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[Whispering] There are a lot of cape buffalo right there.

[Ali speaking]

Right now, they're forming a defensive line.

You can see all the strong ones in the front

and the young in the back.

They do that when they feel threatened.

[Ali] We should go.

[Dramatic music playing]

[Andrew] There's nothing easy about this.

We got hail.

My heart's racing.

[Woman] If you don't fight, you won't make it.

Why is it so hard?

[Andrew] This is that part where the afraid sets in.

Getting ready to get dropped off and do this.

You know, it all started with me on the couch

watching the show.

And now I'm on the show.

Super excited to do this 14-day fan challenge.

Check it out. We got a zebra over here.

It's my new neighbor.

Oh, there are some very cute impala.

[Narrator] Buffalo alley, South Africa,

a vast grassland teeming with aggressive black rhinos,

lions, leopards, territorial baboons,

and the mighty cape buffalo

that earns the area its name.

Right here we got a cape buffalo.

It's like the size of the truck.

[Laughs]

[Narrator] Weighing up to 2,200 pounds,

cape buffalo are known

as the black death or widowmaker,

because they kill 200 people a year

on the African continent.

Fiercely territorial,

they will trample anything in their path,

charging without warning at speeds

of up to 37 miles per hour.

This area is definitely teeming with wildlife.

I hope they don't mind the houseguest.

My name is Andrew.

I'm a telemetry technician in the ICU.

Right now, I'm 10 hours into a 12-hour shift.

I've done the Appalachian trail,

I've done the pacific crest trail,

and I've been a fan of naked and afraid

ever since day one and I'm super stoked

to finally get to show the world that I can do this.

Right now I'm watching naked and afraid XL.

They're in Colombia.

Take that, Colombia.

[Andrew] Jeff kept being so excited about everything.

I think he's got the right attitude.

Always excited.

I wanna hunt, I wanna forage,

I wanna build an awesome shelter.

And by the end of this thing,

I wanna be living the highlife, so buckle up.

[Narrator] As an ICU technician,

Andrew is accustomed to reacting quickly

in life or death situations,

but in an unfamiliar environment...

- Wow. - [Narrator] ...His enthusiasm

may ultimately outweigh his stamina.

He begins with a primitive survival rating

or PSR of 5.2.

I'm Ali.

I'm currently living in Bozeman, Montana,

and I'm a grad student

studying sustainable food system.

As a fan, it's, uh, pretty crazy that today's the day.

Uh, definitely a bit nervous,

a little bit nauseous because of the nerves.

I have tested my mental endurance

in a number of different ways.

Watching the women on naked and afraid

definitely inspired me

to feel like I can do more in the outdoors as well.

I'm a big fan of Gabrielle.

I think she's a total badass.

Thank you.

If I can channel some of that,

I'll walk away feeling proud.

[Narrator] Ali is an accomplished outdoorswoman,

but remains untested in a partnership.

She begins with a PSR of 4.8.

Ah, giraffe.

I'm definitely about to be

one of the smallest living things

walking around out here.

Yo.

Holy [bleep] there is a lion right there.

It's just slightly terrifying.

[Bleep] Just got real.

[Lion roar]

[Andrew] It's a little intimidating,

knowing I'm gonna be out here with those.

There's no fence, just the lion.

Holy [bleep].

This whole situation, it's so surreal.

There are lions and big game out here that will kill you.

I almost feel like a gladiator going into battle

and it's about to get real.

Whoa.

All right, baby. Let's do this.

South African bush, baby.

Being naked is something I feel like

I have been comfortable with for quite a while.

Okay.

I sit for drawing classes and painting classes.

Well, step one naked is done.

Now we just got to get afraid.

Feeling a little exposed right now, not gonna lie.

Woo, that sand is hot, boy.

And watch out for thorns.

Wilderness friend.

- Hey. - I'm Andrew.

- I'm Ali. - Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you, too.

- Where are you from? - I live in Montana now.

- What about you? - I'm from key west.

Cool. Sweet. Nice.

And, um, are you super excited

we finally get, uh, get to do this?

We're out here.

We'll see. Yeah.

To be honest, I feel like my gaze,

it just immediately went to penis

and then I was like, oh, there's Andrew's face.

I had to make sure I was like, stare at the face,

stare at the face.

What kinda inspired you to get into this crazy mess?

It always seemed like a way to, sort of, push yourself

to a new extreme and so I wanted

to get out here and try it out.

I like to do long distance runs.

I've done some prolonged fasting.

Nettle is great for tea.

Some of my most useful skills will be foraging.

Some huckleberry.

And just general plant identification.

- Hell yeah. - Yeah.

You know, and doing a bunch of outdoorsy stuff.

And, you know, this is the mount Everest

of survival challenges, right?

Working in the medical industry,

you see people knocking on death's door

and it just makes you really

wanna live life to the fullest.

That's what inspires me

to do wild and crazy stuff like this.

Let's check out what we got in the bags over here.

Yeah, let's see what's over here.

[Narrator] In addition to a knife and fire starter,

Andrew and Ali have been given a pot

to help them hydrate in the extreme heat.

Well, I've got the map.

[Andrew] Let's see what we got.

We got buffalo, elephant, lion, rhino.

Yeah. It's like being in a zoo without the fences.

It's crazy.

Let's try to follow this game trail

and, uh, see if we can get some water.

- Yeah, let's do it. - Right.

Finally got to meet my partner.

I think our personalities mesh really well.

Honestly, the dung feels pretty good

on your feet to walk in.

It's like soft and not as hot.

Andrew seems awesome.

He seems like really upbeat.

He obviously has a lot of experience in the outdoors.

I was expecting it to be

a lot more like a desert, but...

It's... yeah, it's pretty green.

Yeah.

I'm super excited about that.

[Narrator] During the rainy season,

temperatures in buffalo alley can plummet from the high 90s

to the low 50s in a day.

While thunderclouds release a deluge of rain,

often lasting for six hours or longer.

Ow.

[Laughter]

[Ali] Thorn?

[Andrew] Yeah.

[Narrator] The terrain is blanketed

by needle-sharp acacia thorns.

After dark, nocturnal camel spiders,

many as big as six inches in length

leave the thickets to hunt.

[Andrew] Yo.

Check this out.

Whoa, I didn't even realize that was a thing.

Ali, check it out.

Is that a rhino over there?

Uh, like, let's be quiet.

[Andrew] Are we downwind right now?

[Bleep]

I think it probably knows that we're here.

- [Andrew] Yeah. - I think we stay definitely...

- Over that way. - Give it a nice wide area.

[Andrew] For sure.

Hopefully they're leading us to water.

From the looks of all the animal tracks,

we're definitely getting closer to something.

Oh, I see water.

It looks really gross.

[Laughter]

[Andrew] We're thirsty.

This looks honestly just like poop

that's been rained on.

Let's see if there's something

that looks a little bit less gross.

[Andrew] Hmm.

This looks like the most promising water, I would say.

Yeah. I think right where it's flowing.

Yeah.

We should look for a spot to set up camp around here.

Maybe like a little bit up from the water

and make sure it's like off a game trail

- because... - Okay.

[Ali] ...We don't wanna be in their way.

Maybe this big tree area.

Yeah. Like, right here?

Yeah. That's just gonna take some clearing

and then we can start to build it up.

Maybe I can get the fire going or something

and start boiling water and then come back and help.

Sounds good.

I've seen a lot of people come out here

and try to make fire and fail.

All right. Rock and roll.

It's like riding a bike to me.

So this fire is gonna get going real quick.

And that, my friends, is how you make fire.

Nice big fire.

Fire's roaring, water's boiling.

[Ali] Sweet.

Fire is definitely essential out here.

We wanna boil the water that we have.

Also, there's a lot of big game animals,

we wanna keep them away.

Looks like buffalo tracks over here.

There is animal poop right here.

Right up at our camp.

[Andrew] Fresh poop at that.

[Ali] Part of the appeal of this spot.

There is a tree that we can climb here

and buffalo cannot climb trees.

We're gonna try and build up a bit of a wall tonight.

Perhaps put thorns on it to keep stuff out of the boma.

[Narrator] A boma is a circular enclosure

of branches and thorns with a fire inside.

It is designed to keep large animals out

but doesn't have a roof

to protect against the elements.

This might make a good front door.

Come on, baby.

I'm already, like, super dehydrated, I can tell.

Come on.

Once we're inside for the night,

pull this thing and wedge it right there.

[Ali] Do we wanna check out the water

and potentially take a water break?

- Still good? - Yeah.

Super refreshing.

[Laughter] That is dirty.

- Super refreshing. - You got to watch out

for the sediment.

[Ali] Feeling pretty good.

Getting close to the end of our first day here.

Me and Andrew seem to be working really well together.

Okay. Hell yeah.

[Ali] Sweet.

[Andrew] I wish we had more time in the day

to keep building it but it is what it is,

so probably just gonna make sure

that we got a fire going around the clock tonight.

We got our first official fire in our boma.

There's Ali closing our door.

I have a feeling

that we might see some [bleep] on this trip.

You think?

We're at a watering hole.

- Yeah. We're [bleep] - I mean...

- And we're really close. - Yeah.

[Ali speaking]

Yo.

Don't even say that [bleep].

Hear a growl?

Hear that?

It sounded like a grunt or something.

We've basically been up all night

trying to keep this fire going.

But there is definitely something large.

[Andrew speaking]

[Announcer] They've survived extreme environments.

[Announcer] They've survived extreme wildlife.

(Elephant trumpets)

Come on! Yes!

(Sobbing)

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(Laughs loudly)

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♪ everything you want ♪

♪ every, everything you want ♪

[Announcer] Some get down.

[Man] I haven't seen this much action in years.

- Goodnight. - (Giggling)

He had a (bleep).

I'm cute, what can you do?

[Announcer] Others break down.

There's just certain things I just don't

want to deal with right now.

There is zero percent sexual attraction.

I honestly feel like I'm about to throw up.

[Announcer] This is dating... he's so beautiful.

- Gone... - Eyes up here, bud.

Wild.

(Screaming)

I'm sorry, mom.

[Announcer] "Naked and afraid of love"...

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[Andrew speaking]

There is definitely something large.

[Andrew speaking]

It's leaving.

There was some animal activity last night

and we don't know what it was but it was big.

Here, we've got a cape buffalo track.

Nice deep print to let you know

how big those things really are.

They call them the black death

because they attack without warning,

and they're like the size of a small truck.

And it looks like he headed,

uh, right up towards our boma here, so yippee.

[Ali] Our cape buffalo experience

I think has definitely made us more cautious.

We did a little bit more home renovation this morning,

added some more thorns.

Today, our priorities are gonna be stocking up

on firewood and then hopefully finding

some good food sources as well.

I am collecting spinach for us to eat.

Yay.

The wild spinach that's out here,

it's pretty plentiful.

Seems like there's a bunch of spinach stuff around.

Hell yeah.

Not super high calorie but food.

- Yeah. - You know.

It's something, something to eat.

[Ali] We could boil it so that we can sterilize it.

You got some of your classic South African spinach,

looks delicious.

Going for it, Popeye?

Oh, yeah.

All right. I'm gonna dig in.

It's a little fuzzier than I was expecting.

- [Laughs] - Fuzzy?

Fuzzier than you were expecting?

Yeah.

If one of us is gonna vomit, who's it gonna be?

Probably me, to be honest.

No?

- They're not for you? - Yeah.

All right. We'll find out by the end of 14 days,

we're definitely gonna eat some gnarly stuff.

Woo! That sun is hot, boy.

I'm keeping an eye out for any big game animals.

Holy [bleep].

There's a cape buffalo in our waterhole.

I come down to the water and check this out.

[Ali speaking]

Not really looking forward to trips to the waterhole.

Definitely sits in the back of your mind

that you're not alone out here

and to keep the animals away, fire is essential.

This is their house. We're in their backyard.

[Ali] We are getting close to the end of day two.

Hooray.

Yeah, I'm feeling tired for sure.

The sun definitely took it out of us today.

I'm gonna go fill this up.

Watch out for cape buffalo.

No joke.

Staying hydrated is something

that we have a little bit more control over

than a lot of the other things here.

[Birds chirping]

[Ali] Okay.

I am trying to do some of nature's sunscreen here

to just protect my skin a little bit.

Feel like better safe than sorry.

So this is breakfast today.

[Ali] Round two.

[Andrew] We tried spinach.

It tastes like dirt water.

It's a rough flavor.

Hopefully, we can get some meat here

one of these days.

Just by the end of this trip, mark my words,

we gonna eat some meat.

We gonna eat some meat.

I'm gonna make an arapuca bird trap.

I'm peeling the bark off of these branches

and then I turn this into cordage or rope

and I will use the rope to hold together a bird trap.

I saw somebody on the show

make one of these bird traps.

[Joe] It's so harsh out here.

All right.

This is the trigger mechanism.

Here comes the bird.

Voila.

Dove for dinner.

Now, I just got to figure out

a cool place to set this thing up.

Now, we wait.

[Ali speaking]

- Andrew! - [Andrew] Yo.

Come up here.

The boma's on fire.

I'll be right there.

[Ali] Hurry, please.

[Andrew] What's up?

[Ali speaking]

[Andrew] Oh, my god.

You okay?

Yeah.

We just didn't really think through

where our woodpile was.

That's an error on our judgment.

Yeah, maybe we should just like

make sure that our woodpiles are farther away from...

[Ali] Yeah.

The fire.

Can't believe we almost burned it down

in the middle of the day.

Like, at night, I get it.

That was a little mistake.

I think it's just a matter of luck

that it did not turn out to be a big one.

Good job at saving the boma.

[Ali] Yeah, no worries.

[Suspenseful music playing]

- [Andrew] Yo, yo, there it is. - [Ali] Where?

[Andrew] It's like the size of the palm of your hand

what we believe is a camel spider.

It's going to town on that grasshopper.

[Ali] What the [bleep]

[Andrew] I know, right? It's huge.

[Ali] Oh, I hate it.

All right. Get up. Get up. Get up.

[Andrew] What? What? What? What?

[Ali] Oh, sorry. It was right behind you.

Here's one right here. Do you see it?

[Andrew] Yup.

Oh [bleep]

[Ali] There it is. There it is.

- [Andrew] Where? - [Ali] Coming towards you.

[Andrew] Oh [bleep]

Dude, that thing is huge.

Oh, my god. That thing is massive.

[Ali] There's a rock.

[Bleep]

It went back into the wood pile.

[Crickets chirping]

[Andrew] It's [bleep] back.

[Clanking]

[Andrew] Up the tree.

[Ali] It went up the tree.

Can you get it while it's in that crack?

[Andrew] It's the same thing that went back at my face.

[Ali] Don't miss the thing.

[Andrew] Don't... Oh, no pressure.

All right, one, two...

Oh, [bleep]

[Suspenseful music playing]

There has been a very large camel spider...

Terrorizing us all night.

Oh, [bleep]

It's underneath the tree.

- [Laughs] - [Andrew] That...

[Ali] Sorry, that was a really dramatic reaction.

- Do you see it? - [Andrew] Where did it go? No!

[Ali] I think it's in that crack.

[Andrew speaking]

[Suspenseful music playing]

[Andrew] I'm killing that thing tonight.

So right now... I'm moving the firewood over here

instead of a pile right here.

The spider we think lives like here.

This should give me a good line of sight on it.

So I can hopefully kill it tonight.

[Dramatic music playing]

[Ali] We're so energized right now.

Gosh, I can just feel the energy

pulsing through my veins right now.

I'm progressively getting lightheaded when I stand up.

We got to get some different food.

Like, I really wanna catch something.

Let me go get the bird trap.

Well, the trap has been triggered, but no bird.

I got birds up here laughing at me though.

It's hard out here.

Be grateful that you got those chicken nuggets on a platter.

There's definitely a lot of trial and error

with the food out here.

It's an extremely humbling experience.

[Bleep]

This thing is such a pain in the ass to arm.

I'm loving the fact that it's like overcast today.

It might not be a bad time to just explore in general.

I mean, it's not gonna get cooler

than it is right now.

So yeah, I'm gonna go try to find fruit.

[Ali] Okay.

I feel like me and Andrew,

we sort of complement each other in a lot of ways.

[Andrew] She's super solid about collecting water,

collecting spinach, firewood.

Having somebody to share all the responsibilities

out here makes it a totally different game.

I think anybody can just kind of come out here

and scrape by with the bare minimum for 14 days.

But I think it's when you go outside that box

and really try to discover more, take in more.

I think that's the difference between a true survivalist

and somebody that's just out here to survive.

It's like a lot of work to try and find other food

and we're going to start getting more

and more depleted.

And I feel like with us working together,

we're definitely gonna be able

to make it through this thing.

Really feel the lack of energy and food.

[Suspenseful music playing]

There are a lot of cape buffalo right there.

Was gonna come try to check out this tree

but I'm gonna go this way and leave them be.

I've always been a fan of the show.

I've seen a lot of episodes

and it seems like we are living in a zoo

compared to those other episodes.

There is so much wildlife,

so much activity all the time.

It just keeps you on your toes.

None of these trees have fruit on them.

Yeah, I'm gonna check out a couple more trees

and then head back to the boma.

Oh, are these jackalberries?

I think these are jackalberries, which are edible.

Huge find today. Huge find.

I'm gonna take these back to the boma

and share them with Ali.

I think this is an automatic mood booster.

Hi, honey. I'm home.

[Ali] Hey, there. How did it go?

[Andrew] Guess what I found.

Please be fruit.

[Andrew] It's not a lot.

It's not a lot.

So at first I thought they were jackalberries,

but after testing them.

Whoa.

[Andrew] They are definitely velvet raisins.

- [Ali] Thank you. - You're welcome.

Like, just a taste of something sweet,

something that's not what we've been eating.

Well, get ready because your spinach is ready.

Thank you for doing that.

Oh, yeah, of course.

[Suspenseful music playing]

[Crickets chirping]

[Baboons barking]

[Crickets chirping]

[Ali] Okay. It is the morning of day five.

The sun has just come up

so it's time for morning chores.

It's hard because we never really sleep

super well at night,

so it's like just hard to get motivated.

Hey, Andrew.

[Andrew speaking]

Oh.

[Ali] There is a herd of cape buffalo over there,

so just be cautious.

Oh, schnikes.

We're gonna stick together this morning

to keep our eyes on.

They're snorting at us.

They're there, our boma is there.

It's about 50 yards in case we need to run.

Right now, they're like forming a defensive line.

You can see all the strong ones in the front

and the young in the back.

They do that when they feel threatened.

- [Ali] Yeah. - [Andrew] I'm thinking...

Maybe we should go.

[Suspenseful music playing]

[Andrew speaking]

- [Ali] Oh, crap. - [Andrew] Holy [bleep].

We're about to get stampeded by the black death.

[Suspenseful music playing]

[Andrew] We're out collecting firewood,

giant herd of cape buffalo appear.

We head back to the boma.

[Andrew speaking]

- [Ali] Oh, crap. - [Andrew] Holy [bleep].

A bunch of buffalo poop here when we set up, so.

[Ali] We could definitely tell that they hung out.

Part of the appeal of the spot was that there's a tree

that we can climb here and buffalo cannot climb trees.

[Andrew] Get a fire going.

Maybe the smoke will get rid of the buffalo.

[Andrew speaking]

[Andrew] Looks like they moved.

Sure beats caffeine in the morning.

[Laughs]

It looks like it's gonna rain.

[Thunder rumbling]

[Andrew] I mean, it's raining enough to like...

- [Ali] Yeah, yeah. - [Andrew] ...Scare me.

It definitely just soaked all of our wood.

I feel like it's not that wet, like...

[Andrew] Yeah, but if for whatever reason this goes out,

we would have a very, very tough time getting fire again.

We are gonna be really miserable

if we have to do a night of rain without firewood.

Firewood at this point is like absolutely

our most important priority.

[Andrew] Anybody that's ever thinking

about doing this survival challenge,

collect more firewood than you think you need.

Watching the show, I saw one episode,

uh, where Gabrielle said that her father always said...

If you're gonna build a fire,

get as much wood as you think you need and then double it.

[Andrew] That is solid advice.

We got our fire going, got our water,

the woodpile all set up.

Hopefully there's no rain, spiders,

or big crazy animals tonight.

[Suspenseful music playing]

[Andrew] Oh [bleep] it's like downpouring.

We have no idea what time it is

and it has been raining all night long.

We have been trying to keep this fire going

the best that we can

and we've just been huddled around it.

[Ali] It's gonna be a long cold hard night

for both of us.

[Andrew] I bet.

[Birds chirping]

[Andrew] Last night was so rough.

We fall asleep and then like wake up

to raindrops and then you're like,

"oh [bleep] I gotta start the fire."

I might try to, like, build a roof.

Like, I would have taken like all those long reeds

and like put them together and then...

- [Ali] Yeah. - Tie them up with this.

[Ali] Here's the thing,

those reeds are super flammable.

I mean, we could do it strategically

so we're not like gonna burn our boma down.

[Ali] I think it's gonna be a lot of work.

[Andrew] Yeah.

[Ali] But I like where your head's at.

- Right? - [Ali] Yeah.

It's like a good idea in theory.

[Laughs] If we have enough wood,

the fire won't go out.

Yeah. We should collect more wood...

- [Ali] Yeah, yeah. - To keep the fire going

in the event of another typical storm.

Maybe eventually we'll build some sort of roof

but it's just not like the top priority at the moment.

Trying to catch some meat is, like,

I mean, that's way up there for me

because that would just be such a huge

morale booster to us.

[Birds squeaking]

[Andrew] I've seen these monitor lizards out here.

[Intense music playing]

I'm trying to look under these, like,

little nook and crannies.

If I was a lizard, that's where

I'd be hiding out right now.

Clouds as far the eye can see,

uh, not real hopeful catching a lizard,

not in the rain.

I can't say I blame them, I'd rather be in the boma too,

but I'm hungry.

Go back home and give Ali the bad news.

[Crickets chirping]

Just lightheaded.

I don't think I drank enough water

before I went to bed last night and this morning,

I'm feeling a little bit dehydrated.

Being out here is certainly very real,

it's the hardest thing I've ever done.

I'm just gonna try and keep my head

in the challenge until it's time to leave.

[Birds chirping]

[Andrew] Bird nest here.

[Gasps] There's a bird in it.

Guess what I just found.

[Gasps] Look at that.

[Dramatic music playing]

[Ali] How'd it go?

Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey.

Oh, those are really pretty actually.

Aren't they cool?

I think they're still warm.

Hell, yeah.

About to grub out.

[Laughs]

And by grub out, I mean, like a tablespoon of food.

This will be the first protein we've had, yeah.

[Ali] They're so tiny.

Make sure we take the most immediately.

[Andrew] It is not like yummy.

[Ali] No.

Bon appetite.

That part actually looks half decent.

Yeah?

Tasted like a yolk actually.

- Really? - [Ali] Mmm-hmm.

You may just have to pick it up.

This is gonna make me throw up.

You'll be fine.

Something.

You can almost, like, feel like a little bit of, like,

life you get from it.

Like, the very, very little bit of life.

[Dramatic music playing]

[Andrew] The sun hasn't like come out

really in like four days.

You're feeling a little down?

I'm so... I’m... it's starting to weigh on me.

That makes sense.

[Andrew] Obviously I’d like to be thriving out here,

but if I gotta worry about wood

and being warm all the damn time,

I guess that's this challenge.

With the rain coming and going,

I'd like to have more of a roof right now,

but we only have so many of us and so much time,

so the option is just collect wood

because staying warm means more than staying dry.

Oh, we're about to have a real bad day.

- [Suspenseful music playing] - [Thunder clapping]

[Rain pattering]

[Andrew] What the [bleep].

We are so [bleep] right now.

If this rain doesn't stop, we're not gonna have fire.

[Ali speaking]

[Andrew] The fire we have is our lifeblood.

It's all wet, we don't have fire, we don't have water,

we don't have protection from the animals,

we don't have heat.

[Andrew speaking]

[Andrew] If we don't have fire,

we really don't have anything out here.

[Andrew speaking]

This is that part where the afraid sets in.

[Thunder clapping]

[Ali] Ooh, stiff knees.

I feel like a grandma.

It definitely makes you feel a little old, doesn't it?

[Ali] We could do some yoga later.

I've never done yoga, so whatever.

[Ali] You've never done yoga?

I know some yoga poses,

like the names of some of them.

- Like downward dog. - [Ali] Mmm-hmm.

And happy baby.

[Ali] Happy baby is a pretty funny pose.

I'll show you happy baby.

You go like this

- and then you rock... - [Andrew] Oh, my god.

Back and forward.

Yo, you could just tone that down right now.

- I'm sorry. - [Laughs] Okay.

Maybe I should've shown you that clothed.

[Laughing]

I was not expecting that.

I, like, kinda thought through

what that might look like, but like not really.

Thank you for being you.

[Laughs]

[Intense music playing]

[Andrew] The storm is just dumping buckets on us

and we are doing everything we can

to keep this fire going.

[Ali speaking]

[Andrew] Taking turns back and forth

trying to cover the fire, blowing on the fire.

[Ali] I think it's gonna be over soon.

[Andrew] I hope you're right.

Oh, golly.

[Ali] I think we both were able to stay

in a fairly good headspace particularly

because the fire didn't go out.

If the fire goes out,

that's gonna be a different situation.

[Andrew] Woo. [Bleep] Yeah.

I'm really, really, really proud of us.

We kept the fire going in a torrential downpour.

That is not an easy task.

[Suspenseful music playing]

[Andrew] Me and my partner are struggling.

We are starving, we are wet, we are cold.

It takes a very determined individual

to make it through a challenge like this.

[Suspenseful music playing]

[Ali] It started raining, we're getting really cold

and it's happening very quickly

and it's about to be a long day.

[Rain pattering]

[Intense music playing]

[Andrew] Keeping that fire going

in a torrential downpour is a serious business.

I don't care who you are.

[Andrew speaking]

[Ali speaking]

[Thunder rumbling]

[Andrew] It has been raining for three plus hours now.

And our fire is basically all but gone out,

it is absolutely freezing right now.

[Narrator] In the last three hours,

the temperature has dropped to 48 degrees.

Andrew and Ali are rapidly losing body heat in the rain

and beginning to shiver,

signaling the onset of hypothermia.

Man, Ali and I are freezing our [bleep] asses off

because our fire has gone out

and, like, hypothermia is the [indistinct]

I gotta make it out of this alive.

Get home in one piece without freezing to death.

- [Beeps] - Hello, basecamp?

[Man] This is basecamp, go ahead.

We need your help. Can you get in here?

[Michael] Okay, guys.

There is no way that we can go through the night

like this without a fire, I mean, it's hypothermia or...

[Michael] And the fire was not able to stay?

- We tried for hours. - We tried for hours.

And it just kept raining and raining,

so I mean, we don't wanna tap, we don't wanna tap

but, you know, it's the smart thing to do.

[Michael] Are you guys willing to tap 100% sure?

- Yup. - [Andrew] Yeah.

[Michael] We'll get you out of here.

- Come on, guys. - All right, thanks.

[Dramatic music playing]

[Andrew] It's an extremely humbling experience.

Coming into this, I was sure that I had it.

I still feel that way, you know.

I know what I need to fix.

Had I just created a shelter a little bit differently,

built a better roof, I’d be walking out on day 14.

[Narrator] Nine days in,

Andrew and Ali abandoned the challenge,

dropping their PSRs to 4.5.

[Ali] I came in knowing that this was gonna suck

in a lot of ways and be really hard.

We learned a lot on this challenge.

If we had somehow been able to make a roof,

that probably would have helped a lot with the rain.

I'm devastated right now,

but, um, anybody that wants to think

that the two of us weren't tough as nails,

you come out here and try.

[Dramatic music playing]