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00:00I
00:13I
00:13I
00:22We got one get last we got one this tree is hollow and there's a big
00:29Beehive inside the tree, and it's just a matter of making it accessible enough to get our hands in and
00:35grab the honey out
00:52I'm in Stafford as an explorer and survivalist. I've made a career out of mucking about
00:58In the wild if I'm honest, I've never really grown up
01:03So now
01:06Ready guys
01:08I've set myself a mission
01:11To see how cultures across the world navigate the messy business
01:16becoming an adult
01:20I believe many of us in the modern world have lost our sense of identity
01:25But I'm hoping by immersing myself
01:27And they're often extreme trials that young people face
01:31I can figure out how these rituals make us better members of our communities
01:36I've never experienced anything even comparable in terms of pain
01:41By joining them on that journey. I hope I'll learn to become a better man
01:46Well, I wish to go okay, Eric, but noise maybe even grow up
01:50It's belly on us. Okay. He wants me to jump out. I'm gonna jump out and successfully pass my own
01:57Rite of passage
02:17I'm currently in northern tanzania's great rift valley a vast area steeped in humanity's ancient history
02:25I've been traveling for 48 hours just to get here and this is now my final leg
02:30A five-hour drive deep into one of the most remote corners of the african bush
02:36I'm heading to the socorro community on the fringes of lake easi
02:40A place often called the cradle of mankind and where human remains dating back around 2 million years were discovered
02:52I'm here to live with the hunter and from what I know of their right of passage into adulthood
02:57It involves using expert tracking and bush kills to find honey and big game
03:02The Hadza have been surviving on these lands for over 50 000 years
03:08And one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes left in the world
03:22Okay, one of the local Hadza boys is just come out. It's nice to see a smiling face. Hello, mate
03:34I
03:35Guys
03:37I
03:38Ed
03:39Ed
03:42Ed
03:43Anabawa
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04:37Anabawa
04:52Not only do I not speak their language, but I can barely pronounce their names.
04:57This could be a challenging week.
05:00I appreciate being allowed to come and live with you for a small period of time in your
05:04community.
05:05The key thing for me coming here is to learn about how you guys transition young men into
05:10adults.
05:11And if it's okay with you, the thing that I'm really, really interested in learning about
05:15is how you hunt for the honey and extract the honey from wild sources.
05:24Thank you very much, mate.
05:25Thank you very much.
05:54All the awkwardnesses of being introduced to a tribe, we're straight out on a hunt.
06:00Hats of camps are named after their best hunters, with this community named after Socorro.
06:14His right-hand man is 17-year-old Gonga.
06:21薪邪褕械 胁褋械 懈屑褟.
06:22袞邪谢泻懈泄 袚芯谢芯褋!
06:22小'薪邪斜褘!
06:25小'薪邪斜褘!
06:30小'薪邪斜褘!
06:32小'薪邪斜褘!
06:33小'薪邪斜褘!
06:33袗锌褘!
06:34小'ng褉褘!
06:45the Hadza diet is not for picky eaters I reckon they like squirrel
06:53consisting of over 30 different wild mammals including monkeys porcupines
06:57fudges and impala to fight if I yeah other end other end other end other end good water is good
07:25water mate yes Wow I mean that's so cool isn't it look at that that's extraordinary look it's
07:32cut the bottom drank out the bottom because he didn't know that you could unscrew the top
07:39why would you just just show doesn't it how divorced from everyday life this place is thank
07:45God the plastic still hasn't infiltrated this corner of the world yet nice you've got a
07:57quite a big tuberous root being exposed now it's good is it what's it called so I don't I yeah
08:16halfway between a potato and a kind of a cucumber it's kind of got that watery inside like a
08:22cucumber has but with the flavor of your potato what are we looking for me well I'll be now
08:43okay cool looking for honey perhaps a boy to transition into manhood and complete their
08:50right of passage they must prove themselves as a provider for the community so although facing an
08:56angry swarm of bees seems daunting it's a primary food source for the Hatsa people so it's something I
09:04must help them collect if I'm to pass my own right of passage
09:23the white wax on the exterior of a bees nest means that bees are actively building new combs which
09:30should hopefully be overflowing with fresh honey how do you get the honey out of that
09:58with the hive more than 10 meters above the ground it's not exactly the kind of place that you want
10:03to be
10:03stung by swarm of angry bees I'm not sure particularly want to go climbing to make it even more precarious
10:11the
10:13only way to climb is by using homemade wooden pegs with only one squirrel successfully hunted and now
10:24shifting our focus to honey we've returned home with little food
10:38she looked really hungry I'm very grateful that tuberous rube got given to her she looked really hungry
10:55the Hatsa's traditional hunting grounds have been whittled away to only 10 percent of what it was just 50
11:01years ago meaning less game to hunt for food yeah there's a lot of little mouths to feed
11:10not that long ago the Hatsa could easily feast on giraffes elephant and their favorite baboons but that
11:17looks like a distant memory today dead posh service this is thank you this is perfect you like a
11:28like a like a like a like a like a like a like a like a like a means lie
11:31down hey I'm at that copy copy
11:37thank you mate thank you thank you this is cool so basically this is my accommodation for the next week
11:49I don't want to become another mouth to feed making my need to help provide honey for this community
11:55all the more vital Gonger how many meat do we need to make pepper I'm like
12:10Gonger some of the guys were saying there's a girl that you want to get married to
12:17have you known there a long time then what's her name what's her name
12:23Shukmua Shukmua
12:45for a had to boy to complete their right of passage and marry they must prove to the bride's parents
12:51that
12:51they can provide for and protect a family but right now it looks like we're off to slay vampires
13:00and climbing a 10 meter high baobab tree to raid a hive filled with bees sounds just as daunting
13:09beehive right in the crux of that say about 10 meters off the floor
13:32like this could easily be 2,000 years old archaeological evidence found in this region reveals that had to have
13:40lived on these lands for over 50,000 years
13:42which means their ancestors were likely hunting and raiding beehives like this during the stone age
13:48Gonger's skill level of being able to hang on to a little peg while standing on a little peg whilst
13:56banging in a little peg is is crazy
13:59the East African lowland honeybee is one of the most aggressive bee species in the world making up half of
14:05the infamous Africanized bee hybrid known as the killer bee
14:11he's almost at the top now though
14:25one wrong move and the bees could swarm Gonger and us
14:30you can hear them up there
14:32they are angry
14:35I'd love to get stuck in and help but Socorro says this is no job for a newbie
14:42and this time I'd have to agree
15:06despite still being stung they pushed through the pain to access the prized honey
15:15the only problem now is getting all the liquid gold down
15:32they have to die
15:33had to be the two more
15:54Oh, look at that.
15:57Beautiful.
16:01Yeah?
16:01Yeah.
16:02Are you sure?
16:05Oh, my God, that's amazing.
16:08Needless to say, that's one of the best-tasting honeys I've ever tasted.
16:13That tastes extraordinary.
16:16To have that as part of your natural diet,
16:21you can see why it's worth the effort
16:23of making all the mistakes and going up into the tree
16:27and risking your life.
16:40Well done, mate.
16:42Congratulations.
16:43Well done.
16:45Did he get stung much?
16:47Ding, ding, ding, ding.
16:55Get some honey down your way.
16:58But this honey isn't really for eating.
17:01They had to also use it to trade,
17:03and it's going to help Gonga and his mission
17:05to win his future wife.
17:07What could you buy with this?
17:15So you can see why it is important, both as part of the rite of passage,
17:19but also as something to trade.
17:22And the boys are so happy.
17:27And the plastic bucket of fresh honey is a welcoming boost to the community's morale.
17:51And by the end of my week here, I will have to place my own hand into a wild bees
17:56nest to provide for the community something I'm a little nervous about.
18:12How important within your culture is?
18:15Clearly it's not just a food, is it?
18:17You use it for trade and stuff like that, but how important is it?
18:31How important is it?
18:36When the men go out hunting, it's not going to come back with any food.
18:40Where are we?
18:42Where are we?
18:42We're going to get our food.
18:43We're going to get our food.
18:43We're going to get our food.
19:00Do any of you ever get tempted to go and live outside of Hasda community?
19:09Despite the challenges of raising a family in the African bush,
19:13Hadda women believe their way of life is still best for their children.
19:18For them, survival doesn't come from money or possessions,
19:21but from community and a husband who can hunt.
19:26Gongo obviously is looking to get married.
19:29Do you think he's a good catch?
19:38Nice.
19:42I'm already fascinated by the Hadza and how a young man's rite of passage
19:46is directly connected to the survival of the tribe and his future family.
19:51Here, becoming a man isn't just symbolic, it's life or death.
19:59Without barbed metal arrowheads, Gongo can't hunt baboons.
20:03So we make the long trek through the wilderness to the area's only forge.
20:08And I hope, for our sake, the people running it still like honey.
20:23This is very different.
20:28Nice view.
20:31The Tatoga are another of Tanzania's oldest tribes.
20:35Their ancestors were fierce warriors and masters at making weapons.
20:40The neighbouring tribe appear to be blacksmiths.
20:43We've got an arrowhead being made here.
20:46And it's all using old little scrap bricks of metal.
20:50Incredibly simple, and yet, obviously, it's a skill that the Hadza people don't have.
20:55But what the Hadza do have is honey.
20:58It's a time for a bit of bartering.
21:23They're bartering.
21:25Amadetic Sokoro is getting offered quite what he was hoping he was going to get offered.
21:41You're happy.
21:43Happy days.
21:44You happy?
21:45I mean, I have a hand.
21:46I am a pilgrimage.
21:47Excellent.
21:4820 arrowheads and two knives.
21:52And, um, he gets a pot of honey.
21:55Everyone's a winner.
22:00it's been a successful mission and gonga now has the tools he needs to prove himself on a baboon
22:06hunt but first he wants me to meet the girl that he hopes to marry everything in terms of honey
22:14collection potentially baboon hunting is all focused towards gonga's getting married so it's
22:21time to meet the lady herself the umko Obama community is home to other hunters and their
22:27families but with less than 400 had to living a traditional life in the region every camp is
22:34like an extended family with many hats are being married or related to one another which is your
22:40girlfriend nah go it the coco in the middle she's beautiful she's beautiful hi lovely to meet you
23:11what what do you think of uh gonga for your daughter
23:21well she moves mom seems sold on the idea her father looks a little less convinced in general
23:30how does it has a man prove his worthiness if he was to want to marry a lady in another
23:37community
23:37and how does he how does he prove himself doesn't ako kaka kaka kaka kaka kaka kaka kaka kaka kaka
23:43i think
24:15It seems like a bit of a tall order, especially since all I've seen so far has been scrappy
24:20little squirrels, but I guess some traditions die hard, so if Gonga wants a wife, it seems
24:27he's got to cough up a baboon and a decent amount of honey.
24:30Is it true that the rum of the baboon is the best part?
24:37You understood me, didn't you?
24:39You didn't need a translator then.
24:41And although I'm a bit of a newbie out here, I hope I can help him on his own Hadza
24:46rite
24:46of passage.
24:53My time with the Socorro community is quickly running out, so now focus turns to Gonga's
24:59rite of passage and helping him get his Hadza bride.
25:11And the first thing we need is not an engagement ring, but an arrow deadly enough to bring down
25:17a baboon.
25:18Why is it for baboons you need these barbs, like do they pull the arrows out?
25:41The arrowhead is lethal, but without feathers it won't fly.
25:45And when your whole future depends on the success of a hunt, there's no room for error.
25:50So keep going round that one.
25:52What was the atenci贸n?
26:04I was not happy but also?
26:05It was a good idea for example.
26:08It was great.
26:08I had to fight my father.
26:11I couldn't see it.
26:14Maybe I can't cry.
26:15I don't know.
26:18I'm not happy about it.
26:20I have a group of people.
26:33This is some of the happiest people that I've met in a long, long time, and they have nothing.
26:39You really do not need stuff in your life.
26:43They have a bow and arrow, they have a knife.
26:46Even the shelter, the home that they're sleeping in, is a temporary one that will work for the season.
26:51And yet, it's experience and knowledge and skill level that's enabling them to actually glean an existence from the environment.
26:59Being able to craft tools, being able to make weapons, being able to know all of the different hunting techniques
27:06that they need.
27:07And by putting it all together, you free yourself from the need to accumulate stuff.
27:13And I think that's the key.
27:16Happy life.
27:27Thank you, mate.
27:28Thank you so much.
27:34Okay, I didn't do it all myself.
27:37But I consider that to be my first answer, arrow.
27:42Thank you, mate.
27:44Happy days.
27:46Poisoned arrows ready, we're all set to hunt baboon.
28:00We've been walking about two hours from camp now.
28:04It's a long way away.
28:06Them boys are on a mission.
28:09To stand the greatest chance of success, we're heading to new hunting grounds, an eight-kilometre hike away under the
28:17rising African sun.
28:25So this is baboon country.
28:29And it's stunning.
28:31It's so different to the horizontal scrub.
28:35If I was a baboon, I'd be hanging out on these rocks up here.
28:40Classic baboon territory.
28:53Spotting movement on the horizon.
28:56Gonga gives the signal, and we head down into the valley.
29:03All of a sudden, the hunt is on.
29:07That was definitely a contact with a troop of baboons.
29:13The shouts from that direction, that direction, and that direction.
29:17Baboon.
29:18In the chaos of the chase, the group has splintered.
29:24I better keep up, because I don't really want to get lost alone out here.
29:30You guys are hot on the trail of a baboon.
29:34Why troop of baboons?
29:37I'm just struggling to even keep up with them.
29:52Okay.
29:54Baboon.
29:55Right on the top of that crescent of that tree.
30:01Okay, it's coming down.
30:02It's coming down.
30:03That was a huge baboon.
30:06Exactly what Gonga's future father-in-law wanted.
30:12And that big-ass baboon is looking quite impossible.
30:18Okay, there's two baboons moving left to right through that underground there.
30:27They're closing in on them.
30:29This is it.
30:30With Hong Konga ambushing the baboons with the dogs,
30:33and Gonga closing in,
30:35we're moments away from a possible kill.
30:43But once again, confusion kicks in.
30:50Gonga is constantly the one right at the front.
30:53He's the one that's spearheading the whole operation.
30:56But because he is so up front,
30:58I'm hardly getting a glimpse of him.
31:00He's the one leading the charge.
31:03He's the best hunter out of this lot.
31:07Then suddenly,
31:09the silence is deafening.
31:13By the time I catch up with the rest of the group,
31:16I can immediately tell it's not good news.
31:36What is very cool
31:37is that this is Gonga.
31:39He wanted to get married,
31:40found a girl he likes,
31:41wants to impress her parents,
31:42and all his mates are very happy to turn out with him
31:45at a stupid o'clock in the morning to go hunting.
31:49That's pretty cool, isn't it?
31:51That's what mates are for.
31:54Failing to bag a baboon
31:56is the often harsh reality for modern Hadza.
32:00So we're now relying on finding a cache of honey
32:02to restore some of Gonga's fortune
32:04and save his right of passage.
32:09But with light quickly fading,
32:11time is not on our side.
32:18We are losing time
32:19in terms of getting the honey.
32:21It's part and parcel
32:22of what Gonga needs to provide.
32:25And therefore,
32:26if we can just nail that,
32:28that would be good.
32:32But all isn't lost
32:33when Gonga is leading the brigade.
32:35Eddie!
32:36Bichokokou!
32:37Uh-huh!
32:38Bichokokou!
32:39Yaku balakote ye tabakoko!
32:41Have we got one?
32:42Hey!
32:42Te ye tabakoko!
32:45Ete tabakoko!
32:47Ete tabakoko!
32:47Ete tabakoko!
32:48Ete tabakoko!
32:48Ete tabakoko!
32:49Nice!
32:50OK, at last, we got one.
32:54Tree is hollow.
32:55And there's a big beehive inside the tree.
32:59And it's just a matter of making it accessible enough
33:02to get our hands in and grab the honey out I'm gonna have a go trying to
33:07extract as much of this myself as possible I really want to nail this for
33:11Gonga and make sure he doesn't go back to his future bride empty-handed
33:16success would also be a massive boost for me to at least partially complete my
33:21right of passage as one of the primary harvesters of this wild honey without
33:26looking at the Sun I reckon we've got about 40 minutes of daylight with the
33:32clock ticking it's now or never
33:40okay fun going stage one complete but this beehive is not gonna be an easy one
33:45to get into it's um very enclosed and the bees are very well protected okay so in
33:52here yeah but enough to go cook it up it's brutal work and the longer we take
34:05the more likely we are to aggravate the bees and potentially cause a swarm but with
34:12Gonga's help we gain access to the hive
34:28boys don't think that they can access enough of the honey from the hole that
34:33was cut we need to open up the secondary hole with the beehive still deep inside
34:43the tree and the light fading fast the other boys also step in to help I came
34:50here thinking you know I want to prove that I can get the honey out myself and
34:53as I was chopping away and the boys are standing around I'm thinking that's not
34:57the way they had to do things these boys are a group of mates they help each
35:02other they're all muck in they all put the effort in and not because I'm being
35:07lazy but I'm gonna embrace that team spirit teamwork makes a dream way
35:22oh Gonga's just got stung I can see
35:38it looks like the smoke from the fire I made has done its job in subduing the bees
35:48so this is it time to get some for myself okay
36:07well done mate that is beautiful
36:19haha
36:23sorry everyone has now had a lot of stings it's got to the stage where the honey
36:28out but the bees they just go for you I've probably got 20 or 30 stings
36:33there's this crazy pleasure pain thing going on here at the moment everyone is
36:38high on sugar and in excruciating pain at the same time
36:43laughing
36:46okay
36:47it's all over
37:08laughing
37:09laughing
37:09laughing
37:09she'll get a joke
37:10laughing
37:10laughing
37:10laughing
37:10laughing
37:13That was just speaking without moving his lips at all.
37:22Worth the pain. Worth the pain.
37:27I would say that was a big success.
37:29It's not a bad hole. I'm not putting my hand in there again.
37:34Don't play yourself, better run back. We run the game, they run back.
37:39Will your future father-in-law be happy with that?
37:45Nice one, Kongo.
37:52With the honey bagged, a night upon us,
37:55we have no choice but to spend the night sleeping rough in the bush.
38:03What a day. I mean, that was, honestly,
38:06one of the most rewarding days of my life.
38:09We have honey to speed Kongo's wedding on its way.
38:14Today has just shown me it's all about team.
38:16This isn't a one-man effort.
38:19This isn't Kongo demonstrating his prowess on his own.
38:22Clearly he's one of the most competent in the whole group,
38:25but it isn't about that to the Hadza.
38:27It's about sticking together.
38:29It's about turning up for each other.
38:30And it's about having fun.
38:33And they have done all three of those in bucket loads.
38:40Morning.
38:41And with everyone from the community gathered for our return,
38:44this is the moment of truth.
38:48Has Kongo done enough to win the blessing of his girlfriend's parents?
39:14We tried to get a baboon, but I'm afraid it went away.
39:18We didn't get it in the end.
39:29Kongo's been a little bit shy.
39:32Maybe he's worried about the fact that he hasn't got a baboon.
39:36I think he's just feeling the public humiliation a little bit.
39:46They're all just tucking in to the honey that's so amazing
40:00Are you happy with the honey that I'm going to pull back?
40:19Does Gonga stand a chance for the Odooza then?
40:38All right, mate, enjoy your honey, it's a lovely day, I'm not going to shake your hand
40:51Like they say, anything easy isn't worth having
40:54So hopefully on Gonga's next baboon hunt, he can successfully secure the hand of his girlfriend
41:01If we'd got a baboon, that would have been amazing
41:03But, you know, you can't get a baboon every time you go hunting, can you?
41:22And maybe you're a step closer to marrying their daughter, no?
41:31Mate, can I just say thank you for giving me your time, for allowing me to live with you
41:36Thank you guys, thank you
41:50Nice woman, give us a hug
41:51Thank you
41:53And good luck with everything
42:03This is such a positive end to quite an incredible journey, really
42:07Gonga is a step closer to being able to marry the girl of his dreams
42:10Everybody who's here is happy
42:11I think they're all slightly high on honey, again
42:14But that's kind of cool in itself, I've learned so much over the past few days
42:22They call these guys the happy tribe
42:23And you can see why
42:25They have an innate joy within them
42:27And I do think that comes from living a simpler life
42:30And I don't mean that in a patronizing way
42:32I mean that in an inspirational way
42:34I think the simpler we can all make our lives the better
42:40I constantly look at communities like this and worry about their future
42:44They don't think like that
42:45It's all about today
42:46It's all about feeding themselves and their children today
42:50And that, again, spills into the whole happiness thing
42:53I just think
42:53Don't think worrying about the future is in the Hadza at all
42:58So, no, they're not bothered about it
43:00They're happy
43:04Fingers crossed, Gonga's gonna get the girl
43:06Obviously
43:07I think he will
43:08He's a charming man
43:09I think it's probably more to do with his cheeky grin
43:11Than it is to do with his proficiency in baboon hunting
43:15But whatever it is, I wish him all the best
43:18And I'm sure he's gonna have a very happy life
43:21Saint Loui
43:21Oraeli
43:22Son?
43:23Son, Son
43:24Son
43:25Son
43:25Son
43:25Son
43:27Son
43:30Son
43:31Son
43:51I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a man.
43:53Allah, that's cool.
43:55Thanks, mate.
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