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[dramatic music]

♪

- Nothing I'm doing is working.

I am officially tapping out.

- Holy [bleep]. Yeah, baby.

No!

♪

[groans]

- We have food! Yeah.

See how big that is?

♪

- There's a moose over there.

♪

male narrator: In "Alone's" coldest location ever,

ten participants fight to survive the Arctic...

- The Arctic is one of the most

physically demanding places on Earth.

- So freakin' cold right now.

narrator: Battling sub-zero temperatures...

- This climate's harsh. It's extreme.

It's mean. It's got teeth.

- Get caught out here in a whiteout, you're in trouble.

narrator: Vicious predators...

- Just heard something big moving back there.

- It's me against a wolverine right now.

narrator: And isolation.

- There's nothing to fill that void.

It's just you left alone with your thoughts.

narrator: How long will they endure?

- [grunts] - House is on fire.

- I'm scared, but I don't want to tap.

- This is the most unforgiving landscape

I've ever seen.

narrator: The last one standing wins.

- This environment will strip away

everything and anything you thought you had.

♪

[tense music]

♪

[bow snaps]

- Holy cow, I nailed it.

[moose moans]

[exhales sharply]

My heart is pumping so fast right now.

[moose moans]

Just hit that moose.

[moose continues moaning]

♪

Oh, man. Crazy.

Some good bubbly blood on there.

♪

[sniffles] Uh-oh.

Kind of lost the blood trail I found.

I know it's still going somewhere, but...

[groans]

Moose leave surprisingly small, faint footsteps...

In this hard land of burnt stuff.

So weird to go between here and there.

♪

[ominous music]

♪

Holy cow.

♪

[moose moans]

♪

I wish I could put him out of his misery,

but that's too big of a risk.

It could either run off or just kill me immediately.

♪

I'm gonna be really nervous

until I finally have that thing.

♪

[birds chirping]

- [chuckles goofily] What in tarnations?

[laughs maniacally]

That's horrible.

[grunts]

Ew.

Is that what [bleep] happens

after I eat [bleep] crowberries?

Oh, my God, that looks horrible.

[growls]

You kids stay off my lawn! [grunts, sniffs]

[ambient music]

I'm glad the berries have been around,

but I'm starving.

I need meat.

I'm just trying to fight the hunger,

and that's only gonna last so long.

♪

Today...

I'd really like to just go ahead

and get a fish or three.

♪

I'm losing my belly,

but everybody loses weight out here, you know.

Unless they've already got a moose or 40 fish.

♪

My consciousness doesn't want to accept

anything other than victory.

However, my mind doesn't understand that.

The first initial response for your body and mind

are to retreat, move to comfort,

move to food, move to better shelter--a bed.

You're having to constantly be adapting

to your changing physical and mind state.

Well, I think I might have missed the witching hour.

It is just quiet as quiet can be.

[sniffs, exhales deeply]

[foreboding music]

♪

- I always wonder-- and I shouldn't,

but I always wonder if somebody got something big.

You know, is somebody eating moose right now?

Hoo. Can you imagine...

sitting next to a fire

chewing on a big old moose steak?

[sucks teeth]

I am so tired. I need some food.

♪

We're gonna go hike up in that draw,

see what's running around up there

and to know where things are living.

To start a hike is like starting a good book.

You kind of just pick a direction, and you just go.

And you get to read what's happening,

what's going on, what's happened over time.

I'm always trying to learn the land

and connect with the land and feel with the land.

And that work can lead to food.

A game trail right there.

Something was coming in and out here a bunch.

The trails I'm looking at are pretty well packed trails.

I don't think caribou are using it.

I think the caribou are up higher.

I think moose have been using it,

but I don't think they're using it anymore.

So, needless to say, I'm really glad

I did not bring a bow.

[grunts]

No food.

In all the training I've received,

big game is never the way you go.

You always set up and prepare for,

instead of that one moose, the hundreds of other things

that are out there.

If you're a student of the show

and you look back at five other seasons,

how many people have landed big game?

It doesn't make sense to me,

so I am extremely happy I did not bring a bow.

This area, right now at this time,

there's nothing big moving.

I need to switch gears.

[dramatic music]

♪

- [exhales sharply]

Just waiting, waiting, waiting...

[moose groans]

I do not want him getting up and running off.

Oh, boy, he's just giving last desperate attempts.

♪

[ground crunches]

Oh.

♪

Oh, man.

♪

- [laughs] It's dead!

[laughs gleefully]

Yeah!

♪

Hallelujah!

Oh, thank you, Lord.

♪

What a beast. This is awesome.

♪

Oh, man.

I knew this would be a problem

if I happened to get a moose,

to skin the whole thing with this thing.

[laughs]

That was a risk I was willing to take.

How do I start gutting a massive moose by myself?

That's a...

that'll be a chore.

♪

I lived amongst the Evenki in Siberia.

We shot a moose in the middle of the summer,

and we chopped it up into little cubes.

But, you know, there's, like, a tribe of us doing it, so...

This is the first moose I've killed and processed

on my own, and it's a ton of work.

♪

Can't quit, dark's coming.

There's obviously a ton of predators around here,

and they know where the meat's at.

Let's try cutting off the back leg,

seems like the thing to do.

I would really like the weather to come.

It's kind of like living in a refrigerator right now.

I'd definitely would rather live in a freezer

and because the meat spoiling's a concern.

There's the joint.

Whoo. There's the femoral artery.

Yikes.

She's almost free.

Whoa, look at althat meat.

[uneasy music]

Let's see what we're dealing with in there.

♪

I just want to reach up there and free up

the stomach and the guts, so I can pull 'em all out.

♪

Holy cow.

[liquid spilling]

Gosh dang it.

Can't believe I did that.

♪

The stomach opened up,

and Niagara Falls just happened.

♪

[grunts] Never done that before.

This is such good meat,

and it's so covered in crap.

A lazy moment--that's gonna cost me so much meat.

Big mistake.

Well, after that debacle,

let's just carry it over while there's still light.

Head is decapitated. [grunts]

♪

[groans]

A heart as big as my head. Look at that.

♪

Mm, man.

That will be good.

Right now it's getting dark. I got to haul this meat back.

Animals, of course, they're more active at night,

and it's a very dangerous situation.

♪

Okay, guys.

There's a lot of smoking to do.

Just forget how big a moose actually is

until you got to carry it piece by piece.

[unsettling music]

♪

[animals howling]

♪

[animal whines]

♪

[animal howling]

♪

- [groaning]

[bleep]. [moans]

[grunting]

[bleep]. Ah, I'm having leg cramps.

[bleep].

[exhales deeply, groaning]

[exhales deeply and slowly]

Hoo-hoo-hoo. Please...

Don't come back. Please don't come back.

Please just pass. Just pass, just pass.

[groaning in agony]

[bleep].

Ah!

♪

- [groaning]

[echoing] Please stop.

Please stop. [moaning]

Oh. Ow!

[grunting and groaning]

What a horrible way to wake up.

I was just sleeping, and all of a sudden,

I felt my right leg start to cramp up.

[groans]

Oh, man.

This is the [bleep] they don't talk about in books.

[bleep].

I guess I'm gonna...

[chuckling] Try to go back to sleep.

[bleep]. [sighs]

[suspenseful music]

♪

Last night was eye-opening.

You know, I've been pushing my body

to physical limits, and you need to protect it.

So today is take care of Barry day--

focus on hydrating, take it slow...

have fun.

[grunts]

This is my throwing stick.

It's got good weight, balance.

It's ambidextrous.

You can throw it with either hand.

But that's not all.

♪

I don't know how to play guitar.

♪

But if I did, it'd probably look something like this.

♪

Oop.

Swing and a miss.

♪

I could easily just push a button

and be on a plane probably tomorrow

or the next day.

You know this, and that's what's [bleep] up.

You have an escape,

but it's so much more for me.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer.

He didn't even go get help or treatment.

He started drinking heavily.

My dad died and left my mom penniless.

If I ever did anything like that,

I would never be able to forgive myself.

I would lay at night awake, and it would eat me alive.

♪

I can do better, and this is a chance

for me to do better.

Oop.

♪

That one's going the distance.

Oh, ho-ho-ho.

I wish I could get my bait out that far.

[dark music]

♪

- [growls softly]

♪

- I'll give you guys a quick tour

and see what's going on.

Here you go.

There's meat hanging up on this...

this end of my camp.

♪

The moose head up there in the tree.

You got a delkin, as it's called in Evenki,

but it's just a shelf that a mouse can't climb.

Now I will go about hanging some of the meat in my shelter.

♪

Put a little smoke on it.

♪

All the forest creatures want my meat,

and I got to come up

with a way of keeping it away from them.

Any way you try to protect it,

there's, like, something that can get at it.

You hang it in the trees, and the birds peck at it.

Lay it in your shelter, and a bear can come in

and just, like, a big raging beast

and think it's all his.

There's no obvious choice for me,

but got to always be thinking of solutions.

The worst-case scenario really is that

all this meat spoils.

Like, that's just not an option to me right now.

There you go.

♪

Okay, let's see.

As you can see, we're starting to get

a nice smoky patina on there.

That's good.

And I'll just sleep under the meat tonight.

[dramatic music]

♪

[ground rustling]

♪

I'm getting a little worried because it's not ideal

to sleep with 600 pounds of meat surrounding you.

You're like a burrito.

There's a certain risk to it.

I don't want to be doing this too many nights.

I will...

♪

Cover that.

♪

A lot of calories in a moose,

but you spend a lot of calories protecting your moose

from all the other freeloaders of the forest.

♪

I'm covered.

♪

Yeah, I don't want to be locked to my house

protecting my food, but I don't have a choice.

♪

I'm gonna be, like, only half asleep tonight

listening for the bears.

♪

Well, that just put a new twist on things.

[eerie music]

♪

[energetic music]

♪

- So last night we got a little bit of snow

that accumulated and came into the shelter.

So I think priority number one today is gonna be

to go out, spend two to four hours probably

working on my shelter.

♪

Okay, so we got a quick change of plans.

I just walked out my door,

and there is a set of wolverine tracks.

That's food right there.

They have been snowed in a little bit,

so it happened probably just pre-dawn.

That's the first...

"larger than a squirrel or a rabbit" game tracks

I've seen in this entire basin.

That's awesome.

Looks like they head this direction.

Ah, this is super exciting for me,

so I'm gonna go and do something about it.

♪

I kind of feel like I'm starting to understand

the lack of wildlife.

And I think it has something to do with two things--

the season and the fact that there was a big fire here,

all over through this area

for thousands and thousands of acres.

So this wolverine's a big thing.

♪

I've been going double time after this thing.

Wolverines-- they just cover mileage,

and they follow every tangent and go over every boulder

and through every obstacle.

And I have been doing the same thing,

tracking it all along.

[wind whistling]

♪

The wind is really picking up.

The wind is just obliterating the tracks here.

♪

Well, I probably made a poor decision.

♪

I decided to continue following

that wolverine track,

and the weather has really gone to [bleep].

Um...

[ominous music]

♪

I need to get the hell off of this rock

'cause I'm just so exposed.

It's basically a blizzard right now.

And I don't need to be here. I need to be in my shelter.

♪

- The ♪

- I need to get the hell off of this rock.

♪

This is what it looks like where I am right now,

and...

the weather has really started to take its toll on me.

So I need to get my ass home.

♪

You cannot make a mistake out here...

'cause the weather gets so crazy.

This is not a place

where you're gonna get second chances.

There's two types of people in the world.

There's people that, when things go sideways,

become more focused,

or they become scattered.

They fall apart.

I've never been one to scatter.

♪

Oh, my God. [exhales sharply]

I'm so damn tired right now.

I just been tracking a wolverine

probably five miles till I lost his tracks

in the blowing snow.

It was a bit of a calculated risk.

I knew I needed to work on the shelter,

but I'm just so hard up for any kind of wildlife

to hunt out here.

[exhales deeply] So I had to do it.

♪

And I used up three days' worth of calories,

I bet, just now.

Oh, man.

Can't let that happen again.

♪

[foreboding music]

♪

- Dawned on me... [utensil clangs]

"Brady"...

♪

"Why are you doing all this laundry by hand like an idiot,

when you could have a machine do it for you?"

Excited, aren't you?

All right, you ready?

[sniffs] Yeah.

[exhales deeply]

No big deal. No big deal.

Does anybody else out here got a laundry machine?

I don't think anybody else out here has a laundry machine.

I have a laundry machine.

Yeah.

All right, let's go fishing.

♪

I hear a lot of people banking on hunting

a big game animal, and that's winning the lottery.

And so my mind-set in this is nitty-gritty--

snares, traps, fish lines.

There might be one elk in the area,

but there's gonna be a hundred fish.

I can see the fish down in there.

♪

Come on, take it. Take it.

♪

Oh, yeah.

♪

We got one.

♪

Do not break the line.

Do not break my line, no. Oh!

♪

It's awesome.

I'm going back to camp to start a fire.

Catching fish, it's become enjoyable to me.

I've got my stuff dialed in. I'm starting to figure it out.

And I love putting food in that food cache.

You're putting money in the bank account, you know.

You're not on a credit card anymore.

♪

Huh?

♪

That is some grub right there.

I'm excited to eat this thing.

So the plan for the night...

cut it all up, I'm gonna fillet it out.

Either four or six fillets-- we'll see how big it is.

And that gives me four or six more days of food.

[harrowing music]

♪

- Okay.

Here we go. Here we go.

[breathes deeply]

And I'm not gonna sing the "Happy Birthday" song

because it's just the worst song ever.

You can't even be in key. Everybody's always off-key.

It's like, ♪ Happy birthday...

It's just--I don't know why we didn't invent

a decent birthday song.

'Cause it's...

Here we go.

♪ Ah, light my lighter

Ah! They're staying lit!

My candles!

That is so awesome! [laughs]

I'm blowing out birthday candles!

Oh, my gosh, that's so cool.

Okay, I'm gonna make the best birthday wish ever

[exhales sharply]

[suspenseful music]

♪

[tranquil music]

♪

I'm actually gonna go check my snares.

I've been setting snares

and trying to produce some meat.

Nothing so far, but I just know that the colder it gets,

the more meat I'm gonna need.

Here's the tracks.

♪

It's incredible. Nothing.

♪

I've never lived with rabbits or hares.

Like, I know very little about them.

♪

There's nothing. [bleep].

Out here, I might have failures and stuff,

but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna figure them out

and be successful.

I am on a spiritual mission, and I think some suffering

is really gonna push me forward.

♪

Wait a minute.

♪

Oh, my God.

♪

I got a hare. I got one in my snare.

Oh, man. [exhales deeply]

♪

I'm so sorry.

[neck cracks]

[ambient music]

♪

[cries softly]

[crying] Hare means so much to me right now, you know?

Like... [sighs]

I really needed to have this.

♪

I just been wanting to have a hare so bad, and...

[sniffles]

I got one.

♪

That was the best birthday wish ever.

[dram ♪

- [exhales sharply]

I don't know if you can see it. [exhales sharply]

I can certainly see my breath in here.

It's quite chilly.

Definitely feel like it was the coldest night we've had

since I've been here.

Even with a big fire last night,

it took me a long time to get warm in my sleeping bag,

which doesn't normally happen.

Normally, I'm toasty pretty quick.

But, um...yeah.

[mild music]

We just got a fresh snow,

and I feel like I'm usually pretty resilient with cold,

but I don't have a lot of experience

being in really cold climates

while I'm also not eating very well.

♪

So I'm hoping for something in my snares.

There are rabbits about

because right here...

are some rabbit tracks.

One, two-- the front paws.

And then one, two--

the back paws.

Let's go check snares.

[gasps] Oh, my God!

I got a rabbit.

[sighs]

Holy [bleep]. Thank God.

[squeals happily] Oh, my God.

I got a rabbit.

I got a rabbit in my snare.

[smooches]

Thank you, thank you, rabbit gods.

Thank you so much.

Wow.

I know I can set snares and consistently get rabbits--

if I could get a rabbit a day,

I can really live here long term.

[sighs] I am so grateful.

♪

[grunts]

I know a bit about rabbit biology.

And wild rabbits, their skin is so thin

that it's not strong enough for you to tan

into a solid piece of fur,

so the only way to use it is to case-skin it.

So you take it off in a tube, essentially,

and then you cut the skin into a long continuous piece

by cutting it in a spiral.

♪

I've been a craftsperson from the time I was a child,

making clothes myself for my Barbie dolls.

I just had a deep desire to make everything I could

with my own hands and really understand

the things in my life in a deep way

and where they came from.

And that is one of my major skills

for being able to live really, really well out here.

♪

Okay.

Now I have this long...

piece of rabbit skin.

[sniffs]

Gonna tie one end to a branch...

and twist.

While it's still wet, you kind of twist it

so that the flesh side comes together

and then the fur is on the outside.

So you end up with this really fuzzy rope.

It's not perfect,

but it is my first rabbit skin rope.

And it is sure gonna be

a soft and luxurious thing.

And once it's dry...

♪

It can be woven

into something warm and fabulous.

Isn't that amazing?

Look how big that is from one rabbit hide

that would be way too thin to actually tan.

[sniffs]

[tense music]

♪

- I'm gonna cook a piece of this fresh moose.

Let's see what we're doing here.

Look at that shish kebab.

Whoo.

All right, let's try a little bit of moose.

There it is.

Oh, man.

Oh, man.

That is a ten out of ten.

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

You can't beat that--

nice crispy blackness on the outside.

It's good that it's that good,

'cause I'm gonna be living off of it for a while...

As long as a bear doesn't take it

and I don't let it spoil.

[dramatic music]

♪

- All right, let's start eating my rabbit.

I want to cook up my heart with a little berry action.

The new official name of this meal is Berry Love.

You know, it's got a heart in it.

I mean, come on, Berry Love tonight.

Oh, it's gonna be so good.

Oh, yeah.

Juice it up, berries.

♪

Eating its heart--I want to see what it looks like.

Oh, it looks done. It looks good.

Ooh, I was gonna lick my knife, and that's bad.

When I am successful out here,

I think about my mom.

I have devastated her with my life choices

over and over again,

and all she wants to do is see me happy.

It's very nice.

And for the main course... [smacks lips]

I'm gonna hot-dog-style the legs, just like that.

Just like that.

♪

I think there would be a validation to Mom

if I came home with the money, saying,

"Look, look what all of this craziness

has accomplished for me."

♪

[exhales deeply]

[chewing]

Oh, it tastes so good.

It really does.

Wow.

Another awesome day.

♪

Okay, there is something kind of screaming outside.

[animal grunting softly]

Like, it was definitely a kind of a sketchy noise.

Like, right near the shelter.

[animal snarling in the distance]

[animal hissing] - Oh, [bleep].

♪

[branch cracks] - What's that?

♪

I can't see nothing.

I couldn't see it.

It was growling...

kind of this weird, yowly growl kind of thing.

[zipper closing]

[dark music]

♪

I'm okay.

[exhales deeply] I'm okay.

♪

I'll be safe.

♪

I know that I'll be safe.

♪

I'll be safe.

♪

Okay, I'm finally dressed. I'm ready to go.

I'm gonna grab my bow.

So I'm gonna go try to track it

and see who it was.

♪

I know that now we're in the winter season,

the big animals are gonna be hungry.

They need to get the calories they need,

and so that is a real caution for me.

They're surviving in that moment

of, "I need food, and you could be it."

♪

Here's some tracks.

♪

Look at that...

walked right by my camp.

♪

I'm not sure what this little slide part is.

♪

This how big it is.

♪

It's big. One, two, three, four, five.

There's nails showing, though.

♪

Let's keep looking.

♪

Man...

♪

They look round like a cat, like a lynx.

♪

But lynxes don't have a very long tail.

♪

Oh, maybe it's a toe drag.

Like, dragging his feet maybe.

[sighs]

I'm kind of hoping he takes off

and goes somewhere else,

because what if I catch a hare,

and then the lynx comes along, it's like,

"Oh, hey, free meal. That's awesome.

Thank you."?

That's not gonna work.

I'll fight that lynx if he thinks he's getting it.

♪

And I will win.

[dramatic music]

[object scrapes outside]

- There's a bear coming. [animal roars]

Oh, [bleep]!

- Uh-oh, there's a bout of lightheadedness.

Ugh, [bleep].

♪

- Every time I check my net,

I risk slipping into the water.

- Holy [bleep]!

Oh, [bleep].

House is on fire.

[pants]

♪