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Winds are blowing real hard right now.

They have been all day. It's a change.

Some winds of change.

Look at that ant pile.

Yeah.

So I just woke up to probably 100, 150 baboons.

You see a bunch over there.

Bunch of them here in trees, you can see them moving around.

In the back of my head, I'm just thinking,

"Uh-oh, what's coming?"

I got a bad feeling.

Really bad feeling.

Seven days into the 35-day challenge.

Yes! I got it!

Frank's arrow hit its mark...

It's dinner time!

Yeah, buddy!

...providing his team

with the first big protein win of the challenge.

Yum.

But also attracting the attention

of hungry predators.

Hey!

Hey!

Last night, something or several somethings

definitely were scoping us out for dinner.

So we need to get more prepared.

We got to build up our boma more.

Even though our thunder bom is pretty solid,

it can always be more solid.

I’ll grab this Vespa.

We need to make sure that we are absolutely secure

and we have all the metal surrounding us because lions

are very pro-safety.

If they think they're gonna get hurt, they're not gonna

jump over the boma.

Home repairs.

You know, keeping up with the Joneses.

We got to add whatever metal we can.

Anything to give us a buffer zone from the things

that want to eat us out here.

Good luck to any lions

that try to come over there.

We've actually added

about two and a half to three feet of height

to our boma, and probably another 2, 300 pounds.

Not to mention...

it looks pretty sick right now.

We got some cloud cover today.

Thank you, Jesus.

The past, what? Three days? It was well over 100 degrees.

Honestly, I'm really worried about that meat spoiling.

This weather here,

I wouldn't think it's the best for biltong.

You just need hot, dry days.

That concerns me a little bit, so we may have

to resort to smoking it.

We're going to have to move a fire inside this and then use

the heat and the smoke to just continue drying it out.

We'll turn this Jeep Model T into a smoker.

We got strands of copper wire

that was inside of some vehicles.

I could use the copper wire to sew them together.

-Wrap them around? -Yeah.

I like it.

So now I have to make cordage.

To help me do this, I'm just gonna kinda crack this stuff up,

seeing as how I got all these fine tools at my disposal.

An eight-pound wedge and a 10-pound hammerhead.

It's this casing on this wire,

is a little bit dried out and old.

Yeah, it just peels right off.

I'll start pulling this meat down.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

Just strip that wire, because it is strand copper.

And we can get all that in there,

probably just off this one piece of wire.

-Yeah, yeah. -You know?

So I'm literally just wrapping this around

and then giving it a twist,

and it'll just make basically just a quad of meat

hanging off a little tiny wire.

So it'll just slowly have smoke trickling through it

to keep the flies out,

And shelter from the rain and the elements,

so we can fire this thing up

and get a coal smoke going on here.

-Yeah! -Woohoo! Smoker!

This biltong is gonna help get us through

to the next kill.

And God willing, it happens within a few days,

because that stuff will go quick.

Never seen one of those on "Naked and Afraid."

I've never seen one of them anywhere.

Yeah, yeah.

Our meat is safe.

I hope.

Aye, aye, aye.

It still hurts a good bit, but...

I don't know.

Trying not to feel completely useless.

The irritation still continues, but my eye is

no longer throbbing as distractingly, and that means

that I'll be able to get up and do stuff.

I'm at the point in my lack of calories

where standing up makes me dizzy.

So try and move slow, especially standing up slow.

After discovering signs of a deadly predator...

Look at the lion print.

Bro, look at the size of that!

Our boma is right there.

I want all of this barbed wire.

...Waz and Teal worked to secure their new shelter.

While I was doing some of this wiring,

one of the pieces came back and kinda hit my eye.

Yep.

But an injury to Teal's eye...

threatened to end her challenge.

I'm going back up to the farmhouse.

So, Teal, even though she's not physically feeling good,

she always wants to feel like she's doing something.

And I'm not really surprised, to be honest with you.

That's just who she is as a survivalist.

We got a lot of work to do.

Yeah.

We sure could use some food.

It's step by step.

It's keep pushing forward, which is absolutely integral

in this doomsday scenario.

All right, let's do plans for the day.

What do you got on?

Food is still our main goal, obviously.

But I'd like to go get the kitchen sink.

I think it's time for it to move down here.

-OK. -I want to bring down a barrel

to hang the meat off of

-to smoke it. -Yes.

I need an extra set of hands for the sink, at least.

-Yeah, I can do that. -If you're up for it.

The way I see it, once the kill happens, it's go time.

And the best way is to be prepared for it.

We'll have everything ready. The processing will go quickly.

Hopefully, that will get all the meat ready in enough time

for it not to spoil.

I'm really hoping this burns off.

Because, if we get a hot day,

then that water hole is going to be real busy.

So, that's what I'm hoping happens.

We've got hunting on the agenda today,

that's been on the agenda for the last few days.

I'm going to go down to the water hole,

and then we can set up a blind

and hunt down at the water hole,

and hopefully get some red meat in our bellies.

And once we finally harvest an animal,

we need a real nice streamlined process where we save

as much meat as possible.

And there's things up at the house that we can use

down here at the boma to process that animal.

Yeah, I think that one's still got a top and bottom.

Well, we need a top, don't we?

I'd rather not have a top, so we can hang stuff

-from around the edge and stuff? -Yeah, yeah.

I want to bring down the sink from the farmhouse.

And I want to set it up so that we can wash a few things

in the sink down here.

All that now and the kitchen sink.

-You look like Atlas... -Heh.

...carrying the world on your shoulders.

We know it's gonna take many trips,

but we hope it's worth it.

Sweet.

The only thing we're missing is the meat.

I'll fix that.

Isn't that fancy?

I'm going to head down to the water hole.

The other day, we could see a real big male kudu.

And so the fact that there's animals down there,

the fact that there's water down there,

I'm gonna set up a blind.

I've really just used stuff that's close to that area.

When I was using the other blind,

I'd pop up from behind the blind and they'd see me,

whereas right here...

I can ever so silently come across into my window

Woosh!

Straight down there.

I want to be out of the sun as much as possible,

just gather up some stuff from around, basically,

just enlarging the structure that was already there

so I can move around a little bit,

and the animals can't see me.

And the thought process there is also I don't want to change

that environment too much.

I don't want to be bringing in all this new stuff

that's gonna stop the animals from coming in,

so I just built up the same shape

a little bit bigger and hopefully that helps.

I'm just gonna post up here and see what else comes in,

hopefully something comes in this little window

and we get some dinner.

I'm going to just cut this here.

With this piece of hose, I can create a drainage system,

and then that way it'll divert all the blood and all the guts

and all the organs that are from the sink

away from the boma, but this whole sink

full of water keeps the meat from being covered in flies,

and allows us to make sure it's properly washed

before we cut it up and put it in the smoker.

Pour some water in the sink and see if it works.

I'm delighted, it works.

I got a bad feeling.

We got some nasty stuff coming in.

I'm so glad you got the wriggly tin.

Yeah.

Reminds you of home.

Uh-huh.

Competing with a crocodile for limited resources,

Wes and Stee built a modern take on a primitive fish trap.

That looks fantastic.

That looks fantastic.

Something doesn't feel right.

But malnourishment led to the exits of both

Miranda and Kel.

It just highlights how hard it is to survive here.

Yeah.

We are hungry, and we need some sort of fish

or red meat ASAP.

Stee's W trap was built with sheets of roofing tin

to guide fish into a closed section of the pond

where they can't escape

and the crocodile can't reach them.

I can't believe active fishing is not working,

'cause you can sit here quietly

and watch the fish in there.

Maybe we'll make a couple

smaller ones.

You know, in the days that we've been here,

we're scavenging so much stuff.

It gives such an opportunity for us to advance our survival.

Yep. That's the thin stuff, right?

Yep.

I think you're gonna like that.

I feel much more hopeful about that.

All right, let's go fish.

Yeah, I'll pretty much settle for anything, buddy.

Yeah.

We probably tried seven different things

to catch fish.

I'm frustrated, but we gotta get some food.

It's just gonna take a little extra effort.

All right, nice.

I don't know if it's good or not.

It's a little fly bug.

I'm going to give him a try.

And we wait.

It's never been this windy before.

I hope it means rain,

but this thing's holding strong.

It is sturdy, and it's pretty.

A little rugged, just like me.

This is the hard part of the solo challenge, man.

I'm tired.

Surviving alone since day four...

I'm going to deconstruct this boma here,

and then I'm gonna just reassemble them for a blind.

...Joe turned his old camp into a hunting blind.

What is that sound?

But the arrival of a young bull elephant...

...has him on his heels.

Hunger is a big motivator right now, and I just need

to rain or shine, get in that blind,

and get some kills

so that I can continue to have the nourishment I need

to keep my strength and my mind going.

The elephants came in, knocked the tree down,

tore it down, right where I sit,

right in the blind.

Every single time I try to come up

some way to survive out here,

it just keeps ending up back to square one.

Africa does not care for your plans.

That is a fact.

If you were to ask me before I came here,

my top predators to be afraid of,

elephant wouldn't even have made the list.

But now that he's just the silent stalker

in the night, and the thrasher of my blind,

I feel like he's got a personal vendetta out for me.

Now I gotta spend more calories fixing, fixing things.

But I have a feeling that this ain't gonna be it.

It's just a reminder that out here,

anything can happen.

This entire apocalyptic challenge does not give a crap

about your agenda or your plans, man.

So you just gotta keep on pushing

and making problem solving

and making things work out here.

Having to rebuild the blind after the elephants trashed it,

like, you know, my energy level is just depleting so fast.

No.

Boy, this fishing has sucked.

We've tried every bait, different size hooks,

and they're just not interested, and I think

I'm just gonna change these static passive lines.

This landscape is too deadly.

It's an apocalypse.

There's barely any food.

The sun is relentless.

I'm going to go eat half a dozen mopane leaves.

I bet you I haven't had 300 calories since I got here.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Oh, my favorite.

So the ends of the mopane, new branches are edible,

but it tastes like absolute crap.

This tree is actually quite awesome because...

if it feels like it's being under attack,

like I'm doing right now,

it surges tannins.

And the tannins go in the leaves

and make it, like, virtually inedible.

So you gotta take off a bunch, and then stop,

and that's what you eat.

What's even cooler is if there are other mopane trees

in the area, somehow, it tells them

it's under attack, and they push out tannins, too.

It's amazing.

Although high in protein, it would take over five cups

of mopane leaves to provide the same amount of calories

as one carrot.

Back in the day, tribes during tough times

would survive on these.

So I figured if they can, I can.

All right.

That's good for now.

I don't want too much acid in my gut.

Will have bad effects.

Mm, ooh!

Yeah, it's not pleasant, though.

The clouds, looks like it might get really bad.

Well, that doesn't sound good.

She might turn.

Obviously, there has been no rain for a very long time

in this area.

So we just need to figure out a roof over our head.

If there is a storm, we have vehicles to get into.

If we're going to use these two for shelter,

they've both got roofs, so we're cool.

We just need to figure out where we're gonna put

the firewood to keep it dry, where we're gonna put the fire,

and how to preserve the embers.

Mm-hmm.

And I mean, that's easy enough.

-I mean... -We can take coals

out of there when the rain starts,

-put them in there. -Yeah, OK.

Yeah.

I think we're, I mean, more prepared than most,

I would say.

Yeah, we're definitely getting there.

-Hey, how are you? -Yeah, not bad,

for sitting for an hour and a half

and not seeing an animal.

-Not a one, huh? -Not a one.

The weather has a massive effect on hunting.

Animals don't move around as much.

When there's a lot of cloud, and when there's a lot

of pockets of wind coming in, they sort of just hunker down

and stay in their area.

I wonder if it'll rain today.

Maybe it'll clear up.

I'm guessing probably not, but one can always hope.

Well, I got my first rain.

I think overall, I'll be fine, if it stays a light rain, so...

I'll just curl up by the fire.

Staying... staying nice and dry, so that part's good.

We've woken up to a light sprinkling on the shelter,

and it is pretty cold outside, and it is pretty warm in here,

so that's a good...

box check for us.

Grateful for the fire and all the wood we have.

Our nice boma.

The temperature has massively dropped.

A little chilly, actually, but it's, like,

nice and warm in here. But not overly toasty,

so we can feel the temperatures dipping outside.

Can't even feel it in here.

I'm so jealous of Steven

because he can sleep through bloody anything.

Everything is wet.

It's gonna be a long night.

We made it through a miserable night.

Ugh!

Stop drizzling!

It was literally 110 plus degrees

the past three days, and now...

...you can see my breath.

I mean, the cars will work

to get us out of the heavy rain,

but you know, I would like some kind

of a awning or overhang.

You know, just with a bunch of debris on it, you know,

'cause I think a debris roof would work

for like this.

It'd be a manufactured shade, too, so...

Dual purpose. I like it.

Yeah, dual purpose, yeah.

I think we need to, like, get this canopy sorted,

because it doesn't make for a good night's sleep at all.

It's just sprinkles.

I know it's cold, I know it's drizzly,

but I still slept like a baby.

This rain's annoying,

but it's nothing to write home about.

Well, it looks like we finally got a little break in the rain,

and it warmed up a little bit.

I'm going to head to that other watering hole.

I'm going to try to hunt half day.

I know, like, the weather conditions

aren't the best for hunting right now, but...

We also need food, so, you know.

When you get a big kill, it doesn't last long.

When you end up getting to just the biltong,

just the dried meat,

you need to always keep bringing food in.

You don't depend on the reserve.

The reserve is emergency food.

So, while Lex and Frank get some things done on our canopy,

feel like it's a good day to take the bow

and give a crack at it.

First I need your help getting that gutter down.

OK, sounds good.

Looking at our shelter, yeah, I think it's waterproof,

but if it was a heavy rain,

all that water could come in under our shelter.

It's because we can use the man-made resources

rather than just the primal stuff.

I did notice there's some gutter up at the old house.

I'm going to go back up there, see if I can't scavenge

a few pieces that I can add onto the back of our shelter

and catch that water.

OK, I'm climbing up on your shoulders.

Not only do I have to get on his shoulders and climb up

the wall of the farmhouse, but I have to figure out a way

to detach the gutter from the roof

while I'm up there.

I'm not a circus performer, I'm not a cheerleader,

and I don't know if I wanna do this.

Slowly.

Walking slowly, slowly, slowly.

OK, all the way up.

-Lean forwards? -Yep.

-OK, that's all the way up. -OK.

-You uncomfortable? -No, I'm cruising.

OK.

This is not a good idea.

I'm envisioning myself falling and landing

in these huge bushes full of thorns.

Don't look up

-because there's tons of rust. -OK, hold it, hold it.

It's 100% bolted down there... I can see it.

I'll just bring you down.

Oh, they're bolted to each other.

That's what I just... yeah.

It worked so perfectly up until that point.

I'm getting to the point now where I don't even know

if this is going to work. Am I wasting all this energy?

Am I getting rid of all these calories?

I just need to cut from like here down to the bottom.

But we need to make adjustments to the shelter

to make sure it's waterproof.

Yes!

-There we go. -Yay.

-There we go. -Ooh, that was a battle.

I must admit, I did not have on my challenge bingo card

looking like a pirate zombie

and standing on a giant's shoulders.

All right. Let's do it.

Been overcast all day, a little misty.

I got to check that passive line.

And now that's getting wet,

don't wanna slip on these rocks.

That would be game over.

I'm hoping this changing weather will change my luck.

Right now, anything would be good.

I'd be willing to bet that croc took it and took my hook

and wrapped it around something.

Fishing is terrible.

Nothing is biting.

If something's not working,

you gotta change strategies, you know?

It's good to have a plan, but you gotta be very willing

to change your plan if it isn't working,

especially in this kind of landscape.

Right now, I'm collecting some dung beetles

from this fresh dung.

And I'm probably gonna cook them and eat them.

You know you're hungry when you're picking

through some animal's crap to find something to eat.

That's a big one.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

I'm here to survive,

and survival isn't pretty sometimes.

Sometimes you even have to eat.

Dung beetles feed off the solid waste of animals

and provide almost the same amount of protein

per ounce as chicken eggs.

But it must be cooked thoroughly to destroy

harmful bacteria and parasites.

None of them are moving, right?

All right.

Cheers, mate.

Tastes a bit salty.

Edible.

I keep having an after flavor of sour milk.

Yeah, that's not good.

All right, that's cool.

We need some sort of food source.

I find nothing objectionable about this.

I think they're delicious. Mmm.

I feel quite good.

I think we can use this just to get rid

of most of the problem now.

Just thinking about different ways I can get it in here

nice and easy.

There's tons of wire still in the old corral.

-Yeah. -That's the wire I need.

A little bit farther from our boma,

there's a cattle corral.

And that has wire, barbed wire,

so many things that we can use to put the gutter on.

Haven’t been in this area. A little scary, to be honest.

The farther I get from the boma, the more I get, like,

worried that something else is watching me.

I'm, like, totally getting in my own head right now.

Woo!

Deep breaths here.

Nothing is going to eat you today.

Oh, God.

Is that a lion?

What is that?

Is that a rock? Oh my God, I'm losing my mind.

Am I hallucinating?

Oh my God, I think that's a...

I think that's a kudu.

Do kudus sleep during the day?

I mean, surely it's not alive, right?

Please don't wake him up.

Oh my god, if he wakes up and starts charging me,

I'm gonna lose my mind.

It's dead, Teal, it's dead, it's dead.

Just touch it.

It's dead.

Oh...

I think that's a kudu.

I mean, surely it's not alive, right?

Oh, my god, if he wakes up and starts charging me,

I'm gonna lose my mind.

It's dead, Teal. It's dead, it's dead.

Just touch it.

Oh...

Oh, my gosh, it's still wiggly.

Oh, my God, we could probably eat this.

I gotta tell Waz.

Gotta tell Waz.

Waz!

-Waz! -What's up?

I found food!

OK, slow down, slow down.

I thought you were getting chased by a lion right now.

I was waiting to come out and fight a lion.

-What'd you find? -I found a dead kudu.

Ooh, you think this one's good?

Yeah, why don't you come see?

All right, let's go look at it.

-You got a knife? -Yeah, I do.

I picked it up when I thought I was gonna

fight a lion right now.

OK.

I thought maybe it was something that,

like, you wounded, but I don't see any holes or nothing.

Not a nick to her.

What happens if he's died of something?

Well, it doesn't matter. We cook the food anyway.

So even if it's died of something like a disease

or something like that, we cook it.

It's fine.

Shall we just try to pull it together?

Is that stupid?

I'm not even going to be able to lift this up a tree.

So...

So then we just straddle them open.

Shew!

It's absolutely impossible to get this thing back to camp.

This thing weighs 200 pounds.

There's no way that we could do anything but field-dress it

right here where it lays.

The other thing I'm worried about is the smell of this

-going out, you know? -Yeah.

This dead kudu certainly is going to attract other animals,

perhaps hyenas or other scavengers, maybe even lions,

because it's still very fresh.

So to a lion, it might just smell like a distressed animal

instead of it being a carcass.

So we need to be sure

that we're looking around ourselves

as often as possible.

And if there's any sign of danger,

we need to get out of here.

This is the stomach right here, and... oh!

I tell you what, this is warm inside.

Yeah?

This might be fresher than I thought.

You might have found this...

only just after it died, you know?

Why has it died?

There's a couple of different things that I can possibly

think of, a snake bite, or something like that.

But more probable is the fact that all of these trees have

new little buds, green buds growing on them.

Those green buds are full of tannins.

Ingesting too many tannins at once can create ulcers

in the mouth and intestines of animals,

and in very high doses,

can lead to kidney failure and even death.

-Mwah. -Just drop it.

All right, so that's the heart right there.

All these little pieces are gonna be very hard to carry.

Yeah, let's get this skin.

This big stretch of pelt will allow us to put all the little

organs we want in and carry it back without having

to take many trips.

Here we go.

I'm cold and...

I can't do it anymore because I'm gonna pass out here soon.

The biggest thing we're fighting is our energy levels

because we haven't eaten in 13 days.

So even though we have all this food right in front of us,

it's not helping us do the work that we have to do to get

the food inside of us.

We can each take a quarter,

skin it, prepare the meat.

I will say at least it doesn't stink.

It just smells like steak.

And we need to be careful.

Keep our head on a swivel.

You know, I build my blind, the elephant smashes it.

I rebuild it, and now the watering hole is

just not a place where animals are gathering.

Between the elements and elephants, it feels like

I'm taking one step forward and two steps back every day.

I don't really believe in curses but there's some other force

at work here that's just trying to keep me

from succeeding.

It's time to be born again, hardcore.

I have to really dig deep, and I've got to do everything

that I can so that I can stay in this challenge.

I'm gonna get through this stronger than ever.

There's a catfish as big as my arm in this thing.

At least my forearm.

Oh, yeah, still good.

Oh! Look at that.

Look at that!

Still alive.

Good, good.

Oh-ho-ho-ho!

This is...

What a blessing.

This is incredible.

Absolutely incredible.

Trying...

to just gather my thoughts.

Here you go. In the pot, my friend.

This is what it means to be out here.

I've got a full meal.

I've got a full meal.

Something I wasn't expecting.

That... that trap gave us nothing for...

for days, and now...

now it's just giving me...

more food than I've ever had on a challenge.

So I'm grateful of this first meal.

Oh, that meat looks so fresh and tender.

Oh, my goodness.

So good.

This miracle of this fish getting into this basket,

like, it is, you know...

It's uh...

It's, uh...

This is gonna give me such needed nourishment.

This is gonna give me the strength I need

to keep going.

Steven is out there giving hunting a crack today.

He is an absolute veteran when it comes to Africa.

You're almost there.

Huh, huh, huh.

Hey!

Good job, Lex.

In his experience,

these storms usually come in quick and fast.

And so he doesn't seem to be too concerned about it.

But I am not going home from the cold.

Timber!

So Frank and I are gonna build the canopy.

Combining natural resources

and scavenged man-made materials,

the canopy will use five chopped trees

as support poles,

anchored to the car frames with metal wire.

Smaller branches will be placed across the top

in a lattice pattern,

which will support and other debris

to fill in the canopy.

It's a lot of work to chop down nine trees

and then drag them back to the boma.

Good job, Lex.

Ooh! I've given myself a nice little blood blister

-under there. -Blood blister.

I will finish what I started.

Damn, girl.

Every day is about trying to improve our situation

just that tiny bit more.

A lot of calories in this.

I hope that Steven can get some food.

-Oh, my God! -I was right there.

Ugh... Damn it.

Not disappointed, this is hunting.

This is, like, whether you're hunting in Africa

or in the States,

you have to...

you have to deal with these situations.

That's just how it is.

Have to be positive because that's what you have to be

in any survival situation, let alone this one.

And this is the toughest ones, I've experienced yet.

Ooh! My triceps is sore.

-Hacking? -Yeah.

I feel like I've had a workout.

-What up? -How goes it?

Well, I saw warthogs, and that was it.

-That was about it. -That's not good.

This looks awesome! Holy shoot!

This looks amazing!

Yep.

We got the structure up. It's not entirely finished yet.

Tomorrow, we're gonna look for just really bushy limbs

with a bunch of leaves on them.

We'll just pile them up there indiscriminately,

and we got protection from this wet, nasty weather.

Dude, it looks absolutely phenomenal.

Absolutely phenomenal.

Ohh!

That was a haul.

That's a lot of work.

That's a heavy animal,

but, at the same time, I'm feeling blessed.

It's a rarity when you're practicing survival like this

-to get given a gift. -Yeah.

And we've got lots of meat inside that meat sack there.

By cooking some, over the fire and eating it, it's gonna bump

our endorphins and energy levels up, and that's gonna

allow us to do the rest of it clearheaded and faster.

OK.

We're gonna start off with just

grilling some straight up,

because we need to get some in our body

as quickly as possible.

So we're gonna grill some backstrap really fast.

If we can get some in real quick, it might help us

this afternoon, this evening, as we're still trying

to process the rest.

-Ooh! -Want some?

Yeah.

This is my first piece of kudu ever.

It looks phenomenal.

Oh, look at that.

Look at that red meat endorphin rush.

Mm...

-Cooked to perfection. -That's super tender.

It just does something to your soul.

I can feel it in my body.

I can feel the strength coming back.

I can feel my...

abilities coming back.

So we can't just cut strips and draw it on a bush.

The flies will get it.

So we are gonna have to smoke

everything we have left.

In an apocalyptic environment, I feel like we have to use

a lot of the resources around us,

absolutely everything available to us.

So we're gonna have to build a smoker.

We have a 50 gallon barrel

with some fire in the bottom of it.

I've got a hole in the bottom of that

where I can feed a log in.

On top of that barrel, we've got a grate.

Then I put another 50 gallon barrel on top.

That one on top, we've got lots of wire that goes down,

across and back up and it hooks on the top.

And all the way along, and at the bottom of that wire,

we have meat hanging in there.

So it's exposed to the heat, it's not too close

to the coals, and there's a lot of smoke coming up over it.

We're on the clock with all this stuff,

with the sun out how it is.

So, back to work.

We have to make meat hangers,

and they have to hang on the barrel.

I mean, I'd love for this meat to last 20 more days,

but unless we make a lot of effort now

in preserving it, it won't.

With every new accomplishment, comes a new challenge.

It's funny how that works.

Nothing's easy in Africa.

So right now, Waz is finishing up prepping

one of the hind legs of the kudu.

We're going to try to smoke it whole.

The way we've got the barrels set up,

we should be able to hang it.

And as long as we can preserve the outer portion of the meat,

it will protect the inner portion.

We have to keep the temperature perfect.

We have to make sure there's enough smoke and nail it

in one go, which if we don't do, we might lose this, maybe.

We just got a real light flame,

that'll go out there in a second and it's just gonna be...

it's just gonna be charcoal and smoke.

And I'll just have to keep coming out all night

and making sure that that all gets...

that all stays where it is,

doesn't get too hot, doesn't get too cold,

doesn't lose the smoke.

Hunting out here has been tough.

It really has.

I've seen quite a bit of game,

but nothing inside of, like,

Thirty, 35 yards.

And so it makes it really difficult.

That's a long way to shoot a long bow.

And the lazy W trap, it's not working at all.

A couple of guinea fowl came in,

but not close enough.

All right.

Stee has these big ideas,

and a lot of them are great,

and a lot of them put us in harm's way.

Yeah.

We've got our lazy W trap.

We get that metal sheet,

and then we both start this end,

and we walk all the way through and push anything down.

Force them into the lazy W?

Yeah, because they're all hanging around the deep part.

Yeah.

We wanna go through this challenge with energy.

And the only way we're gonna be able to do that is

if we somehow score some fish or red meat.

Although it is a great idea, I am scared to death

that that croc is gonna be in there

and somehow get a hold of my or his leg.

I need to dip this pole in there, that's right.

The croc only needs six, eight inches of water

to get itself completely hidden.

I wonder if he's a vamoosed,

or he's just laying low, trying to trick us.

Let's go.

Yeah.

You know, if we can get up to that rock right there...

Yeah.

...then we've really got them pinned in.

All right.

Yeah.

First part of the plan is get them corralled

in a smaller space.

The second part is figure out how to catch them and eat them.

We work too hard to let anything get through.

Yeah.

Oh, boy.

You feeling the rain?

Yeah, it looks like it might get really bad.

Damn it.

I've got to make the right adjustments

on this smoker outside,

'cause right now, I'm not comfortable leaving it

for 12 hours, although the pieces of meat

that we have in there are pretty big,

so they could probably do it.

I just don't wanna risk ruining them.

So just trying to bring the heat down a little bit,

smoke up a little bit.

But yeah, hopefully it works well.

And we get to preserve our meat for as long as possible.

I think this is the wildest weather

I've ever been in my life, man.

I literally fell asleep to warm winds,

even lay underneath the hide.

To now...

lightning, thunder, crashing rain.

Most people would be nervous right about now.

Not us.

We're living in a house.

We got a full on tin roof.

We got overhangs for our fire.

I hope all the other survivalists are doing as well.

Yeah.

Yeah, praying that it stops... this sucks.

This storm we're in right now is probably

the hardest that we've seen, so...

Maybe we'll be done with it soon.

No sign of this letting up.

I'm so tired.

It was a really long night.

Usually, Africa storms come in quick and hard,

and then they leave.

And that one was a little different.

That one came in quick and hard,

and then just stuck around for about six hours.

I think last night was probably one of the worst nights

I think I've ever had in my entire existence.

But without the vehicles, there's no way

you would not have got hypothermia last night.

If you were anywhere else, like if we didn't have

the stuff, there's no way we would have...

all made it through to this morning.

Africa, you do not disappoint.

You put the king of the forest in his place.

And I am humbled yet again,

and gracious that you're blessing us

with a drier morning. Thank you.

It looks like it could start...

at any second.

We have a break in this rain, a little bit.

I think the main thing for today will be to make sure

that we have firewood for tonight

and then get this roof up here.

Yeah.

Any addition to shelter is a good addition.

-Absolutely. -You know?

Oh, that's right overhead, too.

It's starting to rain.

Almost impossible to do anything in.

I don't like flinging a blade around

when you're slipping and sliding.

You should probably get in the truck

You put the hood on it.

I expected to come out to no smoke at all and no coals

and have to redo it all

and I come out and it's just churning away.

It's been raining pretty much since we had the kudu on,

but the smoker has been absolutely awesome.

The shelter, all accounts held up except for one little thing,

and that's that we didn't have the gutters on.

So we had some water come in under the wall on my side.

Now we just gotta finesse this wire a little bit

to get it in the right spot.

What I'm trying to do is get it shored in real tight

so that it drips straight down,

but this left hand side needs

to be just tucked in just a little bit more.

The change of weather is really mixing things up,

but my eye is feeling amazingly better.

It basically limited what I could do, what I could see,

my comfort level, and how I could get around.

It's so much better now that I have two eyes back.

OK.

Looks good.

So it's raining, and I'm pretty wet.

But honestly, this is the best conditions to figure out

where the weak spots are because I can actually see

where it's dripping.

All these drips are coming in.

I don't think I'm missing any.

These drips are going in there,

but this is coming down really good.

And I think it's diverted well in that direction.

So we're in business.

I think I'm gonna go inside.

Ugh!

Yeah.

Not. If you moved, probably.

Just barely. Not quite yet.

But you're seeing them on me pretty good now?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, I mean, that's fine.

Burned up a bunch of calories with that wriggly tin

pushing down the water, corralling those catfish.

That's calories we pretty much don't have,

so we're really counting on...

a good reward for all that effort.

Fish are that much more spread out now.

I think there's about a 0% chance

we have fish in this trap.

This pond is useless, except for water,

-pretty much at this point. -Yeah.

We're really out of options.

Feeling exhausted and feeling weak.

We're literally starving.

Our literal goose is cooked, man.

If we don't have food in the house,

we'll be med-tapped out of here in no time.

Yeah.

All night long and into the morning,

it's just been a constant drizzle.

And it just sucks.

It's just abysmal,

really soggy out there.

I'm getting cold.

And I put some more wood on the fire.

I'm looking at the amount of wood I'm already burning.

I started grabbing wet wood as soon as I got out

to put it in my shelter to start drying it.

Everything around here is wet, and that's my biggest concern

right now is that I've only got wet wood.

If there's another night of rain, it's gonna be harder.

I've got to keep my fire lit so I don't sleep

in hypothermia out here.

This is the dry wood that I had already.

It's very limited, but I'm drying out

some of this wet wood that I gathered

and I'm sticking these small sticks

underneath the embers to dry them out

and then they won't burn.

That's my goal here is to have a store of wood

ready to go for tonight

so that I can just stay warm.

I bent up a piece to cover the rain, and then I bent it

at an angle so that the water runs down off of this bend

and away from the fire pit.

So while I could tighten up the bricks a little bit,

keep some of the wind out of it,

put forward just a little bit.

But I give away a lot of heat coming out of this thing.

Not as much as I'd like.

I mean, I might wanna put...

another heat reflector in there.

There's a ton of shot up coffee cans out there.

I flattened them out and smashed them

and lined the perimeter, inside perimeter,

of the fireplace.

It might give me a better heat wall.

And it's not raining too hard.

All right, so we're just gonna try and smash them up,

make them, try to make them flat.

I'm grateful for the table

that I found at the hunter's lodge.

I thought about making these a chimney,

but they're so full of holes,

you know, it really wouldn't have been conducive.

But when I flatten them, they kind of layer

over each other and cover up the holes.

It's probably a more elegant way of doing that,

but that's not how we do it here.

This place is unrelenting and unforgiving.

And I would not have gotten past day five

losing my partners

if I didn't have these man-made materials

to secure a shelter for myself.

Push the bricks a little bit closer.

Ugh...

Make a little heat wall.

My first challenge in Zambia, we used stone.

We had nice, big, flat pieces that could retain heat.

But metal, you get all that same stuff with less mass.

And I kind of placed them around the back edge,

and over the top of the fire pit so that it would

kinda collect and bounce more heat,

like a little heat wall.

You know, my imagination, uh,

runs wild sometimes,

but when it's harnessed

and in the right direction, and...

it can create amazing things,

and this is a real testament to that.

Despite all this cold air and the wind and rain,

you can already feel the heat.

Ooh! It's still raining.

I don't know what we're gonna do about this.

Some of those racks with the thin slices

are probably done, but are they too hard to get to?

Should we just bring the whole barrel in?

Probably unrealistic.

Barrel fitting through this?

Probably not.

It's been raining pretty much since we had the kudu on.

I've thought about bringing it inside the shelter,

but don't know if that's gonna work.

I wanna take this down and deal with the meat,

but it's just we can't really take that off

and expose all that meat to moisture and water.

It's raining and that's gonna ruin it.

So we've probably got 40 pounds of meat in here right now.

And just with the way this rain's going,

we're at risk of losing a lot, if not most of it.

We have to keep the temperature perfect.

We have to make sure there's enough smoke.

We have to make sure everything's right.

Now, add to that the rain coming in,

the cool air coming in,

it makes it extremely difficult.

Nature's given us this gift, and now she's making us

work harder to not lose it.

I do not like this at all.

Still going.

Yeah, it's having a real crack today.

Haven't had any sleep.

We thought, with the vehicles, we were a little bit

more invincible than we actually were.

Oh no, that's very bad.

It's not working.

They leak like a sieve.

The drips were on the high side.

Let me start plugging holes.

You all right?

Yeah, I'm trying to create a... there!

Now it shouldn't drip over there.

Oh! You're such a clever little cookie.

So I put the stick there, which moved the drip.

Stick on there? That's a good move.

No.

Maybe not.

It's just decided it's gonna find a new way.

Yeah.

This is suffering at its utmost.

We're hunkered down. There's nowhere we can go.

If we get out in the rain, we'll get hypothermia.

So we need to stay here.

We need to be as dry as we can because if we aren't,

it can take us out of this challenge.

This is how I get through the rain.

Arms crossed, legs together,

arms over my heart.

This is tapping weather,

if you don't have anything, right?

Can be.

It's all... all depends on the person.

You can't even have that thought in your head.

No.

Once you even conceive that as a possibility,

you're already out.

I think the hardest part of this is

we have no control over what the weather's doing.

This could be a day thing.

It could be a week thing.

It could be the rest of the challenge thing.

This is a mental breaker right here.

You know, as someone who's done so many of these challenges,

you tend to forget how this is

their first experience in Africa.

And it's terrifying.

Storms always finish,

just a matter of when.

The sun will come out again.

You can do anything in the world,

no matter what situation you're in.

A struggle is what makes a hero.

Oh,

The boma's...

-definitely flooding. -Yeah.

It's kind of getting real close to our fire.

All right.

Holy!

The whole place is under water now.

Yeah.

Our boma is kind of in a threat

of being flooded.

If our boma gets flooded, our fire goes out.

Hypothermia is a real thing.

Our fire is literally life.

If we lose that, we're out of this.

I'm happy to jump on rotation if that helps.

No, I got it. You guys stay warm.

It's what I'm here for.

Thank you.

Don't even worry about it.

I really... I really don't mind one bit.

It's "Naked and Afraid," baby.

If this wasn't a part of it, I wouldn't even be here.

"Impossible" is just a word somebody made up one time,

because they decided something was too hard to do,

and I don't believe in that one bit.

I love picking up myself by my bootstraps

and getting the job done

to not only keep me in this competition,

but my team, keep our fire going.

Rain always stops.

It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow,

but eventually the storm ends.

And it's just being proactive

during the storm while it's happening

to get through it.

You're a legend.

Thank you so much.

I'm in awe.

Steven is literally bailing us out with a dead man's helmet.

He really has earned his legend status.

Stop the flood. Our fire's safe.

We were about six inches underwater.

And now, in the deepest places, we're at like two inches.

So another beautiful day in Africa.

Plus, from my experience,

it could always be worse.

Wee! It went.

This challenge, if it's the sun, it's the hottest sun.

And if it's rain, it's a monsoon.

I've gotta shore up my shelter to keep the water out,

and I'll be a lot happier.

The wind's really starting to pick up,

but this thing's holding strong.

I knew that was gonna happen.

The materials are brought up like this, and there's a gap

in between where they don't touch and overlap each other,

and so the ridge cap will cover that gap.

I've gotta wrap that thing on there.

It's gonna be difficult, though,

'cause it's at its highest point,

higher than I am tall.

But right now, I'm getting water in my shelter.

So I'm glad it happened now,

not in the middle of the night.

Ugh...

Working with this wire,

I don't have a pair of pliers, anything to snip it,

so I just got to use friction

to bend it back and forth

until the metal weakens and snaps.

If there was one item I wish I had on this challenge,

it'd be a pair of pliers.

Nice.

This shelter was built by materials that were just

by that destroyed lodge over there

and dragged them over here

and assembled them pretty quickly and got something.

And now... now I got the next, you know, rest of my challenge

to really fine-tune it, really make it, improve it.

That's really all I can do here,

is just keep making it better and better.

So during the heat, it works, and during the rain, it works.

And, you know, I don't know about snow,

but it's very unlikely.

So, if that happens, you know, well,

I think we're all in trouble.

What an absolute crappy day.

I mean, what a crappy day,

Yeah.

Not for me, buddy.

I can't believe the consistency of the rain.

This heavy.

That long.

That's sounding creepy as hell.

We hear something awful.

Something blood curdling.

It sounds like an animal is in pure distress, suffering,

maybe getting killed.

-Down by the water? -Yeah.

Yeah, let's look.

Yep. You got your knife?

That crying.

How loud was that?

You see anything?

You want to cross the water now?

-Go around? -Yeah.

All right.

I exercise a lot of caution,

and Steve's, like, out there a little more.

But I'm hungry.

Let's get some food in the belly.

Ugh!

-You OK? -Ugh, yeah.

Watch your arrow. Arrow.

Oh, broadhead City.

All right.

Let's cross over and then keep going up.

I mean, whatever it was, it sounded like something

-was dying. -Yeah.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. See, see, see, see, see, see.

What in the hell?

Whatever it was,

it sounded like something was dying.

Yeah.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

See, see, see, see, see, see, see, see.

What in the hell?

It's a nyala, just laying there.

-All right, you got your knife? -Yeah.

Let's walk up slow.

And let's keep our head on a swivel.

Yeah.

-Keep our eyes open. -Yeah.

Ugh, what the hell?

I don't know what the hell happened to it.

You wanna flip on over and let's just see?

OK.

I don't know, buddy, but beggars can't be choosers.

I think, between the two of us,

we can knock it out, real quick.

Oh, those are nasty ones, too.

Sure.

Oh, yeah, we're going to be doing tick checks tonight, baby.

Yeah.

There you go.

Let's get the guts out of it.

Yeah, right.

Thank you, brother.

Yes!

I think this is gonna taste a lot better

than the termites I've been eating... that is for sure.

Yeah.

You know, I was thinking we'd do first off,

you know, we have all that wire.

-Cut off both hams. -Yeah.

Drive a wire through.

We hang both of them right above the fire.

That way they'll get a glaze so the flies don't get on them.

While we process the rest of it.

So where's our big wire?

OK.

Ooh. I was a little bit nervous.

Didn't have a single hole in it,

except for my arrow.

I hate to think that it had some kind of poisoning,

because then we're ingesting it.

On my first Africa challenge...

Oh, the pain is so bad.

I'm splitting and tearing on the inside.

I got med-tapped for bowel troubles.

But we need food.

It's a weird deal, but it's fresh meat,

and I'm glad we have it.

Put this on the top of the water lid.

-Yeah. -And put it on the fire.

That'll be our celebration, little steak pieces.

We're gonna eat very well tonight.

It's gonna be a good evening.

No such thing.

Oh, this looks wonderful!

Cheers, mate!

Holy.

I did not realize how much I needed this

until the second I put it in my mouth.

Wow.

Oh my gosh, you can just feel it.

Like my fingertips, man.

It's like electricity going through your body.

I got goosebumps.

You're a hell of a partner, buddy.

Oh.

Yeah, I do too.

You wanna go for a run?

Let’s do a 5K just, you know.

Right.

It's unbelievable how rotten you can feel

and don't even know it until you feel good.

Mm-hmm.

It's unbelievable how much meat there is.

We're gonna be making biltong, hanging everywhere.

Oh, my gosh. It's a meat camp now.

Yeah, we got pieces cutting. We got biltong hanging.

We have the fire radiating off the wriggly tin

and radiating off the walls

to produce a lot of heat and smoke

to cure the meat.

It's not a shelter.

It is a full size smoker.

In fact, I smell like smoked meat.

Like, wait till the hyenas and the lions smell it.

We're gonna have so many things sniffing our door.

It's gonna be unbelievable.

Fortunately, I got Steve here.

He's mean as hell. He can fight them off.

It's been raining for almost 24 hours now.

A little bit short of that.

It's going to make it a lot harder to control that smoker.

I'm just interested to check it out and see if there's any

water coming in or if we've got it all squared away.

-Oh! -What?

Oh,

It has been raining nonstop

pretty much for the last 24 hours,

maybe a little longer.

All this is wet.

I don't know whether I'd call it survival

or just suffering.

Sitting in the car, watching Steven single-handedly

scoop our boma out of a flooding situation,

and sitting in there feeling so helpless.

Ugh, OK. Fresh, hot off the grill.

We've got some nyala steaks.

Oh, my God.

Oh, that's good now.

I'm just going to eat some more and some more and some more.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, we've got a full evening ahead of us.

Tell you what, I'm gonna slow down.

Hm.

Yeah.

Could there be a better day?

No.

Last night,

just wave after wave of torrential downpour...

The rain has paused, maybe just momentarily.

Hey, Teal, I'll need you to help me lift this down

-if you can. -Oh, OK.

It's not hot, and I'll try and get

most of the weight, but... OK.

Don't forget the top's not secure.

Yeah.

-Where are we going? -Just down.

So this morning, I really want to check this meat,

'cause I know that a few things have gone awry overnight.

I was having trouble getting coals with any of the logs

that we had just due to how wet everything was.

Didn't get enough of the moisture out,

which turns the inside...

You can see it's gray in there, and pretty gross.

There are definitely parts of this kudu leg

that we've lost.

There's definitely parts of it that are really good,

that we're just sort of munching on.

It's got that aged beef... it's got that aged beef smell.

All I'm thinking it's, "Calories in, calories in."

Unfortunately, we lost a whole backstrap

and quite a bit of the legs.

I think the truth of the matter

is we should have sliced it way thinner.

This is all scrap now, so I'm going to walk this up

and dump it up at the boneyard.

OK.

Look at this green grass that's starting to grow up.

And little sprouts everywhere.

I wonder what this is gonna look like

in a week or two.

The environment's changing quite significantly,

and the one thing I've learned about survival is

we're gonna to need to change with it.

We're going to need to adapt with it.

Then if you don't adapt, you're gonna be gone.

You should try to get some rest, Lex.

It's gonna be fine.

Once the sun breaks out a little bit,

it'll dry some of this up.

Last night was tough.

There was a river flowing through our home.

I'd heaved gallons and gallons of water out of our boma

to keep us alive.

My main priority out here is to get those two people

across the finish line.

And I was going to be damned if I was going to let us go out

on some little rainstorm.

There's nothing dry.

I mean, honestly, right now, I just want some sleep.

Last night was an ass kicker. It rained constantly.

There's no sleep. Soaking wet.

Still soaking wet.

You wanna have a nap, babe,

go and have a nap.

I have been awake now

for I think it's like over 50 hours.

I'm shook.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't shook.

It's the first time in this entire challenge

that I've been

really concerned

about how we're gonna survive.

Well, it definitely feels like Armageddon,

whether it actually is or not.

I feel like right there at the end of days.

But I mean, I'd have nothing less for a challenge like this.

Lex...

you wanna get in here?

You should probably get in the truck.

OK.

Here we go again.

Round three.

Mother.

Honestly, I'm not.

Come on!

Oh, my God, I'm getting annihilated.

There's, like, leaks everywhere.

Honestly...

I wanna cry.

This is really hard.

I can suffer, and I'll continue to suffer,

Jesus, it's hard to get by.

It's literally, just, like...

...one step at a time, one day at a time,

one thought at a time,

because that's all I can manage.

But I'm only human.