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00:00I am Bear Grylls. I will show you what I do to get out alive from the most dangerous places on earth.
00:09I will live a series of challenges in places where you do not last a day without survival equipment.
00:18This time I am in the country of Goldilocks, in the far north of Canada.
00:25I will face the ice rivers. The place is not nice.
00:30The waterfalls are strong.
00:33It is cold.
00:35And an adventure in the depths of the earth.
00:38There is little oxygen here.
00:43This is the most difficult challenge for me so far.
00:54I am in Yukon, in the far north of Canada.
00:58The temperature in winter is minus 50.
01:02And the sunlight in the summer is around today.
01:05And there is a large non-fossilized ice field on the ground.
01:09This place is home to the highest mountains in Canada.
01:13And there are the Gaddara ice rivers and the powerful waterfalls.
01:18And hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of dangerous gorges.
01:23In the summer in Yukon, the temperatures change drastically.
01:28And, of course, the snowmobiles freeze.
01:31This will not be an easy journey.
01:36This is the highest possible altitude for the helicopter.
01:39And the air pressure is low.
01:41And when the plane takes off, I will jump.
01:49I will jump from a height of 3,000 meters with some equipment.
01:53And I will be accompanied by the photography team.
01:59I will jump at a high speed of more than 190 kilometers per hour.
02:16There are mountains around me.
02:19And going down them is dangerous, so I will look for an easy way.
02:23The cold is harsh.
02:28There is a lot of snow surrounding this place on the mountains.
02:33I will remove some of the snow.
02:36Because the snow is very cold.
02:39The snow is very cold.
02:42The snow is very cold.
02:45And I am afraid of the cold.
02:48I am afraid of the cold.
02:51I will remove some of these things from the harness.
02:54Things like these ropes will be very useful to me.
02:58The harness rope is strong enough to carry my weight.
03:01And it may be a way to survive in the mountains.
03:04I may also use the harness opening device.
03:14Okay, let's start.
03:21The first challenge for me is these mountains, which guard the southern entrance to Yukon.
03:27A century ago, about 100,000 gold diggers crossed from here on a journey 800 kilometers to Klondike.
03:36But they suffered from exhaustion, severe hunger, and the attacks of the wolves.
03:41And 63 of them died in a snowfall.
03:44It is difficult to walk in the snow.
03:47I have reached my knees.
03:50I will not stay long here.
03:53This slope has been scorched by the sun.
03:56And it will be dangerous.
03:59Let's continue.
04:02The danger of a snowfall is high at this altitude.
04:05And the harness will not get me out of the danger zone.
04:08So I will get down from here in a very fast way.
04:11The place here is very slippery.
04:14But I will climb to get over this part.
04:17The danger of slipping is not being able to see the edge.
04:21It may end up falling on the rock.
04:24But I will try to do this with this little harness that I took from the harness.
04:30I will use it as a windbreaker.
04:33And I will try to get over this part.
04:35This little harness that I took from the harness.
04:38I will use it as a windbreaker.
04:41And this is something that I have never done before.
04:45And there is no reason to prevent its success.
04:48Because it succeeds in spaceships.
04:51Let's try that.
04:54Okay, let's go.
05:01I quickly get down on the snow.
05:03Because if my feet get stuck, my harness will break.
05:15It slowed down.
05:17But my movement remained good.
05:20Although I was fast.
05:27I got off the dangerous slope.
05:29But on this slope, the view is full of fields and ice rivers that block your path.
05:38Look at this place.
05:41It is beautiful to an exceptional extent.
05:45But it is also wild.
05:48And wild to the greatest extent you have ever seen.
05:52Look at it.
05:53Look at it.
05:55This is the largest non-fossilized glacier in the world.
06:01And looking at this place, we find it very vast.
06:06But it is very scary.
06:09Isn't it?
06:12It is clear that the work down there will be difficult.
06:19Okay.
06:24Ice rises 30 centimeters per day.
06:29This pressure on millions of tons of ice constantly changes.
06:39These are the things we bring from the ice rivers.
06:45Where the snow is on this solid ice.
06:49And most of the time, the big cracks are covered by a thin layer a few centimeters thick.
06:57And we do not know what is under it.
07:08The depth of the cracks reaches hundreds of meters.
07:12And it is impossible to climb its ice walls.
07:15This is what I mean here.
07:17It is a narrow crack.
07:19And look.
07:21Will this carry me?
07:23Its depth reaches down there.
07:26You may think it is not harmful.
07:29But the narrow cracks are the most dangerous.
07:32When you go down there, you will be trapped inside it.
07:35And you will drown while it squeezes you.
07:37They call it the juices.
07:39For that reason.
07:40I know rescuers who use a hose to get people out of the ice.
07:51Crossing the ice rivers is dangerous.
07:55The cracks expand in the ice.
07:58And finding a way here is difficult.
08:01You will see here as we go down the ice river.
08:05These narrow cracks are really starting to open up.
08:08And the attempt to continue climbing these hills
08:13with rubber shoes will be a deadly attempt.
08:18But if I find a way to secure myself,
08:21I may be able to get out of these cracks.
08:25Let's try that.
08:28Most likely, I will not be able to cross the ice river without a terrifying descent.
08:33What worries me is down there.
08:38I will try.
08:50I am in the north-west of Canada.
08:52I am trying to get out of the ice river.
08:58There is nothing to tie the rope to.
09:01So I will make a loop to tie the rope to the ice.
09:04I am going to dig about 20 cm
09:07to see if I can cross all the ice
09:10loose and unhooked
09:13to where I can find strong ice like this.
09:18I can use the tape from the rope.
09:21I wrap it around the ice loop.
09:25Good.
09:27Then I put five of these ropes together.
09:34Well, one of the ropes carries a man
09:37and I have five.
09:39So I will be fine.
09:42And then for a classic descent,
09:44I will put it between my legs
09:46and over my shoulders.
09:49I must be ready.
09:52I hope it holds.
09:57It looks good.
09:59Good.
10:04The place is very narrow here.
10:07I am committed to that and I rely on myself.
10:22You can hear the sound of the ice I dropped.
10:25Here.
10:27Here.
10:29Here.
10:31Here.
10:34It is hard to know if this is a weak bridge
10:39or a strong one.
10:58Wow!
11:00Oh my God!
11:01The ice here,
11:03do you see it?
11:05It is very transparent.
11:08This is the traditional blue ice.
11:11The ice here is deep.
11:15It is in the heart of the ice river.
11:20And this place scares me.
11:23I will cut my way down here.
11:28If I have to jump,
11:29I hope it holds me.
11:48What worries me down here
11:52is that the small pieces of ice disappear.
11:55Those pieces go to the channels of the ice river
12:01where the water is running.
12:03If I fall there, I will never get out.
12:07There is no way to go around it.
12:10I must climb over it.
12:12I feel nervous and this will weaken my strength.
12:26It is the force that I do not want to fall into.
12:32And you can see
12:35how slippery this ice is.
12:39I will cross over it.
12:41I will use this handle
12:44and try to drag my leg to there.
12:47Okay.
12:49One.
12:51Two.
12:53Three.
12:55Four.
13:05And this is what I have to get out of.
13:10It looks tight.
13:13Very tight.
13:16I will try to climb to the top.
13:19I do not know if it is possible to pass and escape
13:22from this ice cave.
13:25One.
13:27Two.
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16:23I want my clothes dry.
16:26So I can wear them after I've cut this water.
16:35I'm going to cut this.
16:43Oh no!
16:45This is the blue water in Canada.
16:54These lakes freeze for five months a year.
16:59It's very cold, even in the summer.
17:05I'm afraid to get there.
17:10I'm going to check this house.
17:13Maybe the grenades are still here.
17:19Look, you'll see it's huge.
17:22Maybe there are entrances here.
17:27It must be one of them.
17:30I'm going to take a look.
17:32Grenades build entrances to their homes under the water to protect themselves from wolves, wolves, and now me.
17:43This is definitely an entrance.
17:46But there are several entrances to their homes.
17:48So I'm going to make my way to that side.
17:55And this looks like another entrance.
18:11But there's no one in the house.
18:15I have to get out of this water.
18:32Do you see this dam?
18:35This is a dam made by the Grenades.
18:38Do you see the teeth marks on this?
18:40This is the biggest dam I've ever seen.
18:44It's about two kilometers long, and it's all made by the Grenades.
18:49The Grenades have evacuated this dam, and I'm going to use it for fishing.
18:54Look, there's a beautiful natural channel here.
19:00I'm going to use it and the dam that the Grenades made to catch some fish.
19:10The work of the Grenades fascinates me.
19:13I'm going to expand the dam and make a fish tank.
19:28I'm going to put this in the form of a pressure.
19:32So it's easy for me to get the fish into it.
19:36And when it comes in, it's going to be hard to get out again.
19:43The fish are supposed to be in this lake.
19:47I hope some of them will go into the dam, and then I'll close the hole.
19:57That would be beneficial.
20:00Some fish have entered the dam.
20:03It's not big, but it's a good number.
20:06It's five or six now.
20:11Now I have to get it out.
20:24Here it is, in the shade.
20:28It's a very old way.
20:30The water hits strongly, forming shocking waves that will shake the fish.
20:44It's a little fish.
20:47I wish I could fish more, but it's dinner.
20:52The next challenge is to preserve progress in the river and face these dangerous waterfalls.
21:00The next day
21:11But before dinner...
21:20There's a tree root that's easy to get down here.
21:25And this is a good place to make a shelter, if you can make it, of course.
21:30You have to use what nature gives you, and if you have this, use it.
21:35And the good thing is, there's a house on a tree that's away from the moth.
21:41And it's four feet high, so it's going to be hard to catch my scent.
21:46All I need is available here.
21:49The poles first.
21:51What's hard to do with a knife is to break a piece of wood like this.
21:56I put it between two trees, like a swing.
21:59And that's how you break it easily.
22:03I'm going to use the Tannoub roots, like a rope.
22:08And the good thing about it is that it's thin, and it's about six feet long.
22:15Here it is.
22:19The Tannoub roots are small in diameter, but they're like a rope, so they're resilient and very strong.
22:28And if you just split it, you can weigh out how much you have.
22:36And that makes it easier.
22:52This will help me in my work.
22:55I'm going to make a ladder to go up and down my shelter.
22:59I've finished the ladder, and I'm going to start placing some poles.
23:05Like a platform.
23:10The Tannoub and Hawr trees are straight and strong and suitable for my bed.
23:18And now I'm going to tie the branches in a cross shape, and these branches will be my bed.
23:28I'm going to leave a distance of about a meter, so that I don't fall during the night.
23:33And I'm going to use the soft branches for the bed.
23:37The important thing when using the Tannoub branches is to arrange them in the same direction, so that they look like a roof tile.
23:45It's going to be soft, and it's going to take you like a piece.
23:48The piece that comes from the branches.
23:51It's become beautiful and comfortable now.
23:54And it's going to give me good isolation.
23:58After this, I'm going to eat.
24:01But with the hungry bear around, I won't be hungry.
24:06You have to cook and eat at a distance of 100 meters from the camp.
24:11I know a friend who went hunting and ate his dinner near his tent.
24:16And in the middle of the night, a black bear came in, and he was frightened by a friend pointing a light at him.
24:22But the bear attacked the light.
24:25And he survived because he set fire to it.
24:29As he entered the tent.
24:37You can see the traces of the bear's claws.
24:40It reaches here.
24:42It seems that the bear bit it with his claws.
24:46He bit it and passed, and it's not new, but it's high.
24:51It's not higher than three meters.
24:55And this is not far from the height of my camp.
25:00And before I go, there's one last thing I'm going to do.
25:04The last thing I want to do.
25:07Before I go to bed.
25:10It's climbing stairs.
25:13Because in the end, if the bear wants to get down from here, it will do that.
25:20But I don't want to make it easier for him.
25:24Well, I'll try to sleep.
25:37But that's not easy on this stretch of land.
25:40And the sun is constantly shining.
25:47It's eleven o'clock at night.
25:50And this is the darkest night in this north.
25:54This place is left in the middle of the night.
25:57And I understand what they mean.
26:00It's very difficult to sleep here.
26:02And you feel like you're in the middle of the day.
26:13The rivers were used to transport this part of Canada.
26:17Some of them covered hundreds of kilometers on primitive boats to reach the gold fields.
26:24It was dangerous.
26:26Many people died in these Gaddara waterfalls.
26:32The use of these rivers is limited, and people are still facing problems.
26:37On the other bank, there is a stream.
26:41I can use it here.
26:43But I'll cross the river first.
26:46It's dangerous.
26:48And people die in rivers like this every year.
26:50It's so fast that a huge force comes with the water.
27:01I'm going to need some support.
27:03And this log is tough.
27:05And it won't break under pressure.
27:12I'll go down and cross this river as fast as I can.
27:17Oh, it's slippery.
27:18And the rocks are oily.
27:28The stream is 16 kilometers per hour.
27:31It's a huge force.
27:33And the water reaches my knees.
27:35It pushes me and almost falls on me.
27:48I crossed half the distance, so the difficulty and speed of the river and its depth increased.
28:03It is clear that it will be deep.
28:07Look, the water is passing through here.
28:10There is a force here.
28:12I have maybe five or six meters left to get there.
28:18Okay.
28:27The force of the river pushes me to the ground.
28:30And I fight so that the stream doesn't push me.
28:41As I said, the water is stronger than I imagined.
28:46And the water reaches my thighs.
28:49And I can't resist.
28:51And it pushed me.
28:53But I crossed it.
28:55Let's lose the log.
29:01This log is strong.
29:03It bears great pressure.
29:06But the strong water hit it hard.
29:09As if it was broken in the middle.
29:12Look, there is a hole.
29:14A very big hole.
29:17I'll get it out of the water.
29:22Cutting this log is dangerous.
29:24And it drowns people.
29:26And the water has blocked it under the trees.
29:29You see, there are boats here.
29:33I'm not sure I can get it out.
29:38Come on, come on.
29:47The force of the water makes you feel that the log is heavier.
29:51And its pull makes you fight.
29:56Okay, one, two, three.
30:04If I fix it,
30:05I'll be able to make a real progress in the river.
30:10I'll put new supports.
30:13To restore the old log and its form.
30:28The pipes are new now.
30:31I'll need something to fix it.
30:35There is a hole.
30:37I don't need this log.
30:41The reason for all this silence is that the tree is damaged.
30:48These logs are very heavy in the winter.
30:53They crack and break.
30:56And the tree uses this as a way to heal itself by closing the crack.
31:02And that's what I'll do with my log.
31:05I've collected a lot.
31:07I'll melt it.
31:09I heat the log until it melts.
31:12Then I thicken it to make a dough that is good for isolation.
31:16What I have to do is take some ash
31:24to increase its thickness.
31:28It will be sticky, like peanut butter.
31:33The log will play the role of the glass fibers under the isolation,
31:40under the hole.
31:48And now at the top.
31:51Okay.
31:53Okay.
32:00The ash will stick around the glass fibers and prevent water from entering.
32:05Okay, I'll leave it to cool down now.
32:09And I'll go make a substitute for the ash.
32:12I'll make a hole in the log.
32:17Staying means merging what you find with what you have.
32:28This is the frame.
32:31To finish this, I'll wrap the bag around my bag
32:35to make the wide part of the log.
32:43It's ready now.
32:49Before I put the log down,
32:52I'll put the bag on my front side,
32:57not on my back.
33:00And if I get in,
33:03it's going to keep me high
33:06and keep my feet straight.
33:08Let's go.
33:12The open Canadian logs are a challenge even in the calm water,
33:17so this is a test of my balance and reaction.
33:22The speed of the current pushes me with the current.
33:26It seems that my repairs are stable and water does not enter the log,
33:30but a more difficult test awaits me around the log.
33:39The water is increasing rapidly,
33:42and I'm struggling to keep the front of the log.
33:46If I turn to its side, it will turn in a moment
33:50and I will be thrown into the icy river.
34:02And as I reach the edge of the river,
34:04the unforeseen happens.
34:07The water is icy,
34:10and I'm a few minutes away from freezing.
34:13And without my boat,
34:16I will be exposed to more of this,
34:19and I'm under the mercy of the river.
34:22I have to get out of here.
34:35It's cold.
34:37It's snowing.
34:39I have frozen as much as I can.
34:42It is impossible for the boat to turn in that wave.
34:46I have lost it.
34:50I got out of the river,
34:53and then I will go deep into the depths of the earth.
34:57Quartz.
34:59That is, the place they extract it here
35:01was gold.
35:14I am in northern Canada,
35:17following the footsteps of gold diggers.
35:20And as they did, I climbed the mountains
35:23and fought in the dangerous, murky waters.
35:26And now I will enter an abandoned gold mine.
35:32Look, this place has been completely destroyed.
35:35And look at that roof.
35:38It's just completely collapsed.
35:41This place receives three meters of snow in winter,
35:45and probably that's what made it sink.
35:48I'm going to try to get out of here.
35:51I'm going to try to get out of here.
35:54I'm going to try to get out of here.
35:57I'm going to try to get out of here.
35:59I'm going to try to get out of here.
36:02The temperature here drops to below 50 degrees.
36:05It is one of the coldest places in Canada.
36:08What building was here under the mercy of Canadian winter?
36:12I will go down to the foundations of the mine,
36:15so maybe they left something useful.
36:18Do you see this?
36:21This opening leads to the floor of the mine.
36:25I need some kind of light.
36:32The old mines are dangerous,
36:35and I will not enter there without light,
36:38and anything I find will help me.
36:43I will take this
36:48and clothes.
36:50There are many
36:53wool clothes,
36:56and the good thing is that when they make it,
36:59they clean it with kerosene
37:02to prevent insects from eating it,
37:05and this is good for burning.
37:11They used these wool clothes
37:14to carry food,
37:17but I will use it to make a fire.
37:21I will wrap it around the branches of the pine tree,
37:24and it will be thin and last a long time.
37:32Let's go and see
37:35what we will find.
37:43The place is dark and desolate,
37:46and I hope to find tools that will help me survive.
37:51Look!
37:54Quartz,
37:57that is, what they were mining here
38:00was gold.
38:03The miners spent their lives in the depths of the earth
38:07looking for wealth.
38:10It seems that this is a tunnel,
38:13and there is another tunnel,
38:16and look, these are the traces of a bridge here.
38:19The weather is very cold.
38:25I can go in both directions,
38:28but in both cases,
38:31I want to put a sign,
38:34a sign of an arrow here.
38:37All tunnels are similar,
38:40and it is important to put signs
38:43to find the way back if necessary.
38:46Look at these wooden fences.
38:49You have to be careful to come across them,
38:52because you do not know
38:55how deep they are,
38:58and what supports it is the mountain.
39:04Wait, there is a hole.
39:08In the gold mines there are several exits,
39:11and you can get to a place in the mountain,
39:13and it may lead to a piece of iron
39:16or some other way.
39:19I will take the torch.
39:26Look at this.
39:29It is a protruding trench,
39:32and it reaches here at the bottom
39:35to another hole.
39:38Do you see that?
39:40Good.
39:43Yes.
39:48The more I go down,
39:51the more nervous I get.
39:54One almost feels the weight of the mountain on his shoulders.
39:57And in this depth,
40:00the adventure continues.
40:03There is a hole,
40:06another hole at the bottom here.
40:11All this is ice on the ground.
40:14The ground will be slippery.
40:17The presence of ice is good,
40:20so the temperature remains stable
40:23and above freezing,
40:26unless the wind blows from the outside.
40:29This indicates the presence of an exit,
40:32but I have a problem.
40:35Do not turn off, continue.
40:37I have been walking for a long time,
40:40and it is almost melting.
40:45I found water.
40:48This is a bad sign.
40:51It may mean that the tunnels are flooded with water.
40:54Wow, it's very deep.
40:57I'm looking for a way out,
41:00and there is no time to waste.
41:03I have to fill it with oxygen,
41:06because it is almost melting.
41:09If the oxygen level drops to 16%,
41:12the flame will go out,
41:15and if it drops more,
41:18I will struggle to breathe.
41:21No, no, don't go out.
41:24No.
41:27It has gone out,
41:29and I am now in the dark.
41:32Turn on the night vision feature on the camera.
41:35Under the red light,
41:38the camera will see me,
41:41but after my flame went out
41:44and I slipped on the ground,
41:47I was completely blind.
42:00There is no time to be afraid.
42:03It is easy to slip and break my leg,
42:06and worse to fall into the tunnel.
42:15Look, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
42:18That will be our exit.
42:22We will reach it.
42:25Finally, I saw the light of day,
42:27and the fresh air touched my face.
42:46I really feel relaxed,
42:49because I feel the warmth of the sun.
42:58I have followed the footsteps of those looking for gold,
43:01through the rough mountains,
43:04and the vast waters,
43:07and finally, through the depths of the gold mine.
43:10I may not have found the gold,
43:13but I crossed the most difficult terrain on earth,
43:16and I survived the challenges of stopping the heart,
43:19and I respect this terrifying land.
43:22In a place like this,
43:24I will cross it, and I will get out of here.
43:54To be continued...