[theme music]
I'm in the Eryri National Park
in Wales in the UK,
and I'm on my way
to pick up one of Hollywood's
great leading ladies,
Uma Thurman.
If Uma wants
a mountain experience,
she's come to the right place.
Uma, I hope you're ready.
Welcome to Running Wild.
UMA: I am in North Wales.
At a train station.
Waiting for Bear.
I don't know what time
Bear is going to arrive.
I have no idea
what's ahead of me today.
And I was so worked up about it
that I couldn't sleep
a single wink last night.
It's so funny being me.
I don't have
a character to play.
I'm gonna be myself
for 36 hours.
- This train is coming.
- [train whistling]
It's really weird.
I feel so naked and silly.
[gasps]
[screaming]
BEAR: Iconic, captivating,
and deadly with a blade,
Uma Thurman is all of the above.
From dazzling audiences
at a young age
to being Tarantino's muse,
from comedy to sci-fi,
she truly is one of a kind.
And after conquering
the silver screen,
her children are following
in her footsteps.
You didn't think it was
gonna be that easy, did you?
Yeah. I kind of did.
BEAR: Uma's known for taking on
super challenging roles.
But in the wild,
there are no dress rehearsals,
no stunt doubles,
and no second takes.
Uma's in for a wild ride.
[train whistling]
[tense music]
UMA: I'm trying to keep
as cool as possible.
I mean, I've never done
anything like this before.
Honestly, I never imagined
that I would be asked to come
on a Bear Grylls adventure.
I'm super excited,
I have to say.
It's kind of a lifetime dream.
[train whistling]
Stunts in films, you work
with brilliant stunt doubles,
but there is no double
for me today.
So this will be
an authentic experience for me.
I'm a really curious person,
and I can't resist the challenge
of doing new things.
♪♪♪♪♪
[train chugging]
Oh!
Okay, this is epic.
[train whistling]
[Uma yelps, chuckles] Whoa!
I'm getting a little terrified.
In a good way.
[laughing]
- Hey, Uma.
- Hi.
- You look ready.
- I'm ready.
Okay, come on.
Here we go.
- Hold on!
- UMA: Whoo!
♪♪♪♪♪
BEAR: So that's where
we're going, up there.
UMA: Oh, yeah? Okay.
[both chuckling]
Okay, try and stand up
when it comes down.
- Welcome to the mountain.
- Thank you.
BEAR: I mean,
look at that for a view.
UMA: Yeah, it's beautiful.
As you see, it's like steep,
got a lot of cliffs,
ravines, lakes,
a lot of really cool old mines.
And they provided slate for
the whole British Empire
around the world.
It's breathtaking.
BEAR: Uma and I will be trekking
along the Eryri Mountains,
the highest peaks in Wales.
This was a training ground
for the first team
that ever summited Everest.
Together, we're looking for
a faster route
through the mountains,
using some
of the abandoned mine shafts
scattered through the region.
On day two, we'll have to
descend down slick rocks
and across large lakes
to make our extraction point.
So we're eventually
gonna get picked up
the other side
of that mountain there.
- UMA: Okay.
- And we'll have an adventure.
- All right.
- Feeling good?
- Yeah, great.
- Let's do it.
Okay, come with me.
UMA: It's so beautiful.
BEAR: This is all
pretty nice terrain, this.
Just watch out for holes,
tunnel entrances.
We just keep an eye out.
Yeah, that's mint.
- Mint?
- Yeah.
We'll collect some of that.
We'll make tea with that later.
UMA: Hmm!
BEAR: So have you been
to Wales before?
UMA: I have, but not
for a really long time.
I did some work here
when I was much younger.
Where were you brought up?
I was born in Boston.
- Yeah.
- I have three brothers.
- Yeah.
- And my parents are amazing,
like, sharp, alive,
bold spirits, and--
Yeah, so I grew up
in this kind of...
boisterous, lively household.
Yeah, with three brothers,
that's gonna--
With three brothers
right in the middle.
That's an adventure right there.
You've got to have
some resilience, right?
And what were you like?
I think I was
a mixture of things.
I was sort of shy,
and I was a little bit--
I was very tall,
but I wasn't good at sports.
And I was lucky I discovered
acting because it was
- the only thing I could do.
- Yeah.
[laughs] I was always, like,
the last kid picked on the--
You know when they assign
a kid to be the captain
and they each pick each kid?
- Same. I was the same.
- You did not!
I'm not joking,
I was always the last.
- Come on!
- I'm willing, willing...
Come on, who do you think
is gonna believe this?
It's true, but I think
it's one of the myths of life.
People think it's, "Oh,
it's Uma, she's gonna be
- "this superstar forever."
- Oh, no. I was assigned--
- But life's not like that.
- [laughing]
You know,
first shall be last sometimes.
There you go. Yeah, I like that.
- [Uma laughing]
- I like that.
Okay, so we can either
drop down that gully...
- Okay.
- Or...
let's have a look
over this side.
This might be better.
Just watch
your step on all this.
It's where the Everest people
came to train.
- Really?
- On the original expedition
in 1953,
they came here just 'cause
the weather is always grim.
Come on, let's have a look.
- UMA: Oh!
- Well, that's the quicker way
down to the valley.
I think we can do that.
We've got rope.
It's a real edge.
It's not a fake edge.
With a big drop.
Like, I don't know,
at least 100 feet.
Rappelling is all about
what you tie off to.
It's just having solid anchors,
and these rocks are great.
So what do you think
we tie off? Maybe like...
You think that little crack
looks like
a good thing to anchor?
BEAR: So look, if I thread
this through here...
- you get...
- UMA: Oh, I see.
The rock connects here,
so you really have an anchor.
We tie like that.
It's called a rock thread.
- That is not coming out.
- Is it? No.
No, the rock is--
the rock is connected,
which is really
a good-- a good vibe.
- Yeah.
- [chuckling]
Uma, fearless spirit.
Said she's taken
a climbing class.
This is a good time
to bring those skills to play.
Adventure state of mind
conquers everything.
This is gonna be good.
When I'm at the bottom, Uma,
I'll shout out,
but if you can't hear me,
three big pulls on the rope,
you'll feel it,
and you're good to go.
- Okay.
- A nice wide stance,
lean back, trust it.
- You've got it.
- Okay.
BEAR: You're gonna smash it.
See you on the bottom.
I did some
little bit of rappelling,
like-- like, this much.
But not like this.
Never like this.
BEAR: Nice and calm,
and off we go.
[tense music]
I do a lot of rappels,
and I don't think it
ever gets any easier.
I really don't.
You know, you look down,
and you just wouldn't be human
if you didn't feel
that flutter
of heart and nerves.
Then the skill
is working out a way
to keep moving forward
and doing it,
even though you feel that fear.
I'd actually say
the fear is the adventure,
learning how to deal with that.
Maybe it's better I don't look.
Pick up a bit of speed
down there.
♪♪♪♪♪
That's a lot of feet.
That's 125 people's
worth of feet.
[chuckles]
♪♪♪♪♪
Down on the bottom.
[exhales sharply]
This is gonna be
a big one for Uma.
Wide stance...
keep the balance,
move where the rope goes.
Okay.
I didn't take a lesson in this.
[exclaims] No, okay, so--
Well, you know, I'm gonna just
go for it and see what happens.
This is no joke.
This is no joke.
On a movie,
you get to rehearse something
before you try
to do it for real.
But this is a real mountain,
and this is
a real 250-foot drop,
and I never used this action
or this type of rope device,
so I'm a little scared.
BEAR: Looking great, Uma.
Fun stuff.
BEAR: Nice wide stance,
beautiful.
Looks like you've
done it all your life.
[Uma laughs]
There's no real thing you can do
to practice for the wild
and the outdoors.
You can do a little bit
like Uma said in the gym,
but it's different
when you get out here
because everything is crumbling,
and it's awkward,
and the angles are changing,
and you have to
improvise a little bit.
[wind whistling]
♪♪♪♪♪
Great, well done.
Really nice.
- UMA: Lucky about them gloves.
- Yeah.
- [Uma chuckles]
- And then swing this way,
and we'll bring you down
to this bit.
Great, great,
keep coming, keep coming.
Keep coming. Well done.
- [Uma roars]
- Girl smashed it.
- [Uma laughs, sighs]
- Yeah, good job.
- Was that all right?
- Yeah.
- How was it over the edge?
- It was cool.
Now we're down this, and I can
see how Uma approached that.
That was great.
She was calm, big smile
on her face at the bottom.
You can tell already she's got
a great adventure spirit in her.
She smashed it.
Okay, let's have
a quick hydrate,
- quick stop.
- Okay.
- There you go.
- Thank you.
So did you-- when you were,
like, really young,
did you know
what you wanted to do,
like, "I wanna act"?
Yeah, I just-- I don't know.
I felt like
it was the only thing
I knew how to do
or I had a feeling for.
- Where did that come from?
- I think it had a lot to do
with being undiagnosed dyslexic.
So in a really academic family,
everybody was super smart.
- Yeah.
- And I was, like, not reading
until I was eight or nine.
And then I'd go
and audition for the play,
and it would be like
the one place
where I didn't feel shy or...
I had hope. I don't know.
That's just enough hope
to give you the--
Just enough hope to be crazy
and try to do something,
you know,
that seems unthinkable.
So how old were you
with Pulp Fiction?
Were you in your twenties?
- Twenty-three.
- Yeah, so that's so young.
Did you know that
was gonna be huge?
Um, no. It just seemed like
this super cool
independent movie.
- Yeah.
- What did you think of Quentin?
I loved him. He was fantastic.
I'd actually had
a difficult work experience
before I made that movie
that I had shared with him.
And I'd lost my way.
I was thinking of quitting.
Really? Why were you
thinking of quitting because
- of that bad experience?
- That's another long story.
'Cause, yeah,
I'd had, like, a typical
icky Hollywood experience.
Yeah.
You got through it.
Maybe that was a gift.
Pulp Fiction was a gift.
I think-- Oh, it was.
Once I did that and saw
what real film and cinema was,
I was like,
"Oh, I wanna do this."
Were you suddenly famous
after that?
I think I kept
expecting to be like--
like, the game gig would be up.
I'd be like,
you know, shuffled back.
Were you nervous, do you think?
I was always nervous.
Yeah.
Has that changed at all now?
I've been nervous
most of my life.
- Really?
- I thought nervousness
was my edge,
but I'm debunking it.
- Yeah, good for you.
- Yeah.
- Actually, it's exhausting.
- Yeah.
- It's unhealthy.
- Yeah, it's really unhealthy.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
But you have a great
lightness about you now.
You don't look like that at all.
Oh, thank you.
I think becoming
less reactive is, I think,
- a great life goal.
- Yeah.
I think it's part of the journey
of life, though, isn't it?
You've got to be
all in at the start,
and then you're gonna fall
and you're gonna fail,
and you figure it out.
You learn what helps you,
what serves you well,
what doesn't.
I mean, I feel like
I navigated it pretty well.
Yeah.
My kids are navigating it
pretty well.
Well, that's the other factor,
isn't it?
And they chose, like, okay,
going into the family business.
Your eldest daughter
is doing that.
Yeah, and my son.
- And how's that?
- She's a rock star.
- Yeah.
- Yeah. [laughing]
You've got the pride of a mom
- in your eyes.
- I do, I know
- I'm extremely proud of her.
- Yeah.
- Keep going? Ready?
- Yeah.
- Yep.
- Come on.
[intriguing music]
Didn't you have
a bad riding accident once?
UMA: I lost control of a horse
that was too good for me.
- BEAR: That's scary.
- UMA: Um, yeah.
I broke my chassis, rib cage,
- a little bit of my back.
- Wow.
Those are proper--
Those are serious injuries.
You damaged your pelvis badly.
Breaking the pelvis
is so painful.
But how did you recover from it?
That can be
a life-changing accident.
I had to get in a wheelchair,
and then I had to have a walker
and then I had to walk again.
And, like, in the long run,
I turned it into a reset
that has been,
like, a steady build from it.
But at the same time,
you're still trying
to be a mom as well.
Well, that's where denial
comes in handy, right?
Like, "Get over there!"
- [Uma laughing]
- You're incredible.
Well,
you've recovered amazingly.
- Look at you.
- I'm still recovering.
♪♪♪♪♪
You got good--
good fitness, Uma.
Yeah, you're fit.
Yeah, do you feel that?
What do you--
what do you do to keep fit?
All summer long, I do yoga,
which doesn't necessarily
help you climb hills.
Yeah. Yeah, but look at you.
You're unstoppable.
Can you smell that?
- I smell something.
- There's a carcass.
Really?
I keep getting
a whiff of it on the air.
I do not smell a carcass.
Ah, that would be the carcass.
Covered in flies.
Ooh, now I smell it. Disgusting.
- Yeah.
- Oh! Oh, that's horrible.
And you know it's old.
Two reasons.
First, it was covered in flies,
from the maggots.
Secondly, it looks bloated.
Look at that.
Rock hard. Feel that.
Well, I trust you.
[laughs] Poor thing.
- Ugh!
- Well, poor thing,
but one thing there's no
shortage of in Wales is sheep.
- Yeah.
- [gas hissing]
- [Uma exclaims]
- Oh, God.
But one thing there's no
shortage of in Wales is sheep.
- Yeah.
- [gas hissing]
- [Uma exclaims]
- Oh, God.
[Bear laughs]
Yeah. That's pretty stinky.
Very. Some would say foul.
I'm trying to sort of work it
out in my head from the--
That poof of gas
from its abdomen.
- [gas hissing]
- [Uma exclaims]
I think it's all over me.
Actually, the tongue
doesn't smell off.
Protected inside
all that bone and skull.
It's often one
of the last things to decompose.
Ugh, yes.
I just got a proper hit.
Proper what? Proper whiff?
Yes. Ugh!
I'm gonna take the tongue.
We're gonna have that.
- No!
- What do you mean?
That's the only bit.
You don't want the back end.
No!
Look, this doesn't smell at all.
[Uma groans]
Do you wanna help me get it out?
Not really.
Can't we find a worm
or something?
Sure, we'll keep
a lookout for a worm.
Yeah, I think I might
have to skip this one.
But there we go.
Look, that is fresh meat.
That is not rotting.
- That's beautiful.
- Really?
- If you cook it...
- Okay.
If you really cook it,
- it's not gonna have parasites.
- Okay.
There you go.
Put it in the backpack.
Put it in the backpack.
So we've got mint, tongue.
Okay.
I'd kind of
sort of been expecting, like,
some dreadful worm or something.
And the dead carcass lamb tongue
is really quite something.
BEAR: What,
you'd prefer worm to that?
That is beautiful,
fresh protein.
- UMA: You think?
- BEAR: Yeah.
I mean, worms suck.
[intense music]
Evidence of mining
is everywhere here,
and whilst it can be dangerous
to those without experience,
a mining tunnel could be
a fast way through the mountain.
Oh, wow.
- Oh, look at this.
- That's an entrance to a mine.
Yeah, and there's a steel peg
sticking out of the wall.
So walking along
and just spotted this, like, gap
in the heather and a hole.
I thought, "Oh, you wouldn't
want to drop into that."
Look down there. It's actually
the ventilation for a mine shaft
that goes all the way as far
as you see into the darkness.
- Want to explore it?
- Let's do it.
The idea of very tight
underground areas,
it does frighten me
on a primal level.
So I'm a little scared.
BEAR: We're gonna drop down
into it, have a little explore,
see if we might be able
to even get a way
through the mountain
and not have to go over it.
There's nowhere really good
to tie off up here.
Yeah, grab that.
So we're gonna use a rope,
secure it with an ice axe.
What could possibly go wrong?
That way,
that's gonna be strong.
- Okay.
- And then the end of this.
- Hold on, there's an end here.
- UMA: Okay.
Something I've always
been terrified of,
I think it's called spelunking.
I have no desire to spelunk.
This doesn't look
spelunky to me.
BEAR: Okay, it's gonna be good.
You've got to be mindful
of not going into
old mine shafts normally.
You know, they are dangerous,
especially if they're disused.
Unless you really know
what you're doing with them,
be very, very careful.
- Okay, so Uma?
- UMA: Yep?
So there are these spikes, okay?
- Yes.
- Remember the spikes we saw?
- The metal spikes.
- They're legit,
so just be super careful.
If it gets slippery,
watch out for the spikes.
Okay.
♪♪♪♪♪
Yeah, it's slippery.
[Bear grunts]
- This goes on a long way, Uma.
- You good?
- But it's good.
- Okay.
A little further than I thought.
So if we can't communicate
at the bottom,
no news is good news,
just come down.
Okay. Oh, you're still going?
- Still going.
- Oh!
- I'll give three big pulls...
- Spelunking.
It's turning into spelunking.
Okay!
♪♪♪♪♪
BEAR: Yeah, there are
a lot of spikes here.
Look at this.
Yeah, that is
a ventilation shaft.
Look up there.
Oh, jeez.
BEAR: I've got enough rope.
I'm gonna keep going down.
[rocks scraping]
[Bear grunts]
That spike is gonna be
dangerous for her.
So the only thing I'm nervous
about with Uma coming down
are just these proper
metal, iron, rusty spikes.
It's slippery. If she loses her
footing and falls on a spike,
this is not a good place
to get injured.
Bear?
BEAR: Okay, Uma, we're good.
I'm on the bottom.
Okay.
[tense music]
Spelunking.
♪♪♪♪♪
[Uma grunts, mutters]
[rocks clattering]
BEAR: Whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa. Whew!
Okay. Close one.
- We got this.
- You can see the spikes.
We got this. Okay.
BEAR: Nice stance
where it's wet and slippery.
[rocks clattering]
UMA: Yeah.
Yeah, I see what you mean
by "it's slippery."
- Okay.
- That's it.
Hug the right-hand side.
That's it.
Keep leaning to the right,
away from the spikes.
- Yeah.
- Great job. Great job.
UMA: Oh! Okay.
BEAR: See,
there's a spike on your left.
Really watch out for that one.
And then you got
a little overhang here.
You got a ledge. Stand there.
Beautiful, beautiful.
- Whew!
- Well done. Wow.
That's crazy.
You got good balance.
That was your yoga
coming into play there.
- The yoga does help.
- Yeah. Well done.
UMA: It started
to get tight in some places,
but I'm hanging in there.
I'm fighting my claustrophobia.
Okay, let's get a candle
out of your backpack.
- Okay.
- Oh, look at that.
- The match actually snapped.
- Broke,
from the force you needed.
This is literally one of the old
mining candles made of tallow.
- It's made of beef fat.
- Oh, wow. Cool.
Each miner would have one candle
that they'd have to protect.
They'd move with that. But
the other good thing about this
is that it's also an indicator
of wind direction
to where there's a draft,
there's an exit.
Then the other cool thing
is you can actually eat it.
- That is--
- And that is literally
- just beef fat.
- Which is amazing.
- BEAR: Take that.
- UMA: Okay.
We can either go--
we can either go that way
or that way.
Probably that way, right,
would lead towards
the bottom of the hill.
BEAR: That's it.
UMA: This cave
is sort of beautiful,
but I could imagine
how easy it would be
to become completely
disoriented in these mines.
BEAR: It looks like
it's splitting up ahead.
If we need to go back,
can you remember the--
- Yeah.
- We did right, right.
Yeah, we did right
and then right.
Right. Two rights.
So we do two lefts to go back.
- Two lefts, okay.
- Really?
- We got another one here.
- Okay.
- I think we do this one.
- Okay.
- BEAR: Is that right?
- UMA: Wait.
Okay, so,
we probably wanna go left.
UMA: Just guessing.
BEAR: So then it's a right
and two lefts.
UMA: All right.
BEAR: No, not right. Left.
BEAR: So then it's a right
and two lefts.
UMA: All right.
I think the main thing
I'm concerned about
is just not ending up
down a labyrinth of tunnels
with no way back.
So whichever way we go,
we remember our route
so we always get back
to our start point.
What's that?
- Oh, look.
- Hey.
- BEAR: Old lamp.
- UMA: Gas.
BEAR: Miner's lamp.
- Oh, yeah, look. Smell that.
- Yep.
Yep, that's still
got kerosene in it.
So the candle
is getting a little low.
We came across this lantern.
It's broken but there's
still paraffin in it.
You can smell it.
So we're gonna use some of that
and make an improvised torch.
Need a bit of rag.
Underpants.
We've got the stick.
We've got some paraffin.
We need some cloth.
Hold that. [chuckles]
You can use anything.
You know, cut a bit of,
I don't know, a bandana.
I've gone for the underpants.
That's the bottom bit
you need to cut, isn't it?
We'll cut those off,
wrap those 'round.
You do wanna be careful with
a sharp knife in the low...
- UMA: This is true.
- ...low light. Here we go.
UMA: I was a little worried
what was going on over there
because he said he did
a little bit of fabric.
BEAR: Okay.
And then
the next thing you know,
he had sliced off
all of his underwear.
And then if you pick up the lamp
and just soak that,
pour that all over that.
That's good. Good to go.
UMA: But he did it
and made a torch.
- BEAR: You got it?
- Yep.
Totally MacGyver.
That's better. Now we can see.
So what did we say?
Right, right...
- You went right, right.
- Two rights.
- Uh-huh.
- You see that?
Is that moving
with the air at all?
Yeah, it's moving
this way, look.
It's moving that way.
So it means oxygen's got
airflow coming from there.
So there's definitely
an opening somewhere there.
It's just whether it's gonna
be big enough for us.
'Cause we came this way
and you saw the lamp there.
- Or did we come from here?
- I think we came from here.
- Okay.
- I'm so confused.
- Do you wanna do it?
- I'm following the air.
Following the oxygen.
Watch your head.
I really don't wanna
have to go back,
because I'm not
entirely confident
I've got the sequence
of left and rights right.
♪♪♪♪♪
Okay, hold on.
I've got sunlight ahead.
- That's a good sign.
- This is a very good sign,
- especially because of--
- Yeah, look. This is going out.
- UMA: This is going out.
- BEAR: The air on our face
is getting stronger
and stronger now.
It means there must be air
and an exit that way.
So we're gonna keep
following the flow of oxygen.
- UMA: Oh, boy. Yes!
- BEAR: So that is a good sign.
I was losing a little bit
of faith at one point.
UMA: You're a smarty pants.
A smarty underpants.
- [both chuckling]
- No, it was your direction.
You're smarty no underpants
at this point.
[Bear laughs]
- Wow, that is a welcome sight.
- That is awesome.
Yes! Ah! There goes my boots.
BEAR: Trusting our memory
has brought us
through the mountain,
saving us precious time.
It's time to start thinking
about food and a place to sleep.
I'll tell you what,
keep that going.
- Okay.
- We can use that for fire.
All right.
Yeah, go and put the torch down.
Okay, just leave that there.
We'll leave it,
we'll build up and around it.
Okay, let's get some more.
[fire crackling]
Oh, that is nice, though.
Maybe things have improved.
It's cost me a little bit
of my dignity and my underpants.
- That's a big sacrifice.
- It's a small price to pay.
- [both chuckling]
- Well, well done. Well done.
I feel like I smell
that dead carcass again.
Ugh!
- Should we take it out?
- Yeah. Go on, then.
Ugh. Okay, here's a plate.
Yeah, that's great.
That's great.
Look,
we're literally gonna put that--
First I think
we've got to wash the thing.
Come on, it's disgusting.
It's a symbolic washing, really.
Okay, that's fine. That's fine.
Yes, we'll wash it with--
fire washing. Fire washing.
Leave that to do
its thing for a little bit.
Let's make some
of that mint tea from earlier.
UMA: Okay, cool.
- BEAR: We'll stick that in.
- UMA: Perfect.
- Good, we're set.
- [both laughing]
I think to so many people,
you're not just, like,
a movie star. You're iconic.
Was that
an intentional thing to...
pick iconic roles?
You can't try to be iconic.
I think it's kind of like grace.
You're not supposed
to try to have grace.
In fact, if you do
try to have grace,
- you don't have any.
- Exactly. Or cool.
I wouldn't know
anything about cool.
No, but as soon as
you try and be cool,
- you've lost the battle.
- You try to pick things that
- you just have a reaction to.
- Yeah.
I always made a point of trying
to always do something
very different from
the last thing I did.
- Yeah.
- Not to repeat myself.
- It's more fun for me.
- Yeah.
And fun is allowed in your work.
- That is okay.
- There you get the curiosity.
And where do you think
now you find your life compass?
Internally.
And know that you get
turned upside-down sometimes,
and that
if you stick to your values
and check yourself,
you'll right yourself.
What are your compass points?
Well, I think kindness and...
responsibility,
courage, determination.
These are qualities, I guess,
that I would like to ask
if they are happening
in my action in situations.
Mmm. And as a mother, I suppose,
as well, for your kids.
Yeah, they're easy to love.
Yeah, easy to love.
- Yeah.
- Sweet, yeah.
The best.
Would you say that's
actually the main focus
of your life
is being a great mom?
It is the main focus of my life.
I wouldn't necessarily
say "great mom."
Just trying to help my children
is the main focus of my life.
You can tell.
Thank you, Bear.
BEAR: You're doing
something right.
Uma,
she's pretty amazing, actually.
You know, she is
an inspiration of a lady.
And I love the fact
that she's very grounded.
A mother first.
It's a beautiful thing.
Okay, come on, Uma.
Let's try a bit of this.
Okay.
I had a plan if you did
something like this to me.
I would bite it once
and swallow it whole.
That's actually a good principle
for survival food generally.
- Right?
- Yeah.
I've watched your show
and I've watched people
chewing and chewing and chewing,
and I'm like,
- "What are you guys doing?"
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's a lot of things you end
up just wanna kind of like...
[laughs]
But actually, that is very good.
- I think once you get over...
- [groaning]
[Bear laughing]
I was about to say,
once you get over the fact
that it's a tongue,
it's actually really very good.
- Uma might beg to differ.
- Oh!
- I can't.
- "I can't."
I can't. I can't. Ugh!
I just saw
the picture of that lamb.
[Uma grunts]
- Ugh! I tried.
- That was very good.
It looks like double rations
heading my way.
[laughing]
That was disgusting.
I failed on that one. [laughing]
It wasn't a big meal
to start with anyway, so.
What about-- This is boiled now.
That's amazing.
- Okay.
- It's just what I needed.
- I feel-- I'm so relieved.
- Yeah, that's totally amazing.
I've been feeling terrible
about the-- about the fact
that I'm quite
enjoying this bit.
I'm still getting
the parts of the lamb tongue
down my throat.
It's still happening.
But we survive
to fight another day.
- We do.
- The weather stayed amazing.
It is meant to change
in the night.
- Are we gonna have rain?
- Probably, so I'm thinking
maybe we go back to the mine and
just go in the entrance there.
- Okay.
- Just beyond where it was wet.
- We'll survive. We'll survive.
- Oh, totally.
I bet it rains
in the night as well.
We'll be grateful to be in here.
Yeah.
[distant thunder rumbling]
- Okay, Uma, hold that one.
- Yep.
Get this one out as well.
This is a great place
to make camp.
It's like nature has
provided a roof, hasn't it?
We've got this, got the entrance
just 20 meters away.
It's gonna be cool.
I mean, the floor is
a little damp
and a little rocky,
but we've got some roll mats
and a bivy bag.
We'll survive the night.
[thunder rumbling]
So once you're in it,
you're like in a cocoon.
And it'll be nice and warm.
And then we're good, you know?
UMA: Then we're good.
BEAR: And then we keep
some feet contact.
Like, if you need
anything, kick.
[Uma laughing]
- All right.
- [Bear grunts]
Um, I think it's best not
to think about it too much
and just trust that
I'm really, really exhausted.
- Night, night.
- [bats chirping]
- BEAR: Do you hear the bats?
- UMA: Oh! Why?
BEAR: Weather in Wales
always changes.
Sure enough in the night,
it started to rain quite a lot.
The wind's picked up,
damp in the air.
That mine definitely saved us.
A little rocky
under the backside,
but we survived to see
another day, ready to go.
Our last push.
So from here, down.
See that hill over there?
- Slash mountain.
- UMA: Mm-hmm.
We're going up the side of it,
drop over that,
and then we're gonna
see this beautiful lake,
and the other side of the lake
is our way out of here.
Happy?
Uma looks a bit traumatized.
No, no, I'm good, I'm good.
I'm good, I'm good.
I'm ready to go.
- Okay, good. Come on.
- [Uma laughs]
[dramatic music]
What I like about you is
that you've just done so much,
you know, across so many
cool movies and genres,
and you hold it very lightly,
that sort of thing.
You can't let yourself
be totally...
made or broken by
the ticker tape of your day.
- Yeah.
- You know? You have to have
- some inner, like, value.
- Yeah. Do you still have dreams
and goals and ambitions
for your life?
I think I'm about to start
a whole new chapter of my life,
but I have no idea what's in it.
Yeah, I love it.
- Are we climbing this?
- Okay, we're going up this.
Nice big footholds.
So definitely had
a good workout this morning
heading up
this quite tough terrain.
Great job. Well done, Uma.
Uma, long legs,
fit and strong, still smiling.
Adventure state of mind
conquers everything.
Okay, so our pickup
is the other side of this.
Okay.
We're at the top
of this ridge now.
Our final push, we can see
down towards this huge lake.
We don't really wanna be
trying to swim across this.
- A, it's freezing cold.
- Uh-huh.
B, that's actually
further than it looks.
- Uh-huh.
- We're not gonna walk
around it,
our pickup is the other side.
The team has said
we'll spot a way across it.
So that's what
we're looking for.
Okay. All right.
BEAR: Oh, look at that.
Wow, check this out.
This looks like our way across.
Oh, boy.
- BEAR: Yeah.
- [Uma laughs]
Actually pretty easy
to miss these.
You can't-- If you look,
you can hardly see them.
Black against the black water.
You wanna go first
for this final one?
- Um, sure.
- I think so.
- Yeah, okay.
- Yeah.
UMA: He found what looks like
some kind of old cable
across the lake,
and he wants to use it.
You know, what are you gonna do?
BEAR: Yeah,
should take you across.
- All right.
- Give me the thumbs up,
I'll come and join you,
and then the pickup will be
somewhere the other side
of the valley here.
- Okay.
- Okay?
- Done.
- Come on, then.
I'm just hoping there's
enough momentum and height
to actually get us
all the way across.
If it doesn't,
we're gonna have to swim it.
But, uh, it's cold... [chuckles]
...and we're really hoping
we don't have to do that.
The most important thing.
Do not get your fingers anywhere
- involved with this.
- Okay.
This will take your finger off.
Oh. I need them.
So it stays on this.
- Stays on this.
- Yeah, even if
you're swinging around,
whatever happens.
Okay. Don't touch the top.
Even if you stop or whatever,
just don't get
your fingers involved.
- Okay.
- Stay with that.
UMA: Do I take off running
- to try to get momentum?
- No, I think just walk.
Just walk because
it will sag a little bit until
there's no ground
under your feet and then
just ride it out,
hands on there.
- Okay.
- And when you're happy,
- I'll come after you.
- Okay.
- Okay? Happy?
- Yep. Happy.
- Okay, go.
- I'm gonna try to get
- a little momentum, I think.
- Okay, why not?
'Cause we do not want
this thing to stop.
♪♪♪♪♪
BEAR:
Can't fault the enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm in the wild is king.
Look at her go. Or queen.
♪♪♪♪♪
Hmm.
Oh! Dear.
She definitely
hasn't made it across.
UMA: Little problem!
Okay, I'm coming.
What a nightmare.
Look, she's hardly even
halfway across from me.
Let's do this.
Here we go.
♪♪♪♪♪
UMA: Coming in.
Brace for collision.
- [Uma laughing]
- Whoo!
Yeah, okay.
So that didn't quite go--
- No.
- That didn't quite go to plan.
Was it my fault for trying
to run and messing it up?
No, no, no. You had no fault
there. You just had enthusiasm.
- Okay.
- Which is beautiful.
- Oh, we're so close as well.
- Okay.
What are we,
Looks like there's a very,
very, very cold alternative.
BEAR: Well, you know,
the fun of survival
is always the improvise,
adapt, and overcome.
So, these will quick release.
So I think I'm gonna
release you first.
- Okay.
- You're gonna just drop.
- Okay.
- And then once you're in...
- Start swimming.
- ...just move out of the way
and let me,
I'll come and follow you.
- Okay.
- Okay, so keep your hands
- away from this.
- Oh, sh**t. Okay, here we go.
- Oh, it's not gonna be good.
- Ready?
- It's not gonna be good.
- One...
BOTH: Two, three.
- Go.
- [splash]
Whoo! Oh, my God. Uma.
- One...
- BOTH: Two, three.
- Go.
- [splash]
Whoo! Oh, my God. Uma.
I'm a little bit higher now.
And your backpack,
you can just unclip it.
UMA: My backpack is
acting like a float.
BEAR: Okay, good. One, two.
- UMA: Bracing, isn't it?
- We're in.
Whoo!
Keep my hands working.
Yeah, that's pretty--
that's pretty cold.
It is icy cold, but the Swede
in me is beating strong.
[laughs] The fjords.
And I feel all alive
and awake from it.
Yeah, it's definitely chilly.
Adrenaline cures all pain.
[adventurous music]
- Well done.
- Oh, we made it.
[grunts] Thank you.
Make sure you get--
put your feet there.
- Swamp feet.
- On the bottom.
Yeah. [panting]
Trying to avoid
having to go in the water,
but there was no other way.
I feel I oversold
the zip line getting us across.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
Now we're here. So we did it.
BEAR: Big smile on her face.
That smile has not left her
from the minute
I picked her up
off that train to now.
Don't tell anyone, but that
was actually really refreshing.
[laughs] Yeah.
But a swim ashore,
and now, follow this down
for a little bit
and the helicopter
should be inbound.
UMA: It was a good
little run up the hill.
- Yeah.
- I'm all toasty now.
Okay, let's fire this.
There you go. You hold that.
When it gets hot, just drop it.
There he is.
[dramatic music]
- That's our way out of here.
- All right.
Okay, we're gonna stand
on the skids, okay?
- So just feet on the skids.
- Okay.
♪♪♪♪♪
BEAR: Look out,
it'll get really windy.
♪♪♪♪♪
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- We're out of here.
- Yeah!
These last two days
have been amazing.
I've done all new things.
I was scared of the rappelling,
but you work through discomfort
and find the joy
in the other side.
And why not?
This is awesome.
- Whoo!
- Well done.
BEAR: I think Uma
is always known
as such a warrior
and such an icon.
But I've also learned just what
an incredible mother she is,
and that is number one
in her life.
She is such a gentle,
kind, warm spirit.
And that's really
what I take from this.
UMA: Thank you, Bear.
You're an inspiration.
Thank you for being
as awesome in person
as you seem to be
from the outside.
Hold on!
[Uma exclaims]
This has been
a journey like no other.
What a pleasure this one's been.
- Well done.
- Awesome.
I'm really proud of you.
UMA: Best day ever.
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