Alone

- I don't plan to be here for three weeks.

I plan to be here for three months.

But I want a nice home in which to live.

Brilliant.

- What am I gonna find out about myself?

That's the biggest thing, is to see if I am the man

that I think I am.

Oh, yeah. That is a bull trout.

My boat is a high risk.

This could be a decision

that costs me the whole experience.

It's tippy as hell.

Hey, bear!

if I don't succeed,

have I just put a speed bump in life?

Come on! Come on!

yeah!

Unbelievable!

narrator: In "alone's" most terrifying location yet,

ten participants face the deadliest predator

in north america...

There here is, right there.

Grizzly bears. Hey, bear!

- There's a lot of grizzly here.

I'm gonna have to live with them.

Go on! Get!

- Every second we're on the land,

we're being hunted.

Holy , mountain lion.

- He's circling around my shelter.

Narrator: Bone-chilling cold...

Winter is coming.

- You combine the wind with the rain and the cold,

this place could make the arctic look easy.

Oh, .

Narrator: And complete isolation.

- You cannot hide from yourself,

mentally and emotionally.

- Ahh! - There's no place to go.

- I am suffering from loneliness.

Narrator: Who will survive?

Yes! Yes!

This could be the end.

- I don't want to tap, but I don't want to die either.

- You have to suffer before you can succeed.

narrator: The last one standing wins.

- At what point do I touch the button?

- hmm, I'm gonna set that over here

'cause that'll definitely dry.

Smoking the underwear might not be all bad.

One more try at warming my butt up,

and then I'll have my cup of tea.

All right.

It's mostly my butt that's cold.

today is--it's a windy day.

It's not a day to think about fishing,

so we will get back to working on the shelter.

Cool, so I guess the best analogy for this, then,

is that we've basically framed the house,

and now we get to shingle.

We're gonna go around and collect

all of the big sheets of bark

that are just lying on the forest floor.

all over is this fir.

When it dies, it leaves these big huge sheets of bark,

which is pretty awesome.

So when I say shingle,

this is what I mean.

- the one limitation that I've probably most often run into

in sort of these long-term living situations

would be my size,

and it is an advantage in the sense that, you know,

you can function on a fairly low number of calories,

lower than perhaps bigger people require.

However, it does limit how much you can carry,

how many trips you need to do.

You know, you need to do five trips

when someone else can do two.

It limits how much physical activity

you can really knock out in a day.

these shingles will have to overlap,

but we start at the bottom and go all the way around,

and then we do another layer halfway up,

and then we put pine duff on

to fill in any of the fragments,

provides a little bit of insulation.

there's so many reasons I want to make a pit house.

They are incredibly efficient at keeping in heat,

and I cannot play fattest-man-wins game.

I need a house where, when I'm in it,

no extra calories are being burned

because if you have a lot of wind on your fire,

it just eats through firewood.

Oof.

All right, so if I sit on the stair,

you can sort of see the skylight and the interior.

And then this is our next big project:

The fireplace and chimney.

That's definitely in the cards,

but that is a bloody fantastic day's work.

That's what that is.

here it comes.

lovely.

get some vitamin d released

in this tiny patch of skin.

it's amazing.

I feel like I'm back in hawaii,

yet a lot colder and windier.

it's been five days since I've had any meat at all,

and I want to fish, but the wind is relentless.

I can't get my set lines to stay out

because the waves just push them right back to shore.

I need to get my line out further,

so I have an idea for a pier.

The longest driftwoods

that I see on my beach are about 30 feet,

so my plan is to build something where I can

just walk out at least 25 feet and drop a line.

That offers me potential in bad weather.

I can go out on my pier anytime,

and I need deep water come winter

because the fish are gonna push off.

They're not gonna stay in the shallows.

very nice.

Nice for a pier-sized peg.

I want to utilize engineering

instead of just building with logs

and trying to tie that together with cordage,

so I want to put together kind of a dovetail peg system.

one done! I like it.

Next!

get to the chopper!

my son does a better arnold impression.

I have a wonderful family of seven,

my wife and five kids.

When I'm successful at this challenge

and I get the money,

we can set sail, literally.

My wife has the idea that we'll buy a boat

and we'll hit the seas.

That would be awesome.

I reckon that's deep enough to catch a fish.

All right.

I'll give you one guess which way the wind's blowing.

Let's straighten it out.

Nope.

It just comes right off of those snow-covered

glacier mountains.

I'm debating on waiting another day for the winds

and waves to calm down to set this.

That's the logical thing to do.

- can you see it behind me, over my shoulder?

I can't tell, but it's back there.

Right about here.

Maybe here? No. Here.

You can see my boat in the background.

Sweetness.

I've been working on building a boat.

It's floating great, seems pretty solid,

but it's not stable.

It's very tippy, so I built outriggers

so I have something coming off the boat

that gives stability.

So it's another point of contact on the water,

so if you lean one way or lean the other,

you have now multiple holds touching the water,

and they give you kickback, and they hold you up.

All right.

You ready for the finished product?

I built these outriggers just like I built the boat,

so I have a frame, a fir frame,

and I have ribs that are of alder, green alder,

and thankfully, I had scrap tarp material

to cover it with.

Let's go get on the water.

I think boats are a high-value and a high-risk entity.

It is very dangerous to be out here,

but if this works and it's dependable and safe,

I think it's gonna give me an edge

because I can get to places

where the fish are migrating or moving through,

so I'm not just limited to the bank.

Oh!

yeah!

we're stable.

We're cruising.