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Man: Everything here is out to get you.

[ crying ]

[ groans ]

narrator: 12 survivalists, all complete strangers,

took on the toughest challenges of their lives.

Yeah!

Narrator: One man and one woman were paired up

with the sole aim to survive 21 days

in some of the harshest environments on the planet.

I want off. I want off this island.

Narrator: They had...

We are in a state of true starvation.

[bleep]

all over the globe,

they faced physical and mental trauma

that no one could have ever anticipated.

I've never had something so small mess

with my head so [bleep] much.

Narrator: Now featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes footage

of each couple as they struggle

to survive the 21-day challenges...

To be honest, I'd eat a dead body right now.

Oh, god. I would, too.

...The survivors and their loved ones

reveal a unique perspective

on the everest of survival challenges.

Our first night was absolutely brutal.

Narrator: This special episode sheds new light on the highs...

Amazon fire!

Narrator: ...And lows...

Sabrina: You want to see [bleep] [bleep]

'cause I can be an [bleep]

vincent: I know you can.

...Of the most demanding and authentic

survival series ever created...

I'm not doing so well.

As...

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when I first got to fiji, I was just in awe.

I've never even taken a tropical vacation,

so it was unreal.

Vincent: Seeing bolivia for the first time,

I truly was blown away.

I knew it would be beautiful.

I didn't know it would be so stunning.

Madagascar, it was beautiful, but it was also deadly.

Everything is brown and dead and lifeless.

And that concerns me.

Laura: My first impression of the amazon

was that everything was so alive.

All these different plants, all these different insects,

animals I'd never seen before.

It was like getting to the top of a roller coaster.

I was so excited to see

what it was like inside of the jungle.

Cass: Belize was very impressive

but a little intimidating at times, also.

Total different place than I'd ever been.

Fernando: Seeing the malaysian jungle for the first time,

it was intimidating, and I knew I had my hands full.

I feel like this jungle's like a living, breathing entity.

That jungle wanted to eat me up, and I felt that.

I wasn't there as a tourist. I wasn't there sightseeing.

I was there for a very specific purpose -- to survive.

Let's get this party started, eh?

Narrator: As their 21-day challenge began,

each survivalist made their way through the harsh conditions,

meeting their partner, a complete stranger, naked.

Oh, man. Like this isn't awkward at all.

Just a little bit.

Hey. I'm eva.

I'm jeff. Good to meet you, jeff.

Nice to meet you.

Just hanging out in madagascar?

Naked, right?

We exchanged names

and then I immediately forgot the guy's name

because, you know, I'm thinking about the fact

that I have no clothes on.

[ both laugh ]

a.K.: I'm not used to meeting people in the nude,

and it's as awkward as you would think.

Hey, how's it going?

Hi. Tyler. Nice to meet you.

I'm a.K. Awesome.

I see you brought the twig and berries.

You got the ladies along, so we should be good.

[ laughs ]

meeting samantha naked for the first time,

it was just incredibly, incredibly awkward.

Hello.

Hi. So, how are you doing?

I'm good. I'm good.

It definitely made for some awkward banter

for the first few minutes.

So, we're in malaysia.

Welcome to the jungle.

Um...

It's... Not so bad.

Yeah.

We just kind of, like, talked nonsensically about nothing.

So far, so good.

Yeah, what can go wrong? Right.

You ready to rock this?

I am ready to kick this jungle in the butt.

Narrator: With the awkwardness

of meeting their naked partners behind them,

another issue arises.

What are they willing to do to make it

through the cold, cold night in their primitive environment.

No, there was definitely no spooning.

I don't spoon at all.

I'm not a touchy-feely person and -- no.

No spooning.

Oh, my god. This place is off the hook.

Our first night was absolutely brutal.

I didn't think either one of us expected it to be so cold.

Eva: [bleep]

what is with this stuff?

Jeff: It doesn't want to ignite.

I had promised my wife that there would be no cuddling,

no body heat exchange going on.

[bleep] aw, are you freaking kidding me?

Being his wife, it was kind of difficult to handle,

but I trust jeff.

Jeff is an amazing guy.

I was just concerned if the woman would try

to attack him in the middle of the night or something.

He has a really wonderful wife

and he's very serious about that.

And so there was no cuddling or spooning

or snuggling together whatsoever.

It made that first night pretty damn cold.

[ chuckles ]

narrator: As each day began, there was another reality

of men and women cohabiting together to be considered.

Vincent: You know, men will be men in the morning

and you're gonna have some hydraulics going

if you have to urinate.

And I had that happen a few times.

And to me, it was no -- well, maybe it was a big deal,

but it was no big deal metaphorically speaking, anyway.

Alana: You know, the morning occurrences

was something that I was concerned about.

I thought I was gonna be waking up

to more than firewood next to me.

But I was trying not to look down as much as I could.

Believe it or not, in 21 days, I never got an erection.

That never was an issue, fortunately.

Is morning wood an issue?

Well, usually I was up before anyone else

was gonna get up anyhow,

and I'd just go off and take care of it

before it becomes an issue for anyone.

[bleep]

yes, it possibly might have happened.

[ chuckles ]

my wife's gonna flip out.

Edit that. Don't put that in there.

Narrator: Soon after the survivalists got to know each other,

they faced what could be their toughest task --

finding food.

Did you see that? See the [bleep] beaver?

A [bleep] beaver just looking at me right here by the bank.

Narrator: In these conditions, it's all about

getting as much protein as possible.

Yeah, buddy. Yeah, baby!

Look at that. Yes!

In the wild, there are creatures

you have no choice but to feed on...

These are snake eggs. It's a string of them.

This is, like, the ultimate energy shot.

...No matter what it is.

Fernando: Now, that

is a beautiful, beautiful butterfly.

I could eat that.

Anything that crawled in front of us,

it'd be a quick conversation.

"can we eat that? Is that edible?"

got something.

A good, meaty grasshopper.

Do want half of this, seriously? Or are you not feeling it?

Well, I do, but it's too little.

And I had the grub yesterday.

Cooked grubs taste like bacon.

It was actually wonderful.

I got us another snack. Cass: What?

A lizard.

Cass: Shannon would eat anything.

I'm not a big fan.

I'd rather be hungry.

Did you rip his head off?

Yeah, I ate it.

[ laughs ]

oh, it tastes like hell.

We didn't have much of a choice on what we ate.

Alien grub.

It tastes like somebody left a urine sample

out in the sun or something.

Jeff is all about eating gross things.

Frickin' nasty, man.

I mean, I kind of want to eat him.

I was starting to think

that maybe the grosser they were,

the more he liked eating them.

There's a definitely smell going on here.

And that doesn't raise your concern

that maybe it's got some weird toxins in it?

You know...

Stinks?

It's an inappropriate color.

Bon appetit.

Jeff: You know, I know people at home

that probably are thinking, "man, that's gross."

you know, like, "I can't believe you ate that."

juicy!

An explosion of juice.

But I was happy to do it.

Every bug I saw, I was viewing that as energy.

That's disgusting.

Sabrina: When you're in that situation where your body wants food

and it really doesn't matter what that food is,

it doesn't cross your mind how gross it might be.

This is a parrot head.

Or, as vince would probably tell me, it's a parakeet.

Sabrina, she found a parakeet head

and cooked that up and ate it.

Sabrina: Maybe you're good to eat, maybe you're not.

I hope I don't regret it.

Right now, I'm munching on a beak.

That's why it's so crunchy.

I'm eating a bird's brains.

There's some eyes in here.

Vincent: I give her a lot of credit for doing that

'cause you can get all sorts of parasites

from uncooked brain.

[ sighs ]

sabrina: I ate bugs.

I ate snails.

And I ate a parrot head.

Tasted just like chicken.

Whoo!

Narrator: "naked & afraid" continues to bare all.

Woman: Whoo!

Guys, this is so embarrassing. I apologize.

Don't think that this challenge is fake or that it's easy to do.

Sabrina, I understand you're gonna get this message.

I wound up with three diseases, believe it or not.

I mean, that doesn't give you the right

to have the attitude that he did.

You bitch more than anyone I know.

Sabrina: No, I do not. You are a prima dona.

I don't understand why you feel like

you have to pee right outside the front door, though.

I don't really understand. This is such a dude thing.

[ monkey howling ]

narrator: In the wild,

it's those everyday things we take for granted

that can bring a survivalist to his knees.

The elemental need for food and water

and the lack of both

can burden a team's chances to make it through the 21 days.

Sorry for the frank and beans.

Quit talking about food.

Our primary need at this point has become food.

I am really, really hungry.

We are in a state of true starvation.

My body's shutting down.

I didn't have a lot extra fuel on the body to start with,

and that's proven to be detrimental to me.

Cass: I have only noticed that I feel hungry

after I've eaten something.

So it's like, once you hit, like, a plateau, like a wall,

you kind of, like, your mind kind of accepts it.

Like, "yo, you're not getting any food."

[ sighs ] [bleep]

I'm feeling exhausted.

I'm feeling hungry.

Hunger -- it was constantly present.

And it's not that kind of hunger that you experience --

you know, you miss lunch

and your stomach growls a little bit.

You know, you get something for happy hour instead.

[ exhales deeply ]

it's not that kind of hunger.

Damn. [ chuckles ]

it is this kind of hunger that is undeniable

because you're watching your body cannibalize itself.

How are you feeling?

It's brutal.

We've got nothing. Nothing.

We've got no power bars. Nothing.

We've got no protein.

The hunger was horrible.

I think we went the first four or five days

without eating a single thing.

I think 9 out of 10 people

that you drop off in our situation die.

Hands down.

[ gags ] I think I'm gonna be sick.

You okay? No.

Sabrina told me she had stomach pains

possibly from dehydration.

[ straining ] my stomach is super-clenched right now.

Dehydration and sickness just overwhelmed me.

I was too sick to do anything other than cry.

You're okay. Hang in there.

You know, if you need to throw up, that's okay.

[ breathing heavily ] that's okay.

And right off the bat, I started thinking,

"oh, great. I'm already the weakest link."

my goddess is a moon goddess,

so I get my energy from the moon and at nighttime.

[ breathing heavily ]

but somehow I managed to hang on

despite the dehydration and the weakness

that my body was suffering.

I'm just gonna step over there.

[ sighs ]

narrator: Living with the hunger, the thirst, the cold,

and countless other obstacles,

the survivalists can be worn down very quickly.

All-consuming exhaustion can set in at any time.

Oh [bleep] are you okay?

E.J.: Man. All day, all night.

When we were rowing out of there,

e.J. Was falling asleep between paddle strokes.

He was so exhausted he was literally falling asleep

and he was still going.

Laura: Heading into the sunset.

[ snores ] huh?

I'm just bone tired.

You're sleep deprived, and you're exhausted.

You're just trying to get through the day, man.

I am gradually setting my goals lower and lower and lower

because the tireder I get,

the harder it will be to obtain different goals.

Sometimes I feel like I'm totally out of control.

And I'm sure it's because lack of food, lack of sleep.

So, we started up a pretty kick-ass fire.

Anala's working on that.

What'd you call me?

Anala?

[bleep] [bleep] nine days, you still don't know my name.

Alana.

That's what I said. You said anala.

I'm [bleep] I am tired.

I apologize.

Anala? I shouldn't feel bad.

You jack up everybody's name here on production, too.

Yeah. Don't feel special.

Narrator: During the challenge,

the environment the survivalists must endure

can be their biggest enemy.

And even in the tropics,

there is still the danger of hypothermia.

Fernando: How you doing, sam? Sam, we got this.

I'm just freezing cold.

Fernando: Like, dangerous, scary cold?

I don't know. I'm just cold.

And we, of course, didn't have fire the first 10 nights

that we were there.

So it was very, very, very frigid.

I'm freezing.

It was so cold, I remember looking at my nails a lot

and they would be purple.

Since the challenge,

I've noticed I've got a weird aversion to being cold.

I like to bundle up.

I'd rather be sweating underneath my clothes

than the feeling of cold.

I just do not like it.

I'm just cold to the bone.

[ thunder crashes ]

we were hit with this biblical storm

and we were so close to being hypothermic.

How's it going, laura?

It was really raw out there.

We were exposed to the elements a lot.

You staying dry? Laura: No.

E.J. Was close to hypothermia.

I was close to hypothermia.

And we couldn't do anything about it.

[ thunder crashes ]

narrator: As the hours turned into days,

the grim reality of the situation

made everyone question whether they had enough

to complete the challenge.

This is hard, man.

Phew. You're telling me.

For some, the pain of trying to survive

brought them to their knees.

I had my body pushed a number of times during the challenge.

I had roaring hemorrhoid pain at one point, which is always fun.

In the middle of the night, he woke up in a lot of pain.

I don't know much about hemorrhoids.

What I do know is I want him to be okay.

Ridiculous [bleep]

e.J.: I was cutting this tree and it started to rain.

And when I hit that tree,

it glanced off the tree and right into my shin.

The machete got me. It's bleeding real bad.

[bleep]

and I thought, "oh, my god.

I've hacked my leg off, and laura's got to go alone."

you all right? Yeah.

They insisted the medic come in and stitch it.

I was gonna be fine

with just putting some moss and some leaves

and tying some vine around it.

But I don't always get a vote.

I'll be up and running in a minute.

[ voice breaking ] I'm not doing so well.

I don't think I've ever felt weaker in my life.

A lot of things crossed my mind

as far as what might have caused me to get sick on day 20,

including the parrot head.

Right now I'm munching on a beak.

There were other things that I had eaten,

including some rotten berries that I had found

on the floor in the jungle.

The doctor came in.

She did some palpitations,

and I think we've ruled out appendicitis,

which is a good thing.

The doctor says I have to go poop.

[ chuckles ]

yeah!

Narrator: Mental toughness may be the most important tool

in getting through harsh survival situations.

Aah!

Ironically, it's often the environment's

smallest creatures that test one's endurance.

Holy [bleep]

in bolivia, vince fell victim to malaria,

a disease often carried by mosquitos.

Vince: Oh. Oh, my god.

The teams quickly discovered

that there's no place these pests can't get to.

Mosquitos, they love warm places.

Right now, they're in my vajayjay, alive.

Your crotch and your armpits, that's where they go to.

I'm attempting to make a grass skirt to cover my behind.

Tyler: A.K. And I were not mentally prepared for this.

These mosquitos are crazy.

It was like wearing a mosquito sweatshirt and, like, sweatpants

'cause there were that many on you at one time.

That's pretty nasty.

This probably is one of the worst parts.

I've never had something so small

mess with my head so [bleep] much.

And it never stops.

[ insects buzzing ]

well, apparently, the leeches like me a lot more

than they like fernando.

Fernando: Whoa. You're covered in leeches.

Sam: Yep.

The most unpleasant experience was actually getting

a couple of leeches on my vaginal area.

Oh, that's awesome.

I wanted to discreetly handle it, as bad as it hurt.

And so I just remember running off

to find a private place to take care of the matter.

And I know that fernie had a similar experience with a leech.

Fernando: There was a leech on my scrotum.

That would happen,

unfortunately, kind of frequently.

Guys, this is so embarrassing. I apologize.

Cass: I need help. [bleep]

shannon: What happened.

I think I got one in my eye.

A tick? Yeah.

Tick situation was very, very bad.

Yep.

We had the ticks biting us

on our eyelids and our private parts.

And they actually bite pretty hard when they first get on you.

Oh [bleep] [bleep]

[bleep] these [bleep] things.

But we had a remedy with that.

We started using ammonia-based liquid,

which is just using our urine. [ chuckles ]

that was awesome every morning,

washing my face down with my own pee.

[ sighs ]

[ grunting ]

that's really kind of where it got weird for me.

God knows what's up my nose.

My [bleep] itches really bad.

Is that honest enough for you?

Sabrina: If there's anything not to like about vince,

he can be quite a [bleep]

the lazy life of a hunter/gatherer.

Narrator: Besides heightened emotions...

Can you try and relax today?

It was just stupid.

...Another problem can occur when survivalists

are thrust together in such harsh environments.

The touchy issue of hygiene can rear its ugly head.

God knows what's up my nose. Woman: [ laughs ]

jeff was all about,

like, scent marking right out front of our shelter.

Eva: I don't understand why you feel like you have to pee

right outside the front door, though.

This is such a dude thing.

Like, no girl is gonna go along

and squat right outside the front door.

You pee, like, three feet away from where I pee

and it's not outside the front door?

Trust me. Eva's not the one to talk.

I mean, she washed her face every morning

in this little pool of water.

This is our washing hole.

It's our little auxiliary water source.

I think pretty much every day out here,

this is how I've started it off.

That was the same pool of water

that we had cleaned the guts out of a snake with.

Oh, so much better. Little more, though.

I mean, there was still lizard parts in that pond of water

that she was washing her face with every day.

Whoo!

E.J.: I like to have good dental hygiene.

After a while of eating some nasty things,

that taste is in your mouth.

I got my freddy flintstone toothbrush in hand.

That really got me in touch with my caveman side.

Minty fresh.

I start bragging to eva,

"hey, check out these leaves I found.

These make the best toilet paper."

and she looks at me and she says,

"why are you using leaves?"

[ sighs ]

I'm a pebbles kind of person and jeff prefers leaves.

And I'm very adamant about the fact

that a smooth stone is absolutely the best butt wipe and squeegee

on the face of the planet.

My [bleep] itches really bad. Eva: [ chuckles ]

and I don't really want to itch it

'cause it's probably really dirty

and all I have is my fingernails.

And I eat with these things.

My butt really itched. I got to tell you.

Every time I sat down, I was sitting down in the dirt

so there was dirt and mud and who knows what else,

crammed in the crack of my butt.

So maybe I can find a [bleep] itcher out here somewhere.

Yeah, the [bleep] scratcher. It was a good idea.

Is that honest? Honest enough for you?

Narrator: Another type of pain the survivalists experienced

was a typical one that occurs

when people live together in extreme conditions.

Honesty can become as scarce as water.

In terms of secrets out there

and things happening that nobody knew about,

a lot of times during the challenge,

I just needed to get the hell away from sabrina.

I'm ready to go for a dip. [ laughs ]

I saw some palms just beyond the creek and the tree.

I'm going the other way for the palm nuts.

I saw one really close by and low.

This side? Yeah.

I didn't know what vince was doing

when he would disappear throughout the entire day.

See you later.

I felt very at peace when I was by myself,

I guess I would say.

I learned, however, that he was sleeping.

When I realized

that he wasn't holding up his end by doing the hunting,

that was pretty upsetting.

If there's anything not to like about vince,

he can be quite a [bleep]

the lazy life of a hunter/gatherer.

Narrator: As days turned into weeks,

the unending struggle began to manifest itself

in the survivalists' behavior.

[ grunting ]

from time to time, things got a little weird.

I feel like we're animals in the zoo.

[ growls ]

and these guys are the spectators.

To be honest, I'd eat a dead body right now.

Oh, god. I would, too.

I would. Dibs on the thigh, man.

Dude, I'd carve into a butt cheek.

Absolutely!

It was a little weird, but it just makes sense.

I mean, you have to consider every angle.

Well, I mean, think of how many resources

we would have in a single carcass.

All of those bones, all that meat.

Honestly, I was starving so bad

that if eva had dropped dead,

I wouldn't have any problem cutting a steak out of,

you know, one of her calves or something.

I would have tried not to mess up her tattoos, of course.

Are we seriously talking about how awesome it would be

to have a dead human right now?

Eva: Dude, we've gone cannibalistic

48 hours into the challenge.

There was a guy. He's famous or infamous.

And what he did was he saved up a bunch of apple seeds.

Like half a cup.

He ate them all at once 'cause he liked apple seeds.

He died of cyanide poisoning.

[ laughs ] that's murphy's law for you.

This thing just jumped on my face.

Keith: Oh, wow. You have a little friend.

I think he's gonna do it again.

He's gonna jump directly on my face.

[ laughs ]

I'm tapping out and I'm leaving.

After vince left, I was completely alone.

As the days went on, you know,

they were long days of absolutely nothing to do.

Sabrina: Mushroom man, I'll be right back.

I'm gonna head to the beach.

Do you want to come? You can come.

Mushroom man was the best friend

anybody could ask for.

Stay there, okay?

Vince was not the greatest conversationalist to have.

I feel like [bleep]

especially considering that he was very opinionated.

I like mushroom man.

I can say bad things to him, I can say good things to him,

and he never complains.

Mushroom man agreed with everything I said

and never said a word about anything.

Mushroom man is not a friend with benefits, no.

All he is, is friend that gets to listen to me talk a lot.

Yeah. There's no benefit to that. I promise.

All right, dude. I'm gonna get this smelly snake

filled up with some emergency backup water for us.

Jeff: The worst thing we tried

was that frickin' snake water container.

It's impressively water tight.

But the smell?

To be honest, I was against it the whole time.

Eva: If worse comes to worse,

it's better to have water and not use it

than to need it badly.

It was rancid.

I would have rather died than drink that water.

So I'm gonna just tie it on to this long stick over here

and carry it along, like huck finn style over my shoulder.

That's a really good idea.

Alana: Since I did spend such a significant time alone,

that's really kind of where it got weird for me.

It sounds kind of weird,

but I had a dream about these little creatures.

I dreamed that I was at a local comedy club in my hometown,

ordered the fried calamari as I always do,

and I was brought this basket

of weird-looking little nugget crunchy things.

And I told the server, "what is this?"

and she goes, "we're out of calamari.

This is our substitute. You'll love it."

and it turned out in my dream to be these little creatures

that are stuck to the rocks all over where our shelter was.

There's one.

Aah! Those little things look like trilobites.

So I peeled a couple off the rocks,

threw them in the fire.

It kind of tastes like bacon-wrapped shrimp.

They were delicious and I found a new food source.

They say follow your dreams, right?

Even if your dreams tell you to eat some weird bug on a rock.

So, it's that time of the day again.

We're gonna point out the funny shapes in the cliff.

And what do we have up top here?

Some of the stranger moments that I came across

was definitely all the things that I was seeing in the cliff.

Sabrina: I see a dog's head.

Here's his nose.

It goes up. Here's his ear.

Here's his neck. Maybe like a doberman.

Do you see that? [ laughs ]

we saw george washington. He's up there.

Hey, george.

I just found either a rastafarian,

maybe santa claus, or just a grumpy santa claus.

Maybe it's 'cause he's all wet.

You see him?

It's santa claus' face. He's grumpy.

That was cute.

I want off. I want off this island.

Keith: This show was so much harder

than I ever believed it could be.

I'm [bleep] done.

Vince! Yes?

Stop talking for five minutes and give me a stick.

What?

A.K.: Shut up and quit being a whiny [bleep]

tyler: You're being a [bleep]

narrator: There's one thing that every "naked & afraid" challenger

takes away from the experience --

the hard, cold truth that it is all very, very real.

Tyler: Yes! Nice! Nice!

A.K.: No! [bleep]

everyone watching me right now

is obviously doing so from the comfort of their home.

Don't think that this challenge

is contrived, fake, or that it's easy to do.

I do not feel normal whatsoever.

Physically, I'm trashed.

Keith: This challenge was so much harder

than I ever believed it could be.

Keith: It's empty. Alana: What?

I'm [bleep] done.

Nobody's helping you.

In fact, nobody's even frickin' talking to you.

Yes, there are cameramen,

but they won't even acknowledge you if you say one word to them.

You can't talk to them. You can't interact with them.

There's nobody there but you deciding what is the next step,

how you're gonna keep warm, where you're getting water from.

It's daunting to think of,

but at the same time, exhilarating.

If you don't catch food, you're gonna be hungry.

If you step on a snake, you're gonna get bit.

Any action you have out there has very real consequences.

E.J.: This is no joke.

There's nobody coming in and saying, "hey, how you feeling?

Can I give you a massage?"

that [bleep] doesn't happen.

E.J.: Today's my wife birthday.

It's been a hard day today

for me to not be there to celebrate with cake.

I love you so much.

I wish you could see this jungle with me.

Cass: Oh, my god. It's a boa.

I've been to multiple survival schools in the military.

I've been in multiple harrowing situations.

I've never gone for three weeks without any help.

I had my fire starter and the knife and shannon.

Oh, my god. Holy [bleep]

there's no cushy hotel room.

Nobody's slipping you a sandwich when the camera is turned off.

All of a sudden, I could feel my heart beating in my neck.

And I need something to drink immediately.

It is balls to the wall full-on survival.

Narrator: When a man and a woman have to survive 21 days

in the worst conditions imaginable,

it's no surprise when tension and conflict surfaces.

I can't [bleep] get it.

I'm just tired of hearing you complain

about every little thing.

You bitch more than anyone I know.

No, I do not. You are a prima dona.

Yes, you are.

Whatever, mr. "I need a pillow.

I need more padding. My feet hurt."

vince: I'm a tracker, a wildlife tracker. Tracks and signs.

Signs says a rodent tried to open that nut.

Vince! Yes?

Stop talking for five minutes and give me a stick.

What?

I don't think I've heard him stop talking

for five seconds yet.

[ thunder crashes ]

tyler: Once I get one more -- just trust me.

Once I get one more --

I don't care. Just go for it. Go.

Well, it's a quick debate.

Stop talking! You're wasting time!

What the [bleep]

I'll quit debating if you don't care.

Narrator: In the peruvian jungle,

the friction between a.K. And tyler was particularly intense.

I really don't like it over here.

You don't like anything.

Well, especially you.

A.K.: Quit crying. [bleep] you.

Narrator: As this unseen footage shows,

the cruel conditions took an emotional toll

on a.K. And tyler.

As the jungle punished them, they punished each other.

A.K: I've been up the last three [bleep] times fixing the fire.

You just got up.

Tyler: I wouldn't say we loved each other.

If I chose my partner, I wouldn't choose her ever.

That's [bleep] rude as hell.

Tyler: I'm not worried about "rude."

I'm worried about [bleep] making it through the night.

We're gonna [bleep] make it. [bleep] dang.

You know, I think there's that kind of abrupt,

"I don't give a [bleep]" attitude

that she carries with her.

Shut up and quit being a whiny [bleep]

you're being a [bleep] bitch.

What I liked least about tyler

was that he was very negative all the time.

Well, you're being an [bleep] right now.

Really?

You're the only one being crazy. I'm fine.

So why the [bleep] would you be a [bleep] to me now?

I'm not trying to be a [bleep] oh, whatever.

You are trying to be a huge ass[bleep] towards me

and I haven't done anything.

I'm not married to you. I don't owe you anything.

A.K.: Being with tyler

made me greatly appreciate my husband so much more.

Do you want see [bleep] 'cause I can be an ass[bleep]

oh, I know you can.

Narrator: Conflict with their partner and an unrelenting environment

brought some of the survivalists to their breaking point.

I'm strongly considering throwing in the towel today.

Narrator: Only the truly strong survive.

Several survivalists did not make it to the end.

Nothing is working at all with the mosquitoes.

Who the [bleep] could come out here and survive...

Naked in the amazon jungle?

I don't know. Without you...

[ chuckles ]

...It's just gonna make everything twice as hard.

I am not battling these mosquitoes for any longer,

no matter what.

I have a family and a husband I have to get back home to.

I'm sorry.

You got to do what you got to do.

I do regret quitting. And at the same time, I don't,

because I know the reason I quit was for my health and safety

so I could come back home and take care of my kids.

Tyler: 13 months in afghanistan

didn't do to me mentally and physically

what this five days being out here in the jungle has done.

Tapping out of the challenge and calling it quits --

it's not something that I like to do,

but every person has their limit.

I have nothing to prove to anybody.

Yep, I'm done.

And, really, given the situation,

with a.K. Quitting first,

that's what I used to kind of make myself not feel as bad

for quitting anyways.

Nobody wants to watch a fat guy with tattoos

out in the amazon for 18 days by himself.

Keith is not doing too great.

I woke up that morning feeling strange.

I walked out to the beach,

and next thing I know, I'm laying sideways on the beach.

I think I had a seizure.

There's no way to know what happened.

I don't regret tapping out.

I regret that I had to tap out.

Keith: [bleep]

and I feel like I made the right decision because of my kids.

I was like, "I'm finally being smart on something

that could permanently damage me."

alana: It did mean a lot to me

to make it to the end by myself without a guy.

Yeah. Time for some redecorating, I guess.

Vince: 16 days is a long time to spend here.

I don't know about you -- I simply can't do it.

I'm tapping out, and I'm okay with that.

Initially, when vince told me he was tapping out,

I was very sad.

I really appreciate everything you did.

Thanks for being my instructor.

Over the next couple of days, though,

this turned into resentment,

and I felt like, "as a survival instructor,

how do you tap out before me," you know?

"shouldn't you bring more to the table than I do?"

and he didn't.

Narrator: Weeks after returning home from bolivia,

vince sent sabrina a message to explain why he had to tap out

and leave her on her own.

Vince: Sabrina, I understand you're gonna get this message,

so hello.

I hope you're doing well at home with your family.

Sorry I had to leave you out there, but it turns out,

I wound up with three diseases, believe it or not --

spotted fever from a tick, leptospirosis,

possibly from rat urine,

and falciparum malaria, the most deadly type.

So I was very vindicated in leaving.

I didn't want to do it.

I know you were crying at the time,

and it was a very daunting challenge

for you to do those last days alone.

I feel like I was able to give you some skills

that you were able to take through the final days without me.

Just very proud you were able to do it

and proud I got the hell out of there.

Thank you for being my partner,

and I think we both learned a lot out there.

[ chuckles ] well, I guess that's what you get

when you have the attitude that he did, and he did, so...

I was very angry that he left,

and he really let me down.

Yeah, this video doesn't exactly do it for me.

Badass.

Narrator: Coming up...

I'm giving us a solid a-plus, 4.0, epic adventure.

You're gonna think I'm absolutely [bleep] crazy,

but looking back, yes, I would do it again.

Whoo!

I'm so dizzy. [ sighs ]

the weight loss was crazy. I lost, I think, 22 pounds.

That's the most weight I've ever lost.

When I got back,

I basically elected to eat and drink whatever I wanted,

and I've gained all my weight back easily. [ chuckles ]

eva: It's like you can see your body consuming your muscles.

You see your body cannibalizing itself.

It's very intense.

Shannon: The first time I saw myself in the mirror

after I had showered and come out,

I could see sort of all my bones sticking out.

Oh, I actually looked in the mirror, and I cried.

This time, I lost close to 44 pounds,

so I kind of knew, going into this challenge,

it was gonna be a 21-day suck fest.

Day 21!

Narrator: For those who are able to survive the 21-day ordeal...

Aah!

Narrator: ...The last day,

when they were finally extracted from their grueling environment,

was the sweetest.

Laura: Oh, my god! E.J.: Yeah!

Yeah! Yeah!

[ shouting indistinctly ]

everything about extraction was epic.

We [bleep] did it! Yeah!

Whoo!

Getting on that helicopter

and flying out of there was just -- it was a rush.

[ both cheering ]

laura: Looking down upon the river

that had been our home for three weeks,

it was so exciting,

but there was also this little bittersweet sadness

because it had become our home,

because it had taught us so much.

It humbled us, and we connected with that place.

There was absolute sadness leaving the amazon.

Bye, amazon! Thank you!

My hat's off to the jungle. Jungle's no joke.

It'll eat you up and spit you out. That's for sure.

When you hear the sound of the chopper coming...

Hey! Hey! Over here!

Get us out of here!

...It was just like, you know, angel on your shoulders.

It was just great.

Finally made it.

There are very few moments in my life

that compare with the just blissful experience

of completing this challenge.

Emotionally, physically, toughest thing

I ever did in my life.

Fernando: I'm definitely tired.

[ engine idling ]

this is it.

Ohh.

Whoo! Samantha! We made it!

The sight of that boat coming our way

after 21 days out in that jungle was amazing.

Whoo!

Fernando: The level of suffering and misery that I experienced...

We did it.

...Was an all-time high for me,

so words cannot express...

Whoo! Whoo!

...The joy we had that day.

Malaysia, it's been a pleasure,

but it's time for me to go home to my family.

[ thunder crashes ]

eva: Good morning.

Good morning.

Day 21.

Oh, my gosh. It's finally here.

Seeing that sunrise on the morning of day 21 --

that was one of the best days of my life.

[ groans ] oh, my gosh.

Oh, my god.

I can't believe we're almost here.

It's like you don't believe that it's actually gonna be real.

[ laughs ]

it's like you don't actually believe

that somebody's gonna come and save you

until you're sitting in the back of a truck, driving away.

Whoo-hoo!!

I'm so dizzy.

I'm giving us a solid, a-plus, 4.0, epic adventure.

Guess we don't need these anymore.

Yeah.

I have no regrets at all.

I'm going to visit belize again

probably just on vacation and not naked and afraid.

[ chuckles ]

it was a little bit bittersweet when I left

'cause I was kind of sad.

I left a piece of myself in fiji.

I came back from this challenge just a different person

and, I think, a better person.

It really puts things into perspective on what's important.

Truly, truly life-changing.

Eva: I hope everybody, over the course of their lives,

has the chance to push themselves in the same way.

It really helps focus the things in life that are important.

It gives you so much perspective on who you are.

Keith: I learned a ton about myself

and how I interact with people

and how strong I am or weak I am and what I can actually do.

It has been a... Wild ride.

Samantha and I was one of the highlights of the experience.

I have nothing but gratitude

that she was my partner out there.

Sam: There's just a bond I have with fernie

that I don't have with anybody else on the planet,

and that's really cool.

Cass: Shannon -- I mean, she's awesome.

She's, like, you know, my best friend.

Since the show, we talk quite a bit.

Shannon: I made a friend for life in cass.

That's a pretty intense bond to form in 21 days.

Cass: And it's kind of something special that I'll always have

for the rest of my life.

When I think of e.J.,

he's someone that I know will always have my back.

E.J. Will always be family to me.

Hell, I'm ready to go again.

Yeah! That was epic!

Find some other place

that somebody else doesn't want to go to

and make sure you pack laura zerra in my suitcase

'cause I want to make sure

I've got the right person by my side when we do these things.

Laura: You're gonna think I'm absolutely [bleep] crazy,

but looking back, yes, I would do it again.

Samantha: I would totally go out there

and take my clothes off and meet another stranger.

Yeah, I would do that again.

[ sighs ]

I would absolutely do it again.

Cass: It's the longest survival situation I've ever been in

and hopefully I will ever be in,

unless I go to try and do it again.

I would definitely do this again.

Yeah, baby!!

I would absolutely do this again.

I'm dying to do it again. Put me out there.

Whoo!

E.J.: It was an honor, a privilege,

and I would do it again in a minute.

Yeah!!