- I've served in the military.
I lived all around the world, and I run a wilderness survival
and primitive-living school.
The Arctic is going to be the toughest location ever,
but I will be 100% honest.
I don't have a weak skill.
If I felt I had something that I don't know that much about,
I wouldn't be here.
Call it arrogance, but people call it arrogance
where they lack confidence.
You go first.
Biggest thing I'm going to miss will be my family.
They really have made me grow as a husband, as a father.
They are my life source.
The reason why I'm doing this is just last year I
had a massive heart attack.
The heart attack I had is known as the widow maker.
99% of time it's the final chapter.
And as a heart-attack survivor, you can lay down and die
in the corner, or you can stand up and fight for what you want
to do and what you believe in.
This is my fight.
This season will be the hardest amongst them all.
It will be cold--
just not temps of 0 or 10 degrees.
It can get to negative 40, 50, 60, and 70 degrees out here.
The colder it gets, animals will decrease their movements.
Some will increase their movement.
So my journey into exploring the tool selection
has been really into that.
What's going to help me get food?
What thing can I control to bring
into this environment to help feed me over the long term?
That's what it's about.
These are the items I'm going to be taking with me.
First and foremost, I'm going to be bringing
a cold-weather sleeping bag to help me get through some
of those extreme chilly nights.
So this will be a key survival item.
Don't want to leave home without it.
The next survival item that I'm going to bring with me
is some fishing line and hooks.
There's all sorts of fish species out there, especially
in some of these cold, frigid waters,
and I want to definitely take advantage of them
and keep packing on some of those calories.
So the next survival item I'm going to bring with me
is a ferro rod.
It's going to be paramount to hove this to keep myself warm
as well as assist in drying out my foods
and heating my shelter.
So without this fire-making ability,
one could definitely have a difficult time.
Next is a solid bush blade.
It's going to allow me to do a lot of camp craft
as well as processing any large game as well as small game.
So a good, clean knife, a sharp knife
is an essential survival item.
Having the ability to take objects like ridge poles
or even beams and lash them together--
para cord will definitely get the job done.
My next survival item is going to be a good saw.
It's going to help me process wood, keep my fire stoked,
keep it rocking and rolling.
And you know, if it does get cold enough,
this is going to help me cut through some large animal bone
as well.
So a saw is essential.
My next survival item is going to be an ax.
This is key for processing wood, potentially
breaking through some of that frozen ice
to get to those fish.
This is definitely going to make a difference in my long-term
living out in the Arctic.
Another survival item is going to be a pot.
Even though it's cold out here and the water looks very clean,
I still want to take that extra precaution and boil it out.
Another survival item is going to be a small bit of rations.
My last survival item is going to be a primitive bow
with a nice shoot of arrows.
This is going to be my food source.
These two right here working with this,
that's a symbiotic relationship that can't go wrong.
These 10 items are going to get me
through and ultimately allow me to survive out in the Arctic.