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[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Holy [bleep], man, this fox.

Starting to feel like this fox

might be a danger for me.

Go away!

- Is that a bunny?

Holy schmoly, that's three today.

- I'm gonna build a meat crib.

Now, that's a lot of freezer space.

- I just can't do it.

- I want to come home

to my family and friends whole.

- Hey, this is Mark. I am officially tapping out.

Pain, misery, and suffering--

I've dealt with it enough, and I'm done.

♪ ♪

male narrator: For the first time,

ten participants will fight to survive the Arctic

for longer than anyone in "Alone" history--

a grueling 100 days.

- This is the ultimate challenge.

♪ ♪

- A hundred days in the Arctic is no joke.

narrator: If they can endure,

they'll win the biggest prize ever--

$1 million.

♪ ♪

- Oh!

- Oh, [bleep].

- You can't tap out

when there's a million bucks on the line.

- Oh, my gosh. - [growls]

- How hard can you work for $10,000 a day?

- It looks like frostbite.

- [screaming] - Oh, [bleep].

narrator: This is "Alone: Million Dollar Challenge."

- They're just surrounding my shelter.

[wolves snarling]

♪ ♪

- You can tell when your soup got no grease.

You know as soon as it hits your mouth...

If it's got grease in it.

It's just water and meat fragments.

It's missing that richness.

♪ ♪

All the fat,

that's what keeps a man strong in the woods.

Fat.

[wind blowing]

♪ ♪

And we're gonna start mining

into this muskox head a little bit more.

We had a little bit of grease

in our stew this morning, but today's...

meat looked dry to me again.

♪ ♪

We're gonna get it out of this right here.

♪ ♪

We still got the lips

and the nose and the other ear--

all kinds of good stuff here.

There's the bottom lip.

That'll jazz up one potful.

We can get a day out of the nose.

All this area, the upper lip and the nose.

That's all got good fatty tissue inside.

The other lower lip.

You can see it.

There'll be some gristle, too, but...

it'll render out a little bit of grease.

This is probably a lot like what the Plains Indians

did with the buffalo.

You could form a whole lifestyle

off of this muskox.

We're utilizing every little bit.

I've already got it in my head

all the little fat pockets to exploit

because this is a dry animal.

Now, this is what's called knee fleshing...

[grunts] 'Cause you drape it over your knee.

Here's his eyeball hole.

So we got to start south of it here.

♪ ♪

It'll be tougher than a boot, but it'll render oil.

You know, it's muscle and gristle and skin.

But it has that little

tallow layer between the

gristle and the meat.

And that's what we want.

We got to render the tallow out of this face gristle.

That's where it's at in this game.

This hundred-day challenge is an epic moment,

and I pray to God I make it.

I want to do it

and just as a testimony to the old-timers.

This was just every day to them.

I got a heap of respect for the old pioneers.

I would love to see this hundred-day challenge through.

♪ ♪

My whole being screams out

that I was born in the wrong era,

the wrong century.

I set my first trap at eight

and tried to read every mountain-man book

I could get ahold of, and I did.

I'm currently one of the best guides in Alaska.

And it all started with my absolute desire

to live in the wilderness.

♪ ♪

Oh, yeah.

There's what we want...

Big old glob of gristle and lower lip,

little bit of...

fat from around the eyeball.

But that ain't pure fat by any means.

I need to start thinking

about what's gonna get me through the winter.

♪

[blowing nose]

- My apologies.

My caveman behavior here. [laughs]

Okay.

♪ ♪

Whoa.

Look at that.

Uh-oh.

Those poles are frozen together, man.

♪ ♪

♪

[wind howling]

♪ ♪

It's got a big hole down there, a couple big holes.

[clicks tongue]

Yeah. I don't know, man.

Yeah, I see two new holes in the net.

♪

Frozen, frozen, frozen...

♪ ♪

Ah, my fingers...

♪ ♪

Are frozen.

♪ ♪

The weather is really cold.

I'm from El Salvador.

I have never experienced this type of temperatures.

♪ ♪

You can tell that you have low energy.

You get more cold, you get more tired,

and, of course, you start getting hungry.

♪ ♪

Okay.

Let's go put all this stuff back at camp

and get out of this wind.

♪ ♪

♪

Look.

♪ ♪

♪

♪

It's coming from over there.

♪ ♪

There is all this wildlife,

and it's just dangerous animals walking by.

So it's scary to be right in the path

♪ ♪

♪

- I finally did it.

I can get my gill net in the water.

I never made one from start to finish.

I want to go give it a try.

Give it a gill... a gillnet try.

♪ ♪

I'm excited about this gill net,

and I'd love to get it in the water,

but it's just so treacherous to get down there.

So I'm concerned about going down

to get to my fishing spot.

♪ ♪

Since I've been eating the rabbit,

I feel more hungry,

and I think it's just because there's less fat.

I need a consistent fat source.

I need to figure out how to catch fish here

because they have fat on 'em.

♪ ♪

If I could just get one fish,

I feel like I could work on that fat for a while.

♪ ♪

Okay, so, to get my fishing spot...

It's like a ten-minute walk on this--

ice on the rocks...

'Cause my fishing spot is way down this--

like, way down there.

So...

let's see.

♪ ♪

I'm here to explore, and that's what I want to do.

Just total immersion.

This is a place that's gonna test my abilities

and what I know and what I can do.

♪ ♪

All right, well, I didn't think I'd be able

to make it down here because it's so slippery.

But I did!

So I guess I got to try fishing.

♪ ♪

And just get my...

♪ ♪

Get my stuff.

Oh! [bleep]! [grunts]

♪ ♪

[bleep].

Oh, man. [bleep].

♪ ♪

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Oh, [bleep].

Oh, I fell. [laughs]

I just slipped on the ice, and I hit my...

my tooth, hit my lip.

Mm-hmm.

It's-- and my--my eyebrow.

Uh-huh.

Good old eyebrow split.

♪ ♪

Well, I knew it was sketchy coming down here.

Yep. The trap line is...

The trap line's a little easier to get to right now.

Okay, well, I guess I'll clean this up.

♪

I really, really hope I don't need stitches.

♪ ♪

Yep, I've definitely taken kids

to get stuff like that stitched up.

♪ ♪

[laughs] It's like...

Eyeshadow. Blood eyeshadow.

Yes, blood eyeshadow.

Wonder if my lip's gonna swell up any more or anything.

Well, that cut's fine.

Gosh, I don't know.

Do I put the gill net in the water or not?

I mean, I made it.

So...

I kind of want to put the gill net in the water.

But I don't want to risk falling in.

If I'm careful, it's fine, but it's just hard.

You just don't know. I mean, like...

I could've slipped like that towards the water.

♪ ♪

And there you go.

♪ ♪

If I was on the edge,

that could've been a lot worse.

And I'm lucky that...

I just only split my lip and cut my face.

I'm, like, bummed

that I didn't get that gill net in the water,

but slipping and falling just made me realize, like...

if I'm trying to pull in a fish

or pull in the gill net

and I fall in the water, that could be it.

♪ ♪

Hmm. Hmm.

To fish or not to fish...

♪

- Every day it gets colder.

I was so lucky that I thought about taking my mittens.

[laughing]

So I should take my mittens out with me...

Every time I walk out.

That would be a good thing.

♪ ♪

I'll just get that soup and the fire--

and the fire cracking for the soup and...

♪ ♪

Keep smoking the fish.

♪ ♪

I got to start rationing my fish.

Okay.

[distant howling]

A wolf.

♪ ♪

[wolf howling]

♪ ♪

♪

[wolf howling]

I'm in wolf territory.

♪ ♪

I never experienced this.

Wolves are able to take big animals,

like a moose or a muskox.

If you are encountered by a pack of wolves,

you can't be showing them too much fear.

♪ ♪

[wolf howling]

♪

You need some of the fear to get you going,

but you don't want fear to dominate you,

where even the wolves are sensing your fear.

♪ ♪

I never had a predator charge me or attack me.

But I'm just going to hope that I am prepared mentally

to stay calm and make the proper decisions

to deal with that situation.

♪ ♪

Wolves are a very skilled group of hunters.

They could take me down pretty easy.

So I think trying to remain calm

will be an important part

of being attacked by a predator.

♪

[wind howling]

♪ ♪

[bird squawking]

- Coo!

Caw!

Coo!

[bird squawks]

The neighbors.

They're always dropping by-- pain in the ass.

[birds squawking]

In cold weather, fat is like instant energy,

instant calories.

My body's telling me I need it.

♪ ♪

I ate most of the gristle

and fat out of the muskox.

But there's been a lot of men

get through the winter on a fish net.

Lot of fat in fish, a lot.

♪ ♪

So I'm gonna go out here

and have a look at Danger Rock.

♪ ♪

Here's the legendary fishing hole Danger Rock.

It's all nice right now, tranquil, like a little pond.

We know it don't stay like that,

but it's suckering me in, I think, one more time.

One last attempt

to catch another fish at Danger Rock.

♪ ♪

We're gonna go for it. I'm gonna go get my equipment.

♪ ♪

Danger Rock is a great fishing hole.

It is hard to get in and hard to manage,

but when you do get in, you catch fish.

But now that it's full-blown winter,

the risk factor goes way up.

It'll be really dangerous

when there's ice on them stones.

My biggest fear is a personal injury

by falling into that deep water,

getting totally submerged, and hypothermia.

But I really need to catch a fish.

[water lapping]

Holy [bleep].

♪ ♪

[whispering] Muskox everywhere.

Sneaking up on the herd's kind of dangerous.

Not impossible with a bow.

Rifle, yeah.

[sighs]

That's just too many.

♪ ♪

We're gonna have to skirt a little bit more

to the east here.

[sniffs]

I don't want to spook that herd.

We're gonna go around them.

We're gonna give them a wide berth.

A single animal is always easier

to stalk than a herd.

Too many eyes and ears--

always one sees you or hears you.

The fish is more valuable right now.

It's set up down there.

We'll see how it goes.

The gill net is a risky undertaking,

but you never know-- we might be lucky.

Maybe it's gonna give me a big fish.

And then if it don't kill me,

I'll maybe come back and try it again.

♪

- Looking forward to trying this ptarmigan.

[fire crackling]

[sniffs, grunts, clears throat]

[chuckles]

[chuckles]

[slurps]

♪

All right, let's go check the lake.

♪ ♪

There are times when I feel like I'm thriving out here.

I have bunnies.

I've got berries and mushrooms.

I feel ready for winter.

But there is this looming worry

that I'm going to run out of fat.

It's cold.

♪ ♪

I can feel my nose kind of... poking together.

[sniffs]

♪ ♪

Ice fishing-- my next best plan.

♪ ♪

[footsteps crunching]

♪

Just need to wait for it

to be a little bit thicker for the ice fishing.

♪ ♪

The rabbits are going really well,

but there's not enough fat on them.

♪ ♪

Fat is what's going to keep you alive

for 100 days.

And a lake trout is the best bang for your buck

for fat.

♪ ♪

I'll come back out first thing tomorrow.

♪

- All right. Good morning.

I got to get firewood,

work on traps, get more firewood.

[wolf growling]

Holy [bleep], man.

♪ ♪

[bleep].

♪

♪

[bleep].

♪

♪

[wolf snarls]

♪ ♪

- [bleep].

♪ ♪

Go away.

♪ ♪

Go away, dude.

♪ ♪

They're all stalking me.

♪ ♪

♪

♪

They're circling my fish back there.

[chuckles] And that was my morning.

Like, um...

right here.

One.

This is my shelter. My entrance, where it was.

One, two...

three yards away pretty much.

Just...

♪ ♪

checking it out.

♪ ♪

♪

That was exciting for the morning.

♪

[ice crackling]

♪ ♪

[wind howling]

♪ ♪

[fire crackling]

Have these moments of weakness, you know.

Then I eat.

[inhales deeply]

It's just the fact that I'm, like, out of fat, so...

I do need fish.

You know, this pain...

Right at the back of my...chest.

Maybe that's...

normal for...

someone that's...

Not getting...

You know, the right nutrients.

Hard to... [sniffs]

Stay motivated when you don't have energy.

Those fish are my ticket there.

♪

Ice is in, guys.

Just need to hold more than a 2-pound stone.

♪ ♪

I'm down at the water

checking the ice.

Prep for the ice fishing.

♪ ♪

I am getting skinny.

Never been this thin before.

I'm finding it hard to be motivated now.

I'm not trying to put all my eggs in the fish basket,

but I feel like I need it

in order to make it the 100 days.

I got this pole.

And I'm listening for sounds

and also if it goes right through.

So...

Nice, solid thud...

[stick tapping]

Is good.

Hold on. [water splashes]

That's very bad.

But...

[thudding]

That often happens at the edge.

[thudding]

♪ ♪

I need the fish.

I need this ice to come in.

♪ ♪

Not quite there.

♪ ♪

This is so...

risky!

♪ ♪

Oh, boy.

♪ ♪

Nope. Not a chance.

♪ ♪

Whoa.

♪ ♪

This is not good.

♪ ♪

That is not...

♪ ♪

What you would deem safe.

♪ ♪

Kind of disappointing.

Really need it to freeze.

I'm all alone here, and...

Margin for error is low.

♪

- What we're doing right now

is I'm trying to get that muskox hide

pinned up to the ceiling, leather side down.

So all this ceiling smoke

is gonna start curing that hide.

And put it on my bed for warmth.

I'll leave part of it go up the wall.

And then on cold nights, I'll let it flop down on me.

What a battle.

Damn near took up the whole ceiling.

Ready for smoking.

♪

It's windy and snowing pretty damn good.

Danger Rock's gonna be kind of wicked.

♪ ♪

Well, with any luck, I'll scoop that net

out of there with a fish

without falling on that slippy-ass rock.

♪ ♪

All right.

♪ ♪

Run out there and get the net.

♪ ♪

Was a lot of work getting it in.

I'd sure like to have it pay off.

♪ ♪

I've lost some weight, no doubt about it--

just the sheer workload, the energy output.

♪ ♪

The outdoor living takes a lot out of you.

You look at pictures of the old old-timers

on an old hardscrabble homestead or in the woods.

Them men were skinny.

I got a heap of respect for the old-timers.

♪ ♪

Starting to turn into a winter wonderland.

[wind howling]

[bleep] wind out here.

So I definitely didn't want to be out near that water

later in winter, when it's...

30 below and wind blasting you,

Holy [bleep].

Gonna be slippery out here.

Ice and snow now.

Before, I had that nice gritty rock

to give me traction.

♪ ♪

Oh, yeah, it's gonna be a booger.

♪ ♪

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- [yelling]

[bleep]!

[breathing heavily]

[groans]

See what I mean?

It is slippy, man.

Whoo!

[wind howling]

Boy, that right [bleep] knee is killing me.

Dangerous [bleep] place, man.

One wrong move, and it's splash.

♪ ♪

There ain't no rescue party

coming out here in this [bleep].

♪ ♪

[bleep] wind's whipping the waves up.

My net's already starting to fray in places.

You can't put a [bleep]damn net in

in a [bleep] like that.

[bleep], if I lose my net, [bleep].

This is a [bleep]hole [bleep] spot.

[bleep]. The thing can stay in there for tonight.

♪ ♪

From here on...

I declare Danger Rock off-limits

until it ices over.

♪ ♪

That first week or two of ice up,

before it gets super thick...

♪ ♪

I'm going--I'm coming back here, Danger Rock.

You mark my words.

♪ ♪

- Good morning.

It's cold.

And...

[grunts]

[sniffs]

It's all good, all good in the hood.

[inhales sharply] And it's even better than it...

Was yesterday, of course.

Got my probing stick.

Okay. [grunts]

I guess I'll just...

drag my axe.

[stick tapping]

♪ ♪

Okay, I'm gonna check it right here.

♪ ♪

[sighs]

♪ ♪

All right.

♪ ♪

[sniffs]

It's that thick.

That's four inches, guys.

We're rolling.

Oh, my hands. Wow, it's cold.

If I get boughs, lay them across and ice--

At least to make it warmer.

I think that's what I'm gonna do.

Let's go inside.

We're going ice fishing tonight.

We'll do it.

♪ ♪

Let's hope it's shiny enough.

♪ ♪

Water's really dark today.

♪ ♪

I consider myself well equipped

for this experience,

based on knowing the climate.

♪ ♪

I mean, not to toot my own horn here,

but I literally have traveled

thousands of kilometers on ice on personal trips.

I have experienced extreme temperatures many times.

♪ ♪

I have an advantage because I know winter.

I know what to expect from winter.

Nothing.

♪

♪ ♪

- I think I got one!

[screaming]

Yes! Yes!

[laughing]

I got a fish!

[laughing]

♪ ♪

[laughing]

[continues laughing]

Oh! Oh, God!

[laughing]

[inhales deeply]

[sobbing laughter]

It's beautiful. [laughs]

Oh, my God!

♪

Oh, I'm so happy! [laughs]

Getting this first fish is probably

the happiest day of my life since my wedding day.

Up until now, I've been catching bunnies,

which is basically two days of food.

♪ ♪

And now I have fish...

and it's ten days of food.

And that's huge.

♪ ♪

♪

If I can start catching fish,

I can supplement my rabbits with the fish,

and hopefully that will be a better balanced diet

and it will last me, you know, to 100 days.

♪ ♪

There's a fish right there.

♪ ♪

Yep!

[laughing wildly]

Oh, my God! It's bigger than the last one!

[breathing rapidly]

♪ ♪

Oh...my...God!

[laughs]

♪ ♪

[laughs]

Yes!

[laughs]

I consider myself a strong woman,

and not just a strong woman compared to other women,

but compared to other men.

And I want to prove that a woman can do

what a man can do.

♪ ♪

Let's go cook some fish.

[sighs] Good feeling.

Very good feeling.

♪ ♪

I want to inspire other people,

especially women,

and to show how strong women can be.

We are a force to be reckoned with.

♪ ♪

[wind howling]

- Welcome to "Alone: Tales From the Arctic."

I'm Colby Donaldson,

here with tonight's final four:

Callie, Amós, Roland, and Kielyn.

Day 49.

Only four people left.

Fifty-one days to go, and as we've seen,

even the smallest thing can knock you out.

At this point, it is anyone's competition.

Roland, for those people

that are thinking, "He had a huge musk ox..."

- I just stabbed this musk ox to death.

I don't know if you heard me say that enough already,

but I did.

I'm not [bleep] joking.

- "Plenty of food.

How could he be struggling in the food department?"

Explain to those at home

the difference between having a very lean animal

like a musk ox versus a fatty animal to feed off of.

- Yeah, there is fat meat and there's lean meat.

Musk ox is lean, lean, lean.

Dig the eyeballs out

and get all the fat behind them.

I think I'm gonna have to do all them little cricks.

Eat the brain.

The brain for the fat.

This is lean, I mean...

It was a lean, tough animal.

There was no kidney fat,

and that's your primary indicator.

The kidney should be engulfed in a ball of fat,

and there was almost none, actually, on the kidneys.

The rest of him was tougher than a boot.

Of course it was a giant resource, and--

and we utilized it well, but it wasn't ideal, no.

- Well, and speaking of utilization,

you even got into the ox's face there.

I mean, man, at that point, Roland,

are you just in the mode of truly survival?

- Yeah, I got a lot of experience

of taking animals apart,

and there is fat on dry animals.

You just have to look for it in the weirdest places.

It's still kind of tough.

You have to process it just right.

- Sure.

- I'll do the same old trick I've been doing

with some of them tougher cuts of meat.

I'll cut it up so small that, you know,

I really don't gotta chew it much,

I just swallow it.

'Cause you ain't gonna chew that [bleep].

It's like chewing a rubber ball.

- You mentioned that you feel like

you were born in the wrong century.

Explain and expand on that for us.

- Ever since a small boy, my heart and my whole being

has yearned to go back to a simpler time.

It was just a more direct

and honest time to live, I feel, you know.

You could go pit yourself against the wilderness,

and it was up for grabs.

The best man, go get it, you know?

- Yeah, I mean, I agree with you, Roland,

in that I kind of feel like I was born in the era as well.

Being out there in the wilderness

in that simple time where it really was just,

you know, you were just surviving on the land

and you were so connected with your environment.

And that was one of my huge takeaways from this experience,

is coming back into my life

and get back to our ancestral roots.

- You bet. God bless you, sister.

- Interesting. - Mm-hmm.

- Amós, the weather's

getting colder in this episode.

Your gill net is in jeopardy until the ice-up.

Tell me about how the changing weather

constantly forces all of you to adapt.

- Yeah.

The weather, it's just unbelievable.

There are all these microclimates.

The little beach in the bay where I was, it was--

some days, it would completely freeze up.

And like, oh, maybe in a week, I can go ice fishing.

But no, the next day, it would be all broken up

and big chunks of ice will be floating around there,

so you have to adjust every day

depending what's coming from the weather.

- Callie, same question to you.

You're wanting to get your gill net out further,

but you can't do it until the lake freezes.

How did that affect you?

- The spot that I was at was very, very windy.

And that made it challenging for gill nets

and active fishing too,

and I decided to focus more on the land

and land animals just because every time

I tried to go out fishing, it was just--

my lines were blowing all around

and it was really intense being down on the shore.

- Well, Roland, you had the reverse issue.

You can't get your gill net out of the water.

How frustrating was that,

and what would happen

with the potential of losing your net?

- Yeah, I was kind of worried the net was a goner.

I did manage to get that out of the water the next day

with a 20-foot pole and a snare on the end.

I lassoed it out.

[bleep]. I got it.

[grunts]

I didn't bring no other cameras.

That was so dangerous.

I didn't want, you know,

nothing hanging on me or anything.

♪ ♪

My whole stretch was like Callie's,

very turbulent, real hard to work a net there.

I picked my openings and would even have to

go pull the net in the middle of the night

when I thought it was getting too windy,

but losing that net was something

I didn't want to do, so I braved Danger Rock,

I aptly named that place.

It was a bitch in and out every time.

- Yeah.

Callie. Slipping on the ice.

Injuring yourself. - [bleep].

- It can happen in an instant out there,

as we saw with you.

After that fall,

when you gather yourself back up

and sort of assess the damage,

how serious did it appear to you

and do you think now, looking back,

you needed stitches for your mouth?

- It could've used a few,

but I was not seriously considering leaving for that.

No way. [laughs]

No way.

Dude, did you get in a fight? [laughs]

Yeah, man, I got in a fight with a fish.

I said, yo, I want to eat you, and he's like, oh,

you can't eat me, I'm gonna smack you in the face

with ice. [laughs]

- What if you had called in the medics,

and if so, what happens then

to the future of your competition?

- You know, I hit my head also,

so that was actually a bigger concern than the cuts.

Anytime you hit your head and you're alone,

that's a little bit of a questionable area,

and so I did consider notifying them just so they were aware.

But the thing is, is if you call

and they come out and check you

and they feel like they need to intervene

or do anything to help you,

then that is a tap-out situation,

so if they're like, well, we need to help you,

then that's it, you're done.

So I actually did not report that.

I don't think I was being extra risky

with making that decision.

My health and safety's important to me,

but I have enough basic wilderness

first aid training

that I felt like I was fine

to just keep going about my business

and not call the safety team.

- Callie, on that fall that you had,

what would've happened if you had been, you know,

just a little bit closer to the water

and you go in the water?

I mean, that changes everything in a hurry.

- Right, if I was closer to the water,

I would have slipped right in

and that would have been a major issue.

It's very cold.

Hypothermia would've been an absolute risk,

and anytime I went down to the water,

even before it was really icy,

I knew that there was just always a risk of falling in,

'cause that's how it is,

so I would plan for that

and I would always have a fire ready to go,

so I would hopefully be able to warm myself up quickly

and be able to keep myself from getting hypothermic.

But that's the thing out there,

there's a lot of things that can happen,

so we're all taking our lives in our own hands out there.

It's a true survival situation.

- Well, Roland,

I want to toggle back to you for a second,

because you had a fall in this episode as well.

So my question to you is,

if a fall had led to you going in the water,

what would that scenario have been for you,

given how turbulent the water was there at your location?

- Yeah, it would've been not so good

if I'd have went in the water,

but if I had went in the water,

I'd have clawed my ass out of there

and boogied for camp to get warm.

- Well, there is still... - [bleep].

Amós, you had a pack of wolves outside your shelter.

Give us on a scale of 1 to 10 how concerned you were.

I think you said they were within 3 yards,

the tracks that you saw there?

- It was a real concern.

I'd never been so close to a pack of wolves.

In terms of a concern,

something in the high numbers.

- And what are you gonna do against five wolves?

- Well, the first thing you have to do

is get the camera and make sure you got 'em,

'cause that's what we're there to do.

We got a show to make, man.

- I like your priorities.

- And then for safety, I have my bow.

On the other side, I have a spear that I made.

So that's where your training comes in,

and you have to stay in check.

You have to try to remain calm.

I was really lucky that they decided to move on.

- Yeah, you mentioned that spear,

and you were obviously concerned enough

that you made one.

We do have some never-before-seen footage

of you making that spear.

Let's take a look at that real quick.

♪ ♪

Just trying to protect myself.

In primitive skills and survival,

you have to try to think about ways to use

the different parts of the animal.

So in my case, I wanted to use it

as part of my weapons that I was making.

The bunnies are really agile.

They're really swift.

So even the decoration is not just so it look pretty.

It's also to give a little energy to the spear.

♪ ♪

Okay.

- Did you ever have an opportunity to use it?

- Just right there.

When the wolves came, I grabbed it.

I needed it by my side just to make me feel safer.

Have the spear right here.

I might go down, but it won't be easy.

♪ ♪

- And Callie, you touched on this a minute ago,

just about how authentic and real this experience is,

whether it's with the wolves or slipping into the water.

The reality is, there's no one coming to get you.

There's no one coming to fend those wolves off of you.

It is all about you in that moment, isn't it?

- Exactly.

You know, people are like, oh, well,

they have a whole safety team

that comes and checks on 'em and stuff,

but the reality is, is it's not like

they're right around the corner.

You could get yourself into a lot of trouble

before anybody's coming to help you out.

There's a whole bunch of blood in my eyelashes.

- Roland, I want to talk to you about something

that we've never seen before on the show,

and that is when you come upon and get to witness

that entire herd of musk ox.

And then you decide not to go after them.

Clarify for us why you made that decision.

- That was a real nice herd of musk ox.

The herd is way harder to get into than a single animal.

It just wasn't the right situation.

And I didn't want to spook 'em.

- There is something you mentioned

that I find very curious,

and it didn't necessarily make the show,

but you talked about not wanting

to necessarily go after the herd

because that herd might end up on--

on one of the other competitors' area.

Explain that.

- Yeah, we had

plenty of space between us.

There was 5 miles or more between participants.

I mean, that's a long way to a human being,

but that is nothing to a wild, big game creature.

Big game animals move quick and they move far,

and I did not want to spook that herd

into the next contestant's territory.

I'm out for the money, I'm out for the win.

I don't need a spiritual journey.

- I get it.

Pivoting a little bit, Kielyn,

when you start to make your way out on the ice,

you're testing the thickness of it.

How precarious, maybe even scary,

is that for the first time

as the freeze is happening and the ice is thickening up?

- I've been through many years of freeze-up and ice-outs,

and I'm not a stranger to thin ice.

I know exactly what it's like

and I've traveled on a lot of ice

that you wouldn't deem safe

on just, like, personal adventures,

but I had a full belly, I had backup clothing,

and so when I was starting to check the ice in my bay,

yeah, there was a little bit more caution

when I was doing it.

- At that point, once you were able

to really get out on the ice and begin fishing,

did you feel like things were gonna take off for you?

- Well, I was hoping for it to.

- Yeah. - For sure.

But, again, I was just trying to stay adaptable,

stay flexible, and--

and take the journey as it was coming.

I'm not an expert ice fisher person,

but I was hopeful.

- Well, and let's talk about when you got those two fish.

Crying is not even descriptive enough.

You were borderline hysterical, but--

and it was impossible not to get excited for you

because it was truly just jubilation on your part.

Had you ever experienced... - Yeah.

- Anything quite like that at that moment?

- I got a fish! [laughing]

Oh, my God, I mean,

I don't know what those sounds were

that were coming out of me,

but yeah, it was just pure bliss.

You know, you can see me crying a lot on the show,

and I'm not gonna pretend that I didn't,

but the one thing that I did do

was recover from those lows quickly,

and that was my journey just through my own resilience.

But then when you get that little bit of success,

it's just like, you can finally let go

of all of that tension that you were holding.

That scene was me just letting go.

Man, I needed that fish.

- Well, Kielyn, you said at the end of the episode,

women are a force to be reckoned with.

And you are certainly one of those.

At this point in the competition,

do you feel like you've hit your stride a bit?

Do you feel like you're a real threat

to take this whole thing?

- Well, I mean, I knew that the fish

was going to be what would get me to the hundred days.

This is what I needed to kind of keep me going and--

and hopefully prevent any more weight loss.

Oh, my God, look at that.

[gasps]

Is that not from a grocery store or what?

I do want to mention that being out on the ice

was a absolute blessing, but it was extremely hard.

♪ ♪

You know, winter has set in,

and that requires a lot more calories

to keep yourself warm,

and sitting on that ice just completely exposed

to that north arctic wind was not easy.

- Yeah, no doubt. Nothing is easy out there.

- That is for sure.

Well, that is it for "Alone: Tales From the Arctic."

I'd like to thank Callie, Amós, Roland, and Kielyn.

We'll be speaking to the participants

all season long after the episodes,

so make sure you tune in to that,

and, as promised,

here's a sneak peek at next week's episode.

We'll see you then.

♪ ♪

- I just gotta get in there.

Oh, it's so tight.

Oh, my gosh.

The porcupine's right here.

Oh, [bleep].

This is probably the start of the real end.

I really want to take home the win for my family.

But I just want to go home.

- Yeah, we're gettin' it now.

Just slicker and [bleep] here in about an hour.

I'm talking freeze you to death,

kill you cold.

Holy [bleep].

[bleep].

Please.

[bleep]. Get out of here.

[bleep], out of here.