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I'm having a really bad MS attack, the legs aren't functioning, so I'm in a need.

You all become get me.

What took me out last time was feeling burnt out.

This time, I'm just going to keep myself occupied,

building this cabin is going to help me to sustain myself.

He's really got to stay on your game with the predators,

so it is really important to me to finish my shelter.

Oh, holy f*ck. It's a pit viper. I'm myself a snake.

I'm starting to think I'm going to be able to survive this thing until day 90.

For the first time ever on a loan, 10 past participants return.

They come back with one goal. Redemption.

I've deserved to be here and I'm back.

I want to learn more this time than I did last time.

Now he fresh hell awaits. The cold is an incredibly strong punch in the face.

In the punishing wilderness of Mongolia.

We're in the middle of nowhere.

Mongolia is a very unforgiving land.

They must survive in complete isolation.

And during as long as they can, I'm just going

to push and push until there's nothing left.

The last one standing wins.

I baked pie at home like a mad woman.

I won the Alaska State Blueberry pie chicken, paint chip in 2010.

I can make a mean pie.

I've been thinking about pie a lot laying in my shelter.

So today, I want you to go get a slice of pie.

A cup of coffee. Put some cream in it.

Just enjoy the moment, okay?

Today, my priority is dialing in my fireplace then my shelter.

I know I'm going to need it soon because it's getting colder here.

My fireplace needs a draft from the bottom of the pit going outside.

I need to dig basically a tunnel so I can get my fire to draft.

You get a good fire going in that shelter.

It just has nowhere to draw the air from.

Smoke just swirls.

It's a problem.

I have to be like right on the ground to breathe.

Get close to the wall.

It's like I'm breaking out of jail.

I'll breach the outer wall.

Now I'm going to go get some birch bark, roll it up, serve as a tube.

I've spent 14 interior Alaska winters of my life.

I know what real cold is.

I know how to handle a real cold.

You've got to prepare an advance.

Oh man.

I put my face down in there.

I feel the air.

That's awesome.

The other thing I need to do is build some sort of

a chimney that will direct the smoke out the top.

You know, I erected this as a smoker, hoping I'd

be catching lots of fish, which didn't happen.

Well, I might be able to put this in my shelter and

then stack some willows against it to get the smoke out.

I did it.

There's a finished chimney fire pit way down there with the draft tube right here.

I know they're all thinking this place is going to burn down.

I'm never going to have a big fire.

You're just like little warming fires.

Oh, finally.

Flames will never get high and touch these leaves.

It's getting air.

Really good air.

And it's going up.

Oh my goodness.

I think it's working.

I think it's actually working.

Hear that?

Is her thunder?

Huh.

There is some rather ominous looking skies.

Oh, I hope it doesn't rain.

I don't want it to rain.

No rain.

I hear thunder off in the distance.

It didn't seem like rain.

It's a surprise.

It's out of me to even hear thunder.

Here, Mongolia, the weather is fast moving and changing.

I mean, it might be coming pretty quick, actually.

Let's see.

Whoa.

This is tense.

The wind is picked up and it's just like man.

You're thunder in the distance, but it's getting closer.

I'm getting a fire in here.

I hope not having a wall right there.

It's going to be okay.

Hear those clouds that thunder?

That scared me.

I like being prepared.

Got a lot of wood.

I put extra stuff on top of the shelter.

We'll see how it's basic tarpshilter does in the rain, huh?

I hope I'm ready for this.

The light has been closer.

I'm counting the time between lightning and thunder.

It's getting closer.

I like storms when I'm inside my house.

What I'm trying to survive inside of a natural shelter

is the tarpshilter over the top of it with every item that I own

to help me survive out here for as long as possible.

And it gets a little dicey.

Here comes the stress again.

Because my tarpshilter can hold.

Should next time I put heavy logs against the outside of the shelter.

Are my boots going to get wet?

It's my sleeping bag in the rain line.

It's taken in here pretty close to my house.

It's pale in right now.

It's a slow-moving storm system too.

This is going to be here a while.

More on light.

I'm blowing a lot of wind through here.

Wow.

Trying to lift me up.

Let me close my goric.

Stop this little wind pocket.

Crazy sounds like a tidal wave.

There's been tough, man.

Tough and tough.

Crazy wind.

Coming.

Parts actually beating.

The storm is so intense.

It just makes me so nervous.

Oh, boy.

Hang on.

It's actually blowing rain sideways.

Rain, hail, next.

Oh, that's a big one.

We're going to make it through it.

We all have ideas of lasting longer than the longest to win or ever,

but everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the mountain.

People could start dropping like flies.

Holy cow.

This is crazy.

Damn.

Rain's not stopping.

Whoa.

This is getting hammered in the open right now.

Stronger.

Hang on.

Come on, shelter.

Don't go anywhere.

Boy.

Oh, boy.

Hang on.

Oh, tree just fell.

All right, it's actually kind of scary.

Good morning.

Ah.

Had a good storm last night.

Rain didn't little from this wall.

So I would like to build this wall in.

I'm ready to go chop down another tree.

Ah, so found a widowmaker.

Usually I look around my shelter, and I'm like, "I'll see any branches.

" And remember doing this for some reason I missed this guy right here

that is in direct deadline to my shelter in being in a storm.

That could have easily smashed me and make me a widow.

Or I don't know.

Kill me, dead.

When I chop this, it could land right in my shelter.

Smart thing to do would be to take off my tarp, and then try to fell it after that,

just to make sure that it's not going to take my shelter.

I'm not going to do that.

Wish me luck.

Idiot.

I'm an idiot.

The most intimidating thing about this location is the weather.

That crazy storm concerned me a lot.

It's just going to get worse.

I could find the truth for you.

Good, good, good.

I want something that I feel comfortable in.

I want something that I don't have to worry about.

Crazy storm comes in, but, you know, if a bear starts pounding on it,

I want something that's going to keep me safe.

There it goes.

Oh, proud.

And I was concerned.

I would know that she's going to fall right in my head.

[MUSIC PLAYING] Good morning.

I got the cabin looking pretty good.

There's work to be done on it, absolutely.

What I'm thinking of today is going to be the best day for me to move,

because it is such a nice day.

Last night, a storm flew through this area very intensely.

The wind had been blowing 30, 40 miles per hour, at least.

It was completely miserable.

So, just having a shelter that's stout, secure,

that I don't have to worry about whether that's coming in would be huge.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

When snow and rain and extremely cold temperatures come,

I know that I'm going to be set up and safe,

comfortable and warm inside of my cabin.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Feels like I'm coming home.

[MUSIC PLAYING] Good.

All right, planned for the day.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Probably go ahead and get the tarp on the roof.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

You can get that all tied down.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

And then finish chinking.

I'm just going to fill in all the cracks with wood,

with pretty much what I have around dirt and grass.

And that'll help to seal it so that way I'm not losing heat.

And there's not a lot of air that comes into the shelter.

I don't really mind the work.

It's a bit of a tedious project, but it requires little energy.

The cold is coming.

Winter will be right around the corner.

I want to last for a very long time.

I've always been very competitive.

I really do want to win this, not only to win the money,

but I want to push myself, and I want to see how far I can really go.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Man, I hate when something runs, but I can't-- oh.

[MUSIC PLAYING] It's a big toe.

Where is he?

Trying to hide.

But he can't hide.

[MUSIC PLAYING] You're trapped.

That wouldn't mind having toe legs tonight.

But I'm not sure if I can eat him.

What I do notice is all these orange little vessels popping up on his stomach.

And I know sometimes that means it's poisonous to the animals

that eat it, but the animals that eat it don't cook it.

So-- I don't know.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Man, since I can't confirm whether or not the toes

are safe to eat, you know, little guy is free.

Better safe than sorry, always.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

I'm thinking about hunting anything and everything I can.

If you have an opportunity to get some valuable meat,

you have to seize it.

So every morning, I hear these ducks landing here on this bend.

They float down the river a little bit.

Flop in their wings, making all this commotion.

And so trying to figure out a way to get one of those.

But I can't just be shooting my arrows into the water.

What I'm going to try and do is we're going to attach

some paracord to my arrow and see if I can shoot and retrieve it.

Instead of using the whole heavy paracord,

pull out all these inner filaments and tie them in the end.

It'll be much lighter.

I think I might have the least practical knowledge of anybody here.

These aren't things that I've been practicing all

my life or even things I've gone to school for.

I'm kind of like an ad hoc survivalist.

I have an idea.

I see something that needs to be done.

And then I try and fabricate a means to do it.

All right.

So there it is.

I've laid all my line out and then brought it all the way back

and secured it to my leg to anchor it, obviously.

I'll take this down to the water.

I'll give it a try.

I haven't eaten anything yet today.

I'm hungry, but I'm worried that I missed my window.

I usually land up there, float all the way down here.

And they've done that two or three times today and nothing now.

So I've got all my line laid out.

I'm just going to sit here and wait.

I know there's supposed to be a lot of grouse

and other ground birds around here, some tarmacant.

So I'm hoping to spot some of them.

My plan is to set some traps.

I know that they're at all types of weasels and badgers that run around here.

So my game is to stand out as many as I can and hopefully get something to bite.

Look at this.

Frickin' deer floating down the river.

Oh, my god.

Look at this.

Frickin' deer floating down the river.

I've got to get it.

I've got to get it.

I've got to get it.

Oh, I see you.

You're just sitting there.

You're stuck.

You can't hide.

It's skimmed.

It's back.

You're sitting like a frickin' deer target.

I can do this.

Right over, isn't it?

It's taking off.

Damn.

This heart breaking that I wasn't able to

bring down that deer could have smoked it all.

I could have made that deer last a month.

You know, so it just leads me now to have to,

you know, I've decided that I need to tap deeper

into my resolve and determination.

I've emerged with a new idea.

Just a new method of going about things.

Every time I catch a fish, I'm using the entrails for traps.

Every time I go for walks, I'm setting snares.

I go for too many walks, and I don't do these things when

I'm passing all the areas that I should be doing them.

And me getting that free meal that just left me so easily

leads me to believe that I need to be out here doing a whole lot more.

I need to conquer the land a little bit more than I have.

I've been slowly traversing it.

I need to be stomping it and taking it over.

So that's what I'm going to do.

Hey, Greece.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Pretty uncomfortable, 100 pains.

I don't remember these on Vancouver Island.

I don't remember the pain.

I think I had more food on Vancouver Island though.

I don't know.

It is a little disappointing that I haven't been

only catch anything more than a damn chipmunk.

So I got my fishing pole all set up.

I think I'm going to try that deep eddy over there.

I just really want that first fish.

I mean, I've been eating dandelions.

I don't know if you just heard that, but that was my stomach.

It's wondering if my brains have been lost for coming out here and doing this again.

So for me, this is like a continuation of my experience on Vancouver Island.

And I think I am relearning some lessons that escaped me

and thinking of all the things that I'm missing,

all the things that are back home.

My wife, my family.

And as silly as it seems my pets, I'm missing going out to eat.

I'm missing quality time with my family.

My wife and I, we met senior year at high school and we started dating.

Then the day came and we ran away.

We were both 17.

We got married.

We've been through some stuff.

Hasn't always been easy, but together we pulled it off.

I was pretty lucky to end up with her.

This is easy for me to understand while I'm out here.

But will I take those lessons back home with me

and remember those for years and years to come?

That's the question.

Oh, [bleep] I got one.

Oh, yeah.

I got one.

Come here, you little bastard.

Oh, thanks, God.

You been wanting to dance, people?

Oh, there's my dance.

There's my fishy dance.

Oh, look at that.

Oh, I love you.

Mmm, ah.

Pay him, baby.

Oh.

Thank you, Mongolia.

Now it's time to go eat.

I think I was in a pretty low spot emotionally

today, but I'm going to have such a good fish too.

So blessed.

Hell, yeah, baby.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Well, you might be asking yourself, Randy,

why are you all dirty and in your underwear?

And it's not because or just because I don't

like wearing clothes and I like to be dirty.

But it's because I'm finishing up my fireplace.

I've already gathered a metric ton of rocks.

In order for me to seal the fireplace, as well

as hold the rocks in place, I've been using clay.

So it seems like the stuff that feels the best

has been buried underneath the banks here.

And the deeper I go, either underneath the bank

or underneath the dirt layer of the river, the better the clay has been.

And having a fireplace is huge.

It's not only the heat of the fire that's creating

heat, but the rocks are being heated up as well.

Those rocks will be pushing heat into the cabin.

I'm using clay as I'm stacking each of the rocks,

just like you would cement, laying a row of rocks,

putting clay on top of that row of rocks, and putting a

row of rocks on top of that, putting clay on top of that.

It's not coming down.

I mean, it's hard as cement.

Good luck.

I think the shelter can handle anything that

the environment can throw at it at this point.

Aside from like a hurricane, a tornado,

some sort of natural disaster than I don't think it's going to handle that.

Home is a huge thing for me.

It was a huge thing for me on season two.

One of the reasons why I decided to leave.

So I want to be in a place that feels like home.

I want to be in a place that feels safe and comfortable and warm,

all those things.

It's just been a lot of work that's been a slow

process, but I got **** else to do out here.

Fireplace is doing magnificently.

I got some stew in the pot,

and some puff balls, sedges, some fireweed, and a little bit of plantain.

Alright, feeling good.

That's right.

It's a flower in my smog.

Say something about it.

Clearly, I don't care.

It makes me feel good and is brightening my mood.

Oh my God.

It should mumble.

It's you, you little bastard.

Can't follow rocks, it is.

Maybe just one.

Don't look at me where you eat.

He's like, "For what the hell are you trying to throw at me?

" They're a furry bastard.

Oh, you son of a -- you're coming back?

Oh, how dare you.

I'm eating you.

One way or another.

[dramatic music]

That thing is where it has like eight senses.

[dramatic music]

I was looking this beautiful woodpecker, the redhead, woody woodpecker all the way.

Thinking, "Well, do I shoot it?

" It's got a decent amount of meat for a bird.

What distinguishes what goes and what stays, right?

It goes in my belly and what stays outdoors.

I don't know.

I haven't figured that out yet.

But, yeah, I decided against killing the woodpecker.

[dramatic music]

I don't hunt to kill.

I hunt to eat.

I want to take care of myself and I don't want myself to starve to death.

But, if I'm not responsible, then an arrow goes

into a bird and a bird flies off with my arrow.

I'm wounding this bird and I'm losing an arrow.

I have to make a clean shot, killing them as quickly as possible

and not hurting them.

[dramatic music]

[dramatic music]

Folks, it's now in me.

[dramatic music]

I think I'll put on some pants and maybe a sweater.

[dramatic music]

[dramatic music]

[dramatic music]

[dramatic music]

[dramatic music]

I heard something.

[dramatic music]

[MUSIC PLAYING] Sorry, buddy.

You're going to be a meal for me.

I am so happy.

I was getting concerned.

I was wanting something for my stew pot and some more meat, some more food.

Ah, thank you.

So there's a red squirrel, by the way.

I know it looks black.

Beautiful.

About eight inches in length and about the same for the tail.

Wasn't a clean kill, which I'm sorry.

I like hitting the eye.

I don't like this, but I don't want that to happen again.

I am so thankful.

So the guy will give me two good meals.

God, it's tough killing something and appreciating

it's beauty at the same time, you know.

I don't want to kill.

I don't want to be a killer.

But at the same time, I love hunting.

What a dilemma, huh?

But we kill.

We've got to eat, all right?

I'm going to try to just cut right, right down the

crotch, right up the crotch, and just fold it off.

Once you get past the wounds, it's actually

it's fairly easy, because you're just pulling it off like a shirt, right?

And voila, that could make a nice bag of some sort.

There's the liver, there's the kidneys.

Now the gallbladder is that guy right there.

I punctured that, it contained the meat.

It could make it taste awful, actually.

So I'm going to pull out those, then pull out

the hearts and the lungs, use those in the stew.

OK, it's dinner time.

Oh, does that look beautiful?

Perfectly cooked.

Oh, and so good.

Thank you, squirrel.

[MUSIC PLAYING] You hear that?

Oh, yeah, bad about it.

Beautiful dream.

Me and P2 with my girlfriend at this place near our apartment.

I think it's a moose.

A moose is mating call.

Dude, just go to her.

I feel like a match made in heaven.

Holy crap, bro.

[MUSIC PLAYING] Stupid moose.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Hey, named your beautiful.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

The moose was added from midnight, all the way to our-- our girl, our-- our two ago.

I think you're going to look asleep since then.

He's an ass-- he's an ass-- ass-- neighbor.

He's like living next to a fraternity.

So that couldn't call it cops.

I'm getting really hungry.

Stone crop and grasshoppers.

They're just not cutting in anymore.

I'm going to focus more on trapping and traveling and hunting.

I really need to start catching fish or killing animal.

So I don't-- they'll be pulling me out of here.

Wish we could kill moose.

I ordered a [BLEEP] murder that moose last night.

Oh, hell yeah.

Oh, [BLEEP] yeah.

Holy [BLEEP]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Oh, now I'm going to give you behind me so you go away.

[BLEEP] Yeah.

[BLEEP] Fish.

[MUSIC PLAYING] Oh, hell yeah.

Oh, [BLEEP] yeah.

Holy [BLEEP]

Oh, now I'm going to give you behind me so you go away.

[BLEEP] Yeah.

Fish.

[BLEEP]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

[SIGHS] Damn it.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

You don't have any food or calories in your body.

It just takes so much energy to do anything.

I try to fight up the motivation to go out and hunt.

I'm just exhausted.

I'm serious.

I really need some fish.

I need some food.

I'm not thriving or surviving.

I'm just lasting.

I'm lasting out here until my last bit energy is done.

And I don't want that.

We don't fight through it.

Then you're just going to succumb to any challenges that come in front of you.

You have to fight through it.

I know I will because I know who I am.

He's going to push on.

He got to keep going.

I got water.

I have a shelter.

I mean, I have something on my head.

I have something underneath me.

If you can move warm, I have water.

Still the ability to do well.

I have the ability to win this game.

If I get food, you know?

If I get food, when I get food, that's only like a bear.

Ah, OK.

My abdomen is varied violently, tensing up.

It's like someone pulling barbed wire out of my stomach.

I hunt to eat, but I'm also hurting these animals.

And it hurts my heart.

Do I push the button?

I'm getting these head rushes.

Whoa.