without having a knife it makes
everything ten times harder
we have nothing this is going to be
extremely difficult to produce the tools
we need to accomplish the tasks that
have to be done printers out of you and
the Arctic is brutal it's just gonna be
a grind through the days and here on out
the animal featured in this show has
been ethically harvested in accordance
with the laws of Canada's Northwest
Territories and those of the Lutz elk
Aidan a people
holy that's awesome gee-ya as soon as I
see the moose I know instantly that this
is gonna be a lot of work all right
let's get started with some cutting tool
without having a knife it makes
everything ten times harder so I am
thoroughly impressed by our ancestors
they used to live off the land and be
excited about making that connection oh
yeah that's good perfect Ernest shelter
making and fire making those are the two
components that I excel at here's a good
area right here
nice and flat we have a lot of these
trees are blocking the wind that's good
just gonna break off the bottom limbs
here and then take some more boughs and
put them on the outside we do not want
to have the wind blowing over our Stern
tonight otherwise you just gonna be
wasting energy and body eat last day was
rough and they developed a nice little
cough which is kind of worrisome because
they are only 24 hours into this and
it's like already becoming exceedingly a
challenge we have all sorts of
priorities today it's gonna be a
headache this morning my main goal is to
get the hide off the moose and get the
quarters and the back straps all off and
cash somewhere so they're safe
having our cash up on the cliff edge
protects the meat from all sorts of
bears here primarily black bears I want
to make a decent cash for the moose
because we need this food for the next
month and we can absolutely under no
circumstances lose this meat fire is key
so I decided I'm gonna go for this inuit
strap method it was used in the Arctic
and dates back hundreds and hundreds of
years you'll have the fire board in
between your knees the hide serves as
the strap run by both hands around the
spindle and then your down pressure for
your bearing block is put in your mouth
so it kind of gives you a little bit
more control over how fast or the
direction and your spindle stuff like
that so right now I'm picking off
witch's beard it's a fungus that grows
on dead trees or dead branches I'm gonna
take the dust from this put it into my
fire board and hopefully we'll be able
to create fire with it
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hey Lindsay we got it I'm gonna put so
much blood sweat and tears into building
one of these friction fires you really
you build a relationship with it now
this gives me a whole new respect of
what the primitive people's went through
that lived in the Arctic feeling awesome
after not having anything to eat for so
long just roasting meat is kind of hard
to beat when you're hungry Joe is pretty
much down for the count so you need to
get all three of us working at the same
time so one of our big pushes is we want
to be able to boil water if we get the
tea going so that we can help yo out the
Native Americans use this technique cut
into a stomach and use it to boil water
just washing out the stomach I have it
turned inside out and these are all the
little fibers that move the grasses or
the Bark's or whatever the Moose has
been eating so I want to make sure I get
everything washed out of all of these
little nooks and crannies we're heating
rocks in our fire pit and as we heat
them we take one out and we put it in
the water as those heat up we switch
them out with a new hot rock Joe we've
got some of that tea ready for your
funeral try it it's very hot
feel like I'm just being a damn anchor
to you guys ah this is hard for me it's
just there's like I guys I have to I'm
done I have to call it in I got to take
care of my health I'm sorry I am
disappointed
feels like I'm abandoning my team
letting him down I tried it I just
crashed and burned sometimes you just
got to call it in
Lindsay and I are gonna have way more
work now that Joe's gone the carcass has
been stripped of everything that we can
use it for and now we're just gonna
concentrate on reserving what meat we've
taken off out here there's not a lot of
ways to preserve your meat so one of the
ways people used to preserve their meat
was by smoking it we're using a chunk of
hide that was cut off of the moose to
attempt to channel a smoke through this
big split rock that's next to the
shelter and if we go and build a fire
box on one side the moose hide will
cover the top so it's acting like a
horizontal chimney that should allow us
to put the meat in it and should give us
a real nice smoke the Arctic is one of
the more brutal places in the world the
extreme temperatures the erratic weather
everything that's unpredictable and
unforgiving about this area it makes
everything harder right now I'm missing
my kiddos like to the point where I'm
contemplating how goes the battle slowly
but surely
so I'm gonna have to do just keeping
this short I have to tap why I've
missing my family and I I gotta just tap
out and get home as quick as I can
suddenly twos down to one I just wasn't
expecting that so it's a little bit of a
mind shift now that he's gone it's just
gonna be a grind through the days from
here on out
I think I heard something outside every
night you hear a little bit of something
usually sounds like a squirrel it's
really small or something
this time it sounds a little bit pair
bears you know are dangerous they can
hurt people so that's just me it's gonna
be a lot harder to be safe now that I
know that he's obviously not gonna go
away the best decision is to find
another location so I'm gonna pull my
hide out from the shelter that I used
for keeping me dry and I'm gonna fashion
that into a pack to carry the few things
that I do need to take and I'll gather
up the meat that I need and roll that up
into that pack as well
I also excited to bring this scapula
because it actually throws fairly well
I'm going to use this search wood to
carry my ember for my new fire new spot
fire is huge for me out here and without
it I would have to tap out it's not
gonna be possible for me to create a new
ember and I need to nurse this one back
to a flame
come on means a lot to have fire I've
lost quite a bit of weight and I don't
really have any fat so I'm gonna be
trying to hunt and add some fresh meat
to my diet I get like a gross owe me
some fat in the meat there the scapula
located on the shoulder of the moose
I've discovered that I can throw it
fairly hard and accurately so this is my
new grouse hunting tool
yeah let's be a good dinner time to eat
I've been hungry the last couple days
it's the first time that my stomach had
actually felt full and probably a week
and it gives me a little more energy to
be more excited for the final bit of
this trying to survive with nothing but
the clothes on my back I knew it was
gonna be a challenge but in the end you
see the value of all the struggle it's
like climbing a mountain the climb sucks
but man when you reach the summit that
feeling that feeling is unbeatable
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