- Oh (beep).
Oh, it looks so gross.
What if we die?
I don't wanna do this anymore!
Hi, I'm Kelsey.
A lot of my friends would probably
consider me an indoors person.
I do like a challenge and I love adventure.
However, my biggest hobby's would probably be
gaming, watching television,
sitting with my dog on a couch.
So it would come as a surprise to most people
that I thought, it would be a really fun idea
to try to survive the Australian Outback.
A lot of my friends
thought otherwise.
Hey Caitlin, you're from the Outback right?
- I am.
- [Kelsey] What do you think about me going to Broken Hill?
- It's not gonna be easy.
- [Kelsey] You're scaring me a little bit.
- I just don't want you to go in there
and think that it's gonna be really easy.
Because there are actual dangers out there.
- [Kelsey] Thanks Caitlin.
- Love you.
- So basically I'm gonna fly to Broken Hill Australia
in the middle of the Outback.
I'll have just the things on me.
I'll have a little bit of flint,
a water bottle, protein bar just for safety purposes
so I don't pass out.
First we're going to be meeting with the land owner.
We're actually going to be shooting on private property.
His place is gonna be the only civilization for miles.
- My name's Colin Clare here at Limestone Station
due west of Broken Hill.
- [Kelsey] How big is your land?
- About 15,000 acres.
Heat, mid 30's could range to 38, 40.
First and foremost, water, no water no life.
Hydration's important, depending on the duration
food's important as well.
But, I gotta tell ya there's not much out there of either.
There'll be bugs out there, whether you'll be quick enough
to catch them is another story.
We do have some native berries and stuff out there
but finding it is few and far between.
You're gonna struggle.
- [Kelsey] How hard is it
to build a fire from the wood here?
- Well the wood will burn
so if you've got some way to getting it to light
then there's plenty of small herbage.
As you go in hydrated, the reality is,
I guess you can get to the other end
without finding water in 24 hours.
But food you're gonna struggle.
- Don't try this at home, this is for real.
We arrived at the station, I was blindfolded,
put into a car and they drove me out into the Outback.
I don't it really hit me yet.
So far it's kinda fun.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm excited.
They dropped us off with all of our stuff.
We waved goodbye to the car and I was pretty anxious.
What if we die?
My first task was to kinda gather some stuff up
to start making camp for the night.
- [Caitlin] Maybe you're just a secret Lara Croft
and we don't know about it yet.
- That's like the end goal here
is I just wanna be female nerd girls.
- [Caitlin] Look it that.
- [Kelsey] Oh my god, what is that?
- [Caitlin] It's a bone!
There's more, look.
- [Kelsey] Oh my, no. - [Caitlin] Look.
- A literal thing died out here
that next thing could be me.
- So we've been here for like 45 minutes I think
and Kelsey's already sort of talking to herself.
- Look at this pretty thing though, look it that.
I'm gonna keep it, it's gonna be my friend.
- I don't know if that's just something
that helps her get through this situation.
- Be like my Wilson.
Well this one might be fine.
This looks like something I can use.
I'm gonna drag it behind me.
I'm doing great, I'm doing great work!
I felt like I was doing really well
and then the sun started setting.
It kinda hit me, "Oh my gosh
I need to seriously start getting this fire going".
I saw one spark.
Oh there's a bug, hi.
- [Caitlin] Oh.
Have you ever started a fire before?
- No.
I was sitting there creating sparks forever.
Ah, oh (beep), oh (beep).
But luckily after a long, a long time
we finally got something to light.
It can still die, everyone's gonna die eventually.
I felt like the thing I did best, was make a fire.
There's nothing like that feeling.
Anyone got marshmallows?
Just kidding, we only have bugs.
I've been laying here for a little while.
It's beautiful but I don't know
if I'm really gonna get any sleep tonight.
I do feel hungry.
I do feel tired.
I do feel a little dehydrated.
It's nothing bad yet.
Good morning!
I just think I found a bug
that is quite large to eat this morning.
So breakfast is here.
He's not, he's for sure dead.
Oh it looks so gross!
Mmm, no!
Ooh no, there was like goo inside.
It's 8:45 right now.
We're packing up camp, ready to head out.
We only have eight hours and 15 minutes
I think, left from now.
Til then we're gonna be trying to find water
trying to find maybe more crickets.
So we started walking and it was a lot.
There's quite literally nothing.
I can see absolutely zero civilization
from where I'm standing and I can see pretty far.
I haven't found any water.
I've hardly found any bugs.
We just lucked out on finding fruits.
It kinda hit me how desolate
and how terrifying this could be.
We finally found an area
that looked like some kind of body of water.
I'm gonna see if I can find the deepest end maybe.
The digging is much harder than I anticipated.
I've been digging for 15 to 20 minutes now.
I still haven't found water.
I'm kinda getting tired.
I know that I'm supposed to dig deeper
but I just don't have the tools.
I don't wanna call it yet though.
I'm gonna keep trying for like a little bit longer.
This here I think is what he was talking about,
about like a bigger creek bed.
It looks like someone has already dig a hole.
I'm thinking it might be a kangaroo, to be honest.
This looks like the most promising area
we could actually find water.
Oh my God!
(laughs)
It's not much but it's something.
(gags)
It's not good.
It's not good water but it's water.
Kind of found a little road so I'm
gonna follow that because it's very likely
that in any kind of survival situation
if you did find a road going along that
probably will lead to something.
However, you'll have to make sure you know
what direction you're going in
because you could be just going further into the Outback.
But I figured out the direction,
I think we're on the right path.
I feel a little light headed but nothing too bad.
- She's doing really, really, really, really great.
The only thing I'm concerned about right now
is that she's a really, really bubbly person
and her energy right now is super low.
Which is worrying because I don't want her
to faint or dehydrate.
- I would love to eat ice cream.
I would love to eat a hotdog.
I'd love to eat In-N-Out.
- [Caitlin] Anything.
- I would literally like to eat anything.
I don't wanna do this anymore!
We have three and a half hours to go.
Feel like we need to start figuring out
where civilization is, I think we're getting close though.
We're gonna have some traffic up ahead.
Oh my God.
There's just so many sheep.
We've walked for a little bit
and I think I see some civilization in the distance!
Are you excited Caitlin?
Yeah, yeah!
(mellow music)
I survived the Outback for 24 hours.
We did it, we found water, we found food, made a fire.
I did all the things.
I think the outdoors and survival in general
are things I always loved watching.
The right precautions in order
and like with training and stuff, it's a lot of fun.
So I highly recommend going out camping
and staying safe in the wilderness.
(mellow music)