10x01 - Frozen and Afraid

[bunniefuu]

Ooh. Ahh.

I can't feel
my feet at all.

Oh!

Ugh.

Oh.
Hold on.

How do you do this?

Laura: this place is not
for humans to live in.

Oh, my god.

My feet are so cold.

Oh, my god.

Oh, *bleep*.

Ugh!

-We got to get to water.
-Almost there.

-Hey! Get out of here!
-Hey!

Man:
I got a bad feeling about this.

-Whoo!

Holy hell.

-We got this.
-Yeah!

Get me out!

Laura:
actually frozen.

So I've been on challenges --

The peruvian amazon...

Go, go!

...colombia...
-I got it. I got it. I got it.

Get it.
Got him.

...panama...

My wishes were answered,
and I got a lobster.

Oh, my gosh!
There's two.

...but now I'm headed north.

Steven lee hall jr.,
The king of the forest.

Just got my diary cam.

I'm going to the last frontier,
ladies and gentlemen --

Alaska, where it is literally
more than cold.

It's freezing.

This ain't my first rodeo.
This is my fourth adventure.

-Nice one!
-Yeah!

-*Bleep* yeah!
-I got dinner!

Woman:
it's beautiful!

It's gonna be just
one of the best adventures

In "naked and afraid" history,

And you're lucky enough
to experience it with this guy.

Oh, god.
It's so cold.

So, I've been using ice baths.

I've been spending
a lot of time in here,

Eating sticks of butter,

So I feel like
if I go in like...

A blubbery seal,

I'll be able to use
those fat stores

To maybe help keep me warm.

So I'm just getting fat.

♪♪

♪♪

Oh, my god.
This is "frozen and afraid."

This is the first time
this has ever happened before,

And it's the first time
because...

And we're right smack-dab
in the middle of it.

Narrator:
at the foot of the denali
mountain range of alaska,

Only 300 miles
from the arctic circle,

Is a snow-covered tundra

Where temperatures can remain
below freezing,

Even in the summer months.

Hypothermia and frostbite
are major threats to survival.

In an unprecedented
14-day challenge,

Two all-star survivalists
will be taking on

This frozen landscape
without clothes.

Laura:
the cold is a game-changer.

You can do without food.
You can do water.

But if you get cold...

That's the first thing that will
k*ll you in this situation.

Steven: I mean, you got to think
also, too, out here,

The wildlife
is an absolute concern.

Narrator:
this region is the territory

Of many of north america's
most dangerous animals,

Including grizzly bears,

Wolves, and moose,

Which k*ll more people than any
other animal on the continent.

The reason I'm here is,
this is the ultimate fight.

Narrator:
as a veteran survivalist,

Steven enters the challenge
with his signature resolve

And solid self-taught skills.

He begins with a primitive
survival rating of 8.6.

This is going to be
the most difficult

"Naked and afraid"
challenge yet,

Hands down, without a doubt.

This challenge will bring me
to my limit, but I'm so ready.

Narrator: laura has unrivaled
survival credentials,

But her inexperience
in cold temperatures

Could hinder her chances
for success in alaska.

She begins with a psr of 9.1.

I guess this is home.

All right, alaska.

Let's do it.

Whoo!

Ooh.
It just got real.

I already feel mother nature,

And it's intimidating.

That's a new feeling,
right there.

Whoo!

Oh! Oh, no.
Oh, god.

This is insane!

It's like the consistency
of a snow cone.

I got a cut on my foot
from a sharp piece of ice.

I'm warming up my feet
every few steps

Because I can't feel
my feet anymore.

Otherwise, if I try
to push through this,

I'm gonna get frostbite.

Narrator: in temperatures
below 32 degrees,

Exposed skin is extremely
vulnerable to frostbite.

It occurs when the skin
and underlying tissue freezes.

Blood flow to those parts of
the body can drop

To dangerously low levels,
causing pain and numbness.

Eventually, the tissue dies

And can lead to the loss
of fingers and toes.

♪♪

Hey! Is that
the king of the jungle?

Oh, my god!
Laura!

Your crotch is
in the snow!

Oh, my god!
Already, right?

Laura: steven's done quite a few
different challenges,

And he knows his skills.
He trusts them.

And I'm really excited that
he's gonna be my partner.

-Laura! Oh, my god!
-What are you doing out here?

Sweetheart,
I'm hanging out with you...

-Oh, so good to see you.
-...in this frozen wasteland.

I got one of the most
badass survivalists as a partner

Ever to take on
"naked and afraid" --

Laura zerra.

And I think out here, together,

We're really gonna k*ll it.

Let's do it, babe.
One more.

Yes!
So good.

-Open our bags here.
-All right.

Narrator:
to have any chance of surviving

The freezing temperatures
for 14 days,

Laura and steven are given

Indigenous moose and beaver
hides...

Viking "braveheart"-style
out here.

...and a fire-starter.

So what'd you bring?

Well, let's see.
I got a pot here,

And I also got
some fishing line.

Yes!

I brought this knife
that I hand-forged.

- Awesome.
-I also have the map.

The map!

All right, so we're obviously
way up here, right?

-If we follow this stream...
-Yeah.

-...all these trees...
-There's where food, shelter...

-...wood.
-...materials.

That's where all our resources
are gonna come from.

We got bears...
-Yep.

-...trouts, moose.
-Moose.

-Cool.
-Let's do it.

Yeah.
Follow the water downhill.

Okay. I'm so glad
you're out here.

Yeah, seriously.

Whew.
-Here. Want me to take that?

Yeah.

Thank you.

Laura:
I cannot feel my feet.

It's like having
two dead weights

At the bottom of your leg,

But we're just moving as quickly
as we can through this.

I'm just gonna
freaking book it.

It is definitely harsh.

Hoo!
Ugh.

Ooh!

Oh.

First snowfield down.

That's right.

♪♪

Man, there is
plenty of water.

Look how clear
this water is.

-I know.
-Should we drink?

I think
we probably should,

Just probably hydrate
a little bit.

I feel 100% good about
drinking all this water.

They're super-fresh, and
this snow is just melting...

It's a fresh melt
right off the mountain.

...right into it.

You got to think,
parasites can't live in stuff --

In this type of temperatures
anyway, so...

Nope.

-Ahhhh.
-Mm-hmm.

That is such a blessing.

-Delicious.
-And it's cold.

It does not get fresher
than this.

Oh, my god.

Steven: what a lot of people
don't realize

Is that you burn more calories,
you burn more fluids,

In colder temperatures

Than you do
in warmer temperatures

Because you're body's
consistently trying

To regulate
that 98.6 degrees.

Ready?
-Let's do it.

Steven: dehydration is also
something that can take you

Out of a challenge
just like that.

♪♪

Hey, look it, look it --
crowberries.

-Oh, look at that.
-These are all edible berries.

Well, let's collect some
while we're here.

♪♪

Well, one thing I've learned
from these challenges --

Utilize the resources
you have...

Don't walk by food....when you have them.

♪♪

Probably way later
than we think it is right now.

Narrator: at this high northern
latitude, the sun rarely sets,

But temperatures
can drop drastically.

Steven: when the sun kind of
hits that horizon line

Before it comes back up,

The temperature drops
probably 20 degrees sometimes,

So it's dangerous to be here.

It might be our best bet to find
somewhere to hunker down.

Steven: yeah.

There's kind of
an outcropping here.

I'm just thinking,
it's, like, south-facing.

There's some windbreak
with these willows.

We can kind of
cut this out...

-Yep.
-...tuck in a little bit.

Tuck in a little bit --
yeah, like,

If you cut these
lower branches...

Yep. Yep.

And it'll give us a little bit
of an overhang.

Yeah.

This sphagnum moss is gonna
be a great insulator

To keep us warm
during the night.

Narrator:
sphagnum moss insulates

By trapping moisture and air

Within its thick,
fibrous layers.

Laura:
we're gonna make a bed

And then use this to cushion it
and insulate us,

And if we have any extra,

Just pack it around us
to keep our heat in.

Dude, that breeze.
-Wow.

The second that I stop moving,
I start getting cold.

-Yeah.
-I get goose bumps.

Yep.

Narrator:
with temperatures plummeting,

Steven and laura are
at great risk of hypothermia,

Which is caused when the body
loses heat faster

Than it can produce it.

If their body temperature
drops below 95 degrees,

Their vital organs
could shut down.

The breeze off that mountain --
that is something else.

There's weather coming in.

*Bleep*

Look at that.
Just like that,

We're on top of the world,
bottom of the barrel.

I know.

Laura:
it is freezing cold.

Do you want me to start
bringing the moss over,

And you get
the fire going?

Yeah.
Perfect.

Laura: that wind --
it's coming in fast.

Yep.

I figure we get it
started here

Just 'cause we've got
a nice little cover going.

♪♪

♪♪

Burn our shelter down.

I, like, just started
the tundra on fire.

-Do you need help?
-Yeah, I do.

Oh, my god.

*Bleep*
get some snow.

Holy *bleep*.

♪♪

-Do you need help?
-Yeah, I do.

*Bleep*
get some snow.

♪♪

Holy *bleep*.

All right.

We're gonna need
to watch this.

This is flammable.

Our bedding is literally
a bed of tinder.

Yeah.
If the hides burn...

Yeah. We're -- it's over.
It's game over.

Not worth the risk,
for sure.

We might just have to use
that moose hide tonight.

Yeah.
I know.

Laura:
we don't have a fire.

It is definitely
worst-case scenario.

♪♪

Okay. So it's, like, midnight,
and it's freezing-cold out here,

And this is
what it looks like.

It's so bizarre.

Laura: oh, god.

Dude,
I'm *bleep* freezing.

*Bleep*
ugh.

♪♪

Oh, my god.

My feet are so cold.

They're...

-Yep.
-...they're actually frozen.

Oh, my god.

Okay.

Steven:
how do you do this?

♪♪

-All right. Let's do it.
-You ready?

Laura:
let's do it. Go!

This place is not
for humans to live in.

With this freezing wind,
we're gonna get hypothermic.

That's a game-ender.

We need to
get to resources.

Yeah. Wow.
What's the best way?

-Well...
-Maybe...

-...through the snow.
-Yep.

Let's do it.

Oh, that wind is
so cold.

*Bleep*

Oooh.

Narrator:
cold water robs the body of heat

25 Times faster
than cold air.

Steven and laura must continue
to keep their muscles working

In order to generate heat
in their bodies

And maintain
their core temperature.

-Keep moving.
-Move.

-Keep that blood flowing.
-Dude, it hurts.

♪♪

-Ahhhh.
-Hoo.

I can't feel my feet at all.
Oh, *bleep*!

Are you okay?

It's cold!
It's cold!

God, that snow sucks.

Steven: on the second day
I've been here,

Alaska terrain is
some of the most dangerous

I've ever experienced.

Hoo.
All right. All right.

Looking at greener
pastures already.

Yeah.

♪♪

This is not gonna feel
great on naked skin.

We're gonna get cut up.

♪♪

I'm so over walking
through alders right now.

Steven: I think we made it
to the clearing, though.

-What's that?
-We're -- look!

Laura:
you're kidding.

Oh, my god.
So what are you thinking?

You want to kind of
ride this tree line,

Kind of do
a little recon...

-I'm into a recon.
-...figure out what's going on?

We got to find, like,
the best spot.

I want to make a shelter that we
have the rest of the time here.

Period.

Tons of moose tracks
in here,

So we should keep eyes up,
for sure.

For sure.

God, these moose tracks
are huge.

Moose!
Moose -- right there.

Calf! Calf.

Definitely don't want to
mess with that moose.

Female moose with a calf?

That's more scary
than messing with a bear.

We have to be on guard here.

We have grizzly bears.
We have moose in here.

We're gonna have to
watch our backs.

Laura: definitely don't want to
walk into that situation

'Cause she's gonna do
whatever it takes

To protect that calf.

Yeah.

Narrator: even though they have
left the snow,

Steven and laura are entering
an area of muskeg bogs

Made up of sphagnum moss
and decomposing vegetation.

Icy water collects off
the surface of the moss layer

And is trapped in place
by the permafrost beneath.

This makes it almost as cold
as walking in wet snow.

How are
your feet feeling?

They're pretty freaking
numbed-out right now.

Yeah.
Mine are, too.

Look at -- these spruces are,
like, already a shelter.

Check this one out.can we chop all that down?

Clear these
little branches out.

But look how flat this is.
It's like a little platform.

That is super-flat.
Is it dry?

Laura: bone-dry.

To build a big shelter
is gonna be

A massive amount of time.

Calories...

If we fortify some of this,
this roof is a blessing.

There's no point
in spending the time,

Energy, and resources
if we have this.

Absolutely.

And we don't have
to create walls

Because we have
these hides.

Yeah. We'll use the hides
for blankets.

I think that's the plan.
-I do, too.

You know, we're just burning
through our calories,

Burning through
our energy reserves,

Not just carrying the stuff,
but battling this cold.

We found a big,
giant spruce tree

That has a natural roof
that literally keeps us dry.

We're gonna utilize
what nature gave us.

We're gonna build off of that.

We want to extend
this canopy out

Because when the rain does come,

We want as much dry coverage
as possible.

Sweet.

I feel really good
about this situation.

Yeah.
It looks dope.

Yeah, it does.

Dude, I found,
like, some clay.

I'm making a clay ring
around the fire

To keep the fire from getting
out of control and spreading.

Fire number two!

Yay!
Our new firepit.

It's awesome.

We definitely need to eat
as soon as possible.

Laura: for sure.

Narrator: laura and steven are
burning through more than twice

The daily calories they would
in a normal environment.

They need to replace
this lost energy

In order to stave off
hypothermia.

Steven: the focus tomorrow --
protein, protein, protein.

Laura: yep.

Is that rain?totally.

*Bleep*

♪♪

It is pouring right now.

It is dumping right now.

Oh, god.

Freaking alaska, man.

Ooh.

♪♪

It rained all night long --

Just gray and rainy
and super-cold.

This spruce tree...

Oh, this spruce tree
was a lifesaver.

-...was totally, like...
-We were dry.

I'm definitely feeling
the effects of hunger

At this point,
so I think...

Yep.

...keeping our
energy levels up.

We had a massive day
yesterday.

Massive day yesterday.

I wouldn't mind throwing
a line in a couple times

To try to get some protein.yeah.

We can jimmy-rig
a pole up real quick.

Yep.

Steven:
the cold takes it out of you.

It takes your energy.

Protein is essential
to stay alive.

♪♪

♪♪

Ahhhhh.
Man, that's cold.

Laura:
look at this eagle.

He fishing?

He's dive-bombing
something.

I want to go
check it out.

That is a porcupine tree --
top off of it.

They feed on the branches
at the top.

Oh, my god.

Steven!

Steven!

I'm coming!
I'm coming!

It's a porcupine.

♪♪

Steven!

It's a porcupine.

-Holy crap.
-Yeah.

Laura:
let's get him out.

He's way the *bleep* up there.
He's only going higher.

Holy *bleep*.

You know, they look slow,
but they can move on a dime.

That tail is freaking deadly.
-Yeah.

We got to be really careful
on how we do this.

You want to take
a second and...

Yeah. I'm gonna make this
into a spear.

I was about to say --
perfect.

Steven: we have not had
any protein at all,

So this literally is
a complete game-changer.

-So I'm gonna climb up.
-Hand this to you?

Yeah.

Ugh.
*Bleep*

Straight-up cavewoman.

He's in the most tangled part
of the tree, for sure.

Your best bet
is to push him out.

Okay.

I'm sorry, buddy.

♪♪

*Bleep* quick.

Laura:
*bleep* *bleep*

He's coming!

Here he comes.
-Oh, yeah!

Steven: ugh!

Ugh! Ugh!

He's coming, coming, other side,
other side, quick!

Steven: yeah.

Ugh.
Got him.

Yeah.

Yeah!

-Oh, thank you.
-Oh.

Oh.

Steven:
great job, darling.

-Dude, you too.
-Thank you, porcupine.

Thank you,
thank you.

He is beautiful.

Absolutely beautiful.

God, so grateful.
It's a gift.

Every time I take an animal's
life to further my own,

It is a really
emotional experience.

We can't take him back to camp
and gut him there

Because it's pretty much
gonna bring everything

From miles away down to us.

We cut off
what was clean.

Let's pack it up.
Let's get back.

We got a porcupine tail
going.

Looks like all fat.
It's so amazing.

Laura: I'm slow-cooking
these crowberries,

And it's going to
kind of caramelize them

A little bit to make
a little reduction sauce,

Put on top
of the porcupine.

Look at that.
It's like...

It's gonna be
pretty good.

...meadow-berry jam
right there.

Yeah.

Cooking like emeril lagasse,
over here.

Cheers.

Oh, it's so fatty.

Mmm.

Narrator: porcupines have
a thick layer of fat

To protect them
from extreme cold.

If they can preserve it,

The meat will provide
steven and laura

With around 9,000 calories
of fat and protein,

Which should sustain them
for three days, at most.

It's so good.

Kind of woody?

Tender, like veal.

If alaska had a taste,
this would definitely be it.

It's a lot of
porcupine meat.

I mean, we ice that,
we have fresh meat for days.

Yeah. I mean, the ground's
literally frozen.

We just got to get it
away from camp.

The last thing I want
is a grizzly coming in.

Yeah.

Literally inch and a half

Underneath the bottom
of the moss

Is a layer of permafrost.

Narrator: permafrost is a frozen
layer of soil, rock, and ice

Just below
the ground's surface

That is usually found
at high latitudes.

I'm digging out
a little cooler

So we can put
our meat in here,

And it'll stay cold.

Bro, look at that.
You can see it.

It's insane.

It's all just
chunks of ice.

Perfect.

And now we can add
our porcupine meat,

Line it with moss.

This is gonna be
a great insulator.

It feels pretty great
to have a stockpile of meat.

Have dried and cold meat
for a few days.

♪♪

Laura: I know.

♪♪

Steven: ah.

-I seriously haven't slept.
-Ugh.

Laura:
nights here are no joke.

We definitely need to eat,
you know,

Start the day strong
with a full belly and energy.

♪♪

Steven:
the meat looks great.

We're lucky enough
that no grizzlies came by,

Nothing disturbed it.

Meat smells fresh,
and it's super-cold.

And it worked.

All right.
Bon appétit.

-Is it all right?
-Yep.

Mmm.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Laura: I'm not sure what it is
that's coming towards us,

But it's big.

Hello!

Hey, hey!

Oh, my god!
It's a grizzly.

Hup!

Oh, my god.
h*!

Laura: oh, my god!
It's a grizzly.

Hello!

Hey, hey, hey!

Hup!

-Yoooo!
-h*!

Go away, bear.

h*!

Pretty sure
he's gone now.

You hear the...huh! Huh! Huh! Huh!

...unmistakable,
terrifying bear breath,

But it's alaska.

You really don't know
what to expect out here.

♪♪

Just cooking up
our last leg of porcupine.

After this, we're gonna
have to figure out

A new source of protein.

This will be it.

That's a wrap.

-Thank you, porcupine.
-Yeah, thank you.

You have made
our last three days.

-For real.
-For real.

Laura: oooh.
That is cold.

I can't feel my body.
Let's do this.

Man, we are already
losing weight out here.

Steven:
it's not healthy.

Our bodes are burning so much
fuel just to keep us alive.

Laura: we still have
a week out here,

So we need to really
secure more protein.

Yep.

Can't really feel
my hands yet.

Narrator:
steven and laura's extremities
are becoming increasingly cold

Because their bodies
are working hard

To divert the flow of blood
from the surface of their skin

To their core
to protect their vital organs.

I'm hoping we can catch
a bunch of fish...

Yeah.

...right where
we got the porcupine.

Oh, just walking
through ice water.

It's hard to walk, but...yeah.

...it's too cold to stop.

Like, I'm motoring.

♪♪

Steven:
that water's freezing.

You can't stand out there for
more than 15 minutes at a time,

So this is a stake that
I'm gonna put in the river

That I'm gonna attach
a fishing line to.

It's gonna be able
to fish for me.

Ooh. Wow.

Whoo!

It's like walking in ice water.

Narrator: with the water
just above freezing,

Steven can only endure
a few minutes

Before he has to get out

And try to get his
core temperature back to normal

And avoid hypothermia.

Steven: just gonna let
the fishing line go down river,

Try to catch us some trout.

Hopefully tomorrow
we'll have some protein.

Ooh, ah!

♪♪

Steven: I'm starving.
I cannot wait to eat.

-Yeah.
-Ugh.

Laura: steven's gonna go
check the fishing line,

And I am am gonna
break down some firewood

And try to stay dry
and try to keep this fire going.

Well, I'm not feeling anything.

All right.

Well, nothing this time.

Just gonna keep at it.

It's just a waiting game
at this point in time.

Ah. You can see the different
color of my legs,

And the rest of my body
shows you how cold it is

And what it does
to the human body

When you stand in
36-degree water for 20 minutes.

I got to get moving,
get my body temperature back up,

And get back to camp
and get in front of that fire.

What's going on?

-No fish.
-God.

How you feeling?

Steven: I'm cold.
I can't stop shivering.

You feel it, and you feel it
in your bones.

*Bleep*

It seems like
it has to work.

It totally has to work,
right?

Like, I don't know
why it wouldn't.

-Totally has to work.
-Yeah.

♪♪

Oh, god.
Ugh.

Ahhhh.

Haaa.

My knees are locked up.

Cold and then being
in the same position,

Trying to stay warm.

Totally.

It hurts so bad.
Oof.

Steven: ugh.

Check the fishing line.

Yeah.

While I do that,

You going on a little
porcupine adventure?

-Yeah.
-That'd be awesome.

Laura: it's definitely risky
to split up,

But we don't have
another option right now.

Without any protein
from now until extraction,

We're gonna be in a rough spot,

So if the two of us split up,
there's two chances now

That we might make a score.

Come back with some fish.

I'll try to come back
with some porcupine.

Hell yeah.

♪♪

Come on, sun.

You need to stop
and listen a lot in here.

Porcupine claws make
a scratching sound

When they climb up trees.

They find the dead space
in the tree

Where all the branches are
just as gnarled as they can be,

And they're almost invisible
when they're up there.

Seriously, though?

Damn it.

♪♪

Nope.

Nope.

♪♪

Steven: I was really hoping
we had a trout on there.

Man.

What about you?

We have nothing.

*Bleep* starving.

Yeah.

We ain't done yet.

♪♪

Pff. Not a bite, not a nibble,
nothing?

Let that one sit.

♪♪

Laura: I've spent three days
trying to find a porcupine

And have nothing
to show for it.

Our bodies are just so depleted.

Can we really do this?

Narrator:
laura and steven are burning
over 7,000 calories a day,

And they have consumed nothing
in seven days.

Steven:
the temperature has definitely

Dropped a few degrees.

Narrator: their fat reserves
are dropping rapidly,

And it's becoming increasingly
difficult for them

To stay warm
in the freezing temperatures.

-Oh, god.
-Ugh.

-It's so cold.
-Cold as *bleep*.

Oh, god.

Narrator: hypothermia is
starting to set in,

Making them sluggish
and uncoordinated.

Ughhhh!

Oh, my god.

*Bleep*
we have the cold --

It's, like,
literally mentally...

-Ugh!
-...*Bleep* you up.

Oh!
I'm cold.

Oh, my god.

I feel like
I'm being stalked.

As you can see,

The albino
"naked and afraid"-er

Making her way across
the prairie at night.

It might be daytime.

Oh, my god.
She's spotted me.

Oh, my god!

I have nowhere to run.

I got the alaskan
bog monster behind me.

Terrifying.

And the bonus is, I get to
look for bog cranberries.

Steven: you all right
back there, sugar?

Oh, I'm great.
I'm chowing.

Oh, I love her to death.

-Yesterday was rough.
-It was.

Probably the worst night
of my life.

It was terrible and cold.

Almost getting
hypothermic sucked.

Tomorrow is extraction.

If we don't get
more protein,

We will not make it
another night.

All right, I'll try to keep
this fire going, too.

That way, like,
don't get too cold,

'Cause you got to be
in it for the long haul.

Yep.

I'm using a piece of willow
I found to make a fishing pole.

Hopefully
use this thing to cast.

Pfffff.

Frozen body.

Warm up for a minute.
Ah.

That river is
fricking cold, babe.

How are you feeling,
like, for real?

When, like, my feet start
numbing out is when I got to,

Like, tell myself to come in,
but cowboy up.

Let's do this.

Steven: we haven't had any luck
fishing in the same spot,

So we're gonna end up moving.

I'm thinking we move
kind of behind

That beaver dam over there.
I don't know.

I just got a feeling
about this spot over here.

I'm gonna just
get locked and loaded

And post up shop here.

♪♪

♪♪

Ohhhh, yeah!

Laura: yeah!

Whoo!
Yes!

It's a grayling.

-Heck yeah!
-Whoo!

Look at that
beautiful fish.

I'm so excited!

Yeah!

-You got one?
-Yes!

-Yeah!
-Yes!

There's another one.

Moving totally worked.

It's a rainbow trout,
baby.

-No way!
-Yeah!

-Yeah!
-It's a beautiful fish.

Man, I feel like
I'm gonna cry.

-Congratulations!
-Thanks.

Ah.

It's just, you work
so hard frozen.

It's awesome.

I'm super happy.

k*lling it.

I think we're good, babe.

Think we're good?
Let's do this.

Whoo! Look at that
beautiful pink fish.

Oh, my god.

Shall we?
Oh, it's hot.

-Cheers.
-Cheers.

Mmmmmm.

It is so good.

Best trout I ever ate.

-Good job.
-Good job.

High-five.

♪♪

Night 13.
-Yep.

Still got to get
through tomorrow.

Yep.

♪♪

-It's past frigid.
-God.

-It's just k*lling me.
-I know. It's freezing out.

It's just a mental game.

It's totally just what
this whole thing is.

Oh, my god.
Ah.

♪♪

♪♪

Oh, *bleep*,
so uncomfortable.

Freezing-cold night
last night,

So pretty stoked
for extraction.

All right. The map.
So let's see here.

Steven: we got to go
all the way down the river,

The "x" marks the spot.laura: yeah.

Narrator: laura and steven will
have to watch out

For 800-pound moose
and grizzly bears

As they head to their extraction
point four miles away.

They will have to cross
a glacier-fed river

And swim in heart-stopping
34-degree water

To get to their extraction
vehicle on an alpine lake.

Get out of dodge.

Ready?
-I'm so ready.

-I know. Me too.
-Let's do this.

Cool.
Let's do it.

It's pretty thick, marshy --
*bleep*.

Lots of sticks.

Oh.

Laura: that's it.
That's the river.

This is a good spot.

-We're doing this.
-Forging a river.

Whoo!
That's cold.

Hooooo, man!

You good?like, cutting like ice.

Holy *bleep*.

Oh, my god.

This is the deepest part,
I think.

-Oh.
-Oh, my god.

Steven: having to go that deep
in that rushing water

Straight off the mountaintop --
it's like complete body shock.

It hurts.

It literally
takes your breath away.

Ugh.
-Oh, my god.

*Bleep*
oh.

Holy chipmunk.well, I felt that!

Whoo!

All right.
We need to warm up.

Let's keep moving here.all right.

♪♪

Steven: it feels like
we've been walking forever.

Laura: I have never had
my feet hurt this bad.

Wait. Is that the lake?
Is that the lake?!

That's the lake!
That's extraction right there.

-I hear a plane.
-Is that a plane?

There he is.
There he is!

-There he is!
-Hello!

-Whoooo!
-Yeah!

I'm so excited!

That's for sure.

It's really cold.

Ahhhh!

Ahhhh.

-God! You got it? You good?
-Get in.

-Okay. Okay.
-Yeah.

-Oh, my god!
-Oh, my god.

Steven:
I can't believe we did it.

Laura: alaska is not a place
for someone who's timid.

This place pushed me
on every single level,

And I am just so grateful
to have had the opportunity

To push myself in that way.

I'm super-proud of myself
for making it.

Narrator: over the course
of the 14-day challenge,

Laura lost a total of 18 pounds.

Her psr increases to 9.5.

Definitely the coolest adventure
I've ever been on.

Steven: my partner, laura,
was incredible.

She's as enthusiastic,
hardworking,

And positive as I am,
and in an environment like this,

It's what it takes to survive.

Narrator: steven lost
a total of 12 pounds,

And his psr increases to 9.1.

Steven:
as of right now,

I officially have
the triple crown.

I am the king of the forest,
the king of the ocean,

And now, officially,
the king of the tundra.

Awesome.you did a nice job.

Nice job, dude.

Steven: the challenges out here
were challenges

That I've never had to
deal with before,

And to come out here and to
not only meet expectations

But to exceed them --

It's pretty amazing.

-Alaska!
-Oh, my god.

Whoo!