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my name is bear grills

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i've served with the British special forces

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i've climbed to the summit of Everest

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and cross the frozen oceans of the arctic now

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i'm going to show

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how to survive one of the most treacherous landscapes on Alaska

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over a million

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tourists come here every year and over 500 go missing

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i'm gonna show the skills needed to stay alive

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this is a coast of Alaska just below the arctic circle

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its extraordinary landscape is made up of endless coastline

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deep forests and huge glaciers

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i'm going to mount Chugacha in Alaska

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it's where mountaineers

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hikers and skiers come to enjoy the wilderness

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but with the thrill comes danger

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and every year over 20 people die

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i'm going to show how to survive in a wilderness

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like this any moment now

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the pilot is going to drop me

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onto the top of one of these mountains

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if needed

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i'll get some help from local experts and a camera crew

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will follow my journey 17 of the highest mountains in the us

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are here in Alaska

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it's every extreme skiers idea of heaven with so few people

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and so much space this is one of America's true wildernesses

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yeah it's beautiful being out of these mountains amazing

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the biggest threat to skiers is avalanche

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they kill around 40 people every year in North America

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one wrong turn

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and the whole mountainside can come crashing down on you

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you need to know how to avoid them

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the key

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with avalanches is to read the snow

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and you can use a ski pole in front of you just to test

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it to see whether it's compacted

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or whether it's in layers

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and what you want is when you push it in

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it's nice and consistent

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but if you push it down and it suddenly drops

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a little bit so sign

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that's in layers and that's the dangerous stuff

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avalanches are often triggered by inexperienced skiers

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and snowboarders who come to enjoy the 40 foot of Virgin snow

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which can often fall here

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in early 2006

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a snowboarder from Anchorage triggered a 200 foot wide avalanche

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on a slope just like this

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his body was eventually recovered three months later

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he had fallen 1600 feet

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i've skied about 5000 feet and at last

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i'm leaving the high snow faces behind there is so much rock

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and it's becoming impossible to ski

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any further all these skis would do is slow you down

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you'd be better off without them below me is a glacier

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literally

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a river of ice and like a river this glacier flows downhill

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i'm going to follow this ridge

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it's not easy and the temperature is dropping fast

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temperatures here in Alaska can reach as low as minus

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60 degrees and frostbite is always a danger in the mountains

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and the bits to wash out for your extremities

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your hands your feet

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your face and the signs

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you are getting

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it is

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that your skin goes is

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waxy red color and eventually black

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and i've seen very severe frostbite on climbers on Everest

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and it's a really horrible painful thing

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this ridge has led to a north facing slope

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this gets less sunlight

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so it's still covered in snow

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this weather is not looking so good

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getting caught out in bad weather can be fatal

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so you need to get down fast

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but this slope is over 300 foot i could downclimb

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but it would take hours instead

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i'm going to show you a technique that mountaineers

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call a glysade

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as you slide down you slow yourself

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by digging in your ice axe i don't have an ice axe

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so i'm braking a ski stick in half instead

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really see this cloud

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now moving in i can hardly even see the bottom of this glusade

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and i'm pretty nervous about doing this this technique is risky

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but in an emergency

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it can save your life if you don't apply enough pressure

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you'll fall too fast

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but push in too hard

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and the stick can get ripped right out of your hand

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that was fast

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i've done a few casses before

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but never anything that steep and that long

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and i reckon i hit 50 miles an hour on that

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and that's like speeding five time

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i've reached to glacier

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and there are over hundred thousand of these in Alaska

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they form the largest reservoir fresh water on earth

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but the bad news is they're full of crevasses

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deep valleys of ice often covered by layers of snow

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and the only safe way to travel is to be roped and in pairs

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their solid ground running alongside the glacier

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but keeping my footing in these ski boots is almost impossible

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oh look

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i see the end of the glass here and yeah

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that's definitely where it comes out

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and that's just such a relief

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i'm nearly off the snow and ice

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but the glacier still has one final sting in its tail

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a sheer cliff

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this is literally now

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the bottom of the glacier

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and this moraine is just dropping off in this

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like 40 foot waterfall

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there's no way in these boots and without rope

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i'm gonna make it down this and i need another plan

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there's an ice tunnel into the glacier

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this is formed by melt water streams

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which run under the ice

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but this one could lead me out

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ice tunnels are extremely unstable

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places and glaciers can move up to 60 feet a day

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before you go in check

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the ice is solid

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there could be over two hundred feet of ice above me

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and at any moment

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it could come crashing down

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only do this as a last resort

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i'm finding it quite claustrophobic in this place i know

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if you can come just sit around but

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this is not a good place to be

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and i was almost killed on a glacier

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like this on Everest where i had a cavascive

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way under my feet and

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it's not bringing back great memories being in here

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i just want to get out of there and the further you go in

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the harder it is to go back

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then i see daylight ahead it's my way out

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i've never been so relieved and finally i'm off the glacier

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it's just so good to be out of that glass here

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and just have some open space

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but the best use of all is that

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i'm gonna get these running boots off

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ah

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that is so nice and i'm gonna keep these inners

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they're not ideal to walk in

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but i'm gonna need something to protect my feet

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in the tougher train

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that's gonna be ahead now

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here off the mountain there should be food and shelter

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that's getting dive bombed by these seagulls

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and that's a sign that i probably walk through an area

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they're nesting

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and they're just trying to protect

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protect their eggs what i am trying to do

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is see if i can find one of their nests and actually find

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maybe some eggs tweet

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it's June prime nesting season

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and each nest could have two or three eggs

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each one packed with protein

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vitamins and minerals

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i've scoured all of these banks

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and i just can't find what these guys were protecting

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the landscape is beginning to open up

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and i can see the tree line ahead

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but now it's starting to rain

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but at least finally i'm almost in the forest

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this is good news

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i'm just seeing now

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the clouds clearing i can see a thick forest down there

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but also what looks like a deep gorge

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and then might well be a river at the bottom of that

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and that's what

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i want to be heading for

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i can only see a couple of feet ahead of me now

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and it's strangely claustrophobic i know

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this is bare country both black and brown bears live here

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brown bears can weigh up to 1100 pounds grow to nine feet tall

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and can tear a man apart

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look you can actually see

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where the bear here is being scratching along the tree

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and this is what they do

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they come along their scratch

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and they rub their back against it

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and you can see actually

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where the bear's fur is there

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and this is all part of it just marking its territory

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a hiker was recently killed here when rangers found

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the remains of his body

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they discovered bare blood at the scene and empty gunshells

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the hiker fired two shots of the bear

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but that was not enough to stop the attack

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but big groups rarely get attacked for one simple reason

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lots of people means lots of noise and that warms off the bear

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it's when you're alone that you're vulnerable

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her bears are the most dangerous when they're surprised

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most attacks happen on hunters

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just because they're always sneaking around and that's why

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it's really important

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when you're on your own to keep making lots of noise

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and let these bears know that you're here

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and it might sound

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a bit weird

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but i'm doing a lot of wandering around at the moment going

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yo bear

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but just trying to keep them away

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yo bear

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yo map

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yo map

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however much noise

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i make i still feel uncomfortable

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this is bear crap

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and the good news is that you can see in this poo

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little seeds from berries

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and that means they're going to be berries somewhere around

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nearby the bad news

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that means there's a bear around somewhere

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this is only about a day old

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this undergrowth is vicious every step hurts

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this is all devil's club

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which must be the spikestoriest plant i've ever come across

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just look you can see

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all the spikes

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all the way along

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all the stem all the way down the stork

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all the leaves as well

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i just covered in it

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and when the flowers come out

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even they have spice on it and the roots

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and it's just hell to walk through

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but for alaskanatus

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this is one of the most revered medicinal plants

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just full of loads of good things

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lots of ginseng but to walk through

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it is not good

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it's claimed that jinseng

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increases your strength and your stamina

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a stream is made a clearing through the devil's club

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this should lead to a river and a way through the

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forest it means i can move fast now

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but this wilderness is so unpredictable after several

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hundred yards

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there's a major obstacle

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a huge waterfall

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it's over 200 foot and even with a safety line it's risky

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but i'm an experienced climber

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i'm going to show how to get down it

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the most important thing

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when you start down here is to take your time

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and so many accidents happen climbing

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as the adrenaline gets going and you rush it

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and i'll tell you you can get a ride

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a thousand times

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but you only need one mistake for it to all go wrong

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these rocks are incredibly slippery

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and it's easy to make mistakes to make it down

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i'll need to follow some basic climbing rules

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let your legs take the pressure you know

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so many people trying to always climb with their arms

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and your arms give up your legs are much much stronger

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and just use your arms to steady you and to balance you

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there's loads of loose rocks so i have to test every hand hole

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the force of the water now about half way

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down is making it much harder

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it's like trying to downclimb

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whilst giving someone a piggyback

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okay

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the final bit is almost vertical

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this freezing glacial water is a torrent

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and it's pushing me down hard

274
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and the cold is making it much worse

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this water is just so cold

276
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and my hands are getting so numb out there

277
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i can hardly hardly hold on

278
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i'll tell you what looking back up there

279
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that is much steeper than i ever thought it was gonna be

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when i started down

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it's light nearly 24 hours a day here in the summer

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and it's easy to lose track of time

283
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but it's important to take a rest when you need to with soaking

284
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wet clothes

285
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you'll need a fire to dry them out and in a survival situation

286
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there's nothing better for morale than a fire

287
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there are nearly 6 million acres of forest in Alaska

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and much of it is covered in spruce and alder both of

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which are great for building shelters

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to build the shelter on the need like ten

291
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or serve these older saplings

292
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and the best way of cutting these is to bend it over

293
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until you see the stressed out of it

294
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and then when those fives are under stress

295
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you can just show it the knife and it will cut through

296
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you can recognise an order by the leaves they're serrated

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and they grow alternately up the stem

298
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and i'm using the spruce for the roof

299
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i'm making what's called a half dome shelter

300
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it's simple

301
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and it's fast to waterproof it you start at the bottom

302
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then move up putting one layer on top of the one below

303
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and then i need fire

304
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i always carry a Flint to light a fire normally

305
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this Willow down makes excellent kindling

306
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but it's damp so

307
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lighting this fire is going to be a struggle

308
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and let's use up half of it the first failed attempt

309
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black bears kill fewer people and grizzlies

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but in 90 percent of their attacks

311
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they literally stalk humans as prey many locals carry a gun

312
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people

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often think that grizzly bears are the really dangerous ones

314
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but in this part of Alaska

315
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the most dangerous bears are actually

316
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the black bears and if one approaches you depending on

317
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which it is you need to react differently if it's a brown bear

318
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the chance are it's a territorial issue and the best thing

319
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you can do is just be submissive and back off

320
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if it's a black bear

321
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the chances are is after you and in that case

322
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you're gonna have no choice apart from to fight for your life

323
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your body has an internal clock

324
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which makes you sleep when it's dark and wake when it's light

325
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so in a place

326
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like this where it's only dark for four hours

327
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a full night's sleep is always gonna be hard

328
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it's now 5 am and it's already light

329
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i'm awake and a little cranky still raining

330
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and i'm getting a bit cheese stuff

331
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but i think that's all right when you've been wet all night

332
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i think you're a little bit of itchy stuff i'm going to carry on

333
00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:35,533
following the same stream that i followed yesterday

334
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i've seen a river at the bottom of the valley and that's where i

335
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:39,733
need to get to

336
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but following the river is not easy

337
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lots of smaller streams flow into it

338
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so i'm constantly forced to cross them

339
00:20:52,533 --> 00:20:53,066
wow

340
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flowing this

341
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and these glacial rivers are deceptively far and cold

342
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it's really important to stay facing up dreams

343
00:21:09,966 --> 00:21:11,800
so you can fight against the flow

344
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after several miles the river widens

345
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the coast should be near

346
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i love the sea

347
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i've come out into one of the many small inlets

348
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that dot the Alaskan coastline

349
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your best chance of being picked up

350
00:21:50,500 --> 00:21:53,600
will be to be spotted by one of the many small fishing boats

351
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:54,933
the fishes area

352
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hey look at this

353
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,100
look the dead salmon

354
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and there's another one over there

355
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this is great news

356
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,900
this means the salmon are using this to run upstream

357
00:22:12,933 --> 00:22:14,000
and this is what they do

358
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they return for often like up to 200 miles out to sea

359
00:22:17,166 --> 00:22:19,400
they find the exact same river they were born

360
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even the same tributary return to it lay their eggs

361
00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:24,166
and then they'll die

362
00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:29,333
the river is packed with king and pink salmon

363
00:22:32,866 --> 00:22:34,733
i haven't got a fishing line with me

364
00:22:34,766 --> 00:22:37,166
so i need to find another way of catching one

365
00:22:45,266 --> 00:22:47,333
i'm making a spear out of wood

366
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:51,666
here's a tree with a branches fork out in a v about four foot

367
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along the main stem

368
00:22:53,533 --> 00:22:56,533
the first step is to clear all the other chutes

369
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and then break off the two branches

370
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and cut them into sharp points

371
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these will puncture the tough skin of the fish

372
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and keep it pinned down

373
00:23:04,766 --> 00:23:06,533
while i grab it with my hands

374
00:23:15,900 --> 00:23:18,666
there must be a thousand salmon in this pool down here

375
00:23:18,966 --> 00:23:21,200
but it's too deep for me to be able to spear one

376
00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:21,800
but i reckon

377
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,400
if i can spook them and drive them up into shallows

378
00:23:24,866 --> 00:23:26,466
then i'll have a good chance

379
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,333
my tactics working the fish are going just where i need them

380
00:23:43,533 --> 00:23:45,933
i can see just loads and loads of them there

381
00:23:45,933 --> 00:23:47,666
and then about six inches of water

382
00:23:48,333 --> 00:23:51,600
and key is just for me to approach from downstream

383
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,066
very steadily

384
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,333
one of the salmon's main predators are eagles

385
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which swoop in from above

386
00:23:58,266 --> 00:24:02,333
so the fish are highly sensitive to shadows if they see mine

387
00:24:02,533 --> 00:24:03,333
they'll be off

388
00:24:03,966 --> 00:24:06,366
i'm waiting for the perfect opportunity

389
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,066
as i stand motionless the fish start to come closer

390
00:24:10,166 --> 00:24:12,900
but they always seem to be just out of my reach

391
00:24:12,966 --> 00:24:16,366
and they say that keep for fixing these patients

392
00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:18,566
i'm probably the least patient person

393
00:24:18,566 --> 00:24:19,566
you'll ever meet

394
00:24:21,466 --> 00:24:24,200
now i'm gonna take a more aggressive approach

395
00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:33,600
throwing the spear around gets me nowhere

396
00:24:33,733 --> 00:24:36,766
and my impatience finally gets the better at me

397
00:24:39,566 --> 00:24:40,900
i had it it's like

398
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:43,866
that was so close

399
00:24:44,733 --> 00:24:45,766
i give up

400
00:24:45,900 --> 00:24:48,066
but one of the crew has more luck

401
00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:52,133
you can eat these things strain out of the river like that

402
00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:06,000
that is like the freshest Alaskan salmon you can possibly have

403
00:25:07,666 --> 00:25:09,366
i've always like sushi

404
00:25:09,566 --> 00:25:11,766
and in the local iaac communities

405
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,166
the annual fish runs with a primary food

406
00:25:14,166 --> 00:25:16,766
source for the entire year fish

407
00:25:16,766 --> 00:25:20,500
a pack full of protein and the scales are small on a salmon

408
00:25:20,533 --> 00:25:22,200
so you can eat the skin as well

409
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,300
as it contains high levels of fat

410
00:25:24,366 --> 00:25:26,900
just what my body needs to keep moving

411
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,766
i'm going to take full advantage of this feast

412
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:39,800
i might be out of the forest

413
00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:42,500
but i know that i'm still surrounded by bears

414
00:25:42,766 --> 00:25:44,966
they come down here to fish

415
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:48,300
hey look at this

416
00:25:48,300 --> 00:25:52,133
look this is why you've got to be so careful around here

417
00:25:52,133 --> 00:25:52,700
look you see

418
00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:55,333
where where a bear is obviously come down

419
00:25:55,500 --> 00:25:58,333
and plunked his fat backside down here

420
00:25:58,900 --> 00:26:01,200
and started to feast on this salmon

421
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:02,766
but amazing you actually see

422
00:26:02,766 --> 00:26:06,100
look the imprint of where he's been and actually

423
00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:07,133
you can see the bit

424
00:26:07,133 --> 00:26:10,400
that is eaten is all the belly fat and the eggs and the guts

425
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,466
that's the most fat and protein rich

426
00:26:12,466 --> 00:26:14,266
and then it just leaves the rest of it

427
00:26:14,766 --> 00:26:17,466
but this is why you've got to be so careful out here

428
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:23,100
if you know what to

429
00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:26,000
look for there are all sorts of berries and plants

430
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,666
you can eat with your fish

431
00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:32,733
this is Eskimo potato this plant here

432
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:33,933
i pull this up

433
00:26:39,133 --> 00:26:40,800
and get to the root of it

434
00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:43,800
this is all edible at this time of years

435
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,300
all a bit stringy uh and the best way really is to

436
00:26:47,466 --> 00:26:49,000
you know roast this on a fire

437
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,900
but you can eat this uh

438
00:26:50,933 --> 00:26:51,766
eat this rules

439
00:26:51,766 --> 00:26:52,600
bit muddy

440
00:26:52,933 --> 00:26:55,800
but a really really good food source for many people say

441
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,400
it's the most valuable food source in all of Alaska

442
00:26:58,733 --> 00:27:01,566
these roots are full of starch and carbohydrate

443
00:27:01,766 --> 00:27:03,400
it's hardly a gourmet dinner

444
00:27:03,566 --> 00:27:05,533
but it keeps me going a little longer

445
00:27:07,933 --> 00:27:12,200
it's been a tough day caves already made shelters

446
00:27:12,266 --> 00:27:15,333
but are often already occupied by wildlife

447
00:27:15,333 --> 00:27:19,733
including bears this one is so shallow that i know it's safe

448
00:27:19,733 --> 00:27:22,900
and it's a perfect place to stop the high walls

449
00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:25,533
mean that nothing can sneak up on me from behind

450
00:27:34,133 --> 00:27:38,133
now i'm on the coast here in Alaska there's an abundance of food

451
00:27:38,366 --> 00:27:40,733
especially on the beach at low tide

452
00:27:43,900 --> 00:27:46,600
this rock is just covered in these muscles

453
00:27:46,666 --> 00:27:49,566
and it's a great source of food only get a load of this

454
00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:52,300
and then cook it up later

455
00:27:52,466 --> 00:27:53,733
and this is actually

456
00:27:54,166 --> 00:27:58,066
a pot of staple diet of a lot of localaskan tribes

457
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,500
shellfish should always be cooked properly first

458
00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:02,933
so i need fire

459
00:28:03,666 --> 00:28:06,166
old man's beard grows on the branches of trees

460
00:28:06,166 --> 00:28:07,566
and it burns easily

461
00:28:07,933 --> 00:28:09,766
but i need to find wood as well

462
00:28:10,266 --> 00:28:11,966
yeah this is sort of dead wood

463
00:28:12,333 --> 00:28:13,866
uh that i want uh

464
00:28:13,866 --> 00:28:16,333
woodless dead on the ground is often covered in moss

465
00:28:16,333 --> 00:28:16,866
is really damn

466
00:28:16,866 --> 00:28:18,666
but this is Grace is off the ground

467
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:20,000
and it's dry

468
00:28:20,066 --> 00:28:24,200
and it should crack and a good way of telling if wood's good

469
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:24,733
for burning

470
00:28:24,733 --> 00:28:27,466
if you hear that crack sort of sounds like the crackle

471
00:28:27,733 --> 00:28:29,000
when it's actually burning on fire

472
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,466
and that's a good sign it's good wood for burning

473
00:28:33,866 --> 00:28:35,300
with no pan to cook them

474
00:28:35,300 --> 00:28:38,700
in i've surrounded the muscles with two layers of seaweed

475
00:28:39,166 --> 00:28:41,100
this effectively like steams them

476
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,766
and this should take about 10 minutes to cook

477
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,200
when you're collecting them tap the muscles if they don't close

478
00:28:49,366 --> 00:28:52,933
they're already dead so leave them but once cooked

479
00:28:52,933 --> 00:28:54,066
they should be open

480
00:28:55,466 --> 00:28:56,866
wow those really are good

481
00:29:03,533 --> 00:29:04,900
down here on the coast

482
00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:08,400
i can show you how to get yourself seen by any passing boats

483
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:13,100
i've got such good visibility all the way out to sea here

484
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,166
and it's definitely worth

485
00:29:15,533 --> 00:29:18,266
while i am here getting a signal fire going

486
00:29:18,566 --> 00:29:21,000
and all i'm doing is building this back up again

487
00:29:22,333 --> 00:29:25,266
and then i'm gonna put on top of it

488
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:31,066
a load of evergreen branches and these will smoke

489
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:34,200
and

490
00:29:35,733 --> 00:29:37,266
if anyone's passing

491
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:38,600
they might well

492
00:29:39,066 --> 00:29:39,933
see this

493
00:29:42,266 --> 00:29:43,866
it's vital to create white

494
00:29:43,866 --> 00:29:44,500
smoke

495
00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:48,066
to contrast with the dark background of the trees behind me

496
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,800
but nature is conspiring against me you notice here

497
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,266
the smoke's not rising very well in the air

498
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,933
it actually looks as if it's like getting pushed down

499
00:30:01,100 --> 00:30:04,133
and that's a sign that low pressure might well be on its way

500
00:30:04,333 --> 00:30:06,733
so even those beautiful blue skies at the moment

501
00:30:06,966 --> 00:30:10,000
it might well be getting much worse

502
00:30:12,333 --> 00:30:13,533
better keep moving

503
00:30:18,933 --> 00:30:20,200
but it's tough going

504
00:30:20,533 --> 00:30:24,166
the shoreline constantly swells in and out of these deep bays

505
00:30:27,266 --> 00:30:29,766
but over on the bank are some buildings

506
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:31,966
they look like a fishing lotch

507
00:30:39,933 --> 00:30:40,733
哼

508
00:30:43,766 --> 00:30:47,333
but the paths are overgrown and the building as a shambles

509
00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:50,366
Alaska has a history of boom and bust

510
00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:53,566
the coastline is littered with disused gold mines

511
00:30:53,666 --> 00:30:57,300
tinning factories and from what i can see old lodges

512
00:30:58,533 --> 00:30:59,666
i'm sure at one time

513
00:30:59,666 --> 00:31:01,733
this place would have been bustling with trekkers

514
00:31:01,766 --> 00:31:03,933
but today it's deserted

515
00:31:10,866 --> 00:31:11,900
here i'll tell you what

516
00:31:15,166 --> 00:31:16,500
this is a view

517
00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:18,266
you want to build your house looking at

518
00:31:18,266 --> 00:31:19,166
look at that

519
00:31:19,533 --> 00:31:24,333
just beautiful over the mountains of the glacier amazing

520
00:31:26,333 --> 00:31:28,333
and a beautiful glacier like this

521
00:31:28,466 --> 00:31:30,466
could provide your way out of here

522
00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:33,333
these coastal glaciers are no tourist

523
00:31:33,333 --> 00:31:34,700
tourist hot spots

524
00:31:34,700 --> 00:31:36,600
and there might well be a boat there

525
00:31:36,900 --> 00:31:39,133
but it looks miles away

526
00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:44,566
this is great

527
00:31:45,566 --> 00:31:49,600
little boats are often used by these lodges and as a last resort

528
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:50,866
you should use one

529
00:31:58,266 --> 00:32:01,666
i just need a paddle and this fade will do the job

530
00:32:05,666 --> 00:32:07,200
i'm in a basic skiff

531
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,266
and i'm slowly working my way along the coastline

532
00:32:13,066 --> 00:32:15,400
on foot it would take you days to walk

533
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,466
around these endless craggy inlets

534
00:32:17,666 --> 00:32:21,800
but boats can often be a risk and in a moment i'll show you

535
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:22,766
what can happen

536
00:32:30,133 --> 00:32:32,766
there's a story of a father of his teenage kids

537
00:32:32,966 --> 00:32:35,000
who ran aground in a winter storm

538
00:32:35,333 --> 00:32:37,366
and they waited ten days for rescue

539
00:32:37,366 --> 00:32:39,000
but it never came and

540
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:39,666
the father then

541
00:32:39,666 --> 00:32:43,366
made the very difficult decision to leave his teenage girls

542
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,533
whilst him and his son went off to look for help

543
00:32:46,066 --> 00:32:48,366
and they eventually found an old log cabin

544
00:32:48,866 --> 00:32:51,400
but there's no signs of life and the storm then came in

545
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,300
and it was six days before the weather broke

546
00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:57,500
and he assumed his daughters would have been killed

547
00:32:58,100 --> 00:32:59,100
but when it did break

548
00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:02,266
they found an old skiff managed to repair it

549
00:33:02,333 --> 00:33:04,866
and use that to get back to his daughters

550
00:33:04,933 --> 00:33:06,866
who amazingly were still alive

551
00:33:07,133 --> 00:33:08,500
and then a day later

552
00:33:08,666 --> 00:33:09,933
they were all rescued

553
00:33:17,533 --> 00:33:18,666
i vented a bay

554
00:33:18,666 --> 00:33:23,466
full of sea ice and as i go on the ice thickens soon

555
00:33:23,466 --> 00:33:26,933
ice blocks are all around me they may look magnificent

556
00:33:27,100 --> 00:33:30,700
but they can cause serious damage to even a large boat

557
00:33:30,933 --> 00:33:35,100
and in 1989 the exxon valdes a 33

558
00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:38,466
000 ton oil tanker went to ground in Alaska

559
00:33:38,466 --> 00:33:41,300
while trying to avoid icebergs just like these

560
00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:51,300
just amazing this place

561
00:33:51,666 --> 00:33:53,366
i'll tell you out of all the places

562
00:33:53,366 --> 00:33:54,166
i've been

563
00:33:54,333 --> 00:33:58,600
i don't think i've ever seen a landscape so extraordinary

564
00:33:58,666 --> 00:34:00,700
and just thousands of these little

565
00:34:00,966 --> 00:34:03,166
you know icebergs just floating around

566
00:34:03,366 --> 00:34:06,866
and all of these would have just peeled off these glasses

567
00:34:06,866 --> 00:34:09,533
that are tumbling down into the sea

568
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:14,100
and some of these bits of ice they can be up 5000 years old

569
00:34:14,466 --> 00:34:18,466
and it's just an amazing landscape to be in

570
00:34:19,966 --> 00:34:22,766
you can only ever see the tip of an iceberg as

571
00:34:22,766 --> 00:34:26,333
90 percent are submerged as ice melts faster

572
00:34:26,333 --> 00:34:28,933
when it comes into contact with water eventually

573
00:34:28,933 --> 00:34:32,766
the burst become top heavy and roll often violently

574
00:34:39,666 --> 00:34:42,133
all of this ice is beginning to close in a bit now

575
00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:44,866
and it's so disorientated trying to work out

576
00:34:44,866 --> 00:34:47,733
where you are just because all of these things move

577
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,500
what looks like a gap one minute

578
00:34:51,866 --> 00:34:54,133
then suddenly light closes up in front of you

579
00:34:57,100 --> 00:35:00,066
it's just so hard because this stuff is like rock

580
00:35:03,266 --> 00:35:05,966
you can see how much damage these things can do

581
00:35:15,133 --> 00:35:16,733
and if your boat takes in water

582
00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:19,200
i need to get land

583
00:35:22,166 --> 00:35:24,666
you see that spit of land like gravel

584
00:35:27,133 --> 00:35:30,966
the camera crew are in protective clothing i am not

585
00:35:37,666 --> 00:35:40,100
my only option is to swim fring

586
00:35:42,066 --> 00:35:43,566
this thing is just going now

587
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,266
but first i've got to take some clothes off

588
00:35:46,266 --> 00:35:47,966
or they're gonna really weigh me down

589
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,066
it completely goes

590
00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:52,300
don't sink yet

591
00:35:52,300 --> 00:35:53,266
don't sink yet

592
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:58,466
it's just that tiny little bit of boys to keep you up

593
00:35:58,966 --> 00:36:01,866
let's see who's on this last leg just that boys at the back

594
00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:10,100
the shock of hitting this water

595
00:36:10,266 --> 00:36:11,366
makes me gasp

596
00:36:11,366 --> 00:36:15,200
and the danger is sucking in a big lungful of air and water

597
00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:17,200
and that's how people drown

598
00:36:20,533 --> 00:36:21,966
是是是

599
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,300
my heart rate has gone through the roof

600
00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:32,566
and i'm beginning to hyperventilate in some people

601
00:36:32,566 --> 00:36:34,500
this can induce a heart attack

602
00:36:48,133 --> 00:36:49,300
let me have cotton up

603
00:36:50,500 --> 00:36:53,600
cotton literally sucks the heat out of your body it's

604
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:54,933
a killer when wet

605
00:36:55,166 --> 00:36:58,266
if you get soaked in a cotton t shirt and a pair of jeans

606
00:36:58,266 --> 00:36:59,533
in conditions like this

607
00:36:59,533 --> 00:37:03,533
you need to get them off fast you'll survive longer naked

608
00:37:03,733 --> 00:37:08,166
and this stuff is all glacier water and sea water freezes

609
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,933
at a much lower temperature than normal waters effectively

610
00:37:12,133 --> 00:37:13,733
that's like colder than ice

611
00:37:16,733 --> 00:37:19,000
my fingers and toes are so numb

612
00:37:19,133 --> 00:37:21,133
i need to get the blood flowing back

613
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,133
my jacket has stayed dry in the backpack

614
00:37:33,133 --> 00:37:34,566
and this will warm me up

615
00:37:43,866 --> 00:37:45,133
the glacial bay

616
00:37:45,166 --> 00:37:49,300
opens up into the sea i can just see from miles

617
00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:51,766
all the way up and down the coast around here

618
00:37:52,266 --> 00:37:56,733
and i'm just gonna take stock and try and warm up a bit

619
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,800
on some of these rocks and not move anywhere

620
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,766
until i just get dry and properly warm

621
00:38:07,733 --> 00:38:11,733
this would be a perfect spot to wait fishing boats as well

622
00:38:11,733 --> 00:38:14,600
as tourist boats often sail into these inlets

623
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,533
and it's not hard to see why people come

624
00:38:18,666 --> 00:38:19,933
it's beautiful

625
00:38:30,133 --> 00:38:33,766
i'm heading off further down the beach to see what i can find

626
00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:47,066
and a boat has been sent to pick me up

627
00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:55,600
and i'm gonna do everything i can to attract their attention

628
00:39:03,300 --> 00:39:04,333
they've seen me

629
00:39:04,866 --> 00:39:05,933
this has been

630
00:39:05,933 --> 00:39:09,366
an incredible journey from Harsh mountain peaks

631
00:39:09,366 --> 00:39:11,000
to these icy seas

632
00:39:11,533 --> 00:39:15,000
Alaska is a place where we can truly come close to nature

633
00:39:15,166 --> 00:39:18,133
and that for me is its real magic