All language subtitles for Man.vs.Wild.S02E02.V2.2007.Amazon.WEB-DL.1080p.H26

i'm bear grills

and i'm gonna seek out

some of the most extreme challenges

in the most dangerous locations on earth

where having the right survival skills

can mean the difference between life and death

now i've come to the Sahara

one of the hottest and deadliest places on the planet

that is just huge to meet the people who know

just what it takes to survive out here

the nomadic berbatribes have lived here for thousands of years

and they're gonna show me in this special episode

some of their most extreme survival techniques

how a dead camel can save your life

get inside it

pull it over

how they protect themselves from their very worst enemies

feast on things that will turn your stomach

never even roar ghost testicles before

and climb my way out of the desert

i'm flying across a Sahara in Morocco

the biggest desert in the world

with three and a half million square miles

it's about the same size as us

the atlas mountains are your only way out of the desert

but they're hundreds of miles away

so you'll need to use every trick in the book to survive

i've got a few basic tools and my camera crew are coming with me

i'm about 15 feet above the highest Dune

and i'm going to use an old army technique to jump out

keeping my knees and feet together

it's not the most conventional way to land in the desert but

it's fun

everywhere that was just like a whirlwind up there

okay we're off

the dunes are the toughest kind of desert to survive in

and make up a quarter of the Sahara

water is your biggest priority

but there's hardly a drop here

but just a tiniest morsel of food can help

you see that a little sand beetle

and when there's as little food as there is in the Sahara desert

this is about as good as you're gonna get

but these are pretty common in the dunes

it tastes very nice

i hope it's gonna

give me a good bit of protein and a bit of salt

go go

taste like a

prawn that's full of sand been sitting around for about a month

full of cheese

yeah

go

anyway this is something

it will also replace any salts

you've lost through sweating and out here

you can lose a liter an hour without even noticing it

one of the dangers of this saharan wind is

that it's exceptionally drying

and as soon as you sweat the wind hits it

and you're dry

and then you sweat again and that's why you dehydrate out here

so fast

in this blistering

heat without any water you can be dead within 24 hours

if you were lost out here

your one real chance of survival would lie with the burbers

they've lived near the Atlas mountains for thousands of years

and they're the ultimate experts in desert survival

just see their

see their camp around the Acacia tree there

what i really need

is just a drink

they've rescued plenty of people over the years

and i can't wait to meet them

for sure for sure sava sava

Mohammed speaks French

because this era is once a French colony

as he knows only too well water in the desert is life

and the first gift for any visitor is to give them

a much needed drink messivia

every day they sweep their camps for snakes

yeah

obviously they've got kids

their kids playing around the tent

and they've got their camels that really are their livelihood

and they can't afford to be losing those snake bites

so muhammad's gonna take me out

and show me how they do their snake hunts

the whole area is home to horned vipers

the sahara's most fearsome snake

and they are a constant menace

he knows of one guy who was a young boy age 15

looking after the camels out here and one morning

the camel went down he got off

and he was putting like something round the leg of the camel

as he reached down a viper

bitless boy's finger uh

but obviously has no hospital out here is no anti venom

no medicine and they had to straight down in there

just cut the finger off to save his life

that's how dangerous these snakes can be

and how careful

you've got to be when you're walking through all

this stuff horned vipers are notoriously difficult to catch

they're not just well camouflaged

but they burrow under the sand

and they're easily stepped on and are all too ready to strike

and they're often being like these little clusters here yeah

or some

or even just buried yeah in the sand but what he's looking for

really

are the just slither traces of where snakes

be muhammad's got some

got some tracks here

and you can see

that's a very distinct shape

you can even see look

you can even see the scales on this

sink held on the back

and if you can see right in there

you see these two little horns on top of his head

and these are one of the most deadly snakes in the world

that can kill you

they grow up to three foot long their venom poisons

your blood system

and can cause massive hemorrhaging leading to a heart attack

the burbers have a healthy respect for them

and always use sticks to catch them

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okay got it

and there you go

you can just see the head there

but you want to be really careful

even after you've taken the head off

you want to be careful

that still got all its hemotoxic venom in its mouth

and you never just want to leave a snake's head out

in the open off

you cut it off you want to either burn it or bury it

the venom can

still be toxic 24 hours after the snake has been killed

look

he's still bolly

still wriggling around

but this is a nasty brute and a killer of a snake

but i'm gonna eat him okay

a horned viper makes for a pretty interesting meal

but i'm gonna have much more to deal with

when i'm treated to a burba delicacy

never eaten raw ghost test schools before

i'm in the Sahara in north Africa

learning how the berber survive in the extremes of the desert

i've caught a horned viper

the berber's number one enemy

it's a highly venomous snake but with this head off

it's good to eat and full of protein

you just peel about the skin gut it

and that's all the guts coming out in the middle

there wrap it around a stick and cook it over the fire

okay

let's have a look at this muhamed

and a good way of telling whether

it's cooked

is you should be able to see the strands of the meat

you don't want to burn this

because actually

it's really beautiful meat

improvuli no

no mercy more paphamojopasamua

he's saying he doesn't eat this it's really tough but also

i know they're really superstitious about snakes

and they actually consider if you kill one

it's like killing an enemy

mercy Muhammad is your villa moji mercy

camels are the key to both wealth

and desert survival for the burbers

so finding water is crucial every berber has

a mental map of just what's where

and this is a real skill of these berber families

this knowledge is just passed down from generation

to generation of knowing

where these Wells are in the desert

these underground pockets of water

and it's that knowledge it really means

these guys are the ultimate Sahara desert survivors

for their main source of food

the burbers rely on goats

and this one is killed using a traditional method

and really with skinning carcasses you want to try

and use as little knife as possible

and once you're in

you can just use your fist and you like roll it

and muhammad's kindly offered to help me

make a water gold out of this skin

so we're gonna dry this overnight

and make something that i can carry water with

when i carry on my journey tomorrow

nothing will go to waste and when i say nothing

i mean nothing he's going to cut into that

and then he's going to eat one of them

and then as a

in honor of his guest

he wants to give me the other one

it's traditional for bourbon men to eat goat's testicles

their thought to enhance fertility

and it's certainly gonna be a test in my manhood

messy messy

no

i say i've never

never eaten raw ghost testicles before messy Muhammad

okay Muhammad sorry about that let's carry on

i'm spending the night

with the berbers before venturing back out into

the arid desert

i think this is one of the few nights i've had in the wilds

that is just bliss you know

i can really afford to relax

i've had good company with all of these burba guys

i've had food

i've had water

even some tea

and i'm just lying looking at the stars that's good

after breakfast

it's time to say goodbye

but there's a parting gift from Muhammad something

i'll need for my next desert challenges hello

water god thanks Muhammad messy vm with you

it's got a little bit of water in it

and if you had to make your way out from here

your best bets to still keep heading towards the atlas

and the way to do

that is to keep the Acacia trees in front of you

they tend to grow towards the mountains

and then the tamaris that light the dunes behind you

but i'm about to be faced with my most extreme challenge

yet turning a dead camel into a one stop survival shop

i'm in the Sahara desert in north Africa

showing you how to stay

alive and facing my bigger survival challenge yet

i've now been cut

loose by the burbers to fend for myself

in one of the world's harshest environments

but they've left me with the ultimate challenge burber

who given me this camel

and they'll almost

always kill an old beast like this when it's on its last legs

rather than let it suffer too

much but you know they'll use every single bit of this animal

not only though for food

also for water and inextremity for shelter

i'm gonna start by skinning this camel for a blanket

as i want to set up camp before nightfall

i've got around three hours to do it and what you want to do

is grab a good bit of skin

and then just get into it

and then once you're in good way of doing it

is putting your finger like that over the knife

so what you want to avoid

is puncturing the actual guts

and then just slide it in it's hard work

doing it in this searing heat of around 130 degrees

Fahrenheit

and i'm sweating buckets but the hump might just help me

and the berber

actually told me that the fat from this is a real delicacy

but experience has taught me to be a little bit

wary of berber delicacies

and this is just pure

camel fat

god man

that's horrible

in extreme situations

the fat from the hump of a living

camel will save a burber's life

they cut a flap of skin and a fatty hump

and carefully take out what they want making

sure they leave enough for the camel to survive

what i'm looking for is

the stomach and the stomach itself is in three parts

so it can separate the liquids from the solids and the bit

i want

is called the rumen where it

keeps fluid

there we go and through

to the Indians here look at that it's amazing

it's like a reservoir this room and water

and a nomad told me

once how his uncle in the 1950s was lost

in a sandstorm out here

and he actually ended up

killing his camel to get the rumen and all this fluid inside

and that actually saved his life

if you don't find much water in the rumen

you might get some from the main part of the stomach

where the food is digested

god load of stench of camel

digesting food straight out my nostrils and here you go

if you bring camera over here and look inside

you can see everything that's been eating

and that's just partially digested

and the fluid in this again is drinkable

caught that must of hurt when it went down his throat

drinkable but truly

disgusting

there are no less than 200 feet of intestines and guts

that i have to haul out

okay it's all just being held on

at one point now

i have to hold my breath get in there and cut it

stink

i got him

you need to drag this lot well away from the carcass

in the hope that predators like jackals stay away

i don't want them bothering me when i sleep out tonight

one two three now

i need to turn the camel over to skin the other side

never got my leg over the camera

before

but i have now

i've been butchering now for an hour and a half and already

the flesh has virtually cooked in this

heat and the skin is already drying

and that is what's going to be my blanket tonight

and if you can't have a look inside the carcass

the burbers could use this

as an emergency shelter in a sandstorm

and all they do is

get inside it

pull it over

and i'll be a hundred percent protected from the sand

jackals might well

be attracted to the carcass

so in order to protect the meat and myself

i'm going to pee around it to deter them

that'll sort them out

but it's worth knowing that

only works with bloke's p doesn't work

if you're a woman

so your p doesn't have enough testosterone so bad luck girls

if you need to pee later just keep topping up your liner defense

and now all i've got to do is to make my bed

i come in

lay this down

now i've got a pillow

something to keep me off the rocks and keep me warm

if

i need to

before bedding down

for what's probably shaping up to be one of my least

pleasant nights out under the stars

i'm gonna try

and get a fire going to cook some meat and camel dung

is perfect fuel

because it's just so dry

and all of this is just beautiful fresh meat

and you won't get a better

looking steak than that

a flat stone over the fire is a desert version of a barbecue

keep feeding the camel dung in

camel meters low in cholesterol and this is a rare desert feast

i reckon this should be should be ready

think it was quite an old camel

after three and a half hours of hard work what i need now

is just to rest and recharge my batteries

for whatever lies ahead

but

if i kind of think back to a lot of the great survival stories

i've heard over the years

one thing that runs through them is often

that those who survive nightmare situations are

those who are prepared to step outside of their comfort zone

and do whatever

they need to to make it back in one piece and make it home

and there's a pillow

i've got a dead camel's neck

i'd never get this one past the wife

this is going to be one long night and temperatures

here can plunge to freezing

that's about six in the morning

and the sun's just coming up

thank god

because i'm really cold and it's amazing

i caught against the night in the desert

and i never thought i'd say this

but i just can't wait to see the sun

still to come the sahara's deadly salt pans

searing heat and the threat are going blind in the boiling sun

this place is hell

i'm in the Sahara desert in north Africa in

what must be the most godforsaken place on earth

a desolate no man's land

which inspires nothing but dread my challenge is to cross it

all of this now is just one giant salt pan

and it stretches for miles and miles in every direction

and ten thousand years ago

this would have been under the sea

but now

it's just this crust of like glistening salt and minerals

and that's why it's so bright

and why it's so searingly hot here

it's 20 by 30 miles totally barren

totally exposed and totally toxic nothing grows

there's not a drop of water

and don't get excited by these tire tracks this place

only briefly comes alive once a year and it's not now

that's all from the Parry Dakar Rally

and that's one of the longest and toughest races in the world

and it passes all the way through Morocco and western Sahara

and there was one biker who crashed

he smashed up himself and his bike

and he knew then he was in a lot of trouble

but it was only because the berber found him

and managed to help him that he survived to tell the tale

he was lucky to be rescued but if you're stranded out here alone

your only way out are the foothills of the atlas mountains

they may look close

but crossing even short distances in this salt pan

can kill you on flat ground like this

you can underestimate distance by a

factor of three

and they just don't seem to be getting any nearer

it's a blistering 130 degrees it's physically draining

but it's a havoc

this heat

haze and flat terrain plays with your mind that can kill you

that's the mirage look straight there on the horizon

see all that shimmering looks just like big pool of water

but i don't always guarantee you

it's not all is the blue sky reflecting that heat

haze and this is classic mirage place you know

huge flat empty and boiling hot salt pans

get tempted off course by a mirage and you're in big trouble

this place is a battleground to survive it your only weapon

is sheer willpower

hang on guys hang on need to sang about this glare

we're gonna be sunblind

if we don't stop

pull your t shirt down over your eyes

cutting some holes to see through you know

once that takes a glare off

it means i've got dark above and below

and just little slits look through

it's an old army trick

the sun cooks

your cornea and with an hour you can go blind

it's like having glass poked in your eyes

don't risk it

the other problem is dehydration

a killer that can strike in hours

it's so unbearably hot here that your sweat evaporates so fast

that you don't know your losing vital fluids before you know it

you're dizzy nauseous and your body starts to fall apart

that's the last

of the water from this gourd so in this heat

you'd need to find more as quickly as possible

the more you dehydrate out here the more salts and minerals

you lose and one thing you can do in

the salt pan

is just use some of the salts and crust it in the ground

maybe even tuck it under your tongue

drop it in a water bottle

and that's going to help replace some of those lost salts

okay

it'll buy you time and that's what you need to get out of here

alive

but you've got to be careful some salt pans

aren't just normal salt

like you get at home some can be made of caustic soda

which you must not touch as it can burn your skin and blind you

you can tell the difference

as caustic soda feels soapy to the touch when it's wet

that's the end of the salt pan ahead

i see the foothills as well and really if you are stuck out here

that's where you've got ahead

you've just got to get off this saltpan

because really this place is hell

but even if you reach the foothills of the atlas mountains

it's far from over the next challenge

is to find your way through them

this is definitely looking

like a brake running through this escarpment

so i'm just gonna follow this and see

where it leads these fallen boulders

have been weathered over thousands of years

the loose rocks are tricky to negotiate

and it's all too easy to twist

your ankle or worse hard place to stay alive

i really thought this gully would just lead to water

but it's just led to this

it's tricky

and the sensible thing will be to go back down the gully

but i'm gonna give it a go

just because i can

keep to the ledges and shelves take it steady

before quick scramble up to this

a dried riverbed

what's hard to believe out here

is that

you're just as likely to be killed in the desert

by flash floods

as you are by dehydration and this is classic flash flood

terrain we get these dry riverbeds

and it can rain out to a hundred miles away

even that's beautiful weather here

and water will race down with like the roar of a jet engine

and just wipe out anything in its path

you're at your most vulnerable in the summer

when any downpour can be vicious

just last year

the desert village of Mazuga was destroyed by flash floods

six people died and 1200 were left homeless

there's not a drop of water for me

i'm more likely to find some on the valley floor

but it's getting down there that's a problem

that is just

i'm in the Sahara desert in north Africa

in the foothills of the Atlas mountains

my challenge is to somehow find a way down this monster

and find water

this must be 500 foot from the top all the way to the bottom

but what i can see out there

looks like waddies and waddies mean water

there's so little in this extreme environment

you have to be prepared to do anything to get to it

i've just got to find a way to get down i reckon

this is just about possible risky

but possible

okay

it's past the camera

okay here we go

down climbing is so often

more dangerous and difficult than climbing up

just because it's much less natural

this stuff is all so loose it's all sandstone

which in climbers book is a nightmare to climb on

one slip on this stuff could lead to serious

injury and probably death

so you've got to watch every hand of foothold

take it carefully if you get stuck

you may not be able to climb back up or make it down

it's what we call Bing rimrock

and that has happened to me before in New Zealand climbing

and it's very frightening

this whole thing is collapsing

i've just got this last little bit of a chimney climb down there

when you're doing one of these

use the opposing wools with your feet on each side

and just slowly inch

your way down

okay

i'm down off that

and it's looking much better from here

more of a like a scree climb down towards the waddies

i remember as a kid my late dad always used to take me

climbing and i think if i'm honest at that age

it was as much about

just wanting to be you know close to him

as it was about the actual climbing

i didn't necessarily enjoy being cold and wet up a mountain

but i did love hanging out with him

and it's funny

how the wilds can so often

create such strong bonds between people

it can also bring out the best in you as so often

you'll find hidden strength you never knew existed

but for now i need water

there's got to be a wadi somewhere nearby

the heat is blistering i must protect my head otherwise

i'm gonna cook

but where i'm heading is there to that gorge

and what i'm hoping is that

i'll be able to find the source of this water

and also

some good shade

these oleander bushes grow near water

but stay well clear they're beautiful

but deadly what makes them

oleander is a very distinctive five petals that they have

but all of this bush is poisous the flowers

the leaves even the sap and look

if you look down here

all of this white stuff this is actually

the dried out sap from the Allianda

so if there's any water around here

it would be undrinkable

so i need to find a different water source

they're nasty

those plants vomiting

bloody diarrhea

and tremors are the least

they can do putting you into a coma is the worst and out

here alone that means death get higher to search for fresh water

use a wildlife to find a safe source look

birds see just at the head of the galley there

see them

and that is a really good indicator there must be water

somewhere nearby you know

they like to drink in the early morning

and in the early evening

and actually you can also hear them listen to that

yeah that's definitely

where i'm heading

whoa

look at me

ah fresh cold clean water running straight down here

i pull up this and my water bottle hey

look there's a look down

here look

see that got frog

where is it

got that fast

little things these

there it

there he is see that

so i've got water and i've got food

and this is a little saharan frog

and i know he's good to eat i tell he saharan

he's green

it's got these little white spots on the back of his legs

if this was brightly colored

or if had a big x on his back

i wouldn't want to eat this but this is edible

squeezing

what remains the guts out of him

and then all of that is good tweets well refueled now

for what's ahead and i'm gonna need it

i've just reached a dead end here look at

just sheer walls all the way around

i just don't know how i'm gonna get out of this

i'm in the Sahara in north

Africa showing how to get out alive

the challenge now is to climb

through the foothills of the Atlas mountains

but i'm at a dead end from my best chance

it's gonna be these series of buttresses along there

maybe that end one see

if i can get up there and follow that skyline all the way up

let's have a look

these buttresses are often quite good to climb

just because they protrude

which means they get weathered and where it's weathered

you get good hand

holds and footholds

but all of this is like a mix of volcanic

and then also sedimentary rock

which means it's sharp but also quite loose but i reckon

this is doable

it's pretty extreme

but if you can get up and out fast

a detour around

the gorge would take hours

you can't spare in the battle for survival guys bring you up

the edge here

guys that's also loose

okay take your time bad

take your time

god that's horrible look

i've got nice grips

now straight up

this are red

the safest technique is to maintain three points of contact

on the rock face

at all times this is quite high now

just clear this bit off for you

okay

try and passes

this get you over

the lip

gone another foot

another foot

another foot

okay

i got it

i got it

okay

let's get you over

this bit go for it

commit to it

nice okay see what

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good look

have a look over here see

where we've come straight up bad

tell me my heart's really racing there's an overhang above

but you've got to keep moving there's no going back now

looks like last little bit if i just got over that lip

i think that's gonna be the top

it's actually quite a nice handheld

just

just there

overhand climbs are punishing

you rely entirely on your upper body to pull you up

and in this searing heat of 130 degrees

you can easy get crippling cramps in your arms wave

after wave of them

but hang on there

quite full on

but i'm up out of this Canyon and look

you can just see it's pretty formidable here

okay on our way

you shall soon pick up dusty tracks

which will lead you out of here

but this might well

be an old caravan route

the sort of thing that nomads

would use for centuries with their camels

but if i follow this

it might well lead me to a settlement

these paths were once used to carry gold salt and slaves

from the south Sahara

and the berbers still use them

today as trading routes and for shelter

you'll see somebody's definitely been here

that have made a little wall to act

as a windbreak

and there's even like goat droppings and stuff here

so somebody has definitely used this

which means i'm probably on the right trail

and it shouldn't be long before

there's a best sight in the world

buildings palm trees

and people

and that will mean one thing you're safe

but really to be stranded out here on your own

in the Sahara desert

will be a hellish place to survive

the challenges of the Sahara are extreme

but it's the knowledge and survival skills of the berber people

that can help you get out alive

their knowledge is legendary

as is their hospitality

i don't know