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Washing my clothes. I'm just gonna boil them.

Ah!

! Ow.

Having my hand burned, I can't shoot my bow.

Stupid.

I need to get out of the temporary shelter.

So I'm gonna push, and I think, when I'm done,

this place is gonna be bomb-proof.

Gotta be careful standing up so quick.

It's easy to forget how much I haven't eaten.

The biggest game here is down!

I've butchered plenty of large animals

that I know how much work this is gonna be.

I'm gonna burn up a lot of energy doing this.

Yeah.

Boom.

Got him.

I strongly believe that

when nature throws you a tidal wave,

you build a bushcraft surfboard and ride it out.

Yeah!

I'm officially tapping out.

I just couldn't deal with the social isolation.

I'm not tapping out.

I'd rather die.

Here goes nothing.

Whoa!

Yes!

Holy [bleep].

This is the harshest location possible.

We're 125 miles in the Arctic Circle.

Never had an environment

make me feel like a complete amateur before.

Everything is against us out here.

Mother Nature went and bitch-slapped me.

Looks like I got grizzlies and wolves as my neighbors.

Holy crap.

They're just hunting the shoreline.

Mother Nature is about to dim the lights on us.

We're heading into total darkness.

Hey, bear.

The cold and the dark is going to sap people's souls.

Really makes you wonder if it's worth it.

There is no camera crew.

There's no support system.

I'm completely alone.

Yes!

People go in one way...

Stop bleeding.

And they come out entirely different.

This is the most difficult

survival challenge in the world.

$500,000.

That's completely life-changing money.

It's beautiful.

Whoever can thrive the longest.

If they out here, they ought to be afraid of me.

Whoever can push through...

Wins.

I hope I made the right choice coming out here.

I can package the smoked meat,

get it in my food cache.

That's a lot of meat.

So I decided to boil some spruce and shave.

See how this works, shaving with an arrowhead.

Think that's about as good as I'm gonna get it.

Oh, well.

I need to start moving around because I'm getting cold.

But I really want to construct the bed in my shelter.

That's all I'm gonna do today, as far as work goes.

My energy level is zero.

My winter supply of meat is done.

My moose meat is smoked and it's in a cache.

It's very secure.

Now I can start moving into my shelter.

OK.

I'm gonna go about making a bed.

I'm gonna make a wood frame and then a bough bed on top of it.

My strategy starting now is to do the bare minimum,

as little as possible physically.

My shelter smells like smoked meat big time.

That's not gonna bother me at all.

And eat as much as I can,

try to build some longevity into my physique.

I have to raise up the bed off the ground for maximum warmth.

I'm really tired, and I shouldn't be.

My strategy always was to work really hard

for the first couple or three weeks to get things set,

and then do a strategy shift.

But the moose complicated it so much that

it might have been just overdoing it.

That might be good.

The way I've gone about these last three weeks

will drive me out of this competition soon

if I keep doing it that way.

I'm having a rough time, just physically today,

a very rough time.

So that might be one of the life lessons

I have to learn while being here.

I got... I got just a start

on making the bed in there.

This is sad.

I've never been this inept unless I was totally sick.

I really gassed myself during the first three...

three weeks here.

So I'm paying for it.

I got to recoup.

Well, I have decided that I must be getting sick,

coming down with something.

It's the only explanation for how I'm feeling today.

I've started to sweat and then get cold

and then sweat and then get cold.

I'm worried about it.

Hot, cold, chills, sweat.

Not a great day.

The moose could easily and ironically be

the thing that would take me down.

Sweating again.

I've got to get through whatever this is.

Place your bids. Here we go.

Anybody got a giddy up, go.

Antique log going, starting the bidding at 10 bucks.

Here we go. Anybody gonna go 10 now?

Here we go, 15.

Anybody want to go 25 here, anybody go 25 bucks.

There is no log on the face of the Earth

with the same grains and beauty as this sumbitch.

Now, come on. Anybody gonna go 40?

40 bucks. Can we get a 41?

Sold!

Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together...

for the young lady in the back

who bought this amazing piece of lumber

for $42.

Sold.

All right, that's enough fun, Dub.

No fun allowed here in the Arctic.

It's all work, bro.

It's darn cold out today

on a pre-winter day in the Arctic Circle.

Food and firewood are the two things

that are gonna be hard to come by in about a month.

All right. Let's go check the gill net.

What scares the hell out of me more than anything

is that period of a couple weeks

before I can walk on the ice on this river.

If that happens, and I don't have food stored for that...

I can't ice fish.

I can't fish this open water and I can't ice fish.

So that'll be two weeks.

Two weeks of me not eating is a tap-out.

I'm too skinny, so I can't...

that can't happen.

That could happen to just about anybody else

in this competition, but that cannot happen to me.

Gill net.

Drumroll, please.

A bunch of... a bunch of garbage in there.

There's no fish in here.

Nothing in the gill net.

Must fish.

I must fish at all costs.

And I must do it almost every day.

I really would much rather be hunting right now.

But...

I also know...

this is a smart thing to be doing right now with my time

that's not burning calories.

I think something's hitting this one.

I don't know if I should wait for it to spring

or just grab it.

I'm just gonna spring it by hand.

Holy crap, that's big.

Stay on there.

My club is right here in front of my feet.

So gentle.

No sudden movements.

Wow.

Freaking wow.

Yes!

How's that...

.

When you have a fish caught, in your hands...

And to have it suddenly get away,

it's like a...

it's a heart-wrenching thing.

It's like you work so hard.

Every freaking calorie, when it comes down to it,

every calorie on every one of these fish

means something to me.

And literally losing a fish in a split second

from a bad decision is taking away

my time of being here for longer.

Everything's OK.

Everything's OK.

It's only...

It's only five days of food and $500,000, dude.

That's all.

Never let that happen again,

and we can recover from that.

Besides looking like an absolute idiot on television,

we can recover from that.

That was a damn nice fish,

days and days and days of food.

I think I might just have to be satisfied

with my hard lesson today.

Stupid lesson.

This is my pipe I'm making.

It's gonna be like a little hobbit pipe.

We are going to fire that pipe.

So you can see my pipe down in there.

Essentially, what you're doing is

welding the clay into a ceramic.

Picked some kinnikinnick.

What do you think of that?

There we go.

Well, it certainly isn't tobacco.

It's got kind of a peppery flavor to it.

It's not bad.

All right.

We're gonna go work on the shelter.

This has been the single most challenging thing

since I've been out here,

selecting a place to build a permanent shelter

and what kind of shelter to build.

And because I'm getting right down to the wire,

I think the most efficient, quickest thing that I could do

is a wickiup.

So then it became finding a place where I could find

enough small trees to make a wickiup.

I walked up and down this whole river.

And the only place on this side of the river

that I found that was suitable to do it was right behind me

in the one place I didn't look.

I just want to get rid of as much bark as possible.

Then it won't be so liable to catch on fire on me

in the middle of the night.

The thing about a wickiup is,

it provides a lot of really good insulation

by slowing down the air from the outside.

If I can settle in here and become comfortable,

I'll be able to stay here for a very long time.

All right.

Done with that for now.

Think I'll get my tarp on there

and then try and catch a fish.

If I don't catch anything in the net,

I will fish with my line.

I can see the net,

but I don't see any fish.

I made a handline from the leftover strands

of paracord core from making my net.

I haven't had much success with it,

but I'll give it a try.

So here is a chunk of pike meat,

and this is the leader

that I made from my bootlace.

Pike have a mouth full of razor blades,

and something that I'm very limited on is hooks.

Inside the core of my winter bootlaces

is a material that's really strong.

They make bulletproof vests out of it.

So I'm hoping this leader will be safe from pike teeth.

That way, I don't lose my hooks.

I brought a big treble hook this time.

We'll see how that works.

I was gonna save this for lures but changed my mind.

I need to catch a lot of fish

before the river starts to freeze.

I want to try it just a little further out than that.

There's a fish.

Come on.

Oh, no!

No! [bleep]!

My main line snapped.

There it goes.

!

How am I gonna get that back?

I'm gonna have to go swimming.

I can't lose my leader.

I won't accept that.

Soon as I get that back, we're going from here to the camp.

.

Oh, [bleep].

Oh, it's cold.

Tailbone felt that one.

Oh, what an adventure.

OK, I do not recommend doing that.

I probably should go back to the fire, get warmed up.

Well, I'm in my...

my permanent shelter.

It's not done yet, but it's getting there.

I'm in an extreme amount of pain in my tailbone

and in my abdomen.

So I have debated, um...

Talking about this because...

it's kind of embarrassing.

I've had probably 30 pounds of food.

And in 12 days, I haven't had a single BM.

I wish that I had killed that beaver early on

because that may have kept

my digestive system working regularly.

I've been eating as much roughage as I possibly can.

I just don't know what else I can do about it.

Since my divorce, my kids have watched me struggle.

But I think it's important for them to be able

to see me outside of our family circle

and see what I'm capable of doing.

When you step into nature,

everything else is stripped away

and you are a vulnerable animal

that is bumping along, clumsily.

But there is no situation that I would be in

that would make me tap.

I made a commitment to finish this.

I would rather die than quit.

I feel like if I eat any more green stuff,

I'm gonna make it worse.

So I'm just keeping myself hydrated

and hoping things work themselves through.

I got to see what it is.

Oh, yeah! We got breakfast.

Yeah!

Yeah!

Hot.

I know that there's some Indigenous groups

that eat a lot of bark.

And right now, I'm on a fish diet,

so I'm getting mostly protein.

And I want to get some sugars and carbs in my body.

I think it'll be a more well-balanced diet.

Puts, you know, food in your stomach.

OK, so I'm gonna muck 'er down

and go look for some berries.

Look at that.

This here.

Getting juicier all the time.

Got to try to figure something out.

Sassy little bugger, anyway.

.

.

You know, not good when you got something

stealing your food all the time.

Well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

I may go for a little fish here this evening,

so try to secure something for tomorrow.

So food is starting to become a pretty good priority.

The critters here are very aggressive.

Food stored is not safe anywhere.

I got jays, the most aggressive little jays

I ever seen.

We got minks here. We got martens.

They're constantly stealing food from me.

And it's a real concern.

It's actually the biggest threat I got right now.

It's one thing to catch food, but then you got to be working

to keep the critters from stealing.

I can see it's gonna be a real challenge going forward.

I'm gonna have to come up with some other ideas

to try to figure out how to keep the animals

from getting at my food.

Yeah!

Is that a pike or something else?

Is that a salmon? No, it's... or a whitefish?

Oh, so the whitefish is here.

Oh, just gotta be careful. Just be careful, Willie.

Look at that. Look at that. Look at that.

Mm-mm.

Whitefish is on the run. I should put...

be very careful.

Very careful. Extra very careful.

There, right there, almost.

Oh, look at that! Got a whitefish.

Oh-ho-ho-ho-hoh.

Oh, how things turn around.

Super happy, super happy, super happy.

This is gonna be a well-protected fish.

Look at that.

Oh, my.

♪ Whitefish on the menu

Oh, what a pleasant surprise that whitefish was.

The timing was just perfect.

I've been needing something like that because

had a lot of food, critters cleaned me out.

Then I was starting to get a little short on food.

But that's a nice little pick-me-up.

Tear that off.

Like that.

Now what I'm gonna do...

now, this is my... this was my clay carrier.

It's gonna go in there now.

And this is gonna be tied over and hung up like that.

Now that goes up here, and you tie it over tight.

Well, I'll tell you, things can turn around

kind of fast out here.

Not putting in that hidey-hole.

No, don't trust that spot now either.

That's great.

I got a message that they're doing med check sometime today.

So we'll see what they say.

I got up a while ago,

and the pain in my abdomen is strong enough

to make me stop doing what I was doing.

I'm not complaining.

Just dealing with it.

But I said from the beginning, and I'm gonna keep saying it,

I'm not tapping out.

So we'll just see what happens.

Got a med check, so that should be fun.

I hear the boat coming.

I'm kind of nervous.

How thorough is the med check?

I don't know.

I don't know what the outcome of this med check's gonna be.

You always hope for the best, but plan for the worst.

Gonna me change my pants, be respectable for the doctor.

My stomach is feeling really lean, scary...

it's scary how lean it feels.

I'm actually worried about this med check.

I've thought about whether or not I should just

grit my teeth and fake it through this check.

But I've decided to not do that.

Bring the shirt kind of up to the bone here, the navel.

There any chest pain? - No.

Difficulty breathing?

Um, no. I've been out of breath from...

from work, you know, of course.

Some of these logs are pretty big.

But no difficulty breathing.

I am trying to catch my breath...

- OK. - Uh, constantly.

- Constantly? - Yeah.

- Any headaches? - No.

- Vision changes? - No.

Any chest pain?

- No. - No?

Sometimes it throbs.

Sometimes it feels like a...

like a dull knife.

- No belly pain? - Mm-mm.

Bowels been good?

There was one day that I had some stomach pain,

and I think... I don't know what was going on.

And maybe I hadn't used the restroom in, like, five days.

And so there was one day that I had a little pain there,

but it wasn't serious.

I haven't had a bowel movement in...

it's either 14 or 15 days.

And that has become extremely painful.

How often are you having these pains?

Constantly.

It's more pronounced when I do anything.

It does worry me a bit.

I don't want to have a heart attack at 35.

- Any pain there? - No.

- That's OK? - Oh, all good, yeah.

- OK, that's sore. - That's sore there.

- OK. - Yeah, that's sore.

Yeah? So the deeper... the deeper I go, the more...

- Oh, yeah, way more. - OK.

Like, j...

Yeah, just taking that off was...

making it pretty hard to breathe.

At this point, I don't think it's medically safe

for him to be in the field.

Given Dr. Gary's concerns...

We need to officially extract you for medical reasons.

My largest concern is,

you're showing signs now of a bowel obstruction.

My concern with a bowel obstruction is,

that's something that can evolve

into a perforation or an infection

throughout the body called sepsis.

These are very serious diagnoses.

And it's no longer safe for you to continue.

Any chance we could just, like, give it a few more days?

Four days or something?

It's a pretty serious risk

that you're putting yourself in day by day,

living out here.

It is not safe to continue.

My brother, uh...

had an obstruction.

They had to take out about 7 feet of his intestines.

So I understand.

I think that it's probably the right call.

I just don't want it to be, you know?

That's all I've got to say, I guess.

I feel like I had my hand extended,

reaching at this goal that I wanted so badly.

And then the goal stretches out beyond my reach,

and all I grab onto is empty air.

But what I'm realizing about this experience

is that it's OK that I didn't win the prize

because what I gained is wisdom.

When you're faced with a challenge like this,

it tests your character.

I came to know myself better.

And I'm going to keep this state of vulnerability,

because I think if I do,

I can be more helpful to my family, my children.

My kids will see a passionate and happy Jake.

I'm going to be a better version of myself,

full authenticity, but with purpose.

And I'm going to finish that journey on my own terms.

Gonna use some of the ptarmigan bones for bait.

There we go, six baited hooks.

You mother[bleep]. I hate you.

You are a robbing little bastard.

What are you trying to steal from me now?

Huh?

Jerk.

Stupid Canadian jay.

Med check is done and over with,

and they didn't pull me because I'm dying,

so we'll call it a success.

So I'm going to walk over to the river

and check my longline.

A longline is a long rope

that's anchored down at one end.

And off of that rope is multiple baited hooks,

so there's multiple chances of catching a fish.

My body's feeling depleted.

I am really hoping I get a protein today

because I ate the last of the ptarmigan.

Oh. Oh, gosh.

OK, change in plans.

See if I can get that bird.

A couple days into my journey here,

I stopped wearing my belt.

Oh, where'd you go, pretty chicken?

I need you so bad.

And today I put it back on and found out that

I lost enough weight that I'm in at least one notch.

Where'd you go?

I hear it.

Oh, I see her. She's up there a ways.

Too big or too small, doesn't matter.

My entire life, I see my body different than it is.

It's [bleep] up.

Please, God, be with me and guide this arrow.

I can really use this.

.

Damn it.

Oh, please, God, let me get one of these birds.

Oh, [bleep].

Un-freaking-believable.

Even that raven's laughing at me.

Raven, shut it!

Not funny.

Feel like a [bleep] dumbass.

All right, back to my lines.

I spent most of my adult life overweight.

I've always had an addictive personality.

Unfortunately, that came from my family.

Sure hope my anchor holds on.

Those things are hard to find.

My mom ended up falling into alcoholism,

and she got into Alcoholics Anonymous.

Nothing on the first one.

Nothing on the second one.

And I started to see these amazing changes in her

in a very short period of time.

And then she came to me when I was 17 years old and said,

"I love you, but I'm done with motherhood.

I now have to take care of myself."

And nothing on the third one

or the fourth one.

That was the day I had to grow up.

There was just an emptiness inside of me.

And I filled the void with alcohol and food.

But I turned it around because I got pregnant.

Everything still has its chunk of bone on it.

Just not the best bait.

Knowing how it felt to have your mother

not mother you anymore, I wouldn't do it.

I know I was a better mother than my mother was.

And my daughter is an amazing mother.

Because each one of us has our own trauma from our mothers,

I know that every generation in my family,

we're getting better.

Yeah, been one of those days.

I don't remember who told me...

some woman in my world...

about how they always hate the competitor,

the female competitors, that cry.

And here I am.

My confidence is taking a hit.

That voice inside of me that loves to tell me

how much I suck at everything is getting louder.

And it's looking for any weakness I have.

All of a sudden, I'm starting to question

my abilities again.

Do I really have what it takes?

I made a promise to my husband that I would tap out

before I broke physically or mentally.

I might be there.

An emotional breakdown...

On video.

It's humiliating.

And in my safe space at home, I'm not embarrassed to feel.

On television?

I'm vulnerable like every other person in this world.

And sometimes I suck at some of the skills

I'm supposed to have.

Now you all know. Sometimes I just suck.

I sometimes suck at fishing.

And I often suck at hunting.

But the plain and simple fact is, this is just me.

And, you know, we all go through our lives

projecting an image.

And I project an image...

OK, I try to project an image

of having my [bleep] together,

of being a tough, badass woman.

And sometimes it just doesn't work out, any of it, out here.

And now the whole world knows.

The publicity of this game

was one of the scariest parts for me, because I knew.

I knew the real me would be shown.

I have no doubt that

my lack of nutrition and hydration

is affecting not only my body, but my mind.

It's OK.

Because there's a lot of other people in the world

who project a great image,

and sometimes they suck, too.

That's being human.

So any crazy thought that I'm having,

I know that it's my body

trying to convince my mind to go home.

But I'm not breaking yet.

I still have fight in me, so I'm not tapping out yet.

I'm really tired.

I've been going pretty hard today.

Ooh.

It's new socks day.

Oh, yeah.

It's the best part of today.

Look at 'em. They're so soft.

Mmm. And they smell good.

Well, I don't even know if they smell good or not.

They just don't smell like me, so.

But yeah, today is gonna be pretty easygoing.

I haven't had a break since we've been here,

so I think I'll just take it easy

and rest and heal and just enjoy being here.

That's the plan for today.

I have been working nonstop on my shelter,

burning an easy 3,000 to 4,000 calories a day

and maybe getting an average

of 500 calories a day in my body.

That's not sustainable.

I'm having some pains in my chest.

I think I work myself too hard.

So I need to stop feeling like I got to work all the time

and just try to relax.

Today...

my church involves just being still

and washing my underwear.

That's my morning... that's my morning service.

I haven't taken this underwear off in two weeks.

So much filth coming off of these.

Oh, that's horrible.

I might get a ticket for, like, polluting the water.

Oh, man.

All right, now I'm gonna boil some water.

I know I don't have enough water in me,

so I'm starting to get a little bit of a headache.

This here is just birch bark.

And it works really good for... a fire starter

because of all the oils that's inside birch.

I only got one ferro rod.

It has a very limited number of strikes.

I think the same thing with the ferro rod,

and me taking my time to make the most

out of this fire starter,

I think it applies a lot to our lives,

at least mine.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that's gone through tragedy,

but how much time did I waste

not taking advantage

of when my brother was here?

Like it's gonna last forever.

It's not.

People in your life

that actually mean something to you,

what are you doing with them today,

tomorrow, this weekend, you know,

to make the most of your time with them?

There it goes.

I'll drink some water and go for a walk.

Being out here, I wish now that

I'd have valued my time with them more.

It's just like that ferro rod.

May not be today, may not be the next few months.

It may last you a lifetime.

But most likely, it won't.

There's always a job to do.

But the thing is, there's always a job to do.

I need to slow down.

I need to just be present, be in the moment.

My baby girl is only gonna be one year old for so long.

And it's more important that I enjoy that time

instead of work it all away.

It's getting cold. Gonna put this on my noggin.

I can't believe it.

That's crazy.

I found a...

tangled up gill net.

Seems like some of it is intact.

I want to salvage this.

Pretty cool stuff.

Lucky.

I didn't take the time to make a gill net

because at first,

catching stuff on the bait was really working.

So I just didn't bother with it.

And then I just got so caught up in that shelter.

I'm sure there's a lot of stuff

I'm gonna look back and wish I'd done better.

But you know, that's just the way life is.

Maybe this is just exactly what I needed to win.

I need to get that thing fixed.

I need to get it in the water ASAP,

and hopefully it starts turning a profit.

This could be a big win.

Got us a... gill net.

Oh, my God, dude.

That did not just happen.

Why the [bleep]?

I just smashed my glasses.

That's another terrible mistake.

Can't be making mistakes.

I'm gonna have to, like, figure something out here.

So here's my glasses.

They broke right there.

So the lens is gonna fall out every time I move.

Wonder if I could just try to melt that back together.

I think that's probably what I should try doing.

We got paracord and pine pitch.

So if I can get this heated up...

And welded, if you will,

this plastic welded,

we'll pop in that lens.

And I think we'll be back in business.

It's gonna be probably not just that simple,

'cause most things never are.

So it seems like it's semi... fixed.

I'm gonna wrap paracord really freaking tight.

I'm gonna cover it with a very generous layer

of pine pitch glue.

That's awesome.

There's our resin glue.

Now, I want to get it in every nook and cranny

so that it's basically fiberglass.

OK, put the glue in.

You guys ready for the big unveiling?

Boom.

That's back to normal, man.

That is awesome.

Look at this. This is what I lose

without a hairbrush.

I'm gonna be bald before this journey is over.

Feeling some frustrations right now,

frustrations over my inability to smack an animal

with an arrow.

You know, I've had a couple opportunities

that I could have got some bait,

and I blew it.

All right.

That's enough mental bashing.

I think I'm gonna go take a walk with my bow

and see if there's anything to shoot at.

So I finally have a badass afternoon.

Fairly certain cameras are pointed in the right direction.

And when I go to look at the media,

it says it can't be read.

So... yeah.

It's OK.

Doesn't take away from how fabulous it was.

Because "Alone's" worst hunter...

Got two spruce grouse.

Yay!

I have that sense of pride that,

not only did I get a bird, I got two birds.

I don't need the feathers,

so I'm just going to pluck them down to nakedness.

So here I am, with at least two more weeks

that I get to hang out and keep fighting.

OK. One naked little bird.

I've got more bait,

so now I have another chance at fishing,

another chance at feeding myself.

I have an actual chance of being able to nourish my body

through this game and win.

Hey, yo!

It's day 23.

Do you know what that means?

It means it's gonna be a wonderful day.

It means it's untangle a dilapidated gill net day.

It means that today's the day,

and it's gonna be a great one.

Oh, yes.

Ah!

Day 23.

I was sleeping great last night.

I was having a dream about all things breakfast

from Tudor's Biscuit World,

and it was great.

An egg and a hash brown and cheese

and a piece of country fried steak on it.

Yeah, it was so good! Oh, I want some Tudor's!

Oh, yeah.

Definitely got a good feeling about today.

First on the docket is check out my fishing lines.

And nothing.

Might need new... new bait.

Another squirrel would be handy.

I feel like my mind is strong,

but my body's acting

very differently than it has before.

The last few days, I've felt like my chest was tightening,

like I had like an elastic band

wrapped around my ribcage.

No fish today.

That might just mean that I'm too hungry,

which I'm positive has a part to play with it.

Maybe next time.

Today I just feel, like, this discomfort in my chest.

Something to keep an eye on.

All right, time to start working on a gill net.

Let me show you what I got here.

Oh, man, this is gonna take forever!

And you have to understand, this thing was wrapped up.

Oh, did I find the end of it?

Bet that's what that is.

All right, so this is one end of it.

All right, that's already a lot more...

uh, gill net than I already have.

So we're doing something.

I'm positive that my brother Josh is in heaven

watching this right now and just laughing.

My chest don't feel right.

Feel like someone's squeezing down on my insides.

Kind of a throbbing pain when I'm getting active.

And I think it's directly resulted

with not enough food being brought in.

And it's kind of making me a little nervous.

Just got to keep pushing. That's it.

There's no other way around it.

Nice!

Well, it's definitely more than 10 meshes deep.

All right.

The net is cut to size-ish.

I'm going to cut down a spruce pole

to use to hang this thing out there.

Let's get it.

My heart's going nuts.

I am losing my breath.

My chest hurts like crazy.

Oh, I can just hear...

I can feel my heart just, like, pounding.

I'm not even doing anything.

It's like my sternum and my upper abdomen, maybe.

I gotta get some food, actual food.

I think that's what it is.

Maybe.

Something is not right.

It hurts a lot.

Oh, God, it's not getting better.

There's something big over here

on the other side of this lake right now.

That's a big [bleep] moose.

All right, here we go, baby.

Living on the edge. Day by day meals.

Good food cache.

I'm gonna eat the last of the whitefish.

Just in front of my shelter,

there's fresh wolf tracks this morning.

It's a wild place out here.

Brothers! The time has come!