Most Interesting International Locations 🌴🌍 Naked and Afraid | Discovery

Located along the Ring of Fire in the Philippines is Subic Bay, an area prone to extreme natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons and tsunamis. I'm nervous about being completely exposed out here. A lot of nervous farting, nervous burping. I feel like I'm gonna vomit at points. This location looks very dense. It's very hot, very humid, sticky everywhere. I know it'll be tough but I know I'll make it. Subic Bay on the island of Luzon gives way to mountainous jungles with thick canopies that block the wind, rain and sunlight creating a humid and dark environment below. These jungles are home to monitor lizards up to six feet long with sharp razor-like claws to fight and attack their prey as well as the highly venomous Philippine pit viper which camouflages itself in the trees and strikes from above. I describe myself as a bit of a dirtbag. I'm just a degenerate punk from the suburbs. I consider myself a loud, disgusting thrill seeker and love to get gross. I'm an executive chef doing 17 hours a day. I absolutely love the chaos. I love the stuff. There's nothing like it. As a chef, I am a gross person. I will eat anything but I do enjoy making it look like it's gonna taste good. I've been a survivalist my whole life. My family were big campers. We were always into bushcraft. In 2013, I stayed on a deserted island for 11 days by myself just to see if I could do it. It really brought something out of me and I've been addicted ever since. I'm taking on this challenge because there's something about reveling in the suck for me that just makes everything feel alive. I just want to do something difficult and this is about as extreme as you get. I consider myself to be very competitive and very stubborn. I played basketball throughout college. I also played football for an all-women's full tackle football league. I had to be fast and I had to be able to take a hit. I'm a hockey mom. I have two boys. And the saying is true, the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is lipstick. I come from an outdoors family. Both of my grandfathers were very big into hunting and camping. My little chickens. Big chicken. I am a cup bitch. If I'm not being competitive, I'm not fulfilling something in my life. I'm taking on this challenge because as an athlete, I love pushing my body to where I can literally not go anymore. Absolutely not will I ever give up. I don't like losing. Tapping out for me is not an option. I'm very confident in my abilities to be here. I guess this is it. America, I apologize for what you're about to see. This is the fun part. I think it might be a little awkward being naked, but I'm very comfortable in my relationship. So finding myself being attracted to anybody here is not an issue. Here we go. There's a naked person in there looking for me right now. So let's go. John comes with a passion and respect for the outdoors and brings a confident mindset, but his eccentricities could lead him to make bad choices. He begins with a primitive survival rating or PSR of 6.5. There's a lot of falling leaves and you never know what's hiding underneath them. Jess brings an elite level of fitness, which could help her in this extreme environment, but her stubborn mentality could backfire when faced with unpredictable circumstances. She begins with a PSR of 6.1. My partner, my friend. Is a naked high five going to make it worse? All right. It's so nice to meet you, I'm Jess. John, this is crazy. I love this place. What do you think we're up against? What did you see on the way in? It's super hot and humid, so finding water is definitely going to be a priority. Are you ready to challenge yourself? Yeah, make it happen. We're going to be a good team. Cool. Yes. See what we got. Jess and John have each brought a personal item, a mosquito net and a machete, and they have been given a fire starter. It looks like I also have the map. Awesome. Let's take a look. So we should be here. Yeah, this behemoth right behind us. Looks like we've got some shrimp and some eel over here, bamboo, some water. That's good. I guess we should get somewhere near that. But we do have to cross some wild boar and some monkeys. All right. Okay, let's go. I'm going to have to make this weird for a second, and I'm sorry in advance. I hate hippies just as much as everybody, but this tree's got to be 200 years old, and it's probably seen some ****, so I'm just going to go ahead and ask it to watch our backs. I got it. Is that cool? Yep. All right. Tree, you go ahead and just watch out for Jess and I, if you care. I consider myself a spiritual person, but to me, it's a little weird. You don't have to, but, you know, I understand. Thank you. Cool. Thanks. Let's get gross. Okay. Oh, this has got a lot of thorns on it. Yeah. Be careful. Native to the Philippines, the anabong plant contains hundreds of razor-sharp thorns that can puncture more than three inches deep, causing muscle and nerve damage. There's a huge anthill right there. Oh, this part's really steep. Yeah. Jess, my partner, she is in here naked, and so she's obviously tough, so I think we'll be fine. You okay? Good. Okay. This is basically straight down, pretty much. It just keeps going and going. Down. This is treacherous. It is. Look, look, look. You got some eggs down here. Foul eggs. That's a good find. Yeah, that's a really good find. Stick those in my bag. This is very dense. So thick. They're here. Hey, look at this. Monkey jaw. That looks like a monkey. Just think, they got teeth like that. It's kind of worrying me. Yeah. That's a monkey. I know the monkeys are watching. They're close. I can smell the piss. I caught a little whiff of s*** here and there. It's not a pleasant smell, and it just makes you feel like you're walking into somebody else's territory. Living among the trees are a unique population of macaque monkeys. These territorial and sometimes aggressive primates dominate the area, stealing what they can and having no fear of humans. I don't want anything to do with the monkeys. Yeah. This is all thorns right here. All right. Coming in hot. Set it straight down. Get it? The eggs broke. We got two. We got two still. I wanted that. Half of our dinner is gone now. Oh my goodness. I'm not necessarily hungry, but I know I need to eat. So it's kind of frustrating. If we find any more eggs, you're not allowed to carry them. I hear water. Sounds fast, like there's a lot of it. See, look. There's a spring right here. Smells good. Smells fine. I'm feeling pretty confident about the water coming off the rocks. I think it's fresh. Let's go take a sip. I think the running water is clean. It's running pretty fast. It's running over clean rock and moss. Tastes good? Tastes fine. I think it tastes fine. Very cool. I feel better. Yeah, I know. A little bit of water made me perk up a little bit. Deep beneath the Caribbean Sea lies an area of intense seismic activity where molten rock is rising from colliding tectonic plates. These clashing forces have created a lush volcanic island that conceals deadly scorpions, venomous centipedes, and the toxic manchineel tree, which leaks a poisonous sap that was used by natives for prisoner executions. Rising above it all is the island's biggest threat, a deadly volcano looming over a modern-day Pompeii. This is Montserrat, one of the most active volcanic islands in the world. After a long period of dormancy, the island's volcano awoke during the 1990s, triggering avalanches of superheated ash and treacherous mudslides known as lahars. The volcano devastated the capital of Plymouth, forcing thousands to flee and leaving 19 people dead in its wake. The volcano continues to menace the island to this day. Nature is definitely showing that people cannot survive out here, so gotta leave these nerves behind. My name is Chad. I'm from Wrightwood, California. I'm a survival instructor, a martial art instructor, and a computer programmer. People classify me a lot as like a hippie or because maybe I appear to be a hippie, but I'm pretty much spiritual Indiana Jones. My dad actually taught me all the survival skills that I know, so I feel that I have the skills necessary to come out here and thrive. How it is today, everyone projects an image of how they'd like themselves to be seen by other people. I honestly have been caught up in the social media image also, and I hope that I could come more in contact with who I truly am as a human being and leave the unnecessary parts behind. I think the next 21 days are going to be extremely challenging for me. Such an eruption obviously just completely cleared the entire area of any kind of life forms. My name is Dawn. I'm from Quebec, Canada, and I'm a retired infantry officer from the Canadian Armed Forces. I'm an alpha female. I have nicknames such as Army Barbie, G.I. Jane, and I think that has to do with the fact that I'm quite small in stature, yet I went overseas as a platoon commander to Afghanistan, and then I became a squadron second in command in Special Forces. I've assisted men larger than me because they were having difficulties and never dropped out of anything, but in the last year, I've kind of struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder for traumatic events that have happened in Afghanistan. I feel alone, and I'm hoping that with this challenge, I'll be able to connect emotionally with my partner and kind of figure myself out. All right, let's get naked. Definitely nervous about being naked in front of some random person. I've never done that before, besides relationship-wise. Last part, huh? All right, time to leave the material world and get out into nature. I'm hoping that my partner brings in more primitive survival experience, but I'll lose respect if he's overly confident about his skills, but he actually doesn't kind of produce the results, because at the end of the day, I have to survive for 21 days, and so there will be a point where I'm just going to, you know, take over. All right, let's get her done. So this is definitely a first. I'm naked in the middle of a town. There's no one living here, though. It's a little eerie. Wow, it's an absolutely destroyed church. So I see my partner, and it's just like Malibu Barbie walking at me. I really hope she has the skills to back up those looks. Hey, how are you? Good, how are these rocks treating you? Awesome. I'm Chad. Hi, Dawn. Dawn, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. I see my partner, and he's got the long hair, he's got the beard, so my first impression is that he's definitely a hippie. For sure. Are you nervous or what? I'm more nervous about the nakedness than I am about actually doing the challenge. So you got some skills, then I'm guessing. I mean, we'll see, right? One day at a time. And what about yourself? I teach survival back in California. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. That's awesome. Well, let's move on. Along with a machete, Dawn and Chad each get to bring one personal item. I actually brought a bow drill kit, and this produces large coals. I made it myself. I've used it thousands of times. We shouldn't have any issues there. Chad's primitive survival item is a bow drill. I'm definitely more comfortable with a fire starter, so I really hope that he's an expert with it. I brought paracord. So it could be used for shelter, it could be used for making nets, it could be used for making fishing line, traps. What else do you have? I actually have the map. Let's check it out. So that's obviously the volcano, and it looks like it's running off every time it explodes this way. So we got to stay as far away from this volcano as possible. Do you agree? I agree. It's completely barren. We really need to not stay here. There's no signs of life around here at all. I haven't even seen any insects, so that's scary, you know? So I say we head towards that water before it gets dark and maybe set up a shelter. That'd be perfect. All right. You ready? Yeah, let's go. Awesome. After you, or... Follow your lead. Dawn and Chad's combined skills make them an exceptionally strong team, but they face an extraordinarily brutal insertion over hot, razor-sharp rock and long, steep terrain. If they can climb out of this barren landscape and make it to the lush interior, resources will be plentiful, along with a host of threatening inhabitants. What do you do for work and stuff? Um, I just retired. Really? I was an infantry officer. No way. For 15 years. No way. Finding out my partner is in the military is crazy, because that's probably the exact partner I was hoping I wouldn't have. You know, people need to spend their whole life out in nature to really develop these skills, and it's not something you pick up on a few months in a survival training in the military. I'm worried she might not have the skills to cut it out here. Dawn may not be as well-versed as Chad in primitive survival, but as a war veteran trained at West Point, she brings toughness and proven leadership skills to the challenge. Dawn has been assigned an Initial Primitive Survival Rating, or PSR, of 7.1. As a survival instructor, Chad enters this post-apocalyptic landscape with an array of primitive skills, but his overconfidence could hurt him on this monumental challenge. Chad also begins with a PSR of 7.1. You okay? So these are volcanic rocks mixed with pumice stones, and they're extremely sharp. Pain is just weakness leaving the body. You know, you see those people walk over like coals? Imagine if that was just all like razor-sharp glass. That is basically what we are walking over, and it's horrible. Starting to smell more like sulfur. Yeah. Oh, do you hear that? Oh yeah. The volcano's crazy. The volcano totally knows we're here. I just hope that it stays mellow the whole time that we're here, because lava would be an interesting aspect to this party. Here it goes from like light to dark, and like that. Yeah, it looks like we have like maybe another hour left of sun. There's a bit of thorns here. The thorns are like as big as a pinky nail. I don't know how I'm gonna cross through here. She did it. Don, you're crazy. Charge straight through things. Some people just by default become the leader, and some become the follower, and this may be a situation where I may be the leader, and he may be more of the follower, and I think we're both fine with that. You okay? It's definitely getting dark. How much time do you think we have now? We have less than half an hour. We cannot hike in the dark out here. There are huge thorns everywhere. Oh god. I don't think it's gonna be dark like in California dark. I think it's gonna be pitch black dark out here. This island looks absolutely postcard beautiful, but let me assure you, there's gonna be dangers. This is not gonna be an easy 21 days. My name is Angela. I'm from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and I'm 36 years old. I have five kids at home, and I'm engaged to be married. When I was younger, I did some backpacking, got into just hiking around in the woods, but people would think that I'm not that tough just because of the way I present myself. Even my dad said, you won't make it past one day. So I'm out here to prove to him and myself that I can pass the most ultimate survival test of my life. I run marathons, so I'm used to just concentrating and pushing through. Angela is a city girl who brings a strong will and excellent physical stamina into this challenge, but her limited survival skills tested in the low to intermediate range. As a result, she begins with a primitive survival rating or PSR of 6.1. I have never been in an environment like this before. This is intense. These clips are like right down to the water. The jungle is like, boom, until they're vertical. It's there, and it is thick. My name's Darren. I'm 33 years old, and I'm working as a rock climbing guide and a chef. The majority of my life, I've spent alone in the mountains, but not really alone because I've always had a dog with me. When I was about nine years old, my parents started dropping me off to go camping by myself. They just leave me. Decades of experience on his own in the wilderness will aid Darren greatly in this challenge. But his loner attitude could present problems dealing with a partner. His initial PSR has been set at 7.8. This is cool. I can't get arrested for being naked. It's the first time in my life I don't have to worry about someone seeing me and calling the rangers. I have nail polish and toe polish on because I want to survive pretty. It's go time. Hi, I'm Angela. I'm Darren. Nice to meet you. Excited? I'm stoked. So excited. This is going to be a blast. Darren has this wild Tarzan look. It's not what I expected, but he seems laid back, so that's great. Let's get this going. In addition to being given a primitive fire starter, Angela and Darren have each been allowed to bring one survival item. I brought a machete. I'm a professional rock climber, so I brought a good bit of rope. So many things we can make from this and making natural cordage is time consuming, time consuming. Oh, I have the map. Where are we? The survivalists will be off the grid for the next 21 days on the stifling, humid, mountainous island of Koh Muk, Thailand. Towering limestone cliffs surround a dense, nearly impenetrable jungle, an unforgiving terrain of razor sharp thorns and swarms of biting and stinging insects. Overhead, the trees are dominated by aggressive macaques, carriers of the herpes B or monkey B virus, which can be fatal to humans. The island is overrun by an out of control rat population numbering in the thousands. These creatures transmit more human diseases than any other life form on the planet. But where there are rats, there are also predators, including the extremely toxic king cobra, which at 19 feet is the world's largest venomous snake. I have never been to the jungle before. I've never left the U.S. before, so this is a totally new experience for me. I've been living off the land and training too since I was a little kid. Do you have a family at home? I have a dog, that's it. That's family. I haven't found anyone to fully understand my wild ways and I'm not gonna change my ways really, so I just have a dog. She's the best family I've found so far. You? Zero dogs, but five kids. You got five kids, that's enough to take care of. Yeah. Angela seems cool, but she's got nail polish and toe polish. I hope she's not someone that is so used to the luxuries of life that she can't live without them. Do you hear that? Yeah. Monkeys. Nice, that'd be cool. I've never seen a monkey before. But they're usually quite selfish and territorial. Have a good eye for movement. You don't want to know how many things I killed as a little kid. I like to try everything. So far this year, I've eaten like three types of chipmunks, two types of squirrels, a bunch of marmots, a couple little birds, an emu, an ostrich, lots of buffalo, lots of elk, deer, wild turkey and domestic turkey, spruce grouse, a goose, a couple ducks, a couple porcupines. Darren and I couldn't be more polar opposites. He'll kill anything that moves. I'd better stay on his good side or I could wind up on the menu. So have you spent a lot of time out in the wild? I have. I've backpacked, but I've never roughed it to this extreme. I've definitely lived off the land, but I've never had to spend this much time with a stranger in a stressful situation before. So I hope you're not too worried. I try not to bite. So far you seem okay. Darren and I are about two years apart, but I feel like I'm a little bit more of the adult. Maybe like the way older sister or the aunt. Oh, nice. Big clearing. The ocean's right here. And it looks like we have a cave. Whoa, that's lucky. The cave seems to be pretty clean. I don't see any sign of snakes or too many spiders. I like it. But any little holes we see down around the base of it, I'm plugging up with some dirt and some rocks. So if there's something in it, it needs to make it a little more difficult for it to crawl out while we're there. Darren talks a lot. He's a little bit like he's the guide on this trip and I'm his student. So hopefully those roles change a little bit. I want to work on a fire now. Okay. Whatever we can get, like there's some palm fronds, but like those things are really pokey. So like to break the tinder up, I usually rub it between my hands so it's thorny. I work as a guide and I'm very keen to teach the skills that I have. I'm not expecting to have a dry spindle and fireboard. Just trying to make the best tinder I can because everything's wet here. I have started hundreds of fires with a bow drill, but never in an environment like this. This is hot and humid. Good job. Just start stacking around this. I'm so happy you got the fire started. Now we got fire, dude. We're set. Like at least we'll stay warm tonight and keep a few of the bugs away. Cause like they're getting us. Just when you think you've made it to the top of the mountain, it just keeps going and going. My name's Trenton. I'm 35 years old. I work as a full-time paramedic and I'm from Missoula, Montana. I grew up in rural West Virginia playing in the woods and started practicing primitive survival skills by the time I was an early teenager. Because of his years of primitive survival experience, experts assigned Trenton a primitive survival rating or PSR of 7.9. Really exciting to be getting to put years, decades of practice, you know, to the test. My name is Jennifer and I'm kind of new to the survival scene. I don't claim to be an expert, but I'm smart, I'm tough, and I'm a team player. I hope to learn a lot from my partner and I hope he learned something from me. Despite her limited experience, Jen's testing revealed excellent social and team-building skills and she earns a starting PSR of 6.4. As long as I make it to the location, I am confident in my ability to make it the 21 days. That really is a very long way down. In the far northwest corner of India, Jen and Trenton are being inserted high above the steep valley region of Udhampur, extremely hot and dry by day. The exposed ridgeline offers little protection from the frigid nighttime winds and sudden violent thunderstorms. Gray linger monkeys and leopards prowl the mountainside and the dreaded black scorpion causes hundreds of deaths in India each year. I like people. I just like being around people who are very competent at what they do and if not, we'll make do. Oh my goodness. This is so uncomfortable. I've never in my life imagined doing something like this. Oh my god. But this is my first real chance to prove myself as a survivalist. I feel like it's going to make me stronger and more confident just knowing how far I can push myself. Hello. Hi. I'm Jen. Hi Jen, I'm Trenton. Nice to meet you. Here we are in India. It's beautiful. It is. Yes, the weather is fantastic. It's not too hot. No, a couple bugs on my butt but other than that... Flies on my vagina, our new sensation. So that's random. Yeah. I'm stoked. Here's our bag. Cool, let's look. She seems nice. I mean, of course, yeah, she's a pretty girl but otherwise we'll kind of have to wait and see what she's got for skills. So what'd you bring? I have a pot as my survival item. Awesome. That will help with the purification of water and make things a lot easier. Yeah, awesome. So I have a kukri. My survival tool is just a nice Nepalese machete that a really good friend of mine made. Well, I have the map. At a starting elevation of 9,000 feet, Jen and Trenton must continue up along the ridge in search of one of the few fresh water holes in the area. There, they hope to make camp and a fire to withstand the extreme cold of night. The sun is hot. Yeah, I'd like to get out of it here. The pine needles stick right into your feet and the thorns are pretty horrific. So one thing, if it really does start bothering you, and please forgive me if I'm like doing the teacher thing. Oh, I hope to learn a bunch from you. So please do not feel like you're annoying me. I'm easy to get along with. Cool, good. I think I am. Oh, that huge guy. Holy ****. I'm not going to be eating monkeys, so. Oh, there's another one. Greylanger monkeys in this area are known to carry rabies and Japanese encephalitis and can become aggressive if they feel threatened. Wow. That was... Not in Montana anymore. Look at that. It's a big water source. Well, it's still kind of funky, but... I'm thinking... It's definitely water, right? Where there's water, there's animals. Yeah. And if they're coming in to feed, really is a hunting option. There's tadpoles, there's frogs. It's a watering hole for many animals. So, I mean, it's definitely, I think, the life source of this area. I'm going to mud up. Are you in? Definitely. A little burnt. The mud will create a barrier between our skin and the ultraviolet rays of the sun and possibly retain some moisture. And that's good because it really is so dry up here. We're beyond handshakes now. I'll let you get your butt cheek. Thank you. I just stupidly got more sun than I should have let myself. So I'm a little worn out, but we're doing pretty good. This would probably be our best bet. Maybe try to... Yeah, I think you're right. Set up shop around here and just be weary of the monkeys. They're a strong animal and definitely not something that I want to mess around with because they seem a little curious as to what we're doing. So I'm just afraid that they're going to be aggressive because we're in their territory and because they have young ones with them. We're going to need all this debris for our shelter tonight. And then we're going to change gears into fire making just to be able to start hopefully drinking some water here relatively soon. I think that Trenton is kind of a little possessive over his survival tool. He made me a stick instead of letting me use the knife. Let's see this. I'm glad I brought this. My survival tool is the tool I've always wanted. It's really important to me. Until I see what kind of skills she has, I'm really not sure I can trust her with it. So I'm going to have to go get some more materials too. I will be back. We'll start digging. Cool. All right. Sorry. The roots are making it a little rough as you get lower, but this is what I got. Neither of us brought a fire starter, so I'm kind of put to the test here. I've been working pretty hard at getting myself accustomed to being naked, but I guess I have the age to it. I am going out there to really be the best that there is, and I feel pretty confident that I will be. My friends always see me as someone who can survive the toughest situations. I don't know what I'm getting myself into. Just four degrees south of the equator, the Amazon rainforest is home to the most biodiversity on the planet. Caiman, anaconda, and piranhas skulk in the lagoons, while two million species of insects attack from the ground. But the greatest threat to survival are the torrential downpours. More than 80 inches of rain per year drench the forest, leaving the jungle floor a tangled, flooded mess of mud, roots, and debris. This is Amazonia. The question isn't, am I ready for the Amazon? The question is, is the Amazon ready for me? I'm Jake Nodar, I'm 36 years old, and I'm from Darnestown, Maryland. I have loved the outdoors since I was a kid. I feel pretty confident in my hunting skills, and anything moving that's remotely edible, I'm going to kill it and I'm going to eat it. I want to go out there and prove that, you know, a gay guy can be out here and do this. You know, we're not all cutting hair. I'm very confident that I will be able to sail through the 21 days. I'm planning on gaining weight. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. In addition to his sense of humor, Jake's lifelong experiences as an outdoorsman leave him highly suited to the challenge. But his arrogance could undermine his partnership. He's been assigned a Primitive Survival Rating, or PSR, of 7.3. I have to pee, but I always have to pee when I'm nervous. I'm Jamie Little from the desert in Tucson, Arizona. I feel like my whole life has been in preparation for this challenge. At five foot, half an inch, people mistake my size for inability, but I am powerful. I've always been an adventure seeker, racing mountain bikes, cross-country running. And not only have I taught primitive survival skills to teens, I'm also a certified wilderness first responder. I worked hard to get here. Topping out's not an option for me. Succeeding in this challenge will mean that I can succeed anywhere. I hope to gain a better understanding of myself. I'm in a transitionary period of my life. It's really going to help me with whatever I choose to do after this. As a wilderness therapy instructor and first responder, Jamie has managed every sort of backwards crisis. But her own struggles with indecision and self-doubt could compromise her success. She begins with a PSR of 6.0. Well, my whole life has led up to this one moment. Bye, clothes. I'm nervous. I am very comfortable with my own nudity. I'm shy. When it comes to my partner's nudity, that's a different story. I haven't seen a naked lady in probably close to 30-some years. So, whoop, there it is. I think being attracted to my partner would be a bonus. I can only imagine what's going to come next. Hi. Hello. Happy to finally meet you. I'm Jake. Jamie. Nice to meet you, Jamie. It's hard not to look at all of you. Yeah, it's fine. I had to tell Jamie about 20 times, eyes up here, sweetie, you know. Should we look at our sacks? As well as a magnesium fire starter, Jake and Jamie have each brought one survival item. A little machete, you're not so little. How about you, what'd you bring? I have my cookie. Ah, seeing two knives is a little frightening. You know, there's a handful of things that would be really, really nice to have out here. So, do you have a map in your bag? Yes, a map. Nice. So, that's us. To have any chance of survival, Jake and Jamie must leave the predators in boggy marshes of the lowlands behind. They'll push miles deeper into the jungle in search of dry terrain. Do you do a lot of outdoor activities? No, first time. Yeah. Just kidding. Try to ease yourself in. This is not my first outdoor adventure. Good. Yeah. I like that. Looks like we've got some water to cross. We're definitely going to have to think about some of the critters that are going to be in this. Oh, perfect. There's a piranha right there. Jake said he saw a piranha jumping. I don't know. It's kind of scary. I mean, it's definitely risk. But we need to get across to higher ground. I just hope neither of us have any open cuts. Something's at the back of my leg. What the is out there? Good job. So far, I think that we've got like a good thing going. We're driving right now. As partners, I'm not here searching for romance. But he's a good looking guy too. And that's a bonus for sure. Holy smokes. Look at that tree. Oh my gosh. Wow. I think that's a Lapuna tree. That might be the biggest tree in the Amazon. We could build a platform in here. Yeah. And like use the tree for size. Like this looks like home to me. Yeah. We don't have any beverages to cheers. But we can do a stick cheers. Yeah, cheers. We have got all the materials we need for a great shelter. It's just going to take a little bit of time. I already feel a blister. Like already. I did one tree and I have a blister. My first impressions of my partner is she's great. She's out there working her ass off. So I like that about her. Positive attitude and a great work ethic. That's all I can ask for in a partner. It's the end of day one. And we're still hard at work at our shelter. I mean, I don't know that this is actually a shelter. It's not a shelter. We're in our platform. We are in a compost pile. This is probably the worst shelter that anyone has ever constructed. The mosquitoes are being back through. Oh my God. It's just much better when we're laying down because that way our backs aren't also being attacked. So like. Just our front. Silver lining. Do you have children? No children. No, never been married. I am a flaming homosexual. I think I have about 50 different emotions coursing through my body all at the same time. I'm nervous. I'm excited. I'm apprehensive. I don't really know how to process everything that's going on right now. My motivation in this challenge is my faith and my family. I hope that my kids can draw what I'm doing as a source of strength later in their lives. Now that it's coming down to crunch time, I'm pretty nervous. What I love about survival is just finding new ways to push my limits. Most of my survivor skills I gained in my four years in the Marine Corps. I'm feminine for sure, but I think that you don't have to be butch to be a badass. I'm thinking that this environment is going to be pretty tough. I'm out of my element for sure. Kerry and Tom are being inserted along the western shore of the Mattook River in the dense southern jungle of Cambodia. In this humid climate, they'll face temperatures that climb well beyond 100 degrees, creating a dank breeding ground for venomous snakes, poisonous spiders, and 10-foot Siamese crocodiles that crush their prey with a bite force of 3,700 pounds per square inch, the strongest in the world. I guess it's time to get naked. I'm doing this challenge just to prove to myself that I can do it. I'm going to use my mental strength and ride out the physical pain in order to survive. There is no prize. It's just, can you get through it? So I just want to prove it to myself. I want to get through it. For me, that's the ultimate success. I'll survive because I really don't have any other option. I'm not tapping out. I have the skills. I have the mind power. So there's really no reason for me not to survive. Here goes nothing. Hi. Wow. Want to go out on a limb and say you're my partner? Yes. Hey, I'm Tom. Carrie. Carrie, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you as well. I can honestly say it's the first time in 40 years I've ever met somebody naked. So this is the most awkward thing ever. A little bit. Where are you from? I'm from Tucson. How about you? Denver. Denver? Yeah. All right. Cool. Yeah. Sweet. We'll be all right. Don't worry about it. For sure. Because of his lack of primitive fire skills, Tom has brought a fire starter. And with the abundance of bamboo in Cambodia, Carrie opted for a machete. Oh, that's a good one. Nice. And let's see what else we got. A map. Oh, sweet. Let's figure out where we're going to go. Carrie and Tom need to find fresh water and a safe location to base camp for the night. Their best option is to head inland several miles through the thick snake-ridden jungle to one of the ancillary creeks in the area. Before coming to Cambodia, Carrie and Tom were evaluated by experts and given an overall Primitive Survival Rating, or PSR. Their previous military experience earns them both a base score of 5.0. Tom's military officer leadership brings him to a 6.6. Carrie's mental toughness and primitive skill set brings her to a 6.4, just a few points below Tom. Carrie and Tom's PSR will be re-evaluated at the completion of their 21-day challenge. So since this thing's still rolling, I guess I'll make my first diary cam. This is, uh, I just met Carrie. It's looking good. I think, uh, I think we'll make a team. So here we go. So what do you do? Well, I have 14 years in the military. Nice. Just where I get most of my experience from. How about you? Um, I was in the Marine Corps for a while and now I am out and doing something totally different. Okay. Yeah. So what made you decide to take on this challenge? Um, I've always kind of wanted the adventure, really. Yeah. So here I am. And here we are. Oh, I should probably also warn you. I'm fairly klutzy. So at some point... You're gonna fall. Yeah. I will hurt something, break something. He's very talkative and very kind of like upbeat and happy. So, um, right now that's great. I'm like pumped about it. Like, cool, let's talk and get to know each other. But I'm sure once I start feeling the pain, I'm gonna be like, shut up. So, uh, what do you think priorities should be day one? Definitely first thing we need to do is make shelter. Yeah, I agree. Bamboo. That's what we need. Yeah. Try to find trees that we can prop it up. Have you built shelter with bamboo before? I have, actually. It's been a little while, but I'm... It's like riding a bike, I feel. I got a lot of ants on the floor. You want me to hold your hand while you go down? I think I'm good. I'm just like really afraid about walking between rocks when I can't see what's like in there, you know? Yeah. You say there's cobras. This is prime snake territory. The Cambodian jungle is home to over 30 types of snake, including the highly venomous king cobra, which can grow up to 18 feet and strike with a head speed of 50 miles per hour. We're starting to go down, which tells me there should be water ahead. It's thinning out a little bit. Yeah. These rocks feel good on my feet. I think we're approaching this. That's definitely water. Water path, yeah. And it's running. Thank God. I think up there is some bamboo we might be able to get for a shelter. Yeah. With a running stream and a wide open stone clearing, this site is an ideal area for Carrie and Tom to set their base camp. I'll start cutting bamboo. Okay. I'm going to head down there and look for some vines. But it also leaves them more exposed to the cold Cambodian nights, which can drop into the low 50s. They'll need to make fire and build a strong shelter in order to stay warm. I'm figuring sleep here, yeah? Right here? Is that where we got the rock? Yeah. I'll put the fire here. All right. I'm going to cut more floor out of these little guys. Well, we should make a decision about the bottom because... Well, I'm not saying lash them. I don't want to stand here. Like, yeah, I can start lashing them, but... All right. So, if we're going to do this, we're probably going to both have to do it at the same time. You know what I mean? We can cord it across and then just start weaving from the back where our heads are. Are you going to find cord that long? Because then you're going to be stretching that. We don't know where it's going to go. Well, quite honestly, since you're... Tell me if you disagree, but I think you're better at this than me. So, if you want to lash that while I hold this, and then we can trade off and you can do this and that. I'll start the fire. Okay. What do you think? Yeah, that's fine. Because I abysmally failed so far. We still have to get firewood for tonight. If we don't, it's going to be incredibly miserable. It's going to get cold. You really need the other person for body heat. I'm going to be sleeping naked next to someone I don't know. It's really kind of unnerving. It wasn't until I'm here and it's happening that I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm not really comfortable with this. I love my wife dearly, and I would never intentionally jeopardize anything in our relationship. We need that fire. I think we got it going. We have our fire going and we actually put down a shelter. It's not finished, but we're up off the ground. It's freezing. I think it's going to be a long night. I'm sorry. Sorry. We got the fire going, but it's still cold tonight. It's a little bit disconcerting for me. We had to kind of huddle for warmth and doing that. I mean, I know it's just for warmth, but it just still feels kind of wrong. It's not natural anymore to be that close to anybody but my wife. It's so cold here at night. Like it is unbearable. The fact that Tom has a problem sharing body heat is absolutely ridiculous. I have a feeling it's going to be a rough night. It's so cold here at night. Like it is unbearable. The fact that Tom has a problem sharing body heat is absolutely ridiculous. Last night was really rough. It was freezing and the wind was blowing. I mean, we tried to like keep body heat, but it was awkward. And listening to him talk about how mad his wife would be or some ****. I'm like, I don't care. I don't **** care. Like that's how I feel. So I just got out and slept on wood, which is better. It's okay if I throw this behind you? Day two, the plan first and foremost is to hydrate. I didn't think after one day I'd be hurting this much for water, but right now I'm just hurting for water. The river water in Cambodia contains potentially dangerous bacteria. To avoid getting sick, Carrie and Tom will need to boil the water each time they want to hydrate. We're using thick bamboo to boil the water in. Check out this piece. Nice. Yeah. When you get a thicker piece, it's really easy to reuse it over the fire and then it actually will hold more water. So we'll get more water per boil. You can see it steaming. Give it a minute and take it out and drink it. Cheers. We had a victory. We need that fire. It's got to be our number one priority. That was good. We'll see how tonight is. Honestly, it can't be worse than last night. Just comfort-wise. We're a little bit worried just because our fire is pretty far away from us. So we might get cold. What else are we doing? Suffering. Oh. Yes. Bye, guys. Peace out. Over the next three days, Carrie and Tom fortify their shelter, collect materials, and hydrate. But a failure to find food has led to serious malnourishment. He's, like, obsessed with collecting firewood. He's absolutely obsessed with it. Like, nothing else matters. And we've never ran out of firewood at night, ever. Me and Tom are very different. He's fine with setting up shop where we have and just starving and just making it through the 21 days. And I feel like I just want more of an experience. Like, I don't want to go home and be like, yeah, I kind of just sat on a rock for 21 days and here I am. I just don't want that. I want to wait a little bit more and warm up and then go for firewood. All right. You can make a firewood run, too, if you want. This bores me to death. We have a functioning site. We have the basics of what we need. We need to stick with what we know. Is that how you want to live? No, but I think that's how we need to live. We got water. I don't, I mean, but isn't this more about more than just surviving? No. This is not about more than just surviving. Like, honestly, if I have to sit here and cook water and knit a roof for 21 days, I will kill myself. I'm really taken aback by her assessing of the situation that we're in. I'm running ragged. I'm all for being adventuresome. I'm all for trapping animals. I just don't have it in me to do it right now. Roger that. I'm tired. I'm hungry. I've had almost no calories in the last four days. I feel like there's a huge disparity in work effort between the two of us right now. And it's really frustrating. My plan is to go off on my own, go adventure a little bit. I want to find food and just be by myself for a little bit. I'm just going to keep walking down the river because I'm hoping that it leads to salt water where I can find some like crabs or I don't know, just anything. I really can't go that much farther because I'm freaking getting tired. I just keep hearing faster water. I probably have been hiking for like a mile or so. I'm hoping that this ends to water. Oh, yes. Perfect. Did not realize how claustrophobic I was until just now. And this clearing is amazing.