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They call this place the Land of Great Thirst.

The great Karoo desert, South Africa.

We are in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth.

Ten participants.

Whoever can stay the longest wins.

It's pretty simple.

I found the baboons.

There's ten of them, but I only have five arrows.

This place is dry, dry, dry.

The sun's beating down on you every day.

I'm so tired, and I'm so thirsty.

Oh, man.

I really don't feel safe drinking this water.

This is a place to be, if not feared,

treated with a lot of respect.

I changed my mind!

Oh, look at the size of that thing.

There's a big herd of wildebeest right there.

- Rhino tracks. - Meat.

Back on the menu, boys.

They call Cape buffalo the black death for a reason.

They'll just straight up kill you.

We don't control the game.

Here you go.

Flooding.

This is nothing compared to what's coming.

It hurts so much, man.

It's freaking ice.

So the question is, how strong of a mind

do you need to have to win this?

Whoo!

What the did I get myself into?

Long cold night.

The last one to tap walks out of here with 500 grand.

This is one of the hardest things

that a person can do in their life.

Oh, my gosh.

It's another great day in Africa.

Day one is just beginning.

Can't wait to start this journey.

This season is the first time

we're going to be in South Africa.

Whoo! There they go!

We're in uncharted territory for "Alone."

Wow. Spectacular.

This is dramatically different than any of the other seasons.

It's actually a whole new game.

This is an arid desert environment.

There it goes.

And going from extreme heat

with no moisture in the air

to getting plunged

into the darkness and the cold at night,

mixed in with all of the dangerous animals

is going to be brutal.

Holy [bleep]. Sorry, Mom.

If ever there was a thought in your mind

about whether this was real or fake,

it feels pretty real now.

Being immersed in the wild life

is going to be freakin' insane.

Cape buffalo, when they come at you,

they want you dead.

There goes my last link to civilization.

There are venomous snakes.

There are venomous scorpions,

extremely poisonous plants here.

There are ungulates with huge horns

defending themselves that could skewer you

like shish kebab.

There is any number of things

that could take you out of the game

or out of life in a heartbeat.

We're not in the Arctic anymore.

We're in a desert, so water's a big thing.

Dehydration is a killer,

but we got to work for our water.

You have to collect it and boil it,

because water illness is a big concern.

They're leaving me alone!

Yee-ha!

You get ten survival experts with ten items,

and you go drop them off in the middle of nowhere

with nobody.

You're going to have animals trying to eat you

and Mother Nature trying to kill you.

And between all that, the last one standing

wins half a million dollars.

What did I just sign up for, guys?

This competition is crazy.

If you're not set up to survive

in this kind of environment, I mean, it can get you quick.

Get out of here.

Whoo!

That's what I'm talking about.

No drop shock, baby. Let's do this.

Let me show you all what I'm working with here.

Look at this.

I like this spot.

I like it.

I'm right on the lake, boys.

It's a big lake.

I'll show you this excited face of mine.

Oh, man, guys.

Holy crap.

I wouldn't call it drop shock, but, damn,

it sure is different.

First thing, let's calm down.

Just chill right the [bleep] out, Will.

I know this is cool...

but you got to make a plan of attack.

You got to see

what the hell you're going to be doing out here first.

I got to get some of this water.

But I tell you right now, from looking at it, it's muddy.

It reminds me of back home, Lake Casa Blanca--

brown-green water.

Hey, hey, hey.

Keep on going. Keep going.

Last two!

I'm an exotic trapper.

I catch, transport, and house exotic animals.

I work with species from Africa, Asia, Australia.

If you can imagine, like, a cattle rancher,

it's basically what we do but with exotics.

They sell hunts and stuff like that

on the species that aren't endangered.

Even though it's powered by the hunting industry,

it's really having a big effect on conservation.

A lot of the animals that we raise

have gone extinct in their country of origin.

So now countries are looking to Texas

to repopulate their supplies.

I would classify myself as a primitive enthusiast.

I definitely don't do this for a living,

but I have what it takes to take one of these big animals.

I have enough knowledge of hunting.

I know how to stalk. I know how to ambush.

I know how to make a blind.

I feel like my skills are suited for this location

more than any other.

I'm a very, very physically capable guy.

I'm a very mentally strong guy, you know?

I was made for this, bro.

Now we wait.

Are you going to miss Dada?

My wife and my boy, they're my sole reason

for being on this Earth now, you know?

He's loving that, dude.

My main goal is providing for my family

and creating a legacy that my boy can be proud of.

He's just a baby right now,

but when he starts being a little kid

and, you know, starts becoming a man

and understanding the world

with the foundation that I hope to give him,

you know, I hope he sees this sense of legacy.

- Get it. Get it. Get it. - Get it, Dada.

If I was ever going to get a chance

to prove to the world who William Lamb is,

what I can do, this is it, man.

This is now or never.

This water is gross.

You will get sick if you drink this without disinfecting it.

So I'm gonna start processing some water.

So get my pot.

Just going to cover it...

with the bandanna...

And dip it in.

And that should strain out all that big stuff.

Whenever you get water to process, to boil,

you want to cut down on anything going into the water.

You want to kind of do your best at filtering it.

Oh, yeah.

Look at that.

I got to get a fire going, get this water on there.

In this area, the water is horrible.

You got to understand that all these animals

are coming to drink here,

physically getting in the water.

All of them are crapping in the water.

And not only that, I'm on a continent

to where my body is not used to any of the amoebas,

any of the bacteria.

So I definitely don't want to drink

any of this water unprocessed.

Get a little tripod action.

Nothing fancy.

Man, this water is rank.

You can smell it.

Not only are we in an area where its elevated heat,

super, super windy,

so it's just drying you out like a piece of jerky

the entire time you're there.

Along with all the physical exertion, you're sweating.

You're using all these fluids.

You have to replace them pretty regularly.

I'm going to have to have water going 24-7, you know,

always having a pot of water cool

or in the process of purifying water.

Staying hydrated is going to be a full-time job.

All right.

Let's let this boil.

I'm going to go set up a fish-- a hook and line.

After this boils, I'll let it cool.

But maybe I can go get a fish in the meantime.

They're gone. That's it. It's just me.

Look, just me.

Okay.

I have water here. That's good.

I'm just going to-- I'm going to camp here tonight,

for sure, on this little beach.

I like being this close to water.

I'm going to explore up here a little bit.

That's my plan.

Get water going.

And then tonight with my headlamp,

I can do little things.

Okay, calm down.

We'll go for a little walkabout.

Here in South Africa, the land is characterized

by open grasslands and plains

and rocky hills with cliffs and boulders.

So many rocks. You got to be careful.

My strategy is to find where everything is.

I'm not sure what the resources

are going to be here.

I need to explore all my territory.

I can't believe I'm on "Alone."

If I don't catch fish

or shoot something, I don't eat.

Like, that's very real.

My hope is to find where the animals are living,

where they're coming in to find water,

because hunting is my priority.

But right now, day one,

just need to look around and take it all in.

Look at these.

I don't know. I think those are baboon tracks.

We're going to have problems

because they're like little people

that are going to, like, attack you,

rip you up, steal your stuff.

Hmm. That's interesting.

Karen--Karen, touch it.

It's pretty dry.

By the way, I named my camera Karen.

So we'll see how we get along out here.

Okay.

Never truly been alone.

I've either had family, friends.

I mean, there's always somebody.

Nice rainy day.

I've been with my boyfriend, Brady, for seven years.

We live completely off-grid in Montana.

We have the big totes that we catch the rainwater with,

so this is how we do our dishes.

You have to be tough.

You don't get all the comforts of a regular household.

Having an outhouse for a bathroom,

and having to cross a river to get to the house,

it makes you strong physically.

Today we're going to make a natural water-filter system.

Charcoal.

And I'm just going to throw it in on top.

From the river.

The practical skills I'm most confident in

would be hunting...

All right. We can eat beaver tonight.

Fishing...

Oh, yeah.

Fire building, because I've been doing it my whole life.

Aha.

The $500,000 is important to me

because I run Long Acres Rescue,

and we help wild burros and mustangs find new homes.

That's Whiskey.

That money would help me rescue more animals.

But I want to do "Alone" to show that women are stronger

than they think they are.

I'm going to be that girl that they were like,

I should have paid more attention

to what she was doing,

because I'm a force to be reckoned with.

So many noises.

Was that a baboon?

Um...

I'm just trying to see if I can see it,

figure out what it is.

Freaking baboons over on that ridge.

They're yelling at me.

So we're going to stay clear.

Don't go there.

Oh, my gosh, those baboons don't like me being here.

They gave us horror stories of the baboons.

They play dead.

You shoot them, you go up to them, and they're not dead,

and the rest of them turning on you.

They're just yelling.

I don't want them anywhere near me.

There's more poop.

Those baboons are yelling.

We can share, guys.

We can share.

You get that side, I get this side, capisce?

These freaking baboons are following me.

I don't like it.

I think there's ten of them.

I only have five arrows right now.

Baboons can be in troops of 60 to 100.

They have giant fangs.

They can steal your stuff, get into camp.

And I want them to know that this is my area now,

not theirs.

I'm going to let them know that I'm here now.

This is my spot!

Get! Get!

Okay.

They seem to be going up, so hopefully they stay going up.

But they're not happy.

Okay, we got to head back, get camp set up for the night.

I'm not worried about any other animals, just baboons.

I actually love trying to get close to animals,

seeing how close I can get.

I've been charged three times by grizzlies.

I am not afraid of a Cape buffalo

or a rhino coming in.

I'm pretty much back to where they dropped me off.

The good news, guys--

got to look on the bright side--

I still see my stuff.

So baboons have not came and taken it.

So that's good news.

I think I'm going to set everything up over here.

And if I have a pokey tree...

baboons shouldn't come from above, right?

So I think I'm just going to kind of put all my stuff here.

Okay.

All right, I'm going to show the whole lake right now.

It's amazing, it's beautiful, and it's so quiet.

After the helicopter leaves, forget about it.

Oh, my God.

I think I'm gonna like this area.

Check it out, guys.

Awesome. Oh, my God.

All alone.

I put the GoPro on the walking stick.

That way's easier for me to explore a little bit.

Ooh, a lot of loose rocks here.

I got to be really careful here.

Very easy to-- Look at that.

Very old, but that means they come around here.

It's getting very hot...

so I can't be spending too much time walking around.

And I'm from Cuba...

Where it's humid, hot.

Now for some 3D archery.

My name is Pablo Arguelles.

I'm originally from Cuba,

and now I live in Jacksonville, Florida.

Alligators, that's one thing here in Florida

we got a lot of.

I lived in Cuba until I was 11 years old.

My dad wasn't a part of the Communist Party.

They didn't believe in the Communist dictatorship

and the way of thinking.

We lived in a tough environment

and poor conditions.

I know how to build different kinds of shelters.

I know how to fish.

Ugh! Actually, it feels good on my back.

I can hunt. I can trap.

I love things outside, because it felt free.

Like, forget about the government.

Say whatever you want here. There's nobody around.

Boom, baby!

So we left in 1980--

me, my parents, and my sister.

My brothers had to stay behind.

And to this day,

I view survival as doing whatever it takes to make it.

That was not easy, doing it by yourself,

but that's the way you got to do it.

You got to use your teeth, whatever tools you got.

I'm doing "Alone," because to me,

it's going to be the most incredible experience

of my life.

I quit my job to go on this thing full-force, nonstop.

I didn't want nothing to be on my way.

I feel very confident that I can do anything.

I'm going to be the first Cuban on "Alone."

And this, to me, is honoring my parents

because they fought so hard for us to have a better life.

Qué bueno. Yeah.

And for them to see me winning this...

Whoo!

It would be incredible.

$500,000, for sure, will be a life-changing event

for me and my fiancée,

and I can help my parents as much as possible,

whatever they need.

To me, this is the American Dream.

Check this water out.

It looks pretty nasty.

I got to boil it really good

and eventually make a water filter.

Here, drinking water is going to be a major thing

because I can overheat and get hyperthermia.

But what if I get something from this water

and then I go home sick,

or who knows what's going to happen?

So I'm going to do a coyote well.

All right, I'm going to try to make a coyote well

and see if this works.

Hopefully it does...

and we can get a little bit cleaner water.

A coyote well--basically, you dig a hole away

from the edge of the water,

and then the earth itself

is going to start filtering the water.

Oh, yeah.

It's getting nice and soft in there.

It's going to fill that well up.

It's going to be dirty at first,

so you got to empty it

until the water starts getting cleaner and cleaner.

There you go. It's getting muddy now.

There we go. I see water.

Awesome.

Then you can boil the water,

and it'll be a lot safer to drink.

Every problem, to me, has a solution.

You just got to take your time

and find the solution to the problem.

And I think I developed that from my dad.

Use what you got,

because in Cuba, you don't have nothing.

You got to make things work for real.

And that's the kind of person I am.

All right.

Now we just have to wait

till it fills up...

And hopefully works.

I think...

I think I've got a beautiful spot.

This is [bleep] stunning.

So I've got access to this valley and this little gully,

it looks like.

And this proximity to water is pretty spectacular.

We're going to need a lot of water

to keep ourselves going out here.

And that's why I chose to bring a water bottle,

so that I could keep clean water with me,

sipping throughout the day.

Oh, got some prickly pear.

Well, that'll be a good snack at some point.

Whoa.

Oh, my God. I thought that was a rock.

That's not a rock. That's a baboon.

Holy [bleep], that's huge.

Why don't you guys stay up there,

and I'll stay down here for a while?

They seem pretty content up there...

for now.

Let's head back and go fishing.

I know they can see me. There's no way they can't.

I probably spent a couple of hundred nights out

in some different locations and different environments,

but here it just feels that little bit harder.

Fire time!

Satisfying noise.

Ah, crackle!

The real connection to the outdoors

started when I was a teenager.

Yeah, boy!

The army cadets at school gave me

this opportunity to go out in the elements,

and that was fantastic.

Preparation, patience and practice.

I grew up in South London.

Just before university, I ended up going

over to Asia and India and traveling quite a lot.

And that sort of opened my eyes up to the world.

And that's how I sort of ended up in New Zealand.

This is Anakiwa in the Marlborough Sounds.

I have been an outdoor educator

for about nine years, worked as an operations manager

for an outdoor-education charity for the last two.

Whilst it's also about learning the hard skills

of living outside...

You can already see when pull it apart how fibrous it is.

See that?

Some of the most rewarding parts of the work

has been when that light bulb goes off in a student's mind

and they do something that they didn't think

they were capable of.

There you have it. This trap will catch things.

I could use this as bait for other fish.

The reason I think I can take this challenge on

is because, ultimately, when you get out there,

it's the challenge against yourself.

I do like pushing myself.

And so, for me, this is that opportunity

to do that before I devote myself again to service.

I'm going to miss creature comforts, for sure,

but I'm also going to miss my partner, Maddie.

She has been so supportive.

She said she doesn't mind how long I'm out here,

but she does want me to come home in one piece.

$500,000 is a lot of money.

You know, we could potentially buy

a little plot of land somewhere.

But for me, "Alone" is that real opportunity

to learn the things that I haven't learnt about me.

Beautiful place.

There's already stuff splashing around down here.

I'm going to be hoping to focus on getting fish

and whatever plants I can find in the area, to start with.

If I can sustain myself on that,

then I'll be able to go hunting.

Got a little praying mantis.

That is going to be bait.

My fishing is generally

with a beer in one hand and as many hooks as you want.

Oh, it's dirty.

I'm wondering if that water's any good.

It will boil off.

Let me get you, little fishy.

The water is filled with stuff that's of danger to us.

Obviously, I'm going to be boiling my water.

But with that, being conscious of things like fish,

if I catch one

and then touch my bottle with dirty water,

I then need to boil my bottle.

I'm going to be thinking about clean water constantly.

. This isn't going well.

You just don't even know how deep it is.

Probably wasted an hour around here.

Let's go.

I feel like my body is saying, hey, it's time to take a poo,

but I haven't eaten anything.

So the plan is getting some water on.

And while the water is boiling,

get my first go with the prickly pears.

I feel I've been fortunate enough to work

in a lot of different places around the world,

a lot of different climates,

a lot of different environments,

and I've learnt how to adapt to different places.

It's hard to tell if I've gotten all the hairs off.

There's still other little soft ones floating around.

And those look like the ones that might not cause

a problem on the way in but potentially on the way out.

"Alone" is one hell of a competition.

It's not just about surviving with limited items.

It's also about learning that environment.

Okay, that's it. I've got to be a lot more vigorous.

Quite a big part of Outward Bound

is not knowing your schedule

and not knowing what's coming next

and just learning to roll with the punches.

They don't actually taste too bad.

So it's gonna be a great opportunity

to practice all those mindfulness skills

that I've been educating others on.

It's amazing how just a little something

can just give me a little bit of a boost.

All right.

Let's work out what I need to lie down in.

Well, this gonna be my temporary shelter

for the night.

It's like a little lean-to.

Part of the tarp, I used as a floor.

That way I'm not completely on the ground,

knowing there's scorpions here.

I will completely agree it is not great.

Small shelter,

but it will hopefully keep me warm.

Just need to know that I can get food

before I start wasting energy

making this place all luxurious

and digging it down and all that sort of stuff.

Before I waste too much energy doing that,

I need to know that I can get energy.

So I'm gonna sit here and drink my water.

I can't help wondering what's going on with everybody else

and how they're doing.

Mm.

I keep getting flashes of, like,

Will and Colton and Kelsey and Jit.

Oh, my God, Dug and Doug.

Oh, God.

Pablo--ooh, yes.

I just saw a fish jump.

Before it gets dark, I'm going to throw a line in

and see what's possible and then start to think about,

where am I going to sleep tonight?

Yeah.

Well, it'd be nice to catch a fish.

The moon's coming up.

Karen, look at the moon.

Okay, I got to flip you around so you can see this moon.

It's wild, what I'm doing,

just living under the stars in South Africa.

I'm definitely gonna sleep under the stars

for the first few nights.

And there's the moon.

I grew up in Northern Wisconsin,

so I'm not worried about being cold.

I just want to be simple and focus on hunting.

Super cool.

Just got to make it till daylight.

You hear that?

Damn, man.

But I guess I'm gonna have to get used to that.

Smoked prickly pear.

I'm excited.

You hear that?

Freaking baboons.

The baboons are pretty loud.

I heard one on my side of the river, screaming.

Hopefully, they just stay away tonight.

I just woke up, stoked the fire a little bit.

I ended up moving the fire closer to me this way.

Help keep me warm tonight.

Whew! Okay.

So this is Katie, "Alone," season 12, night one.

And look what I just managed to bring in--

an Orange River mudfish.

I'm just going to take it over to the fire

and cook it for dinner.

Anyway, first night in, I've got a fish.

Here we go.

Mmm.

It's just like back home.

It's crazy.

What is it with plants and prickles?

Just harvesting breakfast--

fish soup with acacia seeds

and buffalo leaves.

I feel really confident that I'm gonna be able

to keep bringing fish in.

But I've been thinking a lot about plant food

as a supplement to make sure that

I've got a lot of those alternatives dialed in,

so that even if I don't have protein on one day,

I've still got other food to eat that's psychologically

keeping me in the game.

Indigenous people back home in Australia

used to eat these seeds, the acacia seeds.

It's something that made them extremely strong.

Hey, this is the beautiful coastline

where I live.

I'm Katie Ridge, and I live

on the East Coast of Australia.

I'm a mom, and I live with my two kids.

And my world really revolves around what I do.

I run a school

called Nature Philosophy,

which teaches survival skills, nature connection,

and sacred ceremony.

And it's been something I've been doing for 20 years.

See that?

That's food.

I'd like to think of myself as a jack of many trades

and master of some.

I'm not just a bow hunter or I'm not just a fisher.

I can do lots of different skills.

So these are all some of my baskets.

Traps, shelter, construction, fire.

I feel really confident fishing.

I've done a lot of harvesting of bush foods

for big groups of people, long 10-day processes

of how to ferment toxic foods into edible breads.

And I know that that'll actually give me an edge.

It's beautiful.

I feel like I'm unique for season 12

because I'm an Aussie, so I've had a lot

of experience in arid environments.

You.

I'm here to win

and support my kids.

I could buy us a house to live in.

I've been having to rent, so this would be

a huge thing for me and my kids.

I'm following what feels right in my heart,

and I'm not fully understanding

where it's taking me.

But I know that this is exactly where I'm meant to be.

Bye!

See you guys.

all: Bye!

I can smell an animal.

Ooh, yeah, that's strong.

They ran up the hill.

But if I push on it now,

it'll avoid this whole area.

This is a whole massive channel

that runs all the way down here to the water.

This is the superhighway.

Check it out.

This is the sort of country that just hides

everything from you at first.

And then you start to realize

there's food all over the place.

All right, guys.

See those little things sticking up on the rocks?

Those are baboons.

Some "Jungle Book" for you.

I'm probably in their spot.

This is probably where they come down

to the water to drink.

All right.

I'm gonna take my bow, go up there,

and just see if it pushes them off,

see if they get aggressive.

Once I go up there, I imagine I'll push them off.

But if they come back down

and try to come mess with my [bleep],

I'm going to have to come back down.

All right.

Let's see what happens,

and then I'll scout some hunting spots.

My job in the exotic animal industry,

it's incredibly fun, rewarding.

You get to work with species no one ever gets to see.

You're hands-on, literally, with them.

It's good to know that even with me making noise...

But baboons are one of the animals

that I have never had any interaction with.

Not only are they pretty vicious,

but they can be a pain in the ass.

They can come into your camp, just ransack your stuff.

And when you're trying to survive on ten items,

any one of those items gets messed up,

that can mean the game for you right there.

All right.

I made it to the top of the hill.

I hear those damn baboons again.

I don't want to go too far from my camp.

There's a ton of animals out here.

Over on my left, I see two big black outlines.

I hope they're not Cape buffalo.

But on the right, I see a big herd of kudu.

They got big horns.

Whoa.

.

Oh, well.

It'd be a bad idea

to take an animal that big right now, though.

It's just too much animal.

Not ready.

All right.

Let's see what else we can find.

Oh, look at this.

My coyote well is right there.

Water is so dirty.

Wow.

Let me take you deep inside.

I don't know how contaminated this water is.

I know I got to stay hydrated, for sure,

but I don't want to get sick from it or something worse.

So I need to make sure from now on I filter somehow.

Because, otherwise, you're going to have

problems later on.

Got to try something else.

All right.

I'm gonna use my bandana to put on top of this

so it helps filter it a little bit more.

I think a single layer should be fine,

and then boil it really good.

Something so simple here as just getting water

becomes a big challenge.

It's going to be a lot of work.

But I think I ended up the way I am now,

going through experience good and bad,

and the many challenges that have come in my life.

It's time to start making a fire.

But then you overcome that and go, this got me here.

There she goes.

I believe when you try really hard

and you really want something, you got to go 100%.

All right.

Whatever happens after that is out of my hands,

but at least I went for it.

That's why I quit my job to focus on this thing 100%,

because I didn't want any distraction.

So I know I can be here for the long run.

Yeah, it should be good.

Oh, God, it feels good, even though it's hot.

Yes.

It's crazy.

Something so simple becomes a challenge.

I survived the first night.

No baboons came and attacked me, so that's good.

I do push-ups every morning,

so I'm going to do my morning push-ups.

Okay, let's go on a little walk.

You can only shoot animals

with whatever poundage bow you have,

and you're at a disadvantage if you shoot a lower poundage.

And so I brought a 50-pound bow.

I can pull it back, but it's just a matter

of how often and how much.

But I'm very confident I can shoot out

to 30 yards and kill something with my 50-pound bow.

I hear monkeys.

Stupid baboons.

I think this season is gonna be maybe

a little easier due to the weather.

We're not dealing with negative 30s.

We're not dealing with the snow.

We're gonna see more big game.

But I think people are underestimating

how hard it's gonna be to get game.

Let's follow this trail.

I think people are just gonna think

there's game everywhere.

I can just go out and shoot something.

Look, we're almost at the top.

That's where I want to be.

Okay.

Oh, guys, look. Look, look, look, look, look.

Do you see it?

It's a waterbuck.

Sucks.

I can't shoot those.

Those are 60-pound animals,

meaning you need a 60-pound bow.

So I can't shoot them,

'cause I only have a 50-pound bow.

All right. Can't do anything about it.

Move on.

I just heard something bark ov--

I don't know what that is.

I don't see any animals.

I got to get down low.

I got to get down low.

Oh, my God.

I'm shaking. I'm shaking.

Oh, my God, I got a warthog.

He's not down yet. I got to go finish him.

You got him.

My legs are shaking.

Okay, that one was a good shot, went all the way through.

I saw it come out the other side.

I'm sorry.

Oh, my goodness.

Okay, its dead.

It's officially dead.

This is my first recurve kill ever.

I shoot a compound bow back home when I go hunting.

So coming on the show, I needed to learn recurve.

This is warthog.

With my bow.

Oh, God.

I'm very proud.

I'm glad I had patience.

Coming into "Alone,"

over eight weeks I shot three times a day,

every single day, rain or shine.

I would shoot until I was tired.

I'm very proud that I can pull a 50-pound bow.

Okay, you guys, now the work begins.

I got to get going, 'cause it's gonna get hot.

I'm not too far from camp, maybe half a mile.

I'm gonna see what I can do to drag her back whole.

Um...[sighs] Man.

Okay.

I am concerned

about the sun wrecking the meat.

I am concerned about

the flies laying eggs on the meat.

Oh, my gosh, she's so heavy.

The meat's going to spoil very fast.

I need to get the meat to camp as soon as possible.

Nope. Okay.

Well...

She's not even halfway in.

Seriously?

There's no way I can get up with her.

The warthog has to weigh at least 100 pounds.

I know a lot of it is bone.

I know a lot of it is guts.

Here's the heart.

It is impossible to drag this heavy of an animal

with the rocks here.

I need to quarter the warthog.

That is what just has to happen for me

to get the warthog back to camp.

I don't want to waste any meat.

That's just disrespectful to the animal.

I'm not worried about how many calories

I put into preserving it.

It's just respect to me.

I got the whole pig back.

Now I have to get a smoker built.

I'm building an open tripod smoker

because it is a quicker process

and I need a smoker right away.

I found a part of a blue bush tree.

I'm going to use blue bush sticks,

tie them together, and then build a rack

so I can lay my meat out.

I also need to build a grill so that I can

cook some of the meat so I can eat it tonight.

Flies are getting bad.

I've got to get this on the fire.

The flies came in really fast.

They can lay eggs instantly

and the meat is gonna be ruined.

Heck, yeah, guys, look at this.

Warthog backstrap.

That's dinner tonight.

Gosh golly, so many ants.

The ants also found the warthog meat,

and I keep having to brush them off.

I just got to get this meat off this bone.

It's a lot of work.

So I'm going to put the meat in between the two

layers of my tarp laid out flat,

so I'm sleeping next to my meat to make sure

nothing gets it and it stays cool.

Out here, a predator is not going to come in

when I'm right there.

They're going to smell the human.

They're going to run away.

I'm tired,

but we got meat smoking, and that's dinner.

Yum!

So I got to go get firewood.

I got to boil more water, cook some more meat,

keep the smoker going.

Getting there.

We're getting there.

I'm only taking all day, but we're getting there.

Okay.

Almost done.

Okay, here we go.

First bite, warthog.

Overcooked that one.

That was crunchy.

That's okay.

It smells like warthog.

It's okay. It's all good.

It's food.

Ooh, I have salt.

I can put salt on this, guys.

I forgot I have salt. I brought salt.

What am I doing? Okay, I'm going to grab it.

I am so excited and so happy

that I made the last minute decision

to bring salt as one of my 10 items.

Okay.

Hallelujah.

Sprinkle a little salt.

I brought salt because the heat and the sun

is going to take all the electrolytes out of you

here in South Africa.

Oh, that's good.

Mm, mm, mm.

Even though this meat is delicious,

it's the cherry on top to have a little seasoning,

a little salt in there.

It is phenomenal.

It is a morale booster like you can't even imagine.

It's like the fat off a prime rib or something.

It's so exciting that I have food.

This warthog gives me the energy and the will

to continue to hunt and harvest animals

and stay out here for a long time.

I'm just lounging in South Africa eating a warthog.

No big deal. No big deal.

Doesn't even feel like I'm away from home.

Like, I know I am, but I don't know.

It's weird.

The belly's already gurgling.

That can shut up.

I'm gonna get that fish.

You watch.

I'm gonna get a fish,

and then I'm gonna get more fish.

And then I'm gonna be like, bah.

And I'll get myself a meal.

And then I'm gonna also deck this place out

and it's gonna be pimpin'.

Yeah, let me get up.

I'm gonna need to find bait.

Something stinky, smelly, something rotten, old,

hopefully to entice the fish up.

Once I've gotten one fish,

I'll be able to bait others in.

But it's about getting that first bit of bait.

I'm just gonna walk the shorefront now,

see if I can find anything useful,

like maybe some crabs.

I mean, I am sure that I could probably

survive on prickly pear,

but that isn't really why I came here.

So when we look at survival situations

that people have been put in, more often than not,

it's not their technical skills,

it's their will to survive

and their mindset that has kept them going.

Little rock pool.

Maybe there's some crabs in here.

At the moment, I don't have any other responsibilities

in my life other than to my partner,

my dog, and myself.

So I don't have that fear of needing

to support something else.

So this is an opportunity for me to completely start fresh.

And the $500,000 really would help us

with the idea of buying a plot of land, which we would like

to make our own homestead on.

Nothing.

I thought there was something moving,

but that was just my stomach again.

Easy, gut, easy.

you're not happy.

I don't know if these crabs come up on land or not.

I'm assuming under wet rocks and the such.

Is it something I ate?

Is it something I haven't eaten?

Okay.

What the [bleep] is going on?

My gut's really hurting.

All right.

I need to clean up somehow.

Right.

So much for exploring the coastline.

I don't know if that's from the water

or from the prickly pear

or just from a few days of not really eating.

Or maybe I've been eating the wrong stuff,

drinking the wrong things.

I don't know if this is just a one-off episode

or if this is gonna last all night.

Got to get a fire going before this gets too bad.

What I do know is that quite often,

when things are quick onset, you vomit first.

And then the diarrhea comes later.

But this has gone the other way around.

I just vomited up whatever was in me.

So is this gonna be something

that lasts two or three days?

Oh, my belly hurts.

I don't have a way of telling at the moment,

so I need to get through tonight to reassess.

My head's cold again now.

My whole body aches.

And I don't want to drink water,

but I should.

Just a sip.

Please stay down.

Ooh.

Okay.

Let's try and go back to sleep.

I could sit here and wait out a couple more days.

Is it worth it?

Okay, okay, okay.

This is Jit.

I'm officially tapping out.

I wasn't scared of being on my own,

but I'm scared of my health.

Here comes the boat.

Last night I ended up soiling myself.

So I thought, okay, let's just come back to base

and sort myself out.

And then, throughout the night, was just the vomiting,

the stabbing pains.

It just doesn't feel like a situation which

I can recover from myself.

There's a lot of people who have supported me to get here.

Yeah, four days doesn't feel like I've done them justice.

At the same time, my brother said, trust your gut.

My gut is not being nice.

And my partner said, come back in one piece.

So I'm trying to honor those.

I used to think that my main values were honesty

and courage, and now I'm definitely

seeing that health has crept into one of my main values.

It's sad to leave because there was still

so much I hadn't explored, but I know

it was the right thing to do.

I think a lot of people talk about strategies

and have in their mind these romanticized ideas of what

it's like to be out here--

their ideal shelter built in their head.

They're going to catch this on day one.

They'll build that there.

And it's fantastic, and you do need a plan,

but no plan survives.

Good morning, Africa.

All alone.

Not another human to bear witness.

It's like the Wild West out here.

They put me in the middle of a [bleep] desert.

I'm really thirsty right now, man.

It's super hot.

Everybody's got to be dehydrated.

Big old scorpion.

Holy [bleep].

Rocks just came off that cliff.

Baboons are not happy with me.

All the animals can see every move I make.

I don't think they like the new intruders.

Something's moving around.

I can't tell what it is.

Oh, my God, it's a snake.

Wildabeest, coming right to me.

Look at the size of that.

Yes.

All the planning, the tips, and tactics,

and secrets, and stuff you work out in your brain--

, none of that matters.

That's what I'm talking about.

No!

Gotcha!

There is no right way.

There's no manual, there's no book to go to.

Please, God, help me catch something.

- Wow! - Freaking giraffe.

There's a nice big storm coming through.

It appears my tarp is not very waterproof.

Holy hell, we have a river.

Oh, my goodness.

Yes.

This whole journey is an emotional roller coaster.

Gonna puke.

It's wild.

Give me the out of this place.

Oh, God.

I'm so exhausted, I can't keep going.

.

.

Even the idea of drinking makes me feel sick.

I feel like this is the best site.

I feel like it's got everything you need,

and I'm just not in a place where I can make it happen.

Something in my body is saying this isn't going well.

I just can't get myself down to get water.

So if I can't recover from it without putting myself

at a lot of risk, then I don't think

there's a positive outcome.

How are you feeling?

Yeah, a bit rough.

It's one of those things that could just be a 24-hour bug.

I vomited a few times overnight, yeah--

- Yeah. - and had diarrhea.

No, just lightheaded, man.

Lightheaded?

Yeah.

Body aches, as well.

All the joints are achy.

OK.

Start feeding you some nutrients,

and take it from there, OK?

It's amazing how much of an impact

this experience can have in such a short time.

And it's helped me question what

I thought were my core values.

And that's OK, because I think it's important to reassess

your values every so often.

I can safely say that I would bump courage

to the side for health.

And that's an amazing reflection and something

I hope to carry on as I get home, to find other ways

of prioritizing my health--

whether it be my physical health

or, like I said, my mental health, or finding ways

to slow down and take time to enjoy the small things.

Not stoked.

Nausea settling a little bit?

Yeah.

Take a set of vitals on you, and then just

go through a little bit of an assessment here.

Make sure there's no flags.

Then the stabbing pains in the lower right subsided?

- It has subsided, yeah. - OK.

Did it feel like it was coinciding

with gas movement or anything?

Not that you noticed?

There was no rhythm to it that I could work out.

OK.

It just came.

Yeah.

Any difficulties breathing, respirations?

If I take too deep a breath, then--

- You just feel that same-- - Feel like my heart hurts.

Yeah. - You feel that same pressure?

Yes.

OK.

If I take a deep inhale.

And then, as best as you're aware, last night,

no signs of fever?

No shivering, trembling?

I mean, it was a chilly night.

Yeah.

I-- I was sweating.

Yeah, OK.

Yeah, I was sweating last night.

Dehydration can cause many issues.

Any pain?

No, none.

Any down here?

Nothing.

I think rest, relaxation, pushing fluids is really

going to give you that reboot.

Let's get you taken care of.

Because it was only four days,

I don't know if I got that opportunity

to really challenge whether or not I could do this.

And that might be something that hangs

over my head for a while.

But at the same time, by leaving now

I'm gaining health.

Although it was short, the time out there, I'm really

happy that I got to do that.