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Ed Staffords Rite Of Passage S Episode 3 Engsub
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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
03:43I'm a puppy and I'm a dog. I'm a dog. I'm a dog. I'm a dog. I'm a dog. I'm
03:52a dog. I'm a dog. I'm a dog
03:52Thank you
03:59What's your name
04:00I better go cook okay. Oh, no, I can't be was sakura. Oh, that's your name sakura. Oh, my hat
04:10sakura
04:52not only do I not speak the language but I can barely pronounce their names this could be a challenging
04:59week
05:00I appreciate being allowed to come and live with you for a small period of time in your community
05:05It's a 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?
05:24Thank you very much
05:29I'm gonna go to a woman. I'll be sad to talk about something. No, I'm gonna go back up a
05:33pop-up our teaching a football
05:35Okay
05:46The guys are hungry and they've got no food and they need to hunt
05:51So it's almost perfect for me rather than sitting around and all the awkwardnesses of
05:56Being introduced to a tribe we're straight out on a hunt
05:59I got a good one
06:00Had to camps are named after their best hunters
06:06With this community named after Socorro
06:14His right-hand man is 17 year old Gonga
06:46The Hadza diet is not for picky eaters
06:48I reckon they like squirrels
06:52Consisting of over 30 different wild mammals including monkeys, porcupines, badgers and impala
07:02Do you want some water?
07:03Do you want some water?
07:04Do you want some water?
07:04Do you want some water?
07:04Do you want some water?
07:04Do you want some water?
07:07Do you want some water?
07:08Do you want some water?
07:08Do you want some water?
07:13Do you want some water?
07:30Look at that, that's extraordinary look, he's cut the bottom, drank out the bottom because
07:34he didn't know that you could unscrew the top.
07:39Why would you?
07:40Just to 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 quite a big tuberous root being exposed now.
08:02It's good, is it?
08:03What's it called?
08:16Halfway between a potato and a kind of a cucumber.
08:19It's kind of got that watery inside like a cucumber has.
08:23But with the flavour of your potato.
08:32What are we looking for, mate?
08:43OK, cool.
08:44Looking for honey.
08:46For Hatsa boy to transition into manhood and complete their rite of passage, they must prove
08:51themselves as a provider for the community.
08:55So, although facing an angry swarm of bees seems daunting, it's a primary food source for the
09:00Hatsa 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 new combs, which
09:30should hopefully be overflowing with fresh honey.
09:33How do you get the honey out of that?
09:34There is no other type of bee's nest.
09:37Do you think you can do it, huh?
09:42The little bee, one of the bees, one of the bees, two of the bees, two of the bees from
09:48the
09:48bee's nest, one of the bees, one of the bees, two of the bees, one of the bees, one of
09:59the bees.
10:04of angry 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 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 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 it like it like it like it like it 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
12:15good morning
12:18don't go how many me do we need to make pepper
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 daunting.
13:08The beehive is right in the crux of that.
13:12I'd 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 for over 50,000 years,
13:43which means their ancestors were likely hunting and raiding beehives like this during the Stone Age.
13:49Ganga's skill level of being able to hang on to a little peg while standing on a little peg,
13:55while banging in a little peg, is crazy.
14:00The 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.
14:13He's almost at the top now, though.
14:25One wrong move, and the bees could swarm Ganga and us.
14:30You can hear them up there. They 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.
14:45...
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?
15:49Oh, 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, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
16:53Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
16:53Oh, my God, my God, my God, my God, my God.
16:55Just get some honey down your mate.
16:58But this honey isn't really for eating.
17:01They had to also use it to trade.
17:03And it's gonna 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 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'm a little nervous about it
18:46But I'vely had one conversation
18:53Why raised the mouse is that where they live here?
18:54In Elevation that there's many friends
18:55They used to feed and Such Math booklet
18:57Where it just didn'tikhits
18:59and people eat somewhere
18:59edges
19:00Do you think the animals are MANHALITRA
19:01Do any of you ever get tempted to go and live outside of Hazda community?
19:09despite the challenges of raising a family in the african bush had two women believe their way of
19:15life is still best for their children for them survival doesn't come from money or possessions
19:22but from community and a husband who can hunt gongo obviously is looking to get married do
19:30you think he's a good catch nice I'm already fascinated by the Hadza and how a young man's
19:45rite of passage is directly connected to the survival of the tribe and his future family here
19:51becoming a man isn't just symbolic it's life or death without barbed metal arrowheads
20:02gongo can't hunt baboons so we make the long trek through the wilderness to the areas only forge
20:08and I hope for our sake the people 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 yet obviously it's a skill that
20:52the Hatsa people don't have but what the Hatsa do have is honey it's a time for a bit of
21:00bartering
21:23I'm about to go is getting offered quite what he was hoping he was going to get offered
21:43happy days you happy up it a quote that the cocoa it's excellent 20 arrowheads and two knives
21:52and he gets a pot of honey everyone's a winner
22:00it's been a successful mission and gongo 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
22:19gongo's getting married so it's time to meet the lady herself
22:24the young ko obama community is home to other hunters and their families but with less than 400
22:30had they're living a traditional life in the region every camp is like an extended family with many had
22:36so being married or related to one another which is your girlfriend now in the middle
22:47she's beautiful she's beautiful hi lovely to meet you
23:11what do you think of gongo for your daughter
23:16what do you think of gongo for your daughter
23:25her father looks a little less convinced in general how does a hadza man prove his worthiness if he was
23:35to
23:35want to marry a lady in another community how does he how does he prove himself
23:39what do you think of gongo for your daughter's daughter's daughter's daughter's daughter's daughter's daughter
23:56manna uh i think i don't want to talk about what you're talking about
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 baboon is then so if gonga wants a wife it
24:27seems he's got a cough up a baboon and a decent amount of honey is it true that the room
24:32of the
24:32baboon is the best part you understood me didn't you didn't need a translator then and although
24:42I'm a bit of a newbie out here I hope I can help him on his own Hadza rite of
24:46passage my time with
24:54the Sakura community is quickly running out so now focus tends to gonga's rite of passage and helping
25:01him get his hands up right but simple as that and the first thing we need is not an engagement
25:14ring
25:14but an arrow deadly enough to bring down a baboon why is it for baboons you need these barbs late
25:21today
25:21the 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 look at them to come to
25:54come to
25:54come to come to come to come to come to cut that make a public or a picture like we
26:02got a picture
26:33this is the happiest people that I've met in a long long time and they have nothing you really do
26:40not
26:41need stuff in your life they have a bow and arrow they have a knife even the shelter the home
26:48that they're
26:48sleeping in is a temporary one that will work for the season and yet it's experience and knowledge and skill
26:54level
26:55that's enabling them to actually glean an existence from the environment being able to craft tools being able to make
27:01weapons being able to know all of the different hunting techniques that they need and by putting it all together
27:09you free yourself from the need to accumulate stuff and I think that's the key happy life
27:27thank you mate thank you so much
27:34okay I didn't do it all myself but I consider that to be my first answer arrow
27:42thank you mate happy days poisoned arrows ready we're all set to hunt baboon
27:59we've been walking about two hours from camp now it's a long way away
28:05and boys are on a mission to stand the greatest chance of success we're heading to new hunting grounds
28:14an eight kilometer hike away under the rising african sun
28:25so this is baboon country
28:29and it's stunning it'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 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
29:34or 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
29:57crescent of that tree
30:01okay it's coming down it'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
30:19there'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 he 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
30:57I'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
31:08the 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
31:39wanted to get married
31:39found 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 in terms of getting the honey
32:21it's part and parcel of what gonga needs to provide
32:25and therefore if we can just nail that
32:28that would be good
32:32but all isn't lost
32:33when gonga is leading the brigade
32:36we're talking about
32:41we got one
32:42we got one
32:46nice
32:50okay at last we got one
32:54tree is hollow and there's a big
32:57beehive inside the tree and it's just a matter of
33:00making it accessible enough to 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, I reckon we've got about...
33:2940 minutes of daylight, with the clock ticking.
33:33It's now or never.
33:40OK, fun 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?
33:52OK.
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,
34:51I want to prove that I can get the honey out of myself.
34:53And as I was chopping away,
34:55and the boys are standing around,
34:56I'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.
35:03They all muck in.
35:03They 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 a dream way.
35:22Gonga'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.
35:50Time to get some for myself.
35:53OK.
36:08Well done, mate.
36:10That is beautiful.
36:19It's all right.
36:24Everyone has now had a lot of stings.
36:26It's got to the stage where the honey out,
36:28but the bees,
36:29they just go for you.
36:31I've probably got 20 or 30 stings.
36:33There's this crazy pleasure pain thing
36:36going on here at the moment.
36:37Everyone is high on sugar.
36:39Sugar, sugar, sugar.
36:40And in excruciating pain
36:42at the same time.
36:46Don't knock it on,
36:47don't knock it down.
36:48Coliseum floor shining,
36:50reflect on the crown.
36:51Sneakers,
36:51we get the sound.
36:54When I pivot up,
36:54pull it down,
36:55bounce out, bounce.
36:56Getting wild with the style,
36:58feeling on the prowl.
36:59Rock while the ground.
37:00Don't gots to be wild.
37:02Bringing the house down.
37:03Raising the roof.
37:04When we ready to bust out
37:06the gate with a boost.
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 haul. I'm not putting my hand in there again.
37:37We run the game, they run last.
37:39Will your future father-in-law be happy with that?
37:45Nice one, Konga.
37:48Good work, mate.
37:53With the honey bagged and 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,
38:07one of the most rewarding days of my life.
38:09We have honey to speed Konga'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 Konga 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,
38:31and 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 Konga 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.
39:29Konga'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.
40:06If you think of a familyjek Suprania,
40:09as well as everything's been working out,
40:09you've honestly got granny to try every Friday.
40:10We were working on
40:11Teng sang fundraising in the ank explored country.
40:13and I couldn't imagine that there's three people who are with him.
40:14And now he is now.
40:15And now he is,
40:19Does Gongos stand a chance with your dozer then?
40:39All right, mate, enjoy your honey.
40:41It's a lovely day.
40:42I'm not going to shake your hand because you're coming.
40:44No, I'm not going to.
40:49Nice.
40:51Like they say, anything easy isn't worth having.
40:55So hopefully, on Gongos' next baboon hunt,
40:57he 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?
41:21Yeah, they're really happy.
41:23And maybe you're a step closer to marrying their daughter, no?
41:25Yeah.
41:26Yeah.
41:31Mate, can I just say thank you for giving me your time,
41:35for allowing me to live with you guys?
41:47Nice to meet you.
41:50Give us a hug.
41:53And good luck with everything.
42:03This is such a positive end to quite an incredible journey, really.
42:07Gongos is a step closer to being able to marry the girl of his dreams.
42:10Everybody who's here is happy.
42:12I think they're all slightly high on honey again,
42:15but that's kind of cool in itself.
42:16I've learned so much over the past few days.
42:22They call these guys the happy tribe, and 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.
42:51And that, again, spills into the whole happiness thing.
42:53I just think, don't think worrying about the future is in the Hadza at all.
42:59So, no, they're not bothered about it.
43:01They're happy.
43:04Fingers crossed Gongos gonna get the girl, obviously.
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.
43:21Go to getting married.
43:23Going home from a woman.
43:36Then his dad alone is a sacrifice.
43:38I believe it is a sacrifice.
43:43What's all the difference?
43:44What is that?
43:44What is it, querida?
43:55Thanks, mate.
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