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Six of "Alone's" strongest participants

are about to face their biggest challenge yet.

- I didn't agree to do "Alone" again for a suffering contest.

Oh, my God!

With just a few supplies,

they'll push their skills and bodies

farther than ever before.

Starting later than any previous season

and with less time to prepare,

they'll arrive just as the fierce North Atlantic winter

is about to begin.

- Winter's not coming. Winter's here.

They'll battle howling winds, constant rain,

and North America's most fierce apex predators.

- You're not gonna fight off a polar bear.

It's gonna eat you.

Survive 50 days,

and they'll win their share of half a million dollars.

- It just doesn't get any worse.

This is "Alone: Frozen."

- "Alone" has never done this before.

We're getting dropped... Boom... right in winter.

Nobody does this.

Nobody starts a survival adventure in winter.

- We're in one of the most wild

and remote places on Earth.

We could be experiencing horizontal snow

later this afternoon.

Winter isn't on its way. It's basically here.

It's gonna be real serious

from the moment we hit the ground.

Oh.

Check out my beautiful little beach.

- 50 days in a cold, wet environment.

It may be a shorter amount of time,

but in no way, shape, or form

is it gonna be any easier.

The elements we're getting thrown into are 100% worse.

We've got the Atlantic Ocean

bringing in northeast winds, which can get extremely high,

all the way up to hurricanes.

I must love the pain, misery, and suffering, right?

'Cause here I am again.

- The completely different wildlife, like polar bears,

black bears makes it, I think, a situation.

Polar bears, they don't mess around.

They just hunt you down and eat you.

- Here in Labrador, we're gonna be trying to survive

in a very harsh and unforgiving territory.

On my own!

Just gonna find a spot and hope for the best.

I don't want to see any polar bears.

- And starting late,

it's going to affect the resources.

All those food sources that would be an easy gather

are probably gonna be slim to none.

You can plan all you want,

but Nature's gonna give you just what she wants.

I just got to eat like it's my job.

- We're about as remote as it gets.

It's already cold, and it's gonna get colder.

It's wet cold,

which is a whole different kind of cold.

It sticks with you.

It gets down into your bones,

and it's just perfect weather for hypothermia.

This is gonna be hard,

otherwise it wouldn't be just a 50-day challenge.

Man, that helicopter was powerful... blew me over.

All right, there's the helicopter...

flying away.

There it goes.

Bye, helicopter.

And here I am in my new home.

I don't want to start it off by complaining,

but...

I can't help but notice...

I am...

in a north-facing location.

So I'm here in the shade, and it's cold.

But I look across the bay, and what do you see?

Sun, sun, sun, sun, sun.

But I don't know how many days it's gonna be sunny anyway.

So what's more important is the direction of the wind.

Last time one of the hardest things

was that north-facing bowl.

The wind just whipped in there, and I hardly saw the sun.

So I was just hoping for a south-facing spot.

And, nope...

north-facing again.

It's another day in an Arctic paradise.

My fingers are cold. My toes are cold.

The camera screen's frozen.

So we got some challenges here.

On season seven, I was out there for so long.

I mean, 89 days... That's a quarter of a year.

I learned a lot about myself and my connection to the land.

Thank you, Great Slave Lake.

Thank you for feeding me. Thank you for teaching me.

My mind was strong.

My heart, my spirit, all of me

was ready to stay the entire time,

but I had reached my physical limit.

It's really sensitive.

I had frostbite on four of my toes,

one of which was pretty bad.

- What we're trying to avoid

is serious and potentially irreversible damage...

- Yeah. - To your frostbitten feet.

And so, as a result, I'm gonna have to extract you

from the field for medical reasons.

Right now in life, I am happy.

Move over! Move over!

But it wasn't always that way.

When I was a kid, both of my brothers died.

I was upset and angry about that for a long time.

What helped me through it was realizing

that we only get this one short life.

And I made an agreement

with myself and to my brothers

to live life for the three of us.

That's part of "Alone," you know?

Life comes knocking at my door,

and I opened it,

and I'm gonna live my life to the fullest.

Getting to go out again,

I know I'm gonna go even deeper,

so I want to be out as long as I can.

I'm gonna explore the area and see if there's any places

that will get more sun exposure.

Do you see this?

This is a well, well-defined game trail.

Look at my finger.

Oh, and...

big old bear scat.

They say 10,000 black bears in Labrador.

That basically means there's a black bear

around every corner.

So, if anyone gets a bear, they're good to go,

because the thing

that's hardest to find in the wild is fat,

and bears are loaded with fat.

I do not want to sleep

right next to this bear trail, but...

I don't really have a choice,

because the tide's gonna rise up to this point

and inland is extremely brushy.

And I'm gonna have to search

for a clearing to be able to sleep.

So, no matter where I sleep tonight,

it's gonna be right on this bear trail.

So that's exciting.

But what are you gonna do?

- Man...

everywhere around me is bog.

But, you know, you got to look

at the positive side of things, right?

I'm on a beach.

It's not a tropical beach, but I'm on a beach.

I've got a lot of stuff to do.

Right now I'm kind of looking

for somewhere to set up shelter,

something that sits up higher than these bogs

that I'm in right now.

There's gonna be a lot of patience involved out here,

because this terrain is thick,

and every single thing here is soaking wet.

The location makes it harder,

but it doesn't matter if it's 50 days, 75 days, 100 days.

You're gonna have challenges thrown your way

that you didn't deal with before.

Just like season seven,

this will be one of the hardest things in my life.

All it takes is all you got.

But...

I'm not sure I'm willing to give it everything that I have

to be able to stay out here.

Previously, I was on season 7,

and I lasted 44 days.

I got a fish!

Whoo! Man!

I've been waiting to catch another fish for so long.

I was having a good time.

I got to day 10, and I was smiling.

I was having fun. I got to day 20.

Yeah!

Got to day 30, same thing.

And every few days,

I'd find out that I was having a blast.

And then I hit a point on day 35

where I just was not having fun anymore.

I'm going insane out here.

What ultimately ended my time last time

is I ended up contracting the parasite trichinosis,

and it ended up getting into my heart

and the rest of my organs,

and it put me into congestive heart failure.

That's the closest I've ever come to dying.

In the past, I was in the military.

I was a recon marine. I was a scout sniper.

In the present, I'm a dad.

You think you're funny?

Last time Max was only a year old now.

Now he's three. He's got a personality.

Yummy? - No.

- I'm doing this to show Max

what it's like to do something extremely tough

and what it's like to go back and do it again

and to never give up.

And if you do get afforded another opportunity

to do something to give it another shot.

This is 1,000% a redemption for me.

I'm trying not to talk loud,

just because I don't want to make too much

of an imprint out here...

as far as animals

listening to what I'm saying.

I just need to come in here

and live life for 50 days

like it was normal, like I'm a part of it.

If you're not working with the land,

you're only working against it.

So I'm working with it.

The elements we're getting thrown into are miserable.

Every day is gonna be a struggle.

And any number of things can take people

out of this ball game.

We're in polar-bear country.

That does put a different twist

on the whole thing.

The polar bear... That is the meanest bear.

This is legitimately dangerous.

But I don't want to die

doing the bare minimum throughout my life.

I want to die knowing that I did great things,

knowing that I did hard things.

And so taking on this challenge

is something that 100% completes that.

So right now what am I thinking?

I'm thinking, take it slow.

I'm in no rush.

I do not want to make mistakes.

So much to lose, so little time.

We got to the post so late.

I'm trying to adjust my strategy...

a little bit different than last time.

The weather...

is warm and tropical here...

just like in Cancun.

Ah, no.

My name is Amós Rodríguez.

I was in season seven, Great Slave Lake.

Holy, man.

- And I lasted for 58 days.

I found a decent fishing hole, and it paid off right away...

Just started getting a lot of fish.

But I was not able to hunt big-game animals.

And the fishing had been drying out.

I hadn't had that much success.

The fat reserves in my body started to dwindle

really fast.

This is Amós.

Oh, shoot!

I felt like the fire gave me the okay

that I had taken the right decision.

My season on Great Slave Lake,

it was such a transformative experience.

It has given me the opportunity

to grow as a person, as an individual,

as a community member, as a father.

And I'm trying to make a better future for my daughter.

A bunch of gear.

Now it's like a two-part thing.

Yeah, I want to go and see again how I do,

but I also want to continue being a positive influence

on society.

The way I see it, I went through my master's out there.

Now I'm going through my PhD.

Beautiful moon, man.

That's what I come here for...

To have this moment of freakin' beauty.

Okay, get a fire going.

You have to fulfill all the basic survival needs...

Shelter, fire, water, and food.

Being a native,

being on this platform

comes with a lot of responsibilities,

and I feel like I carry also the weight

on my shoulder...

Then I can be a good role model,

a good example for other people.

- Day one...

I only got 49 more days to enjoy this.

So I got to start getting comfortable, yeah?

Here's what we've got going on.

Nothing impressive,

but it'll do the job for tonight.

You know what I'm saying?

But the goal is to see

how fast I can get my shelter up,

'cause, hey, the sooner I get my shelter up,

the safer I feel,

the more I'm protected from the elements,

the more at home I feel, the happier I am, right?

Heard some wolves howling.

So it's...

We're out here, you know? We're out in the wilderness.

And it's beautiful, and it's amazing,

and it's everything.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

- Hear that?

It's my squirrel alarm.

Frost...

All on the sleeping bag.

All right, well, today the plan is

to scout the land,

find all the freshwater sources,

find a shelter spot.

Okay, little squirrel.

Okay. Okay.

I'm gonna get out of bed.

I love scavenging.

I call myself a scavenger-gatherer

because I scavenge more than I hunt.

Oh, my gosh!

What do we have here?

That's worth carrying back.

Always good to have a cutting board.

Back home I can survive

off of what other people throw away.

I fed myself meat for the whole year

off of cuts that were gonna go into the dumpster.

Look at this big old tree... Cut with a saw.

Ooh, and even more interesting... a rope.

I'd pick up roadkill.

Roadkill is my favorite thing

because I get to eat fresh, wild meat,

but I didn't have to take the life.

To be pulling out of the waste stream and repurposing

is a scavenger's paradise.

Look in here, my friends.

I just found a pretty good shelter spot.

Hopefully this is gonna be really protected from the wind

'cause of all these trees here.

You know, last time I spent

a lot of time searching for this perfect spot,

and there wasn't a perfect spot.

So I think this time, going in kind of just looking

for what's good enough,

and if it's good enough,

just roll with it and try to get it done

because we're starting

in the wet and the cold and the wind.

We don't have a lot of time in the nice fall weather

to get set up.

It's gonna be hard.

Checking to make sure everything's smooth

'cause I don't want to push a hole in the tarp, you see?

Shelter is gonna be crucial

because we're gonna have serious winds, serious rain.

With the wind chill and the wetness,

it's probably gonna feel colder than the Arctic.

So I got to keep moving.

- Oh, don't drop him.

Got a pot full of clams.

Cut a couple more for this post,

and then I'll start making the structure up there.

Maybe sleep out there tonight and see how it feels.

The last time, I was able to prove

that I have the skills to be here.

I grew up in the context of El Salvador's civil war.

So some of my experiences, they created a lot of trauma,

but they also created some specific needs

that survivalist needs to have.

And one of those things are awareness.

Your bubble of awareness

need to be bigger than your bubble of disturbance.

What was that?

Ptarmigan.

There is one.

Ptarmigan.

How can it fly so far with one arrow on him?

I remember that happened to Woniya last time.

He went up,

and she looked for it forever.

I saw the feathers.

Look at the feathers.

It clearly was hit, man.

It was dropping feathers.

It's a really important food source

because they've got some fat.

Getting chicken soup for dinner would be awesome.

Dang.

I feel sorry for the bird

'cause it's flying with an arrow stuck in its body, man.

Okay.

Let's go explore a little more about my shelter...

a big priority.

So much to do.

I think this is going to be harder

because of the different weather.

People don't realize how brutal

a cold, wet place can be.

It can kill you, hypothermia, fairly quick.

Here it's way colder, way more water,

way more wind.

So the place will make it really challenging.

That's a good shot.

Like my daughter sings... "Rain, rain, go away.

Come back a different day."

Tomorrow is her birthday party.

I wish I could be there with you celebrating, baby,

but I'm here,

trying to become the best version of myself

so I can try to teach you

how to become the best version of yourself...

not that you have to do it this way.

This is just a process that I go through to do it for me.

Everybody does it differently.

I love you so much, Mitzi.

- Okay.

Don't want to freak you guys out.

Don't freak out,

but there's a bunch of splashing in the ocean.

I think it's a whale 'cause I saw the fin.

So cool.

But it's time to go...

go, go, go get some food.

This is the game plan today. Step one... get hydrated.

Step two... It's low tide right now,

so I'm gonna go on a walk

'cause the ocean grocery store is open now.

But soon, gonna be closed,

so I'm hoping to harvest seaweed

and hopefully some mussels or clams.

Man, this seaweed is slippery.

I'm seeing a lot of seaweed,

so I know I'm gonna have greens.

I'm excited about that.

It'd be nice to harvest some,

but just got to be careful,

careful walking out here...

Lots of slippery stuff.

Oh!

There's a bunch of ravens congregating.

What is that?

All the ravens just flew away.

What?

This is so cool!

Check it out

It's a big piece of seal skin.

It's so pretty, and look at the inside...

a bunch of fat.

This is all fat...

delicious seal fat.

What?

Oh, my gosh.

I wonder... I heard that whale this morning.

I wonder if that whale had a seal for breakfast

and this is a piece of it that washed up.

Oh. So cool!

I mean...

It smells fresh.

It smells so fresh.

Dang!

Wow!

What a score!

So here we go... seal skinning.

I'm gonna just cut it into little pieces.

My philosophy in survival is...

I try to think in terms of abundance.

And how you think about something

really shifts how you start to see it.

And so, instead of seeing the land

as this harsh, barren,

lean place,

I want to see it as this abundant, giving land

that I'm gonna be able to find everything I need in.

All right. There we have it.

Seal fat soup... that's what's for dinner tonight.

Whoa. That is pure fat.

It doesn't taste rancid.

Wow.

Pretty good.

How ironic, really...

I mean, fat is the hardest food to find in the wild,

and I found a whole bunch of fat...

Only fat, no meat, just fat.

I'm stoked on it...

so stoked.

I have to mix it up with some vegetables,

some sea vegetables.

And here rain is every day, man.

Even when we have sunshine.

Let's see what's out here.

I'm going out with my bow, walking the land.

Oh.

No freaking way!

Holy, man.

Check this out

I got my first meal.

One of the snares worked.

I got a little hare for a snack today.

Yay, yay, yay.

Well...

I got lunch and dinner out of one of my snares.

So let's do lunch.

I want to have a connection to my food.

And what a better way to have a connection

to your food than actually going and hunting?

Then you can really see where your food comes from.

That's one of the things that we're missing as society.

We buy a clean package of beef from the store.

We have no clue where it comes from.

Has the cow been treated properly?

Put the head in there.

I think it's more ethical for us to connect to our food

in the way that I'm trying to do it.

We all used to experience it that way.

If we look at it in the big perspective,

in the big timeline of humanity,

the time that we've been just wrapping in plastic our food

is just a tiny, tiny, tiny amount.

It's cooking.

Most of the time as humans,

we have been connected to our food.

And what a better way to teach it and experience it.

There is no other teacher like experience.

Oh, pretty good.

Pretty good rabbit, man.

Tastes like chicken.

- Gosh, it's wet out here.

It's wet. It's wet.

It's all wet.

Wet, wet, wet, everything.

You don't go anywhere...

anywhere without your rain pants on.

I got to go find a good spot to build a shelter.

You can just tell

this place is not the same as "Alone" season seven,

as the Great Slave Lake.

This environment's unforgiving.

You can get hypothermia faster in an environment like this

than you can in negative-20 degrees

in a dry cold.

Overcoming that battle of dealing with the weather

will be challenging.

So I can't compare how fast I got my shelter up last time,

because last time it was a totally different scenario.

And I've got to get that out of my head.

I've got to find somewhere that's gonna keep me dry,

so I'm looking for high ground.

The ability to stay dry and the ability to stay warm,

that's the biggest part of this.

All right, this is gonna be shelter location.

It'll be pretty big.

I will be happy with this.

Now to get to work.

All right, first step... Got to clear everything out.

I'm gonna build a triangular cabin.

So this is where my door's going.

It's gonna be a lot more work,

but I want something

where I can be safe from polar bears,

and something that I can have a fire in

and hopefully smoke a lot of game in.

Some of these things need to be sawed.

I want to enjoy my time while I'm out here,

because I'm giving up time with my son.

So I'm giving up a lot.

So I don't want to come out here and have it be miserable.

Success to me is being happy.

Okeydokey.

Exactly where I did not want it to go.

It's fine.

I've got to find the positive in this,

because, honestly, I would much rather be with Max.

Damn it.

That ain't happening. All right.

Somebody said to me recently...

That my moral character

was pretty much all jacked up for coming out here

instead of spending time with my son.

And at first, I was like, "Nah!

Horse!"

Because this is, you know, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

that I'm getting to do twice.

How awesome is that?

But Max doesn't know why I'm gone.

He's not old enough to understand

what this means to me.

And, honestly, I don't even know myself.

It's not easy leaving your family

and coming out here to do something

that just takes you away from them.

This time is just different.

This sucks.

- Wow.

Wow.

Wow.

Wow.

I'll tell you...

this time is just different.

Great Slave Lakes...

My shelter was built with an amazing view.

Open land, I could see a long ways.

I was happy.

I had freshwater right there,

mountains, sunny, sunny days, and snow.

Those were good days.

This place... I am surrounded by willows.

Like, 30 yards is the longest I can see.

Is it nice, peace and quiet, being in nature?

Absolutely.

But the more I sit out here,

the more I do the same thing that I already did before.

You start to question that.

Was I expecting something different?

I don't know.

I do not know.

But...

I'd be lying if I said I wanted to be here right now.

I just wanted to try and give it another go.

But you get to a point in life where you're like,

"Man, I just want to be home.

"I just need to stay home.

"I need to be home with my kid.

And, man, I'm just not willing to give it another 45 days.

Hey, this is Mark,

and I am officially tapping out.

I didn't see myself leaving after only five days,

but if I come out here

and I'm not enjoying myself,

what am I doing it for?

I just feel like I'm being extremely selfish right now

by trying to stick it out for 50 days.

I'm really not doing any justice to Max.

You know, I could be spending time with him.

Today is the day that I retire from all this ridiculousness.

This is the day that I retire from leaving home for...

long, extended hunting trips

or to do any contracting positions

that take me away from home.

Today is the end of that.

I'm leaving this experience with a different mindset.

I don't think anybody ever sees themselves

not making it to the end.

But I don't look at this as me quitting.

I look at this as me starting a new chapter in my life.

I started this journey

thinking that I've got to prove myself again

and again and again.

You've constantly got to prove yourself in life.

And I'm ending this journey

realizing that I'm done proving myself in life,

and I'm gonna start living.

When Max watches this

and he sees me leave after five days,

I hope that he realizes that there's no amount of money

that makes up for lost time

and that family means absolutely everything.

Without family, you have nothing.

This season on "Alone: Frozen."

- In a survival situation, you do everything you can do,

or you're gonna die.

- I do not want to see a polar bear.

No freaking way.

I want to stay the 50,

but if I don't start bringing in more food,

I'm not gonna be able to do that.

There's nothing like starving

to give you gratitude for food.

The wind's starting up,

and I can definitely feel the cold.

- Can you see the horizontal snow?

'Cause it is something else.

- It hasn't been much fun. I can tell you that.

- I've got about half visual acuity in my left eye.

- I feel like my time here is limited,

and I'm really sad about that.

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