All language subtitles for Running.Wild.with.Bear.Grylls.The.Challenge.S01E04

BEAR (loudly): This season on Running Wild
(muffled) we're taking it up a level.

(dramatic music)

(laughing)

(muffled) Look at the fear in these eyes.

BEAR: I'm teaching my celebrity
guests essential survival skills...

Hit it!
(Anthony yells)

BEAR:
That they'll have to master.

(Anthony yells victoriously)

-BEAR: That is your life.
-NATALIE: What if I...

-BEAR: Take the hand off, it's gone.
-Great.

BEAR: Then they need to prove...
(Simu grunts)

All the way, all the way, all the way.
(Simu yelps)

BEAR:
That they can live up to...

BEAR: Ashton, push.
(Ashton gasps, yelps)

BEAR:
Running Wild, The Challenge.

(theme music)

(suspenseful music)

(muffled) I'm on my way

to take Marvel superhero Simu Liu
on the adventure of a lifetime.

But first, we've got some avalanche work
to do. That means explosives. Come on.

(dramatic music)

(adventurous music)

SIMU:
Oh, my God! (laughs)

Well, here we are. I'm inside this snow
tractor military-looking thing.

We're sitting at about -20 Celsius.

It's gonna get even colder
with the wind chill.

Being from Canada, I know a little bit
about the cold, but this is next level.

I'm excited to meet Bear. I guess I
fancy myself a bit of a daredevil.

I like challenges.

I like being in situations
that make me feel uncomfortable,

but, Bear, please don't make me
eat anything that's still alive.

BEAR: This is Simu Liu. Not too
long ago, he was an accountant.

He also played one as a stock photo model.

Simu has said he very much feels like an
outsider in Hollywood, and it's no wonder,

given his meteoric rise from being an
extra who was easily lost in the crowd

to being a stunt man,

who was then propelled from relative
obscurity as a sitcom actor,

to the heights of celebrity as a superhero
at the center of the Marvel Universe.

As you might imagine, it's all come
as quite a shock to his system.

(Snowcat powers off)

Oh, here we go. We're here.
Super cold. (grunts)

Oh, my God, it's beautiful.

All right, let's take a look at what
we got in the survival pack.

Oh, a little, a little note and a
little pack of creepy-crawlies.

Oh, that is just lovely.
Look at that. All right.

"Keep these little beauties safe in your
pocket. We're gonna need them. Bear."

Well, that's so thoughtful
of him, you know?

(helicopter whirring)

(muffled) So I'm flying over
the Canadian Rockies,

and these mountains are spectacular.

But in winter time, they are also
very remote, and very cold.

Simu, be ready my friend.

(tense music)

SIMU:
Oh, here he comes.

(dramatic music plays)

You think he saw me?

What's he doing all the way up there?

CREW (on com):
Dropping first explosives package now!

That is like really close to the mountain.

CREW:
Dropping second explosives.

Okay, let's get outta here!

SIMU:
What the hell is going on?

(tense music)

(explosion)

(explosion)

Holy ****.

(helicopter whirring)

(dramatic music)

-(muffled) You doing okay?
-(muffled) What's going on?

Right on.

-Let's go.
-Sorry it took so long,

we had to bomb a couple of avalanches.

Of course, of course. You
had to give an avalanche, yeah.

-So let's get going.
-SIMU: All right, let's go.

You'll sit on there.
Okay, cover your face.

SIMU:
Holy ****.

There's nothing to grab onto.

Okay, this is where we get down.

Oh my God!

SIMU:
Wow, look at that. Oh, my God!

BEAR: This one's gonna be
a hard one, you know.

-High elevation, strong winds.
-(laughs) Yup.

-Cold.
-I wouldn't expect any less from you.

It is so cold I can literally not think.

It's cold, it's cold. That's about all
that's going through my mind right now.

BEAR:
And also you've seen the avalanche stuff.

We got the guys to blow those en route

because all our journey
is through that valley.

SIMU:
Oh, lovely.

BEAR: And with this amount of
snowfall, that was a good precaution.

-I trust you.
-You're gonna love it.

My life is in your hands.
Let's go. (laughs)

-BEAR: You ready?
-SIMU: Let's go.

BEAR: On this mission, Simu and I will
descend from a 10,000-foot mountain,

through an avalanche-prone
region of the Canadian Rockies.

Simu will have to learn how to protect
himself against the elements

learning winter mountaineering skills

as we seek out an old trapper's
cabin among these snowy peaks.

On day two, Simu will take
everything he's learned,

surviving in these extreme cold conditions
to face the ultimate arctic challenge.

I hope he's ready,

because this is going to be one of my
toughest, coldest journeys ever.

Take your time, step by step.
Use your hands if you need to.

SIMU:
Absolutely.

BEAR: Into the deep end.
Sometimes that's the best way.

SIMU: No stunt doubles on this one.
(Bear groans)

BEAR: You can feel that wind,
that biting wind on the face now.

SIMU:
Oh, yeah, that's deep. Oh, my God.

-BEAR: So, where were you brought up?
-SIMU: Ah, well, I was born in China,

and my parents actually,
shortly after I was born,

they emigrated to Canada
to do grad school without me.

Oh, really, without you?

Yeah, it would have been tough for them
to, you know, take classes and all that,

and still kind of manage
to have, you know, a child,

and so I was raised by my grandparents
until I was about four and a half,

and then one day a stranger
shows up at my door

and is like "I'm your dad and I'm here to
take you to Canada," and then off we went.

-And where in Canada?
-In a place called Kingston, Ontario.

At Queens University,
they were studying engineering.

BEAR: And what a very difficult move
for your parents to make that decision.

SIMU:
Yeah, yeah. It was tough.

Leaving you there
as a baby, that's tough.

Yeah, yeah, and I know I held
it against them for many a year.

But, you know, the older I got,
the more I came to understand,

they believed so much in fighting
for the overall stability of the family

that they were willing to, you know,
they were willing to separate.

But we're all together now,
and we're all very happy, so.

You try to see that bigger picture,
but it's so hard on you and hard on them.

SIMU:
Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I remember like even those first
few nights without my grandparents.

Just not understanding, I didn't speak
the language, I didn't speak English.

-And so I was just completely lost.
-So it's like new country, new language.

-SIMU: Yeah.
-And new parents, you know?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Everything.
-What a thing for you at 5. Yeah.

I mean, that must have
come as such a shock.

Huh, yeah.

Well, it's also made you tough.

-I like to think so, I like to think so,
-BEAR: Yeah.

although probably not
tough enough to survive

whatever it is we're about to go through.

BEAR: Okay, so, here the
terrain is getting steeper.

We're on the edge of the tree line.
Top of the tree line here.

It's definitely gonna get more dynamic

once we get into the steeper
terrain with deep snow.

So as the terrain has got steeper,

I do want to just give Simu some
basic mountain survival training,

you know, essentially it's
just him and me here.

We got this coil of rope
and a couple of ice axes,

but if something happens to me,

you know, it's on him to know what
to do if something goes wrong.

Most people, when things go wrong,

always panic and they lose sense of their
priorities, what's the key thing to do.

-Uh-huh.
-BEAR: Always remember like this.

"Please remember what's first."
Protection, rescue, water, food.

Uh-huh.

Okay, so your first
priority always is protection.

-You saw what it was like up there.
-Uh-huh.

You know, if you don't protect yourself
against whatever the danger is up there,

-which is cold and wind.
-Uh-huh.

You know, you get frostbite. You lose
sensation in your hand, you're no good.

Rescue. You know, you got to
make sure people can see you.

-Uh-huh.
-Then you need water.

-Uh-huh.
-And last food.

Got it.

BEAR: So, I'm gonna ask you
this again tomorrow.

Uh-huh. Protection,
rescue, water, and then food.

-Come on. Got it. Got it.
-SIMU: Come on now.

BEAR:
Okay, keep moving.

Okay, keep that axe in
your hand, hold the top of it.

Okay.

-Hold the top.
-Yep.

And you're leading
the way, so always focus,

looking where you're going,
where you're putting your feet.

Any wrong step here
and you can just fall and go.

As it gets a bit steeper, just watch
your footing, but you're doing well, Simu.

SIMU: Oh, boy. I just feel like I'm not
breathing oxygen. (laughs)

BEAR (chuckles):
Yeah, well. Definitely feel the altitude.

SIMU: All right, why don't you tell me
what we're doing to get off of this?

BEAR:
It is a lot steeper here.

You see how all of this snow is
just getting funneled down this.

BEAR:
This is prime avalanche territory.

It's a great chance to teach Simu
his first priority survival skill.

In order to protect ourselves,

we'll employ a mountaineering
technique called cross cutting.

It could be 15 foot deep,
that snow, all loose powder.

Steep slope, and most avalanches
are triggered by people.

You know, so we want to
be pretty careful here.

Okay.

I'll keep you on the rope,
you give it a good stamp.

And we actually try
and trigger it ahead of us.

-SIMU: Really?
-BEAR: Yeah.

And then we tie off around one of
these trees and we can rappel into it.

Oh, wow.

BEAR:
Simu will have to stomp across the snow,

using his feet to cut a line in the ridge

with the goal of dislodging a section of
snow and triggering an avalanche below us.

If successful, we can then tie
a line to a nearby tree

and rappel down this 100-foot drop,

but with these snow conditions the
entire rappel is gonna be dangerous.

Do you know what to do if
you're caught in an avalanche?

-Protection.
-BEAR: There you go. Wow.

-Rescue.
-There you go.

Water and food.

Well same principle if you're in an
avalanche, you got to protect yourself.

You want to try and stay on the top,
it's almost like a swimming motion.

Got it.

And you got to dig yourself
out as quickly as you can.

Actually we're gonna try and
trigger this little slope here.

That's right.

And then we're gonna rappel off that side.

(tense music)

SIMU: All right, here we go.

Try to get the avalanche going
and hopefully not get caught in it.

It's very reassuring.

BEAR:
Go, go just another foot forward.

-Yeah.
-BEAR: Okay, give it a little stamp there.

-Just like...?
-BEAR: Yeah.

Yeah, and try and create a cut line,
so you're creating a line across it.

-SIMU: Okay, like this?
-BEAR: Keep going, keep going.

(grunting)

SIMU:
Yeah.

BEAR: Okay, Simu. You can see there was
a whole crack that just shot across there.

SIMU:
Oh, my God.

Keep going, give it a real stamp.

SIMU:
Let's do it! (grunt)

(Simu yelps)
BEAR: Simu!

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

(Simu grunts and yelps)
BEAR: Simu!

SIMU:
That's insane.

BEAR (laughs):
Good job, mate, they're still going.

SIMU:
There you go.

Just caused an avalanche.

BEAR: That was worth doing.
Okay, so we're gonna use this rope.

We're gonna tie off
around one of these trees.

And then we're gonna rappel
down to the gully

and then follow that all
the way to the bottom.

-SIMU: Oh, yeah.
-Okay?

BEAR:
It was actually bigger than I thought.

So, it was a smart move to actually
get that to trigger ahead of us.

What we didn't want to
be is in that gully,

and then one of us moves and
suddenly we got it coming down on us.

-That's gonna hold us.
-Okay.

I'll go first. Three strong
tugs on the rope.

-SIMU: Uh-huh.
-BEAR: And then you follow.

-Trust the tree. We'll be fine. Okay.
-I trust the tr... I trust you.

Well, we're about to rappel down
a freshly avalanched gully.

There might be more avalanches
in store, I don't know.

Okay, remember, three big
tugs and then you're good to go.

(under his breath) Oh, man.

BEAR:
Okay, here we go.

(tense music)

That's steep.

BEAR: Oh, wow. You can see where
the whole avalanche just slid.

All of this was covered before.

Oh, boy.

Okay, Simu.

SIMU:
That's three pulls.

All right, here goes nothing.

-Okay, here he comes.
-SIMU: My God, that snow is deep.

(breathing heavily)

Quite a workout. Holy geez.

BEAR: It's definitely quite
a precarious gully down here.

I really don't want to
be in here for long.

I want to get Simu down, get moving,
(Simu grunts)

get down to the bottom of the valley.

When it gets dark here,
it's gonna happen quickly.

SIMU:
This is tiring.

Getting real steep now.

(grunting)

Whoa. Holy ****.

Okay.
(dramatic sting)

Holy ****. Okay.

BEAR:
Yeah, as it gets a bit steeper,

just watch your footing,
but you're doing well, Simu.

(grunting)

(tense music)

(Simu grunts)
BEAR: That's it, keep going.

(grunting)

-SIMU: Oh, baby. Ugh!
-BEAR: Okay, good job.

SIMU:
Thank you.

It's just tiring getting
down the mountain.

With the altitude,
everything is just so hard.

You feel like you can barely
breathe, but we made it down.

Okay.

Here's a flask with some stew
as well if you want...

-SIMU: Oh, lovely.
-BEAR: Want a little sip of that.

-SIMU: Did you make the stew?
-BEAR: This is elk, elk bone broth stew.

-SIMU: Oh.
-BEAR: This is as good as it gets.

I left the hoof in it
'cause it's got all that.

SIMU:
I can see that.

-Yeah.
-SIMU: Oh, that's lovely.

BEAR:
Yeah, all of that, that's good nutrition.

And in boiling water it's delicious.
(Simu chokes)

SIMU (coughing):
Okay. Well... (laughs)

Oi.
(Bear chuckles)

SIMU:
Okay, bottoms up. (slurping)

BEAR: How is it? Is it
all right? It's warm. It's hot.

It's warm. It's warm.
(Bear chuckles)

(slurping)

Maybe a bit of salt.

BEAR:
That's probably from the hoof.

-SIMU: Hmm. Is that good?
-BEAR: Hmm.

SIMU:
You, you love it?

-BEAR: Yeah.
-Okay.

BEAR: It's not as good
as I hoped it was gonna be.

I thought the bone broth
would add a bit more to it, but.

SIMU: Of course, no. Thank you for
taking the hoof out and showing me,

with the hair still on,
that was, that was lovely.

(both laughing)

So what was it like when you
arrived then in Canada,

and you were like five and
you didn't speak the language?

SIMU:
No, I remember...

And what was it like at school?
I mean, that must have been brutal.

I remember that first day, getting
dropped off at a daycare,

and literally, like the
supervisor was talking to me,

and I was just like, "I have no
idea what you're saying to me."

And it was awful. I bawled my eyes out.

You know, language aside,
you feel super vulnerable at that age

when you don't know anyone, you know?

Yeah, there was definitely
a sense of fear, terror,

and feeling like you're just
completely out of your element.

BEAR:
Yeah.

SIMU: Like one day,
I was thinking in Mandarin,

and then the next I was
thinking in English.

And what were you into? What was
your kind of, what was your go-to?

Well, we really didn't
have money to do much.

I was watching a lot of Power Rangers.

You know, those kind of
superhero-esque, X-Men, you know,

Saturday morning cartoons.

BEAR: Do you think it's a little bit of
kind of destiny you end up as a superhero?

You know, in the beginning, I think it
was just like, I wanted to matter,

-I wanted to matter.
-Yeah.

SIMU: And I, growing up, I always
felt so invisible for so many reasons.

First, because I couldn't speak to anyone,

and then second, I think just because of
where we came from, the color of our skin,

what we looked like, you know,

that caused us to be discriminated
against in other ways, too.

Just feeling like you're
not quite welcome.

I remember, I have distinct memories

of being in a supermarket
line with my parents

and seeing the workers at the register

and, you know, for everybody,
they'd be just so friendly to everybody,

and then they would see my parents,

and they would see that
they didn't speak English,

and then just something would,
a wall would come up,

and it would just be,
instead of compassion,

which is I think what you should have
for people who are still new to a country

and still learning the language, it's
like, "Oh, you don't belong here."

(hums) And you as a kid, you're
so sensitive to that, aren't you?

Yeah, you learn
to internalize those things,

you know, because when you're
a kid, all you want to do is fit in.

You don't want to stick out. You
don't want to be unique or anything.

And, you know, it's almost like you
learn to hate that part of yourself.

-That's a tough upbringing.
-SIMU: It's, you know...

BEAR:
What would you say to the young Simu,

that young kid who felt
all of those things at school?

SIMU: Oh, man. Well, I would say,
"Your parents worked so hard

to be able to ensure that you have
every opportunity growing up,

so be thankful of that and be
proud of where you came from."

Yeah.

In this sort of environment when
wind chill and we're subzero,

you learn about people pretty quickly.

One thing I've learned about Simu is
he is obviously a superhero.

He's also about the most
positive man you'll ever meet.

-Ready to get moving?
-Yeah, let's do it.

-Come on.
-Let's do it.

BEAR: In these mountains
is an old trapper's hut

the mountaineers use as a shelter.

Priority now is to get to the bottom of
the valley, locate this trapper's hut.

We're gonna go this way.

My main concern is that it's
getting late in the day,

we're losing the light,
it's starting to snow again,

and once we're in this gully,
we are committed.

There's no turning back.

(tense music)

Navigating in this type
of terrain is difficult.

With no sign of the sun, and all this
fresh snow, every route looks the same.

So we're heading down that gully there.

-SIMU: All right, going through.
-Yeah. It's hard, isn't it?

Trying to keep your bearings
through this stuff.

SIMU (groans):
Brutal.

BEAR:
Watch your footing.

SIMU: Man, I've completely
lost feeling in my toes.

BEAR: With rapidly dropping temperatures
and visibility quickly becoming a concern,

-SIMU: Oh, boy.
-BEAR: ...we're in a race against time.

BEAR:
Oh, that wind's coming back.

-SIMU: Oh, I'm really out of breath.
-BEAR: Keep going, keep going.

Let's just hope we can
find the cabin in time.

SIMU: I've never been
exposed to anything like this.

Oh, it's cold!

Oh, my God, my toes.

SIMU:
I'm out of breath up here. Oh, boy.

I've completely lost feeling in my toes.

BEAR:
We're almost at the valley bottom, Simu.

SIMU (breathlessly):
It's just tiring, holy sheez.

BEAR: Just 50 meters, we're going to
cross there, and it will get easier.

SIMU: It's not your everyday
at work that, that's for sure.

It's really treacherous terrain
out here. The powder is massive.

(grunts) Oh. Really out of breath.

You really just never know what you're
stepping into. Sometimes it's solid.

Sometimes it just gives away, and
before you know it, you're...

-Oh, geez.
-...Waist deep in snow.

And to top it all off,
you know, with the altitude,

you're just not getting as much
oxygen as you're usually getting.

(heavy breathing)

I'm just tired doing everything.

(breathlessly) Still going,
still going. Let's go!

BEAR: Temperature out here
is definitely dropping down.

We're almost at the valley bottom, Simu.

Oh, look.

-SIMU: It does exist.
-BEAR: There's the cabin.

It's real.

BEAR: Another week of snow,
that will be totally covered over.

Okay, let's see what it's like.

So actually finding this
trapper's hut is an achievement.

Yeah, look, you can see
open water down there.

BEAR: Not only do
we have shelter for the night,

we now have a fresh water source
that we don't have to melt,

and there's also a chance
we could find food.

Potentially we're checking off all
of the priorities of survival.

For us it is a real godsend.

See if we can open this up.

(Bear grunts)
SIMU: All right.

BEAR: Oh, wow. This is five star, this is.
(Simu laughs)

SIMU:
Oh, this is luxury, for sure.

Oh.

It's pretty cool. I mean, it's not roomy,

but it's shelter, and we got firewood.
Look, there's some pelts under you.

-SIMU: Yeah. Nice and warm.
-BEAR: Fur. That's good.

BEAR:
It's like mountain etiquette.

Whenever you find one of these huts, you
always leave it like that, ready to go.

You got the maggots
I gave you this morning?

I got the maggots, Bear. I'm really
hoping not to have to use them,

but, yeah, I got the maggots.

BEAR: Well, it's gonna be the bait.
We're trying to get a fish.

Great, great. Oh, man. Not having to
eat the maggots, that's the best part.

-Yeah. Okay. Well, hopefully not.
-Hope, yeah, you're right, hopefully not.

Okay, do you want to
pass me some of the firewood?

SIMU:
Yeah.

I think we build a fire out here, Simu,
so we're gonna need to work fast.

Yeah.

And maybe some
of that small stuff, yeah.

-SIMU: The small stuff, got it.
-BEAR: Some kindling.

SIMU:
Yes, sir.

Okay, should we go and try
and set a fishing line?

-Let's do it.
-BEAR: C'mon then.

(Simu grunts)

BEAR: It's no accident that this
trapper's hut is positioned here.

It's right next to a stream,
even though it's covered up,

but little bits of it are clear water.

We're gonna use that
to try and catch a fish.

I'll dig down through this snow through
a narrow bit of ice into the stream.

I can see it flowing underneath.

And this is why I always
carry a little bit of fishing line,

just wrapped around a twig.
A couple of hooks can save your life.

I reckon there's a good
chance of getting a fish.

I'm not 100%, the backup plan
is that we eat maggots.

Simu is definitely motivated
for us to get a fish.

It's got to be here. (splash)
Oh, yeah, I think I've hit the water.

SIMU:
Oh.

BEAR: Good to go. So what
we need now are the maggots.

I believe I can help you with that.

-So, look, we got three hooks.
-SIMU: Okay.

BEAR: A weight. The maggots
are gonna be pretty cold.

So there's an old trapper's technique
of revitalizing maggots.

(Simu chuckles)
BEAR: Okay, so.

Okay.

They seem pretty still, but what old
trappers did, put them under the tongue.

SIMU:
Uh-huh.

-BEAR: Warms them up.
-Oh.

BEAR: And then you'll start to feel them,
you start to feel them starting to move.

(groans) Oh.

BEAR: And then you don't eat it,
you just put it under the tongue.

SIMU (groaning):
What, yeah.

BEAR: Oh, yeah, I can feel it
coming back to life.

SIMU (chuckling nervously):
Like why? ****. (groans)

(mock sobbing)

Warm, you got to
warm them up. It's frozen.

(Simu groans)

(dramatic music)

BEAR: You just put it under the tongue.
(Simu groans)

(mock sobbing)

Is this the first maggot
you've resuscitated?

(hums in agreement)

(garbled) First, first time, yeah.

-Okay.
-SIMU: Oh, no, no, no.

Look, look, it's moving.

-Oh.
-BEAR: He's back.

-Oh.
-BEAR: Okay, good.

SIMU:
It's like really cold for a while,

and you think it's just like
a little piece of ice,

and then it just starts
like squirming around.

(groans)

Yeah, that's not a comfortable thing
to be feeling in your mouth area.

Here you go.

BEAR: Yeah, look, he's got
some movement in him again.

SIMU: Fresh from the mouth.

BEAR: Hoping wintertime,
hungry fish. We lower this in.

Uh-huh.

BEAR: That will sink, and then we just
wind it around the top, jam it in.

SIMU:
Oh, wow. Okay.

BEAR: And the maggot's
sitting in the flowing water.

-Uh-huh.
-BEAR: And we'll see if we get anything.

We do need to get a fire going.

Doing it in negative temperatures
like this is never easy,

especially when your hands
are shaking and you're cold,

but it is a key survivor skill.

And, there are a few things on this
journey that Simu is gonna need tomorrow.

So you're not flat, you're not
like that, you're angled.

-SIMU: Uh-huh.
-BEAR: Just try and drive it.

SIMU: I never started a fire
before, either. So you're like this?

-That way, yeah.
-SIMU: And then it's...

Yeah.

Keep going with that.
It takes a little bit.

-There you go. I see it.
-SIMU: Something almost took there.

Yeah.

SIMU:
Come on.

BEAR:
There we go, here we go. Spark.

-SIMU: Yeah.
-BEAR: Go, go, go, go.

-SIMU: Yep, yep, yep. Hey!
-BEAR: Yeah.

-And there, we got fire.
-SIMU: All right.

(laughing)

BEAR: But you did well today, you
know that? How are you feeling?

I feel like I'm always catching
my breath just a little bit.

-Yeah.
-SIMU: But this is nice.

I never thought I'd build a fire in my
lifetime just from scratch and...

-Yeah.
-This is cool.

Well, especially in this
sort of setting, you know.

Yeah. We were never really outdoorsy folk.

BEAR: Yeah. So, what was your first job?
What did your folks want you to do?

Both my parents (grunt) were electrical
engineers. They wanted the same for me.

In their eyes, there's no
better way to guarantee success

than to go to school,
get good marks, all of that.

So they wanted to pass
all those values on to me.

BEAR:
Did you fight against that a little?

SIMU:
You know, I was a good student,

but I think it wasn't until I got fired
from my first job, I was an accountant,

-BEAR: Oh, wow.
-SIMU: For so long, it was like

I felt like I was living
this lie in front of my parents,

and so it felt good,
it felt like a weight was lifted

that I finally didn't
have to pretend anymore.

And what did your parents say?

I actually ended up keeping
it from them for quite some time.

(chuckles) Yeah?

SIMU: It wasn't until I booked a
commercial that was about to go national

that I was like, "Oh, I have to tell
them." So I had to come out to them...

-Yeah.
-SIMU: As an actor.

And, you know, a few months
go by and they're like,

"Well, how long do you think
this thing is gonna last?"

And by then, I had booked my
first speaking role on a TV show.

-I was going, you know.
-BEAR: Yeah.

And all of a sudden, I turned into this
completely different version of myself,

who was engaged, and I wanted
to get up every morning.

I wanted to attack every single day,

but of course, it's impossible to really
explain that to my parents.

So that marked a really tough
time in our relationship,

I think, we didn't speak
for a very long period of time.

(Bear hums)

SIMU:
But, to their credit,

they've really come around in a
big way, and in their lives, like,

the big risk that they took was coming
over to Canada from China.

And, you know, I think they realized that
I had to kind of do something similar,

that I had to make my own path somehow.

BEAR: Yeah. Good for you. Nothing
ventured, nothing gained, you know,

the mountains teach us
that, doesn't it, you know?

SIMU:
Yeah.

-BEAR: You got to be in it to have a shot.
-Absolutely.

-Let's go and see if we got a fish.
SIMU: All right.

Starting to warm to the idea of
having to eat these for dinner.

Um, but, frick, man.

(water trickling)

-BEAR: There's good flowing water there.
-SIMU: Oh, shoot, check that out.

-BEAR: Oh, I think we got something.
-SIMU: Oh, geez. Okay.

-BEAR: It's gone right under the ledge.
-SIMU: Hey!

BEAR:
Come on, just gotta get him out of there.

SIMU:
Put up a fight? (laughs)

(splashing)

(whacks)

Oh, God. Oh, oh, God.
Oh, God. Oh, God! Oh, poor guy.

-BEAR: We got a fish.
-SIMU: There you go.

BEAR (chuckling): Have you
ever prayed so hard for a fish?

SIMU: Oh, no, definitely no.
(Bear chuckles)

So we just caught a fish. Bear
wrestled it out of the water,

and then just bludgeoned it
to death right in front of me.

Yeah. It's the real deal. And
I don't have to eat these anymore.

Oh, and off comes the head.

It's not really a broth
unless you got a fish head in it.

(whispered) That's fair.

-Oh, boy.
-BEAR: Guts, we can take out.

-Boom, done in one swipe.
-SIMU: Oh.

BEAR: And look,
that's gonna be beautiful.

So that's going in.

-And then...
-Oh.

I know you didn't want
to have the maggots,

but it's like, come on,
we can't waste it, you know?

Oh, no, you're right.
Yeah, that would be criminal.

-BEAR: Okay, so...
-Oh. (gags)

-BEAR: The maggots are going in.
-SIMU: Oh. (chuckling)

BEAR:
And then we'll just boil it up.

-SIMU: Lovely. Lovely.
-BEAR (laughs): Lovely.

So, come on, then, tell me,

how did you get that break, then? How did
you end up the newest Marvel superhero?

SIMU: After Kim's Convenience,
I, my first thing was like,

I need to start making it down
in LA, I didn't know anybody,

but I took what money I made from that
show, got a visa to work in the States.

And then a couple pilot seasons
went by, not a lot happened,

but, in 2019, got the call to audition
for an untitled Marvel project,

which I was fairly sure was Shang-Chi.

It was one of those things.
It was like buying a lottery ticket.

I felt like the odds were
so astronomically small.

Really didn't expect to hear back,

but got a call a couple weeks later
from my manager, and he was like,

"Look, you should find your way down to
LA, the director would love to meet you."

But, you know, knowing
that you have a real chance,

that's almost the most scary thing of all.

Yeah.

SIMU: So I came out of that,
and two days later,

when I'm, you know, in my condo alone,
in my underwear, I get a call,

(Bear laughs)

and it's Kevin Feige,
the president of Marvel Studios,

and he's like, "I'm about
to change your life."

-BEAR: Oh, wow.
-And he offers me the role.

Did you go crazy?

SIMU: Yeah. I mean, I,
I think I yelled, I screamed.

And then four days later,
I was on a plane to San Diego,

at Comic-Con and getting announced
in front of the whole world.

******* four days later, you're
being announced to the world?

SIMU: Yeah, yeah. And
the crazy thing, too, is, like,

I'm on stage with Angelina Jolie and
Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman

and, you know, all of these people
that I'd grown up watching,

and I'm just like, "What am I doing here?"

BEAR (laughs): "What am I doing here?"
But what a moment in your life.

SIMU:
Yeah. Talk about impostor syndrome.

BEAR (laughs): Okay, are you
ready to try some fish stew?

SIMU:
Oh, God.

BEAR:
Okay, let's try a bit of this.

SIMU:
All right.

Yeah, you got a maggot then,
I saw that go in.

-You're just saying that.
-BEAR: You didn't see it.

-(laughs) That was definitely a maggot.
-Bear, sometimes it's better not to know.

-BEAR (chuckles): Yeah.
-It's pretty good. Yeah.

BEAR: Yeah. Well, here's
to you for today, well done.

What an adventure today, man.

I feel like I started this trip
knowing absolutely nothing,

and now, I still know absolutely nothing,

but I feel just a little
bit better about it.

I feel like I could last, like, instead of
like two minutes out in the wilderness,

I feel like l could last like a solid 20.

And I think that's progress.

(liquid trickling)

SIMU: Bear, what are you doing?
BEAR: Oh, there we go.

(zipper)

This is what we used to do on Everest,
Simu. You'd have two bottles,

(Simu laughs in disbelief)

you'd have a pee bottle
and then a water bottle.

And, it's really important
not to get them mixed up,

which I did once, and then had pee
in my sleeping bag for 63 days after.

But then you got a, that's nice
and warm, hot water bottle.

-SIMU: Oh, God, call my agent. (laughs)
-BEAR (laughs): "Call my agent."

SIMU: Oh, my God, I've got
your pee. Oh, oh, man.

Good job. Don't say I
don't look after you, Simu.

(Simu laughs)

Okay. I'm going back to my furs over here.

SIMU:
Oh, man. I can't believe I'm doing this.

I am holding another
man's pee in my hands.

BEAR: But it does feel good.
(Simu groans)

SIMU: That's probably the worst part of
it all. Oh, I hope it doesn't open.

(wind whistling)

(epic music)

(banging)

BEAR:
These guys saved the day.

Survived the night, ready, though,
for a big last push today.

So I've said to Simu, "Do you know what?
I'm gonna push on down this river bank,

follow my tracks,
and I'll meet you there."

BEAR: Yesterday I taught
Simu the priorities of survival.

(grunts)

He learned how to protect himself from the
frozen hazards of this harsh environment.

Do you know what to do if
you're caught in an avalanche?

-Protection, rescue...
-BEAR: There you go.

SIMU:
Water and food.

BEAR: Simu learned firsthand
the fight and resilience it takes

to survive in these brutal conditions.

The priority now is to get to the bottom
of the valley, locate this trapper's hut.

SIMU:
Oh, it's cold.

BEAR: It's gonna be nighttime
soon. Hold that bit still.

-SIMU: Uh-huh.
-BEAR: You want to angle it.

BEAR: But today it's gonna get even
colder, and much more dangerous.

SIMU:
Come on.

BEAR: It's time he faced the
ultimate winter survival challenge.

(shivers)

SIMU:
I spend the night with the man,

and all of a sudden he's gone
the moment you wake up.

He doesn't even cook you
breakfast or anything.

He just says goodbye,
and then off he goes.

I really hate to admit it,
but this was helpful.

This was my cuddle buddy for the night.

I had it nicely wrapped around my arms
and, you know, I'm very grateful for it.

(chuckling) Let's do it.

I guess I'm supposed to follow Bear's
tracks. Let's just see what happens.

Yeah. (under breath) Follow the track,
follow the track.

(footsteps crunching)
(gasps of effort)

Of course, he wasn't gonna
make it easy for me.

Follow the track. Okay.
(breathing heavily)

Follow the track, let's go.

(dramatic music)

BEAR: This is it, the ultimate
shock survival challenge.

We are at zero degrees here. It is cold.

This is something all young
Royal Marine commandos do,

one of the final things in their training,
and it breaks people. (laughs)

This is gonna be a big challenge for Simu.

I've dug an ice hole, in the river.

Simu's got to light a fire, strip down,
he's got to get into this ice hole.

Got to think clearly, he's got to
remember the priorities of survival,

and then he's got to get
himself out and get warm.

This test is designed to challenge marines

to maintain a clear, cool head
for decision-making.

Simu's experienced so many jolts to
his system, in his life and his career.

What better way for him to face the wild

than with the ultimate
shock survival challenge?

If you could do this,
you could do anything.

-Wow, Simu. Good job. Let me take that.
-SIMU: What a way to start the morning.

BEAR (chuckles):
Yeah.

SIMU: Like I'm a man
of the forest now, you know.

BEAR:
You are a man of the forest, come on.

(laughs) Okay.

BEAR: We're almost now
at the end of our journey,

-but beforehand, one last challenge.
-SIMU: What is it?

BEAR:
Okay, so, we're gonna get in there.

(dramatic sting)
SIMU: Oh, my God.

BEAR: This is a test that the British
Royal Marine commandos do.

-They strip down.
-Oh.

Then they have to get in the
water, they have to keep calm.

But here's the thing, once we're in there,
we're on a ticking time, you know,

you got minutes, really,

before you start to lose all sense
of not only be able to think laterally,

but also be able to move
your fingers and your hands.

So, once we're in,
we got to work really fast.

****.

So I'm following the tracks, you
know. The moment I see Bear,

I see this man-sized opening in the
ice and, just like water underneath.

I kind of, the writing was on the wall,

I kind of knew what was happening, what
was in store. I didn't like it one bit.

BEAR: First of all, though,
test one, light a fire.

(dramatic sting)

-BEAR: Ready?
-SIMU: Let's do it.

Okay, come on.

BEAR: The danger is real. We have to
do everything in our power to stay warm.

I hope Simu has mastered
his fire-lighting skill,

because we're going into that water next.

That fire is gonna be vital.
We're about to get very, very cold.

BEAR: So there's gonna be
no assistance, this is up to you.

(striking steel)

(tense music)

SIMU:
Come on.

I see it going in, I see some smoke.

(groan)

-BEAR: Yep, yep!
-SIMU: Yes!

BEAR: Cover it now, you've only
got one chance at that.

-You get a kindling on it.
-Yes! Uh-huh.

Yes!

BEAR:
Good job! I think that's gonna go now.

Okay, mission one, you got fire. Next
stage, we're gonna strip down.

Once we start stripping down,
we're gonna start getting cold.

Oh, God, this is, yup. It's happening.

BEAR: As Simu and I take the Royal
Marines commando ice challenge,

the freezing water will quickly
drop our core temperatures.

(Simu groans)

BEAR: Survival challenges are
rarely this dangerous and risky.

The key for Simu is
to tame his gasp reflex.

The cold water will be
such a shock to his system,

that it will trigger him
to breathe in suddenly.

SIMU:
Oh, I can feel it. Ah!

BEAR: The danger is
you breathe that freezing water,

damage your lungs, and drown.

BEAR: Point of no return now.
-It's time for Simu to conquer the cold...

(Simu yelps)
BEAR: And that urge to panic...

-You ready? You okay?
-Once and for all.

Here we go.

(Simu groans)

-Okay. Follow me down here.
-Oh, ****. Oh, ****. Oh, ****.

(yelps and groans)

BEAR:
Okay. I'm sliding in like this.

It's already started to freeze over.

-SIMU: Can I go in?
-BEAR: Okay.

Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.
(Simu yells)

Here we go. All the way,
all the way, all the way.

(dramatic sting)
(Simu yelps)

(dramatic music)

(Simu yelps)
Okay, now, control your breathing,

remember that gasp reflex. We're nice and
calm. We're super calm, just control it.

(fast breathing)

It's just your body going, "oh, get out of
here," but we override that, okay?

BEAR: Simu's body is currently going
through the cold shock response.

He's got to calm himself.

Nice and calm. Breathe, calm down.
Calm down. Here you go, staying under.

(Simu grunting)

Okay, priorities of survival?

SIMU: Priorities of survival:
protection, rescue, water, food.

(grunting)

Which stands for?

SIMU: Please...
remember... what's... first.

Correct. Simu, go. Out.
(Simu yells)

(gasps and yelps)

BEAR:
Okay, up to the fire.

BEAR:
Even though we're out of the icy water,

we're now exposed to the freezing air

and our core temperatures
are dropping fast.

(Simu gasps and yelps)
BEAR: We've got to hurry.

(Simu yells)
BEAR: Okay, up. So, standing up.

We've got to get our body
temperature up and get to our extraction.

How are you feeling?

SIMU: I'm feeling like I don't
like you very much right now.

(yells)

Keep working, keep working.
(Simu continues to yell)

BEAR: In a few minutes, you'll lose
your feeling, so, get a top on.

(groans)
(yells)

Oh, my God, it hurts so much.
We did it, we got in the ice. (shudders)

We got in the ice bath, we're back out,
and the important thing is to keep moving,

'cause don't have a lot of time.

I'm gonna move as fast as I can,
I'm gonna get dry. Oh, God.

This is the worst pain I've
ever felt in my entire life.

I can't feel my toes. Ah!

Everything in my body
is just completely on fire.

BEAR: Journey's still not quite over yet.
We've got to get to the extraction point,

as quickly as we can. Are
you ready? Come on, then.

SIMU: Oh, my God. Oh, my
God, my toes. Phew, cold.

BEAR:
Hang on in there, Simu. Keep pushing.

SIMU (whispered):
Oh, God.

BEAR: Last push. Get the blood
back into the limbs, get warm.

-See how important the fire is. You know?
-SIMU: It's life or death.

BEAR: Well, the good thing
about this, you get warm.

SIMU:
Oh, God.

BEAR:
Okay, let's move. We got to keep going.

SIMU:
All right.

-BEAR: Go, Simu.
-SIMU: Let's go.

BEAR:
We're almost there, we're almost there.

SIMU:
Yeah, yeah.

BEAR: Simu just endured one of
the most dangerous challenges

any of my guests have ever faced.

SIMU (huffing):
This is tiring.

BEAR: He should be
rightly proud of what he's done,

and I reckon he's gonna love what
I've got lined up for our extraction.

This one, he's earned.

Reached our extraction point. Hear that?
(dogs barking)

That's our way out of here.

(barking)

SIMU:
Oh, my God! Amazing!

Hey, guys! Oh, that's the best.

-Hey, guys.
-BEAR: Okay, Simu. You're on here.

SIMU: Okay.
(dogs barking)

(victorious music)

Soon as we release this anchor,
they're gonna want to go.

-Okay.
-Are you ready?

I'm ready. Let's do it.

(barking)

-BEAR: We're on the way.
-SIMU: Let's go, let's go.

Oh, my God. It's been
an incredible adventure.

The takeaway is that if you
have your mind set on a goal

and you just fight through,
like we did in the ice bath,

you realize you can do anything.

Bear, what can I say? Thank you so
much for the adventure of a lifetime.

I'll take this away with me for the rest
of my life. So I appreciate it, brother.

Oh, my God, amazing!

BEAR:
Simu's life has been a real battle.

Age five, strange country,
new language, new culture.

He's had to fight for everything,

but he never wavered from
that dream of being an actor.

(Simu laughs)

He's also one of the humblest,
nicest guys you'll ever meet.

He says, "I won the lottery
getting the role of Shang-Chi

in one of the biggest
movies in the world."

But the truth is,
he's shown that resilience

and stuck to that vision
and taken risks.

Oh, my God, this is so cool.

BEAR:
That is a survivor spirit!

He's ready for whatever
life's challenges lie ahead.

My respect and admiration for the
man is as big as these mountains.

He deserves it all.

SIMU:
Oh, man, look at them go!