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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
03:59What's your name?
04:06That's your name sakura ma ha sakura ma ha
04:40Sakuroma
04:42Gonga
04:45Gonga that would chop chop the tree
04:51Cool nice to meet you
04:52Not only do I not speak the 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 community
05:05The key thing for me coming here is to learn about how you guys transition young men into adults
05:11And if it's okay with you the thing that I'm really really interested in learning about is
05:15How you hunt for the honey and extract the honey from wild sources?
05:20Because I tell it by luck or call with a quite political tip. I bet I got not on the
05:23mother one
05:24Thank you very much
05:26Okay
05:47The guys are hungry and they've got no food and they need to hunt so it's almost perfect for me
05:52rather than sitting around and all the awkwardnesses of
05:56Being introduced to a tribe. We're straight out on a hunt
06:01Hatsa camps are named after their best hunters
06:06With this community named after Socorro
06:14His right-hand man is 17 year old Gonga
06:45The Hatsa diet is not for picky eaters. I reckon they like squirrels
06:53Consisting of over 30 different wild mammals including monkeys porcupines badgers and impala
07:02So some water to fight to fight. Yeah
07:07Other end other end other end other end other end
07:22Amazing
07:24It's good water is good water mate. Yes. Wow. I mean, that's so cool, isn't it?
07:30Look at that. That's extraordinary look. He's cut the bottom drank out the bottom because he didn't know that you
07:36could unscrew the top
07:39Why would you?
07:40Just just show doesn't it how divorced from everyday life this place is
07:45Thank God that plastic still hasn't infiltrated this corner of the world yet
07:50Nice
07:56You've got a quite a big tuberous root being exposed now
08:00Just take all of
08:02It's good is it? What's it called?
08:04Oh, I yeah, door. Oh, yeah, back. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh
08:23I'm not a cucumber hash but with the flavor of your potato
08:29What are we looking for me?
08:33well up in the
08:34Looking for honey?
08:43Okay, cool. Looking for honey
08:46For a Hadza boy to transition into manhood and complete their rite of passage, they must
08:51prove themselves as a provider for the community.
08:55So although facing an angry swarm of bees seems daunting, it's a primary food source
09:00for the Hadza people.
09:03So it's something I must help them collect if I'm to pass my own rite of passage.
09:23The white wax on the exterior of a bee's nest means that bees are actively building
09:28new combs, which should hopefully be overflowing with fresh honey.
09:33How do you get the honey out of that?
09:56Wow, okay.
09:58With the hive more than 10 metres above the ground, it's not exactly the kind of place
10:03that you want to be stung by a swarm of angry bees.
10:06I'm not sure I particularly want to go climbing up that one.
10:10To make it even more precarious, 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, we've
10:26returned home with little food.
10:38She looked really hungry and very grateful that tuberous rube got given to her.
10:45She looked really hungry.
10:55The Hadza's traditional hunting grounds have been whittled away to only 10% of what it
11:00was just 50 years ago, meaning less game to hunt for food.
11:05Yeah, there's a lot of little mouths to feed.
11:10Not that long ago, the Hadza could easily feast on giraffes, elephant, and their favourite,
11:15baboons.
11:17But that looks like a distant memory today.
11:23Dead posh service, this is...
11:27Thank you, this is perfect.
11:28Lagga, lagga, lagga, lagga.
11:30Lagga?
11:31Lagga means lie down.
11:37Thank you, mate.
11:38Thank you, thank you.
11:39This is cool.
11:41So, 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
11:54community all the more vital.
11:58Lagga, how many do we need to make?
12:00Pepe, eh, mate.
12:10Lagga, some of the guys were saying there's a girl that you want to get married to?
12:14Ah, I've got a kind of girls.
12:15Oh, cool, eh, mate.
12:17Have you known her a long time, then?
12:19Little time, eh, yeah.
12:20Not long...
12:22What's her name?
12:23Shumuwa.
12:24Shumuwa.
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 ten-meter-high baobab tree to raid a hive filled with bees sounds just as
13:05daunting.
13:08The beehive is right in the crux of that.
13:12I'd say about ten meters off the floor.
13:15I'm coming up so manyοΏ½ olive bubba.
13:21I don't know.
13:24I'm coming up so much.
13:31And it's too late.
13:31I don't know.
13:31Here we go.
13:31I don't know.
13:32Look at the..
13:32Oh, yeah.
13:33And there's a strongθ‘- Ρ
ΠΎΡΠ΅ΡΡ- Mariannes.
13:37I'm coming up and hae, you're not getting the wind.
13:40for over 50,000 years which means their ancestors were likely hunting and
13:45raiding beehives like this during the Stone Age. Gonga's skill level of being
13:50able to hang on to a little peg while standing on a little peg while I was
13:56banging in a little peg is is crazy. The East African lowland honeybee is one of
14:02the most aggressive bee species in the world making up half of the infamous
14:06Africanized bee hybrid known as the killer bee he's almost at the top now
14:12though. One wrong move and the bees could swarm Gonga and us. You can hear them up
14:32there. They are angry. I'd love to get stuck in and help but Socorro says this is
14:38no job for a newbie and 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.
15:18The only one.
15:20The only one.
15:21Eddie Allen.
15:22Adieuε±εΊ.
15:28What's your work?
15:32Are you there?
15:39Cate?
15:41I got it.
15:42I got it.
15:44You got it?
15:46Ah, ah, ah, ah.
15:48I'm not theΓ΄me.
15:54Oh, look at that. Beautiful.
16:01Yeah? Are you sure?
16:05Oh, 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.
16:16So, 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.
16:40Well done, mate. Congratulations.
16:43Well done.
16:45Did he get stung much?
16:47Ding, ding, ding, ding.
16:55Get some honey down you, mate.
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 in his mission to 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 right 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,
17:56to provide for the community, something I'm a little nervous about.
18:12How important within your culture is honey?
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?
18:22.
18:35Do you worry that when the men go out hunting,
18:38that they're not going to come back with any food?
18:40Because obviously you've got kids to feed and young males to feed.
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,
19:22but from community and a husband who can hunt.
19:26Ganga obviously is looking to get married.
19:30Do 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 is directly connected
19:47to 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, Ganga can't hunt baboons.
20:04So 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.
20:27Nice 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 appeared to be blacksmiths.
20:43We've got an arrowhead being made here, and 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, so time for a bit of bartering.
21:26Socorro is getting offered quite what he was hoping he was going to get offered.
21:53And he gets a pot of honey.
21:56Everyone's a winner.
22:00It's been a successful mission, and Ganga 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, it's all focused towards Ganga's getting married.
22:20So it's time to meet 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,
22:33every camp is like an extended family, with many Hadza being married or related to one another.
22:39Which is your girlfriend?
22:40Which is your girlfriend?
22:42In the middle?
22:48She's beautiful.
22:49She's beautiful.
22:51Hi.
22:53Lovely to meet you.
23:11What do you think of Ganga for your daughter?
23:21While Shima's mum seems sold on the idea, her father looks a little less convinced.
23:29In general, how does a Hadza man prove his worthiness?
23:34If he was to want to marry a lady in another community, how does he prove himself?
24:15It seems like a bit of a tall order, especially since all I've seen so far has been scrappy
24:21little squirrels, but I guess some traditions die hard.
24:24Baboon it is then? So if Gonga wants a wife, it seems he's got to cough up a baboon and
24:29a decent amount of honey. Is it true that the rum of the baboon is the best part?
24:37You understood me, didn't you? You 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. And when your whole future depends
25:47on the success of a hunt, there's no room for error.
25:50So keep going round that.
25:52So keep going round that.
25:53I'll come.
25:53Don't forget these barbs and so on.
26:09I'll be near the next part.
26:10My mother is mooting me.
26:14I'm not hungry.
26:14You know why?
26:14You don't even know why I'm hungry.
26:18You don't know why I'm hungry.
26:21So I'm hungry to eat in a se equi-e-e-u-ju-ju.
26:22I'm hungry.
26:22I think I'm hungry.
26:23I'm hungry.
26:33This is some of the happiest people that I've met in a long, long time, and they have nothing.
26:40You really do not need stuff in your life.
26:44They 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. Thank you so much.
27:34Okay, I didn't do it all myself.
27:37But I consider that to be my first hunter arrow.
27:42Thank you, mate.
27:44Happy days.
27:46Poisoned arrows ready.
27:47We'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 are heading to new hunting grounds.
28:14An eight-kilometre hike away under the rising African sun.
28:25So this is baboon country.
28:30And it's stunning.
28:31It's so different to the horizontal scrub.
28:36If 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'd 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.
29:54Baboon.
29:55Right in the top of that crescent of that tree.
30:01Okay, it's coming down.
30:02It's coming down.
30:04That was a huge baboon.
30:07Exactly what Gonga's.
30:09Future father-in-law wants it.
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, we'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, I'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.
31:08Then 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,
31:40found a girl he likes, wants 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 is 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 and save his rite of passage.
32:09But with light quickly fading, time is not on our side.
32:18We are losing time in terms of getting the honey.
32:20It's part and parcel of what Gonga needs to provide,
32:25and therefore, if we can just nail that, that would be good.
32:32But all isn't lost when Gonga is leading the brigade.
32:35Eddie!
32:36Bichokoko!
32:37Uh-huh!
32:38Bichokoko yako balako teye tabakoko!
32:41Have we got one?
32:42Hey!
32:42Teye tabakoko chene me mek enakoko koe!
32:45Eta koko!
32:47Te chene koko mamek enakoko eke!
32:49Nice.
32:50OK, at last, we've got one.
32:54Tree is hollow, and 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.
33:06I'm going to 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
33:22as one of the primary harvesters of this wild honey.
33:25Without looking at the sun,
33:27I reckon we've got about 40 minutes of daylight.
33:31With the clock ticking, it's now or never.
33:40OK, far going. Stage one complete.
33:43But this beehive is not going to be an easy one to get into.
33:46It's very enclosed, and the bees are very well protected.
33:51OK, so in here, yeah?
34:02It's brutal work, and the longer we take,
34:06the more likely we are to aggravate the bees
34:08and potentially cause a swarm.
34:11But with Gonga's help, we gain access to the hive.
34:28The bees don't think that they can access enough of the honey
34:32from the hole that we've cut.
34:34We need to open up the secondary hole.
34:41With the beehive still deep inside the tree
34:44and the light fading fast,
34:45the other boys also step in to help.
34:49I came here thinking, you know what,
34:51I want to prove that I can get the honey out myself.
34:53And as I was chopping away,
34:55and the boys are standing around, I'm thinking,
34:57that'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,
35:04they all put the effort in.
35:06And not because I'm being lazy,
35:09but I'm going to embrace that team spirit.
35:13Teamwork makes the dream way.
35:23Gonga's just got stung, I can see.
35:38It looks like the smoke from the fire I made
35:40has done its job in subduing the bees.
35:48This is it.
35:49Time to get some for myself.
35:52OK.
35:56Ah!
35:58Ah!
36:00Ah!
36:01Ah!
36:03Ah!
36:08Well done, mate!
36:10That is beautiful.
36:24Everyone has now had a lot of stings.
36:26It's got to the stage where the honey out,
36:28but the bees, they just go for you.
36:31I've probably got 20 or 30 stings.
36:33There's this crazy pleasure pain thing going on here at the moment.
36:37Everyone is high on sugar, and in excruciating pain at the same time.
36:46No knocking on doors, get out, get it down.
36:48Coliseum floors shining, ripped like the whole crowd.
36:51Sneakers, we keep getting over here,
36:53hurt the sound.
36:54When I pivot off the hook, pull the bounce out of bounds.
36:56Getting wild with the style, feeling on the prowl.
36:59Rock, wild, the ground, don't gots to be wild.
37:02Bringing the house down, raising the roof.
37:04When we ready to bust out the gate with a boost.
37:07Do we, do we, do we, do we, do we, do we, do we, do we?
37:10Ha, ha, ha, ha!
37:12Ha, ha, ha!
37:13Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
37:13That was just speaking without moving his lips at all!
37:16Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
37:22Worth the pain.
37:23Worth the pain.
37:25Ha, ha, ha, ha!
37:27I would say that was a big success.
37:29It's not a bad haul.
37:31I'm not putting my hand in there again.
37:32Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
37:34Don't play yourself, better run back.
37:37We run the game, they run back.
37:39Will your future father-in-law be happy with that?
37:45Nice one, Kongo.
37:47Good work, mate.
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.
38:04I mean, that was honestly one of the most rewarding days of my life.
38:09We have honey to speed Gonga'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 Gonga demonstrating his prowess on his own.
38:23Clearly, 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.
38:31And 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.
38:47Has 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.
39:18We didn't get it in the end.
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 Gonga brought by?
40:03Let me bag.
40:04Let me bag.
40:05Let me bag.
40:06Let me bag.
40:07Let me bag.
40:07Let me bag.
40:08Let me bag.
40:10Let me bag.
40:12I see.
40:15Let me bag.
40:19Does Gonga stand a chance with the outdoors again?
40:39All right, mate, enjoy your honey, it's a lovely day, I'm not gonna shake your hand
40:51like they say anything easy isn't worth having so hopefully on Gonga's next baboon hunt he can
40:57successfully secure the hand of his girlfriend if we've got a baboon that would have been amazing
41:03but you know you can't 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
41:36guys thank you
41:50and good luck with everything
42:02this 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 is here is happy I think they're all slightly high on honey again but that's kind
42:15of cool in itself I've learned so much over the past few days
42:22they call these guys the happy tribe and you can see why they have an innate joy within them and
42:27I
42:27do think that comes from living a simpler life and I don't mean that in a patronizing
42:32way I mean that in a inspirational way I think the simpler we can all make our lives the better
42:40I constantly look at communities like this and worry about their future they don't think like that it's
42:46all about today it's all about feeding themselves and their children today and that again spills into the
42:52whole happiness thing I just think don't think worrying about the future is in the hands at all
42:58so no they're not bothered about it they're happy
43:04fingers crossed Gonga is going to get the girl obviously I think he will he's a charming man I think
43:09it's probably more to do with his cheeky grin than it is to do with his proficiency in baboon hunting
43:15but
43:16whatever it is I wish him all the best and I'm sure he's going to have a very happy life
43:21who are you going to see yourself
43:51I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a man.
43:55Thanks, mate.
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