Original subtitles

[Cheeny] This is different.

[Steven] This is something we've never done before.

[Jeff] I came here to win.

[Steven] I wanna win.

[Dan] This is a whole new challenge.

[Wes] The game just got a little tougher.

You gotta watch your back for not just animals this time

but for the other survivalists.

[Waz] Run!

Yeah!

[exclaiming]

[Narrator] For a decade,

they conquered the most punishing environments on Earth...

[man] Ow!

Oh, [bleep]!

My God!

[Narrator] Mastering extreme survival.

[shouting] Look at that!

[screaming] Yeah!

[shouting] Caiman!

[Narrator] Now, for the first time ever,

twelve of Naked and Afraid's most skilled survivalists

will compete head-to-head

for 45 days in the South African bush...

[cheering and laughing]

[Narrator] To crown the best of the best...

[shouting] Yeah!

[Narrator] And win $100,000.

This is what I live for.

[Narrator] To win, they must compete for resources

in six unique environments...

Go! Go!

[Steven] We've never done this before.

[Stacey] We have no idea what to expect.

[Narrator] Pass a series of primitive survival tests.

[Gary] I'm the first one done.

Good luck, ladies and gentlemen.

[laughing]

[Sarah] We need to find the bow.

[Narrator] And out strategize each other at every turn.

[Amber] Oh, I see something, I see something!

[Waz] Now it's just a race who can make a ladder fast enough.

[Jeff] I will do anything to win this challenge.

[Narrator] Failure means elimination.

No body's ever been eliminated from a Naked and Afraid.

I know I've got a big target on my back.

[Narrator] As pressure mounts...

You wanna tell me what happened?

This is a competition.

You think about you and no one else.

[Narrator] And tensions rise.

If this was a normal life, this would start a war.

- I don't trust ya. - Oh.

You understand that, right? That makes sense to you.

- Cut his nuts off. - [Sarah] Thank you.

Competition every day, don't bitch about [bleep] losing.

[Narrator] Only one will reach the end.

[crying]

[Dan] This is hard.

The strong survive, the weak die.

[sighing] Oh.

[Narrator] Who will be eliminated?

Who will break?

This challenge is so real.

[Narrator] And who will be the last one standing?

The Oribi Gorge, South Africa.

A volatile chasm of unpredictable weather

with radical temperature swings

and violent electrical storms.

This punishing terrain has been carefully chosen

to test competitors' whole arsenal of survival skills.

This is a competition, this is what I've been waiting for!

This time there's only one winner.

[Steven] When you wave a $100,000 carrot in front of somebody,

attitudes and reflections change.

[Narrator] They have different strategies but share one common goal.

I'm gonna win this challenge.

[Narrator] Every competitor has been given

a primitive survival rating, or PSR.

Calculated by experts,

the PSR measures each survivalist's range of skills

based on their performance in previous challenges.

[Steven] I am the king.

Nobody's completed as many Naked and Afraid challenges as me.

Nobody's been in as many environments.

I've never lost.

I got the biggest crown

and I plan on keeping it.

[dramatic music playing]

[Amber] I wanna win that $100,000

and I'm gonna work my butt off to get it.

Being ex-military, I am incredibly competitive.

This is what we call dinner.

[screaming]

I have 148 days in the wild.

Yeah!

- [woman] No way. - This is thriving right here.

I am motivated, dedicated,

ready to go out there and grab that bull by the horns

and not look back.

[Dan] I have no idea what we're getting into.

Absolutely no clue.

In every challenge I've gone into, I've prepared.

Being a scientist, I love preparation, knowledge, research.

I'm kind of a jack of all trades,

I think, when it comes to my skill sets and my abilities.

That kind of diverse skill set

is exactly what's gonna be needed out here.

[Sarah] I live survival every day of my life.

This is a constant state of being for me.

I'm always down for a little friendly competition.

but the stakes here are so high

that there's no room for being friendly.

I'm coming in confident.

I'm not just good at one thing, I'm good at everything.

At the end of this challenge there's only gonna be one person standing,

and what's unfortunate for everyone else

is that one person left standing will be this guy right here.

[Gwen] I was a police officer for many years.

One of the skills that I learned was reading people.

Very good about sitting back,

watching how other people handle situations.

The ability to read people is gonna definitely aid me in this challenge immensely.

Let's do this.

[Stacey] It's dangerous to underestimate me.

I deserve to be here because I earned it.

I'm the wildcard.

You know what the wildcard is?

The joker!

People think I'm a loose canon

that's just stumbling through these challenges.

Being underestimated like that might work to my advantage

to end up being the last one standing.

They'll be surprised when they see me on day 45.

They all wanna take me out because they know

I've done so many of these challenges

I have a huge target on my back.

I'm Matt friggin' Wright, the savage.

[whispering] I'm dangerous when I'm hungry.

I've done things that are near impossible.

If anyone wants to win this competition

they're gonna have to come through me.

[cheering] Yeah! Ooh.

A challenge like this, it's gonna bring out the weasels.

People have misunderstood me for years

because of my cutthroat attitude

[cheering]

[woman] I hate it.

The Naked and Afraid challenge

should've been a competition from the get go.

[shouting] Yes!

It is neighbors not roommates and now everybody's on board.

Let's go.

[Narrator] In the end, there can be only one winner,

but for the first 21 days of the challenge,

to prove they're the best of Naked and Afraid,

each person must survive working as a pair.

- Oh, hey. - [Wes] There you are.

- I'm Amber. - Hey, Amber, I'm Wes.

- What? - [Gary] Who's that? Oh.

- What? - Gary.

[both laughing]

We meet again.

We meet again, naked.

Don't chop any trees down, please.

[Gary] Looks like it's me and Waz, again.

Hopefully it goes a little better this time.

Last time I was with Waz I had to leave on day two.

Some of the sap got in my eyes

The sap is poisonous.

[breathing heavily] I'm in big trouble.

He needs to run to the hospital,

see if they can't get him sorted out

so that there's no permanent long term damage.

Whether it was a competition or not,

I don't wanna have to leave like that again.

Let's check out what's in these bags here.

- Oh, geez, that feels light. - They're really light.

[laughing nervously]

- Oh, oh, shoot! - Oh, no.

This is new.

We have empty bags starting?

Yeah, this is new.

The basic foundation of surviving is food, water, fire, shelter,

but I don't have a knife.

I don't have a ferro rod.

[Sarah] Day one.

[Steven] So this is us right here, obviously.

I assume so.

Got the gorge, got the river.

- Is there anything on the back? - Ooh.

- Oh. - Oh, wow.

[Stacey] To become the last one standing

you must survive 45 days in this African wilderness.

[Gwen] You begin this challenge with nothing.

Yeah, we found that out.

Every seven days you will migrate to a new survival location

- to test the limits of your skill and endurance. - Ohh.

All right, we're nomads.

For the first 21 days you and your partner must survive together.

- Okay. - Your fates are connected.

If either partner chooses to tap out of the challenge

- both... [gasps] - Holy [bleep].

Both will be eliminated.

Oh, [bleep].

- Oh, oh. - [laughing]

You are definitely not chopping any trees down, Gary.

- [laughing] Oh, my gosh! - I know, right?

- I'm not tapping. - I won't either.

I've never voluntarily tapped anywhere.

[Wes] Me either.

Oh, my God.

- Okay. - All right.

Well holy crap.

[laughing] I didn't see that coming, baby.

Let's just get down this trail and then see what we find.

There's gotta be something else there because this isn't enough.

Right.

I don't trust anybody

and now I have to trust Stacey,

a woman I've never survived with,

a stranger, with everything.

It's...

And that's [chuckling] pretty wild.

This-a-way.

- Let's do it. - Yeah.

[Matt] This is gonna be quite the challenge.

and if you wanna make it to the top

you have to jump some hurdles.

Hurdle number one?

Survive 21 days partnered up with Gwen.

- We gotta find water first and foremost. - [Steven] We gotta find water,

we gotta get a fire going,

we gotta find some good canopy.

- Yeah. - We need our tools.

[Steven] Usually, we have the essential things that we need,

and we have a map.

All right, let's do it.

If we don't get these tools, we will not survive.

[Narrator] With just five hours until sunset,

all pairs must establish camp

before the arrival of nightfall's hypothermic conditions.

[Wes] Okay, this is different.

Find some items,

-ferro rod and something to cut with -[Amber] Ahh.

- would be excellent. - [Amber] Yeah.

[Amber] I wanna make sure we're prepared with the basic essentials first

because it is so cold.

It's just not the weather you would expect for Africa

and I don't wanna risk getting hypothermia out here.

[Narrator] As cold air from the Atlantic

collides with warm air from the Indian Ocean

updrafts from the sheer stone walls of the gorge

generate some of the most violent weather systems in Africa.

Here temperatures can spike at over 100 degrees Fahrenheit

and plunge to near freezing within a matter of hours.

If you see dry tinder go ahead and pick it up.

- [Amber] Good call. - [Wes] Let's start jamming our bag with dry stuff

- when it's available. - Yeah.

[Wes] It's a competition

but it's also a survival challenge.

You gotta survive through the night.

[Jeff] Obviously we have nothing, no supplies, right?

[Stacey] Right. We'll probably need a knife and a pot.

[Jeff] Yeah.

[Stacey] I feel a little nervous

about being partnered with Jeff.

He's pretty well known to be cutthroat,

not willing to share.

Hey, Jeff, do you have any interest in anything

that you'd be willing to trade for hooks?

We definitely are trying to hold on to every hook we have.

We are not here to give handouts.

Naked and Afraid XL is not a welfare program.

[Stacey] Our fate's being intertwined,

We'll be together for the next 21 days,

so we'll see how that goes.

[Steven] Oh.

- I see another map. - [Sarah] Thank the gods.

- All right. - What do we got on this?

- Wow. - This looks interesting.

So these must be the different groups maybe?

Or no, these are...

[both] These are items!

Oh, [bleep]!

There probably sitting out there right now.

[Matt] All right, it says, "You will need to work together

and use your survival skills to earn the resources cached

in the environment around you."

[Narrator] Throughout their 45 days,

survivalists will be led by a series of topographical maps.

Overlaid with environmental landmarks,

each seven day map reveals the location of survival items

cached in the surrounding area.

A machete, pot and fire starter

are available to all teams.

But a limited supply of advanced items,

such as bows, pelts, and scavenged kills,

will give the survivalists with the skill to find them

an advantage in the competition.

-[Steven] First priority, -[Sarah] Yeah.

[Steven] pot and a fire starter.

There's no point in getting a bow

if we can't cook whatever we kill.

[Sarah] Yeah.

Ooh, here we go.

- This could be useful. - [Steven] Nice.

Is that a femur?

[Sarah] Yep, it's, like, kudu or eland.

[Jeff] It shows the pot on our left

up here somewhere.

If we do find this pot,

the next question is what do we go after next?

So, I think we'd have to go after one of these

advanced survival items they call it.

- [Stacey] Yeah. - [Jeff] Okay.

[Dan] So, this is a map of our whole vicinity.

[Cheeny] Yeah.

So we gotta get down here.

- [Cheeny] Up there. - [Dan] Oh, you're right.

Elevation's going up.

- Look at the contour lines. - [Dan] Okay.

[Cheeny] So if we follow that trail up, we'll find our pot.

I've been teaching land navigation for 12 years.

I was a SERE specialist for eight years.

SERE specialist is an expert in survival, evasion,

resistance and escape.

I'm one of the few women that have made it through SERE specialist training.

So, when I open up the map and I see contour lines,

I see a compass rose and a scale,

I just breathe a little easier

knowing that I'm gonna be able to navigate this terrain.

- Going up so the pot should be... - [Dan] Here.

Over here somewhere, like, 100-feet.

Let's go over here.

[Dan] Well, the trail's right there,

it might be up and in just a bit.

[Cheeny] What is that? Oh, there it is.

- [Dan] You got it? - [Cheeny] Yeah, you gotta be, like, up high to see it.

It's down in the bush.

[Dan] Over [bleep] there.

Hey, nice!

- The saw back. - [Cheeny] Oh, right on.

Oh, there's something inside.

[items clattering in pot]

- [Dan] Oh, yes. - [Cheeny] Perfect.

[Dan] Cheeny seems solid,

someone who gets [bleep] done,

someone who is athletic, strong, and smart as [bleep].

Cheeny can help me get to day 21.

-Really need to figure out some personal protection, -Yes.

shelter, fire.

[Dan] All right.

[Cheeny] With the way that the day is going,

I don't care about items.

I want a shelter over my head and I want a fire ripping.

This challenge is the last one standing.

We're trying to see who's the best survivalist.

- Here's a pot in here. - [Matt] Nice.

[Matt] We've got a way to boil water. That's huge.

We've got a knife.

All right, so, I know it's late in the day,

but right now one of our best strategies

might just be think a few steps ahead

and just see if we can obtain any items that are close by.

[Gwen] I don't mind looking around the area here,

but we're definitely gonna have to figure out

what we're doing for shelter tonight.

We got the basics to be able to start fire, to be able to boil water,

and to be able to build a shelter,

but Matt wants his bow, basically,

is what it comes down to.

-So this one that we're heading to says, -Yeah, there's...

"Use your bushcraft skills

- to reach a hunting asset above you." - Mmm-hmm.

[Matt] Could be a weapon, could be a bow.

It looks like somewhere around about 450

- there's gonna be a trail or a large tree. - [Gwen] Yeah.

[Matt] For me, a bow doesn't just give me an item,

it gives me inspiration, it gives me the possibility to thrive,

to get leather, to get meat.

Nothing's gonna keep me from getting my bow.

- [Matt] Gonna have to look around pretty hard. - It shouldn't be far.

[Steven] I'm gonna walk down there

- and start getting stupid amount of that grass. - [Sarah] Okay,

I'm gonna start weaving.

[Steven] Priority number one is shelter,

and Sarah and I are both on the same page.

It's essential to have some sort of barrier between you and the elements.

[Sarah] I'm essentially making [chuckling] a human-sized inverted nest,

and that involves weaving a lot of sticks through a lot of other sticks

so that we have more space to put other debris over the top of this.

And eventually, that's going to, again, buildup,

help keep the heat in, help keep the water out.

[Matt] I'll tell you what's tricky

about hunting for an object and not an animal.

-The object's not leaving tracks, -[chuckles]

it's not leaving scent rubs.

It's gonna make it pretty difficult

to be in the exact spot to spot that thing.

It's gonna be right at the bottom of...

- I mean, look... - Oh, very similar

- because this is the tree that way. - There's that one there.

I mean, this tree right here is looking just like that image on the picture.

What am I looking at?

That appears to be about a 60 inch longbow with a quiver on top.

How do I know this? That's what I asked for Christmas every year.

- Found the bow? - Yep.

This is a bit of a predicament right here.

This is a Euphorbia tree. This is a highly poisonous species of tree.

[Narrator] Known for its corrosive white tree sap,

contact with the toxic latex of the Euphorbia

would require immediate medical attention

and removal from the challenge.

[Matt] You can't climb it, you can't just chop it down.

I think I'm gonna have to build a ladder

to be able to climb that without touching the tree.

-We're gonna have to make a lot of rope -Some cordage.

and a five or six rung ladder.

That's so close but yet so far.

[Jeff shouting] Yeah, baby! Woo!

- Hey, Gwen, you hear those people? - I do.

Oh, yes! Oh, yes!

And there's a fire starter in there.

- No, shut up. - Yeah.

- We got it. [laughs] - We can do this! Yes!

[Jeff] Woo!

- [Matt] So, yeah. - They definitely found something.

Somebody's hollering it.

[Matt] Day one and I'm already hearing voices.

[Jeff]

There's Jeff.

And it's been rumored that thunder actually covers his ears

when Jeff yells.

The man is loud.

- I know what we're not doing. - Here.

-We're not gonna yell every time we find something -Right?

-because when yelling notify -Then we'll notify everybody else.

not just the animals but also the other people that are out here.

Yes.

- 56, 57. - Did you find it?

[Jeff] Not yet.

Sixty-ish.

So, it should be basically in your area here.

What the [bleep] is it?

It'd be easier if I knew what I was looking for.

So, it says, "Search the area to find an advanced survival tool."

It could be up or it could be down. I think I'm way off.

I hear a guy and a girl.

I definitely hear somebody's pot.

Let's go check it out.

Jeff, think we've gone too far.

[Gwen] Hey.

Hey! Who's that?

[Gwen] Matt and Gwen.

- [Stacey] Hey! - [groans softly]

[Jeff] Holy [bleep], what's up, guys?

- [Matt] Oh, we got Stacey and Jeff? - [Gwen] Wow.

[Jeff] Yo, what's up?

[Gwen] So, what have you guys found so far?

- We've just found a pot. Yeah, and the machete. - The pot and machete?

So, let's see if our maps match up.

So, oh, survival strategy. Don't let him see all of our map.

-I want to see if they're the same -Oh, you want this?

because then we're going after the same assets.

- I have a feeling we're all... - I think it is.

-We're all going after the same assets -It is.

because they're identical.

It is alarming to know that we're all here, very close proximity,

competing for the same resources, the same items.

Well, I just found this bow

but I'm not about to tell them the details that it's stuck in a tree.

Well, we won't tell you what we found yet then.

-[chuckles] -You're keeping that a secret, huh?

- Covert ops. - Oh, [bleep].

- Already, Matt? - Let's just say there's not everything's there.

- Oh, are we going there already, huh? - You know, no, no.

You can't trust Jeff. I've learned it and I'll stand by it.

-All right, well, -[Gwen] Okay.

- this'll be fun. - [Matt] Yeah.

[Jeff] Matt wasn't trusting me right off the bat

but that's to be expected.

I know there's a target on my back.

That was interesting. You think they got that advanced survival item?

- I bet Matt went straight for the bow on that side. - You think?

Yeah.

[Jeff] I respect Matt.

He's good at what he does and so am I.

In a competition with $100,000 on the line,

if you think that there is any part of me

that does not expect to be the last person standing you are absolutely wrong.

I'm here to win.

[Matt] That bow is a first come first serve. Time is of the essence.

In a challenge like this it's gonna bring out the weasels.

Well, I'm not afraid to skin a weasel.

[Matt] Do you want to possibly get that bow out of the tree?

[Gwen] We're late in the day, the wind right now is coming.

[Matt] Yeah, we're kind of on the darker side.

[Gwen] Feel like it's getting dark. It's gonna be a wet night.

Having tools as a survivalist, they're niceties not necessities.

Trying to knock that ladder out

is going to burn up a lot of time

and it's going to be detrimental to us

getting a shelter built, getting water boiled,

so it's super important that we match our basics first and then play the game.

[Matt] It looks like we got a little bit of bush crafting tomorrow.

[Gwen] I'm up for it.

That little ruse that I pulled on Jeff,

it's buying some time for Gwen and I to be able to get this bow,

but there's some big storm clouds coming in.

So, priority number one is shelter.

[thunder rumbling]

- [Cheeny] The rain's moving in. - Wind kinda comes from here.

[Dan] I mean, this will be just, like, a straight wall.

I was gonna get more support beams to go from here that way.

- [Cheeny speaking] -Yeah. - This is gonna be perfect.

[Cheeny] Cold weather is my Achilles heel.

I've got Raynaud's, the circulatory condition

that affects your hands and feet.

So, I get cold a lot faster than other people.

This is a nonstop battle at night.

It's [bleep] ridiculous.

My last three outer toes have been numbed.

My hands will actually make these claws

and they'll lock up, and then I can't use them.

And that could even be grounds for a med tap out here.

I didn't come all this way to be med tapped.

This is the support beam?

[Dan] Yeah, kinda just like grid them across the top.

With the brutal temperatures and the rain that's coming in,

if we get caught in a rain

and my partner taps out, taking me out, too,

like, it's crucially important to make yourself comfortable,

even if we're only gonna be here for a little bit.

- [Dan] Doing really good. - [Cheeny] Yeah, yeah.

[water splashing]

[Waz] We're lucky it's pretty close walk back to camp.

Gonna take a quick walk on the way back.

There are two bow and arrows marked down on the map.

One near me, and one all the way up the other end.

Gonna take a quick walk and see if I can't spot it.

Looking for a tree.

Every tree looks like the tree.

But on the map, it does say,

"Use your bushcraft skills".

To... ooh, hang on.

Hang on, hang on.

Yes.

Right there. That's what I'm after.

I mean, I'm assuming it's a bow. A bow and some arrows.

I can't climb up the tree, obviously, that's a poisonous tree.

Highly toxic.

I'm gonna walk back up I'm gonna have a chat with Gary,

and come up with something

that is able to get us up there 20 feet.

Oh, it smells like smoke.

I have some news.

- Huh? - I found a bow and arrow.

- You did? - It is up a tree.

[Waz] 20 feet in the air.

[Gary] I can climb that tree.

- [Waz] Cannot climb that tree. - How do you know?

[Waz] Because the tree is extremely poisonous

and you cannot climb the tree.

Yeah, but is it spiny?

[Waz sighs]

Survival for me is about risk mitigation.

And survival for Gary is a little bit different.

But now that my fate is tied to him,

uh, that makes it, uh,

it makes it worrisome, to say the least.

We can make a pretty simple ladder,

and then, guess what? I'll let you climb up the ladder.

-[laughs] -I just won't let you climb up the tree, Gary.

I'm not risking it.

[Gary] I'm more into the gamble than Waz is.

And I definitely think my tree climbing might serve

to give me an advantage in this challenge.

There's probably three teams going for it

- at sunup tomorrow. - [laughs]

[Waz] "Get out of the way!"

I don't know how many people have found this one.

I know I have.

So, my plan is to go first thing in the morning

see if Gary and I can't get this out of the tree

before anyone gets a chance ever to get back there.

- [Waz] Good job, buddy. - Yeah.

[Wes] Oh, the weather looks like it's coming in.

That's not a good scenario.

[Amber] Yeah, it's getting dark. Can you see that?

[Wes] Yeah.

[Amber] We have seven days, so natural canopy would be huge for us

because it's less work to prevent the rain.

- [Wes] Agreed. - Anything with the thickest canopy

- is honestly underneath there. - Let's do that.

It's so beneficial to have a shelter that's already pre-staged for you,

so you don't have to work hours and hours to build this shelter,

especially if we're only gonna be here for six to seven days.

Keep going. Get that combustion... there it is.

Think we would've, uh, definitely made the wrong choice by

going for other items.

I would agree.

Imagine if we got back here at dusk.

[clicks tongue] Gotta be close.

[Stacey] This is a tough one.

[Jeff] I think it's worth trying to get this one for sure.

[Stacey] Aw, hell. It's starting to rain.

I mean, now that we know it's in this general area, do you think...

you know, we should split up and maybe I should go

start looking for another, and...

[Stacey] No.

He's all over the [bleep] map. He wants the caches.

He's really, like, all about winning.

[sighs] I know we're really close,

but feeling tired.

- Okay. - And, like, I wanna start working

because I'm getting cold.

- Okay. - So let's find a place to build shelter.

[Jeff] Yeah.

- [Stacey] We've got enough for the night, I think. - Yeah.

[Jeff] We've been searching all afternoon

for advanced survival items

and we haven't found anything yet.

It's, it's frustrating.

Tomorrow morning, that's the time we're gonna maximize.

We're gonna take what we learn tonight

and we're gonna go out and see what we can find.

[Gwen] There's hard-working Matt,

bringing in some rain cover.

[Matt] Just trying.

Our shelter is pure garbage

because we didn't have time to build it.

[Gwen] We're kinda using our map to patch the roof.

It's not doing a ton of good, but it's something. It's better than nothing.

This is not what a night in Africa was supposed to be like.

[Dan] That firewood's awesome.

[chuckling] Think we're gonna be pretty comfortable, actually.

[Cheeny] Our shelter kicks ass, our firewood's awesome...

We gotta get this fire going.

[groans] Oh, boy.

[sighs]

[Dan] [bleep]. I'll see if I can go gather some more kindling.

Argh! What the [bleep]?

It's raining, it's too cold, I've got Raynaud's.

That's bad. It can get to a point where

the medics are like, "You're out." I can't risk that.

So we really have to get a fire going.

Oh, come on.

[Dan] Put it on top.

[Cheeny groans] Oh, boy.

Naked and frustrated.

[Dan] God damn it.

- [Dan coughs] - [Cheeny groans]

- [Dan] Ah, [bleep]. - No, no, no.

[Cheeny] God damn it!

[Dan speaking]

[Cheeny speaking]

[Dan speaking]

Whoo!

[Cheeny] Dan came in with the dry leaves,

and eventually we got everything to take off.

Thank God, because I would've been in serious [bleep]

if I couldn't stay warm.

[Dan] Take that, rainstorm. Whoo!

- [Dan] Grass time. - Grass time.

- [Dan] My God, we got a lot of grass. - We do.

[Dan speaking]

[Cheeny speaking]

[Dan] It's really nice.

Got your firewood, a nice bed.

We're doing good.

- [Cheeny speaking] - Yeah.

[thunderclap]

It's, like, so cold. You can see our breath out there.

Yeah, it's, uh, it's really rough.

I don't think we're sleeping at all tonight.

'Cause all we can do is, is, you know, fuel this fire

and then battle the rain.

[thunderclap]

[Matt] It's been raining like a son of a bitch. It's cold rain.

Both of us have literally been shut down to where we, um...

we can't, we can't really function very good.

Amazon... or, I mean, [bleep], I don't even know where I am right now.

[bleep] Africa.

But, uh...

[exhales]

[Matt groans]

- [Matt] That was a hell of a night. - [Gwen] Yeah, it was.

[Gwen speaking]

My whole body just aches.

My head's splitting.

I wake up in the morning, my head is splitting in half.

It's the most awful headache I have ever experienced

in my entire life.

There's things that have to be done.

I think I definitely need to improve on our shelter today.

[Matt] Yeah, let's waterproof this enough to...

that we can get a restful night.

So early in the game that, uh...

no rest now could mean you don't make it,

you know, later down the line.

Screws up the whole plan today.

- [Gwen] I guess. - We were gonna make it up there and get that bow.

There's a bow up there in a tree.

And I was hoping to start building a ladder,

but my survival is not just myself,

but also with my partner.

I need to make sure it's not another night like last night.

So, priority number one is that shelter.

[Steven] Hardest night in the books.

- [Sarah] Yeah, first night always sucks. - Ten bucks.

Should probably go on an excursion today.

- Yep. - Find some stuff that's gonna

benefit our situation here.

- [Sarah] I'd say go for the nearest one. - Yeah.

- [Steven] Do you wanna go for this guy? - Yeah.

[Steven reading] "To reach the hunting asset above you..."

- That's weirdly specific. - Yeah.

Yesterday, we certainly prioritized having shelter, fire, and water.

We've got our bases pretty much covered at this point.

We can reprioritize to getting those caches.

Because there's a lot of options on this map

that help us further our chances in the challenge.

[Steven] Let's hydrate up. You wanna do wheels up

- in, like, 10 or 15? - Yeah.

[Wes] It's the number one thing you do in survival, gather firewood.

[Amber] This morning, we really need to focus on getting firewood

because last night was so cold

and rainy.

This should do pretty good.

Hypothermia could happen out here.

Which would be horrible, to leave a challenge

in South Africa for hypothermia.

It was bad.

[animal snorting]

- What the [bleep] was that? - I don't know.

[Wes] Now let's just go slow.

[animal snorts]

- [Wes] Oh, hold on. - Nope. Nope.

[Amber] What is here?

Oh, my gosh.

[animal snorting]

- [Wes] Hey, now. Hey, now. - [snorting]

[Wes] Yeah, it was definitely huffing ass.

Sounded like it could've been a springbok.

[Amber] We don't have a bow.

- [Amber laughs] - Yeah, right?

- We're like, "Ahh!" - Oh, but I've got this wicked machete.

[Amber] You know, you could do a lot with that machete, man.

You know, its South Africa. There's animals to hunt.

And I had extreme success

in South Africa last time.

- [Klipspringer bleats] - [man] Good job, Wes.

We're eating Klipspringer, cuz.

Right now, we have a machete.

And that's really not gonna cut it.

[Amber] We need to find the bow.

- [Amber] Should we just suck it up and go? - I'd say yeah.

[Amber] I just started shooting right-handed,

- so either left or right, I'm an ambidextrous shooter. - Cool.

I'm looking forward to actually getting a bow

and going out there and hunting.

Gonna put my skills to the test

to be the last one standing.

- [Stacey] So we're going up? - Yeah, we're going up in elevation.

[Stacey] This is the least friendly trail on the planet.

[sighs]

Last night was awful.

That stupid shelter we have right now has

no roof over our heads.

And Jeff wants to go out there and find the caches now

before we secure any sort of shelter,

which is really stupid.

Because I'm thinking it's gonna be raining again tonight.

One pinky. Another pinky,

so two pinky widths...

from the intersection.

Most people probably don't know, but I was a cartographer

right out of college, and so, I know maps.

So, two pinky widths

is about 200 feet.

Yesterday we learned a lot about the map,

we learned a little bit about how to pace out

and measure distances.

So, for me, I feel like I already have an advantage

to find and acquire these items.

So, 33 paces plus... let me get a little more.

[Waz] You wanna head down and I can show you this bow and arrow,

- and we can come up with a plan? - Yeah.

- All right, bud. - Yeah, let's...

I wanna try and get on it before any other teams start heading that way.

- Yeah. - Need to snatch that thing out of the sky.

[Waz] There are two bow and arrows marked down on the map.

I don't know how many people have found the one I found yesterday.

But that's our bow. We just need to get it.

Here we go. Right there.

[Gary] Oh. Wow.

[Waz] Just, uh, you're gonna have to bet 20 feet.

[Gary] I'm six foot, so it only needs to lean about there.

- And then you got the length of the machete, so... - Yeah.

It doesn't need to be that long.

[Waz] Yeah. Okay, well, just stand on it

- and just whack that string. - Yeah.

The bow looks like it's tied on with one strap.

So, the plan is to cut the tree down tall enough

with a Y at the top

to hug the tree that the bow and arrow is in,

and to have Waz hold it at the bottom

and I climb up and I go get that bow and arrow.

- This one? - No, that's the poisonous one.

[Waz] Maybe this one here? It's got a Y at the top that'll hold it.

- [Gary] That's a poisonous one. - Oh, [bleep], it is.

- [Waz] All the good ones are poisonous ones. - [laughs]

[Gary] That Y right there.

- Damn. - That's not the one.

[Gary] Damn.

Well, that just figures.

[laughs]

[Amber] Who is that laughing over there?

- [Wes] Is that you, Waz? - [Gary] Who's that?

[Waz] We got a couple of naked people over here, Gary.

[Amber] Hey, Gary.

Is your guys' area over here?

[Waz] It's up, just up a tiny bit.

So you guys are here for the bow, then.

- [Waz] Um, yeah. - [Gary] Yeah.

- [Waz] Yep. - [Amber] Okay.

[Amber] And where's the bow? At the top, I'm assuming?

[Gary] So, it's like...

[Waz] It's pretty high up a tree, it's about 20 feet up a tree.

[Gary] So, yeah.

Oh, my gosh.

- [Waz] Wanna go look at that one? - Huh?

[Waz] Sorry, we'll let you guys through if you wanna go through.

- [Wes] All right, guys. - [Waz] All right, guys, good luck.

- [Wes] To you as well. - Thanks.

These interactions are a little awkward, because, you know,

I've been a crutch to a lot of people in these challenges.

[chuckling] And now we're competing against each other.

We're playing a game.

When you play poker, you don't play with your cards facing outwards.

[laughs] It's really that simple, really, right?

[Wes] Did just see them right there.

[Amber] Yeah, let's go look over here and see if it's down here.

[Waz] That's not a poisonous one right there, is it?

The one that's going up like this?

[Gary] No, it's not.

We have a clock on us now, so we need to do it quickly.

With Amber and Wes walking along the path

towards where the bow and arrow is,

now it's just a race who can make a ladder fast enough.

[Wes speaking]

[Gary] Let's go. We wanna be the ones that own it.

[Amber] Look for a 20-foot tree.

Oh, I see something, I see something!

- [Wes] I see 'em! - [Amber] I see it, I see it!

Build a ladder. Do some climbing.

[Amber] Mmm-hmm.

[Waz exhales] Come on, my guy.

Yeah, it's all right. Good.

[Waz] Jesus.

[Waz chopping]

[Wes] We're building a ladder.

We're leaning up there.

[Amber] We're running a little bit of a time crunch,

because Gary and Waz are around the bend building their stuff right now.

I'm trying to think of a possibly different style ladder

that might be more effective.

Like, one trunk with notches cut out?

[Waz] It's ready.

[Gary] Oh, yeah, baby.

As soon as we've got this ready to go,

- we've got that bow in hand. - [Gary] Gotcha.

- [Wes] See it back there? - [Amber] Uh-huh.

[Amber] Let's do that.

[chanting] Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!

- [Amber] All right. - [Wes] Be careful.

- [Gary] Yeah. - [Wes] Be careful.

[Waz] Let's see if this does it.

[Gary] Ah.

- [Waz] I think I might like that. - [Gary] Yeah.

[Gary] You're gonna be my...

- [Waz] Yeah, I'll hold it. - [Gary] Watch my footsteps, all right?

[Waz] Oh, yeah.

- [Gary] Ready. One, two, three. - One, two, three.

[Gary] Oh! Oh, okay.

- [Waz] Here? - [Gary] Yeah.

- [Gary] You got a good grip? - [Waz] Yep, I'm good.

- [Gary] Are you good? - [Waz] Yep.

[Gary laughs]

Hey, Waz, I got it, dude.

[Waz] All right, pass it down.

All right, that's mine. See you later, Gary.

- [Gary laughs] Dude. - [Waz] Yeah.

[Gary grunts] All right.

- Yeah! - Look at that. Good job, buddy.

Nice. I love it.

- [Waz] This is a big win for us, Gary. - [Gary] We're doing it, bro.

- [Wes] Well, damn it. - [Amber] Okay.

[Wes] If we were fresher this morning,

- we could've been out earlier this morning. - [Amber] Yeah.

- [Wes] You know. - [Amber] Exactly.

- Ooh. - What did Santa bring you?

- [Waz] Two bows. - So they're like bows for a team.

[Waz] Oh, that is awesome.

- [Gary] Yeah, yeah. - Those will get the big meals in your belly.

Currency is absolutely key in competition.

So, knowing you have a bow as a team to hunt with

and knowing you have a bow to barter with,

that's the world we're living in.

[Steven] All right, it's supposed to be next to a...

- [Sarah] Euphorbia tree. - Yeah.

[Sarah] Does this look right according to your map?

[Steven] That looks like a big-ass euphorbia tree right there, right?

[Sarah] Right there?

Yeah.

- [Sarah] That has a Y branch on it. - Yeah.

[Sarah] And there's scuff marks on here

where it's just a little less shiny from the rain.

I think someone beat us to it.

[Steven groans] That sucks.

Check that one off the list.

Can't win 'em all. You wanna check out

the, uh, other situation?

[Steven] Advanced survival tools?

[Sarah] Advanced survival tools, yeah.

[Steven] Scoot up,

- and take it all the way there. - All the way over there?

- [Steven] Yep. - All right.

This map determines what we're gonna have to survive.

And if we don't get there first, somebody else will.

So that adds that extra level

of challenge and anxiety.

Because if you don't have tools in survival...

you really can't survive.

[Stacey] How'd you determine distance?

There was a scale on the map, a 500-foot scale.

So I broke it down by pinky widths.

And it should be

ten feet on the other side of this tree.

- [Jeff] You doing okay? - [Stacey] Just tired.

- [Jeff] What's that? - [Stacey] I don't know.

Look at this.

Oh my gosh, Stacey.

Oh, this is huge.

Oh my God.

We just found a freakin pelt.

Look at this.

- This is amazing. - Wow.

Guess which two are sleeping good tonight.

[laughs] Hell yeah.

- Check this out. - All right, let me in there.

- Yay! - We got clothes, baby.

This is an oryx hide.

A massive, massive creature.

This is going to be incredible for warmth,

for shoes,

um, rain-proof material for our shelter.

I mean, this is the biggest find I could have hoped for out here.

That's really nice 'cause I've been freezing my ass off all night.

There's another survival item up here.

We're already one for one this morning. Why stop now?

58, 59, 60, 61, 62.

- So any time in the next 20 feet or so. - Okay.

I see something tied to that tree right there.

Oh, found it! Found it!

Yes.

[laughs] Baby.

We freaking nailed that.

Heavy, too.

- [bleep] - Nice.

[laughs]

Yeah.

The fact that we have nice knives now,

um, right before we start building shelter today,

it's a huge win.

Even though, yes, we've been prioritizing searching for items

over building shelter, it paid off.

Early bird gets the mother frickin worm.

- Two catches, one morning. - Yes.

Jeff, he's a smart guy and he made it happen.

- Two for two. - Now let's go work on our shelter.

We put in huge effort to go look for the caches.

And now I'm ready to go back to camp.

I know it's getting cold. I want to get back, too.

But we now have a hide that acts as shelter.

So do we want to potentially try to find something else?

What do you think?

I mean, we already found two this morning.

All these are probably going to be gone today.

I'll go back and work on the shelter.

Okay.

And if you want to go look for another item, go for it.

Okay, cool.

It's important that we get all the resources we can from the environment.

After day 21, we don't know what this challenge looks like.

- Good luck. - Thank you.

[Jeff] Every item in mine and Stacey's possession right now

is going to help us long term.

And I've got the long-term mind right now.

[Wes] Ooh.

[Amber] That's cold.

[Wes] Yes, ma'am, it is.

[Amber] We were really excited this morning to go and get the bow.

We should be coming on it. We went down an elevation.

But there is a second bow on the map,

so we've decided why not go towards that bow?

But we're walking out miles to see if the item still exists.

The risk could be detrimental.

- Oh. - Oh.

- And I caught myself. - Good catch, good catch.

It's worth a shot.

I don't want to miss an opportunity to upgrade our survival tools.

[laughs]

Yeah.

Oh, Jesus.

Sounds like Jeff.

This is what I live for.

Whoo!

Yeah, that's Jeff.

I wonder what they got.

[Jeff] You hear that, sons of bitches?

That's an obnoxious man.

That's Jeff.

Yeah, baby! That's what I'm talking about.

Whoo!

Okay.

No fricken way.

Are these more knives?

Are you kidding me?

Stacey and I have more knives than we have hands at the moment.

[laughs] And that feels great, baby.

I am clearly above the game when it comes to this navigation.

And I'm going to continue on.

I'm going to work my way

up here to the blood trail location.

[Jeff reading]

[Narrator] Pound for pound the strongest cats in Africa,

leopards drag their prey into trees,

leaving a trail of blood behind.

Survivalists will need to use their tracking skills

in order to locate an impala kill hidden at the end.

I'm going after the blood trail

and I'm going to try to get us some dinner.

[Jeff] This is what I live for right now.

He probably found the other survival item,

which sucks.

We hear Jeff scream, "I live for this!"

That line.

Well, if they got the other two survival items,

I just, it would be a waste of our energy to go, but...

[Wes] With all the screaming over there, I can only assume.

[Amber] I know him. He'll rub it in our face

and then be like, I have three hatchets.

I'd be like, good for you, dude.

I don't trust him as a human already from Peru.

[Jeff] She treats you two like her children.

I am so grateful for your truth and your honesty.

Of course eventually, she will be put in her place.

And she will realize that she's not queen bee.

He will never change. I don't want to see him.

- Jeff, at the very least, is on the warpath. - Yeah.

[Sarah] We hear Jeff yell that he found one of the caches.

So we're making a beeline to the next nearest cache to see what we can find.

What, you want to do this guy?

- Yeah. - Trail through hunting grounds.

I don't know what his tracking skills are

but I can guarantee they're not as good as I am.

Yeah.

[Sarah] I am a very skilled tracker. That's one of my main fortes.

Now it's game on.

Track a blood trail through hunting grounds.

So we'll go to this one, now.

You know, I wouldn't doubt if that's, like, a dead carcass.

Let's go look. Let's find out.

[Gary] Knowing you have a bow as a team to hunt with, it's so huge.

But we're just kind of going, like,

let's just go look for everything and see what that delivers.

Maybe some meat. That would be, like, icing on the cake.

[Jeff] I hiked in approximately 400 feet

and this should be the general location where the blood trail starts.

Not should be, I know this is the general location where the blood trail starts.

The problem is, it's been raining non-stop since we got here.

And if there were a blood trail,

it could be gone.

Something has trampled through here.

I think I'm going to be able to track this animal

regardless of whether or not there's a blood trail.

If this animal was killed by a leopard,

it's going to have been drug off

and there's going to be marks in the dirt that I can follow.

So that's exactly what I'm doing now.

I see something there.

I wonder if that was Jeff.

Let's watch him without saying anything.

Oh my God.

What? What the [bleep]?

Holy [bleep]!

- I feel like this is the area. - Maybe we keep... -Shh.

- Okay, well... - Yeah.

I think we should just go barge in on their party.

- Yeah? - Yeah. Let's go see what they're up to.

We could hear you clear across the valley.

- Yeah. - You've been having some fun this morning.

- You find some cool [bleep]? - Yeah.

- We found some good stuff, too. - Yeah.

- Bow and arrow. - Nice. Okay.

You guys happened to come upon me

when I'm trying to find some meat.

The blood trail started back here approximately 20 yards.

I don't know where the blood trail is right now.

But there's meat in this general area.

- He just said there's meat in the general area. - Yeah.

Start looking.

[Jeff] Tracking a blood trail is freaken difficult.

Especially through this environment.

So I'm not expecting it to be more than, you know, 20 yards off trail or something.

There, right there. There's an entire impala in this tree.

Whoo!

Yeah!

Whoo!

No way.

Yeah!

No way.

Are you kidding me?

[laughs]

- Good job, babe. - Oh my God.

[laughing]

There, right there. There's an entire impala in this tree.

Whoo!

We found the impala right in the tree. Killed by a leopard.

150 pounds of meat.

Whoo!

Out of all the caches, this is the biggest score.

And we're the ones that got it.

Let's eat!

[Sarah] Hi, Gary.

[Steven] Got the whole crew over here.

We start celebrating and immediately,

the other folks in close proximity

decide to come in and see what's going on.

And at that point, we're kind of like, oh, crap. You know, what do we do?

Well let's get this guy out of here and get it skinned up and quartered out.

I've done six of these and it's never been a competition.

It's been about people working together

to accomplish a common goal.

- Holy cow! - That's enough for all of us.

So how do we want to do this? What do you guys think?

[Steven] This is different, you know?

This is a competition challenge.

We've got to play the game.

So we can all eat.

Do you think it's fair we, you know, split the meat?

100%.

There's no way we're going to be able to eat this.

It'll be returned. It'll be returned.

[Steven] Me and Sarah could have just taken that whole thing.

But we've all got to survive out here.

And we've all got to do it together at this point in this challenge.

It might not be the best strategy.

It might be my coffin nail.

But we'll see. We'll see.

- Like it was made... - [laughs]

Yeah, baby.

You didn't make that mark.

I did not make that mark. That is from a leopard.

Oh, wow, yeah. That's two punctures, huh?

- Yeah. Upper teeth, lower teeth. - Wow.

[Sarah] That's a leopard kill.

[Waz] It really does make you think, you know?

We're not just walking out here by ourselves.

You don't want to end up like this guy.

Yeah.

Uh, do we want to quarter it here and we'll each carry parts?

Do you want me to go back and get the fire roaring? I'll get firewood.

Yeah. That'd be fantastic.

I thought I'd be butchering an impala in the rain with you guys.

It's an honor.

[Sarah] My biggest concern about this competition is my peers

who've had more time out in the wilderness than I have.

But to find an entire impala carcass,

I definitely think that I have a chance to win this.

We should bring some over to Amber and Wes, too.

If we just split it half half, those three camps and our three camps.

Yeah, that sounds good.

This is really an awesome start to this challenge for me.

- Enjoy your dinner. - All right. Take care, guys.

Look at this.

Africa rich, baby.

[Sarah] You think he's actually going to give that meat to the other teams?

Yeah.

Holy [bleep].

This always happens to me. Holy [bleep].

He's been treasure hunting master.

Oh, technically Steven and Sarah were the first to come upon it

but we basically found it at the same time.

Way to go, man.

Cut some of this off for those guys.

Jeff being diplomatic is a new thing.

I don't know if this is a ploy to sabotage others.

Butchering up this impala with these awesome survival knives.

This is, like, my best friend right now.

Um, so this'll be our share, here.

And then I've got a bunch of steaks here

that I cut off for both of those groups.

- What do you think? - Yeah. Pretty even Steven.

- Do you think that's nice? - Yeah.

I just want to shake this cold. This is not good.

I could have never done frozen. I don't know how you did it.

I don't think it was this cold.

What?

This is unpleasant weather at best.

Actually, it's a little scary.

Been trying to stay alive.

I don't remember being this cold.

- Oh yeah? - No.

This is the coldest I've ever been.

Both Amber and I are shivering.

And we really need to get warm.

We need this for tonight, for sure.

Hey, guys.

Is this Sarah?

Where you at?

We're over here.

Hi, I'm Amber.

Nice to meet you. I'm Sarah.

Oh my God, look at all that meat.

Are you guys in the mood for sharing?

Oh, 100%. We're actually coming to you for that purpose.

What?

I couldn't believe what they brought us.

Let me leave this leg here with you guys.

This is huge, gamechanger for us.

- See you, guys. Have a good one. - Thanks, guys.

If we get anything in the future,

Sarah and Steven will be the first ones that we share with.

This meat will give us meat sweats and we'll get warmed up.

Gives you a good attitude adjustment when it's a rough day.

[Matt] How you doing?

I'm better now than I was this morning.

I hear voices.

Yeah.

Come up here, we've got a present for you guys.

What do you think? Should we take a little jaunt up there and see what's going on?

Yeah.

- Well, howdy, you. - Hi.

Are you guys in the mood for steaks?

Well, come on back.

Oh, I'm assuming you must have done the blood trail.

Yes, sir.

Technically, Steven and Sarah spotted this impala

but we all decided to share it amongst all groups.

Wow, that's awesome.

So I'd like to give you one leg for bone broth

and then...

- Oh, God dang. That's a bunch, buddy. - Yeah.

Jeff gave out a gift. I think it's a power move.

Jeff wants to have people on his side to aid him in his survival,

because he's worried that he doesn't have the skills to really make it on his own.

Hold on. We've got to document, Jeff's sharing.

[laughing]

Jeff is sharing.

Document. What is the day? What is the date?

[laughing]

New challenge, Matt. New challenge.

Right now, everybody's working together.

Everybody's sharing and collaborating.

But this is still last one standing.

There's going to be one winner of this entire thing and 11 losers.

So I may be playing nice now,

but I'm not afraid to play the game, either.

Other team was nice enough to share with us.

So we've got to figure out how we're going to preserve this.

Thank you Steven and Sarah.

Primal eating, right here. Straight off the bone.

- Look at that. - Yeah.

Oh my gosh.

The broth looks amazing.

Look at all that fat on top of the water. I love it.

Delicioso.

Day two and we're eating impala.

Between your skills and that Matt,

we got put right on the money out there.

- Yeah. - You know.

We're meat rich

and me and Sarah are not going to be able to eat an entire impala

in seven days. Everybody's going to benefit from this.

Karma's real.

Got a meat chandelier.

- [laughs] Meat chandelier. - It's fricken amazing.

And we stole it from a leopard.

Actually, we are going to have to be careful tonight.

Sleep with our heads on a swivel.

[bleep]

Holy [bleep]. Hey! Hey!

- Get! - Get!

This leopard is pissed.

Holy [bleep].

Hey! Hey! Get! [screams]

- Get! Get! - Go on, get!

That was a little much.

We'll, uh, keep our ears open and our eyes peeled

as much as we can while were sleeping tonight.

And just sleep light.

- African animals are crazy. - Yeah.

- Oh, gosh. - It's raining.

- The wind is blowing. - Temperature keeps dropping.

That was a long night.

It was really cold. Like, I woke up several times shaking and then

the rain was coming in from the side, I was like, oh my gosh.

Yeah.

Mmm-hmm.

All I feel is this cold wind.

And then there are not enough leaves

to create the roof we need to prevent the rain.

I am not going through another cold night.

This challenge is a lot different 'cause we're nomadic.

So setting up our shelter, you don't want to invest a whole lot of time in it

if you're moving away from it in just a few days.

There's a bow still on this challenge

that hasn't been taken out of a tree, yet.

I've been trying to get my partner up and running.

But also, I've got to grab that bow before, obviously, Jeff can.

What's a naked man got to do if there's an item in a tree?

But this tree, you can't touch it.

It's highly poisonous.

So I've got to make a sling ladder with the slope.

Try to make it around 18 feet long.

It can be done.

Fabricate some bushcraft, shall we?

Even though we have these items out here,

you've got to have the survival skills to get them.

It's going to require making some cordage, making some poles.

I'm going to try to collect some materials on the way back down.

So now, all around me is this mother-in-law's tongue.

Nice long fibers in a plant.

Once they're broken up, can be made into nice rope.

I need to collect as much of this as I can,

but to make a structural ladder

is not going to be easy.

I've got to get on the ball.

Jeff is determined to get every item he can.

And I need a little time to get some cordage built,

gameplan assembled.

So I holler out to Jeff.

Hey, Jeff!

[Jeff] Yeah?

I just want to let you know I found the bow.

[Stacey] Awesome.

[Jeff] Yeah, way to go, buddy.

Not a lie. I found it.

I didn't tell him all the details.

But hey, strategy, right?

I don't want him figuring out he's got to build a ladder.

That's frustrating.

Definitely going to grab more firewood.

I might take one of the bows down to Amber and Wes.

Like, Amber's pretty good with the bow and arrow.

I think Wes is, too.

- Wes is good? - Yeah.

- He hunts. - That's cool.

I think it's a wise investment to lend our bow and arrows.

If they're out and about today and they carry it with them,

they might be able to get some food, so...

If they decide to use it today,

that's more chances for us to eat.

- I'm cool with it. - Hopefully they're over there.

[Wes] Hello, friendly neighbors.

Hey, what's going on, Wes?

Good morning.

Look at you. You're out with the bow.

I'm actually bringing this to deliver to you guys.

As a bit of a loan for whatever you want to do with it.

We've got two and we're not...

both not gonna be using it at the same time, so...

- Helping out would be the way to go. - [Amber] Waz, you're so...

[Waz] My philosophy in relation to getting to be that last man standing

is that I'll do everything that I can to get that money,

but I'm not going to compromise who I am as a person to do it.

This is, uh, Gary's, so if ever he wants it back.

[Wes] It's a loaner 'til then.

- And if we precure anything, we will bring it over... - [Waz] Yeah.

- to your camp. - [Waz] Perfect, for sure.

- All right, guys. - [Wes] Thanks.

- [Amber] Thank you so much, Waz. - Of course.

- [Wes] Thanks. - Absolutely.

[Amber] Wow, this is the best present ever.

So I just got us...

- Some cordage? - a huge amount of cordage.

[Matt] We're gonna have to make a lot of rope.

- I'm up for it if you are. - I'm up for it.

[Gwen speaking]

- [Gwen speaking] - [Matt speaking]

This thing has been going on for two days now,

and it's getting worse.

[Matt] You feeling the whole gamut? Headache and everything?

Until something's vastly wrong...

I don't know what it is but something's not right.

So I'm gonna get the medics to come in here and check.

For Gwen to say that she needs to see a medic,

that's a big deal.

She is one of the toughest woman I have ever met.

But right now, she's wincing in pain, she's struggling,

and it's concerning.

[Jarryd speaking]

[Gwen] Not good or you wouldn't be here.

Head hurts.

My joints ache.

[Jarryd speaking]

As a former paramedic, I know that that's super dangerous.

Heart attack levels.

So that's kinda scary.

[Matt] High blood pressure is serious.

- I mean, that's stroke. - [Gwen] Yeah.

On this challenge, if Gwen taps now on her own,

we both go.

It's a whole different ball game here.

[Gwen] Hey, this is just the hell we live in now.

[Lorraine speaking]

[Gwen] That's not okay.

[Jarryd] In the last 24 hours, Gwen started with body aches, headaches,

which then progressed into high blood pressure.

I've never had high blood pressure in my life.

Never.

[Narrator] Infections, cold weather, and dehydration

are factors that can elevate blood pressure levels,

raising the risk of cardiac arrest or stroke.

But medics are unable to perform blood tests

in order to diagnose in the field.

[Jarryd] It could be from infections,

so double boil water if you guys get water.

Yeah, you know, and just take it easy.

We'll come monitoring and see

if we can get the blood pressure a bit down and the symptoms subside.

Yeah, then I'll see you guys soon, yeah.

Okay, all right, perfect.

[Matt] I'm definitely worried.

Right now, the best I can do is ensure that I help Gwen as much as I can.

There's a bow in a tree calling my name,

but it either doesn't do any good if you have to leave.

So right now, it's operation "Get Gwen Better."

Whatever's going on, we gotta fix it.

[Wes] Gonna take a walk to the area where we heard that bush buck.

- In case we happen upon something. - [Amber] Yeah.

This bow really takes us to the next level.

[distant] Hello?

[Amber speaking]

Hello?

- Is this Jeff? - [Jeff] Yes?

- Is that Amber? - Hi, Jeff.

There's Jeff.

I hear his voice, I'm like, "Oh, my God."

Holy [bleep], I was just coming to find you guys.

[Amber] Knowing who Jeff is and what my experience with him personally was,

I don't trust him.

Congratulations.

You have a bow.

- Well, actually, we're borrowing it. - Right.

'Cause it's Gary's.

- There was two of them in the bundle. - If they want it back.

- Okay. - And there it was.

It was like both of us aren't gonna go hunting at the same time.

So the other tree has two in there too.

Oh.

Wes and Gary found two bows.

It was a pack of two.

So we now have two sets of survival knives.

We don't need four knives.

So the smart move is to trade them away

for a bow.

The trading game is about to begin.

I want to talk to Gary since that's his bow.

- And obviously just offer up a trade. - Yep.

Gary, would you like two knives for you and your partner

in exchange for the bow?

[Amber] Jeff immediately went to "I should go find Gary

and do a barter with him and get that bow."

Points right at the bow that Waz just gave us.

Okay.

Unbelievable.

Clearly, he has not changed.

[Jeff] Waz, Gary.

- Yeah, man. - Yeah, buddy?

[Waz] Come to steal our [bleep]?

[Jeff] Came to talk business.

- [Waz] Okay. - [Gary] Okay.

[Waz] That's Jeff.

I'm not really in the Jeff mood right now,

but I invite him in, we have a chat.

- I heard you guys found two bows. - [Waz] Mmm-hmm.

We have an additional set of knives.

The rational thought was there.

[Waz] What, you want one of the bows?

My issue with what you're saying right now

if you've got three knives, [bleep] hand some knives out.

We had an extra bow, so we just gave it to them down there.

Okay, no, I see where you're coming from.

[Waz] I get it, like you want something in return for that.

What you're gonna get in return for that

is a bunch of people that are sharing everything.

So, no, I don't want your [bleep] knife.

Like... 'Cause that's not who I am.

If there's a way that he can get an advantage, he's gonna get an advantage.

And I don't hold it against him, it's the type of person that he is.

I just don't want to be that type of person so I choose not to be.

I understand what you're saying, Waz,

and it's very admirable.

I'm looking at the item situation

through a competitive lens.

I view these items as currency.

And I believe that these items should be on the trading block.

- Okay. - I just want to keep them for trading purposes.

- [Waz] I understand that. - Okay.

I mean, think about it. If we go with Waz's strategy,

there's no incentive on even going out and finding these items first

if you know that you can just borrow one from all your competitors.

So when they have to chop down a ton of trees,

with that crappy machete, they'll be begging at our feet to make a trade.

- All right, fellas. - All right, buddy.

[Gary] See you, Jeff.

- [Gary] Take care. - [Jeff] Thanks a lot.

[Waz] I'm happy to do the challenge without one of Jeff's knives.

- And then [bleep] Jeff 'cause I'm done with that [bleep]. - [Gary laughs]

[Waz] You're done.

I like you as long as you can't [bleep] me over.

Not what I want to be doing all day.

I need to collect more firewood.

And Jeff is off adventuring.

Sucky situation right now.

- [Jeff] Hey there, partner. - [Stacey] Hey, you're back.

And guess what?

The bows were found in a set of two.

Oh, so there's four?

- So there's a total of four. - Uh-huh.

Matt said he found his bow.

So Matt has two bows.

No need to have two.

- So I'm thinking, we see if they'd like to trade. - Mmm-hmm.

[Stacey] That's a good idea.

How you feeling?

[Gwen speaking]

[Matt] Nothing makes a person feel better

than good old-fashioned broth.

Gwen is not doing good.

I do not want anything bad to happen to her.

but also if Gwen taps now on her own,

then she's taking me with her.

And that is horrifying.

I got bone marrow in there.

That's the good stuff. That's like medicine.

My job's to make sure that Gwen's strong as possible.

[Gwen] Matt's magical bone broth.

That's what we're doing.

[Matt] There's some fats, a lot of minerals.

And out here, we're losing a lot, so...

Super handy.

Magic.

[Jeff calling]

- [Gwen] We're over here. - [Matt] We're here.

[Jeff] You down there?

[Gwen] Keep coming.

Down this way.

- [Jeff] Yip, yip. - [Gwen] Jeff approaches.

Doesn't know that we don't have the bow.

So, shhh.

- Good to see you guys. - Good to see you too.

Are we the only ones that have made it to your camp?

- [Mike] No one's visited yet. - [Gwen] You are our first visitors.

- You're our first visitors. - Oh, my gosh.

- Nice to see you, buddy. - Thanks.

[Jeff] Matt and I, we've been competing head to head for years.

If we can work together now,

it only benefits both of us.

So, um, I heard you got a couple bows.

Yeah.

- That I have a couple bows? - Yeah.

- Yeah. Uh-huh. - That there are a couple bows.

And it just so happens, we have a couple set of knives.

- Each. - Oh. I got...

- So you got four knives? - Yes.

So we were thinking about a straight trade.

Two knives for one extra bow.

Jeff is wanting to trade for these bows

that we don't have.

- That's what they look like, that's the bigger one. - Bigger one and smaller one?

- And then... - I'm a trained hostage negotiator.

I've learned how to read people very well.

I see Matt's face. Matt's like, "Oh, crap."

And in that split second, I know I have to divert Jeff.

So initiate bluff strategy 101.

How about we talk it over tonight,

- make our game plan and then we'll come see you tomorrow? - Yeah.

I think that sounds good.

All right, well, yous have a good night.

- [Stacey] See you in the morning. - See you.

[Matt] Jeff, he didn't even look for the bows.

And that's a big break because any time we can have right now

to get this bow out of the tree is time we need.

[Gary speaking]

[Waz speaking]

[Gary speaking]

It's not raining like it did the last two nights,

but no cloud cover, and the stars...

There's a bit of chill in the air.

[Dan grunts]

[Cheeny] Yeah, it's cold.

It's brutally cold.

It's gotta be colder tonight than any other night.

It's the type of cold that could take someone like Wes

or someone with lesser body fat out

in a second without a proper shelter.

[Amber speaking]

[Gwen speaking]

[Matt yawns]

[Gwen speaking]

These are items!

- Oh, [bleep]. - [Narrator] For this competition,

the PSR, or primitive survival rating,

weighs an individual's survival skills and items collected

to determine the likelihood of becoming the last one standing.

- Yay! - We got clothes, baby.

- [Narrator] Intent on finding caches... - This is what I live for!

[Narrator] ...Jeff navigated his way

to three of the advanced survival items.

- Africa rich, baby! - [Narrator] The stockpile of assets

raises his PSR from 9.4 to 9.6.

- [Gwen] Here's a pot in here. - [Matt] Nice.

[Narrator] Gwen has failed to find her footing in the competition.

It hurts, joints ache.

[Narrator] And her fading health puts her challenge at risk.

[Lorraine speaking]

[Narrator] As a result, her PSR drops

from 8.2 to 7.9.

Oh!

[Narrator] Focusing on survival assets first,

Amber was a step behind in retrieving the bows.

[Wes] God damn it.

[Narrator] The combination of being empty-handed

and struggling with the elements

decreases her PSR from 9.2 to 8.9.

I just want to shake this cold.

This is not good.

[Narrator] to see all the survivalist PSR ratings,

head over to Discovery.com/PSR.

[Jeff] That was a rough night. I'm sure there were a lot of suffering people.

And we found this hide.

- It's like our waterproof... - Mmm-hmm.

all-natural African bedding.

- It's a luxury, for sure. - Mmm-hmm.

[Steven speaking]

[Sarah speaking]

[Wes] It's morning, day four.

Uh, really tough night.

Really tough night.

Amber is really hurting on this one.

I am really struggling.

I did not expect Africa to be this cold.

I'm having trouble talk... talking,

and just can't stop...

[stammering] Shaking.

[Narrator] Shivering and slurred speech are signs of hypothermia

which can affect heart and nervous system functions.

I don't even think I got this cold in Louisiana.

Hey, camp to medic.

Uh, Amber is shivering, she really can't stop, she feels cold.

[Matt] It was a long night,

and very cold.

But the most concerning part about it is,

Gwen over here, she's struggling.

[Gwen] Yesterday, my blood pressure was super high

like 160 over 100.

I know those are stroke levels.

I definitely don't want that to happen out here.

- [Rudi] Morning. - Hey, yeah, morning.

Amber cannot stop shivering.

She even feels cold.

[Rudi] Well, let me measure your temperature quickly.

- Lift you arm, like that. - [Amber] Okay.

Uh.

[Amber sniffles]

Okay, so your temperature is 34.

[Amber laughs]

[Wes] 93 something?

That's dangerous.

[Rudi] In a normal situation,

I can warm you up, but that's your core temperature,

so I'm gonna have to tap you.

Okay.

So she's tapped out?

Don't warm her up or anything?

[Rudi] That's a core temperature.

It's not a surface temperature so I'm gonna have to tap her.

- [Wes] All right. - [Rudi] All right.

I'm sorry, Wes.

It's okay.

They can't help that.

You know.

There's no choice.

[Wes] I mean when a challenge like this will take out

somebody like Amber whose done 60 days...

This is horrible.

[Wes] ...I mean, that shows you the level

of just misery that's going on around here.

[Rudi speaking]

[Wes] Amber's getting med tapped.

And that's a lot different from a voluntary tap out.

A voluntary tap out from Amber would've meant that I go home too.

And so there's a huge difference there.

A med tap means that I can stay.

- [Amber speaking] - All right, sweetie.

No, no, no. Stop being sorry.

I don't want to hear that anymore.

Okay? Just go get yourself taken care of.

[crying] You're going to do great on your...

[Wes] All right, you get out of here.

- You got get somewhere warm. - [laughs]

[Amber] I feel absolutely horrible right now

that I have to leave my partner, Wes,

because I know it's gonna be hard on him.

But he is such a strong survivalist and he's a bad ass.

A sad story having to leave this competition.

Coming out here, I thought I had the skills, the knowledge

being prepared for this challenge, but the weather took me out.

I did not expect that.

- [Jarryd] Morning, guys. - [Gwen] Morning, morning.

- [Matt] Morning. - [Jarryd] Morning.

- How are you today? - [Gwen] I don't know.

Chest stills hurts and just not feeling well.

- [Jarryd] Just not feeling well, hey? Okay. - [Gwen] Nah

We're gonna read you your blood pressure like we mentioned yesterday.

- [Gwen] All right. - I mean, we don't want to play games out here.

[Lorraine speaking]

- [Lorraine speaking] -[Jarryd] - Still high. Okay, so that's...

Way too high. Your blood pressure's fluctuating way too much.

[Matt] High blood pressure is serious.

[Gwen] Yeah.

Unfortunately, Gwen, we're gonna have to medically tap you.

Blood pressure's the issue. Could be a multitude of things.

So we need to pull Gwen from the challenge

for specialist consultation.

It's gonna put you at a risk of all heart issues

and all of those types of things.

[Gwen] I'm in total agreeance with you there.

- I'm not willing to risk any more of this. - [Jarryd] To risk any of this.

I was a firefighter, a paramedic, and a police officer.

I've seen many people with strokes and heart attacks

and it's extremely scary.

- Sorry, bud. - Hey, you know what?

I hate to see you go, but...

You're tough.

Mentally, I'm still here, I want to be here.

But my body's like, "Nah, sorry. You're done."

Now go kick Jeff's ass.

[Gwen laughs]

Matt's a super capable survivalist, even on his own.

I think Matt's very capable of being the last one standing.

[Narrator] After only four days in South Africa,

two survivalists succumb to the challenge.

[Wes] So here I am alone.

Being down to a team of one is going to have a huge impact.

My challenge just got infinitely harder.

[Narrator] Now with 10 remaining,

which one will have what it takes.

[Matt] Here I am, solo.

There's a savage side of me that thrives alone.

I have to try to do what's never been done.

To see the invisible, do the impossible,

and be that last one standing.