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00:00I am Bear Grylls. I will search for the most difficult and dangerous challenges on earth.
00:20Where the skill of survival determines the difference between life and death.
00:26I am in Patagonia, one of the coldest places on earth.
00:30Do you see it? It is a collapse.
00:32This ancient and legendary land is exposed to the lowest temperatures in the world
00:37and to normal winds that can reach up to 150 miles per hour.
00:41I started digging at the right time.
00:43It is an abandoned land that has been carved by ice and fire together.
00:47It is not a suitable place for humans to exist.
00:49If you come here, you are forced to push yourself hard.
00:53A huge collapse.
00:54And more.
00:56I will try to cross now.
00:58What you do in place.
01:00Only the strongest can survive in this dangerous wilderness.
01:05I will show you what you need to stay alive in the farthest parts of the world.
01:10I came here to explore one of the most wild places in the world and exposed to the wind.
01:24It is Patagonia.
01:26I am about to land in the shade in the field of Patagonia.
01:30A strange land whose temperature is below zero.
01:33It extends between the mountains of the South Indies.
01:35It is the third largest area of land ice after the South Island and Greenland.
01:41It is one of the farthest areas from civilization.
01:44It is not a place you want to go.
01:46Here I will land in the lowest part of the world.
01:49In the middle of the coldest wilderness in the world.
01:52The captain says it is the first time anyone tries to land in the shade in the field of Patagonia.
01:59The weather must be perfect.
02:01The sky is clear and there is no wind.
02:04My time must be accurate.
02:06The simplest mistake he can make is to throw me away from my landing area to a frozen cave.
02:36I succeeded, but miraculously.
02:48The temperature is below freezing.
02:50There is only snow and ice on the area I see.
02:54Oh my God!
02:56I feel like my ears are burning.
02:59I can't feel my fingers at all.
03:02Landing in the shade is a very beautiful thing.
03:06But while landing, I no longer feel my hands.
03:10I have to move and use this thing to move my feet again.
03:17I have some basic survival equipment and a few surprises.
03:21And my team will come with me.
03:24But one must not stay here.
03:26You are completely exposed and in the mercy of the elements of nature that kill.
03:30The thickness of the ice is under a depth of a mile and extends for 8,000 square miles.
03:36And it's hard.
03:38You know, I can describe it perfectly.
03:40But if you imagine that you are collecting the equator and the Himalayas together, you will have an idea of ​​the situation.
03:49You won't find food and you can't light a fire.
03:53Your only chance to survive is to go down.
03:59You have to keep walking and don't stop.
04:03In the 19th century, the explorers came here in search of a mysterious peak that emits smoke that emerges from above the snow.
04:11The ancient Mapuche Indians call it Chaltén or the Smoky Mountain.
04:16It is a silent mountain, today called Fitz Roy Mountain.
04:20And most of the time, the fog covers its peak.
04:24It was climbed for the first time in the middle of the 20th century.
04:27It stands in the middle of the ice field on the border between Chile and Argentina.
04:32It is a scary beauty.
04:34But don't be fooled.
04:36It is a frozen and deadly area.
04:40Do you see this coming out of the mountain directly?
04:43It is the beginning of a snowfall.
04:45You must not freeze here because the area is dangerous.
04:48The ice has completely fallen.
04:50Follow the movement.
04:52The speed of the snowfall is 200 miles per hour.
04:55It is the experience of everything that happens in front of it.
04:58You have no hope.
05:00And the impact is deep.
05:02Despite all this, it looks beautiful.
05:05But it is full of dangers.
05:07If you look straight ahead, you will see that impact.
05:11It is a huge crack.
05:14In the frozen ice, during the movement of the ice, it breaks under pressure and creates these huge gaps.
05:20And it is very easy to fall into one of them.
05:24And then you will freeze.
05:26In winter, the ice fills these cracks.
05:28And you can't know the places that are frozen without them.
05:32Look down there.
05:34You can walk on it and you don't know its existence.
05:37And if it were wide, you would go down in it.
05:39Tie me to the ropes, friends.
05:42I hate cracks.
05:44I was about to die while descending when I climbed Everest for the first time.
05:49At an altitude of 19,000 feet, the ice broke and the earth disappeared below me.
05:54I lost consciousness and began to float at the end of the rope.
05:57That rope and my teammates saved my life.
06:01And although we tied ourselves together as we crossed the ice, it was like a rope dance in a minefield.
06:19Okay, I'm out. I'm out.
06:21It was a scary fall.
06:23Come and look at this.
06:26Do you see this at the bottom?
06:28This is what made us tie ourselves together.
06:31Oh, my God.
06:32It's a long way down.
06:39You don't want to find yourself stuck in one of these.
06:42And this is very big.
06:45Come and take a look at it.
06:48Come on.
06:50Move steadily.
06:53When I came out of Everest, I swore not to set foot in a crack again.
06:58But I will take this oath to show you how to get out of it alive.
07:03Look down at this distance.
07:05Look down.
07:14I'm in the Patagonian Ice Age, in the depths of one of the cracks.
07:18It's like a crack that almost cost me my life in the Himalayas.
07:23It's like being in a deep, scary freezer.
07:28Look down at this distance.
07:31The ice walls here are as solid as the rubble.
07:35There is nothing but fear and horror.
07:39I feel this extreme cold.
07:41There are no rays of the sun.
07:43And you are in a deep, dark, threatening place.
07:47If you hang down here, you will quickly become part of the scene.
07:52The guides in the Alps say that when they go to pull the bodies out of the cracks,
07:57they often have to use air ducts to pull the bodies out of the ice,
08:02where it is frozen and solid.
08:07And this brings back to me a lot of disturbing memories,
08:11because I will not rest if I stay here longer.
08:17It is very deep, and there is nothing I can hold on to.
08:20And without a rope, you can't get out of here alive.
08:24Look at his shoes.
08:25He will be in a very bad condition.
08:28And there is no way to get out of here at all.
08:32Without a rope.
08:34Everything around me is like this, and it is very hard.
08:37I am afraid.
08:54There is something evil in these places.
08:59I have been to many harsh places before,
09:02but few of them scared me to this extent.
09:06This is not a suitable place for humans to freeze.
09:10I want to get out of here.
09:11And to do this, I will try to use what is called the Brosek knot.
09:17This is a very simple knot, but it saved the lives of many people.
09:24All you have to do is wrap it several times like this,
09:28then pass this end through here.
09:33And what you have to do is get your foot in it,
09:37and then stand up.
09:40And when you stand up,
09:46you slide this to the top.
09:50The faster I got out of this freezing hell, the better.
09:53But going back to the ice field does not mean salvation.
09:56The weather here is famous for its sudden and unbearable fluctuations.
10:03The ice field receives 30 feet of ice every year,
10:07which is brought by the south-west wind from the south of the Pacific Ocean.
10:11The weather conditions cannot be worse than this,
10:14even in the South Pole.
10:16It is a frozen and scary place,
10:18and it cannot be applied to normal survival laws.
10:22There is a famous story about a plane crash in the Andes,
10:25north of Patagonia, in the seventies.
10:29There was a group of rugby players from Uruguay on board,
10:33and they managed to save 50 people somehow
10:36from the first shock of the crash.
10:39And they did the right thing,
10:41because they took the plane wreckage and built an ice wall.
10:46And if they didn't do that,
10:48they would all die on the first night.
10:51The temperature reaches 30 degrees below zero,
10:54but it wasn't until over two months
10:58that the rest of them survived.
11:01And this is the only thing they did,
11:04because they had to eat human flesh.
11:08And in conditions like this,
11:10you can understand that it was their only chance to survive.
11:17If you are stuck in a snowstorm,
11:19finding a shelter must be your first priority.
11:23This whole mountain top,
11:25it's just like a desert.
11:27And there is no natural shelter here.
11:31All I have is sand,
11:34and frozen snow,
11:36and my feet,
11:38and snow.
11:40What I am going to do
11:42is to create a snow cave.
11:46If you don't stay away from the wind,
11:48you're going to die.
11:50The frozen, frozen snow accumulates above the wind,
11:54making it much easier to dig these caves.
11:59Even if you are half the distance
12:03from the top of the mountain in the wind,
12:05the snow,
12:07creating a snow cave
12:09gives a feeling of beauty and comfort.
12:14Or as my son Arin would say.
12:18But don't get the wrong idea.
12:20These mountains can kill you.
12:22Most people can get stuck outside.
12:24Several years ago,
12:26a Chilean team was training in a nearby place,
12:29then got stuck in a snowstorm.
12:31In one night,
12:3325 people were frozen to death.
12:36And look, I've started digging
12:39at the right time.
12:41The wind started blowing again.
12:43The weather is changing here,
12:45and there is a sudden change
12:47between one minute and another.
12:49But there is a difference
12:51between being down here
12:53and being up here.
12:55I'm pressing the ice
12:57to become a strong piece
12:59to close the entrance.
13:01The weather will be cold,
13:03but it will be limited
13:05by the strength of the wind.
13:07I'm making good progress so far.
13:09I've been working for 15 minutes,
13:12and I have enough here
13:14to keep me safe from the wind.
13:16So if it's urgent,
13:18you have to hurry.
13:20And I realize that I will be away
13:22from this weather for 10 or 15 minutes.
13:28I still have daylight,
13:30and I really want to continue
13:32digging this
13:34to make myself able
13:36to sleep
13:38inside this cave
13:40and stay
13:42comfortable
13:44all night.
13:46But believe me,
13:48this ice is useful.
13:50In 1996,
13:5212 mountain climbers
13:54were stuck in a storm
13:56north of Patagonia.
13:58After 14 days,
14:00they were found alive
14:02thanks to the ice.
14:04I have to work an hour and a half
14:06to finish my cave.
14:08Yes,
14:10I'm tired myself.
14:12But before you go to the cave,
14:14be very careful
14:16to respond to the call of nature.
14:20One of my friends
14:22was one of the Everest climbers
14:24when she went out
14:26in the middle of the night
14:28to do her job,
14:30and she was only wearing
14:32home-made shoes.
14:34Then she slipped and fell
14:36from a height of 5,000 feet
14:38I don't carry one,
14:40but I carry a bottle of water
14:42and it's empty now
14:44and I need to dig,
14:46and I will use it.
14:48This will keep me warm
14:50for a short time at least.
14:52Instead of throwing the digger,
14:54I will put this here
14:56and I will dig
14:58in it.
15:00I went through
15:02a very pleasant experience
15:04once.
15:06I was climbing
15:08and doing this at night
15:10and I slipped
15:12a bottle of water
15:14from my hand
15:16and I had a sleeping bag
15:18full of a liter of water
15:20for the next week.
15:22It was a very bad
15:24smell,
15:26so since then
15:28I have been
15:30carrying a bottle
15:32of water
15:34and a bottle of water
15:36in my hand.
15:38I will put this
15:40in my blanket
15:42and I hope it will
15:44keep me warm
15:46but I am completely comfortable
15:48and I hope to sleep
15:50comfortably at night.
15:52I will spend the night
15:54away from the storm,
15:56with the blanket
15:58and the pillow.
16:02Wow, what a beauty!
16:06It seems that the worst part
16:08of this storm has passed
16:10and the wind is still strong
16:12but the difference is amazing
16:14in this hole.
16:16In fact, it was not a bad night
16:18even though the bed
16:20was a little foggy
16:22and still very cold
16:24But this really amazes me.
16:28I feel that this is one of the times that the mountains give you strength
16:33instead of taking it away from you.
16:36This is beautiful.
16:38But you can't rely on anything in Patagonia,
16:42and the weather is quickly getting worse.
16:46After a night of sleeping on the ice, I need a little warmth.
16:51The last thing you expect to happen here is dehydration,
16:55but it kills the cold, as well as the heat.
16:58You can lose up to two liters of liquid every hour.
17:02If you don't make up for this lost liquid, you won't live for more than a few days.
17:07The problem is that there aren't a lot of flowing streams here.
17:12It's just blocks of ice.
17:15But in this case, you have to resist boiling fresh ice.
17:19And this is a mistake that some survivors have made
17:22by breaking the plane on the landing gear
17:24when they started eating it like this,
17:26which caused them to burn their wounds,
17:28and they got bruises and bruises inside their mouths.
17:32Then the temperature of their internal bodies dropped.
17:35Instead, you have to take a glass of water,
17:38then fill it with ice, and press it in like this.
17:42When it becomes full, you put it between the layers of your blanket.
17:46Make sure it's not close to your skin.
17:49And when you start moving, the ice will melt slowly.
17:53Well, my friends, the wind is getting faster,
17:56and the ice is starting to fall again.
17:59I have to move before I lose consciousness with my fingers.
18:06I know from a very painful experience
18:08that one of the most dangerous dangers of the mountain is hypothermia.
18:12The severe cold freezes the plasma in your cells,
18:15and then it explodes,
18:17which causes painful red spots.
18:20And in the end, after a few months, it becomes black,
18:24and you have to rub it, or it will fall on its own.
18:29I had an old friend whose finger fell on the cold ice,
18:35and there was another friend who also
18:39hacked his own finger.
18:42He said that the dead part of his finger kept hitting it,
18:46so he hacked it.
18:49The first stage of hypothermia is hypothermia,
18:52and it can happen within 60 seconds.
18:55I had a frostbite on my knee,
18:58and my hands were very painful.
19:01But when you become resistant to the cold,
19:03your resistance becomes less.
19:06That's why my hands have become very cold these days.
19:10But the basis is always to keep moving your fingers,
19:15and your toes, and your face as well.
19:19When hypothermia occurs, the body does not recover automatically,
19:23as the affected cells do not grow again.
19:27Snowstorms like this can cause complete loss of vision,
19:31and it is very easy to lose any sense of direction,
19:34or to be on the path of a snowfall.
19:37You have to be careful, my friends, here,
19:41because this whole place is an area of snowfall.
19:46All this new snow falls,
19:49and there is a steep slope,
19:51and strong winds,
19:53and we also have the polluter, which is us.
19:56Snowfall causes the death of more than 200 people every year,
20:00and often the cause is themselves.
20:03I think if we can get to this slope through this snow,
20:08it will be a good place to know
20:10what if we were exposed to a snowfall,
20:13and I will show you how dangerous these harsh conditions are.
20:17It is a very dangerous behavior,
20:19but it will prove how fast and fragile snowfall is.
20:23This whole slope is ready for a snowfall,
20:28and here is a snowplow,
20:31covered by soft snow.
20:33I think this snowplow will collapse with some help.
20:49There it will be stable in a good way.
20:53The rope has become stable.
20:55I will remove this rope now,
20:57and create channels in the snow.
20:59You can see how deep it is.
21:01This snow accumulation will be enough
21:04to cause a small snowfall.
21:07And I use a small camera
21:09to show you how it will be when the person is buried alive.
21:16Well, let's see if this will cause a snowfall.
21:25It seems that the small snowfall has started.
21:28Where did the camera go?
21:32Within seconds, she was buried.
21:34If you were in her place,
21:36your only chance to come out alive
21:38is to be found quickly.
21:40But this is difficult to apply.
21:42If you are covered by six inches of snow,
21:45you will not be able to move your limbs,
21:47and you will not be able to move your mouth
21:50to ask for help.
21:53After half an hour,
21:55your chances of coming out alive
21:57are reduced by 30%.
21:59And if you are not found within two hours,
22:02you will die.
22:08Finally, after 45 minutes,
22:10I found the camera.
22:13Are you alive?
22:16It was a small collapse
22:18made up of a few feet of snow.
22:21Imagine what will happen
22:23in a thousand feet of snowfall
22:25and the collapse of tons of snow
22:27to destroy everything.
22:29This is how dangerous these things are
22:31and how difficult it is to find people.
22:33Let's leave.
22:34This fully explains
22:36that the snowfalls are deadly.
22:38I don't want to settle on this mountain.
22:40The weather is getting worse again,
22:42and I need to leave here quickly.
22:51The following footage was shot in a different location.
22:54The following footage was shot in a different location.
22:57The following footage was shot in a different location.
23:03I am exposed to a snowstorm
23:05on a frozen mountain in Patagonia.
23:07If the snow falls in this way,
23:09you have to get out of the mountain quickly.
23:11You can use what is called a dive.
23:14All you have to do
23:16is take long steps
23:18and step out of the mountain.
23:20Diving in your boots
23:22is an effective way to move
23:24where the snow starts to form.
23:26The faster you move,
23:28the more fun it is.
23:43Finally, the weather changed for the better.
23:48It is true that when the sun rises,
23:50the frozen Patagonian mountains
23:52become more barren and beautiful.
23:57I have always wanted to explore
23:59this harsh mountainous landscape,
24:01and it has really exceeded my expectations.
24:09The view may be barren,
24:11but this dangerous beauty
24:13is exposed to the harsh nature.
24:19But the next challenge is waiting.
24:21The forest is under my feet.
24:23I have to get out of here safely.
24:27Do you know what we have?
24:29The wind is calm
24:31and the surface of the cliff
24:33allows us to fly.
24:35Let's do this.
24:37As all scouts know,
24:39you have to be prepared.
24:41My alternative plan is to get out of these mountains
24:44in one of the small,
24:46snow-capped places in the world.
24:48Good. We are ready.
24:50I think there are two ways to get out of the mountain.
24:53A slow and long way,
24:55and a very fast way.
24:57And I know which one is better.
25:00Let's go.
25:17I love Patagonia!
25:32I got out of the mountain,
25:34and it was beautiful,
25:36but the descent into the Zan forest
25:38was not good.
25:41Ah!
25:45The southern forest of Patagonia
25:47is like a disturbing nightmare
25:49and a dark, bad night.
25:51You can't get through it,
25:53and it's very easy to get lost in it.
25:55If you try to get back through these things,
25:57you will be torn apart.
25:59Look how sharp it is.
26:01It's like a knife.
26:03Everything around you
26:05is torn apart by your feet.
26:07It's hard to keep going in one direction.
26:10All you see here
26:12is a mass of thorns
26:14and branches
26:16that can cut you.
26:21You will never want to settle here.
26:23You have to fight the Zan
26:25that moves with the wind
26:27until you can actually see the trees.
26:30The trees have become less dense now.
26:32I reached an empty plain,
26:34but I faced a face
26:36that was much worse.
26:38This doesn't look good at all.
26:40There is no way back,
26:42and I can't waste time.
26:44I have no choice
26:46but to cross the swampy
26:48swamp in Patagonia,
26:50which is a deadly mixture
26:52of pollinated plants
26:54and frozen water,
26:56and it's a bad mixture.
26:58Ah! The smell is disgusting.
27:00I don't know what this is,
27:02but it's
27:04For me,
27:06it doesn't look good for sure,
27:08but I'm overwhelmed
27:10up to my knees.
27:12But I'm going to cross it.
27:16This coldness
27:18and this smell
27:20exhausts me
27:22and drains all my energy.
27:24This is like
27:26a mass of a whale
27:28and a layer of snow
27:30and my feet
27:32are very cold
27:34and full of mud.
27:36Let's cross this,
27:38that's enough.
27:40Pollination
27:42is one of the biggest dangers
27:44in Patagonia.
27:46If the internal temperature
27:48drops by only a few degrees,
27:50I will experience
27:52low-temperature symptoms.
27:54I will begin to feel dizziness
27:56and dizziness,
27:58and I will almost lose consciousness.
28:00This dangerous area
28:02is waiting for you.
28:04It's not like that,
28:06but you have to keep moving forward.
28:08To survive,
28:10you have to hurry.
28:12Get out and warm up,
28:14then dry yourself
28:16as soon as possible.
28:18And finally, I went out.
28:20It's time to start the fire.
28:22I will look for food
28:24and start a fire.
28:26I will use a fire extinguisher.
28:28It's called Barba de Viejo,
28:30which means
28:32old man's beard.
28:34You can see the reason,
28:36it's kind of soft,
28:38but the reason it's suitable
28:40as a fire extinguisher
28:42is that it grows on these trees
28:44and it's far from the wetland
28:46and it has to catch fire
28:48very quickly.
28:50Fortunately,
28:52the Barba de Viejo plant
28:54has risen to its reputation
28:56as a fire extinguisher.
29:00Okay, we're on fire.
29:02This is a good stage
29:04when we get to the first flame
29:06and the other parts
29:08start to ignite.
29:10You know you're in a good position.
29:12This situation
29:14makes me smile all the time.
29:16It's the right support
29:18I need to look for food.
29:20And you can't
29:22complain here
29:24about what you eat.
29:26I realize
29:28through my experiments
29:30that the forest
29:32is a good place
29:34to find food.
29:36It's a place
29:38where animals come
29:40and where you find
29:42all these things.
29:44But here in Patagonia
29:46it looks like a really empty kitchen.
29:48The harsh weather here
29:50is the reason.
29:52And the winter is very long
29:54and harsh.
29:56There is a small pond here
29:58and it's not a bad place
30:00to look for food.
30:02All this is just
30:04a water plant
30:06and it looks like
30:08a watermelon
30:10but it's good for eating.
30:12I will try
30:14to eat it.
30:18It's not good
30:20but it's good
30:22for eating.
30:24It's like a salad
30:26in which a rich person
30:28puts a lot of seaweed.
30:32But you have to eat
30:34what you find
30:36especially because
30:38the food is rare.
30:40Winter in Patagonia
30:42lasts five months
30:44and I'm here
30:46Look
30:48there is
30:50a piece of land
30:52but
30:54this
30:56this
30:58is a small
31:00lettuce.
31:02Yes, it's here
31:04but where is the other one?
31:06No, impossible.
31:08I dropped it.
31:10Good, I have one.
31:12I had two
31:14In fact, in Patagonia
31:16at this time of year
31:18this is the best food
31:20you can find.
31:22It won't give you energy
31:24but
31:26if you search well
31:28in this dead wood
31:30you will find this kind of thing
31:32and also this kind of piece of land.
31:34Clean it.
31:44It tastes like
31:46a snake and a mosquito.
31:50It seems that
31:52every time I eat these things
31:54the last thing you do
31:56is to take revenge
31:58in my mouth.
32:00I don't know if this is what it tastes like.
32:02Birka weed
32:04is not a great medicine
32:06but it is better than nothing
32:08to supplement your body with fuel
32:10to come out alive.
32:12I am in the forest of Zan
32:14in Patagonia
32:16which is 45 miles long
32:18and it is very easy to get here.
32:20Can this forest cause you
32:22to lose your sense of direction?
32:24It is a continuation of one pattern
32:26that makes the sense of direction a nightmare.
32:28Especially if there is no horizon
32:30to follow
32:32and there are only trees
32:34and trees only in your view.
32:36To be able to escape
32:38the only way to get out alive
32:40is to go down to a low ground.
32:42Following a pattern
32:44is a classic technique
32:46but it is not easy to find one.
32:48So you have to be careful.
32:50I hear the sounds of the trees.
32:52I think it is in this direction.
32:56It is there.
32:58I found it.
33:02Well, all we have to do now
33:04is to follow this.
33:06Every time you go down 300 feet
33:08the temperature rises
33:10by about two degrees.
33:12You do not get out of the way
33:14of the problems,
33:16but you reduce the possibility
33:18of your injury by reducing the temperature
33:20and the situation improves
33:22in the natural refrigerator.
33:24Look at this.
33:26It is Tutu Choro.
33:30It is delicious
33:32and its taste is sour.
33:34It is like a sour apple.
33:36The people who live in these forests
33:38used to love it
33:40and ferment it
33:42and make a drink from it.
33:44It is called Mapuche drink.
33:46Well, let's follow.
33:50The problem with following a schedule
33:52is that you do not know exactly
33:54where you will arrive.
33:56The idea of ​​following a schedule
33:58seemed to me a good plan
34:00but now it has become less intelligent
34:02and I hope it will not be
34:04that it is smart.
34:16Wow, look at this.
34:22It is a steep slope.
34:24Wow.
34:26It must be
34:28150 feet above
34:30the bottom of the schedule.
34:32It will be over.
34:36The options available to us
34:38are either to go back
34:40in the opposite direction of the schedule
34:44or to try to find a way
34:46around some of these curves.
34:48But look, even this
34:50seems very careful.
34:54But I think it is possible
34:56to do this by rope.
34:58These are the things I love.
35:00The ropes are ready.
35:02Let's go.
35:06Jumping on this cliff
35:08will save me hours
35:10but I have to find this descent first.
35:12One mistake
35:14or if the wind gets stronger
35:16I may slip and return to the path of the waterfall
35:18where hundreds of tons
35:20of cold ice water will run over me.
35:30Wow.
35:32What a steep climb.
35:48This is the way
35:50to get down
35:52on a big waterfall like this.
35:54The following day
35:58Following the schedule
36:00I went down from the mountain
36:02and I am in the valley.
36:04There seems to be a nest at the top.
36:06The signs of life immediately began.
36:08Yes, it seems to be the nest of a woodpecker
36:10or something like that.
36:12If I found an egg,
36:14the egg is a great source of protein,
36:16vitamins and fat,
36:18and it is one of the best food for survival
36:20ever.
36:22There are some holes in the tree
36:24to see.
36:26Yes, this is what I want.
36:28Do you see?
36:30Jowjow was a staple food
36:32for the indigenous people of Patagonia
36:34and they prefer it.
36:36The settlers call it
36:38the Indian bread.
36:40It looks like
36:42a crumpled golf ball
36:44and I've always wanted
36:46to taste it.
36:48And the answer is
36:50that it is
36:52simple
36:54and tasteless
36:56and soft.
36:58It does not contain
37:00much energy,
37:02but it is
37:04better than nothing.
37:06Look,
37:08it looks like melted cheese
37:10in the middle,
37:12if it were so.
37:14Good.
37:16I escaped the ice fields
37:18and I was able to get out
37:20of the Zan forest in Patagonia,
37:22but there is a final obstacle
37:24in my way,
37:26but I will try to cross it.
37:34I am facing
37:36my biggest challenge
37:38in Patagonia.
37:40If I want to cross this lake,
37:42the survival manuals
37:44would say
37:46go around it,
37:48because you have to be careful
37:50with cold ice water like this.
37:52But there is one exception.
37:54There is a lot of
37:56molten wood
37:58here on this shore
38:00and part of me feels
38:02that this is not resistant at all.
38:04I want to know
38:06if I can build a boat
38:08to cross the lake.
38:12I can use a rope
38:14to tie the wood together.
38:16What you need
38:18is a couple of long,
38:20sturdy trunks.
38:22You put some wide supports
38:24here,
38:26then you also put the trunks
38:28and the fences on the supports.
38:30Then you put
38:32two pieces attached
38:34in this way.
38:36You use a piece of the rope
38:38and if the wind is strong,
38:40you can make
38:42a pretty simple boat.
38:44It's not perfect,
38:46but it might work.
38:48It takes
38:50about three hours to make a boat like this.
38:52But if I fail,
38:54I might end up in the frozen lake.
38:56And here you need
38:58alternative plans,
39:00so I lit a fire
39:02in case I needed
39:04warmth, dryness and speed.
39:06People are exposed to water accidents.
39:08Three local guides
39:10were killed near here
39:12after their boat overturned.
39:14They were all strong swimmers,
39:16but the cold killed them.
39:18It was like putting them
39:20in a snowbox.
39:22Okay, we're floating.
39:24The water is flooding us a lot.
39:26But I'm floating.
39:28And the typical situation
39:30is that Patagonia
39:32is one of the most wind prone areas
39:34in the world.
39:36I need the wind
39:38for my sail.
39:40The wind
39:42becomes completely calm.
39:44But the water temperature
39:46almost exceeds the freezing point.
39:48But the problem is
39:50that this boat
39:52floats six inches
39:54underwater.
39:56And this is not an ideal situation.
39:58My boots are full of water.
40:00And I'm very cold.
40:02It's like putting my feet
40:04in a snowbox.
40:06I'm starting to doubt
40:08that this boat will last long
40:10and my coldness will increase
40:12quickly.
40:14This is going to take
40:16an hour to cross
40:18the lake
40:20at this rate.
40:22At least an hour.
40:24And to be honest,
40:26I'm two feet under.
40:28Do you know that I did
40:30a crazy thing
40:32last time?
40:34Let's try it again.
40:44My legs are stuck
40:46in something here.
40:50Okay, I'm going to swim this distance.
40:52It's going to take me 20 minutes
40:54to turn around.
40:56I'm actually in a very bad
40:58moment.
41:00It's a very painful feeling.
41:04Okay,
41:06this cape
41:08and this shirt
41:10are my salvation.
41:12I have to keep this dry
41:14and swim.
41:16I tried,
41:18but sometimes you have to know
41:20when to reduce your losses.
41:22Okay.
41:30This water
41:32is cold.
41:34Cold!
41:38And you feel
41:40that different parts
41:42of your body
41:44are starting to get
41:46hit by the green slowly.
41:48This is not
41:50a pleasant thing
41:52for me at all.
41:54This is not a pleasant thing
41:56for me
41:58at all.
42:14Oh,
42:16that's cold.
42:18The cold is very harsh.
42:20I've lost my balance
42:22in the lake,
42:24but at least I have fire.
42:26And I need to get rid of this.
42:28These wet clothes.
42:30The cold can be very dangerous
42:32because it weakens your feeling
42:34and your strength
42:36and makes even the simplest
42:38things impossible.
42:40Although I managed to do this
42:42quickly,
42:44at least this
42:46is still dry,
42:48luckily.
42:50This is very
42:52hot.
43:02Let's hope
43:04the snow doesn't fall again.
43:20The moral of the story
43:22is that if you want to build a raft
43:24and try to cross
43:26ice lakes,
43:28you have to come up with
43:30an alternative plan.
43:32Otherwise,
43:34this land will not have mercy on you
43:36and your end will be here.
43:38Oh,
43:40I'm starting to feel my toes again.
43:44I tested my skills
43:46in facing everything
43:48in the icy land and the shores of the forests.
43:50Next time
43:52in Patagonia,
43:54I will explore the mountains
43:56and hunt the lions of the mountains
43:58with the herds.
44:00And I will show you
44:02how to escape the frozen land
44:04in the Morino River.
44:06I won't hold back
44:08because I feel the sand on my face.
44:18Thank you for watching!
44:20See you in the next video!