09x15 - Fire and Fury

[bunniefuu]

Angela: this is my second time
taking on this challenge.

Chad: this isn't
my first time, either.

Possibly a leopard.

Holy *bleep*.

This is fresh.

They must be cruising right down
into this watering hole.

♪♪

Straight line,
right to my shelter.

Narrator: one man...

...one woman...

Whoo!

...alone for 21 days
to face the wrath...

Woman: stop raining!

...and fury

Of the most hostile environments
on earth.

Aah!

They have no clothes,
no food, no water.

I want water.

Do they have the skill
and the will...

Fire!

...to overcome the most
brutal survival challenge

Of their lives...

Naked and afraid?

Gary: this is a hell.

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South africa --

The tropical savanna
of maramani.

The deadliest creatures
on the continent

Call this place home.

The aggressive hippo will charge

At anything it perceives
as a threat.

The tall grasses conceal

Ambush predators
like the lion

And the most vicious of all,
the leopard.

Pound for pound,

They are the strongest cats
in the world,

And attack at speeds
of almost 40 miles an hour.

♪♪

Angela: look how beautiful
africa is.

I am feeling very excited
right now.

As long as I don't get
drug off into the bush

By a pack of hyenas, you know,

I think we'll be all right.

I'm angela from
st. Francis, minnesota.

I was a combat military
police officer.

This is my second time
taking on this challenge.

I was in panama six months ago.

I had to tap out
because I lost my ex,

The father to my children.

I have to go.
I have to be there for my kids.

It's their dad.

♪♪

I immediately wanted
to come back.

I didn't finish this challenge.

I can't leave it unfinished.

I am definitely here
to show people

That no matter how hard
life knocks you down,

You gotta get up.

Forget about six months ago.

Right now,
this is my moment.

I have a little anxiety
and fear,

Thinking about
surviving in africa.

But some of our
earliest ancestors

Survived out there,
and if they can do it,

Then, you know,

I definitely should be able
to tap into that energy.

My name is chad.
I'm from wrightwood, california,

And I'm a primitive
survival instructor.

One of my strongest skill sets

Is my friction-fire experience.

I'm an expert.

This is my second time
attempting this challenge.

The first time,
I was medically tapped out.

I took this challenge
to redeem myself.

No one really wants to learn

From a primitive
survival instructor

Who's failed two times
at surviving.

Narrator: in this first-ever
double-redemption challenge,

Both expert survivalists
begin with the same

Primitive survival rating

As the day
they last tapped out --

4.9 for chad,

And 6.8 for angela.

♪♪

Well, this is it.

Come hell or high water,
I'm finishing this 21 days.

So unless I get

Physically pulled
from this challenge,

I will be here.

All right, guys.
Time to be a real human again.

My confidence level is
at like a humble 9.

I'm ready to get
to the extraction date.

I can't wait to see myself
on the other end.

I'm just ready to manifest this.

This is surreal,
even though I've done it before.

I don't think
it ever gets ordinary,

To be naked in such
a wicked environment.

♪♪

Angela: ow.

Thousands of years ago,
people used to,

Like, run through this *bleep*
like it was nothing.

We've gotten weak as a society.

I truly believe in being
as direct as possible.

A lot of people
can't handle that.

I don't mean to hurt
anyone's feelings,

So I'm sorry ahead of time,

Whoever my partner is.

♪♪

-Hello.
-Hi!

How are you?
-Good.

I found you.
I'm chad.

I'm angela.
Angela.

-It's really nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you, too.

Where are you from?i'm from california.

How 'bout you?
Oh, you are?

Yeah.
Very cool.

How 'bout you?
Where are from?

Minnesota.
Oh, minnesota.

Lots of snow.
There was?

Not exactly running around
naked up there.

Angela: when I see my partner,

I get the hippie vibe from him.

♪♪

Should we take a look
at what we got here?

Sure.

Narrator: angela and chad
have been given paracord,

And have each brought
one personal survival item.

I have a tool to
make tools, really.

Oh, that's awesome.it's a hand-forged axe,

So that way we can
make different things,

Like a hand drill
to make friction fire

To spears,
walking sticks, traps.

I notice that we don't
have a fire starter.

Yeah.that really concerns me,

Especially in
this environment.

I teach friction fire --
primitive friction fire.

I'm a fire-starter
girl, so...

Okay, okay.
No problem, no problem.

We got this.i like my feral stick,

'Cause I don't know
how to do those things, so...

Okay. Yeah, well,
it falls on me, then.

Angela: I don't have a problem

Depending on my partner
for the fire,

But he better be able to do it

Because we have
to have fire out here,

Without a doubt.

We have a map.

Oh, perfect.

We've got water
over here,

Elephants, hyenas,
leopards.

With this heat,
clearly we wanna

Get over by
this water source

'Cause we may go a few days
without food,

But at least then we have water.i totally agree.

Hopefully,
we can get to water

Before the hottest
part of the day.

Yeah.
All right.

Let's get a move on.

♪♪

Narrator: in search
of water and precious shade,

Chad and angela plan to make
their way to the sand river --

A grueling 3-mile trek

Across scorching sand
and jagged rocks.

Chad: so, survival
experience?

Yeah, I got quite a bit.

This is not my first time
taking on this challenge.

I was in panama,

And my children's dad
suddenly died.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Hey, I'm here for you.

And we're definitely

Gonna get through this...we will.

...and make
a positive experience.

I think angela's tough.

It's just insane
what she's gone through,

And she's chosen
to come back out here

So I'm gonna do my best
to take care of her.

This isn't my first time,
either.

Oh, really?

So, yeah.
I separated my shoulder.

That was
pretty extreme.

Yeah, absolutely.

Angela: I do think it helps us

That we're both back
for our second time,

'Cause I can understand
his desire to be here again

And I think that
he understands mine, as well.

I'm glad I have, like, a
strong-willed partner, you know.

If I'm being too strong-willed,
let me know.

♪♪

This heat is
something else.

Yeah, it's no joke.

It's like sitting
in front of a blow dryer.

Narrator: in maramani,

The triple-digit heat is
relentless during the day.

And temperatures can plummet
into the 50s at night.

Water is scarce here,

And the dry heat

Makes dehydration
a particularly deadly threat.

Under these conditions,

A person can sweat up to 1-1/2
quarts of liquid per hour...

Hot!

...and can only survive

For three days without water.

How you feeling,
partner?

Just got
a little nauseous.

♪♪

With the way the heat is like
out here and how intense it is,

We're reaching a point
of exhaustion and dehydration.

We need to find water
immediately.

Okay.

♪♪

I'm so thirsty,
I'm about ready

To eat the sweat
off of a sock.

♪♪

Ugh.

Ow.

Holy *bleep*.

Look.

It's a river.
-What's up?

Oh, my god.
Thank you, god!

Man, these are some
big tracks. Ooh.

This is a cat print,
possibly a leopard.

And it's not that old,
either.

Is this a hippopotamus?
What?

They must be cruising
right down here,

And coming down
into this watering hole.

Narrator: because
so many animals

Drink from this water source,

The risk of contamination
is high.

Angela and chad will need
to boil the water,

Or face exposure
to intestinal infections

Like cholera,
dysentery, and giardia.

Observe the fish.

The priority is to create fire
to purify the water

And also cook food,
if we catch it.

We can set up camp here
and sit down,

Make friction fire,
and boil the water.

God.
I wanna drink it.

It normally takes me
around three minutes.

I just wanna make sure
that we do the fire

Where we're gonna
put our shelter.

Yeah.

There's those trees
right there in the rocks,

Which is
a partial perimeter.

Yeah, I like it.

The point of having
these rocks here

Is stopping
the larger animals,

'Cause, like, a water buffalo,
an elephant...

Right.
...they're not gonna be

Cruising down this
to go into water.

We've got some shade.

We have the sand.

It's perfect.
Let's do it.

I am going to focus
on the shelter.

Okay.

I'm gonna start
doing the fire.

♪♪

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Aah.

*Bleep*.

I need to find a different piece
for the hearth board.

Making fire out here is
definitely more challenging

Than I thought
it would be.

What works in california

Might not work in africa.

The environment's different.

I don't know what woods
that work.

I'm sure that we're gonna figure
it out one way or another.

♪♪

Angela: I am building
a defensive shelter

Against these rocks,

And surrounding it
with thornbushes.

This is the perimeter

From all the animals
out there.

I'm trying to bend some
of these branches up

To give an appearance of height.

To many animals,
perception is reality.

And if they think
they can't get through,

Then they're not gonna bother.

♪♪

♪♪

*Bleep*

Hey, chad.
How you doing?

I got this
blister here.

-Is that from now?
-Yeah.

Oh, *bleep*.
Listen.

Look at me.
Mm-hmm?

I trust you,
and I have faith in you,

And I know that
you can do this.

No big deal.

I don't know if
it's gonna happen today.

♪♪

Okay.

You know,
I know it's day one.

But my thirst level
on a scale of 1 to 10

Is at about a 12.

I'm gonna drink
some of this water.

I have to.

We either drink it, get sick,
and get dehydrated,

Or we don't drink it,
get sick, and get dehydrated.

So what do you do?

Chad: dehydration could
k*ll you in three days.

Giardia just gets you sick,

And that normally takes
a couple weeks to a month

Before it shows up.

In a survival situation,
you drink the water you have

And worry about that
type of stuff later.

But we still need fire
because...

We need fire, I know.

Angela: fire's one
of the biggest deterrents

To big animals.

There's the leopard.

There's hippos.
There's elephants.

They don't know
we're right there...

'Cause there's no fire.

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Chad: last night was
pretty intense without a fire.

There's lots of
predatory animals out here,

And it's definitely dangerous.

So our priorities today are

Add to our shelter
and get fire.

♪♪

Yeah, that blister on there
is really limiting me,

So we'll do
a two-person bow drill.

So, you can hook
your fingers in there.

Beautiful. Beautiful.
Keep it going like that.

We could both put
our heart and soul into it.

And that's what
a friction fire is.

It's part of you, like,

Coming and igniting
that coal.

Chad: I'm definitely feeling
a little bit of pressure

To make this
friction fire work.

This is what I teach.
This is what I do.

So I gotta make it happen.

Smoking that much
with that amount of heat --

I don't know.

Angela: we're on
our fourth attempt.

It's still not working.

Maybe we just need
to give it a break.

We can work
on the shelter.

There's still a lot more
that needs to be done.

♪♪

We'll get
some beams across,

And then we can take
smaller vegetation and...

Angela: yeah.

Angela: we need more shade.

See these?
Wild cucumber.

You can't eat it,

But they are going to make
a really great roof.

I think what I'm gonna do is,

I'm gonna build a smaller
shelter on the back

Of the existing shelter,

And get it as windproof
and waterproof as possible.

Well, looking good.

It's getting there, yeah.

You're amazing.

Chad: the african heat
is no joke.

It's just draining.

This place, man,
it's just *bleep* hell.

♪♪

Oh, my god.
It's getting so windy.

This is crazy.

♪♪

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Angela: we slept
like crap last night

Because it was freezing cold.

During the day,
it's just scorching hot.

The problem with the cold
is that we shiver.

And when we shiver,
we're burning more calories.

I have never felt this weak.

Chad: it's gonna be
three days without food,

So I'm putting food
over fire now.

♪♪

Think I keep hearing, like,
monkeys up there.

And if I am,
it's probably 'cause

One of these trees has fruit.

Oh, my gosh.

I found marula fruit,
or a sour plum.

Narrator: each marula fruit
contains about 25 calories...

Oh, my god.
You're amazing.

...and is high in sugar
and vitamin c.

♪♪

Well,
that's an acquired taste.

But acquire,
we shall.

Angela:
finding these fruits is great,

But they aren't gonna be enough
to keep us going for the day

Or through the entire challenge.

♪♪

There's a lot of small fish
in here.

So I can catch them,
just dry them out on the rock,

And eat them, bones and all.

We flush them all out this way,
get them over here.

And then,
we'll close this off.

We'll dam this,
and then they're trapped.

You know what I mean?
Okay.

Narrator:
chad digs a shallow well

Into the bank of the stream.

He and angela plan

To force the fish
through a narrow opening,

They use clumps of reeds
to trap them inside.

Chad: I've been a vegetarian
for the last six years.

But out here,
in a survival situation,

You eat what you can catch,

What you can find.

There's fish.
Holy *bleep*!

There's a huge one
that just jumped.

Aah!

Ugh, *bleep*!

There he is.

*Bleep*

Teeth are sharp.
Don't let go!

I got him.

Yay!

Chad: I'm not an expert
in butchering, by any means.

That's why all this
butchering process falls

Into angela's hands.

This is gonna be tough.

I only have so much control
with this blade.

Angela: you know, I've done
pheasants and quail and deer.

I mean, we could just
eat this raw, too.

♪♪

I'm getting far to lightheaded,
and I don't want to faint.

So at this point, I'm gonna
eat just about anything

I can get my hands on.

It's worth the risk.

Narrator: eating raw fish
can cause anisakiasis,

A parasitic disease

In which worms invade
the lining of the intestines.

Taste's not bad.

No, it wasn't bad.
Just the texture.

It wasn't the taste.the texture's weird.

Maybe just 'cause
I haven't had anything

Like that
in a long time.

We had food,

And now we just
gotta get a fire

Before we run out
of all of our energy.

♪♪

*Bleep*

Close is the same
as not at all.

Chad: I can tell angela's

Reaching a point
of negativity,

Like there's not a lot
of positive things

Coming out of her mouth.

*Bleep* damn it.

Even though your brain
wants to say negative things

And, "it's hard,"

I can't blow this.

This is what I teach.
I should be able to do it.

I know he's trying,

But this has gotta
get figured out or...

We're not gonna make it.

♪♪

Day four.

Last night sucked a*s.

It was super-cold.

So I think today,
we're gonna work on fire again.

Chad: my partner needs

To have some warmth
during the night.

She doesn't do too well
during the cold.

I'm gonna do my best today
to make the fire happen.

Friction fire is something
where you need to be,

Like, in harmony and balanced.

And then that doubt is
manifesting into the coal.

So, I'm just gonna
do it by myself.

Asking for whatever
I'm doing wrong to be corrected.

♪♪

*Bleep*!

♪♪

I've tried everything --

Changing spindles,
changing hearth boards,

Changing methods.

We've done a hand drill,
a two-man bow drill,

And a single-man bow drill.

So I don't know exactly
what's wrong.

You know, it's making me
and my partner suffer.

It's just taking
a lot out of me.

Keep going.
Just keep going.

Yeah.

Chad: normally,
you don't have to try this hard.

I start a hand drill,

I get it in a minute
and 30 seconds.

Six days, a minute,
and 30 seconds?

'Cause it's gonna be
cold tonight.

That cloud right there
looks like

It's a rain-
producing cloud.

Angela: we cannot depend on

These bow drills
and hand drills.

I've been cooperative,

And I've been helpful,

And I've been supportive.

But sitting there waiting
for him to do it

Day after day after day
after day after day,

Attempt after attempt
after attempt,

My patience is done.

A storm is coming.

No fire?
We are gonna get hypothermia.

We're gonna freeze
our asses off.

End of the challenge,
right there.

♪♪

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Chad: I don't understand.

Everything looks correct.

Angela: oh, my god.
I'm getting inside.

Oh, my god.

♪♪

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Chad: last night
was pretty intense.

This morning, I feel, like,
super-dehydrated, malnourished,

And I just have
a really bad headache.

♪♪

I'm just sitting here in
this absolute splitting migraine

In over-100-degree heat

In a little bush shack.

Narrator: the debilitating pain
of a migraine headache can

Be triggered by extreme heat,
malnutrition,

And intense physical activity.

If it persists,

It can cause irritability
and depression.

It gets so hard to,
like, stay motivated.

I wanna stay in this challenge,

But I don't know
if I'm gonna stick in here

If my head just keeps
pounding like this.

I might leave.

♪♪

How you feel?

My head hurts
so bad right now,

And it just feels like it's
just getting worse and worse.

And I just really don't know
if I'm going to keep going

With the challenge.

If you leave,
how do you think

That's gonna make you feel
when you're feeling better?

Angela: I get it.
It's miserable.

But it's a headache.

Whatever.
Life's a headache.

Chad: I was really considering
just leaving this challenge

And taking care of my body.

But I see angela,

And I just felt this
overwhelming shame

That there's no way

That I could leave her out here
without fire.

We're gonna change the spindle

And then switch out
the hearth board,

See if that gives us
any more hope.

You could have all
the skills in the world,

But you need to believe

That you're gonna
actually make an ember.

Having me and angela believe is

A key factor
to making this work.

♪♪

-God, this --
-it's an ember.

It's an ember.
-I see an ember!

Angela:
I see an ember!

Just relax, relax. No rush.
No rush right here.

There you go, fire.

Fire!

Fire, *bleep*.

Angela:
good job, dude.

Chad: having a fire,
there's just something,

Like, primeval about it.

I know there's better days
ahead now.

We got fire!

Day seven,
bitchin' day.

You know what the best part
about it is?

You know what?
That was the best part,

Is that it was both of us.

Chad: now it's all
about trapping food,

Cooking some meat.

Oh, my gosh!
Cooking some meat.

You ever heard a vegetarian
say that?

♪♪

It's the morning of day 8.

The fire's definitely
a game changer,

'Cause now we can cook food.

Only thing that we've had to eat
in seven days is

Marula fruit
and a little bit of fish.

Getting food now
is the main priority.

I've been noticing a lot
of impala and game

Coming down
from a trail over here.

I'm gonna build
a little spring-trap

With some of this
cordage I made.

Because of the smell,
it's better the natural fibers

Instead of the paracord
that we were given.

Narrator:
chad sets a spring-snare

By staking a trigger
into the ground.

If an animal stumbles
into the noose,

The trigger will release
and trap the animal.

♪♪

Boom!

♪♪

Angela: I'm super stoked
that we got fire,

But it's gonna be
a lot of work on our part

To keep that fire going.

It is a 24-hour day chore.

Angela:
how you feel?

My headache's still here,
but I need to go

Across the way
and check those traps.

Chad: I'm starving.

My head is just throbbing like

I can feel the pulse
inside my skull.

♪♪

There's a rabbit.

It's just a great feeling
right now.

It caught it right
on the neck.

I'm sorry, buddy.

Thank you for your life.

I was, like, this close
last night to giving up,

Battling everything
mentally, physically.

It just goes to show,

Even when you're
at the point of giving up,

Right on the other side
of your defeat is a victory.

The traps were empty...

Besides this rabbit.

Oh, no!
*Bleep*!

Oh, my god!

Aah, you're amazing.

Hi, little bunny.

Angela: with the sun being
as hot as it is,

We gotta butcher him right now.

Just gonna get right to it.

With this axe,

It's extremely difficult
to do precise cuts.

Oh, *bleep*.

Pew!

What's going on?

His intestines burst.

Narrator:
the rabbit's intestines

Are filled with bacteria
and potential parasites,

Making it too risky
to consume the meat

Directly around them.

The axe is cool and all,
but when it comes to, like,

Having to skin things
or fillet things

Or whatever,
it is not ideal.

♪♪

You think
the rest is done?

Yeah.

Chad: there's definitely a lot
more meat on this animal.

To have this much of it wasted,
horrible.

♪♪

I don't like negativity,
and I've tried to never fight.

I just wanna focus on survival
and not complaining,

And keeping
our partnership strong.

Does it taste good?

Yeah.

No. I feel good.

Angela:
you can't consume everything
that you have at once.

We don't know when we're
gonna have food again.

We need to take our time,
just have a little bit now.

We can eat more later.

♪♪

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Mm-hmm.

He threw it in the fire.

Any person that has done
any type of of survival

Would know you need
to make your food last.

You don't throw it away.

♪♪

The last three days now, I've
had, like, a severe migraine.

And I'm just sitting here
in this absolute suffering pain.

I swear I heard something growl
last night.

Eh, it was probably
my stomach...

It could've been, yeah.

...wondering where the rest
of that rabbit leg was.

Honestly, I think there was
a little bit

Of a miscommunication,
'cause I asked you

If you wanted any more
and you said no.

Well, that doesn't matter.

You don't throw food out
in a survival situation,

Period, ever.

It's so hard with my head
throbbing like this.

We're just sitting in the heat,
100 degrees.

I can't deal with her picking
at the smallest little things.

Had you said, "I'm gonna
throw this in the fire,"

I would've said
"no, don't do that.

I will eat
more of it later.

I just don't want more
right now."

It was just a little,
little bit.

And there was flies
coming all over it.

I'm not out here to bicker.
That's not what this is about.

And I feel like my partner's
a little lost on her priorities.

I feel like I'm pulling

A majority
of the weight here.

Okay.

And I caught the rabbit.
Yeah.

It's weird that you would
even complain about it.

Do you know how
to butcher a rabbit?

No, so you're welcome.

And the only reason
that you say it was I

Who *bleep* it up,
I saved what I could.

If you knew anything about
butchering, you would know that.

The only thing
you can say is,

"You don't know how
to butcher an animal."

It seems as though --i'm -- I'm a vegetarian, dude.

I don't give a *bleep* if you're
a vegetarian or not!

Food is food.

My point is,
if I wasn't here,

How would you have butchered
that rabbit?

Honest to god, I think would've
*bleep* figured it out, bro.

This is a two-person place,

But that's okay.
You do that. Go ahead.

I'm over this.

And I have to put my body

Before this challenge.
I'm out.

You know,
I have a lot of pain

And the hardest thing
is admitting

That I have to put
my body before my ego.

I feel like I'm done
with the challenge.

You're sure?yeah, I'm positive.

This is 100%
what I wanna do.

Okay, let's go.
Okay.

♪♪

If people think that I attempted
and failed twice,

That's completely okay.

But I definitely feel like
I've already redeemed myself.

I've showed the skills
that are necessary to survive.

So I hope the fire
doesn't go out

And she's not forced to do
the friction fire by herself.

I really hope that she keeps
that fire going.

So, angela, I'm sorry.

And I hope you do your best
out there

And show everyone the skills
that you say you have.

Narrator:
nine days into the challenge,

Chad lost 20 pounds.

And his decision to quit drops
his psr to a 2.8.

It pisses me off that he bailed
and left me by myself,

With his stupid axe
and no fire starter.

With all the predators
and everything,

He put me in a very
dangerous situation.

Look at this.

This is fresh.

So you follow these prints,
and you look straight up --

Straight line right there,
right to my shelter.

♪♪

Look at this -- leopard tracks.

Big leopard tracks.

He's going that way,
right to my shelter.

He could sit up here
every night, watching me.

Sit on those rocks.

I need to fortify this shelter,
because I'm by myself.

Narrator:
a highly opportunistic hunter,

The leopard seeks out
the most vulnerable prey.

The majority of attacks
on humans occur at night

While their victims are asleep.

♪♪

Oh, my god.

♪♪

Holy *bleep*.

♪♪

I got no sleep last night.

I heard something splash around
in the water.

I looked,
and there's a big leopard.

So I need to be very cautious.

I mean, I'm in his territory.

He knows I'm here.

So it's important
that we just keep

A healthy, respectful
distance from one another.

♪♪

You know,
being in this situation,

This really is
a two-person situation.

Chad, he's a great partner.

I wish he didn't leave.

But I don't have a problem
being by myself.

So it's gonna be a lot of work.

I have to keep the fire
going 24 hours a day.

I have to find food, get water,

And I'm surrounded
by wild animals

So I have to keep myself safe.

I did come out to do
a second challenge,

And there's no point
in starting something

If you're not
gonna finish it.

Sheer willpower will get me
through it.

♪♪

Oh, my god.

I'm so hungry.

I'm at, like, 25% strength
right now.

The only thing I've had
to eat are these fruits.

You know, that only
gets you so far.

So I am trying to make a fish
basket out of these reeds.

I'm going to use this stick
and these porcupine quills

To net into a fish spear.

I'm going to try and scare
the fish into my fish basket.

Holy *bleep*, look at him.

♪♪

He went towards my fish trap.

Let's look.

Oh, no *bleep*.

Look at this!

I think this is a tilapia.

I'm gonna have a fish fry
tonight.

I need the calories.
I need the fat.

It's got protein.

Mmm. Finally.

Narrator:
the tilapia provides angela
with b vitamins, iron,

And omega-3s
which improve brain function.

I am doing just fine out here
on my own.

♪♪

It's day 16.

I have absolutely pushed myself
1,000%

Harder than I ever
have in my life,

And I am proud
of myself for that.

Look at that.

It must be an antelope
of some sort.

I could use that for shoes.

I have a feeling the extraction
hike is gonna be very difficult.

So, this is pretty hard,
so I need to soak it.

Should soften up pretty good.

Oh, yeah.
That's much better.

Narrator: angela scrapes off
any remaining flesh

So the skin
is pliable enough to shape

And thin enough to pierce
holes through laces

With a porcupine quill.

I'm wanna use the 550 cord
for tying around my ankle.

Ta-da.

♪♪

There's no way.
I can't do it.

Today, I do not have
what it takes in me.

I just don't.

I've got two
and a half days, uh,

To get food before extraction.

If I can't, I'm probably
not gonna make it.

Narrator: angela has consumed
only 600 calories

In the past 18 days,

40 Times less
than her body needs.

Oh.

Tunnel vision.

Narrator: malnutrition can lead
to dizziness, fainting,

And seizures.

Angela: I'm a very physically
strong person,

But I have never
been this weak.

My body is just so exhausted
and starved.

So...

You know, I am concerned, uh,
making it to the end.

At least I have a fire, and I've
got my pot to boil water.

Oh, *bleep*.

Oh, *bleep*.

♪♪

I can't get my pot.

The axe, everything's in there.

♪♪

*Bleep*.

♪♪

Oh, you gotta meet my friend.

He is going to be my new
partner in this challenge.

His name is felix.

Felix, say hi.

You know, felix,
ever since you moved in,

You don't do *bleep* for chores
around the house.

Asked him one time
to stoke the fire, one time!

No, he just sits there,
gives me angry-face.

Angela: the axe,
everything's in there.

♪♪

Because I had to keep
the fire going,

I put some branches on it.

Caught the top on fire,
and that was that.

And just like that,
we're moving.

Do you know what?

I am going to start
my extraction today.

This way, I can get at least
the first half done,

And then do the rest
of the way tomorrow.

If I can get some of these
embers in my pot,

Then I can hopefully
have fire tonight.

Otherwise, I am totally screwed.

♪♪

Fire's gonna be the death of me,
I swear.

It looks like my extraction
point is that way.

Narrator:
to reach her extraction point,

Angela faces a difficult trek
across four miles of rough,

Rocky terrain
where vicious predators

And venomous snakes
lurk in the brush.

The horned adder attacks
with such ferocity

That its entire body
lifts off the ground.

If she survives the night alone
and without a proper shelter,

Angela faces one last push
to the base of a mountain

Where a final, steep half-mile
climb awaits her.

♪♪

Finding someplace immediately
is essential.

Oh.

Yeah, look at this.

I have rocks on three sides.

It's protected.

And up here, I have some wood
I can collect.

I can make my fire right here.

This is perfect.

Here we go.

♪♪

It starts to sprinkle,
and it's starts to rain...

...you know,
to put my fire out.

♪♪

I made it through last night
through sheer willpower.

I am exhausted.
I am starving, super thirsty.

I'm pretty sure
that's my extraction point.

I'd rather skirt along the edge
right there

Instead of trying
to go through all this.

♪♪

This extraction walk
is exhausting.

My legs are getting really
tired, but I'm pushing through.

This is my hill.

That is a hell of a climb.
*Bleep* damn.

It seems the closer
I get to the mountain,

The bigger it gets.

Almost there.

Holy *bleep*.

♪♪

Oh, wow.

Look at that.

Now let's move on,
'cause all it takes is a moment.

Man, this just gets
steeper and steeper.

♪♪

Whoo!

I did it!

Yes!

Oh, thank god.

That almost makes me wanna cry.

Whoo!

I didn't expect
to be out here alone.

But no matter what happens
in life,

You gotta keep moving forward.

So I'm sorry chad tapped out.

It feels wonderful
to finish what I started.

And to finish this by myself,
that's pretty incredible.

Yeah!

I'm going home.

Whoo!

Narrator: angela survived
a total of 21 days

On her redemption challenge
in maramani,

12 Of them on her own.

She lost a total of 20 pounds,
and her psr rises to 7.1.

Angela: coming back out here
to finish this challenge,

I feel as though
I've re-found myself.

It's a great feeling.

I don't have to depend on
anybody for anything else.

That's what this life is about.

Take it by the horns,
or you can crawl in a corner.

I don't do corners.