07x04 - Bares All: Naked Nights

[bunniefuu]

Man: The nights were
the worst in Belize.

The jungle would come alive.

I'm laying there, and I hear
something walking in the jungle.

[ Leaves rustling ]

I can hear it just
tracking back and forth.

And I'm thinking this
thing's stalking me.

Oh, my gosh.

And it gets closer and closer.

Oh, my gosh. Holy crap.

[ Grunts ] Hah! Get out of here!

Narrator: More than 100 of
the world's toughest survivalists

have summoned the courage
to strip down to nothing

and take on the most
difficult challenge imaginable.

Woman: Whoo!

They've overcome
arduous journeys

and persevered
through grueling days

in every dangerous
corner of the world.

Oh, my gosh!

But when the sun
dips below the horizon

and the camera crew
leaves for the night,

the darker side of the
challenge emerges.

Lee: Oh, my god.
21 days of this.

That's a [bleep] lifetime.

The survivalists are
left truly on their own

with nowhere to escape
the nocturnal predators...

[ Roars ]

...the extreme elements,

or the thoughts that torment
them during the darkest hours.

I swear to god one
day, I'm gonna k*ll you.

We'll go deeper into the
darkness than ever before...

There's a giant eel down here!

...to uncover some
never-before-seen

nighttime action...

...and revisit some of the
most terrifying moments...

Man: Calm down. [ Shivering ]

Oh, this is like [Bleep] dying.

...on "Naked and
Afraid: Naked nights."

Woman: I want to go! I want
to go as soon as possible.

Honestly, I dreaded the nights.

The nighttime was
absolutely miserable.

[ Groans ]

The nights wouldn't end.
And, I mean, you don't sleep.

I didn't sleep for beans.

You just feel so vulnerable.

Wes: When the sun goes
behind those mountains,

it's a different level of dark.

It's like being in a
room with no windows.

At night when it is
so dark and so cold,

I mean, it was impossible.

Woman: Craig, you got to stay
awake. You can't fall asleep.

We're taking hypothermic
temperatures now.

Last night was really scary.

Craig almost went
down with hypothermia.

You literally saved
my life last night.

At night, you could hear
large animals walking.

Holy [bleep]

You could hear their footsteps.

[ Animal growls ]

Amber: At nighttime, you
could hear them approach us.

They were roaring. I've never
heard something so intense.

I felt like it was going through
my body. It was so loud.

I was so scared, I
actually pissed myself.

I actually pissed myself.

I think it's about to get real.

Hello!

Narrator: Survivalists
often begin their challenge

full of confidence and hope...

It's a great day to be
Naked in the woods.

...excited to meet
their partner...

- Whoo!
- Whoo!

...and ready to take on
the hostile environment.

[ Thunder crashes ]

But the honeymoon
period doesn't last long.

We should probably
start building soon.

And the survivalists are
quickly up against the clock...

It's getting late, so we
got to get go, go, going.

...to find an ideal
shelter location

and construct
something for night 1.

Woman: Whoo!

We just need to get this
[Bleep] bed and shelter up.

Our shelter's pretty
half-assed right now.

Everything's way too wet to
even think about starting a fire.

Night 1... bugs are out in
full force, crawling and flying.

[Bleep] Bugs suck.

And I seem to be getting bit
a lot worse than my partner is.

Ow! [Bleep]

Got these [bleep]
welts all over our bodies.

And there's absolutely
nothing we can do about it.

I hope to god it's almost over.

I know. It's like the
longest night ever.

- It is miserable.
- [ Laughs ]

Ow. And I'm still getting bit.

It's night 1. I'm getting
a little frustrated.

We can't get the
fire going. It's dark.

On the first night, we built a
shelter as best as we could

as quick as we could since
we saw the weather coming.

The rain is coming.
[ Thunder rumbles ]

Yeah, the first night

was actually the
worst night of my life.

We were Naked. We
weren't able to get a fire.

And the worst storm
in our nightmares came.

[ Thunder rumbles ]

And the shelter, it
didn't stand the rain at all.

Haven't gotten any sleep at
all. I'm feeling kind of nauseous.

[ Retching ]

[ Retching continues ]

Nicklas: The first night. [
Chuckles ] Quite a start.

Narrator: An incomplete shelter
always provides a reality check

for just how brutal nights can
be in such remote locations.

Many survivalists have
been given a wake-up call...

Woman: [Bleep]
He's still out there.

Narrator: ...By the
things that creep, crawl...

Bite, and sting once
the sun goes down.

Dustin: On our first night, we
didn't have a whole lot of time,

so we piled a bunch of leaves
up and just laid on the ground.

So we're laying here in
our shelter on the ground.

I don't know if we're
gonna sleep much tonight.

Before I know it, we
became the main course

for 3-inch-long giant
black c*ck.

Aah! [Bleep]

Look at these things.
They're everywhere.

The c*ck
would crawl all over us.

Oh.

Dustin: There were
dozens of them all over.

- Ugh!
- We got to get off the ground.

Dustin: Yeah.

Starting to think maybe
this was a bad idea.

Lee: Oh, my god. The mosquitoes.

- Oh [bleep]
- Heinous, man.

The first night
was really intense.

[Bleep] That is horrible!

We hadn't had time
to build a shelter,

and so that first night when
the mosquitoes descended,

it got really thick.

My skin feels like sandpaper,

it's so bumpy with
mosquito bites.

It's really [Bleep] up morale.

Lee: Oh, my god.
21 days of this.

That's a [bleep] lifetime.

The stories that you hear

about people kind of
sh**ting themselves in the foot

because the
mosquitoes are so bad

and they just want to
feel something different.

Aah!

I was like, "okay,
yeah, that could be real."

Ohh!

Stacey: This is hell.

[ Helicopter blades whirring ]

Narrator: In Thailand,
Darrin and Angela

came face to face with rodents

known for carrying the deadly
bacterial disease leptospirosis.

Darrin: The first
night in our cave

was definitely less
than comfortable.

We'd have rats running
around us at night.

[ Rat squeaks ]

There were cobras on the island,

and knowing that we were
living with a bunch of rats in a cave

definitely had me
a little concerned

about a cobra coming in
to hunt them maybe at night.

Well, it's about
2:30 in the morning,

and a rat just crawled up on
me in the middle of the night.

Kind of freaky to have a
little furry thing run over you.

Yeah, three rats
crawled on me last night.

One of of them took a
little nibble on my toe,

but it didn't break the
skin at least, so I got lucky.

[ Monkey chatters ]

Narrator: In Honduras, Bree
had to face her biggest fear

every time the sun
dipped below the horizon.

Bree: I actually am
very Afraid of the dark,

and I was hoping that my
partner could help me through that.

This huge dead tree is
really giving me the creeps.

Uh... [ chuckles ]

Bree being Afraid of the
dark was an added challenge.

When we heard things at night,

I tried to comfort
her as best I could.

I think we'll be
fine. Right, Bree?

Anything comes towards
us, I'll just bash towards it.

Okay.

We'd have about
12 hours of darkness,

which is half the challenge.

- Aah!
- What do you see?

It's right there in front of us.

I don't see anything
with the night vision.

- See the eye?
- No. What is it?

- Right in that area.
- I bet it's a frog.

Bree: I don't know
my frog species,

so I don't I want him to
poison me or something.

[ Frog croaks ]

Narrator: Survivalists are often hit
with a gut-wrenching reality check

when the sky darkens

and the crew heads
back to base camp.

- Good night.
- Good night.

Good night, guys.

Narrator: They find themselves

completely alone
in the pitch black

with nothing but
the eerie sounds

of the predatory residents
that loom in the darkness.

Julio: All right, so, tawny
just saw a couple of...

- I saw eyes.
- ...Glowing eyes.

Um...

There's definitely
something out there.

The first night,
there was no sleep.

We heard huge
splashes in the water,

and I'm assuming
that was the gators,

you know, going in and out.

Julio: It became clear

that there was an
alligator in the water,

and it was bigger than anything

that we could've taken
out with what we had,

which was a knife and a pot.

And I don't think you can
pot an alligator to death.

Kim: The first night
was a nightmare.

That night, I was laying
by the tree just thinking like,

"okay, I can do this."

I would just hear something
moving around the leaves

like by my head.

I could hear it coming closer.

- It went that way.
- There's a critter.

There's something moving.

I remember looking
up at the tree,

and I could just see this
huge tarantula coming down,

making its way,

and I was just
like, "oh [bleep]"

My adrenaline was flushed.

I got up, thinking
that this tarantula

is going to come after me,
which wouldn't really happen.

But, I mean, your
brain kind psyches you.

[ Hippo grunts ]

Andrea: The hippos actually
really were pretty scary

because they are the
number-one k*ller in Africa,

and they were so close.

Joe was sleeping, and
it was really, really close.

And so I was, like, trying
to get it on my camera.

There's a hippo in our camp.

So I kind snuck around
the side of my shelter,

and it was seriously so close.

So, I saw this hippo
walk up to the camera,

and it's, like,
sniffing all around.

And it can smell the
human on the camera.

Like, they were
really territorial.

And it, like, bites the
camera and crunches it

and rips it and
throws it off the trail.

I was actually sleeping,
and she crawled out there

on her hands and knees trying
to get a video of the hippos,

which I didn't know
till the next morning.

I look at her going,
"are you serious?"

[ Pig snorting ]

♪♪

Narrator: Sleeping Naked with
a stranger in freezing conditions

can be more than
physically uncomfortable.

It can be downright awkward.

But the threat of hypothermia
becomes very, very real

once the sun goes down.

And more often than not,

there's no other option
than to huddle for warmth.

Oh, hey! You must be my partner.

Hey. How are you? I'm Jason.

When we first met, he like...

he went in for a hug,
and I'm just like, uh...

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

- Oh.
- Finally.

Like, side hug! [ Chuckles ]

- Let's get this started, huh?
- Yes.

Lacey: We are
complete strangers.

I will not be spooning with my
partner under any circumstances.

All right, since we're
both very happily married,

if it gets extremely cold,

um, maybe like a...

I don't know. What do you think?

Side to side?

Even maybe your
front to my back.

Back to back?

Back to ba... I don't know.
You know, it's all survival.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

- Are you getting cold?
- A little bit.

Wes: I'm not Afraid
to give body heat,

so if you need body heat,
we can go back-to-back

or whatever you're
comfortable with.

It was really cold. Like, I
could see my breath at night.

If we hadn't cuddled at night,

I don't know if I
would've made it.

I realized part of the
way through the journey

that Wes had shaved his back...

...because it started
getting really prickly.

[ Laughs ] It was
like, "Wes, why?"

I wasn't sure how I should
do the cosmetic job going out.

And I didn't want to go
out looking like bigfoot,

so I had my wife shave my back.

And so those hairs after a
while starting growing back out.

So I'm sure it wasn't
super-comfortable,

since she was the big spoon,

having to be right up against my
back after being freshly shaved.

His back was my pillow,
so it was quite prickly.

[ Laughs ]

Narrator: While the
majority of Naked survivalists

find spooning awkward...

Question... big
spoon or little spoon?

Yeah, right!

...there are cases where
couples embrace the humor

and find comfort in using
their partner for warmth.

Steven: This cute, little
5'2" blond nanny from Utah

walks up the hill,

and it was just like a
sigh of relief for me.

You're my partner in crime, huh?

I was really relieved that
he wasn't some old fat guy...

no offense.

But he was fit, and he
looked nice, and he was funny.

And I just thought, "this
is gonna pretty wild."

Steven: We clicked right
from the beginning, but...

[ Laughing ] I haven't
seen a p*nis in a while.

Chalese: Cuddling was
nice. It was kind of like home.

This might sound a little weird,
but I was, like, just picturing

my girlfriend holding
me or something.

I don't really care
who knows I'm g*y

or what they think about it,

but he didn't ask
me any questions

the first time I met him.

So he didn't find out about
my sexuality until like a week in.

Steven: Well, when me and
Chalese first met, she's like,

"wow. I haven't seen one
of those in a long time."

And it just completely went over
my head that she was a l*sbian.

I just thought she didn't get
laid in a while or something.

People are gonna
think we got down.

Yeah, she's a l*sbian, so...

And he smells like
[bleep] all the time.

Narrator: Back at home,
cuddling with a loved one

can be a source of
affection and comfort.

But when you're Naked,
starving, and sleep-deprived

in a hostile environment,

cuddling can actually become
quite a contentious topic.

Been doing some thinking.

Um, I'm gonna make a
shelter that's focused on me.

I'm sorry. What?

I did make my own shelter.

Bree and I are partners,

but we don't have to hold
hands with everything that we do.

And we definitely don't
have to sleep together.

I really wanted the
"team player-ship"

to be a part of everything.

It really hurt my feelings

that he didn't want
to be a part of that.

So I had to sleep every night
by myself in my own shelter.

And I was Afraid of the dark,
and that was really difficult.

- Clarence, do you want my help?
- I'm good.

I'm always gonna offer help.

No matter what.

I would have given anything

to have, like, a
teammate during that time.

Gary: It is just freaking cold,

and every joint in my
body just aches right now.

Narrator: In Panama,
Kim felt that her partner

was putting her life
at risk with his decision

not to cuddle during
the bone-chilling nights.

It's pretty cold.

Gary had a problem
with cuddling.

He did not want to cuddle
because he was married.

So he absolutely refused
to have physical contact.

The night just barely started.

We're in for a
long haul, for sure.

Do I remember any
specific friction or conflict?

Yeah. Yeah, I do.

Last night, I asked you
if you wanted to cuddle,

and you just didn't seem like
you wanted to at all, you know?

But we need that sacrifice.

There's one person in my life

that my cuddling is reserved
for, so you're not getting it.

So, if we're soaking-wet,
and I, like, need arms...

not crotch... just
arms, you can't do that?

You have no say when
it comes to my values.

- I understand that.
- Absolutely right.

Gary: And I finally looked
at her, and I said, "listen.

I will walk out of this
jungle, and I will leave.

That's how important
my value system is to me."

Kim: You go into
a survival situation,

you should be
focused on survival,

not what's going on back home.

It was just for body
heat. It wasn't sexual.

And I mean, really, if
you can't provide that,

you shouldn't
be out in the wild.

Narrator: Sunshine is a
welcome relief after a cold night

and helps raise the
spirits of survivalists.

[ Sips ] Mmm!

During the day, I just was
like, "okay, I can do this."

No, this has been a really
rocking day in the jungle.

- Give me some, man.
- Sorry.

Awesome!

But then the sun would go down,

and I would really want to
cry because I knew the pain

and the aggravation
would start coming out.

Narrator: And when the
sun goes down again,

morale goes with it.

And many partnerships are
tested when day turns to night.

I spent the majority of the
day building this nice bed.

It was more comfortable than
sleeping on rocks and mud.

Christina: This is
like [Bleep] t*rture!

Her ability to bring to
light every negative thing

and yell and scream...
like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Your bed [bleep] sucks!

I really like daytime Christina.

Whatever!

You have complained about
everything every night so far.

I was like, "you can take your
bed and shove it up our [bleep]

I'm laying on the
floor." I didn't care.

Yeah, your bed [Bleep] sucks!

I just don't think you have
any capacity to understand

how someone else feels,
and that blows my mind.

Why don't you
lick my a*s, Steve?

This is my living space, too,
and I will [bleep] go psycho

and take [bleep] myself
right now and throw it out.

Well, this isn't
getting torn down.

Well, don't [bleep] push me.

I was like, "this is
not gonna happen.

I'm gonna tear it down."

So that's what I did.

Steve: Let's do whatever
makes you happy.

[ Crying ] I want to go!

I want to go as
soon as possible.

Narrator: Nothing
threatens a tap-out

more than a physical ailment
during the witching hour.

In Belize, Jason
stayed up all night

enduring the nasty
symptoms of severe heatstroke.

- [ Groans ]
- You okay?

Oh, my god. This is bad.

Things kind of came
crashing down on us day 2.

Jason got extremely ill.

We had the night from hell.

My partner... he got
a pretty bad sunburn.

And he's having a hard time.

My head just feels
like it's gonna explode.

And he has a headache.

He's got a fever.

It's not looking good.

[ Retches ]

This was a pain that
I can't even explain.

Oh, my [bleep] legs. Ohh.

It was almost like needles
being poked into me.

I couldn't stop getting
sick. [ Retches ]

I was sweating,
and I had a fever.

I thought for sure
he was gonna quit.

He was in that
much pain. [ Moans ]

And I'm looking at this
like, day 2, lose my partner,

be out here all by myself.

Jason: It was excruciating
pain, but, you know,

one of the hardest things
was looking at Lacey,

and I could see
the panic in her face

'cause she thinks
that I'm tapping out.

I just don't know.

I'm not going home. I promise.

I just thought I'm just gonna
try and power through this.

So that's what I did.

[ Retches ]

It was brutal. Absolutely
a brutal, brutal night.

[ Retches ]

♪♪

Woman: We absolutely
100% need fire

to keep the animals
away from us.

Narrator: Fire is the
primary pillar of survival.

This most primitive resource
helps survivalists combat

the misery and dangers
that come with the night.

Woman: I think it's lighting.

Narrator: But most importantly,

it provides warmth
in freezing climates.

[ Thunder crashes ]

Steven: Uh-oh.

Oh, no. This is gonna suck!

Narrator: In Alabama,
Chalese and Steven

had everything on the line

after they lost their fire
in a devastating rainstorm.

[Bleep] Fire [bleep]

Chalese: All of our firewood,
our tinder, our kindling,

everything was just soaking.

Narrator: If someone couldn't
step up and re-ignite the embers,

they'd face
hypothermic conditions.

Chalese: I called
myself the firemaster.

After the huge storm,
the fire went out.

He tried for hours. I
let him do his thing.

- It's still kind of wet, yeah.
- Mm-hmm.

[ Sighs ] Exhausting.

[ Neck cracks ] [ Groans ]

And then finally, I interjected
and instantly had an idea.

Worth a shot.

I wanted to make some pine glue,

and pine glue is
highly flammable.

I have bark here with sap on it.

I never tried that before.

And instantly, it made the
fire, and I was like, "yeah!"

I might not be able
to hunt as well as you,

but I can hold my own.

And at that moment, I was
like, "hell, yeah, I can do this."

Narrator: Whether it's burning
calories gathering firewood

or staying up all night
to tend burning embers,

it takes a lot dedication
and commitment

to keep precious fire alive.

Nothing about this
whatsoever is easy right now.

Narrator: In Panama,
Tara was eaten alive

by fleas known as chitras.

She knew that starting a fire
during the day was the only way

to repel the incessant insects
that devoured her at night.

[Bleep]

Dustin: If we do
get a fire started,

it's gonna be like a
24-hour job keeping it going.

Going around finding
fuel, cutting down wood

is really gonna be
a bit of a hassle.

Tara: So, on day 5,
we don't have fire yet.

My bug bites are
multiplying by the hour.

I think I had about 2,000 bites.

For some reason, they liked
me more than my partner.

And I learned really
quickly that I needed fire

because the chitras came
out in full force at night.

I don't think I have anything
else that I want to do today

except just take it easy.

I was really
disappointed in hobbs,

and I just couldn't understand

how somebody could
be in a survival situation

and not want to
help his partner.

The boredom and the
bad attitude got to me,

and I just didn't
really feel motivated

to do much of anything.

Whoo-hoo!

[ Laughs ]

- We did it.
- Yay.

Tara: It's really,
really important

to make sure that we
don't let that fire go out.

I'm gonna try and catch
shrimp. Keep the fire going?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

[ Snoring ]

Hobbs ended up napping
until our fire went out.

Oh, my gosh. Hobbs!
You let the fire go out.

So that was really hard for me.

[ Crying ]

Chitras are out
in full force again.

My partner is having
another terrible reaction

to these little biting [bleep]

And quite frankly, it
was totally my fault.

Narrator: Starting
a fire is difficult

in a primitive
survival situation.

But once they had it,
many survivalists struggled

to tend and control their
fire through the night.

Joe: At some point along
the shelter improvements,

we had stacked some cattails.

Cattails are pretty flammable.

Andrea was lying there sleeping,

and a log just kind of
rolled off towards the back.

And when I went to
kind of rake the coals in,

it caught the cattails on fire.

They just exploded.

Andrea: I was dead
asleep, and all of a sudden,

I just hear this, like,
wha-boom, crack!

And I look up, and,
boom, walls of flames.

And they weren't
just, like, little flames.

They were like "25
feet in the air" flames.

And I just sprint.

It was so far out of
control that I was like,

"I don't even know where
to begin to put this out.

We can't do anything."

We just have to sit there

and watch our shelter burn
completely to the ground.

Narrator: In Honduras,
Clarence's lack of sleep at night

forced him to hand
off fire responsibilities

to Bree during the day,

which turned out
to be quite costly.

Clarence: Bree is gonna
be all about the fire today.

I need to sleep.

Bree: I agree. Sleep.

I know how Clarence
feels about his fire.

It's his baby.

So I went and gathered
like a [bleep] ton of sticks

so that I won't be left between
a rock and a hard place

because I do have
a tendency to...

Holy [bleep]

Okay, when the fire came up,

when I was doing my
interview in the morning,

that was actually exciting.

[Bleep] No!

I don't know...
something overtook me.

It was a different instinct.

What? Oh, my god. It's
spreading down below.

Aah!

Kind of like I turned around,

and I was, "oh, my god.
Time to go. Got to put it out."

Nope. No, no, no, no, no.

No.

I was able to put the
whole entire fire out

with my bare hands, and,
poof, I saved everything.

It was amazing.

That was so [bleep] hot.

I thought my hair was
gonna, like, light on fire.

Did it? No. No.

I don't even know.

- Hello!
- Oh, my god, hi.

I'm back.

Your shelter burned up.

I did keep the fire going
while you were away.

I saw that. That's awesome.

♪♪

Narrator: At night, when
the animals are on the prowl,

it's best to stay
inside of the shelter

and remain close to the fire.

But after so many
sleepless nights,

some survivalists become...

[ Squawking ]

...slightly unraveled.

That was [Bleep] terrifying.

Don't ever do that again.

Kacie: Here comes another one.

- There's one right by your...
- ow! I know. He just...

oh, he got away. No way.

No, he isn't. He's right there.

Oh, my gosh. Aaron's
hunting lightning bugs.

Aaron: I kept seeing
these lightning bugs,

and they would dive-b*mb me.

It's coming in hot! It's
coming right for you!

Aah!

And so I kept knocking
them out of the air,

putting them in the bag.

[Bleep] Did I get him?
I got him, I got him.

Oh, I got another one coming in.

Coming in hot.

Oh, my god. Right at my face.

And we kind of had our own
little rave there in the jungle.

[ Laughs ]

[ Beatboxing ]

Our rave is picking up.

♪ Aaron and kacie
in the jungle, yow! ♪

Just random stick.

Bree: Oh, gross! [ Laughs ]

Better than TV, right?

[ Hissing ]

Oh, it just happened.

Narrator: Unfortunately
for starving survivalists,

most of the creatures that
make a good meal are nocturnal.

Woman: There is an animal
trail that runs right by our shelter.

Narrator: But sometimes
the hunger is enough

to risk it all and venture
into the dangerous darkness

to find a decent meal.

My favorite hunting moment

was where we made torches

and we went crab
hunting at night.

So we brought our
spears and our torches,

and we went out into the rocks

right by where the waves
would crash over the rocks.

I'm gonna go closer
to the beach a little bit.

I don't know... Alyssa
had it in her head

that she was gonna
get her some crabs.

All right, quickly!
There's a really big one!

I wasn't really that happy
about it because I didn't think

it was a good idea to go
running around on the rocks

at night with no shoes on.

And, you know, they're
like razor blades out there.

This is, like, the most
jagged part of the rocks... ow...

that I would never
walk on ever normally.

And I'm doing it at night.

Where'd he go?

[ Gasps ] Oh!

Luke: The torches got
put out by the water.

Pretty much just done.
We can't do anything else.

I was just having so much
fun. I don't know what it was.

I was just really
excited to be out there.

We can still look
with our diary cams.

This is so fun!
This is what I love.

Well, I [bleep] hate my life.

I'll be honest... I was being
stubborn at that moment.

I was not about
to destroy my feet

barefoot on those
sharp, jagged rocks,

and she was running around
like a freaking crazy woman.

Alyssa: Ah!

She acted like she felt no pain.

Something took over.
I got really excited.

Got him. We got crabs!

I have to say that was
the best-tasting thing

we had the entire
time out there.

That was like eating Sushi
back home. It was delicious.

Narrator: It's not uncommon

to hear deafening
growls in the night...

Man: There's something
circling the camp.

Narrator: ...Or wake
up to paw prints

uncomfortably close to camp.

Woman: That is a
big freaking cat print.

Narrator: The animal kingdom
tends to remind Naked humans

whose house they're
in after sundown.

[ Animal snorting ]

- We need water.
- Yeah.

Joe: It's a little risky at night
going down to the hippo pond.

Yeah.

We just have to be really
quiet when we go down there.

Anything we wanted to do
had to be during daylight hours

because of the hippo factor.

When it got dark, hippos
would be grazing on the grass

no more than 30
feet away from us.

I'm gonna stay here
and keep my eyes peeled.

[ Hippo snorts ]

- Andrea.
- What?

Did you hear that? Listen.

[ Hippo snorts ]

Right over there,
there's a hippo.

It's right over there. You
can see the moonlight on it.

- It's right there.
- We got to go.

Andrea: We could hear
it really, really close.

I couldn't tell if the hippo

was gonna charge us
or take off towards us.

All right, Joe. Just go slow.

And I know for a fact I
couldn't have outrun it.

Joe: Holy crap. That was close.

Andrea: Oh, my god. [ Winces ]

Joe: I know, but we got water.

Andrea: Yeah. We
almost got eaten, too.

Narrator: One habit of nature
that all survivalists dread at night

is that certain
call of the wild.

When you gotta go, you gotta go.

[ Urinating ]

So, I'm taking a nice pee.

[ Sighs ]

It's kind of nice just being
able to walk and stop and pee.

Don't have to worry
about a toilet or pants

or underwear or nothing.

I feel like I need
to spread like this

so that I don't pee on my leg.

Ahh.

I am going to rub pee

all over my bug bites.

The ammonia is supposed
to help it stop itching.

I'm officially disgusting.

♪♪

[ Moans ]

Narrator: Unbearable
pain and inevitable suffering

have driven many to
their breaking point...

Ohh!

...during the 21-day challenge.

But a tap-out affects
more than just one person,

and those left behind must
face the unrelenting nights

on their own.

[ Animals calling ]

Giovanna: It was the
middle of the night.

I remember thinking
he was joking.

Wes: I can't do it anymore.
I'm done. I'm sorry.

Then I realized he was
serious that he wanted to leave.

I'm scared about
tonight. It's just crazy.

[ Thunder rumbles ]

You can't really prepare
yourself for how cold it is

until you're actually Naked all
alone in the middle of the night

at high elevation in the
foothills of the andes.

It's raining, and
suddenly, my shelter leaks.

And I don't know what to do.

It's, like, all
over my fire pit.

It's dripping from the ceiling.
It's dripping on my head.

I'm freezing-cold.

I have like a few more
embers left, and then that's out.

And I don't know what to do.

I was alone out there.

I knew if I didn't
get a fire started,

I would probably
get hypothermia.

It was kind of a
sobering moment.

[ Thunder rumbles ]

I just remember
thinking I'm gonna stay.

I made that promise to
myself, so I stayed true to it.

Narrator: In Belize, it
was the sheer loneliness

of a lost partner that
pushed Lacey to her wit's end.

Oh, man. When
Jason left, I was mad.

I'm sorry.

[ Moaning ]

I was like, "he gets to go home?

That's total [bleep]"

This place will
[Bleep] your head up.

Nighttime's are
gonna be the worst.

As soon as the sun goes down,
I am all alone in my shelter...

miserable, cold, and lonely.

I'm tired.

I'm all alone.

I went into it thinking

I was, like, super-strong,
I was gonna k*ll it.

And then I lay there at
night, and I think to myself,

"you are not super-strong.
You're gonna go crazy out here."

What's weird is I've gotten
used to all the little bugs

crawling around on me.

The ants and the little beetles.

My emotional
safety net was gone.

And I, like, cracked. I broke.

Where are my covers?

Maybe I should wear
pajamas to bed next time.

I'll make sure that
I have pajamas.

Next... I'll make sure
to wear pajamas to bed.

It was pretty intense, actually.

Narrator: In Namibia, Don knew

that the most dangerous
creatures in the world

come out when darkness falls.

The idea of facing them
alone was overwhelming.

I'm sick of feeling like [bleep]

You're gonna do great out here.

[ Chuckles ]

Before I actually got to
Africa, my main fears were,

oh, snakes, lions, hyenas,
the cape buffalo, hippos,

and so on... just the usual
stuff you're worried about.

But my fears eventually
came to be like,

"wow. My main fear
is being alone at night."

[Bleep]

I was scared to leave him there.

I think he's gonna freak
out and have a meltdown.

I'm gonna pray for him tonight.

Don: Being alone
is a lot more difficult

than having two people,
mentally and physically.

One person has to
do the chores of two.

One person has to stay
up to keep the fire going.

And being alone, there
was a lot less noise.

The human sounds
that you make...

chat a little bit and
move stuff in camp...

every creature knows that's
what human sounds are.

They stay away from it.

But at nighttime, I didn't do
enough to make enough sound

to keep away
creatures like lions.

A lion got pretty close to camp.

[ Lion growls ] It
wouldn't have happened

if we had two people working
together keeping animals away.

[ Lion growls ]

Get back! Get back!

I'm human!

I think that scared him away.

So being alone in the dark

and not being able to leave
too far away from the fire,

that was probably the
hardest thing for me.

At night, my mind
has nowhere to turn to,

so I just think inwards.

And I thought
about quitting a lot

sitting there alone in the dark.

I'm just hanging on there
by the skin of my teeth,

but hanging on there.

Whoo-hoo!

Yeah! [ Laughs ]

Narrator: Unpredictable
nights comprise

half of the "Naked
and Afraid" challenge.

Woman: Yes!
We did it, we did it.

Narrator: Those who were capable
of making it from sunset to sunrise...

Man: Whoo!

...were the ones who
conquered the darkness...

- We're partying.
- Like rockstars.

Narrator: ...And saw the light
at the end of their 21 days.

I knew it was gonna be rough,

but I didn't think it was
gonna be that rough.