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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
03:43Anabawa
03:45Anabawa
03:46Anabawa
03:48Anabawa
03:51Thank you
03:59What's your name?
04:00Abitate goku
04:00Oh no akara whisk was Sacouroma
04:02master
04:07Sakouroma
04:08Ah, Sakuroma ha-ha.
04:11Ah, Sakuroma ha-ha.
04:38Ah, Sakuroma ha-ha-ha.
04:47Chop the tree.
04:50Cool. Nice to meet you all.
04:53Not 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
05:07about how 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.
05:36Okay.
05:37Okay.
05:55Yeah, yeah.
05:55Yeah.
05:55Yeah.
05:55We're being introduced to a tribe.
05:57We'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.
06:22He's speaking today.
06:24I'm standing.
06:27Check this out.
06:37I'm standing.
06:41I'm standing.
06:42No, no, no!
06:44I'm standing inside.
06:45You're standing.
06:46There's standing.
06:47is not for picky eaters I reckon they like squirrel consisting of over 30
06:54different wild mammals including monkeys porcupines badgers and impala
07:03to fight if I yeah other end other end other end other end amazing it's good water is good
07:25water mate yes Wow I mean that's so cool isn't it look at that that's extraordinary look at the
07:33bottom drank out the bottom because he didn't know that you could unscrew the top why would
07:39you just just show doesn't it how divorced from everyday life this place is thank God
07:46that plastic still hasn't infiltrated this corner of the world yet nice
07:56you've got a quite a big tuberous root being exposed now just take a look it's good is it what's
08:04it
08:04cool so I yeah door I yeah half way between a potato and a kind of a cucumber it's got
08:19you kind of got
08:20that watery inside like a cucumber has but with the flavor of your potato what are we looking for me
08:33well I've been a conversation of the back of a week I in a good book on you talk with
08:38you there but
08:38hope I've been in a double bet about two parts power but seven seven okay cool looking for honey
08:46for had to boy to transition into manhood and complete their rite of passage they must prove
08:51themselves as a provider for the community so although facing an angry swarm of bees seems daunting
08:58it's a primary food source for that to people so it's something I must help them collect if I'm to
09:05pass my own right of passage the white wax on the exterior of a bees nest means that bees are
09:27actively
09:28building new combs which should hopefully be overflowing with fresh honey how do you get the honey out of
09:34that okay with the hive more than 10 meters above the ground it's not exactly the kind of place that
10:03you want to be stung by a swarm of angry bees I'm not sure I particularly want to go climbing
10:08to make it even
10:11more precarious the only way to climb is by using homemade wooden pegs with only one squirrel successfully
10:23hunted and now shifting our focus to honey we've returned home with little food
10:38she looked really hungry I'm very grateful that that tuberous rube got given to her she looked really
10:54hungry hungry the hats as traditional hunting grounds have been whittled away to only 10 percent of what
11:00it was just 50 years ago meaning less game to hunt for food yeah there's a lot of little mouths
11:07to feed
11:10not that long ago the hats could easily feast on giraffes elephant and their favorite baboons but that
11:17looks like a distant memory today dead posh service this is thank you this is perfect I get means lie
11:31down
11:37thank you mate thank you thank you this is cool so basically this is my accommodation for the next week
11:44I
11:49don't want to become another mouth to feed making my need to help provide honey for this community all the
11:55more vital don't go out how many me do we need to make pepper I'm not gonna some of the
12:11guys were saying
12:12there's a girl that you want to get married to I got kind of girls oh cool have you known
12:18her a long
12:18time no what's her name for a hattaboy to complete their right of passing
12:48and marry they must prove to the bride'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 right in the crux of that say about 10 meters off the floor
13:21it's all right
13:32bobo tree like this could easily be 2 000 years old archaeological evidence found in this region
13:38reveals that had to have lived on these lands for over 50 000 years which means their ancestors
13:44were likely hunting and raiding beehives like this during the stone age ganga's skill level of being
13:50able to hang on to a little peg while standing on a little peg whilst banging in a little peg
13:57is is
13:58crazy the 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
14:13i want to know what i don't know what i told me
14:25public one wrong move and the beast could swarm gonga 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
14:44uh
14:59you got
15:05despite 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.
16:51Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, 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,
17:03and it's going to help Gonga in his mission to win his future wife.
17:07What could you buy with this?
17:09What could you buy with this?
17:15So you can see why it is important, both as part of the rite of passage,
17:19but also as something to trade.
17:22And the boys are so happy.
17:27And the plastic bucket of fresh honey is a welcoming boost to the community's morale.
17:46This plastic bucket of fresh honey should be a welcome 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.
18:13How 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?
18:20So you can go to the five of the cows too.
18:25How many of them do you want to eat?
18:28If you don't eat the eggs or them, say that they would eat the eggs,
18:32you knocked out of them.
18:32Right?
18:36If they don't eat the eggs you eat, you don't eat the eggs.
18:39So they don't eat the eggs.
18:46We eat the eggs every day oh you eat any of them.
19:00Do any of you ever get tempted to go and live outside of Hasda community?
19:10Despite the challenges of raising a family in the African bush,
19:13Hasda 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.
19:26Gonga obviously is looking to get married.
19:30Do you think he's a good catch?
19:38Nice.
19:42I'm already fascinated by the Hasda
19:44and 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, Gonga 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,
20:46and it's all using old little scrap bricks of metal.
20:50Incredibly simple, and yet, obviously, it's a skill that the Hasda people don't have.
20:55But what the Hasda do have is honey.
20:58It's a time for a bit of bartering.
21:26Socorro is getting offered quite what he was hoping he was going to get offered.
21:43Happy days.
21:44You happy?
21:47Excellent.
21:48Twenty arrowheads and two knives...
21:53And, erm, he gets a pot of honey.
21:55Everyone's a winner.
21:57LAUGHTER
22:00It's been a successful mission,
22:02and 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,
22:16potentially baboon hunting,
22:17it's all focused towards Gonga 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,
22:28but with less than 400 Hadza living a traditional life in the region,
22:33every camp is like an extended family,
22:35with many Hadza being married or related to one another.
22:39Which is your girlfriend?
22:41In the middle.
22:48She's beautiful.
22:49She's beautiful.
22:49She's beautiful.
22:50She's beautiful.
22:51Hi.
22:52Lovely to meet you.
23:11What do you think of Gonga for your daughter?
23:16What do you think of Gonga for your daughter?
23:20What do you think of Gonga for your daughter?
23:21While Shuma's mum seems sold on the idea,
23:25her 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,
23:37how does he prove himself?
23:39When he looks like a woman,
23:45he'd be able to marry a woman's husband,
23:54and a woman's husband,
23:56and a woman's wife.
23:58Tell her that he'll see her boyfriend,
24:00and she's laughing.
24:03When I say Sheen,
24:04what do you think of her son?
24:06I'd be feeling that she'snotty.
24:08After her husband,
24:08Have a good friend.
24:09What do you think of her dad?
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 it is then so if Gonga wants a wife
24:26it seems he's got a cough up a baboon and a decent amount of honey is it true that the
24:32room of the baboon is the best part you understood me didn't you didn't need a translator then and
24:41although I'm a bit of a newbie out here I hope I can help him on his own Hadza rite
24:46of passage
24:53my time with the Sakura community is quickly running out so now focus turns to Gonga's rite
24:59of passage and helping him get his Hadza bride but yeah simple as that and the first thing we need
25:13is not an engagement ring but an arrow deadly enough to bring down a baboon why is it for baboons
25:19you
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 look at the doctor
25:53to talk about the comment about that make a public or affect I let go about that cheddar go go
26:06where
26:33This is some of the happiest people that I've met in
26:36a long, long time, and they have nothing.
26:39You really do not need stuff in your life.
26:43They have a bow and arrow, they have a knife.
26:46Even the shelter, the home that they're sleeping in,
26:49is a temporary one that will work for the season.
26:51And yet it's experience and knowledge and skill level
26:55that's enabling them to actually glean an existence from the environment.
26:59Being able to craft tools, being able to make weapons,
27:02being able to know all of the different hunting techniques
27:06that they need, and by putting it all together,
27:09you 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.
27:34OK, 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,
28:12we are heading to new hunting grounds,
28:14an eight-kilometre hike away under the rising African sun.
28:25So this is baboon country.
28:29And it's stunning.
28:31It's so different to the horizontal scrub.
28:35If I was a baboon, I'd be hanging out on these rocks up here.
28:40Classic baboon territory.
28:53Spotting movement on the horizon.
28:56Gonga gives the signal, and we head down into the valley.
29:03All of a sudden, the hunt is on.
29:07That was definitely a contact with a troop of baboons.
29:13The shouts from that direction, that direction, and that direction.
29:17Baboon.
29:18In the chaos of the chase, the group has splintered.
29:24I'd better keep up,
29:26cos 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.
30:02It's coming down.
30:03That was a huge baboon.
30:06Exactly what Gonga's future father-in-law wanted.
30:12And that big-ass baboon is looking quite impossible.
30:18Okay, there's two...
30:19There's two baboons moving left to right through that underground there.
30:27They're closing in on them.
30:29This is it.
30:31With Hong Konga ambushing the baboons with the dogs
30:33and Gonga closing in,
30:35we're moments away from a possible kill.
30:43But once again, confusion kicks in.
30:50Gonga is constantly the one right at the front.
30:53He's the one that's spearheading the whole operation,
30:56but because he is so up front,
30:58I'm hardly getting a glimpse of him.
31:00He's the one leading the charge.
31:03He's the best hunter out of this lot.
31:08Then 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.
31:39I wanted to get married, found 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 rite of passage.
32:09But with light quickly fading,
32:12time 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 when Gonga is leading the brigade.
32:35Eddie, we've got one.
32:40Have we got one?
32:42Yeah.
32:47Nice.
32:49Okay, at last, we've got one.
32:54The tree is hollow,
32:55and there's a big beehive inside the tree,
32:59and it's just a matter of making it accessible enough
33:02to get our hands in and grab the honey out.
33:06I'm going to have a go at trying to extract
33:07as much of this myself as possible.
33:10I really want to nail this for Gonga
33:12and make sure he doesn't go back
33:14to 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.
33:32With the clock ticking, it's now or never.
33:40Okay, fun going.
33:42Stage one complete.
33:43But this beehive is not going to be an easy one to get into.
33:46It's very enclosed,
33:48and the bees are very well protected.
33:51Okay, so in here, yeah?
33:52Okay.
34:02It's brutal work,
34:04and 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,
34:13we gain access to the hive.
34:28The boys don't think that they, um,
34:31can 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 in thinking, you know,
34:51I want to prove that I can get the honey out of myself.
34:53And as I was chopping away
34:54and 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.
35:04They 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 a dream way.
35:21Oh!
35:23Gonga's just got stung,
35:24so 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.
36:07Well done, mate!
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
36:42the same time
36:56on the prowl rock while the ground on guys to be wow bringing the house down raising the roof when
37:04we ready to bust out the gate with a boost
37:13that was just speaking without moving his lips at all
37:21worth the pain worth the pain
37:27I would say that was a big success it's not a bad hole I'm not putting my hand in there
37:32again
37:39will your future father-in-law be happy with that
37:42go crack up pack up a couple by a go to shop back nice one going yeah quite kind of
37:47a cool cool
37:48cool yeah I got a capital net and I Google with the honey bagged a night upon us we have
37:56no choice but
37:57to spend the night sleeping rough in the bush what a day I mean that was honestly one of the
38:07most rewarding days of my life and we have honey to speed Gonga's wedding on its way
38:14today today has just shown me it's all about team this isn't a one-man effort this isn't Gonga demonstrating
38:21his prowess on his own clearly he's one of the most competent in the whole group but it isn't about
38:25that to the Hadza it's about sticking together it's about turning up for each other and it's about having fun
38:33and they have done all three of those in bucket loads
38:40morning and with everyone from the community gather for our return this 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
39:29Gonga's been a little bit shy maybe he's worried about the fact that he hasn't got a baboon I think
39:36he'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 go back let me back let me back let me
40:05back
40:05let me back with dollar could get a taco that in here by la copa who are there or no
40:12state that they are
40:14that's it
40:19there's going to stand a chance with your dozer then
40:28look for bossa
40:30yeah
40:50like they say anything easy isn't worth having so hopefully on Gonga's next baboon hun he can successfully secure the
40:59hand of his girlfriend
41:01if we got a baboon that would have been amazing but you know you can't you can't get a baboon
41:06every time you go hunting can you
41:07they say thank you for giving me your time for allowing me to live with you guys
41:37Thank you
42:02This is such a positive end to quite an incredible journey ready
42:07Gonga is a step closer to being able to marry the girl of his dreams
42:10Everybody is here is happy
42:11I 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
42:50And that again spills into the whole happiness thing
42:53I just think don't think worrying about the future
42:56Is in the Hadza at all
42:58So no, they're not bothered about it
43:00They're happy
43:04Fingers crossed Gonga's gonna get the girl
43:06Obviously
43:07I think he will
43:08He's a charming man
43:09I think it's probably more to do with his cheeky grin
43:11Than it is to do with his proficiency in baboon hunting
43:15But whatever it is
43:17I wish him all the best
43:18And I'm sure he's gonna have a very happy life
43:33Do you see yourself?
43:55Thanks, mate.
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