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[gunshot]
Dallas: You guys ready for this?
[howls]
NARRATOR: DEEP IN THE ALASKAN WILDERNESS.
Man: Bear!
NARRATOR: SEVEN LEGS IN TO ONE OF THE TOUGHEST
COMPETITIONS IN THE WORLD.
Dallas: I'm losing it!
NARRATOR: FOUR TEAMS OF RUGGED OUTDOORSMAN
LIVE OFF THE LAND.
SURVIVING OFF JUST THE GEAR IN THEIR PACKS.
60 HOURS TO COMPLETE EACH LEG.
Man: Holy cow!
NARRATOR: A CHALLENGE THAT ALREADY SENDS ONE TEAM HOME.
THREE TEAMS LEFT.
[group celebrates].
NARRATOR: FOUR MORE LEGS, 1 WINNER.
WITH SEVEN LEGS COMPLETE.
Grady: Later, Seavey!
NARRATOR: WE LOOK BACK AT THE EXTREME CHALLENGES THESE
EXPLORERS ENDURE AND TAKE A PEEK AT THE BRUTAL
ADVENTURE STILL TO COME.
Dallas: Whoa, Eddie!
NARRATOR: THE GREATEST MOMENTS OF
"ULTIMATE SURVIVAL ALASKA"
START NOW.
Eddie: Sean, get out of there!
NARRATOR: THE FIRST RACE STARTS NEAR A REMOTE DOG CAMP
ATOP THE GILKEY GLACIER.
AT THE HELM IS PROFESSIONAL DOG MUSHER DALLAS SEAVEY.
Dallas: They're never going to see us on this one.
[laughter].
Right off the bat we're on dogsleds?
This is my element.
This is playing right into my strong point.
I mean, this is what I've done my entire life.
NARRATOR: JOINING TEAM ENDURANCE: SEAN BURCH,
A SIX TIME WORLD ENDURANCE SPORTS RECORD HOLDER AND
NATIVE ALASKAN MARATHON RUNNER EDDIE AHYAKAK.
Dallas: Eddie has been up here his entire life and
he lives off the land.
One of the advantages of being an Alaskan in this
competition is you grow up with all the harshness of the
state, and around the hard people that deal with that.
So I'm super stoked, they're both very capable,
competent people.
NARRATOR: THE MILITARY TEAM LED BY GRADY POWELL,
A FORMER U.S. GREEN BERET,
OPT TO RACE ON FOOT.
GRADY'S TEAMED UP WITH JARED OGDEN,
FORMER U.S. SEAL AND RUDY REYES.
Rudy: I joined the Marine Corps in the late '90s.
I am a combat diver.
I'm a paratrooper, I'm a scout sniper,
a mountain warfare expert, demolitions,
just to name a few.
Grady: What we have that the other teams won't
have is that instant brotherhood connection.
We're all thrill seekers and we all need that,
that adrenaline rush.
We're here to win it.
NARRATOR: THE MOUNTAINEERS, LED BY VETERAN MOUNTAIN GUIDE
MARTEY RANEY, ARE THE WILD CARDS.
Marty: Look what I found!
We attached my boots, screwed 'em to the skis,
and I figured that the skiing would be faster than
just riding in a dog sled.
It's working.
It doesn't get any better than this.
NARRATOR: FELLOW ALASKAN MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
TYLER JOHNSON AND THOMAS GINN JOIN
TEAM MOUNTAINEER.
Thomas: Keep on going guys, keep on going.
NARRATOR: BUT MARTY'S PLAN TO MAKE UP TIME QUICKLY BACKFIRES.
Marty: I think we're making good time,
I'll say that.
Tyler: Oh, Marty, Marty, Marty!
Whoa (bleep)!
Marty: Hey, whoa, Tyler!
[dogs barking].
NARRATOR: THE MOUNTAINEERS REGROUP,
WHILE A RIVALRY BETWEEN MILITARY AND ENDURANCE IS BORN.
Sean: There they are!
Dallas: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Run, boys, run!
Rudy: We start pushing double time march.
Drive on, let's push!
Grady: I really want to beat Seavey.
Keep going!
Sean: We've got 'em, boys!
Rudy: They're getting closer bro.
Sean: Hey guys, how's it going!
Dallas: Keep running!
NARRATOR: ENDURANCE TAKES THE FIRST ROUND FROM MILITARY.
ALL FOUR TEAMS MAKE THEIR WAY DOWN THE CREVASSE RIDEN
GLACIER TO THE RIVER VALLEY 2,000 FEET BELOW.
TO NAVIGATE THE TURBULENT RAPIDS,
EACH TEAM CARRIES PACK RAFTS, SMALL,
PORTABLE AND LIGHTWEIGHT.
OVER ON THE GILKEY RIVER,
THERE IS ANOTHER TEAM TAKING TO THE WATER.
Jimmy: I hear rapids up ahead.
Tina: Oh my gosh, I do too.
NARRATOR: THE WOODSMEN, LED BY OFF-THE-GRID
SURVIVALIST JIMMY GAYDOS, ARE THE FOURTH AND FINAL TEAM
IN THE COMPETITION.
Jimmy: I subsistence live.
I smoke a lot of salmon, I hunt moose, caribou,
that's how people lived in Alaska years ago and
that's how I still live.
NARRATOR: JIMMY IS JOINED BY WILDERNESS GUIDE
YOTE ROBERTSON AND COMPETITIVE LUMBERJACK,
"TIMBER" TINA SHEAR.
Tina: This is crazy.
The whole time I'm freaking out,
thinking you're not gonna last long if you fall
in that freezing water.
[splashing].
Jimmy: Straight ahead down river.
[yelling].
Jimmy: This is really (bleep) man.
[splashing and yelling].
Yote: Jimmy!
[splashing and yelling].
Tina: Oh my God, Jimmy!
Yote: Jimmy!
[splashing and yelling].
Jimmy: Help, help!
Yote: The next thing I know Jimmy's kind of disappeared,
he went under.
I mean, it, it scared the (bleep) out of me and I did
the only thing I knew to do which was grab his boat.
And the whole time I'm thinking,
"Where in the hell is Jimmy?"
Son of a (bleep).
We've got to find him soon or he's in trouble.
Tina: Jimmy!
NARRATOR: OVER ON THE ANTLER RIVER,
THE ENDURANCE TEAM MAKES THE FINAL PUSH TO TRY AND
WIN LEG ONE.
BUT THE RIVER IS LITTERED WITH STRAINERS,
FALLEN TREES THAT CREATE A VACUUM SUCTION STRONG ENOUGH
TO PULL A MAN UNDERWATER AND PIN HIM DOWN.
[inaudible yelling].
Sean: Guys, I'm losing it!
I'm losing it!
[all talking at once].
Dallas: Paddle out, paddle out.
Paddle, paddle, paddle!
Paddle hard!
[splashing and yelling].
Eddie: Holy (bleep)!
Dallas: You alright Sean?
Sean, Sean, Sean, Sean, Sean!
Sean, hang on!
Eddie: If we don't get to him and get him out of there fast,
Sean will drown.
Dallas: You alright man?
Sean: I'm holding!
NARRATOR: MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE GILKEY RIVER.
Tina: Jimmy, Jimmy!
Yote: I don't know.
Oh (bleep), there he is!
Tina: Jimmy!
Yote: Jimmy, I thought the river had lost you.
Son of a ***, man!
Oh, God, it's good to see you.
Holy (bleep) man!
Jimmy: I took in all kinds of water.
Yote: I really thought that, that he drowned.
I, I thought it took him.
That tough old bird got himself to shore somehow.
[coughing].
NARRATOR: DOWN RIVER, THE ENDURANCE TEAM HURRIES TO
SAVE SEAN AND KEEP THE LEAD OVER THEIR RIVALS THE MILITARY.
Dallas: Coming your way.
Sean, Sean, there you go.
Let's just get you out, man.
Hang on, pull, pull!
Sean: Don't stop pulling.
Dallas: Alright, you all right man?
That thing doesn't look good.
We gotta get in there and get that out.
Eddie, do you think there's a way we can get up to the top
of that and come down and get a line on that raft?
Oh (bleep), look, there's the Military guys.
Grady: What's up Dallas?
Jared: How you doing Dallas?
Grady: Where's your dogs now Dallas?
NARRATOR: SEAN IS FINE, BUT SAVING HIM COSTS ENDURANCE
THE LEAD TO THEIR ARCH-RIVALS.
Grady: Later, Seavey.
NARRATOR: MILITARY GOES ON TO WIN LEG ONE.
THEIR PRIZE, A BEAR BARREL FULL OF PROTEIN.
Rudy: Meat!
NARRATOR: WITH THEIR VICTORY, THE BAR IS SET,
BUT ENDURANCE WILL GET THEIR CHANCE FOR PAYBACK.
ALL FOUR TEAMS HAVE SURVIVED THE TREK DOWN THE
GILKEY GLACIER AND MOVE ON TO LEG TWO WHERE THEY
DROP IN ON THE DESOLATE WILDS OF CHICHIGOF ISLAND.
ON THE SECOND LEG, THE MILITARY DECIDE TO TAKE
THE SHORTEST ROUTE,
THROUGH THE BEAR-RIDDEN WOODLANDS.
Grady: Does that cliff keep going over there?
Rudy: Here let me take a look.
You know, this looks like a good repel site.
We could make up some time and, uh,
this is a highway that will get us right to the ocean.
The speed of going down this cliff face would be
better than taking the time to walk maybe hours around
to find a better crossing.
We want to win, we don't want an excuse.
Go ahead and take care of that bomber coil.
The tree feels solid.
It's a hasty repel.
NARRATOR: A VETERAN OF THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN,
RUDY HOLDS SPECIAL TRAINING IN SURVIVAL.
Rudy: You want to watch out if, uh,
there's any kind of loose rock and it looks
kind of sharp.
Jared: Yeah, let us know.
Watch your back, watch your back.
Rudy: Hey I see some, uh, bear scat and some bear claw
marks down here.
This looks like a den!
There is bear scat, there's paw prints.
Immediately the hairs come up on the back of my head
and I felt fear.
I felt real fear.
We got to make this fast gents!
Jared: Get off the rope, man.
Grady is coming down.
Rudy: Rudy off repel!
I got your security!
Grady: Are you guys clear down there?
Good to go.
Jared: Yeah, there's tracks all over.
I'm gonna move back a little bit from this den.
Rudy: You got it.
Jared: Bear!
[gunshot].
NARRATOR: IN THE LOWLANDS OF CHICHAGOF ISLAND.
Grady: Yeah, there's tracks all over.
NARRATOR: THE MILITARY SUDDENLY FIND THEMSELVES
STANDING IN A BEAR DEN.
Jared: Bear!
[gunshot].
Grady: Go, go, go, go!
Jared: When you send a warning shot to a bear,
one of two things is gonna happen,
it's gonna tuck tail and run, or it's gonna charge.
I rolled the dice.
The bear went back and we kind of got lucky
in that regard and we high-tailed it out of there.
Rudy: We're in one piece, keep pushing.
NARRATOR: MEANWHILE, MARTY AND THE MOUNTAINEERS
FIND A BOAT BY WAY OF A NATIVE ALASKAN.
Man: There's a lot more water here than there
are trails and I got one you might be able to use.
Tyler: Get out of here.
Man: It's, uh, well that's just the way it is.
Tyler: That's incredible.
NARRATOR: WITH SOME MOUNTAINEER ENGINUITY,
THEY BUILD A MAST OUT OF DRIFTWOOD AND TURN
A TARP INTO A SAIL.
Thomas: Ready?
And, we're in.
NARRATOR: CONFIDENT THEY HAVE THE LEAD,
MARTY AND TYLER FISH FOR SOME MUCH NEEDED PROTEIN.
Tyler: You got something on there or you on kelp?
Marty: I'm on kelp.
Tyler: Where is this fish at?
Marty: What the hell is going on?
Get me off.
Tyler: Here, here let me go forward.
Let me go forward.
Marty: Hold it, hold it.
Whoa, whoa.
Tyler: You got one, huh?
Marty: Something significant.
This is frickin "Moby ***!"
Holy balls!
Dude, he's coming up.
Tyler: All right, all right, all right.
Marty: Whoa, whoa!
Tyler: I got it, I got it, I'm on this side.
Is it good?
It's pulling, it's pulling.
Marty: It's unreal.
This is big, dude.
You ready?
1, 2, 3.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Tyler: It's pulling, it's pulling.
Marty: Tyler, son of a (bleep)!
200 pound halibut, it's pounding me,
it's pounding the boat.
They've actually sunk boats this small before.
The halibut had to go.
Tyler: Shoot it!
[gunshot].
Marty: Boom, dead.
Son of a (bleep)!
We got a hole in the boat.
Tyler?
Tyler: Marty are you okay?
Marty: Get in here, the boat's sinking!
Tyler: So at this point, I don't know what's more
dangerous, the halibut or Marty with a handgun.
It's typical Marty, man.
He's a cowboy.
He just does things his own way but he usually
gets the job done and this is no exception.
I'm still alive, he's still alive, the fish is dead,
solved a bunch of problems, but now we have a bigger one.
Marty: Ho, ho!
We're sinking right now.
We're sinking.
Where's that oar lock?
Right here, cut a chunk of my shirt sleeve off right here.
McGyver that Chalmer.
He grabbed an oar lock and then he cut my sleeve off,
wrapped it around there and jammed it in the hole and
it was a temporary fix.
All right, let's bail.
Whoa, whoa!
The frickin' halibut's gonna kill us.
[laughing].
Halibut!
[cheering].
NARRATOR: THE MOUNTAINEERS ARE REFUELED AND NOW ALL
FOUR TEAMS CLAW THEIR WAY TO THE LZ.
Marty: We're almost there!
Rudy: I see a town, y'all!
NARRATOR: THE MILITARY IS IN THE LEAD.
Grady: Is that it?
Rudy: Home stretch.
Oh, we're in good shape.
NARRATOR: BUT THEIR ARCH RIVALS,
THE ENDURANCE TEAM IS RIGHT ON THEIR HEELS.
Rudy: (bleep)!
Yeah, I just gotta set it back up.
Grady: Oh, there's Dallas, get up, get up, get up.
Rudy: Go, go, go.
Let's go!
[yelling inaudibly].
NARRATOR: BOTH THESE RIVALS WOULD LOSE OUT
TO THE COME FROM BEHIND WOODSMEN,
WHO SHOCK THEM ALL TO TAKE LEG TWO.
Tina: I can't believe that we won, we're here first!
Yote: We were the first ones to hit the dock and
it was awesome.
My arms are burning but hey, we made her first.
We kicked ***.
Team Woodsman, whoo!
[yells loudly]
NARRATOR: THE FOUR TEAMS RALLY TO TAKE ON LEG THREE,
AS THEY HEAD FROM THE COAST OF CHICAGOF ISLAND
TO THE CORNER OF TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST.
NO ONE FEELS THE PRESSURE MORE THAN ALASKAN ROYALTY
DALLAS SEAVEY.
Dallas: As soon as the plane stops,
there's a stack of canoes there.
We hop out, before long it's time to rock and roll.
Tyler: All right guys, let's go.
Yote: We got a long ways to go today.
NARRATOR: THIS LEG CHALLENGES EACH TEAM TO
CROSS TURNER LAKE,
BATTLE 45 MILES OF THICK FOREST,
JAGGED WATERFALLS,
AND THE CHOPPY OPEN WATER OF STEVEN'S PASSAGE
ON THEIR WAY TO THE EXTRACTION LANDING ZONE ON
ADMIRALTY ISLAND.
THE RIVAL MILITARY AND ENDURANCE TEAMS WASTE NO
TIME GETTING STARTED.
Dallas: I want to do it as fast as I can and I want to win.
But these guys are good at what they do.
Special Ops guys are hardcore,
so we have to keep pushing harder and harder and harder,
burn every last drop of fuel until we hit
that finish line.
Grady: Later Seavey!
NARRATOR: WHILE THE MILITARY AND ENDURANCE TEAMS
TAKE THE LONGER WATER ROUTE,
THE WOODSMEN BURN ENERGY PUSHING THROUGH
THE DENSE FOREST.
Jimmy: We just decided to cut a few miles off the lake.
Even though we're gonna deal with thick brush,
I think it will save a lot of time.
[grunting].
Tina: We gotta get!
NARRATOR: WITH A RAINSTORM COMING,
THEY MAKE CAMP IN A BUGGY MARSH AND CALL UPON JIMMY'S
SURVIVAL EXPERTISE TO REFUEL WITH A HOT MEAL.
Jimmy: My matches are wet.
I'm gonna have to try to use a shotgun shell to
light a fire.
So, uh, I'm taking a shot out.
I'm gonna take some of the powder out too.
I just want enough powder to get my wax cotton burning.
I take cotton balls with petroleum jelly on 'em.
They're very flammable and you pack it in the barrel.
Ready Yote?
Yote: I'm ready Jimmy.
Jimmy: I shoot it up in the air and it has a spark in it.
Tina: Good catch!
Jimmy: And that's how you get a fire going in
a real emergency, and it's a life saver to know that.
[cheering].
Tina: Boom, we have fire.
That was pretty crazy.
Good looking fire Jimmy.
Jimmy: Oh yeah.
NARRATOR: THANKS TO JIMMY'S ALASKAN INGENUITY,
THE WOODSMEN CHOW DOWN ON A HOT MEAL.
Grady: About ten feet behind you.
NARRATOR: AWAY FROM THE STORM AND ALONG THE FALLS.
Grady: You're halfway?
NARRATOR: THE MILITARY TEAM DISCOVERS A PROBLEM OF OWN.
Grady: Son of a (bleep)!
There is another waterfall, dude.
Jared: Oh!
Grady: We're gonna have to manage the canoe again.
Jared: It's only about 60 feet.
Grady: We could, I don't know,
rig up the canoe and lower it down.
Or just say for time's sake toss it and hope
for the best.
Jared: Let's chuck it, man.
I think it'll be fine.
Grady: For sake of time, we're contemplating throwing
the canoe down.
I'm half and half on it because if we lose this canoe
I mean, we're gonna be, we're probably gonna be losing.
Jared: Think it'll work?
Grady: Yeah, I don't know, man.
If this thing busted at the drop,
it's gonna really slow us up.
Is it worth the risk?
Jared: It's faster.
It takes a long time to repel a canoe down anything.
We don't have that kind of time.
In order for this to work, it has to land perfectly flat
and it has to clear the actual waterfall.
All right?
Grady: Yep.
Both: 1, 2, 3.
NARRATOR: HALFWAY THROUGH LEG THREE OF THE COMPETITION,
MILITARY HAS HIT A SNAG.
Grady: All right, 1, 2, 3.
[cheering].
Perfect dude!
Jared: Yeah!
Grady: Perfect, nailed it!
Jared: Nailed it!
Grady: It just floated down like a leaf.
This was perfect, 100% perfect.
You guys ready?
NARRATOR: AFTER ALL FOUR TEAMS CROSS THE OPEN WATER
OF STEVEN'S PASSAGE, THE ENDURANCE TEAM RACES FOR
AN OLD BOAT TRAM.
Marty: Dude, Seavey's right there, hit it!
NARRATOR: BUT THEY'RE NOT ALONE.
Sean: We gotta catch them!
Tyler: We got, let's pull.
Packs out!
Marty: This is like full-on panic.
They're right behind us.
This is called the Endurance team for a reason.
Hit it, hit it, hit it!
Tyler: They're coming up fast.
Marty: They're racers, they're runners.
They hold world records for getting to the top of
mountains like Kilimanjaro.
Check this cart out, it's awesome.
Dallas: Mountaineers, right now,
they're the ones to beat.
Marty: Go!
Boom, take off pushing this thing,
just like Dallas Seavey would push a dog sled.
Unfortunately, Dallas Seavey is behind me.
Woo!
Woo, woo, woo!
What's the sign say?
Tyler: Danger, steep hill.
Marty: Danger!
Steep hill!
No brakes, no brakes!
Tyler: Big corner, big corner.
Marty: Lean!
Holy (bleep)!
Woo!
We survived dead man's curve!
Tyler: Arr!
NARRATOR: FURTHER INLAND, JIMMY AND THE WOODSMEN ARE
MAKING GOOD TIME ON THE WAY TO THE LZ WHEN THEIR JOURNEY
COMES TO A SCREECHING HALT.
Jimmy: Whoa!
[grunts].
Tina: Jimmy!
Yote: Jimmy, are you all right?
[grunting].
Jimmy: Oh, I, I just twisted my knee.
Oh!
Tina: Just take your pack off, Jimmy.
Jimmy: Ok, hold on.
Yote: Let me help you up and see if you can put
any weight on it.
[grunting].
Jimmy: Oh!
Let me try to take a few steps.
Come on!
Ow!
Yote: It ain't gonna work Jimmy.
Come on, let's try to sit back down.
[grunting].
Jimmy: Oh, son of a gun!
[grunts in pain]
Yote: Just let me look at it.
Jimmy: Oh, it's hurting, hurting like a, it's hurting.
Oh yeah, it's all swollen, look it.
Yote: Holy, man, it's all swelled up.
Jimmy: Look at that sucker.
Yote: Can we get some help here please?
NARRATOR: FURTHER AHEAD, THE MILITARY BREAK FREE OF
THE WOODS AND STRETCH THEIR OVERALL LEAD WITH THE WIN.
Jared: Bringing it home.
NARRATOR: BUT THE BIGGEST BLOW IN THE COMPETITION
SO FAR IS THE ELIMINATION OF THE WOODSMEN.
JIMMY'S INJURY PREVENTS THE WOODSMEN FROM REACHING THE LZ,
DISQUALIFYING THEM.
THEIR EXPEDITION IS OVER.
Marty: This is Alaska, it's unforgiving.
It's a hard place, it's an extreme place.
These teams are going from point A to point B
across the most arduous, diverse,
dangerous terrain on planet earth.
Does it surprise me that one of these teams
didn't make it?
No, it's a humble reminder.
NARRATOR: THE REMAINING TEAMS HAVE LITTLE TIME TO REFLECT
ON THE LOSS OF THE WOODSMEN.
LEG FOUR BECKONS.
A 30 MILE HIKE UP AND OVER THE GRANITE FACED,
SNOW-COVERED TORDRILLO MOUNTAINS.
LITTLE DO THEY REALIZE THAT BY THE END OF LEG SEVEN,
SOMEONE ELSE'S EXPEDITION WILL BE OVER.
ENDURANCE CATCHES UP WITH MILITARY JUST AS THEY CROSS A
200-FOOT WIDE CANYON.
Eddie: Holy crap!
Are they crossing that?
Sean: I thought we were done with heights.
Eddie: Well it's either going that way,
or going all the way back up and around.
Sean: That's not an option.
Dallas: I think we're a little more focused on the
Military Team and beating them than anybody else and
partially because going this long without a win is
beginning to get a little bit frustrating,
and they're good.
But, you know what, it's probably not gonna be long
until these roles are gonna reverse.
We get to get over there!
Sean: We got to go man, we got to go!
Dallas: When you get to that edge and you look down,
there is definitely a momentary fear of heights,
but once you decide to do something like this,
you just got to kind of let go and do it.
This is when you get your adrenaline pumping.
This is why we do this!
Holy cow.
Sean: Nice work!
Dallas: Nothing to it.
NARRATOR: WITH DALLAS SAFELY ACROSS,
IT'S SEAN'S TURN.
Eddie: Holy crap.
Wow.
Yeah, Sean!
All right, buddy!
Yeah!
This thing is 200 feet across,
and I'm looking down at a canyon that's a 150 feet deep,
with some of the most raging whitewater
I've ever seen in Alaska.
Now it's my turn to get across.
Dallas: Come on, Eddie!
Eddie: Do not die.
NARRATOR: NOW IT'S EDDIE'S TURN.
Eddie: Ah!
NARRATOR: IN THE TORDRILLO MOUNTAINS,
WELL INTO LEG FOUR, THE ENDURANCE ATHLETES ATTEMPT TO
CROSS A 200-FOOT WIDE CANYON USING A TYROLEAN TRAVERSE.
Dallas: Woo, come on Eddie!
Eddie: Do not die.
Ah!
Sean: What the hell?
Hold on Eddie!
Eddie: Ah!
NARRATOR: EDDIE'S RIGGING BREAKS OFF THE PRIMARY LINE.
AT ANY MOMENT HE COULD ALSO BREAK OFF THE
BACKUP SAFETY LINE.
Sean: Eddie, he jumps off, "Boom!"
He drops like 30 feet right away.
Dallas: The line finally actually starts to
carry his weight,
and he starts coming away from the wall.
He's not on the bottom of the canyon dead,
but we don't know what's gonna happen next.
He's hanging.
Sean: Hold on Eddie!
Dallas: Eddie, get your hands on the rope!
[Eddie grunting].
Hand over hand!
Sean: Dude, we got to get him a rope.
Hold on Eddie!
Dallas: Got the line?
Sean: He's got it.
Dallas: Clip it in!
Sean: Here we go, bud!
Dallas: Let's get him up.
Sean: Hold on Eddie, we got you bud!
We got you.
What the hell happened, man?
There was no better feeling in the expedition
than seeing Eddie's face come over that rock.
Then he gets up there and he, and he's alive!
He's alive!
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Eddie: Holy crap.
I don't know what just happened, still shaking.
Sean: Yeah, not surprised bud, c'mon.
NARRATOR: THE THREE REMAINING TEAMS RACE TO A
TRAPPER'S CACHE BY THE SIDE OF A REMOTE LAKE.
Rudy: Let's take 'em.
NARRATOR: THE MILITARY MAKES IT TO THE LAKE FIRST,
BUT THEY'RE ON THE WRONG SIDE.
Grady: We decided we're just going to use our pack rafts,
float across the other side.
It's the fastest most economical way to get across.
You got the pump bag?
Rudy: Yep, inflate a bag.
Marty: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
What's the orange thing on the bank?
Grady: Oh, son of a ***.
Dude, there's already a team over there.
Jared: We don't have time to blow up the third one.
I'm going to swim.
Rudy: You're going to swim across this
freaking glacier water?
Jared: It doesn't matter, the finish line is right there.
Rudy: All right, roger that.
NARRATOR: JARED MODIFIES HIS SNOW SHOES AND JUMPS IN
THE GLACIAL LAKE FOR THE FINAL PUSH TO THE LZ.
Jared: Making some makeshift fins,
with my snowshoe extensions and duct tape.
I'm going to have my riggers' belt on.
If I hype out, grab it and drag me to the finish line.
Grady: This kid is ready to jump in the water in this
ice cold glacier water with icebergs and swim across.
Tyler: I went from there to there.
NARRATOR: WITH NO TIME TO SPARE,
THE MOUNTAINEERS' ONLY OPTION IS A DANGEROUS
SPRINT ACROSS THE LAKE,
JUMPING FROM ICEBERG TO ICEBERG.
Sean: There are The Mountaineers!
Eddie: We can still beat them!
Thomas: The next thing you know,
we see The Endurance team coming down off
the ridge line.
Tyler: They're coming, guys, they're coming!
Thomas: Come on Marty!
Let's go, let's go!
Rudy: You ready Grady?
Grady: Yeah, right there!
Thomas: It's going to be a trippy one!
There they come right there!
You see them?
It's Endurance, right there!
Come on Marty, come on!
Rudy: Woo, you got it!
Marty: Look bad, look bad.
Thomas: Let's do it.
Rudy: You got it Jared.
Grady: Be, be the seal.
Tyler: Let's keep it hustling.
Rudy: As long as he's moving, he's not dead!
You're doing great, buddy!
Tyler: Anybody there Thomas?
Thomas: Nobody is here!
Grady: Almost there bud!
Rudy: Let's go brother!
Tyler: Woo, yeah!
Thomas: Yeah!
Tyler: Yeah.
Good job, buddy, nice job.
Thomas: Way to finish it, man.
Marty: Did we make it?
Thomas: I think we made it.
Tyler: They're coming right behind us.
Photo finish.
Marty: Hey we won this thing, uh, I mean, it's been,
I don't know how many expeditions and
we finally won one.
NARRATOR: AFTER FOUR LEGS, THE MILITARY HAS 2 WINS,
THE MOUNTAINEERS HAVE 1.
THE WOODSMEN HAVE BEEN DISQUALIFIED AND
THE ENDURANCE TEAM HAS BEEN SHUT OUT.
FIVE LEGS IN AND ALTHOUGH THE SCOREBOARD
MAY NOT SHOW IT.
Dallas: It's on boy!
NARRATOR: THE COMPETITION IS ABOUT TO HEAT UP WITH A
50 MILE PADDLE DOWNRIVER, TOWARDS A SET OF RAPIDS
CALLED HELL'S GATE.
Dallas: Ready?
NARRATOR: TO CATCH UP WITH THE PACK,
THE MOUNTAINEERS EMPLOY A RISKY STRATEGY TO
MAKE UP GROUND.
Tyler: This is a race, we don't have time to stop.
So we decide to read and run and sometimes it pays off,
sometimes it doesn't.
Marty: Read and run is a rafting expression.
You just read it and run it as you go.
Read and run!
That's the Tyler way, that's the Thomas way and
I guess it's my way.
Tyler: Woo!
Thomas: Ah.
Marty: Pack rafts are dangerous.
They flip, and you could drown easily.
Let's cut to the chase, no right-minded person does
this kind of travel.
[grunts]
Whoa!
Tyler: Marty look out!
Marty: Whoa (bleep)!
NARRATOR: MIDWAY THROUGH LEG FIVE,
WHILE SHOOTING A SET OF RAPIDS CALLED HELL'S GATE,
MOUNTAIN MAN MARTY RANEY COMES TO A STONE COLD STOP.
[yells inaudibly]
Tyler: Marty, you ok?
Marty, look out!
Marty: Whoa (bleep), whoa!
Tyler: Marty hang on.
Marty, grab on, grab on, you're good,
you're good, you're safe.
NARRATOR: THE MOUNTAINEER'S REGROUP AND THEIR READ AND RUN
METHOD BRINGS THEM WITHIN REACH OF THE LEAD,
BUT THE ENDURANCE TEAM HAS THEIR OWN PLAN TO
FINALLY CHALK UP A WIN.
Dallas: When I'm racing dogs, you have,
I hate being in the lead racing,
'cause you don't know where your competitors are.
But if I'm in front in a race,
and camping out in the middle of nowhere,
I'll lay down and sleep and I'll just put my legs
right across the trail.
So if they go by me, I'll know it.
Dallas: I'm thinking about running a little trip line
across this guy or something.
Eddie: So, in case someone goes by?
Dallas: Exactly, I just don't want these guys to sneak by.
Marty is wily.
You know those Military guys know how to sneak around.
So to help make sure that we stay in lead of this race,
I have an idea of setting basically an alarm system.
I want to run a thin line across the river,
right at pack raft height.
It's like setting a giant mousetrap.
So they're going to hit this line.
It's going to yank the gold pan out and make a
ton of noise of that thing clanking along the beach.
Sean: And we'll know what it is.
We'll, if we hear it, we'll see them right away.
Dallas: Yeah.
Eddie: That's our racer's alarm.
Dallas: Racers alarm, I like that title.
NARRATOR: THE MORNING OF THE FINAL STRETCH THE
ENDURANCE ATHLETES ARE POISED FOR THEIR
FIRST WIN UNTIL.
[pan rattling].
Eddie: Hey Dallas, Sean!
Get up, whoa!
Dallas: Mountaineers!
It's Marty and Tyler!
(bleep), wake up Sean!
Marty: They set up a trip wire.
Did you see that?
Dallas: Sean are you up?
Sean: Yeah!
Dallas: Get the tarp down, get the tarp down.
NARRATOR: AND THANKS TO DALLAS' CLEVER GOLD PAN ALARM
THE ENDURANCE TEAM GRABS THEIR FIRST VICTORY.
[team cheering]
NOW HALFWAY THROUGH, THE MOST HARROWING MOMENTS
OF THE RACE ARE YET TO COME.
IN LEG SIX, THE TEAMS TAKE ON THE NOTORIOUS
CREVASSE-LADEN HAYES GLACIER,
AND ENDURANCE IS FINALLY PUTTING PRESSURE
ON THE MILITARY.
Jared: Glaciers scare me.
There's no food, there's no fuel, it's full of danger.
But at the end of the day, I think that we can take this
route faster than any other route chosen by
any other team.
Rudy: We're gonna be going over some dicey terrain.
There's danger of crevasse.
We're getting out snowshoes, checking poles.
Uh, we got our rope out as well to clip in
with our harnesses.
If any one of us goes in, the other two need to be able
to arrest the fall and then pull them out.
Scale of 1 to 10, this is probably a good 8 and a half!
[laughs].
And this is just the beginning.
Jared: You got some, uh, tell-tale signs of
crevasses up here.
Grady: Yeah, I got it bro.
I'll keep my eyes open.
Jared: All right.
Rudy: We're cruising, baby.
[yelling inaudibly].
Rudy: Grady!
Jared: Grady, you all right?
Grady: Do not let go!
Jared: How deep are you?
Grady: I don't know, 10 feet.
But I don't know how far it goes.
Do not let me go.
Rudy: I'm making an anchor.
Jared: Make an anchor.
Rudy: 10 seconds.
Grady: Do not let me go.
This thing does not end any time soon.
Rudy: 5 seconds, anchor set.
Grady: Keep it tight, keep it tight.
Stop pulling the rope!
Jared: We are not (bleep) moving.
Rudy: What do I need to do Jared?
Jared: He's working it.
Rudy: All right.
Jared: He's working it.
If I start to slip, man.
Rudy: Oh, here he comes.
You got it buddy, you got it buddy.
Grady: Holy (bleep)!
Not cool dude.
We got to find a better route.
NARRATOR: WHILE MILITARY FINDS ANOTHER ROUTE ALONG THE
GLACIER, THE MOUNTAINEERS PLAN TO CUT THEIR TIME BY
GOING UP AND OVER A SHEER ICE CLIFF,
IN TRUE MOUNTAINEER FASHION.
Tyler: All right, you ready, on belay!
Ok, I'm climbing man.
Marty: On belay!
Tyler: Climbing Chalmer!
NARRATOR: AS TYLER CLIMBS,
MARTY SURVEYS THE ICE FOR CRACKS.
WITH THE GLACIER MELTING IN THE SUMMER SUN,
THE WALL OF ICE COULD BREAK APART AT ANY MOMENT.
Tyler: Definitely soft.
I tell you what man, one wrong step up the
vertical ice and you're dead.
Marty: Watch the rope.
Looking good.
Thomas: Yeah, man.
Tyler: Pulling these ledges.
[grunting].
Woo!
NARRATOR: AT THE TOP, TYLER FINDS EXACTLY WHAT
HE WAS LOOKING FOR.
HIS CLIMB PUTS THE MOUNTAINEERS IN THE LEAD,
BUT THE OTHERS ARE RIGHT BEHIND THEM.
Marty: This is it man.
This is the lake.
This is it.
We did it man!
NARRATOR: SAFELY OUT OF THE HAYES GLACIER,
THE TEAMS ARE NOW THROUGH SIX LEGS OF THE COMPETITION.
WITH THIS WIN, THE MOUNTAINEERS CLAIM
TWO TOTAL VICTORIES, TYING THEM WITH THE MILITARY
TEAM FOR FIRST PLACE.
EXHAUSTED, DETERMINATION FUELS EACH TEAM AS THEY TAKE
ON LEG SEVEN, CROSSING A STEEP RIDGE TO
STRANDLINE CANYON.
THEY'LL THEN TREK 40 MILES TO THE LZ,
AN OLD PLANE WRECK OFF BELUGA LAKE.
Marty: I don't think it's that bad.
NARRATOR: THE MOUNTAINEERS FIND THEMSELVES
KNEE DEEP IN QUICKSAND.
Marty: Hey, look.
Slow down buddy, slow down.
Tyler: I've never seen quicksand like this before,
ever, it was insane.
You mean, you're going along,
you think you're on solid ground and then boom.
You're up to your waist in quicksand and it's not
just sandy watery sand.
I mean, this stuff will lock in around your legs.
Marty: Careful man.
You can do this.
How's the creek?
Dude, you're.
Tyler: Go, you go that way, go that way.
Thomas: Hey you all right Tyler?
Marty: You all right?
Tyler: Ah, ah!
Marty: Are you good?
Tyler: No, I'm stuck.
Marty: Whoa!
Tyler: I'm stuck, holy crap.
Marty: Ty, get a rope out!
Thomas: All right, hold on.
Marty: Oh God.
Thomas: Just don't move.
The more you move, the more you struggle,
the more you're going to sink.
Tyler: Thomas, you got to hurry up, man!
Marty: Oh my God!
[screams]
NARRATOR: LEG SEVEN IN THE BARRIER GLACIER BASIN.
Marty: Are you good?
Tyler: No, my foot is freaking stuck.
Marty: Whoa!
NARRATOR: MARTY AND TYLER FIND THEMSELVES UP TO THEIR
WAISTS IN QUICKSAND.
BUT DRAWING ON HIS MOUNTAIN CLIMBING EXPERIENCE,
THOMAS CREATES A Z-PULLEY RESCUE SYSTEM
TO SAVE HIS TEAMMATES.
Thomas: You got it Tyler?
Tyler: I got it, I got it!
NARRATOR: MEANWHILE, THE ENDURANCE TEAM,
HUNGRY FOR ANOTHER WIN, TAKES A CHANCE ON A POWERFUL
STRETCH OF RAPIDS.
Dallas: We had reached a pretty dang big river
and like always, let's just plow through it.
Go shortest, most direct route.
Sean: Careful man!
Be careful Dallas!
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
God damn it!
Eddie: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Sean: Dallas, come on!
Eddie: Hold on.
Dallas: All right, we got to move guys.
I'm frickin' freezing.
Sean: Come on!
Eddie: You all right?
Dallas: We have to fight our way up and we got to move.
Dude, I'm freezing my *** off here.
All right, let's move.
Damn, that's cold!
Eddie: We got to get him warm.
It doesn't take long for hypothermia to set in.
Dallas: Dude, I gotta move.
My feet are done.
Sean: And we'll get a, get a freakin' fire right now man.
Dallas: Get a fire.
[grunts in pain]
Burns like hell.
Eddie: He's in the beginning stages of hypothermia.
You know I could see the, the, the
look of terror in his eyes and we got to get him warm.
That's the number one priority.
Dallas: If these guys weren't here doing what
they're doing right now, this would be the
worst case scenario pretty much right here.
NARRATOR: WHILE THE ENDURANCE TEAM TAKES A HIT WITH THEIR
SKETCHY RIVER CROSSING, THE BIGGEST BLOW IN LEG SEVEN
IS YET TO COME, TO THE MILITARY.
Jared: Looking good, bud.
Grady: See anything?
Rudy, he's got a lot of experience.
You good?
Rudy: Yep, I'm good.
Grady: Being a sniper, you look for things out of place.
NARRATOR: RUDY USES THE POWERFUL SCOPE ON HIS
AR-15 TO FIND THE LZ.
Grady: What'd you see?
Rudy: I got it, I got it!
Grady: See it?
Rudy: I definitely see a wing, 300 meters.
It's in this direction, Gents.
Jared: Let's go, man!
Rudy: Okay, you got it.
Let me sling this back here.
Grady: Hey, we're 300 meters away from victory.
Rudy: Whoa, whoa!
Grady: You all right?
Rudy: Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.
Grady: Are you good?
Dude, you hit hard.
Rudy: Give me a second.
Why don't we just tape it up and keep going?
Jared: We can sit here man.
Rudy: They could pass us at any time bro.
Grady: Tough man, Rudy Reyes, saying,
"No, I'm fine, I'll be fine."
Rudy: Just tape it up and let's just get going here.
Grady: But, um, Jared and I kinda saw something else.
Rudy: Ok, ok, go ahead Grady.
Go ahead Grady.
NARRATOR: JARED AND GRADY DRESS RUDY'S INJURY
AND PUSH TO THE LZ.
Grady: Oh, don't rush it dude.
There's nobody here, there's nobody here,
there's nobody here.
You broke your ankle and we're still here first!
[Rudy laughs].
NARRATOR: RUDY'S ANKLE IS BROKEN,
BUT TEAM MILITARY STILL HITS THE LZ BEFORE THE OTHERS.
Rudy: Sure and maybe put my pack down and
I can put my leg up on it.
Grady: Bittersweet doesn't even describe this.
I'm worried about Rudy.
How's it feeling?
Rudy: Oh, it hurts bad.
Grady: Dude, that's pretty swollen.
Rudy: Yeah it hurts bad.
NARRATOR: SINCE ALL THREE MEMBERS FINISH,
THE TEAM IS NOT DISQUALIFIED.
BUT FOR THE REMAINING LEGS.
Grady: That's not good dude.
NARRATOR: GRADY AND JARED WILL HAVE TO GO IT ALONE.
Marty: You know, seeing Rudy sitting over there wounded,
I'm thinking that, what if that happened to our team?
What would we be doing right now?
And can somebody else get hurt between now and the end?
Huh, absolutely.
NARRATOR: NOW WITH THREE WINS,
THE MILITARY SURGES INTO FIRST PLACE AND TAKES A
COMMANDING LEAD IN THE RACE TOWARDS THE TITLE OF
ULTIMATE ALASKAN SURVIVOR.
THESE BRAVE EXPLORERS HAVE COME A LONG WAY,
BUT THE CHALLENGES THEY FACE ARE FAR FROM OVER.
SEVEN LEGS COMPLETE, FOUR MORE TO THE FINISH.
Jared: Whoa, whoa!
It's cliffed out.
NARRATOR: ONE TEAM DISQUALIFIED.
Rudy: Whoa!
NARRATOR: ANOTHER WITHOUT A VALUABLE MEMBER.
Grady: We've done very well with Rudy on the team,
now we're down to two.
NARRATOR: BUT THE RACE CONTINUES.
Marty: Waa ha-ha, wooo!
Thomas: Whoa!
Tyler: Thomas!
Marty: Ah, grab me!
NARRATOR: THEY'LL FACE EVEN MORE DEATH DEFYING LEGS.
Grady: Woo!
NARRATOR: PERILOUS RAPIDS.
Thomas: Tyler!
Marty: Tyler!
Jared: Grady, be careful!
NARRATOR: HARSH TERRAIN.
Grady: Stand up, stand up!
NARRATOR: BEAR INFESTED FORESTS.
Grady: We gotta go now.
Thomas: That's a big bear dude.
Tyler: Easy mama.
NARRATOR: AND ONE EXPLORER MAY NOT MAKE IT BACK ALIVE.
Eddie: Sean!
Sean: Oh my God.
Eddie: Get out of there!
Dallas: Come on back Sean!
Dallas: Get out of there!