All language subtitles for man.vs.wild.s01e03.Costa.Rican.Rainforest

my name is Bear Grills

I'll serve the British Special Forces

I climbed the summit of Everest

and cross the frozen oceans of the Arctic

now my challenge is to parachute in the Costa

Rican rainforest

hundreds of thousands of visitors come here each year

to experience the adrenaline rush in the jungle

what they don't know is how quickly it can turn deadly

I'm going to show you

the skills you need to survive out here

it's a rainy season in Costa Rica

I'm heading from the Pacific coast into the rainforest

this region The Ossa Peninsula may look beautiful

but it's all too easy for tourists to get lost

in the 300 square miles of dense jungle

every year 1 million people visit Costa Rica

to explore jungles like these

and last year their Red Cross had to rescue 94 of them

and to many of the

creatures that live in the rainforest

stranded humans are simply food

I'm gonna show you how to survive in the jungle

and how to avoid becoming part of that deadly food

Jay yourself and I'm gonna do it

a little more than the clothes I'm wearing now

all I have with me is a knife and a water bottle

much less than your average hiker

I'm going to parachute into the middle of the jungle

a camera crew will follow me every step of the journey

and my mission is simple

to show you

how to survive the rainforest and find my way out

there's over a million trees in the canopy below me

with very little open space to land

landing high in the branches

was a technique

the Special Forces used for jungle insertions

and it's dangerous

but I'm gonna show you how

the Special Forces would get down

into the jungle

if their parachutes got snagged

I'm suspended 60 feet up this tree

all I've got to do now is absail down

the bad news is that I've only got 50 feet of rope

this is gonna be one of the

less ceremonious entrances

into the jungle

that parachute rope just would be

so useful for me out here

the bottom line is

most people who get lost in the jungle

do so with nothing

so it's going to be the same for me

it's just making this journey

an awful lot harder

to the untrained eye the jungle all looks the same

so it's so easy to get lost

this spring Costa Rica's own environment minister

got lost here for two days before being rescued

coming into this jungle so fast

and suddenly it being so still

is very strange

and it's just

eerily quiet here

the only way I'm going to get out of here

is to find a stream or river

and follow it

and the best way to find that is to head downhill

but it's tough going

the forest floor is a

slick layer of rotting leaves on top of MUD

you need

to walk carefully to avoid spraining and ankles

and never clutch your branches in case it's a snake

where the hell

the temperature must be already almost 85 degrees

and is so humid

I've only moved a few hundred yards

and already I'm soaked in sweat

because I can't see much of the sky

it's easy to feel claustrophobic

there's wildlife all around me and so far it's friendly

this area of the rainforest actually has

the highest concentration

of jaguars

but what I feel is that the real dangers to me

are going to be the little things

you know the scorpions and the mozzis and the snakes

just walking along

I need to be careful and watch where I trade

step over a log or grab a vine without looking

and I could get bitten

like you see that

that's a fair the last sleek

and that's why you've got to be so careful

moving through the jungle

and

yeah it's got the diamond pattern in

these guys are responsible

for more deaths and sentinels of America than any other

snake unbelievably deadly

and Fedelas literally means it means lance head

when they strike

that will inject almost cord of a shotglass

this hemotoxic venom

and if that struck and bit me

I could well be dead by nightfall

I need to find my bearings as quickly as I can

I'm gonna climb the biggest tree I can find

and see if I can get a lie of the land

despite being experienced climber in the jungle

it's hard

this is going to be tougher than I thought

but if I can get up high and see a way out

it will be worth the risk

this is like nothing I've climbed before

this is not like a rock face

these branches and vines can break at any moment

so I have to be so careful

well

I'm getting some height up this tree now

and

I know that because

I've seen some of those monkeys and

they're now beneath me

so I'm getting somewhere

I'm probably at about the third floor at the moment

but I'm gonna get up to that fifth floor

but I could really do with a lift

the trees around me are thin and spindly

and like me they're putting all their

energy into getting out into the daylight above them

I'm about 100 feet up now

and I'm beginning to fight my way up into the canopy

itself

towards what's known as

the emergent lair

that's amazing

just my first time actually above the jungle canopy

it's just so beautiful

but it's also pretty intimidating

just because it's miles and miles

of jungle in every direction

looking over there

I can't see like a

slight depression in the jungle and it's like

so like one side of that bit is definitely higher

than the other side and that

that often suggests a river

I know which way I should go

but ahead I'm gonna face a whole new set of dangers

I'm in the rain forest to Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula

I know this area is surrounded by the Pacific

if I can find a river

I can follow it downstream to the sea

and that's my best chance of finding civilization

the undergrowth is getting thicker and thicker

and are finding it harder to get through

ah

this stuff is just

so thick and

this is

now right

in the middle of secondary jungle

lose your bearings in jungle like this

and it could be fatal

about 1 in 5 deaths here

happened because tourists get utterly confused

then lost

it's just so hard to get through this stuff

but it is worth

worth me following it

just because first one is heading downhill

but secondly it is a sign that once upon a time

this

saw human habitation

and I might well find a path

10 years ago a middle aged American woman

went for a lone hike in the rainforest

she got lost fell and injured herself

unable to move she was stranded

although the search party was 90 strong

it took two weeks to find her decomposing body

if I had a machete

I could hack through this in a few hours

but I've only got a knife and I could be here for days

I'm just getting cut a bit

got

blisters now

I'm just not getting anywhere

I need another plan

my Lux in

now I've found the stream I can follow it

it's also going to give me something else I really need

I can live up to 3 weeks without food

but not more than a couple of days without water

you have got to be so careful

drinking out of these streams

but there are few good indicators

they'll give you an idea that it's okay

and the first is just the obvious one

that is fast flowing

and it's clear

but the second good little tip is if you can see

these crayfish swimming around

and also these stone flies

that's also a good indicator

that the water should be all right to drink

I can't be 100% sure this water's okay

but it tastes amazing

getting a drink isn't the only reason I'm

glad to find the stream

I know that this Peninsula is surrounded by sea

so if I follow this down

it will probably lead to a river

and hopefully to the sea

if I follow this down

I should be able to get out of this jungle

it might not be the quickest or safest route

but it is a route

and right now it's all I've got

ahead I can hear the ripple of this Little River

turning into a roar

this could spell trouble

the waterfall plummets into a steep ravine

it could take me a couple of hours to walk round

by which time it would be dark

and I really need to be down before then

I've been amazed by the strength of the vines

in the jungle

now I'm gonna put them to the test

this is a hegeren vine

I'm going to pull it down

join them together

and use them to climb down the waterfall

these vines are extremely strong

and easily have the strength to hold my weight

I've tied the vines to a tree

and I'm pretty certain they'll support me

as long as I can hold onto them

this waterfall may look pretty

but believe me it's powerful

it's like being punched in the chest with a bag of

cement

it's so hard to keep my footing on the slick

Slippery Rock

and now the vines are wet

it's getting much harder to hold on

I should begin to start

think about making a shelter but

my nice

knife is getting

pretty blunt I've been using it a lot

and to make a shelter

I'm going to need this to be sharp

and one way I can do this

is to use some of these stones you find in these rivers

and yeah this stuff this is like

a local natural court

and if I put this on here and get like a hammerstone

you need to smash it first

and I need to get this down to a pulp

and then you get rid of the bigger bits and just start

crushing and grind it as small as you can

when that's

down to a bit of a

mush you just get a good bit of

living wood that I've taken the bark off

and then I just draw it through

and that pulp then will stick on to that

because it's wet

and then you scatter the knife

and just begin to draw it across it

and this is now

coming up a tree

hey hey look

look at this guy

look little poisons frog

and tell its poise is just in the really

bright colors on its back and

what happens is it's decreased toxins from its skin

and you really wouldn't want to eat that

pretty cool eh on you go on

this little guy is known as a poison dart frog

in Columbia they use the toxins from their skin

to make poison darts

I've left the river to look for something to eat

in the jungle

it's not worth wasting

energy hunting animals or setting traps

here are lots of plants to eat

fallen fruit like these garcinias are a god sand

they taste like light cheese

and they're full of natural sugar

plants are the easiest sources of food out here

three years ago

a boy survived 13 days on just bananas and river water

before finding his way out

many survivors say

the worst time when you're lost in the jungle

is night it's about to get dark

I haven't made camp

and I'm feeling very

very uneasy about what could be ahead

I'm in the middle of the rainforest in Costa Rica

and I need to find a way out

it's four PM

and it's already beginning to get dark

and I've just got to get some sort of shelter made

quickly

we're in a few degrees north of the equator here

which means the days of the night

of equal length

and when it gets dark it gets dark really fast

it's also the middle of the rainy season now and

when it rains it really pours

and if I haven't got some sort of shelter made

and a fire going by the time it's night

I'm just gonna be dinner

for every mosquito in this forest

this site's no good

falling trees and branches are the biggest killers of

people in the jungle

so I need to find clear ground

this area should do its dry

there's no stream nearby that could flood it

but more importantly

there no ants

and its answer to the real kings of the jungle

and I'll tell you

when there's a colony of ants on the move

it just destroys anything

but the first thing you need to do to build a shelter

is clear the ground

and you don't want to be using your hands for this

when you're clearing leaves

just because

it could be snakes or

scorpings around so use a stick

but you need to clear

a good area

under bedding and get if you can back the bearer

and it's on top of this the eventually gonna line it

I'm not going to bother to make a raised bed

because I'm only going to be here for one night

most snakes and scorpions

won't want to cross open ground

so clearing away the leaves should be

enough to put them off

okay that's the

ground cleared here

and I can use these two trees as that rise

and now I need to cut myself some

cross braces here

and this will do

without a knife this would be impossible

hardened jungle guides always carry a machete

but even with a small blade

I can do much more than just survive

even a penknife would be better than nothing

and using a piece of wood as a hammer

I can chop down thin trees easily

it's going to be a very simple lean to structure

it doesn't need two sides

because there's very little wind in the rain forest

and the rain is only going to come straight down

I'm desperate to get this done quickly

the sky is still light

but only about

2%

of that light finds its way down to the forest floor

and once the sun sets I won't be able to see a thing

I'm using viagua

leaves to make the roof for the shelter

I'm making a tare each side of the stem

so I can hang the leaves on the cross pieces

creating a natural equivalent of a tiled roof

and it should be pretty watertight

the air is thick with mosquitoes

they are annoying

and they can carry diseases

like dengue fever or malaria

the longer I'm out here

the greater the risk

and this termites nest is going to help me

it's one of the best mosquito repellants

in the whole rain forest

and

this stuff

might look like dried MUD

but it's actually digested wood

and in effect as it is termite crap

this is the

only reason I'm going to bother making a fire

I don't need the heat

but I do need a break from the mosquitoes

and while I'm here

I need to make use of these

these are only little but they've got

masses and masses of

protein in these things

in fact pound for pound

termites contain more protein than beef or fish

and actually even though they look horrible

they don't taste too bad

but when they are this small

I need to spend a long

time catching them to get a decent meal

and right now I need to get a fire started

out of all the times I've been

in the jungle I've never

gone in with just no fire making tools

but what I can do is try the bow and drill method and

I've got a bit of paracord from my water bottle

to make this bow

I've got a good straight spindle here

good strong hardwood

and all I do is bend this

take a turn around it

so it's really nice and tight

place it into a notch I've made down there

and

add a bit of wood on the top to

stop digging into my hands

and then just slowly start to

drive and hope you create that friction

to create some embers

and then as those embers that I want to be tipping into

all that tender

but

it's beginning

to smoke I just need to keep it going now

smoke come on yup

it's really hard to keep the spindle upright

and work the bow at the same time

and while it's not too difficult to get smoke

creating an Ember big enough to light a fire

is something else altogether

okay here we go

it's coming it's a bit of smoke now

I just need enough embers

to sip into this kindling and this should be it

here we go come on

and it's just such a relief dab

the fire goes taking me an hour to

get this finely spark there

when I've got it

going a little bit more and put this termite

stuff on it and get rid of some of these midgen

I have to say I feel pretty good

the fragrant smoke of the termites

nest is gonna keep the mozzies at bay

I've got food and water

fire and shelter

and I've found a river that lead me out of the jungle

all I need now is a decent night's sleep

AH

3 a m in

I was just

working out with the worst hurry I've ever had

and I've just been

three times for the last 10 minutes

I've just got these stomach cramps and

we're even struggling just to stand up

and a runoff into the jungle is more ideal

in the middle of the

night with all that

snakes and creepy stuff

also just feels so sick

it's 5 in the morning and I feel like death

I spent half the night throwing up

and have hardly slept at all

I just feel so drained and

I just don't know what I've done wrong you know

I've hardly eaten anything

yeah be so careful where I've drunk water from

but I'm just hoping it's not

dysentery but

for the first time I'm feeling

just cold and shivery as well and that's never

never a good sign when you're somewhere as hot as this

disentry is a severe form of diarrhea

I don't think I have this

I think I just picked up a tummy bag

probably from touching bacterial or animal

crap by mistake

I'm pretty sure the water I drank yesterday was clean

but as a reminder to be even more careful

as water could carry all sorts of viruses and microbes

that's why you should

always take purification tablets with you on hikes

but sometimes you're just plain unlucky

I'm going to boil this water for at least 5 minutes

to make doubly sure it's clean

diarrhea drains a body of water and salt

so I'm also in danger of then getting heatstroke

and that's a killer combination

you don't have to get lost for days

to suffer heatstroke

and every year

hikers die because they don't drink enough

now I need to get moving

and find something to help settle my stomach

though the jungle can make you sick

it can also help you if you know what to look for

I know there's a tree called a milk tree

its sap is really good for atset stomachs

it has distinctive conical buds and abundant white

milky sap

I'm sure I saw one about half a mile upstream

from where I made camp

and I just need to get back up there and find it

the quickest way back is straight up

I don't feel strong

but I don't want to waste half an hour

thrashing through the jungle

fortunately this rock has plenty of grip

but once again the force of the water

is working against me

now to find that tree

nearly half the medicines we used

were developed from rain forest plants

the painkiller iberprofen were

synthesized from this vine

called a monkey ladder tree

but obviously you need to know what you're looking for

this is it

yeah this looks like a little baby milk tree and

this is like nature's milk and magnesia

and this is gonna be really good for my stomach

and also

just give me a bit of energy

but the way you can tell it it's just a really simple

alternate leaves

it's got then these pointy end buds

and then when you break it off

you see this milky sap

come out of it

next to this little sapling is a full grown milk tree

with this distinctive bark

which looks like army camouflage

normally

you should avoid eating plants that have a milky sap

because it's often a sign that is poisonous

but I know this tree isn't

this sap is a former latex

and it's known to help settle your stomach

just amaze

it tastes so so like creamy

I need to recover quickly

because in a situation like this

you never know what could lie ahead

I don't feel 100 percent

but I need to keep moving

and follow the river downstream

I've no idea how far I've gone

but I feel like I'm making progress

but it is exhausting

and it's taking a long

time to cover any sort of distance

my energy has been sapped by my stomach upset

and I haven't eaten properly for two days

I'm also very aware that in the jungle

night falls very quickly and I need shelter and food

I know I'm not gonna get much further today

so I'm gonna start getting ready for another

night in the rainforest

my fire is lit

and I got a shelter made but

I really fancy trying this to catch

some fish here

and

this is a good time for doing this just because

the fish that I'm looking for

much more dosal and night time

but all I've done is get a bit of wood

wrap some palm fibe around it with some camphor resin

to keep this thing burning

and this will burn for a good 10

50 minutes how this

I'm holding the torch low over the water

to look for shrimp or crayfish

I've used some vines to tie my knife to a stick

so if I see anything

I can just strike it and stun it long

enough to grab it

and

that's the first living thing

I've caught in this jungle

and that is a real result

these grapefish are easier to catch

without the knife but if I just get one fish

that will make a really proper meal

come on off you got off you got

oh I

can't believe it

I can't believe it

I had it it was dead

it was dead on the knife man his tortures dying as well

well I've got 4 crayfish and that's not bad for supper

but it would have been a feast

but it's just now

semi feast

but I'm gonna go and cook these

close dies

whatever you use to keep your spirits up

it'll help you survive

sometimes is nothing more than campfire food

it's just been pissing around for

about 4 hours now during the night it's

thunder and lightning everywhere

and everything I've got is just completely

drenched

it's just getting really

really demoralizing

the first few hours of shelter work but

since then it's just been pouring in everywhere

another sleepless night

has made me determined to get out of the jungle as

fast as I can

last mile or so the landscape has changed dramatically

the ground has become flatter and the river wider

I'm walking alongside it now

and the Riverbank has flooded

on the banks for a really

really decent river here now

and this could well be my ticket out of this jungle

and if I just work out some way of heading downstream

I will eventually reach

you know village or settlement or even the sea

and there's every chance that by tonight I could be

in a warm cozy bed

but before that I need to travel a river

and the fastest way to do that is by raft

so that's what I'm gonna do

I'm gonna build a raft

which has to be as simple as possible

what's gonna keep it afloat is this tree

the Bulsa

it's used to make models because it's so light and

easy to cut so easy

I can cut down a tree like this

with just my knife and a stone

this is just such a God sent to me

and even though

this stuff looks really heavy it's so light

and it makes you feel like

feel like Superman

and that's the first time I felt strong for a few days

I'm stripping the bark to use it to lash a raft

together it's very strong and surprisingly flexible

by the time I'm finished I'm soaked to the skin

I'm just hoping

this is gonna be tight enough

to hold up

for whatever this river's

got in store for me

I'm in the rain forest and now I have a raft

I'm finding that floating is definitely

quicker than walking

after a couple of days under the canopy

it's a real relief to get out in the open

as the miles roll by

I'm getting a real sense of the scale of this place

I must be getting near the sea

because this isn't rainforest anymore

this is mangrove

salt tolerant plants that grow out of the water

in tropical coastal areas

it's the sign that I'm leaving the jungle

and getting closer to a sandy shore

it's not just the trees that are changing

the river is too

the tide is going up fast

pulling me along in a raid of knots

I can steer this raft but I can't fight the current

if I'm not careful

I could be carried straight out into the Pacific

so instead I'm going to see if I can find a way out

through the mangrove swamp

this is turning out to be tough going

this stuff's just becoming a nightmare

it's just

so sharp as well

and my hands are getting shredded

and also you just don't know

what's living

and what's dead

I spent three hours clambering through this swamp

and I feel like I'm getting nowhere

there's something haunting

about the way the silver limbs of the trees

rise from the water

and you never know what is living in its murky death

but there's a way out of here

forget it

I'm gonna have to get back on my raft

and take my chances on the river

this is what I feared most

I've reached a mouth of the river

just as the tide is going out fast

combined with the force of water flowing out to sea

it means there's no way a can paddle to shore now

the tidal stream of the mouth of the river is fierce

but it won't be the same all the way along the coast

if you're caught in a current like this don't fight it

just go with it and let it take you

sooner or later it'll take you to the shore

I've still no idea where this beautiful beach is

and I don't care because a couple of miles up the sand

I can see the blinking of electric lights

and electricity means people

and that means safety

this has been an incredible journey for me

and in many ways one of the toughest ever

just because how intimidating the jungle can be

when you're lost

but also how quickly it can sap your strength

but it is an extraordinary world in there

but it's also a world that's getting smaller

and an area

the size of a football pitch a rain forest is lost

every single second

and one day

there might not be a rain for us to be able

to get lost in

but I hope that day never comes

because it's such a special place

but for me it is definitely time

to go home