07x09 - The Wolves

[bunniefuu]

[dramatic music]

♪

- Holy [bleep], man, this fox.

Starting to feel
like this fox

might be a danger for me.

Go away!

- Is that a bunny?

Holy schmoly,
that's three today.

- I'm gonna build a meat crib.

Now, that's a lot
of freezer space.

- I just can't do it.

- I want to come home

to my family
and friends whole.

- Hey, this is Mark.
I am officially tapping out.

Pain, misery, and suffering--

I've dealt with it enough,
and I'm done.

♪

male narrator:
For the first time,

ten participants will fight
to survive the Arctic

for longer than anyone
in "Alone" history--

a grueling 100 days.

- This is
the ultimate challenge.

♪

- A hundred days in the Arctic
is no joke.

narrator:
If they can endure,

they'll win
the biggest prize ever--

$1 million.

♪

- Oh!

- Oh, [bleep].

- You can't tap out

when there's a million bucks
on the line.

- Oh, my gosh.
- [growls]

- How hard can you work
for $10,000 a day?

- It looks like frostbite.

- [screaming]
- Oh, [bleep].

narrator: This is "Alone:
Million Dollar Challenge."

- They're just surrounding
my shelter.

[wolves snarling]

♪

- You can tell when your soup
got no grease.

You know as soon as
it hits your mouth...

If it's got grease in it.

It's just water
and meat fragments.

It's missing that richness.

♪

All the fat,

that's what keeps a man strong
in the woods.

Fat.

[wind blowing]

♪

And we're gonna start mining

into this muskox head
a little bit more.

We had a little bit of grease

in our stew this morning,
but today's...

meat looked dry to me again.

♪

We're gonna get it
out of this right here.

♪

We still got the lips

and the nose
and the other ear--

all kinds of good stuff here.

There's the bottom lip.

That'll jazz up one potful.

We can get a day
out of the nose.

All this area,
the upper lip and the nose.

That's all got good
fatty tissue inside.

The other lower lip.

You can see it.

There'll be some gristle,
too, but...

it'll render out
a little bit of grease.

This is probably a lot like
what the Plains Indians

did with the buffalo.

You could form
a whole lifestyle

off of this muskox.

We're utilizing
every little bit.

I've already got it in my head

all the little fat pockets
to exploit

because this is a dry animal.

Now, this is what's called
knee fleshing...

[grunts] 'Cause you drape it
over your knee.

Here's his eyeball hole.

So we got to start
south of it here.

♪

It'll be tougher than a boot,
but it'll render oil.

You know, it's muscle
and gristle and skin.

But it has that little

tallow layer between the

gristle and the meat.

And that's what we want.

We got to render the tallow
out of this face gristle.

That's where it's at
in this game.

This hundred-day challenge
is an epic moment,

and I pray to God I make it.

I want to do it

and just as a testimony
to the old-timers.

This was just
every day to them.

I got a heap of respect
for the old pioneers.

I would love to see this
hundred-day challenge through.

♪

My whole being screams out

that I was born
in the wrong era,

the wrong century.

I set my first trap at eight

and tried to read every
mountain-man book

I could get ahold of,
and I did.

I'm currently one
of the best guides in Alaska.

And it all started
with my absolute desire

to live in the wilderness.

♪

Oh, yeah.

There's what we want...

Big old glob of gristle
and lower lip,

little bit of...

fat from around the eyeball.

But that ain't pure fat
by any means.

I need to start thinking

about what's gonna get me
through the winter.

♪

[blowing nose]

- My apologies.

My caveman behavior here.
[laughs]

Okay.

♪

Whoa.

Look at that.

Uh-oh.

Those poles
are frozen together, man.

♪

♪

[wind howling]

♪

It's got a big hole down there,
a couple big holes.

[clicks tongue]

Yeah. I don't know, man.

Yeah, I see two new holes
in the net.

♪

Frozen, frozen, frozen...

♪

Ah, my fingers...

♪

Are frozen.

♪

The weather is really cold.

I'm from El Salvador.

I have never experienced
this type of temperatures.

♪

You can tell that you have
low energy.

You get more cold,
you get more tired,

and, of course,
you start getting hungry.

♪

Okay.

Let's go put all this stuff
back at camp

and get out of this wind.

♪

♪

Look.

♪

♪

♪

It's coming from over there.

♪

There is all this wildlife,

and it's just
dangerous animals walking by.

So it's scary
to be right in the path

♪

♪

- I finally did it.

I can get my gill net
in the water.

I never made one
from start to finish.

I want to go give it a try.

Give it a gill...
a gillnet try.

♪

I'm excited
about this gill net,

and I'd love to get it
in the water,

but it's just so treacherous
to get down there.

So I'm concerned
about going down

to get to my fishing spot.

♪

Since I've been
eating the rabbit,

I feel more hungry,

and I think it's just
because there's less fat.

I need
a consistent fat source.

I need to figure out
how to catch fish here

because they have fat on 'em.

♪

If I could just get one fish,

I feel like I could work
on that fat for a while.

♪

Okay, so,
to get my fishing spot...

It's like a ten-minute walk
on this--

ice on the rocks...

'Cause my fishing spot
is way down this--

like, way down there.

So...

let's see.

♪

I'm here to explore,
and that's what I want to do.

Just total immersion.

This is a place that's gonna
test my abilities

and what I know
and what I can do.

♪

All right, well,
I didn't think I'd be able

to make it down here
because it's so slippery.

But I did!

So I guess
I got to try fishing.

♪

And just get my...

♪

Get my stuff.

Oh! [bleep]!
[grunts]

♪

[bleep].

Oh, man. [bleep].

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

- Oh, [bleep].

Oh, I fell.
[laughs]

I just slipped on the ice,
and I hit my...

my tooth, hit my lip.

Mm-hmm.

It's--
and my--my eyebrow.

Uh-huh.

Good old eyebrow split.

♪

Well, I knew it was sketchy
coming down here.

Yep. The trap line is...

The trap line's a little easier
to get to right now.

Okay, well,
I guess I'll clean this up.

♪

I really, really hope
I don't need stitches.

♪

Yep, I've definitely
taken kids

to get stuff like
that stitched up.

♪

[laughs] It's like...

Eyeshadow.
Blood eyeshadow.

Yes, blood eyeshadow.

Wonder if my lip's gonna
swell up any more or anything.

Well, that cut's fine.

Gosh, I don't know.

Do I put the gill net
in the water or not?

I mean, I made it.

So...

I kind of want to put
the gill net in the water.

But I don't want to risk
falling in.

If I'm careful, it's fine,
but it's just hard.

You just don't know.
I mean, like...

I could've slipped like that
towards the water.

♪

And there you go.

♪

If I was on the edge,

that could've been
a lot worse.

And I'm lucky that...

I just only split my lip
and cut my face.

I'm, like, bummed

that I didn't get
that gill net in the water,

but slipping and falling
just made me realize, like...

if I'm trying
to pull in a fish

or pull in the gill net

and I fall in the water,
that could be it.

♪

Hmm.
Hmm.

To fish or not to fish...

♪

- Every day it gets colder.

I was so lucky that I thought
about taking my mittens.

[laughing]

So I should take my mittens
out with me...

Every time I walk out.

That would be a good thing.

♪

I'll just get that soup
and the fire--

and the fire cracking
for the soup and...

♪

Keep smoking the fish.

♪

I got to start
rationing my fish.

Okay.

[distant howling]

A wolf.

♪

[wolf howling]

♪

♪

[wolf howling]

I'm in wolf territory.

♪

I never experienced this.

Wolves are able
to take big animals,

like a moose or a muskox.

If you are encountered
by a pack of wolves,

you can't be showing them
too much fear.

♪

[wolf howling]

♪

You need some of the fear
to get you going,

but you don't want fear
to dominate you,

where even the wolves
are sensing your fear.

♪

I never had a predator
charge me or attack me.

But I'm just going to hope
that I am prepared mentally

to stay calm and make
the proper decisions

to deal with that situation.

♪

Wolves are a very skilled
group of hunters.

They could take me down
pretty easy.

So I think
trying to remain calm

will be an important part

of being attacked
by a predator.

♪

[wind howling]

♪

[bird squawking]

- Coo!

Caw!

Coo!

[bird squawks]

The neighbors.

They're always dropping by--
pain in the a*s.

[birds squawking]

In cold weather,
fat is like instant energy,

instant calories.

My body's telling me
I need it.

♪

I ate most of the gristle

and fat out of the muskox.

But there's been a lot of men

get through the winter
on a fish net.

Lot of fat in fish,
a lot.

♪

So I'm gonna go out here

and have a look
at Danger Rock.

♪

Here's the legendary
fishing hole Danger Rock.

It's all nice right now,
tranquil, like a little pond.

We know
it don't stay like that,

but it's suckering me in,
I think, one more time.

One last attempt

to catch another fish
at Danger Rock.

♪

We're gonna go for it.
I'm gonna go get my equipment.

♪

Danger Rock
is a great fishing hole.

It is hard to get in
and hard to manage,

but when you do get in,
you catch fish.

But now that
it's full-blown winter,

the risk factor goes way up.

It'll be really dangerous

when there's ice
on them stones.

My biggest fear
is a personal injury

by falling
into that deep water,

getting totally submerged,
and hypothermia.

But I really need
to catch a fish.

[water lapping]

Holy [bleep].

♪

[whispering]
Muskox everywhere.

Sneaking up on the herd's
kind of dangerous.

Not impossible with a bow.

r*fle, yeah.

[sighs]

That's just too many.

♪

We're gonna have to skirt
a little bit more

to the east here.

[sniffs]

I don't want
to spook that herd.

We're gonna go around them.

We're gonna give them
a wide berth.

A single animal
is always easier

to stalk than a herd.

Too many eyes and ears--

always one sees you
or hears you.

The fish is
more valuable right now.

It's set up down there.

We'll see how it goes.

The gill net
is a risky undertaking,

but you never know--
we might be lucky.

Maybe it's gonna give me
a big fish.

And then if it don't k*ll me,

I'll maybe come back
and try it again.

♪

- Looking forward to trying
this ptarmigan.

[fire crackling]

[sniffs, grunts,
clears throat]

[chuckles]

[chuckles]

[slurps]

♪

All right,
let's go check the lake.

♪

There are times when I feel
like I'm thriving out here.

I have bunnies.

I've got
berries and mushrooms.

I feel ready for winter.

But there is
this looming worry

that I'm going
to run out of fat.

It's cold.

♪

I can feel my nose kind of...
poking together.

[sniffs]

♪

Ice fishing--
my next best plan.

♪

[footsteps crunching]

♪

Just need to wait for it

to be a little bit thicker
for the ice fishing.

♪

The rabbits
are going really well,

but there's not enough
fat on them.

♪

Fat is what's going
to keep you alive

for 100 days.

And a lake trout is
the best bang for your buck

for fat.

♪

I'll come back out
first thing tomorrow.

♪

- All right.
Good morning.

I got to get firewood,

work on traps,
get more firewood.

[wolf growling]

Holy [bleep], man.

♪

[bleep].

♪

♪

[bleep].

♪

♪

[wolf snarls]

[dramatic music]

♪

- [bleep].

♪

Go away.

♪

Go away, dude.

♪

They're all stalking me.

♪

♪

♪

They're circling my fish
back there.

[chuckles]
And that was my morning.

Like, um...

right here.

One.

This is my shelter.
My entrance, where it was.

One, two...

three yards away pretty much.

Just...

♪

checking it out.

♪

♪

That was exciting
for the morning.

♪

[ice crackling]

♪

[wind howling]

♪

[fire crackling]

Have these moments
of weakness, you know.

Then I eat.

[inhales deeply]

It's just the fact that
I'm, like, out of fat, so...

I do need fish.

You know, this pain...

Right at the back
of my...chest.

Maybe that's...

normal for...

someone that's...

Not getting...

You know, the right nutrients.

Hard to...
[sniffs]

Stay motivated
when you don't have energy.

Those fish are my ticket there.

♪

Ice is in, guys.

Just need to hold more
than a 2-pound stone.

♪

I'm down at the water

checking the ice.

Prep for the ice fishing.

♪

I am getting skinny.

Never been this thin before.

I'm finding it hard
to be motivated now.

I'm not trying to put all
my eggs in the fish basket,

but I feel like I need it

in order to make it
the 100 days.

I got this pole.

And I'm listening for sounds

and also if it goes
right through.

So...

Nice, solid thud...

[stick tapping]

Is good.

Hold on.
[water splashes]

That's very bad.

But...

[thudding]

That often happens at the edge.

[thudding]

♪

I need the fish.

I need this ice to come in.

♪

Not quite there.

♪

This is so...

risky!

♪

Oh, boy.

♪

Nope. Not a chance.

♪

Whoa.

♪

This is not good.

♪

That is not...

♪

What you would deem safe.

♪

Kind of disappointing.

Really need it to freeze.

I'm all alone here, and...

Margin for error is low.

♪

- What we're doing
right now

is I'm trying to get
that muskox hide

pinned up to the ceiling,
leather side down.

So all this ceiling smoke

is gonna start
curing that hide.

And put it on my bed
for warmth.

I'll leave part of it
go up the wall.

And then on cold nights,
I'll let it flop down on me.

What a battle.

Damn near took up
the whole ceiling.

Ready for smoking.

♪

It's windy and snowing
pretty damn good.

Danger Rock's gonna be
kind of wicked.

♪

Well, with any luck,
I'll scoop that net

out of there with a fish

without falling
on that slippy-a*s rock.

♪

All right.

♪

Run out there
and get the net.

♪

Was a lot of work
getting it in.

I'd sure like
to have it pay off.

♪

I've lost some weight,
no doubt about it--

just the sheer workload,
the energy output.

♪

The outdoor living takes a lot
out of you.

You look at pictures
of the old old-timers

on an old hardscrabble
homestead or in the woods.

Them men were skinny.

I got a heap of respect
for the old-timers.

♪

Starting to turn
into a winter wonderland.

[wind howling]

[bleep] wind out here.

So I definitely didn't want
to be out near that water

later in winter, when it's...


Holy [bleep].

Gonna be slippery out here.

Ice and snow now.

Before, I had that nice
gritty rock

to give me traction.

♪

Oh, yeah, it's gonna be
a booger.

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

- [yelling]

[bleep]!

[breathing heavily]

[groans]

See what I mean?

It is slippy, man.

Whoo!

[wind howling]

Boy, that right [bleep] knee
is k*lling me.

Dangerous [bleep] place, man.

One wrong move,
and it's splash.

♪

There ain't no rescue party

coming out here
in this [bleep].

♪

[bleep] wind's
whipping the waves up.

My net's already starting
to fray in places.

You can't put
a [bleep]damn net in

in a [bleep] like that.

[bleep], if I lose my net,
[bleep].

This is a [bleep]hole
[bleep] spot.

[bleep]. The thing
can stay in there for tonight.

♪

From here on...

I declare Danger Rock
off-limits

until it ices over.

♪

That first week or two
of ice up,

before it gets super thick...

♪

I'm going--I'm coming
back here, Danger Rock.

You mark my words.

♪

- Good morning.

It's cold.

And...

[grunts]

[sniffs]

It's all good,
all good in the hood.

[inhales sharply]
And it's even better than it...

Was yesterday, of course.

Got my probing stick.

Okay. [grunts]

I guess I'll just...

drag my axe.

[stick tapping]

♪

Okay, I'm gonna check it
right here.

♪

[sighs]

♪

All right.

♪

[sniffs]

It's that thick.

That's four inches, guys.

We're rolling.

Oh, my hands.
Wow, it's cold.

If I get boughs,
lay them across and ice--

At least to make it warmer.

I think that's
what I'm gonna do.

Let's go inside.

We're going ice fishing
tonight.

We'll do it.

♪

Let's hope it's shiny enough.

♪

Water's really dark today.

♪

I consider myself
well equipped

for this experience,

based on knowing the climate.

♪

I mean, not to toot
my own horn here,

but I literally
have traveled

thousands of kilometers on ice
on personal trips.

I have experienced extreme
temperatures many times.

♪

I have an advantage
because I know winter.

I know what to expect
from winter.

Nothing.

♪

♪

- I think I got one!

[screaming]

Yes! Yes!

[laughing]

I got a fish!

[laughing]

♪

[laughing]

[continues laughing]

Oh! Oh, God!

[laughing]

[inhales deeply]

[sobbing laughter]

It's beautiful.
[laughs]

Oh, my God!

♪

Oh, I'm so happy!
[laughs]

Getting this first fish
is probably

the happiest day of my life
since my wedding day.

Up until now,
I've been catching bunnies,

which is basically
two days of food.

♪

And now I have fish...

and it's ten days of food.

And that's huge.

♪

♪

If I can start catching fish,

I can supplement my rabbits
with the fish,

and hopefully that will be
a better balanced diet

and it will last me, you know,
to 100 days.

♪

There's a fish right there.

♪

Yep!

[laughing wildly]

Oh, my God!
It's bigger than the last one!

[breathing rapidly]

♪

Oh...my...God!

[laughs]

♪

[laughs]

Yes!

[laughs]

I consider myself
a strong woman,

and not just a strong woman
compared to other women,

but compared to other men.

And I want to prove
that a woman can do

what a man can do.

♪

Let's go cook some fish.

[sighs] Good feeling.

Very good feeling.

♪

I want to inspire
other people,

especially women,

and to show how strong
women can be.

We are a force
to be reckoned with.

♪

[wind howling]

- Welcome to "Alone:
Tales From the Arctic."

I'm Colby Donaldson,

here with tonight's
final four:

Callie, Amós,
Roland, and Kielyn.

Day 49.

Only four people left.

Fifty-one days to go,
and as we've seen,

even the smallest thing
can knock you out.

At this point,
it is anyone's competition.

Roland, for those people

that are thinking,
"He had a huge musk ox..."

- I just stabbed this musk ox
to death.

I don't know if you heard me
say that enough already,

but I did.

I'm not [bleep] joking.

- "Plenty of food.

How could he be struggling
in the food department?"

Explain to those at home

the difference between having
a very lean animal

like a musk ox versus a fatty
animal to feed off of.

- Yeah, there is fat meat
and there's lean meat.

Musk ox is lean, lean, lean.

Dig the eyeballs out

and get all the fat
behind them.

I think I'm gonna have to do
all them little cricks.

Eat the brain.

The brain for the fat.

This is lean, I mean...

It was a lean, tough animal.

There was no kidney fat,

and that's
your primary indicator.

The kidney should be engulfed
in a ball of fat,

and there was almost none,
actually, on the kidneys.

The rest of him was tougher
than a boot.

Of course it was
a giant resource, and--

and we utilized it well,
but it wasn't ideal, no.

- Well,
and speaking of utilization,

you even got into
the ox's face there.

I mean, man,
at that point, Roland,

are you just in the mode
of truly survival?

- Yeah, I got
a lot of experience

of taking animals apart,

and there is fat
on dry animals.

You just have to look for it
in the weirdest places.

It's still kind of tough.

You have to process it
just right.

- Sure.

- I'll do the same old trick
I've been doing

with some of them tougher
cuts of meat.

I'll cut it up so small
that, you know,

I really don't
gotta chew it much,

I just swallow it.

'Cause you ain't gonna
chew that [bleep].

It's like chewing
a rubber ball.

- You mentioned
that you feel like

you were born
in the wrong century.

Explain and expand on that
for us.

- Ever since a small boy,
my heart and my whole being

has yearned to go back
to a simpler time.

It was just a more direct

and honest time to live,
I feel, you know.

You could go pit yourself
against the wilderness,

and it was up for grabs.

The best man,
go get it, you know?

- Yeah, I mean,
I agree with you, Roland,

in that I kind of feel like
I was born in the era as well.

Being out there
in the wilderness

in that simple time
where it really was just,

you know, you were just
surviving on the land

and you were so connected
with your environment.

And that was one of my huge
takeaways from this experience,

is coming back into my life

and get back
to our ancestral roots.

- You bet.
God bless you, sister.

- Interesting.
- Mm-hmm.

- Amós, the weather's

getting colder
in this episode.

Your gill net is in jeopardy
until the ice-up.

Tell me about
how the changing weather

constantly forces
all of you to adapt.

- Yeah.

The weather,
it's just unbelievable.

There are all
these microclimates.

The little beach in the bay
where I was, it was--

some days,
it would completely freeze up.

And like, oh, maybe in a week,
I can go ice fishing.

But no, the next day,
it would be all broken up

and big chunks of ice
will be floating around there,

so you have to adjust every day

depending what's coming
from the weather.

- Callie,
same question to you.

You're wanting to get
your gill net out further,

but you can't do it
until the lake freezes.

How did that affect you?

- The spot that I was at
was very, very windy.

And that made it challenging
for gill nets

and active fishing too,

and I decided to focus
more on the land

and land animals
just because every time

I tried to go out fishing,
it was just--

my lines were blowing
all around

and it was really intense
being down on the shore.

- Well, Roland,
you had the reverse issue.

You can't get your gill net
out of the water.

How frustrating was that,

and what would happen

with the potential
of losing your net?

- Yeah, I was kind of worried
the net was a goner.

I did manage to get that
out of the water the next day

with a 20-foot pole
and a snare on the end.

I lassoed it out.

[bleep].
I got it.

[grunts]

I didn't bring
no other cameras.

That was so dangerous.

I didn't want, you know,

nothing hanging on me
or anything.

♪

My whole stretch
was like Callie's,

very turbulent,
real hard to work a net there.

I picked my openings
and would even have to

go pull the net
in the middle of the night

when I thought
it was getting too windy,

but losing that net
was something

I didn't want to do,
so I braved Danger Rock,

I aptly named that place.

It was a b*tch in and out
every time.

- Yeah.

Callie.
Slipping on the ice.

Injuring yourself.
- [bleep].

- It can happen in an instant
out there,

as we saw with you.

After that fall,

when you gather yourself
back up

and sort of assess the damage,

how serious
did it appear to you

and do you think now,
looking back,

you needed stitches
for your mouth?

- It could've used a few,

but I was not seriously
considering leaving for that.

No way.
[laughs]

No way.

Dude, did you get in a fight?
[laughs]

Yeah, man,
I got in a fight with a fish.

I said, yo, I want to eat you,
and he's like, oh,

you can't eat me,
I'm gonna smack you in the face

with ice.
[laughs]

- What if you had called in
the medics,

and if so, what happens then

to the future
of your competition?

- You know, I hit my head also,

so that was actually
a bigger concern than the cuts.

Anytime you hit your head
and you're alone,

that's a little bit
of a questionable area,

and so I did consider notifying
them just so they were aware.

But the thing is,
is if you call

and they come out
and check you

and they feel like
they need to intervene

or do anything to help you,

then that is
a tap-out situation,

so if they're like,
well, we need to help you,

then that's it, you're done.

So I actually
did not report that.

I don't think I was
being extra risky

with making that decision.

My health and safety's
important to me,

but I have enough
basic wilderness

first aid training

that I felt like I was fine

to just keep
going about my business

and not call the safety team.

- Callie, on that fall
that you had,

what would've happened
if you had been, you know,

just a little bit closer
to the water

and you go in the water?

I mean, that changes
everything in a hurry.

- Right, if I was closer
to the water,

I would have slipped right in

and that would have been
a major issue.

It's very cold.

Hypothermia would've been
an absolute risk,

and anytime I went down
to the water,

even before it was really icy,

I knew that there was just
always a risk of falling in,

'cause that's how it is,

so I would plan for that

and I would always have a fire
ready to go,

so I would hopefully be able
to warm myself up quickly

and be able to keep myself
from getting hypothermic.

But that's the thing
out there,

there's a lot of things
that can happen,

so we're all taking our lives
in our own hands out there.

It's a true
survival situation.

- Well, Roland,

I want to toggle back to you
for a second,

because you had a fall
in this episode as well.

So my question to you is,

if a fall had led to you
going in the water,

what would that scenario
have been for you,

given how turbulent the water
was there at your location?

- Yeah, it would've been
not so good

if I'd have went in the water,

but if I had went
in the water,

I'd have clawed my a*s
out of there

and boogied for camp
to get warm.

COLBY DONALDSON: Things are
starting to get very real.

Amós, you had a pack of wolves
outside your shelter.

Give us on a scale of 1 to 10
how concerned you were.

I think you said
they were within 3 yards,

the tracks that you saw there?

- It was a real concern.

I'd never been so close
to a pack of wolves.

In terms of a concern,

something in the high numbers.

- And what are you gonna do
against five wolves?

- Well, the first thing
you have to do

is get the camera
and make sure you got 'em,

'cause that's what
we're there to do.

We got a show to make, man.

- I like your priorities.

- And then for safety,
I have my bow.

On the other side,
I have a spear that I made.

So that's where
your training comes in,

and you have to stay in check.

You have to try
to remain calm.

I was really lucky
that they decided to move on.

- Yeah, you mentioned
that spear,

and you were obviously
concerned enough

that you made one.

We do have some
never-before-seen footage

of you making that spear.

Let's take a look at that
real quick.

♪

Just trying to protect myself.

In primitive skills
and survival,

you have to try to think
about ways to use

the different parts
of the animal.

So in my case,
I wanted to use it

as part of my weapons
that I was making.

The bunnies are really agile.

They're really swift.

So even the decoration is not
just so it look pretty.

It's also to give
a little energy to the spear.

♪

Okay.

- Did you ever have
an opportunity to use it?

- Just right there.

When the wolves came,
I grabbed it.

I needed it by my side
just to make me feel safer.

Have the spear right here.

I might go down,
but it won't be easy.

♪

- And Callie, you touched
on this a minute ago,

just about how authentic
and real this experience is,

whether it's with the wolves
or slipping into the water.

The reality is, there's no one
coming to get you.

There's no one coming to fend
those wolves off of you.

It is all about you
in that moment, isn't it?

- Exactly.

You know, people are like,
oh, well,

they have a whole safety team

that comes and checks on 'em
and stuff,

but the reality is,
is it's not like

they're right around
the corner.

You could get yourself
into a lot of trouble

before anybody's coming
to help you out.

There's a whole bunch of blood
in my eyelashes.

- Roland, I want to talk
to you about something

that we've never seen before
on the show,

and that is when you come upon
and get to witness

that entire herd of musk ox.

And then you decide
not to go after them.

Clarify for us
why you made that decision.

- That was a real nice herd
of musk ox.

The herd is way harder to get
into than a single animal.

It just wasn't
the right situation.

And I didn't want
to spook 'em.

- There is something
you mentioned

that I find very curious,

and it didn't necessarily
make the show,

but you talked
about not wanting

to necessarily
go after the herd

because that herd
might end up on--

on one of the other
competitors' area.

Explain that.

- Yeah, we had

plenty of space between us.

There was 5 miles or more
between participants.

I mean, that's a long way
to a human being,

but that is nothing
to a wild, big game creature.

Big game animals move quick
and they move far,

and I did not want
to spook that herd

into the next contestant's
territory.

I'm out for the money,
I'm out for the win.

I don't need
a spiritual journey.

- I get it.

Pivoting a little bit, Kielyn,

when you start to make your way
out on the ice,

you're testing
the thickness of it.

How precarious,
maybe even scary,

is that for the first time

as the freeze is happening
and the ice is thickening up?

- I've been through many years
of freeze-up and ice-outs,

and I'm not a stranger
to thin ice.

I know exactly what it's like

and I've traveled
on a lot of ice

that you wouldn't deem safe

on just, like,
personal adventures,

but I had a full belly,
I had backup clothing,

and so when I was starting
to check the ice in my bay,

yeah, there was a little bit
more caution

when I was doing it.

- At that point,
once you were able

to really get out on the ice
and begin fishing,

did you feel like things
were gonna take off for you?

- Well, I was hoping
for it to.

- Yeah.
- For sure.

But, again, I was just trying
to stay adaptable,

stay flexible, and--

and take the journey
as it was coming.

I'm not an expert
ice fisher person,

but I was hopeful.

- Well, and let's talk about
when you got those two fish.

Crying is not even
descriptive enough.

You were
borderline hysterical, but--

and it was impossible
not to get excited for you

because it was truly
just jubilation on your part.

Had you ever experienced...
- Yeah.

- Anything quite like that
at that moment?

- I got a fish!
[laughing]

Oh, my God, I mean,

I don't know
what those sounds were

that were coming out of me,

but yeah,
it was just pure bliss.

You know, you can see me
crying a lot on the show,

and I'm not gonna pretend
that I didn't,

but the one thing
that I did do

was recover
from those lows quickly,

and that was my journey
just through my own resilience.

But then when you get
that little bit of success,

it's just like,
you can finally let go

of all of that tension
that you were holding.

That scene was me
just letting go.

Man, I needed that fish.

- Well, Kielyn, you said
at the end of the episode,

women are a force
to be reckoned with.

And you are certainly
one of those.

At this point
in the competition,

do you feel like
you've hit your stride a bit?

Do you feel like
you're a real threat

to take this whole thing?

- Well, I mean,
I knew that the fish

was going to be what would
get me to the hundred days.

This is what I needed
to kind of keep me going and--

and hopefully prevent
any more weight loss.

Oh, my God, look at that.

[gasps]

Is that not from
a grocery store or what?

I do want to mention
that being out on the ice

was a absolute blessing,
but it was extremely hard.

♪

You know, winter has set in,

and that requires
a lot more calories

to keep yourself warm,

and sitting on that ice
just completely exposed

to that north arctic wind
was not easy.

- Yeah, no doubt.
Nothing is easy out there.

- That is for sure.

Well, that is it for "Alone:
Tales From the Arctic."

I'd like to thank Callie,
Amós, Roland, and Kielyn.

We'll be speaking
to the participants

all season long
after the episodes,

so make sure you tune in
to that,

and, as promised,

here's a sneak peek
at next week's episode.

We'll see you then.

♪

- I just gotta get in there.

Oh, it's so tight.

Oh, my gosh.

The porcupine's right here.

Oh, [bleep].

This is probably the start
of the real end.

I really want to take home
the win for my family.

But I just want to go home.

- Yeah, we're gettin' it now.

Just slicker and [bleep] here
in about an hour.

I'm talking
freeze you to death,

k*ll you cold.

Holy [bleep].

[bleep].

Please.

[bleep].
Get out of here.

[bleep], out of here.