Can I Survive 24 Hours in the Amazon

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00:00I'm heading deep into the Amazon, the world's most dangerous rainforest,

00:05and I'm searching for one man who lives completely alone surrounded by lethal predators.

00:11But it's not going to be easy. Holy that's freaking huge! Over the next 24 hours,

00:17we're going to be hunting for food and building shelter from scratch,

00:20fending off the elements and deadly mosquitoes. Oh my god dude, look at my forehead. I'm on a

00:25mission to test my own survival skills and show you how one indigenous man lived by himself,

00:31against all odds. Going to the Amazon. I wanted to go here for like 10 years.

00:44From the nearby city of Manaus, I send my last text messages because we are about to be completely

00:49offline for two days. I'm traveling with Jose, who's been a guide in the Amazon with Iguana

00:53tourists for 32 years. We're looking at a four-hour boat ride before we get anywhere near the man

00:58who lives off the grid. And we're off! Going into the Amazon jungle and you're going to feel

01:06as you are in that world because the Amazon jungle is something wonderful. Here in the Ariaú River,

01:13this is the place that the movie Anaconda. It was filmed here? Yeah, I just filmed it here.

01:18I have met many people that were attacked by them. Okay, so let's try not to get bit by anacondas.

01:27We've got the driver in the striped shirt, the guy with the hat. He's the one who connected us to the

01:33indigenous man. And then I got our guide Jose and Ricardo. What's up Ricardo? And that is the crew!

01:40Drifting down the Amazon River feels surreal. There is not a soul in sight, just us and the mysterious

01:46waters. We say I'll pass squire monkeys, small snakes, my heart skipped a beat for a second,

01:52and beautiful white birds in the sky. I've always dreamed of this adventure and it's even more

01:57exhilarating in real life. We just saw an alligator pop out of the water and then he went back inside.

02:02There's alligators and anacondas below us right now. Are you sure I'm okay?

02:08Yeah. I can see the legs below the hat. Holy . I'm holding a knife in my hand too.

02:17We've been on the boat for about an hour and a half so far. They say we have another two hours

02:21left. I feel really calm and at ease right now. It's kind of venting out and just so special to be

02:26out here in the Amazon. So we're going through the river here and we just had a big tree fall over to

02:33to block our route so we had to go back around the other way. And we got captain here navigating

02:38the front. I hope we don't hit any more dead ends. It's humid as hell. It's hot. I'm dressed in long

02:48sleeves from head to toe. I'm scared of mosquitoes and bugs. Look at this tree. Gotta go under. Damn.

02:56We got it. This is a proper adventure way, way out into the Amazon. All right, here we go. Getting off the boat.

03:10Is it your first time here? Sure. Yeah. I don't know this place. This is the first time I come here.

03:15The vegetation is a kind of campina. Campina is a kind of vegetation where the jaguars like to come

03:22looking for other animals for eating. We've docked our boat and now we're walking over land to go find

03:27our guy. Holy crap. These are the biggest lilies I've ever seen. We took a pit stop to see the

03:37largest tree species here in the Amazon. Look at this thing. It's like the mother of the whole jungle.

03:43This is some of my tree according to the biologist. It is between 80 to 95 years old. And we're just

03:50trekking through the jungle right now. Just straight up. It is incredibly humid outside. Just like

03:58sitting in a sauna. Suddenly, a lone figure steps out from the thick jungle as if he were part of

04:04nature itself. How are you? This is Jose. If you don't mind, I came here to just like learn about your life

04:13in the Amazon and how you survived. This person who is living in complete isolation

04:20holds the secrets to surviving alone in this vast wilderness. His name is Lino and he's a member

04:25of the Tucano tribe, a group of less than 5,000 nomadic people who rely on fishing and hunting to stay

04:30alive. He invited us to go hunting with him right away so he just grabbed his gun and it's already

04:35starting to rain. We're about 10 minutes in and we can just hear loud thunder happening. We're about to

04:40get drenched. We have a lot of trash bags for our camera equipment but I just hope it's not going to be that bad.

04:45Limo's on a serious hunt right now. We're following him through the jungle. How did you even find that?

04:53Just imagine how many more spiders are around here. Wait, hold on. I just found something.

04:57I just found poop, bro. What animal is this? It's poop. He said it's not poop? That's not an animal?

05:02It's poop, but from war. What? He's a total badass. He's got a gun over his shoulder and then he's got a knife

05:11in the other hand. Don't f**k with him. He'll kill you.

05:23That scared the s**t out of me. No success. Damn, you're fast.

05:32Damn, you didn't get it. We see monkeys over there in the trees but unsuccessfully shot.

05:44If you're wondering why Limo has a big belly, it's because there's no lack of food in the jungle.

05:49More than 2,000 species of edible fish, an abundance of fruits and large animals,

05:53and he lives in the middle of it all. What do you see here? Jaguar footprint. If we see a jaguar,

05:59like they're going to kill us or we will kill them. They do attack when they see people together

06:04like this. What kind of animals are you hoping to get now? Big deer or maybe the jaguar. You can see

06:10the jaguar. After a few long hours, Lino gives up on the hunt. We even try fishing on his handmade boat,

06:16but still come up short. Lino was just telling me that he frequently sees anacondas here and if I see one,

06:21to not freak out. I think I may have underestimated how difficult life is in the jungle. The stickiness of

06:26the humidity is killer, but the looming threat of a thunderstorm coming is really intimidating.

06:39All right, I got to protect all the gear and everything.

06:45That's really nice to have this. Look at our boy just hanging out outside. He's like,

06:51you guys are wussies. Look at him. This is way more stressful than I thought it was going to be.

06:59There are so many mosquitoes around me right now. I'm covered from head to toe,

07:03but I still feel bites on my fingers, my neck, and my cheek already. Literally hundreds of them.

07:08Good times. The rain has slowed down, so we're moving the tarp. 16 mosquito bites later,

07:14and very wet equipment. We're going to keep moving.

07:23Medicines here too.

07:24Oshii is a kind of antibiotic, natural antibiotic, used for cancer. They say that it helps in the cure.

07:32It's eatable. I think this fruit is pretty good.

07:36I'm not going to die if I eat this right.

07:42It's weird. It's like, how do you describe it? It's bitter and it's kind of flaky. It's like sandy.

07:48I've been walking for like an hour and a half already. I'm a little tired.

07:51This is a milk from the jungle. There are two trees that you collect kind of milk.

07:56Wait, he just collected this? I can eat it like this?

07:59Yeah.

08:00Mmm, that's sweet. Of all the things I've tried today in the Amazon, this is my favorite.

08:04Mmm, it's like a lychee. Oh, this is excellent. It's like a milkshake and a fruit.

08:09Spreading across eight countries in South America, the Amazon is the largest rainforest on earth.

08:14It's home to over three million species and indigenous communities who have lived in harmony

08:19with the jungle for thousands of years. The Amazon River holds 20% of the world's freshwater,

08:24making it the second largest river in the world behind the Nile. With over 400 billion trees,

08:29the rainforest also produces 20% of the world's oxygen, earning it the nickname

08:33the lungs of the earth. But we're losing the Amazon at a fast rate. The area of a football

08:38field is cleared every minute, releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

08:43This severely threatens the ecosystem and indigenous communities. It is up to us to

08:47share the stories of the people living here and protect one of our planet's greatest treasures.

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09:48We have found a place to set up camp. From here to that tree and from here to that tree and we cover

09:58here with the plastic. You sound like somebody who knows what they're doing. This is really cool,

10:03so you just cut thin slices off of the tree branch so we can tie our hammocks and we can get a cover over

10:09our head. Wow! F*** man! Nice!

10:31How do you feel just walking in the jungle for so long? Because for me I get exhausted, but like,

10:36do you enjoy this? It's not a problem to him to go farther in the jungle. Are you ever scared that

10:43animals are going to eat you or anacondas or anything? Jaguars? He's not scared of the jaguar,

10:51but he takes care very much about the snakes. What happens if we set up our tent here and then

10:56there's a cobra that like starts crawling up the tree? He says if one snake tries to attack him,

11:04he's gonna attack herself. That's real jungle living man. Could you survive in the jungle without a

11:10knife? If he has a fire, how to make fire, he survives without knife, without anything. Within just

11:1820 minutes they have set up this whole rooftop thing with sticks and we have the tent which is actually

11:23way bigger than it looks when you open it all the way. If a jaguar comes, who do you think he's going

11:27to eat first? The one that is in the red he said. It's like the moment you have a roof over your head

11:34you just feel a sense of security. If this was me all by myself in the jungle and I had to survive,

11:39I don't know if I'd be able to figure out how they just made this. All these little intricacies and

11:43these little tips that they do is like mind-blowing to me. When we are in the jungle, we become half man,

11:49half animal. You're in straight up survival mode right now. Yeah, we feel that. At this time, the day,

11:55you feel that something is changing. Stronger, stronger feeling, maybe adrenaline. And when it's

12:01totally dark, you feel sometimes you're afraid, sometimes you're happy, sometimes you think to

12:07be drinking a beer, but most of the time it doesn't happen. The most important thing he's putting on is

12:15mosquito net. It's literally a lifesaver. So many diseases that mosquitoes can bring, dengue, malaria,

12:21all kinds of sicknesses and the fact that we're not going to have to worry about that is huge.

12:25Wherever we sleep tonight, if I hear sounds, I don't think I'm going to freak out.

12:28You're making a fire right now? We try to make the fire to prepare something to eat.

12:33I brought a good fish, tambaki. Tambaki is considered one of the most delicious fish from the Amazon.

12:41How do you just make a fire? You just get sticks and a lighter? Yeah, a lighter with some dry leaves.

12:48Let's see. You got some fish cooking over here, Jose? Yeah, I'm going to roast this.

12:54Yeah. Jose, look at my forehead.

12:56That looks not okay.

13:01It's water with salt. Water with salt. Yeah, it helps your skin very fast.

13:07Just take like this and pass here. Good. You feel much, much better.

13:16It's so itchy. And after, you put again. After one out.

13:21Okay. Thank you.

13:22Hello. It's a scary thought if you're like stuck in the jungle by yourself and you scream for help and

13:32there's nothing out there. As I'm sitting here listening to the sounds of the jungle, Lino comes

13:37rushing back with a big surprise. Holy . That's freaking huge. That doesn't scare you?

13:44No, no. This one, no. Dude, that is so scary. Yeah, he's going to leave it in the jungle.

13:51I don't know if I should be freaking out right now. Like this thing's going to take my head off or what?

13:54Would you eat this if you didn't have food? Yeah, he can eat the snake.

14:01What is it like to live alone in the Amazon? To survive is to get the food. And if he has fire,

14:09he can live. But the most difficult thing in the jungle is to get the food to survive.

14:13Is it a lonely life to be here, like in the jungle with no people?

14:17It feels much better when there are people coming here. But he feels alone.

14:25I can't believe there's a freaking king cobra right next to me. If I get bit by this thing,

14:29I don't know where the nearest doctor would be and I don't think I would survive.

14:32Oh, wow. That feels so cool. Yeah. That camouflage is crazy, man. It looks like the leaves.

14:38And after, he's going to leave here. He's going to let it go?

14:42Where's he going to put it?

14:45We let the snake go. We decided not to eat it because we brought our own food and we can let it go.

14:50But it's so creepy to think that we're sleeping right there and there's this cobra just squeezing

14:55by. Oh, the way it moves so gracefully and it looks exactly like the leaves. So he's gone? Bye-bye.

15:03It's important to note that Lino is not the most isolated person in the Amazon. There are plenty of

15:08tribes around us that would literally kill me if I ever trespassed in their neck of the woods.

15:12But staying true to his Tucano roots, Lino prefers to live on his own. He likes the peacefulness of

15:17the jungle. He enjoys the challenge of hunting and the reward of eating. He doesn't care if a big city

15:22of two million people is only four hours upstream because this is his home. Do you have any stresses

15:28from living in the jungle? It's very hard to be stressed in the jungle. You're alone and no

15:37possibility. Have you ever been to the big city? How do you feel when you go there?

15:41Even though he avoids the big city, Lino did mention that he takes his boat upstream to small

15:57settlements every few months to barter for supplies like bullets and clothes. What's the name of your

16:02tribe? Tucano. The ethnics, they came up from upstream in the Nigo River. If you live there in the jungle,

16:13they don't have some help from the government that helps with money and with other things. So they

16:18felt that they should come down to get something more. Why do you think it's important for indigenous

16:24people like yourself to protect the Amazon? He thinks it's important because of the life,

16:31the wildlife. Have you ever had a tourist come here and like learn about your life? No, never.

16:38It's the first time. It's the first time that somebody's come here. Nobody came here before.

16:42What do you do at night time like when the sun goes down? Do you like party with the cobras?

16:46Yes, yes. He doesn't like snakes. He's afraid of snakes. If he's alone, he's in danger of the jaguars. So he puts

16:57the ramo up there and he's just thinking about the life, about many things. He just stays there but up.

17:04Dinner is being cooked right now in the middle of the Amazon. This is so special. This is why I came here

17:09to tell this story because I just knew I had a calling that amazing things were going to happen in the

17:14Amazon and it just looks so freaking tasty. Limo's out here getting plates for us. Just straight up leaves in the jungle.

17:31It is time to feast. We are getting fish on the leaf plates. Got some pineapple slices. I'm hungry.

17:39This is going to be great. Bon appetit. Oh man, look at this. Yeah, it's like a steak. It's like a fish steak. Good?

17:50He's like, hell yeah. This is what travel is all about. New experiences. What is this flour stuff called?

17:56What is the name? Farinha? It doesn't have much of a taste. It's like croutons. It just gives you like

18:03texture to the food. Roasted pineapple.

18:05I don't know what's better, the pineapple or the fish. Serious question. If we're sleeping and we hear

18:12like animals coming towards us, what should we do? You have to spook him or shoot him.

18:19For sure you're going to hear the sound.

18:24It's normal because it's small animals. They walk during the night. We don't move. We don't need to move.

18:30All right, it's getting dark outside. I got my flashlight on my phone, illuminating the face.

18:38The shower here is a lovely wet wipe. I've done a lot of these overnights and jungles in Papua New

18:44Guinea with the cannibals and in Guyana, all over Africa, but this one I feel the most dirty. It's time

18:50to pee and brush my teeth and then cuddle up in that little hammock and wake up when the sun rises.

18:55Time to put some cologne on. Nothing like a good smell of poison on your arms. It's crazy that at

19:04nighttime all the sounds come out in the jungle. All the bugs, nocturnal animals.

19:11All right. I gotta be honest though, I'm pretty comfortable in here. It's like all wrapped up.

19:15Nothing else to do but sleep. Oh man, that was a good 12 hours sleep. It's like floating in the clouds in here.

19:31You hear so many different sounds of the animals. Crazy. No mosquito bites overnight. That's good. New day in the Amazon.

19:38He didn't sleep? Not so, only a few moments. We felt a very strong stink. He was here with the flashlight

19:53because it's dangerous here, the jaguars. So did you find anything overnight?

19:58There was a noise here. While we were sleeping, you were just like wandering around with a flashlight

20:04looking for a jaguar. Because if you stay everyone without any flashlight, probably he can come and

20:10catch one of us. Nemo says we're going somewhere special and he's walking really fast through the

20:14jungle. Can barely keep up. He seems to be more excited right now than he was yesterday.

20:23Seeing blue sky for the first time in the rainforest. It's perfectly blue. No rain. At least one of our

20:29problems is solved. We are following Nemo now down to the river.

20:39He just jumped in the river and is taking a bath which actually looks really nice because it's

20:43already super hot outside. Is there anacondas here? Anaconda? Yeah? I can't imagine the feeling

20:49of taking a shower and then feeling a massive 20-foot snake below your feet. That's just something

20:54that you deal with if you live out here in the Amazon. Just beyond the river, Lino guides us to

20:59a clearing in the bush. Here he has built a small hut with no walls to take cover during storms and

21:04in-between hunts. Just pulled up to like a little house that he has here. Okay so this is his little

21:10compound where it hangs out in the middle of the rainforest. We got breakfast cooking. This is pretty

21:15awesome. It's getting better and better. Boiled river water coffee.

21:19Tastes pretty good. As long as it's boiled, we're right. Josie brought us some acai. A bag of acai.

21:28Oh it's cold. You kept it cold. Oh my god. I love that. If I don't drink this, I'm getting crazy.

21:35I'm obsessed with this stuff and pretty much the whole world. Look the color of this thing. A fresh cup

21:43of cold acai in the Amazon. This is one of life's greatest moments for me right now. It's not sweet,

21:50but you can taste that acai berry that the familiar taste of when I tried at home.

21:55But the one at home, it's all sugar. Cheers bro. Cheers Amazonia and Drew.

22:00It's like you go out. He's been preparing food for us, which is really kind of him. It's a kind of a rodent

22:14he took in the jungle last night and then he's preparing. A rodent? Yeah. Like a rat?

22:21But the bigger one. All right. We got our plate.

22:26Some rice. It's so hot I can't put my hands under it, but we got a rodent, rice,

22:32and these flaky things that are eaten all over Brazil.

22:37It was really good. Holy crap. It's a little gamey, but not bad. I would eat this meat at home.

22:44If I didn't tell you what this meat was, you would just think it's like, oh it's like good pork.

22:48After a savory home-cooked meal, I'm ready to leave the depths of the Amazon behind and I'm

22:52grateful for the thrill of encountering Lino, the ultimate jungle survivor. In a world consumed by

22:57technology, Lino thrives in isolation, finding solace and purpose in the unforgiving rainforest.

23:02But one thing is certain, I could not survive a week in his shoes. From sleeping with deadly

23:07mosquitoes to showering with anacondas and having to scavenge every day for food and shelter, I don't

23:12think I could last more than 24 hours out here. As I journey back to the city, I'm left with a new

23:17respect for those who dare to live on the edge of the wild.

23:20Thanks for watching and stay tuned for next week's episode as I take you deep inside the

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