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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 up on about
03:48I'm not so much a day nafala with it
03:59What's your name I bet the Goku kicker Oh no, I can have a go sakura Roma. I
04:06That's your name sakura mahana sakura macha
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
08:23Cucumber hash but with the flavor of a potato
08:31What are we looking for, mate?
08:37OK, cool. Looking for honey.
08:47Prohadzo boy to transition into manhood and complete their rite of passage,
08:51they must prove themselves as a provider for the community.
08:55So, although facing an angry swarm of bees seems daunting,
08:58it's a primary food source for the Hatsa people.
09:03So it's something I must help them collect
09:05if I'm to pass my own rite of passage.
09:24The white wax on the exterior of a bee's nest
09:26means that bees are actively building new combs,
09:29which should hopefully be overflowing with fresh honey.
09:33How do you get the honey out of that?
09:36These mosquitoes seem quite fine,
09:39but I'm not sure what you want there.
09:43I should be dead.
09:46I know I'm all the way around here.
09:49I have so much to send a bee.
09:51You can't see the honey out of this.
09:53You can see a bee instead.
09:55I know you're all the way around here.
09:58I see a bee-be-be-be-be-be.
10:01I don't know.
10:01You can see a bee-be-be.
10:01It's like a bee-be-be.
10:04by a swarm of angry bees.
10:06I'm not sure I particularly want to go climbing up that one.
10:09To make it even more precarious, the only way to climb
10:14is by using homemade wooden pegs.
10:21With only one squirrel successfully hunted,
10:24and now shifting our focus to honey,
10:26we've returned home with little food.
10:34Oh, that's fucking cool.
10:35You know what I'm trying to make.
10:36I'm up here.
10:39She looked really hungry.
10:41I'm very grateful that that tuberous rube got given to her.
10:45She looked really hungry.
10:55The Hats' traditional hunting grounds have been whittled away
10:59to only 10% of what it was just 50 years ago,
11:02meaning less game to hunt for food.
11:05Yeah, there's a lot of little mouths to feed.
11:10Not that long ago, the Hats' could easily feast on giraffes,
11:14elephant and their favourite, baboons.
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.
11:30Lagga.
11:30Lagga.
11:31Lagga means lie down.
11:36Thank 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,
11:52making my need to help provide honey for this community
11:55all the more vital.
12:15All the time it comes.
12:20What happened?
12:26Any
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. But right now, it looks
12:56like we're off to slay vampires. And climbing a ten-meter-high baobab tree to raid a hive
13:03filled with bees sounds just as daunting. The beehive is right in the crux of that, say
13:12about ten meters off the floor. A baobab tree like this could easily be 2,000 years old.
13:36Archaeological evidence found in this region reveals that Hadza have lived on these lands
13:41for over 50,000 years, which means their ancestors were likely hunting and raiding beehives like
13:46this during the Stone Age. Ganga's skill level of being able to hang on to a little peg while
13:54standing on a little peg, while banging in a little peg, is crazy. The East African lowland
14:01honeybee is one of the 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, though.
14:25One wrong move, and the bees could swarm Ganga and us. You 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. And this
14:43time, I'd have to agree.
14:49GERALD GOD'S TOTACIUM
14:52GERALD KING
14:56GERALD KING
15:00GERALD KING
15:01GERALD KING
15:01THANK YOU
15:05GERALD KING
15:06Despite still being stung, they push 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.
16:51Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
16:53Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, 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 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 as a
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
18:13I
18:13How important within your culture is her need clearly it's not just a food is it you use it for
18:18trade and stuff like that
18:19But how important is it only a couple of other side of them?
18:22Oh, but like only oh, oh, what's happening? I did I know about better?
18:28Well, I know that I look at that all and this second all and I quit actually on the day
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 mouse to feed
18:43I got all that crazy which a man of course you may be Shanna
18:46That she thought it by a lack of
18:48Is that a you want a poppy issue muka though? I go makali tako you say you
18:55Oko to bogot over it is a second more than a couple of quickly actually maybe we
19:00Do any of you ever get tempted to go and live outside of has the community
19:05I
19:09Despite the challenges of raising a family in the african bush had two women believe their way of life is
19:15still best for their children
19:18For them survival doesn't come from money or possessions, but from community and a husband who can hunt
19:26Ganga obviously is looking to get married. Do you think he's a good catch?
19:33Well, yeah
19:35It's a mess in America. Oh, yeah, then it's a mobile local
19:41Nice i'm already fascinated by the hunter and how a young man's right of passage is directly connected to the
19:48survival 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
20:03So we make the long trek through the wilderness to the areas only forge and I hope for our sake
20:09the people running it still like honey
20:12I
20:22This is very different
20:28Nice view
20:31The tatoga are another of Tanzania's oldest tribes the ancestors were fierce warriors and masters of making weapons
20:40The neighboring tribe appeared to be blacksmiths
20:43We've got a arrowhead being made here and it's all using old little scrap bricks of metal
20:50Incredibly simple and yeah, obviously, it's a skill that the hands of people don't have
20:55But what they had to do have is honey. It's a time for a bit of bartering
21:03God's about the other killer killer killer killer again. Can I be some of the baby?
21:08die. I got a cup. That's really a half
21:10And I'm going to go pee a bit
21:13Do I'm here is a bonnie corn? It's a cat jello not jello too. Ah, jello not with it
21:19I feel my hand quite a copy of your man. I hope you as a bit
21:23They're bartering up and that it's a girl is getting offered quite a way. He was hoping he was going
21:28to get off it
21:29I don't know
21:43Happy days. Yeah, happy
21:47Excellent 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 gonger now has the tools he needs to prove himself on a baboon hunt
22:07But first he wants me to meet the girl that he hopes to marry
22:12Everything in terms of honey collection potentially baboon hunting is all focused towards
22:19gonger getting married so it's time to meet the lady herself
22:24The umko obama community is home to other hunters and their families
22:28Hi
22:29But with less than 400 had they're living a traditional life in the region
22:33Every camp is like an extended family with many had they're being married or related to one another which is
22:39your girlfriend
22:40in the middle
22:48She's beautiful
22:52Hi lovely to meet you
23:11What do you think of gonger for your daughter
23:18huh
23:19huh
23:21While she moves mom 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, 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.
26:01I'll see you in the next video.
26:02.
26:02.
26:02.
26:02I got to check the go go where to make a talk about your my purchase
26:33this is some of the happiest people that I've met in a long long time and they
26:39have nothing you really do not need stuff in your life they have a bow and arrow they have a
26:45knife
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
26:57glean an existence from the environment being able to craft tools being able to make weapons
27:02being able to know all of the different hunting techniques that they need and by putting it all
27:09together you free yourself from the need to accumulate stuff and 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 but I consider that to be my first hunter arrow thank you mate
27:43happy days poisoned arrows ready we're all set to hunt baboon
27:59I've been walking about two hours from camp now it's a long way away and boys are on a mission
28:09to stand the greatest chance of success we're heading to new hunting grounds an eight kilometer
28:16hike away under the rising African Sun
28:25so this is baboon country and it's stunning it's so different to the horizontal scrub
28:36if I was a baboon I'd be hanging out on these rocks up here classic baboon territory
28:53spotting movement on the horizon
28:56gonga gives the signal and we head down into the valley
29:03all of a sudden the hunt is on
29:07that was definitely a contact with a troop of baboons
29:13the shouts from that direction that direction and that direction baboon
29:18in the chaos of the chase the group has splintered
29:24I better keep up because I don't really want to get lost alone out here
29:30you guys are hot on the trail of a baboon
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
30:03that 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 there's two baboons moving left to right through that underground there
30:27they're closing in on them
30:28this is it with hongonga ambushing the baboons with the dogs and gonga closing in we're moments away from a
30:36possible kill
30:43but once again confusion kicks in
30:50gonga is he is constantly the one right at the front he's the one that's spearheading the whole operation but
30:56because he is so upfront I'm hardly getting a glimpse of him he'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 I can immediately tell it's not good news
31:36what is very cool is that this is gonga wanted to get married found a girl he likes wants
31:41to impress her parents and all his mates are very happy to turn out with him at a stupid o
31:46'clock in the morning to go into the building
31:49That's pretty cool isn't it? That'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 to restore some of Gonga's fortune and save his right
32:06of passage.
32:09But with light quickly fading, time is not on our side.
32:18We are losing time in terms of getting the honey. It's part and parcel of what Gonga needs to provide.
32:26And therefore, if we can just nail that, that would be good.
32:32But all isn't lost when Gonga is leading the brigade.
32:40Have we got one?
32:42The tree is hollow and there's a big beehive inside the tree.
32:59And it's just a matter of making it accessible enough to get our hands in and grab the honey out.
33:06I'm gonna have a go at trying to extract as much of this myself as possible.
33:10I really want to nail this for Gonga and make sure he doesn't go back to his future bride empty
33:15-handed.
33:17Success would also be a massive boost for me to at least partially complete my right 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 40 minutes of daylight.
33:31With the clock ticking, it's now or never.
33:40Okay, 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.
33:51Okay, sit in here, yeah?
33:53Okay.
34:02It's brutal work.
34:04And the longer we take, the more likely we are to aggravate the bees and 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 from the hole that we've cut.
34:34We need to open up the secondary hole.
34:41With the beehive still deep inside the tree and the light fading fast, the other boys also step in to
34:47help.
34:49I came here thinking, you know, I want to prove that I can get the honey out myself.
34:53And as I was chopping away and the boys are standing around, I'm thinking, that's not the way they had
34:58to 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.
35:23Gonga's just got stung, I can see.
35:38It looks like the smoke from the fire I made has done its job in subduing the bees.
35:48This is it.
35:50Time to get some for myself.
35:52Okay.
35:57Arrgh!
35:58Arrgh!
36:00Arrgh!
36:02Arrgh!
36:05Arrgh!
36:08Arrgh!
36:08Arrgh!
36:08Well done, mate!
36:10That is beautiful!
36:15Arrgh!
36:16Arrgh!
36:17Arrgh!
36:17Arrgh!
36:18Arrgh!
36:19Arrgh!
36:20It's all right.
36:24Everyone has now had a lot of stings.
36:26It's got to the stage where the honey out, but 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.
36:39And in excruciating pain at the same time.
37:01And in excruciating pain at the same time.
37:09There's this crazy pain at the same time.
37:13That was just speaking without moving his lips at all.
37:21Worth the pain.
37:23Worth the pain.
37:24Worth the pain.
37:27I would say that was a big success.
37:29It's not a bad haul.
37:30I'm not putting my hand in there again.
37:39Will your future father-in-law be happy with that?
37:46Nice one, Kongo.
37:46Good work, mate.
37:47Good work.
37:48Good work.
37:49Good work.
37:53With the honey bagged and night upon us, we have no choice but to spend the night sleeping rough in
37:58the 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 Kongo's wedding on its way.
38:14Today has just shown me it's all about team.
38:17This isn't a one-man effort.
38:19This isn't Kongo 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.
38:26It'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.
38:48Has Kongo 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.
39:29Kongo'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.
39:50After all, I know.
39:51I will be very happy with a honey that I can yum.
39:52Not because of the weight with the rot breeds.
40:00You're happy with that honey that I can bow back when I came back.
40:04No, not beyond Joy when with a dollar could get a product out at it,
40:08and yet, But LaCrope, where we love it,
40:12We are lorsque of theê°€ì§€ê³ picture,
40:14If we're only looking at one of the value,
40:14The water chips,
40:14But so it's spring the Switch.
40:16We're very happy with people on the beach.
40:19just going to stand a chance with your doors of him
40:28look for what's up and I'm not gonna show you
40:50nice like they say anything easy isn't worth having so hopefully on Gonga's next baboon hunt
40:57he can successfully secure the hand of his girlfriend if we've got a baboon that would
41:03have been amazing but you know you can't you can't get a baboon every time you go hunting can you
41:14make it go cool and maybe you're a step closer to marrying their daughter no why did they go cook
41:31make can I just say thank you for giving me your time for allowing me to live with you guys
41:37thank
41:37you
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 everybody is here is happy
42:11I
42:12think they're all slightly high on honey again but that's kind of cool in itself I've learned so
42:17much over the past few days they call these guys the happy tribe and you can see why they have
42:25an
42:25innate joy within them and I do think that comes from living a simpler life and I don't mean that
42:31in a patronizing way I mean that in a inspirational way I think the simpler we can all make our
42:36lives the
42:36better I constantly look at communities like this and worry about their future they don't think like
42:45that it's all about today it's all about feeding themselves and their children today and that again
42:51spills into the whole happiness thing I just think don't think worrying about the future is in the hands
42:58that at all so no they're not bothered about it they're happy
43:04fingers crossed Gonga's gonna 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
43:15um whatever it is I wish him all the best and I'm sure he's gonna have a very happy life
43:35you can see yourself
43:54thanks great
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