she
was making her presence by

running back and forth
and the geese didn't
want to go to her.

So it made them lay down,
and me and Carol were
able to go catch to them.

AGNES: Ok.
CHIP: Alright, ooh.
AGNES: Right on.

CHIP: Over here, baby.

Oh yeah, we did
quite a bundle.

AGNES: Quite the collection.

CHIP: I would say this
is enough for today,
even for tomorrow.

AGNES: Yeah, yeah,
this is about all
we can carry home.

CHIP: I'm pretty happy
for my daughters.

They're gonna learn
where to go get food when
there's no birds flying,

maybe no fish in their net.

Right now there's no
caribou around, and if
they need something,

I wanted them to know
where to start looking
and where to end up.

You girls know this
place now, you'll never
fail if you come here.

AGNES: Yep, you girls ready?

You got a long walk.

A happy one, we get
to go home and pluck
geese and eat dinner.

CHIP: We didn't find male
ducks, we found geese.

Geese with no babies.

And the geese that have no
babies, or lost their babies,

or maybe didn't have any
this year were all grouped up
together for mutual protection.

AGNES: Nine.

CHIP: And these were rather
bulky and big, and they're
just so big they couldn't hide

so well, so we had
much better luck.

AGNES: Fourteen.

Now that was a good
haul, a real good dinner.

CHIP: Well that will make some
jars of geese and we can eat a
couple, three or four, fresh.

We'll eat a couple of
these and we'll have about
10 good jars of geese.

Since we don't have any in
the freezer for this winter,

we'll save those aside
to make a huge pot of goose
soup out of these and then

jar up the goose soup.

Good job, girls.

AGNES: Yeah, you could go on
ahead and take your socks off.

CHIP: Yep, go take your
socks off and dry out.

There's no store out here.

We ain't got no money, but
this is a store and this is
what was in the aisle today.

We just had a good time.

I'm pretty happy with my kids.

GLENN: I didn't just
read a couple books
and then say, 'oh,

I'm just gonna walk out in
the middle of the wilderness
and figure out how to live.'

I took the time to
learn what I needed to
learn and it took years.

I took my time about it.

That's why I survived.

NARRATOR: In the dead
of winter, Glenn must take
advantage of the last bit of

sunlight to collect vital
resources before the Brooks
Range plunges into darkness.

GLENN: There's the sun just
barely over the horizon.

It won't be there tomorrow.

The sun is just about to set
for the last time here at my
camp for over a hundred days.

It will shine on the highest
mountains for a while longer.

Eventually, in the deepest,
darkest part of winter,

it will disappear even
from the highest peaks.

This is a time when
things start to change and
it goes into dark winter

and it gets very cold.

So the darkest, coldest part
of the winter is just ahead.

More than a hundred
days from now the sun
will rise right there.

Until then, I won't see it
down here in the valley.

This time of year, one of
the most important things for
me is to keep my camp heated.

And to have enough wood
to do that, I have to work
at it almost continuously.

I go through a cord of
wood in one month during
this dark period of the

winter that's coming up.

So I have to be cutting
wood, bringing it home,
splitting it all the time.

This is a pile of
wood that I stacked up
here before it snowed.

At that time of
year, it's harder to
move the wood around.

So I left it here, came
back for it now with my sled.

It's easier to
drag it in snow.

This is the last pile
of wood that I have
stacked up out here.

Firewood is my
only fuel out here.

I don't have any other source
of fuel than this wood.

This is what I
heat my cabin with.

It's what I cook
all my food on.

It's how I heat hot
water if I want to take a
bath or do some laundry.

Without firewood, I
couldn't live out here.

Firewood also warms me
up just processing it.

It's cold out it, but doing
this kind of work, I really
can't even wear that parka.

In really cold weather,
I could burn up this whole
sled load in just 24 hours.

There. I got a load of wood.

I'm gonna head home.

Whoa!

GLENN: There.

I got a load of wood,
I'm gonna head home.

Whoa!

Yeah, you've got to be
careful going down hills.

This is a heavy pile of wood.

It can get out of
control and it goes fast.

One last hill and
then I'm home free.

Once I get to the lake,
it gets a lot easier.

I really enjoy firewood
because firewood gets me out.

I get a lot of exercise.

I always have fun
working on firewood.

Got it back to camp.

I gotta go cut some more
wood so I have plenty of wood.

It's a long, cold, dark
winter out here, and I do
go through a lot of firewood.

CHIP: Subsistence to
me is getting nutritious
food and the chase that it

involves to get it.

It's healthy, all healthy.

Then there's a
great reward for it.

I'm covering my lights up
with a piece of cardboard.

I do this so that the
animals don't see us coming.

We're not like flashing
a flashlight at them,
getting their attention.

NARRATOR: For Chip and
Agnes, the end of winter is
a final chance to harvest

big game before the thaw.

They set up a temporary camp
in Kiwalik, 85 miles south
of their home in Noorvik,

in hopes of intercepting
a herd of caribou.

CHIP: The importance
of coming out here at this
time of year and doing these

kind of hunts
is this time of year is
when the females are fat.

But these ones have been
grazing in the dark winter.

That's important on high
protein diet like we have.

So, we come up here and
this is kind of our last
chance at fat caribou.

We're not going to
see fat caribou again
until probably August.

Maybe a hundred of
them spread over the
side of the hill here.

I just don't see a way
of getting to them,
or sneaking on them.

Let's see how many
females there are.

There's caribou scattered
all along that hill.

I thought there was a hundred.

There's probably
three, four hundred.

We're going to have
to do some sneaking.

Where's my white mask?

AGNES: Nice day
for a good hunt.

We just got to
keep quiet and keep calm,
and hopefully they'll get

100, 150 yards
away or something.

CHIP: Yup, those
two, they busted ass.

It's just too wide
open for us here.

We need to have
something to put between
us and them for a while.

You know what I mean?

These are what we
call educated animals.

They just know what
a snow machine is.

They know what a person is,
and they're pretty leery.

kem scared, tomorrow
won't be so productive.

See how they stopped?

They go about four hundred
yards and they stop
and start grazing again.

No matter what
we do as we approach them,
they're just going to keep

staying out of our reach.

They got us busted
on this open ground.

But it's getting
really late in the day.

And what we wanted to do
today was basically scout
and locate these animals.

Now we've got them located.

We can formulate a plan,
and this has just begun.

GLENN: This lifestyle,
it's just basic, fundamental
processes of nature.

It's direct contact
with reality.

It's unmediated.

That's what I like.

I've got enough wood here
for four or five days
of really cold weather.

That's not very long.

Time to go cut some more wood.

That's the last of the wood
that I've already got cut.

These are the sized trees
that I'm normally cutting
for my firewood now.

And the reason I'm cutting
those sized trees, in part,
is because I'm using an axe,

and cutting larger trees is
inefficient with that axe.

What I want to do is try this
saw out and see if this is
efficient to cut larger wood.

This is a new tool I
picked up the last time
I was down at Fairbanks.

It's a crosscut timber saw.

And I've never used it.

I'm gonna try it out
and see if this might make
it a little bit easier for

me to get my firewood.

There's a lot of time spent
handling small pieces of wood.

So I'm looking for a big tree.

With this saw that
I've got, I can process
possibly a bigger tree than

I used to more efficiently.

Wow, there is a
tree right there.

That is a big tree with
a lot of firewood in it.

Way bigger than
I'd normally cut.

But with this saw,
it might be feasible.

There's a pretty
dense forest here.

If it gets hung up, I
won't be able to use it.

I won't be able to get it
down out of these trees with
the tools I have on hand.

So I'm gonna
have to be very careful,
and see if I can get it to

fall straight down that way.

I used to pass trees this size
up, because they were too much
to handle but with that big

saw maybe I can
process a tree this size.

Think of the firewood!

Just in that little section
that's a whole day's firewood
in real cold weather.

I'm used to having to cut
a few trees to get a day's
firewood in cold weather.

This is a whole
different ball game here.

Oooh, that doesn't
sound very good.

This tree is very
hollow sounding.

I'll see what's in there
when I cut into it.

Okay, this is all rotten.

This is not good.

Hopefully the rot doesn't
go up very far, so it's
still worth cutting down to

get the firewood
out of the upper part.

But it makes it a lot
more dangerous cutting it,
because that's not strong

wood in the middle.

So it might break in
an unpredictable way.

Okay, I'm gonna
put in a wedge now.

Try to get the tree to
tip over the way I want it to.

Okay, look out,
it's going, it's going!

GLENN: Look out!
It's going, it's going!

Yeah, all right!

Right where I wanted it!

Perfect, couldn't
have been better.

That was a little scary.

Woo, that's a big one!

Oh, that feels good.

Look at that big
cut through there.

That's frozen wood,
18 below zero, cutting
right through it.

Yes!

Made it through!

That is one awesome
saw right there.

Look at that.

The rot doesn't go
too far, that's great.

I was afraid that the
whole tree might have
rot up through it.

I never tackled trees
this big before.

I just didn't have
the tool for the job.

Four, six.

That tree is about
160 years old.

That tree lived
longer than I will.

I just got to get it home.

I got my work cut out
for me getting it back
up to the top here.

22 below Fahrenheit right now.

That's pretty cold.

That just helps stabilize it.

Hold it in place.

Ah, look at this
chunk of firewood.

Cut it one more time.

I'm out here, because I
like the peace and quiet.

I'm out here, because
I like the fresh air.

I don't want to
have the noise.

I don't want to have
the exhaust of a modern
chainsaw running out here

if I can avoid it.

I enjoy this experience.

Yeah!

Okay, time to split them.

This is a big piece of
wood to split, but I've got
the temperature on my side.

It's about 20 below zero.

The wood just becomes easier
to split the colder it gets.

Look at that, it went!

Beautiful, this saw
really paid off.

I got all this wood.

A few days just in
one sled load there.

I couldn't be happier.

This is awesome.

Time to go stoke the fire.

I've been wearing the same
clothes for more than a week.

It's time to do some laundry.

That's gonna heat up
my water, right here.

Boy, is it
ever gonna be nice to
clean these clothes up.

Okay, I watched
that sun disappear over
that mountain for the

last time this morning.

It will be more than
100 days before it comes back
and shines on this camp again.

The moon's coming up now.

And in the wintertime,
that's what I depend on.

I cycle a lot of my
activities around the moon.

You can do a lot more
outside in the cold weather
than people realize.

The sun's gone now,
but I got the moon
up all winter long.

And that moonlight's
what I rely on.

There, it's all set.

Good thing, 'cause my
hands are getting cold.

CHIP: We're not
harvesting anything.

This isn't wheat that waits
for us to chop it down.

We're hunters.

We're chasing these animals
down, and we're catching
them, and taking their lives.

And then we're eating them,
and they're letting us live.

I don't think they're far.

I think our biggest problem
is gonna be wind today.

We're getting about
a ten mile an hour wind, and
I can see windy clouds up top.

So, we'll see what we see.

We'll see what the
weather brings us.

NARRATOR: Chip and Agnes
are set to begin the
second day of their final

caribou hunt of the season.

It is their last chance to
provide their family with
caribou meat until summer.

CHIP: In the system up here
we have, once I've gotten
enough meat for myself,

I take the other meats that
I've got and I trade them.

It's legal here to
barter with the caribou.

It's like basically
making your own money.

It's kind of like digging
gold out of the ground.

It's something that
you're the first one
to get a hold of it,

and you just go from there.

Meat is our money.

AGNES: Just on
top of the hill.

CHIP: There's quite a few.

AGNES: Caribou?

CHIP: Yeah, caribou up there.

We got lots of caribou around
us and we just got here.

So we don't want to
spook them up, but what we
want to do is creep around

the top of the hill and
have a look over here.

And we know that
there's a lot of caribou on
the other side of the hill

that are coming over.

So we're going to go
get up on top and wait
for them to come to us.

Right above your shoulder.

AGNES: Ahh, they're still...

CHIP: I didn't see a hit.

AGNES: I didn't see it either.

CHIP: Shoot when
you feel like it.

AGNES: Argh, right between.

CHIP: Pretty hard
with this wind.

AGNES: It's the wind.
CHIP: Nope. In front of it.

We'll just get
ready for next time.

They never stay
in the same place.

They're (bleep)
caribou, right?

Caribou do what Caribou do.

(bleep), ah!

(bleep)! Ah!

CHIP: Smack it with your hand.

Oh yeah!

AGNES: Woo, got one down.

CHIP: I know you nailed
it at least once.

Maybe you hit it twice.
I don't know.

AGNES: I hit it once,
and it...

CHIP: We'll find out
when we get there.

AGNES: Yeah, I
finally got my shot.

It took me like a few
shots to figure out the
wind, and the distance.

CHIP: It's alright.
That's what it takes.
It takes a few shots.

AGNES: Yeah, yeah.

CHIP: Hey, very few people
would shoot in this wind.

And just...

AGNES: Good shot?
CHIP: Yeah.

AGNES: Good enough?
CHIP: Good enough.

I'll go down there,
and go cut its throat.

AGNES: Okay.

This took quite many miles,
but when we came across this

herd it was to my advantage.

It was downhill, and the
wind was in my favor,
and we have one down,

now to skin and butcher.

CHIP: Oh, yeah.

Look how fat she is.

AGNES: Yee, I was waiting
'til you opened it up.

Wow, good choice one I did.

CHIP: Yup.

AGNES: Wee, oh wow, ah...

CHIP: Oh, this
is a real prize.

Well, today has
gone pretty good.

Scoring this first one, you
know, it kind of takes that
"are we gonna get it" off.

We've already got success,

so no matter how
we return home, we'll
return home successful.

Our plan though is to
return home quite successful
to make all of our endeavor,

and our money, and our
investment into caribou.

So what we'd like to do is
fill up the sled and bring
home more caribou than what

we've got right now.

If we wanted just one, we
would go home and go to bed.

We would be done,
but we're not single
caribou kind of people.

That caribou got a
lot of blood on my tarp.

That's alright.
It's all frozen.

I can knock it off later.

You got hot coffee
in a thermos?

AGNES: Yes.
CHIP: Ok.

AGNES: Gotta have the coffee.

Such a nice day, gonna be fun.

NARRATOR: Chip and
Agnes have successfully
harvested one caribou.

But they must keep
hunting to have enough
meat to feed their family

in the coming months.

AGNES: Ah!

AGNES: Yee!
CHIP: Whoa!

Oh, wicked.

CHIP: Last one.
Ok, that's good.

They're down anyway,
let's go finish them off.

Just relax, relax, relax.

AGNES: Ok, ok, ok, ok.

CHIP: Most of the
hard (bleep) is done.

AGNES: Yee!

Whoa, well that
one just dropped.

CHIP: I like your shooting.

It's hard to shoot in a
wind like this, but once
you got it dialed in,

that's the way to go.

These will go quite nice with
the caribou we got yesterday.

This will carry us
through 'til the spring.

It won't be 'til August
that we get fat caribou again,

but I think we'll be
plenty happy with these.

AGNES: Yep.

This is a lot of work alright,
but it's work I enjoy,

and this is a job well
done for us today and

just a
day closer to home.

NARRATOR: After a fruitful
hunt yesterday, Chip and
Agnes must now prepare the

meat for transport
to their home in Noorvik.

CHIP: Pretty bright, nice day.

AGNES: Wow.
CHIP: Whew.

We'll just get these caribou
off here and start skinning.

We got five nice caribou.

Five nice females, real fat.

AGNES: Yee!

CHIP: We saved the
skinning for today
for a couple reasons.

Number one, it's because we
were, so tired last night.

Number two, is because it
holds the heat in the meat and
the meat goes through rigor

mortis and then it relaxes,
and it's a much softer
and a better grade of meat.

And these are March females
and they're really fat.

And that's the reason why
we're specifically after these
kind before the end of March

is over so this is like our
last chance at getting fat
caribou meat until August.

If we want to have any more
really good, fat caribou
for ourselves and our kids,

this is the time to do it.

AGNES: I enjoy doing
this work out here.

It's kind of nice, nice day.

I'm pretty satisfied
with our catch.

We're off to a good start.

CHIP: Spring's coming
on pretty quick here.

This winter isn't
gonna hold on too long.

I like the partnership
we have when we do
this kind of hunting.

It's the same thing when
we're hunting for predators.

My wife is the eyeballs,
and I'm a driving.

That's a taste, huh?

AGNES: Yep, fresh.

CHIP: Now this is a way
to end a nice, fat female
caribou hunt before we're on

to the next thing.

NARRATOR: Subsistence living
is a race against the clock.

Residents of the arctic
chase resources that come
and go with the seasons.

And when the moment to
strike finally arrives...
There's no time to lose.

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