I'm Bear Grylls,
and each week I'm gonna be taking a different celebrity
on a two-day adventure into the wild.
Oh, my God.
This season is the most extreme…
Whoo.
And intense yet.
And these celebrities have no idea what they're in for.
But I'm not climbing out of the gondola.
Bear? Aah!
How are you with heights?
Not great.
Whoa!
This is probably the highest I've ever been in my entire life.
Oh, my god.
On a mountain.
Death grip, death grip, death grip. Oh, boy.
I'm not being alarmist. There are crocs in the river.
Plastic explosives.
Hey, mom. I love you.
One, two, three!
Aah!
Well, this is kind of like a helicopter.
Just a little more dangerous.
Aah. Aah!
You okay?
These celebrities will be pushed beyond their limits
and tested like they've never been tested before.
You're about to see a side of them that you've never seen.
You're gonna make me vegan again.
Aah!
Tonight…
Oh, god, there's a mountain. God!
Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson
steps off the modern family set…
Oh, my god!
And into the most extreme and intense journey yet.
Oh, my Jesusy
I've done some scary things,
but nothing this far out of my comfort zone.
Jesse's an accomplished stage actor,
but he's best known for playing Mitchell Pritchett
on the hit television show Modern Family.
He's recently gotten married,
and he's looking forward to having children someday.
The greatest adventure is fatherhood.
You'd be a very sweet dad
because you care, you've got a big heart.
But first, he's decided to join me
in the Italian Alps…
- Right there. - Oh, god!
To prove to himself and the world
that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.
As a kid, I was sort of the indoor kid.
This is the hardest thing I've ever done.
Oh, my god!
Oh, that's…that's definitely poop.
I'm about to go on a 48-hour adventure,
which is, for those of you who don't know,
two days.
I have no idea what to expect.
I know I'm very close to cows.
The first one's mozzarella.
The second one is, um, arrivederci.
And then, the third one is…his name is Kyle.
Kyle is my coloring
and that's why he's my favorite.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson wants to
prove to himself and the world
that he's tougher than people think!
He's asked me to push him right out of his comfort zone,
and where we're going…it's gonna do that big-time!
Bear? I'm here by the cows.
My survival skills,
on a scale from one to ten, ten being best,
are zero.
So…this should be a fun hour!
These Italian peaks beneath me
are some of the most spectacular mountains in the world.
And they're known by the locals as
the mountains of thunder.
And one of the big risks down there are avalanches.
Oh, my god, is that him?
I think it's him.
We'll uh, pick him up?
Okay, yeah.
My god.
We're good, the cows are clear.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you too.
- You okay? - Yeah, I'm good.
- Ready? - Yeah, I think so.
Keep your head down.
Okay.
My god!
Okay, so we're heading up to the high mountains, all right?
Yeah, okay.
Oh, god, there's a mountain. Oh, my god! What?
Now, all over this terrain, classic avalanche territory.
One of the first things we're going to do is
trigger, intentionally, some avalanches.
Just along the route we're gonna go.
Why would we want to do that?
All right? To hopefully minimize the avalanche risk.
Oh, God, okay.
And this is what we're gonna use, okay?
Okay, okay.
All you do is pull the pin on that,
and it will blow in about ten seconds.
Okay, pull the pin.
Okay, that's lit, hold it.
Hold it.
Hold.
Okay, all right. Terrified, terrified.
Bear!
Hold it, hold it, hold.
What the…
Okay, throw it, throw it! Now go, go, go, go, go, go!
Oh, my god!
Okay, so that's slope is pretty good.
I've just taken simple precautions,
dropped an avalanche explosion,
and just hopefully make our route down a little bit safer.
I-I can't believe I'm on top of this mountain.
It's--it's some place I never thought I would be.
I'm short of breath.
It's insane.
Yeah, this place is slippery, so stay close to me.
And we're at about 9,000 feet.
So you might feel a little bit labored with the breathing.
- Everything's gonna be a little bit harder work. - Okay.
But we get a good view of our journey from here,
all the way heading down here.
Over the next 48 hours,
I'll be taking Jesse Tyler Ferguson
along a knife-edge ridge of snow and ice
more than 8,000 feet above sea level.
We'll summit a massive mountain
and then begin our descent
in hopes of finding food and a good place to camp.
On day two, we'll continue our descent,
eventually reaching the tree line
and our extraction point.
Have a look down left.
Oh, my god.
How far do you think that is?
Oh, that's a good 800-foot down there.
Oh, my god, this is steep.
Slippery ice and snow.
Take your time on all of this.
We've been dropped right at the top of this ridge,
and from here on in, there is no easy way down.
Okay, from here, Jesse…
it does look like the only way is gonna be straight off this.
Wait, you're saying off over that?
Yeah, we're gonna go over that.
Oh.
It's probably about a 150-, 180-foot
sheer cliff straight down,
so he's gonna have a baptism by fire.
Okay.
I'm kind of scared of heights.
I-I'm also afraid of sunburn and frostbite,
but those are--those seem like--
those are small beans.
You're going first.
No, no, I--no, no, no, no.
You're the route finder, the pathfinder.
It made sense to get him to go first.
I can tie him in, lower him down,
got him tight on the end of that rope.
How much experience do I have with ropes?
None. Zero.
I think there might have been a rope in gym class.
But I don't even think I did it.
I think I called in sick that day.
Oh, my god.
Walk straight along that ridge.
Holy-okay. Oh, my god. Oh.
Okay？
Okay.
Scary.
Okay, keep going back.
All right. All right. Oh, my god.
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
Okay.
Get us both right near the edge.
Whoa, geez.
So put all your weight on that rope.
Okay.
Okay, so we're gonna trust it.
Oh, god.
No mistakes, Jesse, okay?
Okay, yeah.
Just step your way down.
Nice wide stance so you got your balance.
Oh, my god.
Oh, god!
Coming up…
My life just flashed before my eyes seven times.
I was really bad at sports,
and if you didn't catch the ball
and you were playing on a team, like,
you kinda got shamed all day.
Kids are brutal at school, you know.
And later…
Wow, oh, my god!
Oh, my god! This is the hardest thing I've ever done.
Okay, keep going back.
All right. Oh, my god.
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
Okay.
Get us both right to the edge. Okay?
Okay, yeah.
Just step your way down. Nice wide stance
so you've got your balance, and that's it.
Oh, god! Oh, my god. Okay!
Okay, that's good, keep going.
Fearless, I love it.
Oh, my god. What the [bleep] am I doing?
Holy [bleep]. Okay.
You're looking good.
Am I?
Oh, my god!
Well done. Strong.
Tell me when you're at the bottom.
'Cause I can't see you now.
You're over the overhang.
Oh, sweet Lord Jesus, I made it.
You down?
I'm down!
Okay, so don't move now, Jesse!
Stay where you are! I'm coming down!
I wouldn't think of moving even if you asked me to.
I don't know what I just did.
That was probably the scariest thing I've ever done.
Um…I'll feel better when Bear gets down, though.
Such a show-off, my god.
Well, time is of the essence!
We wanna keep moving.
We got a lot of journey to do.
Did you do that in one fell swoop?
Freak you out, huh? - Oh, my god.
This is classic via ferrata. Look, steel wire.
So just clip on one bit…
Uh-huh.
all through these mountains,
clip the second one on, okay?
All right.
So you're always tied in.
So Via ferrata literally means "iron way,"
and you'll find these criss-cross
all through these mountains,
you know, this steel wire bolted into the rock.
Traditionally they're used to resupply soldiers
that were fighting up here in the mountains.
And as your confidence grows, Jesse,
you can maybe get a little bit
more relaxed about clipping in with two.
I don't know if I'll ever get more relaxed, Bear.
This might be it.
I actually was expecting that we would be on flatter ground.
We're not clipped in now.
This is crazy.
Keep going.
I assumed we'd be hiking on very flat trails
next to a stream.
Oh, my god.
I-I kept thinking "flat."
He's crazy. I don't know how I'm gonna do this.
Done. Okay?
Okay, okay.
Unclip yourself from the via ferrata.
From the Sofia Vergara, I unclip myself?
Via--what are you calling it?
It's a Sofia Vergara.
Is it--that's like a restaurant in LA, isn't it?
Well, yes and no.
Jesse can't quite get the via ferrata,
but to be honest I just let him go with it.
He goes, "Sofia Gidarra," I go, "Yeah, whatever."
If it can save your life, it can work.
You're good to climb.
Okay.
Try not to depend on the via ferrata.
We don't know how old it is.
The Sofia Vergara!
Sofia Vergara's are very, very old, like,
a hundred years old,
and you gotta…you gotta be
really careful with those Sofia Vergaras.
I got you!
All right, okay.
The Sofia Vergaras are my best friend on these because,
without them, I would be…I would be down, down there.
My life has flashed before my eyes seven times.
Sofia Vergara saved my life.
Am I saying it wrong?
What sort of kid were you growing up,
what were you like?
Were you outdoorsy or sporty?
I--oh! No, you asked that right as I bumped my head.
No, I wasn't outdoorsy.
I wasn't, I was an indoor kid.
Yeah.
And I was involved in, like,
the arts and community theatre, and, um,
I wasn't, you know, big into sports.
But I think a lot of the reason was
because I didn't have people, like,
really supporting me and sort of walking me through it,
and, you know, kids are terrible at that age
in high school and middle school,
and I was really bad at sports,
and if you didn't catch the ball
and you were playing on a team, like,
you kind of got shamed all day.
Yeah, yeah.
It was rough,
because I think I would have been really great at it
if I wasn't so scared of disappointing people.
Mmm.
Which is why I love doing something like this,
because it's something no one would expect me to do,
and I'm out here to prove to myself,
and not to anyone else.
I'm here to prove it to--a little bit to you,
but not even that, so much.
Oh, you don't--you got nothing to prove to me.
I think you're amazing before you even start.
Ah, thanks, man.
No, that's true.
We'll have a quick stop, recover our breath a bit.
I need to hydrate. Here we go,
this is gonna be our life saver.
That's gonna be better than water--hot chocolate.
Mmm, oh, yeah.
And then, to wash it down…
Whiskey?
Well, it was quite good, this mountain bread,
but it's gone a bit hard in the cold.
What is this?
It's gone a bit fragmented.
So what was you counter to all those kids
that gave you a hard time at school?
- I stayed quiet. - Yeah?
Like, I didn't have a lot of friends growing up,
but I really did appreciate the people
who just left me alone.
Then there was those other kids that just, like,
the whole point of their day was to—
to figure out how they can make me miserable, so…
Wow.
But I do feel like--I mean,
they always say it's character building, and it's hard to—
to sort of tell yourself that when you're--
when you're going through it,
but it really did turn me into a stronger person.
It lit a fire in me to--to do well.
And was part of what motivated you to do this as well?
No, I'm only doing this for money.
I am getting paid to do this, right?
No, have we not doled you?
Or in bread? I'm getting paid in bread.
Yeah, bread--hard Italian mountain bread.
So was that always a big ambition, though,
even as a young kid,
that you wanted to act, you wanted to be on TV?
I always wanted to be on Broadway,
I wanted to do theatre,
and--and then modern family came up,
and again I just auditioned for it and got it.
And it does seem to be sort of changing things socially.
A lot of parents will come up to me and say,
"I wasn't supportive of my child when he first told me he was gay,
and now because of your show, like,
I've learned that he's just like everyone else.
He deserves the same thing as everyone else."
And so, what about your parents?
My dad had a harder time with me coming out.
I had to come out to him three times, actually.
Are you serious?
I had to keep reminding him. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Keep reminding him?
So why, what happened?
He just--he--I think he knew the information.
He just did--it didn't sink in.
He asked me at one point, you know,
in my mid 20s if I had a girlfriend,
and I was like, "Dad, oh, my god are we still doing this?"
Are we still doing this?
Yeah, and you know, when Modern Family first started,
he kind of watched it like,
"Why does it have to be a gay character?"
And fast-forward to, you know, three, four years later,
he's dancing at my wedding.
He's actually probably the most supportive person
now in my whole family, so…
- Really? - Yeah.
It's funny how that works, Isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
But initially it wasn't like that.
Oh, hard. Hard for him.
Everyone's capable of evolving.
My dad changed slowly,
but he did it at his pace, and he—
I'm just so proud that--that he evolved in the way that he did,
and, you know, you can only--
you can only ask for people to be open to change.
That's all you can ask for.
Yeah. You're--you're a courageous man,
and I really mean that.
You know, you've climbed
so many mountains metaphorically. Haven't you?
Yeah.
It's why you're such an inspiration to so many people.
Ah, thanks, you're sweet.
It was so lovely to have, you know, a really honest chat.
Jesse was very sort of open about a really difficult time in his life,
and I think when you share those sort of moments,
you have vulnerable people, you always create strong bonds,
and, uh, and it was good to see.
Here, look. Let's see this ridge here, Jesse.
It's a little bit more knife-edged,
and I'm gonna push you out ahead. All right?
Don't say push. Don't just…
Tell you to move ahead.
Good.
And then if you fall…
Uh-huh, okay?
You fall left, I jump right.
Okay.
So we're like--you ready, Jesse?
I think so, yeah.
Go for it.
- Am I leading? - You lead the way.
All right.
Just remember, good, steady steps.
We don't want to be falling into Austria.
No.
I am wondering why Bear is making me go first.
I think it's because…
I think he's scared, which is fine.
Okay, good.
I think he's just actually challenging me. I think it's,
"Forge ahead and then do it my way."
Okay, go for it.
And I guess that's part of the point.
Oh, my Jesusy!
Coming up…
What's this?
Oh, there's dinner.
No!
Oh, my Jesusy!
I got you.
We're almost to the summit now,
but like so often with the mountains,
the hardest bit is the last bit.
At this point, the ridge is getting really narrow.
You know, it's icy, it's slippery,
but also, if you look at your feet,
on either side, it is just sheer down.
Okay, drop down, Jesse.
That's it.
Okay.
You gotta keep a hand on it.
You're moving like a mountain man. I love it.
How you doing?
I'm--I'm okay. That was--that was kind of scary.
I definitely had one of those
"What the hell did I get myself into" moments.
You--yeah. Get a shot of that drop.
That's a good drop.
Traversing over the knife ridge
was the scariest thing I've ever done.
You're looking to either side of you
and it's a very, very, very long way down.
Okay, you're gonna lead us up the
summit slope to glory, Jesse.
All right.
It's funny--everything feels hard at work at altitude, doesn't it?
Oh, yeah, that's way harder.
We're right at the summit of our journey.
And, you know, whether I've been on the summit of Everest,
or a small mountain when I was a kid with my dad,
to be up here like this is always amazing.
Here we go, this is it.
Yeah! Victory! Whoo!
Pretty cool.
- Good job, bud. - That was amazing.
- Good job. Well done. - It's so great.
Look at that for a view.
That's amazing.
I've read books about mountain climbing,
I've seen movies, and, like,
there's always that moment when they get to the top
and they're so excited and triumphant.
And it's like, yeah, you feel like you've really accomplished a lot.
We brought ourselves up here.
This is probably the highest I've ever been in my entire life…
on a mountain.
So any of your buddies attempt anything like this,
will they see you and they'll think—
do you think it's gonna surprise them?
I feel like I'm the last person that they would expect to do this.
One of Jesse's goals is that he wanted to prove to people
that he's tougher than they might think of him.
And the truth is, he definitely is that, you know?
This was a not a journey for the fainthearted.
And, you know, he led the way strong all the way to the top,
and total respect.
Okay, so from here on in, it really is--no off the ridge.
It's all downhill.
And we're kind of looking for somewhere to make camp.
This isn't a good place to be caught up--
8 1/2 thousand feet,
you know, the weather can change fast,
very low temperatures at night.
Okay, it's getting a little steeper here.
Okay.
Let's just put you on this short rope again,
and then you can go first.
All right.
We still gotta find food and shelter,
and we haven't got a lot of time to do that.
Keep going right along this ridge a little bit.
Okay, let's go left here.
Okay.
What's this?
What is that?
Frozen solid.
It's a mountain goat.
Oh, god!
You know, I've seen this loads before.
Wow.
The good news is, that's dinner.
If you say--oh, I knew--oh, god. Are you kidding me?
It's not uncommon to find animals that have,
you know, fallen off cliff edges,
so finding a carcass like this frozen pretty solid,
one word came to mind: dinner.
You sure this isn't someone's dog?
- I saw… - What's that?
I saw a flyer for a lost dog up there.
Hey, do you want to get my machete out?
Oh, my god. I cannot believe this is happening. Okay.
Okay, pick a leg.
Oh, my god.
Okay, here you go. Hack through that, okay?
Straight, straight across.
I've never chopped the leg off of anything,
but for some reason, being around Bear
makes everything sort of seem possible like,
"Okay, I can do this. If I need to do this, I'll do it."
I don't want to look like a wimp.
There's a lot of meat just even on this.
I'm a vegetarian. Did I tell you that?
- Are you really? - No.
There you go.
Oh, delicious. That looks great.
Have a smell of that.
Mm-mm!
That's actually the marrow you can smell.
It's always the last bit of an animal to go off.
I like bone marrow.
Yeah, it's good. Well, okay. We'll stick that back there.
That's dinner. Good.
Well, that's a good find.
Right now, I have the clothes on my back, I have a backpack,
and I have a goat leg.
I'm really glad I'm not doing this on my own,
because I would have just lied down--
I would have been like that goat, just dead.
I would have given up a long time ago.
So, look, on this slope, as we head down,
it's gonna be deep snow,
which means we…can make a snow hole.
Okay. Are we gonna stay in that tonight?
How's the goat?
It smells like there's a zoo on my back,
and its wet hair keeps tickling my face.
Maybe that slope there. That's gonna be deep snow.
You ever slept in a snow hole before?
No…not yet.
The best place to make a snow cave is on the lee slope.
'Cause the windward blows all the snow
and it kind of builds up,
it's deep, and it's quite soft to dig into.
Perfect place to open it up
and do a nice, big cavern inside to sleep in.
Get shovels out and we get digging.
Okay, we'll get a little bit of a system going here.
All right.
I'll dig…and then you can get rid of all the spoil.
Okay.
Bear seems to think we're sleeping in a snow cave tonight.
How do you stay warm sleeping underneath frozen snow?
I'm not terribly confident in this--in this idea.
It's always hard at the end of the day when you're tired,
but once it's all made, it will be amazing. I promise.
Hopefully by, like, midnight, we'll have this thing built.
It's gonna be a rough night.
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The amazing thing about snow holes is
you can have 100-mile-an-hour winds,
but once you get into that snow cave,
it's a great place to shelter.
- Jesse? - Yeah?
Your palace awaits.
Okay, I'm coming in.
I hope it's up to expectations.
Oh, my god.
Pretty cool?
Wow! This is way bigger than I thought it was gonna be.
So now you can sleep on this platform, I'm here.
I'm very impressed with the snow cave.
It's like a New York apartment…really.
Big--it's actually bigger than the first New York apartment I had.
And the reason we're raised up
is that all the cold air will sink down to here
and then it'll shoot out that cold well.
And in here, whatever temperature outside,
it'll stay pretty well 1 degree.
It actually is pretty--it's a lot warmer than it is outside.
You know, snow is a king insulator
'cause it's so--got so much air in it.
Wow. This is like a full-on igloo.
The snow cave is at a comfortable 1 degree.
"Degree," not--there's no "S" at the end of that word.
It's just degree. Period.
We're also going to stick a little platform in here…
Uh-huh?
For a candle.
Okay, so we'll leave that burning,
and that's gonna give us some light in the nighttime.
Yeah.
Gonna give a little bit of warmth,
but most importantly, gonna tell us
if there's enough oxygen in here.
So long as that's burning, we've got oxygen,
'cause a really bad way to go is
uh, you suffocate in a snow hole.
Now I know that I should also be lighting candles
to make sure I have oxygen in my house.
I mean…
It's very romantic.
Thank you.
You always take me to the nicest places. You really do.
This does. It feels like a kind of--
this is your snow cave first date.
Hey, it really is.
- Oh, god. - Right, okay.
Dinner isn't very complicated.
When you're above the tree line,
you don't have the luxury of kind of being able to make fire,
so I've got a leg of goat, some water, and a little stove.
I'm not sure how impressed he's gonna be,
but it's good, hot, nutritious protein, good energy.
There, we'll boil it up. It's as good as you're gonna get.
Here you go, look.
Try out the bed while we wait for the goat to cook.
Ahh. It's actually really comfortable.
I always find at this time of day
when you've been out all day,
been working hard, I definitely miss home a little bit.
Yeah.
How long have you been married to Justin?
It'll be two years in July.
Two years, wow.
Yeah, yeah.
And how long were you together before you got married?
We were together four years.
- Wow. - Yeah.
Could you get married before then?
Uh, it was sort of legal in a couple states,
but it sure wasn't legal everywhere.
It wasn't legal in California.
And now--now it's legal everywhere?
It's not legal in all 50 states, but it's--it's getting there.
Yeah, for sure. I mean, it must have been mega hard
loving someone and wanting to marry someone…
Yeah.
But not being able to.
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
The thing is, when you're a kid
and you think about spending your life with someone else,
you don't aspire to, like, domestic partnership.
You know, you aspire to have someone
who's your husband or your wife,
and it's meant a lot to me
to be able to say that I was married
and to have the rights that everyone else has.
Um, you know, and it didn't--when I got married,
it didn't really feel like anything changed.
You know, our day-to-day was the same.
But there was that moment when I, like--
I went into the dentist's office,
and I got to check the married box,
and I got strangely emotional about it…
Yeah.
Because it is--it's been a fight to get those rights,
and it shouldn't have been.
Yeah. Is parenthood something you'd--you'd love to do?
Yeah, Justin and I both want to have kids.
Really? Great.
Yeah.
When I see kids, it's just like I get that…
I get a little baby crazy.
The thing is, it's certainly not gonna be a surprise
when I have a kid.
It's not like we're gonna have an accidental pregnancy.
Yeah, exactly. "Justin, I've got something to tell you. There's"…
Yeah. "We're pregnant."
"We're pregnant," yeah.
I'm really excited.
The greatest adventure is fatherhood,
and I really can't wait to be a part of that world.
You would be a very sweet dad
because you care, you've got a big heart.
Well, now I know how to make an igloo for them.
There you go.
Well, I think you only really get to know someone
when you sit opposite them and you share,
and I like that vibe.
It's one of the things that really always draws me to
the mountains and big expeditions.
It's the bonds you create with people, even in a snow cave.
Okay, I reckon this is gonna be done.
I'm gonna make you try this first.
And-- a hair.
Excuse me, waiter, there's a hair in my goat.
You got to embrace the hair.
Is it a little raw?
It's not tender.
But really good.
It's not terrible. You can really taste the ingredients.
It's an old recipe. It's my grandfather's.
Uh-huh. Is it hot water that I'm tasting?
Mm, might be the goat in hot water.
It's beautifully done.
If Bear Grylls was to open a restaurant,
I honestly--I don't think I would go. I really just don't,
I mean, if this was any sort of indication.
It's still in my teeth, actually.
Tuck me in, Bear.
Okay.
Tell me a story.
Okay, well, there were these two men once stuck in a snow cave.
Oh, I love this story.
And, um, they got very hungry.
Then one man ate the other.
What? God.
- Sleep well. - The end.
That's a great story.
- The end. - Good night.
I always say prayers before bed. Do you mind if I…
That's a great idea. I love it.
Dear lord, thank you for my new friend Bear,
who kept me safe
and made me feel like the man I know I am inside.
I pray for my family. I pray for Shara and our three boys.
Keep them safe.
Keep us safe on the rest of this journey.
Oh, I didn't say thank you for Justin.
Now you made me feel bad by thinking of your family.
You're in the doghouse now.
So now I got--I got a P.S. I got a P.S.
No, there's no P.S. allowed.
We're wrapping it. We're wrapping.
Coming up…
What do you reckon about tying a rope through that hole?
That will hold?
It looks a bit precarious. Let's test it.
Test it? No, no, no. Will it hold?
I think it's easy for me to take it for granted that
somebody, just 'cause they're tired,
is gonna sleep well in a snow cave.
For somebody for the first time,
it's definitely an accelerated wilderness course Jesse's getting.
He's sleeping on ice, and he's--you know,
living off a bit of, you know, goat leg.
How you doing, Jesse?
Hey. How'd you sleep?
How'd you sleep?
Yeah, I slept okay.
Yeah?
What about you?
Greatest night of my life.
My night in the cave was, uh,
not as bad as I thought it was gonna be.
I lied down on that ice block
and forced myself to go to sleep.
What are you making?
I got you something…
Is this some…
Really delicious.
Some more goat?
Remains of all of that goat fat, goat bone.
- I've been dreaming about it. - Goat skin.
Yeah.
I just boil it up into a bit of a broth.
It's like a nice miso. Yeah, nice.
Wow, yeah, that's…
Is that a good wow or a bad wow?
Yeah, that's--well, an interesting one.
That's gonna put hairs on your chest.
I thought I was done with that goat last night.
Honestly, when I went to bed, I was like, oof,
at least I don't have to have any more goat.
And then the first thing I wake up to this morning is
a goat fat latte.
It's gonna be good energy.
Oh. I feel like my mouth is
kind of coated in Crisco right now.
It's not a great--it's not a great feeling.
You know the last thing we always used to do
in the military
before leaving a snow cave?
What's that?
Number twos 'cause you'd leave no sign.
Do your number twos. Snow cave collapses on it.
Bear's middle name might be Boundaryless.
I may be some time.
You might be a little while?
Okay, I'm just gonna give you your privacy
and move away from the door, actually.
Sit over here.
Yeah, so I get stage fright otherwise. Thanks.
I'm moving away from the door.
I'm by the goat leg if you need me.
The broth is delicious.
Just stop talking a second.
Sorry.
Okay, all good. We can talk.
I might just have you throw my stuff out,
and we can go from here.
I don't--I don't know if I need to go.
Oh, I feel b--feel better.
Feel better? A little better?
Lighter, fitter, ready for the day.
All right.
Personally, I love doing it in a snow cave. It's peaceful,
but yeah. No, thank you. It all went swimmingly.
Okay, I've got your backpack.
Okay. I don't know, Bear, everything looks really ominous.
I think Jesse's a little bit daunted by what's ahead,
and the truth is, we've got
a lot of descent and a steep terrain now.
We've gotta get going.
Got a lot of ground to cover.
That extraction point beckons.
Oh, my gosh.
Definitely getting a little steeper here, Jesse.
Yeah.
You know what? Come on.
Let's just kick a little platform in here.
And get some crampons on.
You know one of the biggest killers in the mountain?
What's that?
Get Home-Itis.
I think I have it.
It is definitely true on the high mountains.
All that adrenaline and focus is for getting to the top,
and then on the way done, it's like…
yeah, that just goes. You just want to get home.
And that's when definitely mistakes happen.
So we're not gonna get complacent.
We're gonna put crampons on.
Have you ever had crampons before?
Heh! No. I've had cramps.
Cramps!
What's hard when you're descending is
you can't really see the terrain ahead.
You don't know whether it's undulating
or whether suddenly it drops off into a sheer cliff.
Let's just finish strong, be careful,
rope up, and put on crampons,
which are like steel claws on the foot of the boot.
I'm also gonna put you on a rope.
We're gonna finish safe. We're gonna finish strong.
So what's the game plan if something happens here?
Well, you're gonna go first,
and if you slip, or trip, or whatever…
Yeah?
Rather than tumbling down the mountain,
I've got you. Okay？
Okay.
These crampons, they're super sharp, those spikes.
Do the big bollocks John Wayne walk!
Okay, go for it.
Kick those heels in.
Oh, my god.
Trust those crampons.
The crampons, I definitely--I've never worn them before.
But, yeah, they're--they're basically it's like, it's, you know,
like having a set of steak knives attached to your feet.
This gets a lot steeper.
Yeah.
I'm gonna tie a rope, okay.
Okay.
And we'll just together repel gently down this.
Okay.
Have a look up here.
What do you reckon about tying a rope through that hole…
That will hold?
And then out here, and then run it straight down there.
Will that hold?
Well, let's--let's test it.
No, no, no! "Just test it?" No, no, no. Will it hold?
I think that will hold. I mean, it looks a bit precarious.
I--from where I'm looking,
it looks like you're tying it to, like, glass.
I can't believe a loop of ice would hold us up.
Okay, you trust your life to that.
I…I'm gonna have to.
Obviously, Bear's been out here
in situations like this before,
so he trusts what, you know, we're attached to.
Want to do the honors of throwing it?
Okay.
Okay, lean back. Putting our weight on it.
Really?
Yeah, it's gonna be good.
Okay.
Keep leaning back. Keep leaning into it.
Okay, okay.
Sorry about that.
All right, that's all right.
This is--this is so crazy.
Are you okay?
Yeah, yeah, I'm good.
How many times have I stabbed you?
It's okay.
I think I've ripped my pants.
I noticed that.
It is what it is. It's the least of my concerns right now.
It's okay. It's okay.
Pretty awkward, isn't it?
To say the least. [bleep].
Oh, my gosh. Oh!
This is very nerve-wracking.
Going down that gully. Lean back.
Keep leaning back. Keep leaning into it.
Okay.
Lean back.
Oh, my god.
Never look down. Here we go.
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god.
Coming up…
We're still just connected to that ice.
Wow, it's really all melting.
Oh!
Wow. Oh, my god!
Oh, my god.
We're still just connected to that ice.
I know. It's holding, though.
Please don't give out.
I've done some scary things in my opinion,
but nothing this far out of my comfort zone.
My whole body is just rushing with blood.
I am more winded than I have ever been before,
and next thing I know, I'm on a waterfall.
Oh, my god.
This is crazy.
Oh, my god.
Oh, my god!
Wow, it's really all melting.
- Oh, my hands are definitely losing feeling. - Yeah.
It's like we're going down a snow cone. This is insane.
Oh, my god.
How’re you doing?
This is the hardest thing I've ever done.
And definitely the most terrifying.
Okay, I can see the bottom.
Keep leaning back.
You can use your feet.
Are we at the bottom?
Yeah.
I'm okay.
This is not the most graceful I've ever been.
Oh, my god!
Ohh! Ahh!
That was insane.
It's so cold.
I've never been so cold. That ice coming at my face.
Look at that. I can't believe we came down that.
That's a waterfall.
Well done, though, you know. I mean…
I made it.
That was quite committing,
because we couldn't see what we were going over.
No.
We couldn't see whether it was
half that length, twice that length.
I had...if I had known that we were going down a waterfall,
I definitely would've--I would've said, "Absolutely not."
Oh, god, I can't believe that happened.
That's the most adrenaline I've ever felt in my entire life.
Whoo! I'm really happy I'm down off that.
That's insane. You're insane.
Oh, well done, you.
Thank you. Thanks, man.
Good on you. Respect for you genuinely.
- Thank you. - I love it.
Jesse is fearless, and I really mean that.
You know, my hands were freezing. I know his hands were freezing.
We were wet. We were scared.
But doing that, you learn about people in those moments,
and I mega impressed with him down that.
Our pick up is looming.
I wish he had arrived like a half hour earlier.
But we've got 15 minutes to make it.
- So let's get moving. - Okay, let's go.
Well done there, man.
Thank you.
We're 15 minutes from our pick up point with the helicopter,
so we need to get moving,
fire up that flare, and call in that heli.
Let's do another night. Let's make another snow cave.
- Okay, great. Let's get back. - All right, let's do it over here?
I'm just kidding. Please go!
Okay, Jesse, up here.
All right, flare.
Okay.
I've learned a lot about myself on this.
I mean, I've learned that fear is just a state of mind.
Manliness is just a state of mind, you know.
I've surprised myself in a lot of ways
and I've proven to myself that I can do a lot
more than I think I'm capable of,
and that I can always push myself to go farther.
That's our way out of here.
I never would've thought I could've done it.
It's amazing.
Jesse is a man who's face some real battles in his life,
and he's overcome them all.
And on this journey, he showed that same spirit,
resilience, and good humor.
And that was a pretty ambitious journey intentionally.
He wanted to be pushed,
and I'm so proud of how he's done, genuinely.
- Woo-hoo! - Yes.
We're done!
I think this is a great metaphor for life.
You know, you come against things
that seem incredibly impossible,
and then you look them straight in the eye
and you--you conquer them.
You know, a lot of my life, I think
people have underestimated me.
So this is major validation.
Bear's really been my lifeline on this,
and I wouldn't have been able to do this without him.
There were things I never would've expected I could've done,
and I did it.
Well done, you.
We're outta here!
We made it!