15x11 - Cry for Me, Argentina

[bunniefuu]

Hold on to your
butts. [laughing]

It's my first time
in South America.

So far... [laughing]

It seems pretty dangerous.

[howling]

This forest is
thick as hell, man.

I mean, I haven't seen
anything this thick...

maybe ever.

[Rachel] This place is called
the "Impenetrable Jungle"

and it seems like
it was well named.

This vegetation is thick.

This part of the world
is extremely beautiful.

It's also extremely dangerous.

[narrator] Stretching
over 15,000 square miles,

the deadly forest of Chaco,
Argentina is known by locals

as the "Impenetrable Jungle."

Large swamps of dense
wilderness and thorny brush

make it nearly
impassable for humans,

but provide the perfect cover
for jaguars, maned wolves

and the venomous
fer-de-lance snake.

Beneath some of the world's thickest
jungle canopy where sunlight is limited,

moisture from the region's
violent subtropical storms

leads to extreme temperature
shifts of over 30 degrees.

And now as the challenge begins,

an unusually intense
and sustained cold front

could cause nighttime temperatures
to drop as low as 40 degrees.

The hardest thing for a man to
admit to himself is that he's fearful.

Believe me, I'm fearful.

Rachel, you're a
crazy lady. [laughing]

Oh, man.

[laughing] I'm so nervous.

Okay. Be brave.

I'm definitely nervous
about meeting my partner.

The idea of meeting
someone naked for the first time

and then having to survive
with them is a little daunting.

All right.

I have no problems
whatsoever being naked.

I enjoy it actually.

I've done nude yoga
to prepare myself.

And the only thing
that I kind of regret is,

you know, I put on a couple
pounds in preparation for this

and I don't have
my sexy body down.

But, hey, you know what, I'm
gonna let it fly and have fun.

All right. Let's do it.

[Rachel] And into
the jungle we go.

It is fairly thorny here.

The terrain is rough.

I feel like everything
in this jungle... Ow.

...is sharp.

Ow! Biscuits!

Ow.

I am stuck.

Toodle-oo! Is anyone out there?

Hello.

Marco!

- [Na'im] Polo!
- [gasps] Oh, yes!

Hey! I'm right here.

- Hello!
- [Na'im] Hey! I can see you.

Wonderful. Oh, my goodness.

- [Na'im] There you are.
- [Rachel] Oh, we made it.

- Wait, you look familiar.
- Do I?

- Word up. I'm Na'im.
- Yes, hi.

- Rachel. Nice to meet you.
- Rachel, nice to meet you.

- Oh, I do know where I remember you from!
- [Rachel laughing]

You were on the Naked
and Afraid of Love.

[Na'im] Oh, my God.

[Na'im] Oh, my goodness.

- I was.
- Totally. Okay, cool.

[Na'im] That's awesome.

I feel like I got a taste
of, you know, survival

doing Naked and Afraid of Love.

- Let's bust this out.
- I'm so excited.

[Rachel] Match made in heaven.

Uh, I have not actually.

I had expected it to be more
naked and afraid and less of love.

So I'm looking for
more of that challenge.

So I'm looking for
more of that challenge

and I'm looking to push myself

and to grow through
this experience.

- Okay. So, you're back for the real deal.
- [Rachel] I am.

I'm not looking
for love. I'm looking

- to survive this time.
- [Na'im] Okay, cool.

I remembered her on the show,

like, kind of the
person she was.

And so, like, it's
actually, like, comforting

because I know
that I got someone

that I'm pretty
sure I can vibe with.

- I'm looking to love the jungle.
- Yeah.

So, let's do it. Here, look.
Take a good look. Here we go.

- [Rachel laughing] Okay.
- [Na'im] Look at that.

- Oof! Okay.
- Okay.

Cool. Let's do it.

My first impression of Na'im is that
he's just really excited to be here.

I can tell that he is super
outgoing and bubbly.

- So, let's do it.
- [Rachel] Okay.

Let's try and find our bags.

- [Na'im] Yeah. That sounds like a great idea.
- Yeah?

- [Na'im] That sounds like a great idea.
- [Rachel] Okay.

[Rachel] I think
these are our bags.

Well, let's take a look
at what we got here.

[narrator] Rachel and Na'im have
each brought a personal item with them.

Braided fishing line and
hooks and a machete.

Oh, wonderful.

[narrator] They have also been
given a pot for water and a fire starter.

Now we just need shelter.

So, let's see what we got here.

- So, it looks like this is where we are.
- Yeah.

[Na'im] And so, the
river runs right by us.

I think it's gonna be
best to build a shelter

- near a source of water. That's the first thing.
- [Rachel] Absolutely.

- Sounds good.
- Maybe like a three-star hotel?

- Ow! Yeah.
- Swimming pool.

Let's do it.

I'll try to keep us
out of the thorns, too.

- No promises.
- Good luck.

- [Na'im] Okay.
- [Rachel] Yeah. 'Cause everything has thorns.

[Na'im] Whew!

Tell me a little
bit about yourself.

What's your survival experience?

What do you enjoy doing?

- Well, I will be honest.
- Uh-huh.

Most of my survival experience

- is in ocean environments.
- [Na'im] Okay.

- So this is very much new territory for me.
- [Na'im] Okay.

[Rachel] I am a
free dive instructor

and for the last few years

I have been traveling full-time,

just diving in every possible
body of water that I can find.

I use free diving to overcome
my fear of the ocean.

Free diving is honestly
an obsession for me.

At this point I can hold my
breath for almost five minutes

and I've dove to 130 feet
on a single breath of air.

I feel like people
underestimate me a lot

because of my bubbly,
outgoing personality,

but I definitely have a
lot of mental fortitude

that I've learned
through free diving

and I think that that
applies to any situation.

I am always looking for ways to
grow and ways to push myself.

You give me rain, I'll
show you rainbows.

[narrator] As a free diver, Rachel
has a high level of control over her body

and knows how
to push her limits,

but might struggle to apply
those skills in a jungle environment.

She begins with a primitive
survival rating, or PSR, of 6.4.

- I don't have a ton of jungle survival experience either.
- Okay.

Most of my survival experience

- is cold-weather forest.
- Okay.

- But that being said, I think my skills are bushcraft...
- [Rachel] Okay.

...rope-making, trapping

- and I would say I'm an intermediate fisher.
- [Rachel] Okay.

[Na'im] I defy categories.
I refuse to be put in a box.

I'm a never say die guy.

I have great endurance.

I've done over 50
long-course races.

I've run a full 26.2 marathon.

I've done a full
Olympic triathlon.

I was a Boy Scout growing up.

We even had limited
survival courses that we took,

Including wilderness
survival, cold-weather survival.

When I moved to Colorado
and I began hunting

is probably when I had to
really engage my survival skills.

A lot of cold-weather camping.

So I do have a lot of
cold-weather survival training.

I'm here to succeed.

So long as there is
breath in these lungs,

I'm gonna make it 21 damn days.

[narrator] Na'im's cold-weather
camping experience

gives him an edge in
harsh environments,

but he could struggle without
the aid of clothes and gear.

He begins with a PSR of 7.0.

Ow!

- Careful.
- [Na'im] Yeah.

- [Rachel] It's so thick.
- It is thick.

Ow! Mother goose,
that was a good one.

- [Na'im] Oh, yeah. A thorn?
- [Rachel] Yep.

[Na'im] Oh, man.

Ooh! [inhales through teeth]

[Rachel] This jungle is crazy.

She's definitely not
gonna make it easy on us.

We're gonna have to work really
hard to make it the full 21 days.

[Na'im] What is the one
thing I should never do?

What's, like, if I
do this to Rachel,

I will have very much
screwed things up?

[Rachel] You can't leave.

- I can't leave.
- [Rachel] I don't wanna be out here alone.

[Na'im] Okay.

[Rachel] So you're
not allowed to leave.

Okay. Deal.

- Yeah?
- Yeah, absolutely.

- You can't leave me alone out here.
- We can't leave, yeah.

- I will not leave you alone.
- Okay.

- Okay.
- All right.

[Rachel] Look, I'm gonna
cry just thinking about...

- [Na'im] I almost did, too.
- [Rachel laughing] You did.

- [Rachel] Definitely getting more than a little thirsty.
- [Na'im] Yeah.

[Na'im] Look at this.

- [Rachel] Oh, amazing.
- We hit a clearing here quite a bit.

- Oh, this is so much more open.
- [Na'im] Yeah.

- And I think I can see water just over this hill, so...
- Oh, amazing.

- [Na'im] Yeah. So, great...
- [Rachel] Oh, I can see water, too.

- [Na'im] I can see it, yes.
- [Rachel] Okay.

The water comes
right to the bank here.

We've got plenty of fallen wood.

We've got some clearing.

What do you think?

I see home.

- [both laughing]
- Great.

So, obviously we're gonna
wanna get a shelter up.

These trees over
here might be nice.

- The one with the Y.
- [Na'im] Yeah.

Um, that's good for
a shelter. It's high.

We're gonna have a Y stick here,

and then we will have
sticks coming off the back.

- [Rachel] We're gonna have to clear all of this out.
- We're gonna have

- to clear all that out, yeah.
- [Rachel] These cactuses and stuff, too.

[Na'im] Yeah, definitely.

All right. Let's give it a shot.

[Na'im] Timber!

All this is gonna have to go.

I'm feeling a little
overwhelmed. [laughs]

I just feel like we have
a lot of work to get done

and not a whole
lot of time left.

First priority, grow more hands.

[Rachel] You think
that's deep enough?

[Na'im] I think
that's pretty good.

- I think that looks good.
- With a crossbeam,

- we're gonna be good to go.
- Okay.

- Perfect. Yeah.
- Yeah, that's perfect. Yay!

Our plan for our shelter is
to build basically a lean-to.

We're going to take a
crossbeam through the tree,

and then put a little Y branch

on the other side to hold it up.

Ow! Biscuits!

And then just stack different
logs and sticks over top of it

before we cover it up with brush

- to give us covering.
- There we go.

- There we go.
- Amazing.

- That's what I'm talking about.
- Yeah.

[Na'im] I think my
partner's fantastic.

I think we're gonna
get along great.

I mean, we made
a pact not to quit,

so I plan on keeping that
bargain, hell or high water.

All right. I'm gonna go ahead
and try to get down that bank.

All right. I'm gonna go ahead
and try to get down that bank

- to get some water.
- Okay.

Oh, this looks
delicious. [laughing]

Like a nice big cup of coffee.

Okay.

Do you want me to
start working on the fire?

- Yeah, yeah. Absolutely.
- [Rachel] Okay.

[Rachel] The sun's
starting to go down.

It's getting a little cold, so I'm
going to try to get the fire started.

Fire's a very
important thing to have.

Just try to help with
bugs and keep us warm.

Because it does get
pretty cold here at night.

[Na'im] Wait...

- [Na'im] All right. I see fire.
- All right.

- [Rachel] Fire!
- Teamwork makes the dream work, baby.

[Na'im] It's looking great.

[Rachel] We can boil our water.

[Na'im] All right. Here.

Let's tap it out, right?

I feel like we're doing good.

We've done some
good work tonight.

Oh, I love our little
home. It's coming together.

It is. I think we're gonna
get through the night.

[Rachel] Oh, it's freezing cold.

[Na'im] This dang
old fire's not cutting it.

- I can feel it and it got cold quick, too.
- [Rachel] It did.

[Rachel] Ohh, jeez Louise.

[Na'im] It's cold.

Yeah.

[Na'im] Oh, sorry.

[Rachel groans]

I'm struggling tonight.

[Rachel shivers]

It is not easy right now.

Like, nothing is easy right now.

We're working our butts
off to get this fire going

and keep it going
because it's just so cold.

Oh, man.

It's starting to rain.

This is gonna suck.

This is all that's left of
our fire and our firewood.

Oh, it's so cold.

[sobbing]

[Rachel speaking]

[Na'im speaking]

[Rachel] Oh, my God.

Oh, man.

Wow.

[Na'im] Last night
was miserably cold.

- Like [bleep] got real.
- [Rachel chuckles]

[bleep] got real.

[Rachel] Last night was

probably one of the
hardest nights of my life.

As soon as that sun goes down,
the temperature just plummets.

And I am not used
to cold weather at all.

[Na'im] The temperature
drop means we need to have

a fire going pretty
much all the time.

[Rachel] Yeah, we need
to stay on top of that.

[Na'im] We're trying to
stay dry as much as we can,

trying to make fire,

so that we don't get
hypothermia and pass out.

That's the one fear I
can't fight back against.

- [Rachel] Um...
- [Na'im] Mmm-hmm.

What if we take some of the mud

and just try to build
some semblance of a wall

- with the clay?
- I love it. I love it.

[Na'im] Let's do it.

Look at that. That's
straight clay right there.

My partner had a wonderful
idea to use some of this mud

to try and make
a reflection wall.

And the idea is that heat rises,

that reflection wall is gonna
push more of the heat toward us

and heat the
inside of the shelter.

Someone once told me that the most
important survival skill is creativity,

and my partner has it abounds.

I like puzzles.

- And I like being warm.
- [Na'im laughing] Cool.

The fire will help
to solidify the wall.

- It's pretty mushy and soft.
- [Na'im] 'Cause it bakes it like a kiln effect.

- [Na'im] Yeah.
- [Rachel] Yeah, harden it.

- [Na'im] And it's working.
- [Rachel] It is working.

- Like, the fire is pretty small right now...
- Uh-huh.

...but it's warm.

- Like, it's... It's nice.
- See, that's what I'm talking about.

- It's freaking working.
- That's what I'm talking about.

[Na'im] It might not be a bad idea
to just start prepping some hooks.

[Rachel] Yeah. Prep some
hooks. We could do that.

[Na'im] We probably burned
quite a few calories shivering

and huddled up in the rain.

We need to get something
to replace our calories,

so I'm gonna get some
lines out in the water

and see if we can get some food,

see if we can get
some protein coming in.

Grubs, grubs, where are you now?

Usually they're just, like,
in pockets of soil here.

Ah!

Look at that. Wham bam.

Kind of like that.

That's pretty decent.

[Rachel] That's pretty good.

- Okay.
- [Na'im] Let's just tie it off right here.

- [Rachel] A warn meal would be dope.
- [Na'im] Yeah.

[Na'im] Hopefully we'll just get
something to take a big gulp of it.

We're gonna see what happens.

[Rachel sighing] Ah. Oh, man.

[Rachel speaking]

[Na'im speaking]

[Rachel] It is.

I definitely don't think the
shelter was any warmer last night.

- [Na'im] No.
- [Rachel] Maybe it was less wet.

[Na'im] We gotta
shore this shelter up

and get it as
airtight as possible.

We just gotta get as much protection
from the elements as we can.

And hopefully not
freeze our ba*ls off.

I mean, they're still
there, but they're cold.

Ooh, I'm still cold.

[Na'im] The cold is really our
most formidable challenge right now.

I mean, I'm accustomed to cold,

but no one goes out in
the cold weather naked.

So, today is just
about answering back.

We gotta get more
foliage on our shelter,

more firewood.

Slowly but surely we're
getting this shelter filled in.

[Na'im] I'm gonna
go just grab mud

and slap it on
the outside of this.

[Rachel] Work with what we've
got and what we've got is mud.

We're just trying to figure out
what it is we're missing to stay warm,

and we've decided that we're gonna
try to cover the outside of our hut in mud.

Just to help give
us some insulation.

[Na'im grunts]
Every little bit counts.

- [Rachel] I feel like this is kind of working.
- [Na'im] Yeah.

Wonderful.

That's it.

[Rachel] This is going to
be better than last night.

It has to be.
[laughing] It has to be.

It better be, yes.

[Na'im] All right. I'm actually
gonna go check my traps real quick.

[Rachel] Okay.

[Na'im] A-fishing we will go.

Please gift us a catfish
of Argentine origin.

It does not look like
we've been gifted a catfish.

[sighing] Oh, man.

Yep. Well, the
bait's still on it.

[sighs]

So, no luck on the fish today.

[Rachel speaking]

[Na'im] Yeah.

[Na'im speaking]

I think we've thrown everything we
could throw into this problem. [chuckling]

I think the issue is
just the temperature.

It just drops that cold. I
mean... [Na'im speaking]

[Na'im speaking]

The cold is... It's
beating me down, man.

My body's having a hard
time dealing with that.

Yeah, it's taking a toll.

[Na'im] It's taking a toll.

[Na'im] It continues to
get more and more cold,

and it's almost as though all
of our efforts were for naught.

Oh, my God.

Oh, it's so bloody cold.

[Na'im] How are you doing?

Um, not great,
honestly, but I am...

[in singsong] getting
it done anyways.

- Not great physically or mentally or...
- Yeah.

I just keep having, like,
these dizzy spells and...

[Na'im] If you need
to take a break or...

- [Rachel] What I need is food.
- Yeah.

- [Rachel] That's what I really, really need.
- Yeah.

- And I need protein.
- [Na'im] Yeah.

We do need to get some food,

so I'm gonna go check that line.

[sighing] Okay.

Let's go check this line.

[Na'im shouting] Rachel!

[Na'im shouting] A-ha!

[bleep] yes!

[Na'im shouting] Rachel!

Whoo-hoo!

Ah! [laughing]

That sounds like
somebody who caught a fish.

[Rachel] What'd you get?

- Catfish!
- [Rachel] Ohh!

- Ah, I'm so happy.
- [Na'im] Look at that.

[Rachel] We needed this.

[Na'im] Yes, we did.

This is a huge victory.

I cannot tell you.

This jungle has
given us nothing.

Now it's just time to eat.

[Na'im] Here it comes.

[Na'im] Just take a little bite.

[Na'im] Yep.

[Na'im] There you go.

[quietly] I'm so excited.

[Na'im chuckling]

When I tell you that I
could cry right now...

[Na'im laughing]

Wow.

[Rachel] I already
feel so much better.

Thank you so much.

Yep.

This catfish is the biggest
victory that we've had so far.

I'm feeling really excited
about this partnership

and just really optimistic about
what we can accomplish together.

- I'd love a little hot sauce, but...
- [Rachel chuckling]

[Na'im] We have tried a lot of
things to shore up the shelter.

Mud has been our
most recent one,

but right now our shelter
is still leaky and cold.

So, I am barking trees
to make bark shingles,

so that we have some blockage

from the elements this evening.

You can strip large parts
of bark off of that tree,

place it on our shelter
and you should have

a waterproof
structure at that point.

We wanna put them down in
sort of bigger sections like this.

At the very least that will
provide some protection

from the wind and
stuff on that side.

[Rachel] It's looking good!

[Na'im] I'm hoping this works.

It may be kind of
piecemeal, but...

I don't care what it looks
like as long as we're warm.

[chuckling]

Truthfully.

[Na'im speaking]

[Rachel speaking]

[Na'im] It's night time,

and we have to answer the same
question we've tried to answer

every day since we've
been here, which is,

"Will we be able to stay
warm and sleep tonight?"

[Rachel speaking]

[Na'im speaking]

[Rachel] I think this
place is so fricking cold.

My toes are like
freaking icicles.

It's continuously getting
colder every night.

It's not... It's crazy.

[Na'im speaking]

[exhales]

[sighs]

Last night, I
realized that, like,

we're in something that
is capable of k*lling us.

When you are dealing with conditions
like we're dealing with last night,

you are pushing
your body to the edge.

I'm from a place where people die
doing things that they enjoy doing.

Death has been so close to me

that I've learned
to have a fear of it.

That fear is very
present right now.

I think we've worked on this thing as
feverishly as human beings can. [laughs]

[sighs]

I just feel like there's always a
way to improve your situation.

There's always something
you can do to make it better...

- [Na'im] Yeah.
- ...and we just have to keep trying.

My body has taken a toll
in the last couple of days,

but my will is telling me that
I can do this no matter what

and just to keep pushing.

And it just kind of seems like Nai'm's
head isn't quite in that same place

this morning.

Are you still in this?

I really don't
wanna do this alone.

[sighs]

I know better than make decisions
when you're cold and emotional. [laughs]

[sighs] But I gotta
play this by ear.

Okay?

It's probably warm enough for
me to go get debris and firewood.

Just let me warm up
here for a little minute,

- if that's okay.
- Okay.

[sighs] Oh, man.

[sighs]

At this point, I'm cold. I
am upset at our situation.

I'm mad that we
put so much effort

into trying to make sure that
we didn't have this problem,

and it just all failed again.

[groans]

It's frustrating, but I'm going to
have to keep pushing forward.

That's a promise that
I made to my partner.

[sighs] Okay.

Man, I could fall
asleep standing up.

I push my limits on the
regular, with free diving.

There's times that my body is
screaming at me that I'm not okay,

but I've build a mental
fortitude through that

to push through it
and push to the edge.

And with the cold weather,
that's a whole different ball game.

Like, I don't know where
the edge lives with that.

So I'm just gonna
do what I have to do

to make the best of
the situation that I'm in.

k*lling it.

- [Na'im] Is it looking okay?
- No, the fire's out.

[Na'im] Oh, [bleep].

- How's it going?
- [Rachel] How's it sound?

[Na'im] Like it's
taking a little while.

Oh, [bleep].

Uh.

So frustrating.

We're playing the same old
game of trying to get warm.

[Na'im speaking]

I don't know what else
we're supposed to do.

I don't what else
we're supposed to do.

I don't like being
cold. I don't.

[sighs] I'm so cold.

Come the [bleep] on.

Go get it.

[Na'im speaking]

[Rachel] No.

[Na'im speaking]

I just... I know where the
line is for me at this point.

I gotta tap. I gotta tap out.

[sighs] Feels like winter.

- Outside, too?
- Oh, yeah.

That might be the most
miserable night of my life.

[groans] Oh, [bleep].

The effects of fighting the
same battle over and over again

and losing it
is taking its toll.

The cumulative effect of
the cold, the lack of sleep,

just the general up and downs, I
know where my limits lie, and I'm there.

I'm done.

[whispers] I'm done.

- Rachel?
- Yeah?

I can't go anymore.

[Rachel] Okay.

What's going on, Na'im?

I am tapping out.

- Nothing that can be done?
- [Na'im] No.

The last night I
knew that, like,

I was reaching the
edge of what I could give.

I'm all used up, man.

I just don't have
any more in the tank.

[Ryan] All right. We'll
get you out of here.

I appreciate every
moment of this.

[Rachel speaking]

Please try to make
it if you can, okay?

- [Rachel] I will.
- I'm rooting for you.

Forget it. Good luck.

I got my butt kicked
here, without a doubt.

I am leaving this jungle with
cold feet and a tired mind.

The impenetrable
jungle definitely won.

I think it's gonna be very
difficult for Rachel to make it.

I don't know that she has the skills
necessary to get her through this,

but I think she's
damn tough enough.

[narrator] Unable to battle
the cold front any longer,

Na'im quits the challenge,
losing 21 pounds.

His PSR drops from 7.0 to 5.6.

My partner just tapped out,
so that means I am on my own.

This challenge
is incredibly hard,

and so the thought of doing this
without Na'im is honestly terrifying.

But I have no other options.

Ooh. [exhales]

I gotta get this firewood, or
it's gonna be a really long night.

I'm trying my best not to think
and just do what needs to be done.

[sighs]

Doing this alone was
the scariest idea for me,

but I'm really just trying to
focus on one thing at a time

instead of looking at the
grand scheme of things

'cause the grand
scheme of it is terrifying.

But I can do one task at a time.

I can do one day at a time, and those
will add up, and I'll be at extraction.

Like, I'm on my own.
Let's make it work.

10 days by myself.
I can do that.

[thunder rumbling]

I don't know where
these clouds came from

because sunset was really nice.

And now all of a sudden,
it's starting to rain.

[thunder clap]

Oh, gosh.

I'm definitely getting wet.

Holy crap.

Please, please,
don't do this to me.

Oh, this thing's crazy.

I need to make this shelter
more water and windproof

'cause it was so cold
and wet last night.

[exhales]

[sniffs] Mmm.

I just wanna get warm. [cries]

Last night was rough.

It just really solidified the
fact that I'm on my own now,

and this is what it's gonna
be from this point out.

Gonna try to take the shingles
off of the outside of the shelter

and see if I can enclose maybe
a smaller space on the inside.

Keep some warmth in.

Keep the wind and water out.

There's definitely a lot
less cold air coming in.

This is progress, and I'm
feeling pretty good about it.

Ah! [giggles]

It's definitely warmer in my
house now than it was. [laughs]

These shingles are
helping so, so much.

[vocalizes]

[whispers] Okay.

I'm gonna have to
get more firewood.

Ooh. I'm feeling
a little topsy-turvy.

Ooh. Whoa.

Chill out. Stop spinning, world.

I feel terrible.

Ugh. I'm so nauseous.

This kind of comes in waves.

I am not feeling
well today at all.

Dizzy and
light-headed. Cramping.

My body just feels weak
and deflated. I need food.

I hate how weak I feel. I
don't enjoy feeling weak.

My body is screaming
at me to replenish

and to give myself some
sustenance, so I'm really focused

on getting new bait on the
lines that are in the water.

I hope that getting food in my
stomach will help settle it down.

'Cause this really sucks.

Looks like a good spot.

Okay.

Please, let this work.

Just need a fish.

I should go and check the lines.

All right.

Dang.

That's unfortunate.

Got a little bit of bait left.

Sometimes that's all it takes.

[groans] Jesus.

[breathlessly] Okay.

Just non-stop cramps and nausea.

[exhales] And I,
like, can't function.

I might try to go find
some of that pig's weed,

so I can get something
in my stomach.

I'm just hoping that
I can power through.

I just hope. [cries]

This challenge is so much more
difficult than Naked and Afraid of Love.

It's really pushing
me to the edge.

There's only so many thoughts I
can go through before I land on, like,

"Why am I still here? Like,
why am I still doing this?"

But I made a commitment to
myself that I would see this through,

and I believe that you should be impeccable
with your word, especially to yourself.

[sniffs]

[exhales]

[heavy breathing]

Ugh.

[exhales]

[sniffs]

[whispers] Oh, God.

I frigging hope it helps
'cause I can't... Ugh. God.

[deep inhale]

Whoa.

[groans]

Okay.

Still don't feel well.

Ugh. It's so bad.

[narrator] Consistent
lack of food

leads to a build up of
stomach acid and contractions,

which can cause intense nausea.

[Rachel] Physically, I
feel absolutely terrible.

The pig's weed did not work.

This sucks.

I am in an excruciating
amount of pain.

Like, I literally can't
fricking do anything.

Like, I literally can't
fricking do anything

without feeling like I'm about to
throw up, and the cramps are k*lling me.

Gonna lay down for
a second. Oh, Jesus.

Come on, man.

Get it together.

I'm in the home-fricking-stretch,
and this is where we're at.

I want so badly to finish this.

Like, it's like a burning
fire inside of me.

It's the only thing warm inside of
me right now is my desire to finish this,

but my body is
just in so much pain

that I'm seriously questioning
whether I physically can.

No. I don't know if I
can do this. [deep inhale]

I try not to cuss,

but there was a chapter of
my life where I cussed a lot.

So to kind of phase that out, I just sort
of put other little sayings in their place.

Things like biscuits and gravy.

Ow. Biscuits and gravy.

Whoa! Biscuits and gravy.

[laughing] Biscuits and gravy.

[exhales] Biscuits and gravy.

Biscuits.

Ow. Biscuits.

Biscuits.

Ow. Biscuits and gravy.

Ah. Biscuits and gravy.

Biscuits and gravy.

Ah! Biscuits and gravy.

We are okay.

Doing great, honey.

Ooh.

[whispers] Okay.

Get it together.

If I don't get fish, I just can't
fathom how I'm gonna possibly

make it through this day
feeling the way I'm feeling.

I'm gonna go check that
hook I left in the water.

Thing's really stuck.

[screams] I got a fish!

Ah! [giggles]

What the freaking
heck? Are you serious?

Wow! Oh, my God.
I am so blessed.

This is honestly a ton of meat.

Mmm.

I am a very happy
camper right now.

This fish is
re-energizing my body,

giving me that extra boost I
need to make it to extraction.

I have surprised myself.

So grateful.

So fricking grateful.

It is day 20.

Tomorrow is extraction day,

and based on insertion and how
many thorns I was getting on my feet,

I think I really need to
try to make some shoes.

I don't want to destroy
me feet on the way out,

so I'm using the wood
shingling off my shelter,

and I'm going to use fishing lines to
kind of make this net for my shoes.

Ta-da! [laughs]

I'm just trying to make
sure my feet are secured.

I've already been beaten
up enough by this jungle.

I can't believe that
tomorrow's day 21.

I was close to
giving up a few times,

and it took literally
everything that I had

to keep pushing, to keep going.

It's just another reminder to do
the things that scare me, you know,

and, like, to do them even
whenever you don't feel ready

because you're never
gonna feel ready.

It's not until you're
in the thick of it

that you find out
what you're made of,

and I'm so happy
that I kept pushing.

[sings] Extraction day is here.

Ooh.

Nice.

All right.

Check out this bad
boy one more time.

So that looks like I'm just
gonna head straight that way.

And then I'm home, free.

[narrator] To reach
her extraction point,

Rachel must travel
three miles north

through the dense,
thorn-riddled, impenetrable jungle,

avoiding aggressive
jaguars and deadly snakes

until she reaches a clearing, where she
will be picked up by her extraction vehicle.

[Rachel] I'm not
feeling my strongest,

and I'm gonna be hiking through
some really thick vegetation.

Everything in this jungle
has thorns. Everything's wet.

And I don't wanna tear my
feet up on the way out of here.

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

Ooh! [sighs]

Onward. [groans]
[whispers] Oh. gosh.

I feel like we just
came past this.

It's definitely not
easy to navigate.

I feel like I'm going
in circles a little bit.

Oh, ew.

I don't know what left that.

Eugh. It's poop. I
think it was recent. Ooh.

I'm so ready for
this to be over.

[low growling]

[Rachel] What was that?

Get me out of this jungle.

Ugh.

Ah! Ah! Ow! Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow.

[cries]

[groans]

My body's telling me to quit, and I
don't think I can take another step.

Ugh. [whispers] Okay.

But seeing this through
is especially important.

Just like with free diving,

when you're coming up to the
surface from a 50-meter dive,

and you're questioning
whether you have enough oxygen

to make it through, as long as
you stay relaxed and keep pushing,

you'll make it to the surface.

So as long as I stay relaxed and keep
pushing myself, I'll make it to extraction.

I know that I am capable of doing
whatever it is I put my mind to,

so that is just what
keeps driving me forward.

It's freezing right now, and
it hurts to move my body.

Oh. [grunts]

It's starting to clear up a bit.

Is this the road?

I'm just ready
for this to be over.

This has to be it.

- [distant voices and engine
rumbling] - I hear something.

[engine rumbles]

Oh, I definitely hear something.

[whispers] Oh, yes.

Oh, yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes, yes, yes.

[whispers] Oh.

Oh. Are you my ride?

Oh, my gosh. I can't believe it.

[sighs] Ah, thank you.

This is it!

I can't believe
it's over. [laughs]

I can't believe I made it.

I can't believe how freaking
cold it is in this jungle. [laughs]

I learned that survival isn't
just having a set of skills.

So much of it is about
thinking on your feet

and being creative
and adaptable.

Man, Na'im, I fricking
wish you were here.

It's such an amazing feeling.

I fricking did it. [laughs]

I came into this questioning
whether I had what it took.

The place where
the jungle pushed me

was way beyond where
I thought my limits lived.

In fact, I was able to show her

that I do have what
it takes to survive.

[narrator] Over the course of the
21 days, Rachel lost 21 pounds.

Her PSR rises from 6.4 to 7.3.

Against all odds, even when my
body is screaming at me to stop,

like, I can still keep going.

Honestly, I think
this has changed me.

There's nothing
that can stop me,

not even the impenetrable
jungle. [laughs]

[screams and giggles]
Holy freaking cow.