ANDREW: This is that part where the afraid sets in-
[MUSIC PLAYING]
MAN 2: Looks like it going to rain.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[THUNDER]
ANDREW: It's raining enough to like--
ALI: Yeah, yeah.
ANDREW: Scare me.
Definitely just soaked all of our wood.
I feel like it's not that wet, like.
Yeah, but if for whatever reason this goes out,
we would have a very, very tough time getting fire again.
We are going to be really miserable
if we have to do a night of rain without firewood.
Firewood at this point is like absolutely
our most important priority.
[DRUMMING]
Anybody that's ever thinking about doing
a survival challenge-- collect more firewood
than you think you need.
Watching the show, I saw one episode where Gabrielle said
that her father always said--
If you're going to build a fire, get as much wood
as you think you need, and then double it.
ANDREW: That is solid advice.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Got our fire going, got our water, wood pile all set up.
Hopefully there's no rain, spiders,
or big crazy animals tonight.
[RAINING]
Oh, [BLEEP].
It's, like, downpouring.
[SPEEDING UP SOUND EFFECT]
I have no idea what time it is,
and it has been raining all night long.
We've been trying to keep this fire
going the best that we can, and we've
just been huddled around it.
ALI: It's going to be a long, cold, hard night
for both of us.
ANDREW: [INAUDIBLE]
[WATER DRIPPING]
[CHIRPING]
Last night was so rough.
You fall asleep and then wake up to raindrops,
and then you're like, oh, [BLEEP],,
I got to start the fire.
I might try to, like, build a roof.
Like, I would have taken, like, all those long reeds
and, like, put them m and then--
ALI: Yeah.
--tied them up with this.
Here's the thing.
Those reeds are super flammable.
I mean, we could do it strategically, so we're not,
like, going to burn our boma down.
I think it's going to be a lot of work.
Yeah.
But I like where your head's at.
Right?
It's like a good idea, in theory.
[LAUGH] If we have enough wood, the fire won't go out.
Yeah, we should collect more wood
to keep the fire going in the event of another typical storm.
Maybe eventually we'll build some sort of roof,
but it's just not, like, the top priority at the moment.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ANDREW: The sun hasn't come out really in, like, four days.
You're feeling a little down?
It's starting to weigh on me.
That makes sense.
ANDREW: Obviously, I'd like to be thriving out here,
but if I got to worry about wood and being
warm all the damn time I guess that's this challenge.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
With the rain coming and going,
I'd like to have more of a roof right now,
but we only have so many of us and so much time.
So the option is just collect wood because staying warm means
more than staying dry.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ANDREW: Oh, we are about to have a real bad day.
[THUNDER]
We're [BLEEP].
We are so [BLEEP] right now.
If this rain doesn't stop, we're not going to have fire.
ALI: I'll keep blowing.
ANDREW: Fire we have is our lifeblood.
It's all wet.
We don't have fire, we don't have water,
we don't have protection from the animals,
we don't have heat.
Man, it is freezing.
We don't have fire, We really don't have anything out here.
It's like already out.
This is that part where the afraid sets in.
[THUNDER]
The storm is just dumping buckets on us,
and we are doing everything we can to keep this fire going.
ALI: Trade me.
ANDREW: Taking turns back and forth trying to cover the fire,
blowing on the fire.
ALI: I think it's going to be over soon.
ANDREW: I hope you're right.
(WHISPERS) Oh, golly.
ALI: I think we both were able to stay
in a fairly good headspace, particularly
because the fire didn't go out.
If the fire goes out, that's going
to be a different situation.
ANDREW: Whew.
[BLEEP] yeah.
I'm really, really, really proud of us.
We kept the fire going in a torrential downpour.
That is not an easy task.
[SPEEDING UP SOUND EFFECT]
[CHIRPING]
Me and my partner struggling.
We are starving, we are wet, we are cold.
It takes a very determined individual to make it
through a challenge like this.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
It started raining.
We're getting really cold, and it's happening very quickly,
and it's about to be a long day.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ANDREW: Keeping that fire going in a torrential downpour--
that's some serious business.
I don't care who you are.
I like can't blow anymore, dude.
I'm like--
ALI: OK, trade.
[THUNDER]
It has been raining for three plus hours now,
and our fire has basically all but gone out.
[INAUDIBLE] It is absolutely freezing right now.
NARRATOR: In the last three hours,
the temperature has dropped to 48 degrees.
Andrew and Ali are rapidly losing body heat in the rain
and beginning to shiver, signaling
the onset of hypothermia.
Here Ali and I are, freezing our [BLEEP] asses off,
because our fire has gone out and, like,
hypothermia is the issue.
I got to make it out of this alive.
Get home in one piece without freezing to death.
Oh.
[WALKIE TALKIE CHIRP]
Hello, base camp.
BASE CAMP (THROUGH WALKIE TALKIE):
This is base camp, go ahead.
We need your help.
Can you get in here?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
OK, guys.
There's no way that we can go through the night like this
without a fire.
I mean, it's hypothermia or--
MICHAEL: And the fire was not able to stay?
We tried for hours, and it just kept raining and raining,
so I mean.
We don't want to tap, we don't want to tap,
but, you know, it's the smart thing to do.
Are you guys wanting to tap?
100% sure?
- Yep. - Yeah.
We'll get you out of here.
C'mon guys.
All right, thanks.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ANDREW: It's an extremely humbling experience.
Coming into this, I was sure that I had it.
I still feel that way.
You know, I know what I need to fix.
Had I just created a shelter a little bit
differently, built the better roof,
I'd be walking out on day 14.
NARRATOR: Nine days in, Andrew and Ali abandon the challenge,
dropping their PSRs to 4.5.
ALI: I came in knowing that this was going to suck in a lot
of ways and be really hard.
We learned a lot on this challenge.
If we had somehow been able to make a roof,
that probably would have helped a lot with the rain.
I'm devastated right now, but anybody
that wants to think that the two of us
aren't tough as nails, you come out here and try.
[MUSIC PLAYING]