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i'm bear grills

i've served with the British special forces

i've climbed to the summit of Everest

and cross the frozen waters of the arctic now

i'm in one of the world's largest

Canyon systems copper

Canyon Mexico

it's a Mecca for hikers and climbers

that hundreds get lost every year

i'm gonna show you the skills needed to survive here

i'm entering Mexico's copper

Canyon 300 miles south of the us border

there are hundreds of deep twisting

canyons that cut through a desert

the size of Massachusetts is four times larger

and a thousand feet deeper than the grand Canyon

this place is wild

the landscapers remained untouched for centuries

that's why people come here

and it's fast becoming

one of Mexico's hiking hotspots last year

half a million people visited

but parts of the canyons are so remote

that they are still unmapped

without a guide getting lost is almost guaranteed

i confirm myself

the position of a lost tourist to show how to survive a place

like this

there's little sign of life here

making starvation and dehydration

a big threat to anyone stranded there's no way

i'm gonna be able to land

the valleys down there

it's just too steep the only place that can draw

me is right at the top

we're over nine

and a half thousand feet up

almost

at the limit of where this single engine helicopter can hover

safely

i'm gonna use a technique i learned from the special forces

and it's called the dust off

the pilot comes in fast and touches down

just for a second whilst hovering at full power

i will be receiving some help if needed from local experts

along the way and a film crew will follow me

it just feels like

feels like top of the world it's just breathtaking

but it's also just huge

and it makes makes me feel pretty small here

anyone trying to work their way through this landscape faces

a massive challenge

i can see over 25 miles

and there is no sign of human activity first

let me show you how to get your bearings

if you look over here

you can see the contrast in the canyons

where a lot of these faces here

have a lot more vegetation than down here

where it's a lot drier looks a lot more parched

and what it means

it means all of those faces are north facing

they receive less sun

and therefore more moisture so north is this way

what i do know

is that the Chihuahua Pacific rail airline

lies to the west of me

and this runs all the way through

the copper Canyon for about 400 miles from the north

to the south

it's 75 degrees right now

but at 9 and a half thousand feet as soon as the sun goes down

it will get dramatically colder

the one thing about this environment here

is that the days are really hot

and then i know from experience that this

altitude the nights are gonna get very cold now

it's that contrast that makes this place dangerous

you need to descend fast up here

temperatures will plummet to 15 degrees at the bottom

though it will be 40 degrees warmer

but that's over a vertical mile away

even if you found a direct route down

it will still take hours to reach but finding a route down

just looks impossible

being this close to the edge

is the only one to find a way down here

if there is one

but it is dangerous i'm looking for what climbers

call a line of weakness

where the rocks been eroded these often give you a route down

but there's no way down here

this jagged landscape is unforgiving

it's hard to imagine anything surviving up here

but amazingly

there are signs of life let you see this animal pooh

and look you see what's in it

there bit of seed lots of hair

even a bit of bone and that tells me

it's an omnivore and actually

these tapered ends also

say this is more than likely going to be a coyote poo

and the important thing about this

is that these dogs can reach up here

they're not gonna be able to live up here

it's just not enough food or water means

they must have easy access

up and down the problem is it could be a long way away coyotes

have a territory of over 10 square miles

and can run at up to 40 miles an hour

it should be possible to get down here they're a series of one

two three ledges

and it is high and the risk is just not knowing what you know

further down but as long as you've got away up

always it's a risk that's worth taking to get off here

but you need to be careful the climber recently fell here

whilst down climbing

a sheer face just like this

one he dropped 30 foot onto jagged rocks

and was left with a series of splintered vertebrae

but he was lucky

he was rescued and survived

and this is why down climbing is always more dangerous

just because to see your way

you have to lean out and try and find your footholes

which on this face are pretty thin from above

it's also much harder to plan your route

and it's easy to get rim rocked

where you get stuck in a position

where you can't go up or down

the key is to make sure you've gone the skate route back up

if you can't descend any further

i'm down off this first ledge

that's where i've come from and that's where i'm going

further down the overhang becomes more extreme

it's even harder now to see where i'm going

and this is never a nice position

as a climber to find yourself in lowering yourself

on your stomach

of a rock face

and you don't really know what's down below

bad place sit on a cactus on this ledge

now i'm on the bottom ledge i can see it steep too steep yeah

look at that down there

there's no way

there's nowhere and climb down that way

there's a 50 foot drop in front of me and there's no way down

okay

on my right hand side

there's another route dam

but to get to it i'll have to cross a deep gully

let me see if i can make this leap across there

okay

it's 8 foot wide and i've got no run up

okay

when i'm off the top of that

i'm across this galley and look all of this now

looks quite manageable

on a climb like that it would be easy to rip your clothes

and that would be bad news in a place like this

where you need all the protection

you can from the freezing nights

but the agave plant offers a nature zone

needle and thread what i need to do

is get one of these center ones and try

and get my mouth to ground it without getting bricks in the leg

and then just bite it off there

the spikes attached to fibers that run

the length of the leaf and these form

the thread and here it comes once it starts to go

comes a bit easy to pull the thread out and look at that

and then you've got like a needle

and a really long bit of thread

there's one way to test it to deliberately slice over my top

i hope it works

there you go

we'll try and sew it up with this and see what

it looks like

the larger the leaf the longer the thread

but you'll need to thin out the spike a bit with your knife

first

and just do one final stitch here and back on itself

and that maybe not the neathest job in the world

but it's gonna do the job and i've actually

i've got a friend do use this just on his pair of jeans

and actually lasted

he said for four years being washed and everything

so it shows it does work

and it is tough and is durable

i'm now at 7000 feet and for every 000 feet

i drop the temperature will rise 3

and a half degrees Fahrenheit

although it might be tempting to go on

be careful you don't run out of time

there's a good tip that i know for working out

just how much daylight is left and what you do is

you measure the distance from the sun down to the horizon

the technique for doing it is if you put your hand up

you put your sun

just above your fingers

and then each finger down to the horizon is 50 minutes

so hand four fingers one hour that down two hours

i've got about

two hours of daylight left 40 million years ago

masses of volcanic ash and lava were deposited here

the flowing lava

cut deep fissures in the land to form the canyons

the base of volcanic cliffs are often riddled with caves

and finding one is your best chance of shelter

but i need to be careful where i put my hands here

there's fallen rocks everywhere

and this is exactly where scorpions and trantulas live

oh here's one here

we go

look there

see this tiger scorpion

and these are quite common around here look

he's pretty cheese off

but he's a predator

he will live off like other bugs and insects and look

since i put a stick there strikely

he's trying to get to it but actually these are good protein

you can eat these

they're not going to taste very nice

but what i want to do

actually is just cut off his stinger which is this bit here

it's that ball like a ball of venom

with a little stinger on the end of it pin him down

and then just take that off you go

you see him there

but that's all good to eat

ugh tastes like kind of cheese

that's been sitting around about three weeks

but worse

five species of scorpions live

in the canyons and all of them sting the symptoms

include numbness

a tightening of the throat and sharp pains without medication

they can be deadly

look at this cave

the perfect place if you had to spend the night here

i feel miles from anywhere

but i can see that someone has been here before

me just look at the roof of it

covered in all of all of this like sit ah from loads of fires

and even a shelf

let you see this like hole that's obviously

that's obviously man made

it's no surprise to find signs of human activity here

the aztecs once used these caves

but for the last 400 years

they've been home to the rarumary Indians

they still live here today

these nomadic people move from

cave to cave as they travel the canyons if you're lucky

you may find something useful that's been left behind

look at that bit of wire

and it might not look like much but actually

there are loads of different things i could use that for

so that's good for me i'm gonna keep holding this

the charcoal on the cave roof shows

that many fires have been lit here before

and that's what you need

it'll keep out the freezing night air

you might not always be lucky enough

to have a Flint striker with you

so what i'm going to do

is use this yucker to make a fire saw

and a fire saw is just a friction fire

and this yucker is really good for this because it's light

and it's really dry wood

and all i need to do is break it here

then remove the base and start to split the wood into strips

cut out two pieces about 12 inches long

the sottled plant grows

all over these slopes and the leaves make excellent cordage

and i just get this little bit of tinder

a little bit of dried grass

put it against one piece of the yucca

bit of stone on one side and the same on the other

so there can be an airflow between the two bits of wood

and press that against itself so just like that

and then just bind that wrap one end tight

do the same thing at the other end and the job is done

and then that's the bottom bit of the fire saw built

and then all i did with this was again

just peel it away from the main branch

and that then acts as the fire saw

that i actually drive with to create the friction

now to put it to the test it's really important to do this

so the base of this isn't going to wobble and here we go

this is pretty solid there now now just take the fire saw

and start to move it along it

the great thing about using yucca

it's got the lowest ignition

temperature of any of the woods around here

which makes it ideal for trying to make a bit of an Ember

and that's all

i need is a little bit of an Ember to drop between these

two bits of wood into that tinder now

bear shut up stop talking and get a soaring

and yeah look at that

and once you got to this stage

this Ember is actually

gonna keep burning so the tight pressure comes off

and then just poke it through the bottom there

tipping over there

once the Ember surrounded by a good bundler dried grass

it literally goes up in flames

there we go

okay we got fire

so much of this Canyon land

here is just so remote

and for me just sitting here with a fire going

and a view like this really

it just feels like a real privilege you know

i want to get the Canyon bottom i should find water there

but first i'm going to make a basic compass from a leaf

and a piece of wire

and all i need to do here is fill this up

then with a little bit of water

now to prepare the wire

and i really want to rub it like this in my hair

and the idea of this

is it magnetizes

a bit of wire

and then when i put it in

or swing round and point towards magnetic north

giving me that north south line and that should be enough

and then what i do is put the leaf in

and drop that on top and yeah

look at that Lego getting swing round

freely suspended metal

that's being magnetized will always point to a

magnetic north there you go

and that's now come steady

and that's given me a good reliable north south line now

i know the sun rose somewhere over there

because i didn't see it

so that's east so west somewhere over there

and this north south line means

i'm definitely

heading in the right direction on my westward track

so i'm gonna

keep this little bit of wire get rid of the leaf drink the water

and a little out of here

the Raramuri

originally fled here to escape the Spanish conquistadors

the difficult Terrain made it

the perfect place to hide over centuries

they've learned how to navigate their way through

this twisting maze of canyons

their ancient trails are everywhere i don't know

if you can see on that scree slope over there

there's a little trail

and it looks like it's snaking its way round

and then down into this gully

many of these trails haven't been used for years

there's a school group actually out here recently

who were following one of these trails down into the canyons

and some of the girls got separated from the group end up

following the wrong trail down and by the time

the teacher noticed they were missing

they were lost

and the girls were dressed

just in shorts and a t shirt and at night out here

you know and get below freezing

they mounted a massive search and rescue operation

and eventually

a day later they did

find them alive

those schoolgirls were lucky

look this trail has brought me down over half a vertical mile

and it's led me to a river

but it then comes to an abrupt stop at the top of a sheer cliff

let's have a little look

down here

yeah i reckon i get down this

it's gonna be a little bit tight

there's loose rock everywhere

it's vital to test every boulder before you go below them

that's why we gotta wash our footing guys

the slope steep about 60 degrees and it'll be easy to slip

after a hundred foot scramble i'm down oh

this is perfect

look at this

it's like a little slice of heaven

and there's no getting away from it that terrain up

there is just tough all of that loose volcanic rock

it's also much colder

this is warm down here

and i've got the sun and some water

and i'm gonna just take my socks off

and take five minutes

the only thing about these canyons is

that i'm completely just hemmed in by these walls on all sides

and at the moment whichever

where the Canyon goes

i've got to go as well and at the moment it is going west

that's fine for now

whoa

that's a waterfall

there's no way

i'm gonna be able to downclimb

downclimb that

you see

those trees just against the cliff

i might well

be able to climb down the edge of those through the tree

i reckon this is this is doable here

and i can see where the tree runs all the way down the cliff

but these cycle trees are great for climbing

just because their root systems are really strong they grow out

and they like clinging to rock faith

so i'm gonna give this a go

tell you what there's quite a healthy drop straight down

it's over 60 foot to the bottom a full here would be serious

so you must check each

and every step before you put your full weight on the tree

and what i want to wise out

for is dead branches look at this

whoa live Cypress branches will have a healthy covering of bark

and a glossy sheen to them

is like becoming overhanging and suddenly i'm a bit more wave

just the exposure beneath

the sun can't get in here below the overhang

and this could really help me

none of the branches are growing at the back against the cliff

they're all growing out towards the sun

which means i can climb down much easier

and as i descend the branch has become thicker

and the tree more stable now

i can move fast

well

i'm done and

i was done and look at that for a view

beyond the waterfall

the Canyon walls become sheer

there's no way out this would be bad news for you

almost 40 inches of rain can fall in a day here within minutes

the steep Canyon

size channel is massive water straight into the river

so flash floods are a real threat

this bush here shows just how high the water level can reach

and well i don't know if you can see that

but all of this is bent over

just by the force of the water

this must be 10 maybe 50 foot above

where it is now just imagine this Canyon if you look down there

all of these rocks would be underwater

this would just be a raging torrent cliffs on other side

and literally this place would be a death trap

even if it's clear

where you are

30 miles away

the rain could be pouring down a 15 foot wall of water

full of boulders

and trees will thunder downstream at 60 miles an hour

and will hit with little warning

and the first

you're gonna know

about it is you're gonna hear a distant rumble

like a jet jet engine and then it's gonna hit you

and there was actually

a guy a couple of years ago who was fishing nearby here

and he was with his son and with his niece

and he knew this area really well

but a flash flood came and hit

and it took them

and he managed to turn and reach grab his son by the time

he turned around again his niece was gone

and she was never seen again

and that's how dangerous these are the canyons can be

with flash floods if you're traveling downstream

you won't see the wall of water coming

you have to keep listening all the time

and if you feel the earth start to tremble head for high ground

as soon as possible

so many of these walls here

and the canyons have just been completely sheer and unclimbable

i'll let you see the gap in the ridge up there

and i just want to go see what's

the other side of it just because the river

that i've been following here has been great

it's been heading west

but look at sunny now

skirted round to the south

which is not where i want to go so let's see what's up here

wow this is

this is why this place is just such a maze look

it's just suddenly a whole new Canyon here

and look you see the river there

actually is skirting round and heading westerly so

this Canyon is much better for me okay

we're gonna let's go on this one

one of the most important elements of survival is staying alert

and making the most of opportunities that gap in the ridge

would save you days of walking

and keep you on a westerly course

i have water now and it's warmer

but the ground is strewn with huge boulders

this is tough terrain

but now i'm gonna show you a way of catching fish out here

some trout have been placed just downstream there

you guys see him just down there

okay what i'm gonna

do is just see see

if i can dam

this little bit of stream lower down and also the outstream

and see if i get there

get this thing

the dams will stop the fish escaping

but always build the lower one first

they'll find it harder to spot you and it needs to span right

across a water flow that's gonna be the same upstream

and then see if i get it stay out of sight

as you move upstream and once your next dam is built

you're ready to go fishing

what i want to try and do here

is come directly downstream of where they are

which is just there

and they have a blind spot just behind them

and then come up and try

and get them with a stick

and the good thing about doing it like this is that even

if i miss the shockwaves of that impact will concuss them

听见没啊

okay

some saltwater fish are poisonous

but all freshwater fish are safe to eat

anything over three inches should be gutted

because they spoil the fish and make it taste horrid

finally once a head and tail are removed wash your fish

to clean out the stomach cavity

and that is good to eat

just like this straight out of the river

fish contains high levels of protein

which helps repair muscle tissue

and it also boosts the immune system

hmm

i love Suzy

i don't like bones

so just another of these caves and look at the roof up here

and just see a cake with charcoal and look over here

there's a drawing

look see this

looks like there's probably a railway line

like a very mule or a donkey or even a person

as if they're kind of working on it

and this is more

likely going to be referring to the el chape railway line

to build a railway line through

these canyons was a remarkable feat of engineering

it runs for 400 miles crosses

36 bridges and 87 tunnels opened in 1961

it had taken over 100 years to build hey

can you see that drop off

there's a series of waterfalls ahead and a lot of white water

and really waterfalls in the wilds just can be killers

and you want to avoid them

really at all costs the danger

though is just hidden rocks

not seeing what's in all that white water

all that turbulence and not knowing how deep

it is i could climb my way around this waterfall

but i'm gonna jump

straight off the top to show you the safest technique

the drop is over 25 foot high

you've got to make sure the water's deeper than 12 foot

or you'll hit the bottom

you'll need a depth gauge

and if you don't have string nature has the answer

yucker leaves all i do is biting trip

one

two

have thin end thin

end right over left

left over right

this process is fast and with a little help from the crew

i've made almost 50 foot of rope

the next step is to smooth the edges of the rock

so it doesn't cut the yuckily then secure it with a hitch knot

and that then is ready to go

i've got the rock and this length of cord if i drop this in

when it's on the bottom

i know how deep it is here

okay so on the bottom now and every own length

i pull back to about three feet will tell me how deep it is

when i see the rock

i know that's the deck one

two

three

four

side okay that's five arm lengths for about 15 foot

which is falling to jump

you know i've made a mistake before doing a big sea

cliff junk and really injuring myself

bruising all the way down my legs

and it's a mistake i only made one

so i want to get this right and the jump with my feet together

and beyond that white stuff so here goes

the water is close to freezing and the currents raging

but the way out is to corkscrew

it's the best technique for getting out of strong currents

it was quite bracing

but it worked and i didn't hit the bottom

but i'm drenched and i'm coal

and even get a fire gang

as my clothes dry i'm going to show you how to set up camp

when there are no caves around

the rarumura use smoke blankets to keep warm

what i'm gonna do here

is just build a second fire over here

from the embers of this one and the idea is you could

if you needed to sleep in between these fires

these Cypress branches will be comfy to lie on dig

a trench between the fires to put them in this

will stop you rolling out into the flames

let's give it for all of this Cypress

it's gonna be nice and insulate it to Lyon

then surround them with stones to stop

the Cypress catching fire

okay give it a test

i never thought i'd be in that river

and then within 20 minutes be really warm seven

one way of working out

your direction in these canyons

is just use the sun and its shadow

and in the vast majority of the northern hemisphere

the sun will always travel across the southern sky

which means the shadows will never face south

so if i look at that face over there

you see all of that since shade

which means that north must be somewhere in this sky here

which means also the west must be somewhere in this direction

to keep going west you'll need to get out of this Canyon

and to do that you've got to get up there

but those walls are vertical

a family recently got stuck in

a Canyon and on their second day

they spotted a small village just over the Canyon rim

but they couldn't reach it

because none of them could climb eventually

they stumbled across an animal trail and got out

they'd been in there for five days

i know if you can see that there's like a crack in the rock

where the shadow is just kind of hard to tell from down here

but my dad always used to say when we're climbing

you can never tell how steep something is

until you actually rub noses with it

so that's what i'm gonna do

this deep cut is a result of thousands of years of water erosion

it's a weak point in the rock

climbers often look for these

as they can be a way up an otherwise impenetable face

yeah looks like a little bit of a chimney climb up

i just need to get past this first big boulder here

chimney climbs

are where a rock face has two opposing walls and to climb

them takes a lot of practice

wedge yourself in and then place one foot on each wall

and use those to push yourself up

and climbing

like this is all about balance

and just using opposing forces

one foot one more and one or the other

and then use my leg strength to lift me up

and my arms just to balance

i'm getting quite heartless now

but for about three quarters of the way

i'm just going to take a second to rest

but i'm in a good position here

i've got my legs taking all of my weight and actually

i don't even need my hands

it just gives me a chance get the blood back

get my breath back and then do this last little bit

and also up here is now getting really wet and slippy

so this is a wax

where i'm putting my feet

i can see daylight at the top

there's a small gap it's my only way out

but it's gonna be a tight squeeze

i'm out of that hole

and out of this Canyon

look at that that's just spectacular

i was gonna take ten minutes get my breath back and enjoy this

i've come down steep mountains and through treacherous canyons

and now i find myself in the middle of lash pine forest

i can really start to move fast now

but even my pace is nothing compared to the raramuri

they're known as the running people

and they can travel over 100 miles

without stopping and journeys that take their mours

would take anybody else days

one of the way

that the raramuri hunt

is just to chase animals over vast distances

and this even works with deer

they'd just run and then run until eventually

the animal would tire and would slow down

and the raramuri would be close enough

we had to stone it and kill it

and just imagine the

sort of stamina

involved to do that you stand no chance about running

a deer so if you want to eat

you need to find something that may not be as tasty

but is a lot easier to catch have you ever tried beetle lava

this is just a sort of place

they like underneath these sort of oak scrubs

and what happens

will the leaves fall off

and this provides good insulation uh for these lava uh

but until this is a peaceful lava

just because the shape of its head

it will have the same head when it's an adult and also

it's pinces you can see there

and that's what

it will use to eat the leaves but you can see here

all of its brown gunk as well and this is what

it's been eating but this is yeah

absolutely edible

good protein looks pretty horrible

probably tastes pretty horrible

but it's worth having

oh

god like an explosion of goo on my mouth

but actually tastes like dirt and also a bit oaky

it's getting dark now but always keep a lookout for people

copper Canyon

is a vast and intimidating wilderness to be lost in

and it leaves me

with a sense of all of the people

who've learned to live and survive here

and call it their home