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Dad, you wanna go outside?

- Sure. - Thanks.

I guess we're gonna start our day.

How do you feel about your mom doing naked and afraid?

Kind of weird if you're... My friends mention

that they saw your butt or something

- on the show, but... - Well, yeah.

It's the day before I leave.

How are you feeling about it?

Tap out 'cause you're a cry baby.

I'm pretty sure you can count on one hand

how many times you've seen me cry.

It's true.

- But you've also never been in this situation. - Yeah.

Gonna be gone for a little while, but I'm gonna come back.

Daddy, I'll miss you.

I'll miss you, but I'll be back.

This is stupid.

This is nothing like texas.

There's bugs everywhere.

I've no idea how I'm gonna respond to it.

This place actually kind of reminds me a little of home

with the heat, all the vegetation,

and there's probably gonna be a lot of mosquitoes.

There are a lot of thorns out here on everything.

That usually doesn't go well with being naked.

In the north of colombia,

lies the dense jungle of santa catalina.

This rainforest bordering a 1,700-foot-wide marsh

is the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes

and multitudes of biting insects.

While the sweltering 90-degree heat and 95% humidity

can bring on dehydration in a matter of hours,

the dense canopy hides razor-sharp thorns

and some of the continent's deadliest animals,

like the jaguar, the largest cat in the americas.

It is also a land full of lore

with a bloody history that is rumored to be cursed.

I've done a lot of research about the area.

I know back in the mid-1800s, there was a war

between the farmers and the indigenous people.

A lot of indigenous were killed,

so there's a lot of bodies out here.

My name is zach. I'm from austin, texas.

I'm a former marine scout sniper

and private security contractor for the us government.

I grew up on 3,300-acre ranch.

We'd go out on the weekends and sleep in a teepee

and practice primitive survival,

animal tracking, hunting and fishing.

I joined the marine corps two weeks out of high school.

Did three tours in iraq as a scout sniper team leader

and about 17 as a government contractor.

I've been in gun fights.

I've been shot at, blown up, hit with rpgs, mortars.

I had a bounty on my head in iraq.

I've always been drawn to risky adventures.

If there is no risk, then what's the point?

The time that I've spent overseas,

you see death sometimes on a regular basis,

and so I've become acutely aware of my own mortality.

It really doesn't take a whole lot to kill a human being

and so, for the time that I have here,

I wanna do and get as much out of that life as I can.

Zach's extensive military experience gives him an edge,

but he could struggle without his gear.

He begins with a primitive survival rating or psr of 7.0.

I think this is gonna push me to limits

that nothing in my life has ever done before,

and I'm really excited to get out there and see how well I handle it.

I grew up in the backwoods of arkansas.

Pretty much we were nothing more than feral children.

We very rarely wore shoes unless we were forced to.

Hunting was a big part of our lives.

It was a everyday thing.

The woods, that was our grocery store.

These are crawfish, mudbugs whatever you wanna call them.

In the south, we eat a lot of them.

They're good to eat.

I wanna know that that little hillbilly is still in there.

Ann's spartan upbringing

forced her to develop strong tracking and foraging skills.

But her childhood ruggedness may have diminished with age.

Her psr is set at 6.3.

I think I'm the most nervous about my partner

'cause that is gonna make this a good experience or a not-so-good experience.

Ah, we're here.

Time to get naked.

This is scary.

It's an environment that I've never stayed in before.

I'm used to having armor.

I'm used to having equipment and clothes and helmets and bulletproof plates on

and to now be naked in the jungle,

uh, it makes you just hyper alert and hyper aware

of everything that might try to touch you.

Big, tall trees everywhere.

Hopefully, I can build a shelter out of that.

Get my ass off the ground.

Bugs are gonna suck at night.

You can see them everywhere.

It's getting real now.

Me being naked in front of someone that's the opposite sex

and a complete stranger

is really not a big deal to me,

I mean, unless, he has, you know, four sets of testicles or something,

then you know, shouldn't be a big deal.

Now to go find another naked person in the woods.

-Hi. -Hi, how are you?

- Fine, how are you? - Uh...

I'm assuming you're my partner.

I think so, yeah.

- Zach. - Ann.

- It's good to meet you. - Good to meet you.

I'm from texas, austin area.

- How about you? - I'm from hattiesburg, mississippi.

- But originally from texarkana, so... - Okay, awesome.

- We got the same blood, then. - Yes, exactly.

- Good deal. - Exactly.

So, what are, what are your skill sets?

- Uh, you know, fire-making, shelter-building, um... - Good deal.

- I'm not gonna go hungry. - Yeah.

- We're gonna, we're gonna eat. - Good.

- Good, I like to eat. - So, how about you?

Uh, fishing, hunting, trapping,

you know, hopefully, all the milestones that we're gonna need.

- I've been studying a bunch for it. - Yeah, I think we got this.

I think we're gonna do good.

- Absolutely. - Twenty-one days is gonna be a piece of cake.

I'm excited. I'm ready to get started.

Me, too. I'm ready to have nerves go away

- and just let's do it. - Yes, exactly.

I agree. I agree.

Cool talk.

All right, ann seems really great.

She's got tenacity.

I'm excited to have her as a partner.

We got some bags here.

- Let's check them out. - Okay, great.

Zach and ann have each brought a personal item.

All right.

A knife and a mosquito net.

They've also been given a fire starter

and a pot to boil water.

And I brought my glasses 'cause I'm blind as a bat at night.

- Seeing is a good thing. - So, that way...

- yes, exactly. - Yeah, it helps.

- And it looks like I've got the map. - Oh, good.

- Here's where we are. - Yeah, looks like that's right.

This looks like a marsh,

so, I think we go down along the marsh here

because looks like we have a water source, some things to eat.

- Yeah, I like that, too. - You'd think...

We're gonna have to watch out for some of these jaguars and coral snakes...

- the mapana. - And caiman. Sweet.

- We need to get started then. - Yeah, let's do it.

Looks like there's a little game trail here.

- Yeah. - Oh.

We'll follow it.

So, um, are you married? Single?

I'm married, yeah.

I got a little boy who's three.

- Oh, wow. - Yeah.

Until three, it was kind of mom's world,

but once he turned three, it was all monster trucks...

And, of all the times I've left, this one was tough.

- Yeah, I bet. - He kind of understood it.

My last one just graduated from high school,

- and, now, it's time for me to do something. - Yeah.

- Sweating yet? - I'm sweating a lot.

- It's just too hot out here. - Oh, yeah.

And everything out here is covered in thorns.

Oh, sweet. They built us a house.

That's the abandoned structure I heard about.

And they say it's haunted.

- Yeah. Yeah. - I'll take their word for it.

They say a family lived here,

and they heard noises and nobody's there.

And there was a dog that appeared and disappeared,

so, they, uh, they got out.

I'd be heart broken if my dog disappeared.

- Let's go, let's go inside and look. - Okay.

What you think? Anything you wanna use?

- I haven't found the candy bar yet. - Yeah.

There's no roof. Watch out for that nail down there.

Yeah, thank you.

You don't want to start out injured.

There's no water. There's no food.

So, yeah, we can't stay here.

- It would have been nice, though. - Yeah.

So that was a little disappointing.

Just dried, rotted wood.

Nothing we could really use.

But, uh, you never know what else awaits us.

Hopefully, we don't carry any bad juju with us.

Try to leave the thorns here.

I know. After I get this sticker out of my foot.

Even the trees have thorns.

They'll be glad when we're out of this area.

All right.

We should get sticks because of the snakes.

- Good idea. - We need something to protect ourselves.

Mapana. We definitely don't want to run in into any of those.

Yeah.

The mapana snake

is a deadly south american pit viper.

This patient predator will lie in wait for hours on the jungle floor

for the right moment to ambush its prey with hemorrhagic venom.

- Okay. - There you go.

There we go.

My feet are getting beat up.

It's not like when I was five.

At 47, running across the rocks is totally different.

Ow! Are you not stepping on these?

Uh, no, I feel them.

The sun sure is warm.

And the ground is getting a little warm, too.

- The marsh. - Finally.

Marshes like these

are home to the spectacled caiman,

a crocodilian that grows up to eight and half feet long.

During rainy seasons, the males become aggressive.

And will strike at humans if they venture too close.

Hopefully, we are getting close to somewhere that we can stay.

- We don't have much daylight. - Yeah.

- This is good and clear. - Yeah.

There's lots of tree options to cut down and use.

It's close to the water.

But it's not on the water.

I agree.

We just need to find a spot where we can actually

build something that we can get it off the ground.

We don't want to be on the ground with the snakes.

We're gonna need a lot of wood, though.

It's so humid.

Do you wanna try the find a route to the water?

- 'cause I'm gonna need something to drink... - Probably. Yeah.

- Tonight, for sure. - I agree. I agree.

- All right, let's get started 'cause it's not getting... - Okay.

- Any earlier in the day. - Yeah, right.

Uh, so I'm just trying to get us a platform

that we can get up off the ground,

and dangle that mosquito net for tonight.

So, I'm creating some y's.

I'm gonna cut them off at the same level.

I'm gonna lean them against these trees that are already here.

Uh, lash them to it with some, some vines

so that they'll stay there

and use the compression of the wood to hold us up.

Well, I got us water.

It's definitely not fresh spring water.

- No? - But, uh, we're gonna boil it.

- And it's better than nothing. - Good.

- I'm gonna attempt at getting a fire started for us... - yeah, let's do it.

- 'cause we're gonna need that. - Yeah.

This wood sucks.

It's just super, super soft.

I mean, I can almost hack through it

with a single slice of the blade,

and it's full of ants.

I'm really thirsty.

We've hiked a lot today

and he has done a lot of cutting,

so we definitely need water.

In humid heat, sweat can't evaporate as easily into the air.

But the body continues to attempt to regulate its temperature

by sweating more,

which can cause it to dehydrate faster.

Thirsty.

We're gonna do our best to get this started.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to, I think.

Yeah, let's try this.

- It just doesn't wanna light. - Uh-uh.

So, at this point, shelter has taken a backseat to needing some water.

- You got this. - I hope so.

There's so many factors out here that change on a dime.

The ability to adjust with a new priority list quickly

is paramount to making it out here.

Fire is the only way we could get water

and if I don't get water tonight, it's gonna be hard.

Damn.

You think you could fill the pot completely up?

- Yeah. Yeah. - If you don't mind.

- Yeah, I'll get that done. - Uh, maybe just fill it as much as you can.

- Yeah, I'll get that done. - Ann, thank you.

I will try my best to get this done.

Poor feet.

We've got the tinder bundle. We've got the magnesium.

We get the ember.

Fixing to be dark and we don't have anything to sleep on,

and we don't have a fire as of right now,

and we haven't had any water,

so, um, it might be a long night.

Oh, my god.

I can just feel it right now,

that dial going from green to yellow to red

'cause I am thirsty.

I just need some water before I hit a hard wall.

Keep it up. Keep it up. Keep it up.

Get some air.

Ooh, do I see a fire?

Yay! I see light.

- You see it? - I see light.

You ever had a fire quench your thirst?

Awesome. All right. We needed that.

We needed it.

This is the little wins that I came here for.

But now we got a baby that's gotta be fed.

So, the responsibility for this just began.

It took really too long trying to get fire.

So, it looks like we're probably gonna sleep on the ground.

How does it taste?

Honestly.

- Honestly... - like?

No, it's awesome.

- Okay, good. - It's a little bit earthy.

- I'll hold off just a little bit longer. - Are you sure?

I like it more, a little more room temperature, yeah.

All right.

Ann brought this mosquito net...

- And it's saving our lives. - I love it. I love it.

You can literally hear them.

So, battling the bugs is gonna be at the top of our priority list

if we plan on getting any sleep.

How are you feeling after last night?

It wasn't the ideal night

and I hope tonight we're not on the ground

because the ground is very hard.

Did you hear anybody whisper your name?

No.

I didn't hear anything either.

No, I don't think we brought any haunting

from an abandoned house with us.

- Not yet. - Not yet, anyway.

I may go for a walk this direction.

If you wanna tend the water...

All right.

Bring some berries back with you.

- If you see some. - I will find something.

- If you see some. - I hope.

The current water method we have

of having to walk out into the marsh, bring it back, boil it

and then we have to probably wait 45 minutes to an hour

for it to get cool enough to drink

is a long task.

And then you gotta go boil more water,

so you have to track back to the source.

So, what you just drank

is sucked right out of you

and you come back

feeling thirsty again.

Found my new favorite tree.

Damn it. Where did that go?

These are like the little green kind of colombian strawberry.

They're pretty good.

And we haven't had anything to eat

in at least...

Twenty-four hours.

So, a little bit of sugar would be a good pick-us-up.

That's nice.

I do worry about the lack of calories out here.

To go from like 4,000 a day to 40,

it's gonna be a real challenge to deal with.

- Do you mind helping me with the groceries? - Yeah, I don't mind.

- Milk's still... - Oh, look at that, look at that.

- The milk's in the truck. - Look at that, oh, look a that.

But, uh...

- Awesome, awesome, awesome. - Yeah.

There is a giant tree that is full of them.

- How's the water? - This is really good.

- Isn't it? - Yeah.

- This sugar is gonna be great. - Yeah.

Noice.

- Clear, a little clearer. - Yeah, it looks good.

It is hard to drink the water

because it doesn't taste very pleasant at all.

But you know you have to drink it,

so you just hold your nose and do it.

It tastes like what I think bark might taste like or...

It reminds me of lake water.

- Yeah. - You know, water's nasty.

- Fish in it. Like, who wants to drink that? - Yeah. Yeah.

- Do you need some more? - No, no.

We really do have to get some firewood.

- Like, we don't have anything. - Yeah.

Here's a, here's a standing dead one over here.

Fire has to eat, and we have to feed it.

It's not cold. We don't need it for warmth.

At this point, we only need it to keep ourselves hydrated.

We're just pouring sweat the moment we do anything physical.

If we can't stay hydrated, we're worthless.

I'm ready for some water.

Yeah, I don't think you've had a whole lot to drink today, huh?

No, I haven't.

I'm concerned about ann.

I think she's dehydrated, but the water tastes really bad,

so she's not real excited to drink it.

- Mmm, nutty. - Yeah.

Yep, this sounds like thunder.

- That sounds like serious thunder. - Yeah.

We need to prep for the night.

Right now, I'm, um, instead of the lean-to over us,

I'm trying to put it over the fire.

Uh, if we can preserve any bit of this, that would be great

because it wasn't easy to make.

It sprinkled for like a half a second and stopped.

But, now, I've got a different problem.

I, uh, went to try to pee.

Set my girl on fire.

I'm pretty sure

it's a uti, so...

symptoms of urinary tract infections

can occur within 24 hours of mild dehydration or exposure to bacteria.

If the bacteria is not adequately excreted in the urine,

it can multiply and cause an infection that can result in acute pain.

If it is left untreated, it can lead to kidney failure.

- Hey. How are you doing? - Hey.

And I, when I move, it makes me sick.

Now my mouth is like cotton.

And I, I'm tired.

- We'll muscle through. - Yeah.

We'll get the next pot going.

- Sounds good. - Okay.

Ann didn't use the bathroom at all yesterday.

She needs water real bad, so we've gotta fix that problem.

The day's been a little rough.

I've been drinking water, but I still feel like I haven't had any water.

Feel nauseous.

I want my vagina to quit burning.

Out of an abundance of caution,

a medic comes in to check on ann.

Um, very nauseous.

The medic confirms ann's fear of a uti.

Drink a lot of water.

That's a main fact here.

- All right? - Okay.

No.

Okay.

- Hey, how are you doing? - I'm feeling rough.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

Anything I can get you?

I don't think so.

Thank you, though.

I'm concerned about my partner.

I don't know how much of this she can take.

I think I'm done.

- You sure? - I'm sure.

- Diarrhea has set in. - Yeah.

- Nausea and yeah, and... - you're still nauseous.

I know they don't wanna wait till it's too late,

and, and I end up in a colombian hospital somewhere.

I hear you. I hear you.

You've had a... A rough hand that you were dealt.

- Hey, ann. - Hey, andrea.

Um, you know,

I've got to listen to my body,

and I'm not getting any better.

I need to tap.

I knew that that decision was kind of right around the corner

if something didn't turn for the positive for her,

and it got worse.

And so, I don't, I don't blame her at all.

She's a trooper and I applaud her

for coming out and giving it her all.

- It was great to meet you. - Yes, it was good to meet you.

This won't be the last time we see each other, definitely.

- Sounds good. - Good luck.

- I'll hold you to it. - Good luck.

Give me a shout out when you get that first bite of steak.

Yes, I will.

Yeah, I think I am a little softer than I thought

after all these years.

But I just got sick.

I came out here to be out here 21 days, not four.

So, it's, uh, very disappointing.

Four days into the challenge,

ann's dehydration, combined with a uti, proved incapacitating.

Her early exit drops her psr from a 6.3 to a 5.9.

I'm on day four, but it's almost like day one.

And I don't know what it's gonna be like alone in the jungle.

To do it on my own, I'm gonna have to dig deep.

And I hope that I can do this by myself.

The storm put my fire out.

It's been dark for a few hours.

It's probably not midnight yet.

But, um...

I don't have a fire,

nor do I have a partner to keep me warm.

I still have probably four or five sips left.

I am gonna stick my pot out there, though.

So, maybe,

I can get some water through the rain.

But tomorrow, god willing, the sun will come out

and I'll dry out some tinder

and I'll get a good fire going.

This is day five

and the pot I had put outside for the rainstorm last night,

a frog jumped in it.

In order to stay hydrated, I need to be able protect the fire,

preserve the fire and do it for my shelter.

The rocks will save me.

Claying time.

There's a lot of clay in this area,

so that opens a lot of doors.

Particularly trying to put together a rocket stove.

A rocket stove concentrates the heat given off by a fire.

Air comes in through a port at the bottom,

feeding the flames with oxygen.

Its tapered design focuses the heat

into a narrow opening up top where a pot can be placed,

allowing water to be boiled faster than on a conventional fire.

A man dying in the desert would take a bottle of water

over a bar of gold.

And that's where I'm at right now.

Nice.

I did a lot of construction today.

I've got a lot catching up to do on hydration,

but this is putting me back in the game.

Damn it.

These damn mosquitoes, man.

They don't have any trouble getting in.

I'm getting these little pricklies all over my body,

and I scratch them and they don't stop itching.

Bugs tonight are just savage.

This is stupid.

I itch all over.

I don't know how much of it you can see

all over me.

I mean, they're getting me now.

Adds up out here, it really does.

All right, so I'm gonna pull the other side of my shelter down.

I can't sleep in there another night

if I had to.

It's so full of just mosquitoes and bugs,

all the decayed plant life,

and still air, it's awful.

Couldn't even take a nap in there.

If colombia is not gonna give it to me, I gotta earn it.

It's always nice to find

a massive ant mound in your shelter.

I really figured by now I'd sitting pretty comfortable

and focusing on food,

which I still need to do.

You'd think I'd have that by now,

but I do not.

Slats about every four to five inches,

and these are the only wide-faced leaves

that we have in the area that I've found so far,

and so I'm just putting them as shingles,

and we'll see how that works.

Much easier night on the bugs.

I think I actually did get some sleep.

Storm's coming.

What I'm really trying to do is

get as much as I can to just put on the shelter.

100% waterproof roof is wishful thinking.

I have most of the roof covered.

I'm gonna try to fill in the gaps.

That'll help 'cause it's about to get frisky.

There's only so much I can do, you know.

I just saw a snake.

I just saw a snake.

Got a snake.

He ain't much...

But he's meat.

He doesn't appear poisonous, but I don't know a lot about the snakes here,

so better safe than sorry, I'll bury the head.

I'm just peeling the skin off

until I get a good purchase

and then I should be able to deglove him.

Really stoked about this.

Ah.

Not a lot.

He's pretty small.

And the stick was dirty,

so it's not pretty, but...

This is awesome.

I can eat about 117 more of them.

Good day, though.

I'm gonna chalk this one up as a win.

Can't complain.

Last night was my best night so far.

I've had more food intake

than I've had in just about any other day.

So I'd like to hunt, put out some bird traps.

See what I can do for putting some food on the table.

This type of snare is activated when a bird perches on the trigger.

The weight of the bird makes the trigger drop

causing the tensioned branch to snap away,

tightening the snare

and trapping the bird by its feet.

We'll see what happens.

There's nothing in my bird trap today.

That's a bummer.

My feet are just destroyed.

You see pockets where the thorns are making my feet bleed.

Every step I take is a potential infection waiting to happen,

and some of these black palm thorns,

they've got a toxin on them, it causes inflammation

and it hurts for days.

So, I've never made shoes before,

but I read a book on native american basket weaving

and the first thing I thought of when I saw this basket

was that I can make a shoe sole out of it.

So, I am weaving grass and tree bark.

I am excited to get this figured out

and put a pair of shoes on my feet

so that I can walk around here like a normal person.

It's such a silly thing, but, man, it feels so good.

Starting to think about food a lot.

I'm missing my family now and can't wait to get home.

The protein battle has been my number one thing.

I'm not catching a lot of food,

but just gotta keep moving forward

and, hopefully, catch me some fish.

I've got five little fish hooks here,

made out of ironwood and quite a bit of cordage.

I've got a piece of larva, either grasshopper or butterfly.

Tie the fishhook in as bait and toss him in the water and see what happens

we'll see how far I can even get out here.

See if I can't toss this through these lily pad holes.

Holy.

The, uh, larva came off when it hit the lily pad.

Maybe I can find something else

around here for bait.

It's a major bummer.

I thought that larva was gonna be a pretty good chance.

I was hoping the juice was worth the squeeze,

and as far as fish go, it was not.

Be real easy to just wake up tomorrow

and say I'm done, I'm going home,

and that's what I'm gonna go do.

And I wish there was a shortcut

'cause I'd be home right now,

reading a story to my boy

and... And kissing my wife,

but...

There's no shortcut.

I noticed all of these drag marks in the trail,

and it looks like quite a big lizard.

This place might be a really good spot

to try to put a trap.

This trap is actually a squirrel trap.

It goes on the ground.

You anchor it in the center,

and you lift up the other end

with a couple of forked sticks.

And then you lift up this end here,

in which case it would balance on a spike

that will pivot and want to close.

So when that's bumped,

it'll come down and smash him.

As long as he takes his normal trek,

I think that, you know, this has some hope.

We're gonna find out.

Good morning, lizard trap.

Still set.

Didn't see leo this morning.

I named this lizard leonardo

because it starts with an "l"

and I figured why the hell not?

Kind of disappointed in the bird trap.

They just keep on flying by it.

I don't know. We'll let it sit and see.

Not everything is going the way I hoped it would go.

As far as me versus wildlife out here,

they are very much winning.

There's nothing.

And it's showing.

I'm losing a lot of weight out here.

One more day down.

Can't wait to hug my wife and son.

Their maddest little voice.

"dada, where'd you go?"

"dada, I miss you."

daddy, I miss you.

"you wanna play monster trucks?"

I miss you, too, man.

So much.

A little bit of meat can go a long way right now.

I could really use a win in the food department right now.

Zach has consumed less than 200 calories a day

since starting the challenge.

A daily intake below 600 is considered starvation.

Well, looks like he came through here.

I can see the tail marks.

I guess it's cursed.

Or I'm just a trapper.

I'm being humbled, for sure, out here.

This is absolutely the most difficult thing

I've ever done in my life.

But I want my son to know to not give up

when things are as bad as they can possibly be.

And how, um...

I just want to leave something behind for him to draw from,

in case, one day,

I'm not there.

Would it help if I poured some cold water over your back?

- Maybe your head? - Uh...

Cool you down?

- How about I not sit down 'cause... - yeah.

I don't want to sit in mud.

Okay.

Oh, it's cold.

Just close your eyes and let it go.

- Let it go. - Yeah, yeah.

Just feel it.

Last time I let it go I ended up pregnant.

We don't want that.

Yeah, I'd have some explaining to do.

Little bit.

If I quit early I carry it around forever.

I absolutely don't want to feel it forever.

Uh, I will endure it

and then I will put it down and I'll walk away.

Checked my traps and went and had my berry breakfast.

Everything out here has gotta have thorns on it.

Ow.

In the morning, I get out of here

and I never come back.

And I am so happy about that.

I can't even put it into words.

I can hear the skeeters just buzzing outside my net.

But I'm going home so I don't care.

Pretty stoked.

Don't want to burn the jungle down.

Now when I want a fire, I'm gonna flick a lighter.

And be done.

I've got a walk to do.

This is where I'm at. It looks like I've got to head

a little over, maybe, six miles

for extraction linkup.

Find this truck. Get me out of here.

I'm ready.

I am ready.

Last bit of marsh water.

I am not going to miss this.

Trying to stay hydrated

before I get out of here.

Beautiful day.

In his weakened state,

zach will need to trek through six miles of dense jungle

where jaguars are known to roam.

He'll then ascend several hundred feet

into areas where deadly venomous coral

and fer-de-lance snakes lie in wait

before reaching his extraction point

on an abandoned dirt road.

This time of the morning,

it's really important to keep a lookout for snakes,

particularly along the trails.

Snakes like to lay along trails

where animals travel, and ambush,

so really trying to keep an eye out.

Last thing I need to do is

get taken out of here on day 21

due to a snake bite.

I can't wait to see my wife

and my son.

It's just motivating every step

of the pathway to get me out of here.

Every step is one step closer.

Just keep stepping.

Day 21 energy levels.

The, uh...

Excitement and motivation only carry your muscles so far.

And hiking up this hill,

I... Feel it.

The dirt's really loose,

so my footing's not real stable

and my shoes are not exactly strapped on

with anything too advanced.

My body is smoked.

Oh, there's a road here.

Please be a truck.

Oh, I hear it.

It's over.

I did it.

Twenty-one days.

I have no idea if there's a curse out here,

and I think the curse is a great story

to keep the legacy alive

of the sacrifice that the people of this area made.

It's been eye opening.

This is a real self-awareness gut check

to learn who you are and how you tick.

It wasn't easy at all.

This was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

Over the course of 21 days,

zach lost 30 pounds.

His psr rises from 7.0 to 8.2.

It isn't just going out

and knocking it out without a care in the world,

and just blowing things out of the water.

It doesn't work that way. Life doesn't work that way.

This is one scary look in the mirror.

You're gonna see exactly who you are,

and exactly what you can do

in the face of nature doing what nature does.

Fix the things you can.

Forget the things you can't.

Don't concern yourself with more than you have to.

And I think that that's what got me through these last three weeks.

And I intend to take that with me

for the rest of my life.

Now back to my family.

Hi, buddy.

How are you?

Oh, give me hugs.

Come here. Give me big hugs.

Oh.

What's this?

It's my shoes that I wore.

- Oh. - You wanna see?

Twist it over the top.

And then wrap it around the back.

And tie it just like that.

Oh, yeah, that's cool.

Yeah.

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