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00:19I can't have another night like last night.
00:22Is this too much?
00:36This place is nuts.
00:55I'm just not sure anybody can survive here for 21 days.
01:00Oh, my God.
01:02Two strangers.
01:04No food.
01:12No water.
01:1521 days.
01:17Don't tell.
01:18Die first.
01:20Naked and afraid.
01:28I'm Tyler Dean Milligan.
01:30I'm 38 years old.
01:31I'm a survival instructor, and I'm here in Botswana.
01:38As a survival instructor, I really, really go after really hard challenges.
01:44The Okavanga Delta is going to be exactly that.
01:47Lack of water, lack of food, lack of shade.
01:50This place is going to be brutal for a Northwestern European guy like me.
01:54I'm going to burn like a crisp.
02:04I have been through a lot.
02:07Everything from, you know, a broken home growing up to seeing the worst of humanity in Iraq.
02:13Inside of my own head is honestly one of the scariest places that I can honestly think of,
02:18because that's where all my bad thoughts are.
02:21I love being a survival instructor.
02:24It is my therapy.
02:25Like, I have PTSD, and this is the one thing that's actually worked for me.
02:29You can have the best skills in the world, but if your mental game is not strong, survival skills don't
02:34matter.
02:35And there she is.
02:36Never quit is my life's mantra, and I've lived by it.
02:39It's not about what happens to us, it's about how you react, and I do not quit.
02:44All right, Botswana, let's see what you got.
02:52Here we go.
02:57Africa's Okavango Delta is located in the landlocked republic of Botswana,
03:02one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world.
03:06Here, the Okavango River Delta swells to create a vast inland wetland, attracting some of Africa's
03:13deadliest animals, including lions, hyenas, and stampeding herds of elephants that have
03:19trampled more than 100 people in the past decade.
03:22The region is also known for sudden and often explosive storms, causing searing daytime temperatures
03:28of over 100 degrees to plummet to near freezing at night, increasing the chances of both heat stroke
03:34and hypothermia.
03:36The rain and wetlands are also breeding vectors for malarial mosquitoes and the dreaded
03:41tsetse fly, which carries a deadly parasite that causes sleeping sickness.
03:51I'm on my way to meet my partner.
03:56He or she, I have no idea.
04:00And let's see what they bring to the table.
04:02I am a workhorse.
04:05I will drive myself into the ground in order to provide for myself and mostly for my partner.
04:11I will go days without eating to make sure that my partner can go eat.
04:16I see one bag.
04:29All right, so I don't know what that means, but it looks like I might be by myself.
04:34So get my bow, get my arrows.
04:39In addition to his survival item, Tyler has also been given a fire starter and a pot.
04:44And I got the map.
04:47I am here.
04:50And I'm guessing I'm going to need to go to one of the only water sources on this map.
04:56When I first saw my bag by itself, my heart dropped.
05:03I wish I had a partner to share the load, but I've gone through life by myself alone.
05:10And this will be no different.
05:11To reach his water source, Tyler must trek four miles across the grasslands of the Okavango Delta,
05:18under the searing afternoon sun, with temperatures soaring to triple digits.
05:29This landscape is definitely not Colorado at all.
05:35This tall grass, anything could be lurking in it.
05:38Lions, hyenas, leopards, all that stuff.
05:41They are masters at camouflage.
05:43They're the same color.
05:44They move completely still.
05:46And as far as I know, I'm being watched right now.
05:52Ooh .
05:55So I am in the red zone.
05:58This is a bunch of warthog dens.
06:03There are one, two, three, four, five, six warthog dens right in this concentrated area.
06:09Warthogs are no joke.
06:11They take out of those tunnels like a bat out of hell.
06:14That's fine.
06:20That's fine.
06:21That's fine.
06:25Honestly, the day is getting a little too short.
06:29The danger is going to be lurking around every corner.
06:32And can I get real tonight?
06:37I think I'm going to have to make a boma for the night.
06:43See some coverage.
06:45This is good.
06:47A lot of spaces to fill.
06:48All this needs to be filled in.
06:50So more space, more material, and more time.
06:53And time I really don't have.
06:55With only two hours of daylight left,
06:58and nearly one and a half miles from his water source,
07:00Tyler has decided to shelter for the night,
07:03rather than push on through the delta in the dark.
07:07I don't plan on here any longer than just tonight.
07:12Right now, I have to worry about me, because no one's coming to rescue me.
07:17It's just me and Botswana.
07:21Looking for acacia thorns.
07:23Big old gnarly suckers.
07:25There's one.
07:36I'm in desperate need of water.
07:38This is where having a partner would be really handy right now.
07:43It is a lot of extra work.
07:46A lot.
07:49Acacia thorn to the junk.
07:52Ow!
07:59I need to take a knee.
08:02Got lightheaded.
08:05Botswana heat, no joke.
08:07I gotta get a water source tomorrow.
08:11That is priority number one.
08:14Otherwise, I don't walk out of here.
08:16It's either walking out of Victor, or walking out here in a body bag.
08:23It's, it's, it's that, it's that serious right now.
08:34A lot of weird sounds out there.
08:37A lot of weird sounds.
08:45They're walking around.
08:47I don't know what it is, but it definitely has my attention.
08:51That's for sure.
09:03I just heard something die.
09:08That was crazy sounding.
09:10And that wasn't too far away.
09:15I think what I'm hearing is African wild dogs.
09:22Botswana is home to one of the largest populations of black-backed jackals,
09:26sometimes referred to as wild dogs that are a prevalent threat to the area.
09:31I don't know what it is, but the other one has to be on my own.
09:32This place is nuts.
09:46There was a lot of gnarly things happening last night.
09:50Zero sleep.
09:54Have to be getting close.
09:56Have to be.
09:58Day two, need water.
10:00Let's go.
10:13Two days in the Botswana bush is definitely delivering the goods.
10:19It's challenging my feet, it's challenging my mind, it's challenging my spirit.
10:25I know that I'm putting on a brave face right now and everything, but I wish I had a partner
10:30to share these burdens with out here, the struggle, the discomfort.
10:34I don't want to do this alone in Botswana.
10:44I honestly don't know how long I've been walking, it's been well over an hour.
10:48It looks, oh thank god.
10:54Look at that.
10:56I got life.
10:59This is a huge relief.
11:01I'm sunburnt, I'm here out in the open, getting fried, but guess what?
11:07I got water, baby.
11:09Oh, it's nice and cool.
11:12This is a great spot for a boma.
11:16Not too far away from the water source, but far enough away to be out of harm's way from
11:21the animals.
11:32Is there another naked human?
11:39I can hear some noises coming from that distance, really hoping that's my partner and not part
11:46of the wildlife.
11:52Is there another naked human?
11:54Oh my god.
11:57Oh, thank god.
12:00I'm Tyler, are you a hugger?
12:01Yeah.
12:02So grateful to see you.
12:04I'm Holly.
12:07My name's Holly, I'm from Byron Bay, Australia, I'm 25 and I'm a bushcraft and survival instructor.
12:16Alrighty, this is it, let's go.
12:20This is going to be one of the hardest things I've ever done.
12:22It's going to be challenging, it's going to hurt and there's going to be rough patches,
12:26but that's what I signed up for and that's what I'm ready to take on.
12:29I can actually see my bag, but there's no partner.
12:33It's a little bit strange, it wasn't what I was expecting.
12:35It's definitely thrown a spanner in the works.
12:40I'm already exhausted from the day, but I've got to keep pushing because my priority is being safe tonight so
12:46I can get my sleep.
12:47Because if my sleep falls apart on day one, this is just going to be a downward slope.
12:51It's the middle of night one, I haven't slept very well at all, but I mean I'm on the other
12:56side of the world, I'm completely alone in Africa.
12:59So I'm thinking I can trail along the edge in the shade until I can land in that water hole
13:04spot.
13:05I'm starting to really think about, you know, is there going to be a partner at the other end of
13:09this?
13:10So it's just you? You and yourself?
13:12Just me? Yeah.
13:13Is it just you?
13:13Yeah.
13:14I know, honestly, I didn't have a water source yesterday.
13:20Oh no, have you not drunk anything?
13:21Uh, not really.
13:24I've got a pot.
13:25I've got your cupboard.
13:25Already boiled?
13:26Yeah, oh my gosh.
13:28Here.
13:29Yes.
13:30Can I take a drink?
13:31Go for it, please.
13:38You must be so thirsty.
13:40What are your items?
13:42Uh, yeah, I brought a bow.
13:43Um, thank goodness.
13:45Yeah.
13:45Well, I've got my machete, so, see how we go.
13:49And I'm a survival instructor.
13:50Oh my goodness.
13:51I have, like, the Australian version.
13:53I'm a survival instructor too.
13:54Really?
13:54Yeah.
13:55What the ?
13:57I'm Australia's youngest independent owner and operator of a bush survival school.
14:03I definitely feel the pressure of my reputation on the line.
14:06I take what I do so seriously.
14:08We need to take care of the basics, get the BOMA set up.
14:12A lot of people underestimate me.
14:14They see me as someone who's not as competent or not as capable as others,
14:18but I don't care what people say.
14:20I'm someone who's willing to do anything.
14:22I will scavenge.
14:23I will hunt.
14:24I don't stop.
14:25I don't give up.
14:26And I just try my absolute best with everything that I do and always give 100%.
14:30Oh my God.
14:31I am absolutely ecstatic.
14:34I literally feel like I have, like, this renewed energy.
14:37Like, I can take on anything with my teammate now.
14:40Wow.
14:41Oh, so I, honestly, I just, I just got to this location.
14:44Really?
14:44Yeah.
14:45And so I got, I already got a site for a BOMA and everything.
14:48Amazing.
14:48I'm so relieved as a partner here.
14:50I don't have to rely on myself.
14:52I can bounce energy off him and see how we go.
14:55Let's do it.
15:00I was thinking, you know, these are kind of like anchor points.
15:03Yep.
15:04And we just got to fill in the gaps.
15:05Easy.
15:06So you're just thinking surrounding this area?
15:08We can just get in many as, uh, caches as, as we, as we need.
15:13And then, uh, we can just supplement with stripped Mopani.
15:17Holly and Tyler will use the semicircle of trees to form the perimeter of their BOMA
15:21and add layers and branches, leaves for insulation,
15:26and a ring of thick acacia thorns for protection against predators.
15:30I couldn't ask for a better partner right now.
15:32She's a survival instructor.
15:34Like, for me, that is an awesome, awesome asset to have here.
15:38And now I have a partner to share these burdens with out here.
15:41The struggle, the discomfort, I, I have someone to communicate with.
15:45You doing all right?
15:46Yeah, no, good.
15:47It's just hot.
15:50I feel ya.
15:55We actually might have a little bit of the structure built for our, uh, shade.
16:01Holly?
16:02I'm just about to throw up.
16:04Oh, okay.
16:08Yeah, uh, keep sitting.
16:14You got it.
16:18You just gotta make it to, to tonight.
16:20Yeah.
16:20We'll get out of that heat.
16:22Oh, I'm not.
16:22I know I'll be right.
16:24It's just the initial.
16:25Hmm?
16:25It's just that, this initial wave, but I know I'll be fine.
16:28Good.
16:55You're an angel.
16:56Thank you so much.
16:58Anything come up?
16:59Yeah, a little bit.
17:08Well, Holly is not feeling well at all.
17:13I get it.
17:14It's brutally hot out here.
17:17I just feel like my whole body is just shutting down,
17:21and it's just fighting that because it means so much to be out here,
17:25and I really want to do well.
17:27It's just everything just hurts so much.
17:35Can I touch your back?
17:36Yes.
17:40Grace and gratitude.
17:41I know she's down, but I know she's not out, and that's it.
17:48I know she'll be back in the fight tomorrow.
17:51Nothing to worry about.
17:53We're not out of the woods yet.
17:54I got to get this boma built.
17:56I just got that little bit more boost, a little bit more energy to give.
18:03Because honestly, who knows?
18:05Tomorrow, it's me, and she has to do it.
18:07So hopefully she will show me the same type of grace.
18:13Almost there, Holly.
18:14You're doing so amazing.
18:19Is that thunder?
18:21Oh, my God.
18:25It may be raining here fairly soon.
18:32It's already started.
18:39Talking about the land of extremes.
18:42It was blistering hot all day long.
18:45Now we're looking at potential hypothermia.
18:55Oh, look at this wall.
18:57You can hear it hit the trees.
18:59Look at that clearing.
19:00We're about to get downpoured on.
19:09Oh, you can literally see that wall of rain coming.
19:21Yeah, it's just tucking.
19:31Holy, this is not what I was expecting.
19:41Oh, wow.
19:44We could be in trouble, yeah.
19:47Holy.
19:48Right?
19:52What?
19:58Yeah, I ain't...
20:00Now lightning.
20:02We're about lightning.
20:07How's the fire doing?
20:09Uh, struggling.
20:11Okay.
20:18This fire is definitely our lifeline.
20:21It's everything.
20:22It'll have to stay alive.
20:25It's not...
20:27We don't know how long this is going to last, so this could be all night long.
20:35And our firewood's already wet, so hopefully we can dry it out in between.
21:13I can't keep up with that.
21:38Come on, stop.
21:41Stop, you son of a bitch.
21:44You got it.
21:45You can.
21:51You can, you will, you must.
21:56You got it.
21:58You got it.
22:28That was scary.
22:30But as you can see, we got the fire relit.
22:33We got it going strong.
22:35I hope there's not a round two.
22:51I cannot fall asleep for the life of me.
22:55I don't think I can express how much of a mind it is.
23:00I'm going insane.
23:02I can do it.
23:04I can do it.
23:45Third day in a row with absolutely zero sleep.
24:03I can't have another night like last night.
24:07Sandflies and mosquitoes torture the out of me.
24:11And for me, it's just a 12-hour torture session.
24:15Every time those things bite, it like sends like this electric jolt through my body.
24:20Are you okay?
24:22Not really.
24:23You're doing so well.
24:26It's awkward.
24:27I know it's hard but we'll get there.
24:34Some things are beyond my capacity.
24:40Absolutely.
24:43I struggle with PTSD.
24:45Yeah.
24:46And just not having the ability to sleep, I get intrusive thoughts.
24:54It's really hard.
25:01It's all good.
25:01We've got a solution.
25:02We're going to get off the ground.
25:03We're going to make a bed.
25:04You know, if we can get like proper sleep every night and like not as sore from these bug bites,
25:09it's going to make it so much more comfortable for the rest of the challenge.
25:12I think it's worth putting the effort in.
25:14100%.
25:14Where you helped me on day two, like I hope that I can help you today.
25:19And if you want to chill, like you're so welcome.
25:26I'm happy to chop like every single little one.
25:30There's no sleep again.
25:32Like it's absolutely brutal for him.
25:34It's just put him in a really difficult position.
25:37I just pray that this raised bed works because I can't.
25:47Just come back.
25:49So to make this bed, to get it all up and running, it's just going to be a little bit
25:52off the ground.
25:53So that way we're above that level.
25:55We're not sure if they're mosquitoes or sand flies.
25:57Heaps of grass stacked on top.
25:58Like we've only got Mapani to work with around here.
26:00It's really dense wood.
26:02It's going to take a lot of calories to build this thing, but just getting it comfortable,
26:05getting it raised.
26:06And hopefully as long as we're out of the line of all of those like biting animals,
26:11I think it's going to be way easier.
26:13It's looking really good.
26:35Sleepless nights too.
26:38Torrential downpours.
26:41No food.
26:48Damn it.
27:02Did you feel like your bed made a difference at all?
27:06No, it's a...
27:08They ate me alive.
27:12It just feels like torture.
27:14Yeah, it is.
27:16It's a type of mental torture that you can feel physically.
27:22It's, I don't know, it's like a darkness that starts washing over you.
27:26So I don't necessarily feel safe anymore.
27:32Me staying out here any longer is like playing with the snake.
27:37I don't want to get bit.
27:38I don't want anybody else to get bit.
27:39I don't want Holly to witness that.
27:42She is just an absolute gem.
27:45I usually try to tough it out.
27:47Yeah.
27:48Mentally, physically.
27:50This one, I don't think it's safe for me to do that here.
27:55Okay.
27:57No way.
28:00It's okay.
28:04Today is my last day.
28:10Just out of safety wise.
28:14I feel bad that I'm leaving Holly.
28:16She's a pretty amazing individual.
28:19To only be in my life just for a few days and make such an impact.
28:27I'm glad I met her.
28:29I'm going to leave you with everything, including my bow, if you want it.
28:32I'll keep the arrows, but I'm going to send you, give you back the bow.
28:36Just because I prefer making traps.
28:38It's a gorgeous bow though.
28:40There you go.
28:45Pull up after yourself.
28:47You too.
28:49And you'll go at least 21, I know that.
28:51I'm sorry.
28:54I think with this challenge, like we see the strongest people break and that's for a massive reason.
29:00Like what Tyler's going through at the moment.
29:02And it's like, I just, I'm really hurting for him.
29:04Cause I know I can see how capable he is.
29:07When you haven't slept for days and you're running around the bush naked with a machete,
29:11you can see how that's concerned.
29:13Safety comes first.
29:15And the success of my partner should come first also.
29:19Cause pride, pride can get people killed out here, especially in Africa.
29:25After four days in the African wild, Tyler's PSR drops from 7.2 to 6.3.
29:35It's going to be a long two weeks if I'm out here alone, but I want to be here.
29:40It's a privilege to be here.
29:42It was a choice and I'm going to be just so grateful for it until that last moment,
29:46whether that's extraction or whether that's a medical tap out.
30:04The mosquitoes have been something that I've been like coping with, but tonight there is something different about them.
30:13It's like, it's a lot.
30:18I hope my fire doesn't go out.
30:21You know, when there's no one else in here, it's like no one else has got your back.
30:32My body's just in so much pain and it's because like I'm not eating anything.
30:39I can't, I haven't got the calories in to heal.
30:41All the sores and scabs I now have in my body.
30:44It's so brutal and it's so painful.
30:47It's so hard.
31:02Honestly, the mosquitoes are still horrendous.
31:05They are the worst, like the audacity.
31:08I've never gone this long without eating before.
31:10I haven't got a bow.
31:12I haven't got a spear.
31:13I haven't got anything else like that.
31:15So the remaining 16 days, I haven't got weight to burn out here.
31:19I can't rely on just starving myself and like an endurance thing.
31:23So my plan is getting as many traps set up as possible.
31:27So I'm just looking at like tracks at the moment for animals for activity in this area.
31:32So there's some prints through here.
31:35Yeah, I think it's a spring hair with that more triangle shape.
31:39I don't personally know African animals very well, but it looks like it's about that size.
31:44What I'm doing here is I like to use a clove hitch and my goal is that it's going to
31:50hit the chest of the animal and that's what's going to close it shut.
31:53I'm getting everything done.
31:55It's very methodical.
31:57You know, the way we train and everything that I teach at my school, it works in real life.
32:05I always say in my schools, you can spend three days chasing a kangaroo or you can spend a day
32:11making decent traps.
32:14I really want to get a bird trap set.
32:16There's a lot of birds around and like, there's a lot more meat on them for one.
32:20Like they last me three days.
32:22It's, you know, I know I can use every part of that animal.
32:24Last night, I just made a couple meters of cordage because I figured that once I get to the spot
32:30that I want to set up in,
32:30I can immediately go and set a bird trap.
32:33Like it's a really passive thing I can do for like a really big outcome.
32:37So these are like a sour plum pretty much and they're way too sour to eat at the moment, but
32:42they're perfect for bait.
32:43I hope that we can trap some birds with it.
32:53So no luck on the trap here today, except that bird sitting right next to it.
33:01I'm going to go check my snares.
33:06Nothing here.
33:09This has actually been disturbed.
33:11So all I'm going to do is just re-pop it back open.
33:16It's one of those things of like, I can just crack and go, no, I'm too hungry to do this.
33:21I can't go another day, but just got to stick it out sometimes.
33:31These walks when I head out in the morning to do my trap lines, it's something that's like I always
33:36just get excited about.
33:37It's like the idea of food, but I mean, they can be incredibly disappointing.
33:43No, not looking good.
33:46So there's actually feathers in here.
33:48So something was definitely in here, but you know, whether it got out, like whether it was a really small
33:54bird, it's hard to say.
34:06That one hasn't been disturbed.
34:10Nothing for this one either.
34:11No, not looking good enough.
34:17Empty.
34:20Incredibly disappointing.
34:22It's pretty hard to get around when you feel depleted and exhausted all the time.
34:26So hope they can come across something that makes it worthwhile.
34:30There's really not a lot of opportunity left.
34:37Not having food for me has made this extremely challenging.
34:42It's like sitting here starving when you're already underweight is a brutal experience.
35:04Oh my gosh.
35:09What?
35:12Something has gotten to it during the night.
35:18I'm actually shocked.
35:20It's a little spring here.
35:22And it's been here like you can see the holes there and it's all over here.
35:27So something has dragged it and eaten its leg out.
35:32But there is so much meat on this.
35:35And I was literally just sitting there thinking like, oh my God, if I don't get food, like what am
35:38I going to do?
35:39You know, this is, there's so much bone marrow in this.
35:42There's so much meat.
35:44This is going to keep me for another two, three days guaranteed out here.
35:49Like my biggest challenge out here is food.
35:52It's such a beautiful animal.
35:53So I'm so, so grateful.
35:56When you've been like so hungry and just like pushing so hard every single day and just hoping for the
36:01best.
36:01It's like, it's just an enormous win.
36:05Alrighty.
36:07So I've just cooked up all the organs, like the red organs for my little spring hair.
36:12Got my little kidney here.
36:14Just ready to try it.
36:18No, that's so good.
36:21That's, I know that's going to help me so much out here.
36:26I don't think I've had a drumstick this big in life in general.
36:32So, yeah.
36:33Yeah.
36:38Oh my God.
36:40So roasted, who recalls?
36:42Like, she's perfect.
36:45Just next level.
36:49I'm so grateful.
36:53Lord, they're so proud of me.
36:55It's really hard. I'm really happy, but I wish he was here to see it.
37:01Last year, my late partner, he taught me everything I know and he actually passed away as a result of
37:06a snake attack.
37:08Carrying that with me is really heavy, but it's a very valuable lesson that no matter how skilled you are,
37:14anything can happen while you're out here and you don't know when your last time is and you've got to
37:18make the most of it.
37:20Very good. Nice.
37:26Kiss Holly.
37:29When Paul passed away, like, that could have absolutely broken me. Like, that could have destroyed me and I could
37:34have, you know, still been in bed doing nothing.
37:37I chose to pursue bushcraft and my skill set and it's just brought me so much joy and value in
37:44life and it's really taught me that no matter what hardship I'm going through, like, as long as I see
37:49it from a positive perspective, you know, it makes things a hell of a lot easier.
38:19It's just, my body's burning. I just feel like I've been here.
38:23scratch and scratch and scratch and it's honestly like so horrific
38:32i think we just all have different limits and it's for me when i'm getting bites on
38:37top of bites is like my line
38:45i think it's that emotional exhaustion part that's kind of hit me it's just like
38:49when you're on your own doing absolutely everything like right now it's just my body aches everything
38:55hurts and i'm just so exhausted so i'm hoping like i can just get something popped up in my
39:03trap lines it'd be amazing because any extra energy would just so appreciated right now
39:18oh my gosh
39:24to be able to cut this little spring hair outfit for extraction i know that i get to walk out
39:28feeling a little bit more like myself so what i'm looking for is to have it as clean as possible
39:33i just haven't seen any bones or rocks or even a stone to lay it on to scrape it with
39:39my knife
39:40i'm pretty sure i'm gonna be the first person to use my hunting tool as an outfit
39:45so this is sort of where we're at and what i've done is added a weave it's a basket weaving
39:50technique
39:51similar to cordage making a cross to try and get it to like finally sit flat so this is my
39:57skirt
39:58final piece of it all of course accessories you can never have enough
40:13oh my gosh there's actually a bird in here
40:23no way oh my darling oh i'm so so grateful
40:32something must have killed it which is so beautiful like i need this to stay out here
40:38like this is gonna be my everything you know it's gonna keep me out here for another few days so
40:44it
40:45it means the absolute world to me so i'm planning on boiling this so i get absolutely every little
40:50bit of nutrients out of the bones the necks the organs all those sort of things i've got my little
40:56drumstick leg just roasting over the coals here
41:09so good you know i was really scared coming to this end of this challenge because you eventually
41:15i'm so in it but physically my body was like it was struggling it was hurting it's such good meat
41:21i
41:21think i'm definitely gonna be eating more of this in the future because i can just feel how good it
41:26is my body and it just tastes delicious
41:31so i can see the sun popping up over the horizon which means it's officially day 21 baby we are
41:39getting out of here today and i couldn't be more thrilled
41:52so i just need to check out this map to make sure it's gonna be heading in the right direction
41:56for
41:57this it's gonna be quite warm so i hope they can get through pretty quickly it's a long way to
42:02go
42:02better get moving to reach her extraction point holly will hike through a dense mapani tree forest
42:11and then trek across exposed grassland where a pride of lion stalk and venomous puff adder
42:17shelter during the heat of the day
42:25i just really want to get this done in the cooler weather as quick as possible
42:29so while it's really manageable i'm just trying to get a good pace going
42:34so i do have a plan in place so i have made some clothing to just protect myself from exposure
42:39a
42:39little bit from being here i can tell that very quickly it's going to be warm again
42:44i'm going to be facing that heat exhaustion and i really don't want to do that twice so
42:48just trying to make the most of the early start i know it's not going to be for too long
42:59seeing the open plains so according to my map i need to cross this there's still a really long
43:09way to go to the forest afterwards but you know i'm just going to have to keep moving because it's
43:13going to get really hot on this open field soon i'm just going to keep on pushing through with it
43:26the pot's feeling pretty heavy you know it's one of the downsides but it's worth it
43:32my muscles are all deteriorated and it's like harder to carry things it is a little bit frustrating
43:38to like have to lug that around but you know i know it's really important that i have water with
43:42me and stay hydrated the heat's starting to pick up so i don't want to be caught out in these
43:50open
43:51plains for too long it's really hard like because this challenge means so much to me i don't want to
43:58disappoint paul i knew i was coming in here underway i knew that i was coming up against a lot
44:03of things
44:04but he would just tell me to keep going like he told me how strong and capable i am and
44:08no one
44:08believed in me more than him so you know i can't back down now i've got to keep going
44:14the long grass is definitely the hardest part about all of this to move through like it's
44:18very uneven surface there's a lot you don't really know where you're going half the time
44:29so i just have to be really mindful as i keep going not to hurt myself but i've been walking
44:33for a
44:34while now and i feel like i'm getting there oh my god no way oh it's gorgeous there is my
44:49ride out of
44:50here oh my gosh no way i really want to run but like this savannah it's just i don't think
44:57i could
44:57run if i wanted to this is amazing it's like the icing on the cake like you know it was
45:03been so hard
45:05the last 21 days and just to walk out and just see it like
45:12i just can't believe it's finally here it's all come together
45:21oh my goodness
45:28thank you for tomorrow
45:34it was so challenging especially on my own you know i had no one to hide behind no one to
45:39come and
45:39save me but i just got on with it and did it so i'm just really thrilled it's finally all
45:44here
45:45after conquering 16 days solo in botswana holly lost 18 pounds her psr gains a boost from 7.3 to
45:557.5
45:57paul trained me so well for this challenge like it's it was like his final passing was like teaching
46:03me these skills and now i get to carry this on to the next group for the next generation and
46:08you know it feels so special that like i hope that i made him proud i know that he would
46:12love that i was here and he'd have no doubt that i reached this point
46:19i've just completed 21 days in botswana
46:24i've just completed 21 days in botswana
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