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I'm bear grills

I've served with the British Special Forces

climb to the summit of Mount Everest

and cross the frozen oceans of the Arctic

now

I'm in Ecuador

a country of extreme jungle and mountains

every year

hundreds have to be rescued from its harsh landscape

I'm gonna show the skills needed to survive here

Ecuador a country the size of Nevada

is home to the world's longest mountain range

and the world's biggest and most impenetrable jungle

the Amazon Last year

over 1 million people

came to experience its fast wilderness where time

has stood still for millennia

many still get lost in the mountains and jungles

needing to be rescued

I'm going to paraglide into this wilderness

a camera crew will follow me

and if needed local experts will be on hand

to assist

I'm surrounded by

some of the most spectacular mountains

in the world but it is cold up here

just a few degrees above freezing

and the air is thin

so the way I'm going in

is by paraglider

here you goes

using the rising air currents

I'm gonna fly over the Andes

in the hope of landing somewhere

close to the Amazon jungle

the Andes are just immense

stretching over four and a half thousand miles

north to south

it has some of the world's highest

and most active volcanoes

here

these changing air currents are taking me down

over the Paramo

high altitude marshes that cover most of this area

not a place you want to be

whoa this is gonna be fast coming in

look I don't know if you see

this is just like wasted horrible stuff

but it's cold up here and I need to get out of this bog

as quickly as possible

it's horrible sludge

this is not a good start

I'm still roughly 12 000 feet up

and the temperature is just above freezing

being wet and cold at this altitude

is a killer combination

I'm going to show you the

skills you'll need to survive in the different

terrains here

from the cloud forest to the jungle

to the Amazon River

below me

is mile upon mile of dense high altitude jungle

which because of its height is known as cloud forest

further below is a hot and humid Amazon jungle

look at this huge huge valley

and it's just cloud for us

as far as I can see

and even though it's beautiful

it's also quite demoralizing

that just means more hard work

still soaking wet and I'm cold

and I'm about 12

000 feet up here

and the danger

is just exposure

and hypothermia

and I know from experience

both of those can come on very quickly

this is a lethal combination of cold wet and altitude

and guys I really need to be heading that fast

every thousand feet lower you go

means it gets about two degrees warmer

but moving at altitude is tough

up here at 10,000 feet there's 15

percent less oxygen than at sea level

forget just how hard work it is

moving at altitude

and now entering Cloud Forest

will be easier to find food and shelter

it's astonishing how quickly the vegetation can change

and it's like entering a new world

it's a lush yet eerie place

as the

warm air comes up from the tropical lowlands

it condenses and you get this area

for about 8000 to 10000 feet

where it's just solid just cloud and rain

and it's just so still around here

you can't hear anything

apart from just a

bitter patter of the rain

look how wet everything is

look at this

you just pull all of this stuff

masses of it off and it's probably

yeah look at full of water

and I'll definitely find a stream lower down

but there's also this light

just smell

of rotting wood as if the whole place is just a cane

the cloud forest

is far more abundant than the grassland

the temperate and damp conditions

are home to

thousands of different plant and animal species

look at this guy I just found on the first floor

it's a Sicilian

and these guys normally live

underground just feeding off worms and stuff

but because it's so wet he has been raining so much

he's literally forced up to the surface

and that is just amazing to actually come across

one of these

although it looks like a snake

it's actually a legless lizard

and it lives off worm spiders and insects

and we're gonna let him go

and get back to him

he might look good to eat

but he has poisonous glands under his skin

so he's not gonna be my lunch

I know from my

time in the army

just how slow jungle moving can be

you know sometimes it would take

you know take all day just to move like a mile

and

in this sort of stuff you can just see why

it's easy to end up going

round and round in circles in these dense forests

in 1986

a team of treasure hunters came to the cloud forest

in search of Inca gold

legend says the last emperor at Awulpa

ordered tons of it to be hidden

in Ecuador's cloud forest

it is thought the

treasure hunters died

after becoming completely disorientated

their bodies were discovered

just half a mile from their camp

jaguars and snakes live in the forest but they are rare

the more deadly killers are the plants

this is fully Otis mushroom

this and these are poisous and nasty

and if I ate this

this could destroy my kidneys in 24 hours

and really in the wires

you don't want to take any chances

unless you're an expert in mushrooms and toastals

your best thing to do is stay clear of them

the toxins are so deadly

the ones consumed there is no antidotal cure

the warm and damp conditions

means plants grow up to 20 feet a year

that's fast and the vines can form such dense screens

you can hardly see in front of you

it's getting plume tangled in all the stuff

and you know what sometimes you just grind to a horse

if possible

try to avoid moving through dense undergrowth

as you'll waste precious energy

suddenly the jungle gives way to a narrow channel

this is probably

cut into the earth by hundreds of years of water

erosion

is like an express freeway through the jungle

and it leads to a cave

let's have a look in here

caves like this are forbidding places

hey look put the Nike vision on put them on

you see those

yeah look

they're bats just hundreds of them

how you feel

their wings just flap off my head

and those such extraordinary flies are flying

all on Sona

these spear nose fats live in colonies around 5000

there are so many here

I could probably grab one

but I don't do that

if I got got bit by one

they carry a risk of rabies

the stenchion here is almost unbearable

the floor of this cave is covered in guano

or bat dropping

the fumes are highly toxic

and it's a breeding ground for biting insects

there's one thing I really don't like is bats

yeah

I need to find a better place

and that's back into the dense cloud forest

always be aware of the type of terrain you're in

it can help guide you out of dense jungle

this is

a creek and I can follow this all the way down

to a river

and these creeks and rivers really are

the highways of the forest

and as I follow the stream down

the noise of crashing water gets progressively louder

there's no mistake in this sound

White Water

yeah look at this

this fast flowing river

comes straight from the snow capped Andes

it's glacial and freezing cold

it demands a huge man respect

these sort of streams they're very very powerful

and you've got to be very careful

moving along the bank

where it's slipping

there's always food

to eat in the forest if you know where to look

and if you look at this orchid here

this is actually

one of my favorite orchids

because it's easy to identify

it's called a brown spotted

yellow orchid

because it's got brown spots and it's yellow

what's great about it is that you can eat it as well

there are

thousands of edible plant species in the cloud forest

and it's like a feast if you know where to look

look look these bogonias

see these

these are actually

these are actually edible

and you can recognize these from there

they're like fleshy red flowers

and they're alternate uneven leaves

and if you eat one of the flowers

they're quite sweet

they've got a lot of glucose in them

and then the leaves as well

which taste like

more sour but these have got lots of vitamins

and minerals in them

moving through cloud forest

every little bit of energy

but not everything is edible

this tree really is nature having organised itself

in the most extraordinary way

and it is so easy to walk straight past this

and not notice the literally hundreds

of caterpillars that are wrapped around it here

and this is like sort of nature's progression

from the caterpillar

to the cocoons here

to eventually when they become butterflies

two of the most dangerous things in the rainforest

are actually ants and caterpillars

and if you touch this

each of these tiny little hairs can contain toxins

they can actually irritate your skin

sometimes up to a year

these are little immature fern fronds and

these are actually edible

and indigenous people around here will harvest these

and then eat them

but you need to boil them twice before you do eat them

but you can recognize them just from these monkey tail

shape that they have

and also the way they're covered in this

kind of horrible loopy slime

however they develop this

just to protect themselves from being eaten from bugs

but I'm gonna cut

the top half of

these off

and then boil them and eat them later

boiling them twice removes a toxic slime

which can cause severe stomach cramps

but it's time to find shelter

I could build one

but there's plenty of natural shelter around here

there's a cave

over there just in the black

and I'm beginning to see a few of these now

and that will be a perfect place somewhere like that

to spend the night

but the cave is on the other side of the water

and this water is too fast flowing and deep

to wade through

I've just passed some bamboo back there

and that has made me think

of how we used to cross a lot of crevasses

on Everest has given me an idea

there literally over 100 species of bamboo

and what I'm hoping is that this stuff

sounds didn't wolve enough

to let me

get through just this little knife

see if this works

yeah this is

this is cutting through all right

excellent

with the team's help I'm trying to make a ladder

two long pieces of bamboo

and some cross struts attached with vine

should be strong enough to hold at least 200 pounds

then I'll be able to cross over to the cave

what I'm looking for are some vibes just to

lash these cross braces together

but the stuff I need is

not this is all dead and will break

I'm looking for the living stuff

like it here you go

this is

this stuff I think is what they call a little Yang vine

and it's good it's bend it suckled and it's living so

find a few more of these

I'm gonna use split saplings as cross struts

I've got the first cross brace

here

and then all I need to do

is use some of this nice flexible vine

to tie with

nature provides all the resources that you need

the great thing about these vines is they're just one

or two hitches

and because it's quite living in a damp

they actually tighten on themselves

and are really secure

the bamboo may be hollow

but a structure this big can be heavy

this probably weighs 150 pounds

so build it near to where you need it

once in place

I should be able to walk over the water to my cave

this ladder is almost

almost in place now and

even though the materials are actually quite light

the ladder itself now

is pretty heavy

but

just shows

what a little bit of larger thinking can do here we go

oh god

it's just completely smashed

that is a disaster

well that's the reality of survival

it doesn't always work

and I'm back to the drawing board

it's getting pretty late in the day now

and I haven't really got time for shelter and a fire

and I've got to prioritize

but the important thing for me is really get a fire

I need to get dry and I need to get warm

and the good thing about this forest

because it's quite dense above

there's quite a lot of natural shelter anyway

if it does rain

but I've got to go and try and find a bit of tinder

to get that fire go

finding dry tinder in these wet conditions

might look impossible

but it's not if you know where to look

if you look around here

you see all these rabbit dropping

yeah look here more here

and these are rabbit trails

and what they do they create these burrows

under all of these grasslet you see here

and then inside it

you get this dry grass and it's like the rabbits have

done my job for me

so I need a few more minutes

I have to be quick

the rains which fall every evening are just beginning

everything just here is so wet

it's just making getting this far going

really difficult

the problem

is all of this grass that I've collected earlier

it's all now just soaking wet

my kindling's wet

my wood is wet

and I'm cold at the moment

oh dear

so every time I get a spark

this blooming rain

just puts it out

you know

I don't think I've ever

before

actually failed to get a fire gag

come on

do you know what

this is a losing battle

the best thing I can do actually with this grass now

is just

stuff it down my shirt

and use this

as insulation

and hope that it keeps me warm

through this night

and what this does

is it acts like kind of down

and will insulate hopefully

a lot of the heat

and it makes me look as if I've

eaten too many cheesecakes

but it should work

I'll tell you what

I'd murder a cheesecake as well at Fame

and it's

kind of weird sometimes being in these forests

when it's dark

but my mission now is really

just a try and get

as warm as I can with this gross stuff

and

keep my chin up

and see this night through

it rained for most of the night

but when things seem really bad

it's often the little things that can give you hope

see out there

see that little purple flower just on its own

so beautiful and there's no doubt that

moving through this sort of train is hard work

and it's often the little things

that give you a pick me up

but for me it's Sunday coming across

that sort of a flower

and I always kind of think of it's like

you know it's like God's extravagance

you know it's there nobody might ever see it

it's like nature can't help

but create beautiful things

I just love that

after being soaked for 24 hours

my strength is being sacked

but before long my path along the Riverbank

comes to an abrupt end

I can either

try and wade it

thing is I'm just going to end up soaking wet

and this water is cold

and that's the last thing I really want

the other option

it's just a jump

and go for this tree

and the worst thing that can happen

is that I'll end up in the drink

wet anyway

but at least this way there's a chance I can stay dry

grab the branch of both hands

and then use your momentum to

swing your legs up

but watch out for loose moss

I'm out of the cloud forests of Ecuador

and I'm entering the dark jungles of the mighty Amazon

the rain forest here

has over 9 feet of rainfall every year

and it's home

to over 1 million species of plants and animals

I'm definitely now down in the rain forest

and I can tell this just because the height of the

tree canopies

above me

some of these are probably about probably 80 foot high

and also it's much much more humid

down here really noticeably so

I'm now down in a pretty permanent looking creek

in the wet season this would be a raging torrent

but at the moment I can use it to lead me down

so you see here where two

streams meeting like a junction

the important thing is

just keep following the flow of the water downhill

in the jungle there are torrential showers every day

over half a million gallons will fall on each acre

this rain has one blessing

gives me a chance to get rid of a stench

over the last few days

and the range finished as quickly as they began

this part of the Amazon has a huge variety of wildlife

Over 8% of the world's animal species

and these are some have come across

these rainforests are just so unforgiving

and every animal in it has a survival strategy

and if you look at this little stick insect

perfectly blended in

against this tree

and you know I might walk past 100 of these

before I actually see one

and they actually say you only see

about 2% of the animals that are actually out there

look at that personally camouflage

and if you look at this

this is a bird cricket

and it's called that

because it's the size of like a small bird

and yes amazing look it's like

also everything in this jungle is

like a survival expert

and this fella's tactic is to have these thorns

on his legs and if anything gets close

Wham just kicks away with those thorny legs

amazing

what I've got here is a little fishing spider

and actually

he's not so little

he's not a bad size

uh but what this guy would do sit on the

edge of the bank and he'll actually fish

and catch little minnow

yeah even the size of size a lot my little finger

ah but this guy is poisonous

and what the the locals say that if they get bit by

they say actually then

eat it try and counteract the venom

but I don't want to try that

and let this guy

let him go

look at these guys these

are palm weeble grubs wow

I'll tell you what these

these are the biggest grubs I've ever seen look

and this is just a sort of place

that they like they feed off all this

rotting soft interior of the palm tree

but

these are absolutely

massive

and actually the locals eat a lot of these

they're like a delicacy

they're full of

good protein and

you can actually eat them whole

look at it rookie

holy smoke

that is

go

the whirani tribe of the Amazon

consider these a real delicacy

horrible and you know what

they can keep their delicacies

let's try and get one more down

they're a mouthful of goo

with a texture of cream cheese with

crunchy lumps of gristle

but the Amazon rainforest is also full of life

that is easy on the palate

just beginning to

drizzle again

that's a good time for a bit of fishing as well

the rain will distract the fish

and make it easier to get in close

the local Pirani tribe

had traditionally used a bow and arrow like this one

to catch fish

I'll be showing some of the techniques I use

to make them

and this is old chonta palm here that's fallen down

and this stuff is ideal because it's very hard

but also it allows you to splinter it

lengthways

the bow arm whitling is especially good

for spearing fast moving fish in shallow pools

this chonta palm wood has just been purpose

take me about 50 minutes

and already I've whittled that down

into something about the right length

a Warani hunter will take days to make one of these

but they expect theirs to last for years

I just now need a couple of notches

in each end that I'm going to attach

the draw string tape

the pitter palm grows throughout the jungle

the leaves contain long fibers

that make perfect bow strings

this pizza has these nasty little barbs

all the way down it

so first I need to do

is just take those off

once I've got it like this

I need to just

open this out

and then I just want to separate

the fleshy bit

from the actual

strong back of these leaves

and I just take the strands of this put it in my mouth

and then start to weave it

weaving the strands together

increases their strength and durability

once on the bow it'll need to coat with huge pressure

and now to attach it what I've done that I'm missing

I put a simple bowling loop onto it there

and then on this side

I do the same

to tie this bowl in all I do

is make a little loop like this

I put this end

through the thing

and a good way to remember it is

the rabbit comes out of the hole

around the tree

and then

back down

the hole

and that then

is ready

the arrows are made of the same heavy wood as the bow

perfect for cutting through the water

this vegetation is just a sort of place

that fish like to hide especially this time of day

now

piranha live in these sort of streams

and they can be vicious

stripping animals that fall into the water in seconds

but that only happens

when they're in large shelters of 100 or more

this pond is just too small to support their many

so it should be safe to be in

piranhas are tasty but they're also difficult to catch

tell you what

they quickly experience

recently a woman was stranded in the rainforest

and survived alone for two weeks

by catching piranhas in a shallow river

she used only insects for bait

an

either place of shallower pools

where I can really see

what's on the bottom

what's happened here

is you got this jungle pool

where the water level actually is dropping

and you can see on the bank

the level that the water was

I just get the camera

and put it

into the water

you should be able to see them swimming around

brilliant look at that

imagine 1 thousand of those

you can see why I just stripped the flesh of a human

in seconds

razor sharp teeth

and this guy is pretty well dead

and he still has the power

to go straight through this

it's essential piranha are cooked thoroughly

because it can carry half full parasites

I've got a little

cooking rack here and on it I've got my fern fronds

bubbling away

and I've boiled these

a couple of times and just change your water

just to make sure they're really well cooked

and I've got some the other fern fronts cooking

in these bamboo sections here

and then wrapped in these leaves I've got my prana

that I've caught and these should be

should be ready now

and there you go those are those nasty teeth

grinning away at me

for that

that smells great so I'm gonna put that

onto this loof here

and it's so nice just actually having a bit of time now

to cook this properly

and get something really decent to eat

fish

the fronds

and then really enjoy it properly

and this is now looking like

quite a substantial meal

and they taste like really gooey gunky

asparagus

you know what

these would be so nice a bit of Mayo

let's try with a bit of piranha instead

for such an aggressive

unpleasant fish

it doesn't half taste good

since I've been here I've picked up a few cuts

but in the rainforest there's a tree that can help me

yeah look those are the heart shaped

heart shaped leaves I was looking for and also

this smooth trunk

and this tells me this tree is a sangre

de drago which literally means dragon's blood

and the reason it's cool

that is because the sap inside it is red

and before I came out here

I was told to look

out for this tree if I ever cut myself

just because the properties of the sap

are very good antiseptic

and healing and if you oxious as soon as attack in

you'll see

the blood

sap start to ooze out

and then any little like Nicks I've got

I can put it on

and look if you watch this as well

as soon as you get it on

you like lather it up

it goes into this white paste

like kind of soap

and that is very healing

good antiseptic

and will help the blood

to calculate

great tree

if you're lost in the Amazon jungle

a

river's your best bet to lead you back to civilization

and when you're fighting for survival

getting in a river will allow you to move faster

but only do it as a last resort

the technique in rapids

is to keep your legs and feet in front of you

this will help you fend off any rocks

but the rapids soon start to get bigger

and eventually it becomes just too dangerous

well I've reached the big river

and that's been

a primary goal for the start of this journey

to reach a big river

but it's bigger than I thought

and it's also got some sensible size rappers on it

which means it's too risky really

for me to go down just on my own

and they need to find something that's gonna help me

rivers like this one are the highways of the Amazon

and they offer you the greatest

chance of reaching a settlement

and if you can't move any further on foot

look out for the Bulsa tree

it could be a lifesaver

and you can tell these by their gray mottled bark

and distinctive fan shaped leaves

it's very soft and very buoyant

awesome I sat down then

cut myself a length of it

about

about here

ten years ago a group of hikers were lost in the jungle

they survived by building a simple raft out of Bulsa

lashed together with vines

and they simply floated downstream

after three days they reached a settlement

it's pretty smooth this bit

but I can hear them

more rapids ahead

and the worst bit of it is you can hear them before

you can see them

and you don't really see what's ahead until you kind of

right into it

but this pulsa wood is giving me so much

buoyancy

and it means really I can just cling to it

keep my feet downstream

I take my breath

I learn to ride on that rock

the water level is now dropping lower and lower

and the sharp bedrop beneath me can break bones

it's time to get out of the river

and set that arena

in the Amazon

it can feel like every step is a struggle

against the forces of nature

but it's vital that you never give up

even if your plans fail

and remember every day that you survive

gives you another chance to reach safety