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Warthog.

We gotta watch out for the tusk.

Kill you in a heartbeat.

People like me don't get chosen for things like this.

I am trans and I don't care who knows it.

What defines me is not how I look or how I act.

It's what I do in my life.

And the things that I do in my life are epic.

I'm a bow hunter. I've been hunting my entire life.

I was in the airforce for 12 years and

During that time, I went overseas 12 times.

I've done a week at a time alone, by myself in the woods

With nothing but a knife.

So, yes. I am absolutely prepared for this.

I was born male but, in my mind, growing up, I've always been female.

Transitioning is the hardest thing I've ever done but so worth it.

The one thing I am aware of from my partner is that,

He or she is gonna see a different and more unique body

Than they've probably ever seen.

So, for my partner, this is gonna be an experience of a lifetime.

My name is shaun and I'm from south africa.

I'm a farmer and a professional hunter.

I'm always outdoors, usually with my brother.

The bush to me is my church. It's where I feel most comfortable.

I would say I'm a little bit conservative.

I don't often take my clothes off around everybody.

I'm feeling very nervous meeting a total stranger naked.

It's a bit awkward. I'm about to go and meet my partner.

But, um, that partner of mine is also gonna be naked, so,

I think we're gonna be on the same... On the same page.

Things on the outside aren't what they are supposed to be

At this point in my transgender transition.

I do have breasts and I do have the male genitalia still.

Here we go.

When it comes to my partner, they're either gonna accept everything or

They're gonna go off the deep end and we're gonna see some bad.

Hi.

- I'm terra. - I'm shaun.

- How are you? - I'm fine.

Do you have any questions?

Not at the moment.

So, obviously you can see that I'm not the same as

Every other girl that has been on the show.

- You're unique. Yeah. - Little unique.

What are your thoughts on this?

Um...

It is a bit of a shock to me.

And we're all unique and special.

I'm open-minded and we're gonna do this together. Yeah.

Don't worry. I've got your back.

Thank you.

I appreciate that and I've got your back too.

- Great. - Hearing that is a big thing to me.

- We're gonna do this. We're gonna be okay. - Yeah.

- I'm excited. - Me too.

I'm a hell of a lot more surprised than I thought I was gonna be.

He looked at me like I was a normal person. That was exactly what I needed.

A great surprise and I'm pretty happy so far.

Good.

- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

Finally.

- We will be okay. - Yeah.

Terra is awesome.

For someone as unique as that to have the courage

To come out. She's a hero in my eyes already.

You have any skills or anything you need to bring to table first off?

I'm a farmer and a professional hunter.

I'm from south africa.

Oh! So you're not very far away.

No.

And, what do you do for a living?

I'm an archery tech. I actually make weapons.

Oh really? I see you got one of your bows.

This is handmade by me

And I cannot stress how happy I am to see this bow with me.

Pretty cool.

Well hopefully we can get some... Some meat.

What do you mean hopeful? No. We are gonna get meat.

We're gonna get some, eh? Right.

- I brought my machete. - Nice. We're gonna need that.

Shaun and terra have also been given a pot

To stay hydrated in the intense zambian heat

And a firestarter to ward off predators.

All right. So, this is where we are.

- Yeah. - There's extraction.

You think we should build something here?

There's the water.

There's a bit of food sources around it too?

Yup. And if we go across here,

Looks like we're gonna have some open land here.

Yeah. It's quite open land. Dangerous animals too, yeah?

Gotta keep our eyes open.

- Yeah. - Be careful.

- Let's get going. - Let's go.

Based on their skills and experience,

Shaun enters the challenge with a primitive survival rating or psr of 7.5.

Terra begins with a psr of 7.6.

They will have to survive 21 days in pia manzi, zambia.

This area of dense brush and grasslands

In the heart of southern africa,

Is traversed by the lwangua river.

The deep water camouflages one of the one of the largest concentrations

Of crocodiles in africa.

These man-eaters are some of the most cunning on the continent

Learning their prey's behavior before they strike.

Large troops of baboons, leopards, and elephants also patrol the territory.

Weighing up to 26,000 pounds, elephants are capable of crushing a human

With their trunk.

What were you expecting for a partner?

A partner like you that knows how to hunt.

Because I love taking people hunting.

Guiding them, and teaching them about the bush.

And yourself?

-The main reason I... -sorry, I just need to tell you something.

- I got a hearing problem. - Okay.

So if I don't hear you, I've got hearing aids.

- Okay. - I lip read a lot.

- Okay. - So if I don't hear you, I would...

Do you want me to speak up?

- Yes, please. - Okay.

- Okay. Thank you. - Gotcha.

What were you expecting?

It's not what I was expecting. It's what I was not hoping for.

All right.

Four years ago, I decided to go ahead and come out as transgender

And there are many, many people in this world that would look at me and

Right off the bat be like, "oh I don't wanna be with this person."

Yeah. So that's what you were not hoping for.

Yeah.

A bigot.

You know, a homophobe and when you came up to me, originally and you hugged me...

That turned everything in the world around for me. You have no idea.

- Really? - Yeah.

- So, you do get it. - Yeah.

Great.

I'm 50 percent deaf in both of my ears.

When I was a kid, I was bullied quite a lot

And I used to have a big mop of red hair.

Lots of freckles and a big old fashioned hearing aid.

So I've been through that.

And if everybody was the same, the world would be a boring place.

Exactly.

My focus out here is to make sure that my kids know that no matter what you look like,

Or who you love,

Any challenge can be overcome.

And these 21 days will prove that to them.

I'm doing this to push myself,

Too learn more about myself, to grow as a person.

God, I'm glad I got you as a partner.

Me, too.

And you can see how flattened it is here.

A lot of elephants been walking through here.

You think this is a bedding area or just a walking area?

I think it's a bedding area.

You can see they've been lying down here.

That's what I'm thinking too.

You know, up in the hills, we get a... -

shh... Shh...

Look at that.

Here we go.

This looks like a boo elephant.

If we are... Gotta keep an eye.

They get quite aggressive.

We're going up high, yeah?

Oh, the terrain is changing.

Yeah. No sign of water at all yet.

No. Not yet.

How are your feet getting on these rocks?

I'm not gonna tell you these rocks are fun.

Yeah, I know. It's quite jagged.

This trip is just torture. It's uphill, on rocks,

Through elephant territory.

I am getting tired and I am hoping we find water soon.

I think the river will be down there. You can see there's some big green trees.

I think the water is there in that valley.

I wanna get there.

I can hear the water. It's definitely running this way.

I think we get over here and we'll be able to see.

Oh, wow! This is stunning.

This is like an oasis.

This is perfect.

This water is crystal clear, man.

How can we ask for anything else?

Quite lucky, huh?

Crocodile.

Let's go and have a look, yeah?

Potential food source depending on how big it is.

You can see by the size of the...

- Of the tracks. - It's...

The tail.

That's quite a... That's gotta be about an eight-foot croc.

- And we've to be... - Yes.

Oh, wow. There's actually crocodiles everywhere.

That's quite dangerous, to get over there.

I think I could actually have a shot from this bank

To that bank.

And, be careful, yeah.

Okay.

Crocodiles are one of the only species

That have been documented to prey on humans.

And you can call it a maneater. Very sneaky, very dangerous.

You gotta be very careful. You gotta keep a good eye.

Miss, can you go for that way without making any noise?

'cause that guy right there

Has absolutely no problem taking anything off your body that they want.

I'm disappointed.

At least our creek has crocodiles so we do have a good food source.

Yeah.

But, you gotta be very careful.

It's getting late so we need a fire.

I'm gonna get some water, get re-hydrated

And then, start building our shelter.

We need to seriously hydrate.

Yeah.

Just put this in the sun like this to dry out any moisture.

I see a bunch of elephant dung.

Oh yeah?

Nice dung. Quite dry.

- Okay. - Beautiful.

Oh, that's great.

Hours into this challenge, we have water, we have fire...

fire...

we have crocodiles.

How much more could we ask for?

Give me high five.

We got limited time because we only found our spot quite late.

So the priority is to get a shelter.

All right.

- We need to get out of the sun. - Yup.

Otherwise it's another dangerous thing for me.

I know that we need a shelter and we don't have a lot of time left

And I need to get something done.

Sun's going down, the temperature is dropping.

And we've only got about an hour left.

So I've got a rock wall. I'll start cutting poles and

Digging them into the ground

To put up walls going around the rock wall.

So you're just putting up a basic fence

And then all this acacia hooks on.

It's just gonna go all around it, so...

Just trying to make it as thick as possible.

That's gonna be our little doorway.

Even breathing hard takes all your water out of your body.

And I'm breathing hard.

We need a lot of firewood 'cause we're gonna need fire

Throughout the night.

Very important to keep warm.

And to keep the dangerous stuff away.

They don't really like coming around fire and smoke.

I think this is gonna work for tonight.

You too.

You just seem like a good person, so...

I'm really happy about that.

Yeah.

And if you have any questions, ask.

You think you're born with this, um...

Yeah.

- It's always been there. - It must've been quite tough.

After I came out online, on social media,

- Yeah. - I lost over 200 people within a couple of days.

Really, huh? That's crazy.

So, the people I thought were my friends and my family left.

My mother still calls me by my old name.

Yeah?

She still calls me luke.

You're courageous for finally doing what feels right for yourself.

It doesn't matter what other people think.

I've been very, very scared about who I was gonna be partnered up with.

Yeah, I can imagine.

How's sleeping going for you?

Not good at all.

Oh my god, it's like a freezer.

Yeah. It's cold.

I'm shivering my ass off.

Oh, we're half-frozen.

I hate our tiny boma.

We haven't got for sleep.

It's cold and windy and.

It's gonna be a long night.

Yeah.

I don't wanna have a night like this every night.

We gotta fix this.

Yeah. We're gotta make a plan tomorrow.

Sun's finally coming up.

That sucks.

I think I got maybe ten minutes of sleep last night.

Yeah.

And we gotta be prepared for much colder.

I think I'm gonna go look for a shelter.

Okay.

Yesterday we made a temporary boma for the night

Because we were running out of time and it was worthless.

So, today's priority is getting a new shelter built.

You see those rocks there? Lean there.

- So it's almost like... You ready? - Yup.

I like that.

We just need to add on to that and make a burner around it.

- I like that. - I like that too.

We're gonna build a fire inside here.

Got a rock wall that's at a 35 degree angle

So it perfectly was gonna reflect the heat back on us.

Coming up the front, the back, to keep the wind out at night.

Let's tie this to the wall nice and thick,

Double them up and I think that would do the job.

This boma should be a hell of a lot better than the last night's.

The sand feels like it's 192 degrees.

Dude, you're getting so red.

Come sit in the shade for a few minutes.

I'm all right.

Do you want me to grab anything else?

Yes, please. I need some more leaves there.

If you see any firewood, start getting firewood too.

Quite tough out here.

Been working hard since yesterday and today in the sun.

We need to slow down but we can't really slow down

Because we need to get shelter done,

Need to get firewood. There's lots of work to be done.

When I'm working, the thing I'm worried about is the mid-day heat.

It's noon. It's a 1,000 degrees.

And I'm feeling it.

Oh, my god!

I don't know what's going on.

Suddenly, I just got this headache.

- What is it? - I don't know.

It feels like I'm burning right here.

Never had anything like this.

Have you had heatstroke or sunstroke before?

No.

Do you want me to pour some water on you to cool you down?

Yeah.

Okay, I'm gonna pour. I'm gonna pour it on your head.

Oh!

I'm gonna get more. Okay. Hold on.

No more. No more.

- No more? - Feels like I'm freezing now.

I'm gonna stand this up so it just keeps the heat.

- I'm not tapping. - No, we don't need to.

Just need a break. Need rest.

My partner might have had a bit of sunstroke

Or dehydration.

Not a lot of shade and it's very hot and lack of sleep.

I'm right here if you need anything, okay?

Okay.

Thank you.

This is africa. We need a shelter.

We can't be in the wild bush without it. I have to get it done.

It's been tough for me to do this all on my own.

I didn't want to push myself this much.

It feels like I run a marathon the last two days.

I'm gonna keep out the sun, yeah?

Sitting here in the cool water, cooling down.

Got an umbrella on my head.

My partner is feeling a migraine.

So I'm being a team player and I'm doing a lot of work by myself.

Terra, how are you doing?

Better.

I got some boiling water, cooling in there for you.

You look better.

- Thank you. - Cool.

That man, he's literally been doing everything today.

If it wasn't for him, I mean, look at all this.

Look at the firewood. He is probably the most selfless person.

I couldn't have asked for a better partner.

At all.

Okay, I'm gonna close up.

Boma's better than it was last night.

Hopefully, I will be able to sleep tonight.

We got our fire going.

And now the rock wall is warmer.

I mean, it's not the taj mahal or ramada but...

It's better than what we had last night for sure.

Much better.

I slept good.

- Did you? - Yup.

- What about you? - Didn't get too much sleep.

Feeling a bit weak this morning.

Feel a bit light-headed.

Why don't you go back to sleep when I leave?

- Are you gonna head out? - Yeah.

- Find some food. - That's the plan.

I wanted to go hunting with my partner but I'm feeling a bit light-headed

And weak.

- Be back in a little while. - Yeah.

- Good luck. - Thanks.

Yesterday, all the work I did, pushed my body quite a bit.

I just hope things get better because this is a team spirit thing.

Shaun needs to take care of himself today.

He's been busting his tail the whole time.

I want him to heal up for a day, rest for a day.

So, before it gets stupid hot, I need to find something to eat.

That is the goal for today.

That's weird.

Looking through the shrubs and the trees over here, I saw bedding areas down there.

And I see all of this down grass here.

Gonna make my way back down that way towards that river

And then back over, and uh...

Best case scenario, I get something.

Worst case scenario, I get exercise and lose energy.

Shaun?

Medics, come and get ice on him okay?

Medic. Medic, I need you here now.

- Is that shaun? - Shaun fell and hit his head on a rock.

I need you to sit up.

Good job.

Start making my way back to camp

And come up with a better game plan.

Oh, no!

Shaun? Shaun?

Open your eyes for me, mate.

When I open my eyes, it's yellow.

Okay.

And a little spot.

If you look around, do we look normal or are we blurry?

- Blurry. - Blurry. Okay.

Shaun? Shaun?

Shaun, are you okay?

Shaun? Shaun?

Shaun? Shaun?

Shaun, mate, open your eyes for me.

Shaun?

Shaun, he burned himself out.

I feel like if I had been able to work harder,

He would've been fine.

So, I blame me for that.

I mean, we actually had a bond going

And for me, that's hard to find.

One, two, three.

I'm not worried about being out here by myself,

I'm worried about him.

Shaun is taken to the medical tent

Where he is given iv fluids,

And assessed for a head injury.

Squeeze my fingers with both your hands tight as you can.

Good.

You had a little bit of a fall over after you collapsed.

So, unfortunately, we had to tap you.

Sorry, mate.

At this stage, he is improving.

I suspect he has had low sugar with dehydration

And that's what caused him to fall in the first place.

Umm, obviously, probably got a slight concussion from that as well.

His exit from the challenge on day three drops his psr to 6.5.

I know I made the right decision,

But it's very tough for me because...

I really wanted to finish the 21 days.

And I hope terra makes it to the end.

It's day three and I'm officially alone.

Oh, we finally have animals.

I have major baboon activity right next to me in this tree.

Like, three feet away from me.

Get!

Go.

Go away!

More baboons.

There's 15 baboons up there at least.

They're all sitting right there on those rocks, just staring at me.

There's another one.

Oh, my heart is pounding.

We are up to about 23 baboons right now.

It could be a bad thing

Because I would hate to have a troop of baboons

Come down and hurt me.

Especially that big one, oh, my god.

He's bigger than me.

I've got four arrows on me, and the best I can do is get two shots off,

If I could even get 'em out of my bag fast enough.

Armed with four-inch canines,

Baboons will aggressively defend their territory

Making up to 30 different sounds to communicate.

When a baboon yells out, they could be alerting that I'm here,

And they could be alerting, that something else is near that I don't want near.

Baboons could be saying that leopards are in the area.

Go away!

Get.

Get away, go!

Over there is a whole set of cat prints close to my boma.

And, uh, that kinda... Kinda makes me worried just a little bit.

This is a real threat

From the rocks above.

I'm definitely gonna need a lot more protection than I can get from this boma.

I don't wanna be attacked, they have giant fangs and piercing a skull on a human

Would be absolutely nothing for the cat.

Sucks, but it's just too easy for a cat or baboon or something

To jump in from the ledge above.

So, I'm gonna have to move back to the first boma.

That seems to be the only logical option.

All right.

Still gonna get more of this thorny stuff just for

Right here and then I will sort the lane holes.

The plan now is to keep the thorns and everything that I have around my boma.

And put some more thorny stuff just to wrap around the edge,

And provide more protection from the predators that are out here.

Having just enough palm fronds to go across this whole thing, it's a hell of a feat.

Barricade for wind blocking is up.

Coming along.

I have nobody around me that will help me with that.

There is no one to pull from for support.

I'm gonna have to do as usual and go it alone.

It's a lot of work.

Man, I wish I had a partner.

I cannot go too many more days in this challenge without eating.

I've got to, got to figure out something.

This is the toughest thing I've ever done in my life,

But I'm a different breed, I do tough things all the time.

Wow, pile of elephant dung.

Elephant poop has a high nutritional value.

Elephants are not able to digest seeds that have shells on them,

So it is completely and perfectly edible.

That is all I got out of all those nuts.

I know it's probably only a couple of calories, but better than nothing.

Worth it to me.

How long do I starve, before I finally say that's enough.

When do I call it quits?

When I'm medically tapped because I face plant into a rock?

Just tired of being by myself.

I'm getting dinner. Another thing that is changing is this facial hair.

Holy, crap. It hasn't been there for four years.

During this challenge, I'm not taking my female hormones.

So my body is going back to being more masculine

But I cannot focus on being pretty little terrabella.

If I'm trying to be as strong as I possibly can in a primitive environment.

There's a crocodile down there. He's just chilling on the beach.

Medium mike is what I think I'm gonna call him.

I'm pretty excited about this. What I need most is protein right now.

Medium mike is a large, large chunk of protein.

Right now, he's doing everything he can to protect himself,

I need to wait till he is back on land.

Whoa!

Dizzy.

I haven't seen mike in days.

There's no sign of him anywhere. Not yet.

Medium mike is going up on shore.

I think he's in the best place possible for me to get a shot off right now.

I'm dirty. I'm gross.

I want to describe how I think I smell right now. I smell like a zombie's ass

If an onion farm and porta potty had a baby...

And it took a,

That's how I smell.

None of this is making into air.

I just ripped my nipple off.

Do you copy? We need a medic down here.

The string came forward, hit my bag, hit my nipple.

Oww!

More than 50% of the nipple detached from the breast.

It's an awful big needle.

Terra has lacerated half her nipple.

After cleaning the wound, she receives five stitches.

God!

My entire left is on fire.

I felt every stitch, I felt every poke and it was horrible.

I want to go out and get this crocodile,

But how can I do that if I can't even pull my bow back.

I hate just sitting around doing nothing, but I've gotta be smart about this.

Get some water and call it a night.

My body is still going through a lot of healing with my left breast being

Sore and hurting. I cannot shoot my bow.

I'm not confident that I can even get a shot off.

I have to do everything in my power to find food.

I need to eat, god! Do I need to eat.

When everything is reverting back because the hormones are wearing off,

It starts to feel like you have no control over anything else going on around you.

I don't quit things, never been just a quitter.

But if I don't eat something, I'm done.

I have nothing left.

Wondering what that stuff is right there, it almost looks like it's moving.

No way, no way.

It's a mussel.

There's two!

Three times.

In another 30 seconds, a minute, this should be good to go.

This feels like a good win because I've been out here busting my ass.

Feels awesome because I'm hungry, I need to eat.

I could eat one or two thousand more of those.

My left breast does still hurt inside but my nipple doesn't hurt at all.

My body is weak, so I need as much protein as I can get.

I'm going to attempt...

To take a shot.

The arrow just bounced right off of him, probably didn't even leave a scratch.

It's a bummer.

Hopefully, mike will have a good future, good luck, mike, in everything you do

In all your future endeavors.

I wish you the best.

You.

It's my last day on this challenge.

I'm ready for... Ready for extraction.

Let's do this, let's go, let's get out of here.

I'm so happy to be putting this fire out for the last time.

It's time to go get the extraction hike done.

I know it's gonna be hard and I do not have that many calories

To do this with, but the benefits of walking out here as terra

Is, I think I'm showing that I'm still fighting.

Being able to hold your head high,

Even when you are being beated down all the time, that's pride.

I need to...

Follow the river up and then cut to the right. it's a long way to go.

As the sun begins to crest,

Terra will head out on a six-mile hike over slippery boulders

And across the croc infested river.

She will have to navigate through dense leopard hunting ground.

All the while staying on the lookout for deadly puff adders

That are responsible for most snake bite deaths in africa.

Until she finally reaches a dirt road.

I need to get on it.

There's crocodile on the beach.

I gotta stay away from them.

It's hell on my feet right now. Every step hurts.

I'm getting a little thirsty.

It's a dog print.

Possibly hyena.

You got four toes and then you do have claws so that's a dog.

Um...

Whew!

Little light-headed.

I'm gonna make it.

I'm gonna make it, I'm gonna make it.

I think I'm in pretty good ways now.

Looks like I need to start going into the woods.

I'm pretty dehydrated at this point, these rocks are a lot more jagged than the others.

And then the thorns themselves

Are just chewing my feet up.

I see a clearing up ahead.

God willing that's my extraction.

This is no road.

I see more dirt and grass and trees.

I don't know... I don't know how much more I got.

God...

I'm thinking about everything that I just went through,

I wanted a challenge, that if I spoke to anyone else...

There's no way in hell they could have taken it on.

I wanted tough. I'm feeling the burn on my feet,

I'm feeling the pain in my legs.

But at this moment, I'm happy to be in pain.

For god's sakes...

Where is this road?

Oh, my god, is this a road?

Oh, my god, it's a road.

I just did 21 days, eating alone.

I'm so tired, and I'm so proud of myself.

I literally have no words right now.

I did not think I would be this proud of myself.

I am trans, and not having to worry and not having to deal with external people,

In social aspects in this whole 21-day journey, clarified things for me.

I'm a survivalist.

I just... I can't even believe I actually did it.

I'm not a gender, I'm not a label, I'm just a human.

It's empowering.

Terra lost 27 pounds.

Her psr goes from 7.6 to 8.2.

I'm going through my own transitional journey.

And I know now that if I just stick with it there's nothing I cannot do in this world.

Nothing!

My journey isn't over.

Oh, my god, this is amazing.

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