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00:11The
00:12Which I go cook cool yako, but I got a tobacco cook
00:17They are tobacco coach in a mimic and not cook the training
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 at Stafford as an explorer
00:54And survivalist. I've made a career out of mucking about in the wild
00:59If 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 I
01:20I
01:21Believe 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 I can figure out how these rituals make us better members
01:34of 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
01:46No, maybe even grow up
01:51Okay, he wants me to jump and I'm gonna jump up 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
02:24I've been traveling for 48 hours just to get here and this is now my final leg a
02:31Five-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 a
02:41Place often called the cradle of mankind and where human remains dating back around two million years were discovered
02:52I'm here to live with the hatter and from what I know of their right of passage into adulthood
02:57Involves using expert tracking and bush kills to find honey and big game
03:02the hadzer have been surviving on these lands for over 50,000 years and
03:09One of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes left in the world
03:22Okay, one of the local hadzer boys is just come out. It's nice to see a smiling face. Hello, mate
03:34Hi guys
03:37I go and I'm a coco and
03:41Ed
03:43ANABOWA
03:51Thank you
03:59What's your name, mate?
04:05What's your name?
04:07SACORitelma
04:08Ah, Sakuroma ha-ha.
04:11Ah, Sakuroma ha-ha.
04:38Ha-ha, Sakuroma ha-ha.
04:41Gonga, kuku.
04:42Gonga, gonga, gonga.
04:46Gonga ita uchab.
04:48Chop the tree.
04:50Cool. Nice to meet you all.
04:52Not only do I not speak their language,
04:55but I can barely pronounce their names.
04:57This could be a challenging week.
05:00I appreciate being allowed to come and live with you
05:03for a small period of time in your community.
05:05The key thing for me coming here is to learn about
05:08how you guys transition young men into adults.
05:11And if it's okay with you,
05:12the thing that I'm really, really interested in learning about
05:15is how you hunt for the honey
05:17and extract the honey from wild sources.
05:24Thank you very much, mate.
05:34Okay.
05:36Okay.
05:46The guys are hungry, and they've got no food,
05:49and they need to hunt.
05:51So it's almost perfect for me.
05:53Rather than sitting around and all the awkwardnesses
05:55of being introduced to a tribe,
05:57we're straight out on a hunt.
06:00Hatsa camps are named after their best hunters.
06:06With this community named after Socorro.
06:14His right-hand man is 17-year-old Gonga.
06:35He has 17 years old, Andrea.
06:41Well done.
06:45That's the web.
06:47not for picky eaters I reckon they like squirrel
06:52consisting of over 30 different wild mammals including monkeys porcupines
06:58badgers and impala
07:03to fight if I yeah other end other end other end other end amazing it's good
07:25water is good water mate yes Wow I mean that's so cool isn't it look at that
07:31that's extraordinary look at the bottom drank out the bottom because he didn't
07:35know that you could unscrew the top why would you just just show doesn't it how
07:42divorced from everyday life this place is thank God that plastic still hasn't
07:47infiltrated this corner of the world yet
07:55mm-hmm you've got a quite a big tuberous root being exposed now
08:00to take a look it's good is it what's it called
08:04so I yeah door are you back off a shoe move
08:08go go then I call the number
08:16halfway between a potato and a kind of a cucumber it's got you kind of got that
08:20watery inside like a cucumber house but with the flavor of your potato
08:31ah what are we looking for me well I've been a competition of the back of a week I in
08:36a
08:37good place is there but hope that bang and it's about to power to power but
08:41summer summer okay cool looking for honey for had to boy to transition into manhood and
08:49complete their right of passage they must prove themselves as a provider for the
08:53community so although facing an angry swarm of bees seems daunting it's a primary food
08:59source for that to people so it's something I must help them collect if I'm to pass my own right
09:06of
09:06passage
09:23the white wax on the exterior of a bees nest means that bees are actively building new combs which should
09:30hopefully be overflowing with fresh honey how do you get the honey out of that
09:34W-O-P-E-R-E-R-M,
09:36the guskabeta,
09:41the guskabeta,
09:42the guskabeta,
09:43the guskabeta.
09:45The guskabeta pluh,
09:49the guskabeta pluh.
09:56Wow. OK.
09:58With a hive more than 10 metres above the ground,
10:01it's not exactly the kind of place that you wanna be stung by a swarm of
10:04angry bees i'm not sure i particularly want to go climbing up that one to make it even more
10:11precarious the only way to climb is by using homemade wooden pegs
10:21with only one squirrel successfully hunted and now shifting our focus to honey
10:26we've returned home with little food she looked really hungry i'm very grateful that that tuberous
10:44rube got given to her she looked really hungry
10:56the hat's traditional hunting grounds have been whittled away to only 10 percent of what it was
11:00just 50 years ago meaning less game to hunt for food yeah there's a lot of little mouths to feed
11:10not that long ago the hatzer could easily feast on giraffes elephant and their favorite baboons
11:17but that looks like a distant memory today
11:23dead posh service this is thank you this is perfect
11:28you like a laga laga laga laga laga laga laga means lie down
11:36yeah thank you mate thank you thank you this is cool so basically this is my accommodation for the next
11:43week
11:49i don't want to become another mouth to feed making my need to help provide honey for this community all
11:55the more vital
11:56good as i canoiano
12:17don't
12:19know the karek
12:45For a Hadza boy to complete their rite of passage and marry, they must prove to the
12:50bride's parents that they can provide for and protect a family.
12:54But 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
13:05daunting.
13:08The bee hive is right in the crux of that, say about 10 meters off the floor.
13:32A baobab tree like this could easily be 2,000 years old.
13:36Archaeological evidence found in this region reveals that Hadza have lived on these lands
13:41for over 50,000 years, which means their ancestors were likely hunting and raiding beehives like
13:46this during the Stone Age.
13:48Gonga's skill level of being able to hang on to a little peg while standing on a little
13:55peg, while banging in a little peg, is crazy.
13:59The East African lowland honeybee is one of the most aggressive bee species in the world,
14:04making up half of the 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 Gonga 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.
14:44I got time to have you!
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.
15:40Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got it.
15:44Got it?
15:54Oh, look at that. Beautiful.
16:01Yeah? Are you sure?
16:04Oh, my God, that was 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 of making all the steaks
16:25and going up into the tree and risking your life.
16:29Ain't no knocking on doors, we knocking it down.
16:32Coliseum floors shining, reflect off the crown.
16:34Sneakers, wiki, clean, ira, ira, the sound.
16:37When I pivot off the good food and bounce out of bounds.
16:40Well done, mate. Congratulations.
16:44Well done.
16:45Did you get stung much?
16:47Ding, ding, ding, ding.
16:48Ding, ding, ding, ding.
16:51Ding, ding, ding.
16:55Get some honey down your mate.
16:58But this honey isn't really for eating.
17:01They had to also use it to trade and it's going to help Gonga in his mission to win his
17:05future 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, but also is there
17:21something to trade?
17:27And the plastic bucket of fresh honey is a welcoming boost to the community's morale
17:46This plastic bucket of fresh honey should be a welcome boost to the community's morale and
17:51By the end of my week here
17:53I will have to place my own hand into a wild bees nest to provide for the community
17:58Something I'm a little nervous about
18:13How important within your culture is honey? Clearly it's not just a food is it you use it for trade
18:18and stuff like that
18:19But how important is it only a couple of other side of them?
18:22I'm a little nervous about it
18:26I'm a little nervous about it
18:28I'm a little nervous about it
18:31I'm a little nervous about it
18:32I'm a little nervous about it
18:34I'm a little nervous about it
18:35Do you worry that when the men go out hunting that they're not going to come back with any food?
18:40Because obviously you've got kids to feed and young males to feed
18:43I've got a 不正 musun?
18:47I'm a little nervous about this
18:49You have問題
18:51but today it's our loved ones
18:52Your parents you have encountered
18:56So we can't wait to feed you
18:58longer until ...
19:00Do any of you ever get tempted to go
19:02I'm a neighbor to live outside of Hemindoas
19:03You have totally gone
19:06,?
19:07on NASA and despite the challenges of raising a family in the African bush had
19:13two women believe their way of life is still best for their children for them
19:19survival doesn't come from money or possessions but from community and a
19:24husband who can hunt don't go obviously is looking to get married and do you
19:30think he's a good catch nice I'm already fascinated by the Hadza and how a young
19:45man's rite of passage is directly connected to the survival of the tribe
19:49and his future family here becoming a man isn't just symbolic it's life or death
19:59without barbed metal arrowheads Ganga can't hunt baboons so we make the long
20:05trek through the wilderness to the area's only forge and I hope for our sake the
20:10people running it still like honey
20:23this is very different nice view
20:31the Tetoga are another of Tanzania's oldest tribes the ancestors were fierce warriors and masters of
20:39making weapons the neighboring tribe appeared to be blacksmiths we've got a arrowhead being made here
20:46and it's all using old little scrap bricks of metal incredibly simple and yeah
20:51obviously it's a skill that the Hadza people don't have but what the Hadza do have is honey it's a
20:59time
20:59for a bit of bartering because it was good as a killer killer killer killer here
21:05killer with some of the baby die because a cop that you do you have a half and I call
21:12this
21:12will go be a bit do I'm here is a bunny or corn it's a cat jello not jello do
21:18I jello not with it
21:23They're bartering, Amadetic Socorro is getting offered quite what he was hoping he was going to get offered.
21:43Happy days. You happy?
21:47Excellent.
21:48Twenty arrowheads and two knives.
21:53And 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 hunt.
22:07But first, he wants me to meet the girl that he hopes to marry.
22:12Everything in terms of honey collection, potentially baboon hunting is all focused towards Gonga getting married, so it's time to
22:21meet the lady herself.
22:24The Umkowa-Boma community is home to other hunters and their families, but with less than 400 Hadza living a
22:31traditional life in the region, every camp is like an extended family, with many Hadza being married or related to
22:38one another.
22:39Which is your girlfriend?
22:41In the middle.
22:48She's beautiful.
22:48She's beautiful.
22:50She's beautiful.
22:51Hi.
22:52Lovely to meet you.
23:00I'm a man of school.
23:03She's a girl.
23:04She's beautiful.
23:06She's beautiful.
23:08She's beautiful.
23:09And she is really beautiful.
23:11She's beautiful.
23:13And she's beautiful.
23:15I love her.
23:17the city are called no quite cacaua while she moves mom seems sold on the
23:23idea her father looks a little less convinced in general how does it has a
23:31man prove his worthiness if he was to want to marry a lady in another
23:37community how does he how does he prove himself
23:39them a cacaua cacaua cacaua cacaua cacaua cacaua cacaua a tinga oa dungo cacaua
24:15it seems like a bit of a tall order especially since all i've seen so far has been scrappy little
24:21squirrels but i guess some traditions die hard baboon it is then so if gonga wants a wife it seems
24:27he's got to cough up a baboon and a decent amount of honey is it true that the room of
24:32the baboon
24:33is the best part you understood me didn't you you didn't need a translator then and although i'm a
24:42bit of a newbie out here i hope i can help him on his own hadza rite of passage my
24:54time with the
24:54socorro community is quickly running out so now focus tends to gonga's rite of passage and helping
25:01him get his hadza bribe
25:11and the first thing we need is not an engagement ring but an arrow deadly enough to bring down a
25:17baboon why is it for baboons you need these barbs like do they pull the the arrows out
25:41the arrowhead is lethal but without feathers it won't fly and when your whole future depends on the
25:47success of a hunt there's no room for error so keep going around them
25:52look at them talk to them talk to them talk to them talk to them talk to them talk to
26:01them talk to
26:15that's like
26:24yeah
26:33please assume to be the happiest people that have met in a long long time and they have nothing you
26:40really do
26:40not need stuff in your life they have a bow and arrow they have a knife even the shelter the
26:48home
26:48that they're sleeping in is a temporary one that will work for the season and yet it's experience
26:53and knowledge and skill level that's enabling them to actually glean an existence from the
26:58environment being able to craft tools being able to make weapons being able to know all of the
27:05different hunting techniques that they need and by putting it all together you free yourself from
27:11the need to accumulate stuff and I think that's the key happy life thank you mate thank you so much
27:35okay I didn't do it all myself but I consider that to be my first hands a arrow thank you
27:43mate happy
27:44days poisoned arrow is ready we're all set to hunt baboon
27:59I've been walking about two hours from camp now it's a long way away and boys are on a mission
28:09to stand the greatest chance of success we are heading to new hunting grounds
28:14an eight kilometer hike away under the rising African Sun
28:25so this is baboon country and it's stunning it's so different to the horizontal scrub
28:35if I was a baboon I'd be hanging out on these rocks up here classic 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 that was definitely a contact with a troop of baboons
29:13the shouts from that direction that direction and that direction baboon
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 or a troop of baboons
29:37I'm just struggling to even keep up with them
29:52okay
29:55baboon right in the top of that crescent of that tree
30:01okay it's coming down it's coming down
30:03that was a huge baboon exactly what gonga's future father-in-law wanted
30:12and that big ass baboon is looking quite impossible
30:18okay there's two there's two baboons moving left to right through that underground there
30:27they're closing in on them
30:29this is it with Hong Konga ambushing the baboons with the dogs
30:33and gonga closing in we're moments away from a possible kill
30:43but once again confusion kicks in
30:50gonga is he is constantly the one right at the front he's the one that's spearheading the whole operation
30:56but because he is so up front I'm hardly getting a glimpse of him
30:59he's the one leading the charge
31:03he's the best hunter out of this lot
31:08then suddenly the 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 is that this is gonga wanted to get married found a girl he likes wants to
31:41impress her parents and all his mates are very happy to turn out with him at a stupid o'clock
31:46in the morning to go home to get married
31:49that's pretty cool
31:51that's what makes it for
31:54failing to bag a baboon is the often harsh reality for modern Hadza
32:00so we're now relying on finding a cache of honey to restore some of gonga's fortune and save his right
32:06of passage
32:09but with light quickly fading time is not on our side
32:18we are losing time in terms of getting the honey
32:21it's part and parcel of what gonga needs to provide and therefore if we can just nail that that would
32:29be good
32:32but all isn't lost when gonga is leading the brigade
32:35ready
32:36uh-huh
32:39we got one
32:42hey
32:42hey
32:47nice
32:50okay at last we got one
32:54tree is hollow and there's a big beehive inside the tree and it's just a matter of making it accessible
33:01enough
33:02to get our hands in and grab the honey out
33:06I'm gonna have a go at trying to extract as much of this myself as possible
33:10I really want to nail this for gonga
33:12and make sure he doesn't go back to his future bride empty-handed
33:17success would also be a massive boost for me
33:19to at least partially complete my rite of passage as one of the primary harvesters of this wild honey
33:25without looking at the sun I reckon we've got about 40 minutes of daylight
33:31with the clock ticking
33:33it's now or never
33:40okay far going
33:41stage one complete
33:42but this beehive is not going to be an easy one to get into
33:45it's very enclosed and the bees are very well protected
33:51okay
33:52okay
34:02it's brutal work and the longer we take the more likely we are to aggravate the bees and potentially cause
34:09a swarm
34:11but with gonga's help we gain access to the hive
34:18okay
34:19go go go
34:20go go
34:28the boys don't think that they can access enough of the honey from the hole that we've cut
34:34we need to open up the secondary hole
34:41with the beehive still deep inside the tree and the light fading fast the other boys also step in to
34:47help
34:49i came here thinking you know what i want to prove that i can get the honey out myself
34:53and as i was chopping away and the boys are standing around i'm thinking
34:56that's not the way they had to do things
34:59these boys are a group of mates
35:01they help each other they all muck in they all put the effort in
35:05and not because i'm being lazy
35:09but i'm going to embrace that team spirit
35:13teamwork makes a dream way
35:22gonga'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
35:48this is it
35:49time to get some for myself
35:53okay
36:07well done we
36:10that is beautiful
36:24Everyone has now had a lot of stings it's got to the stage where the honey out but the bees
36:29they just go for you I've probably got 20 or 30 stings there's this crazy pleasure
36:35pain thing going on here at the moment everyone is high on sugar and an excruciating pain at
37:09the same time
37:13that was just speaking without moving his lips at all
37:22worth the pain worth the pain I would say that was a big success it's not a bad
37:30haul I'm not putting my hand in there again
37:39will your future father-in-law be happy with that
37:52with the honey bagged a night upon us we have no choice but to spend the night sleeping rough in
37:58the bush
38:03what a day I mean that was honestly one of the most rewarding days of my life
38:09um we have honey to speed Gonga's wedding on its way today has just shown me it's all about team
38:16this isn't a one-man effort this isn't Gonga demonstrating his prowess on his own clearly
38:23he's one of the most competent in the whole group but it isn't about that to the Hadza
38:26it's about sticking together it's about turning up for each other
38:30um and it's about having fun and they have done all three of those in bucket loads
38:40morning and with everyone from the community gathered for our return
38:44this is the moment of truth
38:48has Gonga 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 we didn't get it in the end
39:21so
39:29Gonga'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 into the honey that's so amazing
40:00are you happy with the honey that I'm going to provide
40:02let me back
40:03let me back
40:05let me back
40:05let me back
40:05let me back
40:06let me back
40:07let me back
40:09it's walk over
40:09uh
40:10I dug up
40:11I'm 19
40:13like
40:18cut
40:19there's comme a standard challenge with theそれでは
40:27thetober
40:28can
40:29hey
40:32how
40:35could what
40:39All right, mate. Enjoy your honey. Go then. It's a lovely day. I'm not going to shake
40:43your hand because you're coming. No, I'm not going to do it.
40:49Nice. Like they say, anything easy isn't worth having. So hopefully, on Gonga's next
40:56baboon hunt, he can successfully secure the hand of his girlfriend. If we'd got a baboon,
41:02that would have been amazing. But, you know, you can't get a baboon every time you go hunting
41:16couldn't.
41:17Yeah, they're really happy. And maybe you're a step closer to marrying their daughter,
41:25no?
41:31Mate, can I just say thank you for giving me your time, for allowing me to live with
41:36you guys. Thank you.
41:46Nice one. Give us a hug. Thank you. And good luck with everything.
42:02This is such a positive end to quite an incredible journey, really. Gonga is a step closer to
42:08being able to marry the girl of his dreams. Everybody here is happy. I think they're all
42:12slightly high on honey again. But that's kind of cool in itself. I've learned so much over
42:17the past few days.
42:22They call these guys the happy tribe and you can see why. They have an innate joy within
42:26them. And I do think that comes from living a simpler life. And I don't mean that in a
42:31patronizing way. I mean that in an inspirational way. I think the simpler we can all make our
42:36lives, the better. I constantly look at communities like this and worry about their future. They don't
42:45think like that. It's all about today. It's all about feeding themselves and their children
42:50today. And that, again, spills into the whole happiness thing. I just don't think worrying
42:55about the future is in the Hadza at all. So, no, they're not bothered about it. They're
43:01happy.
43:04Fingers crossed Gonga's going to get the girl, obviously. I think he will. He's a charming man.
43:09I think it's probably more to do with his cheeky grin than it is to do with his proficiency
43:13in baboon hunting. But whatever it is, I wish him all the best. And I'm sure he's going
43:19to have a very happy life.
43:37You can see yourself.
43:54Thanks, mate.
43:56Thanks, mate.
43:57Thanks, mate.
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