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00:25This 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
00:34get our hands in and grab the honey out
00:52I'm in Stafford as an explorer and survivalist I've made a career out of
00:58looking at air in the wild if I'm honest I've never really grown up so now
01:06ready guys I've set myself a mission to see how cultures across the world navigate the messy
01:15business of becoming an adult I believe many of us in the modern world have lost our sense
01:23of identity but I'm hoping by immersing myself in the often extreme trials that young people face
01:31I can figure out how these rituals make us better members of our communities
01:36I've never experienced anything even comparable in terms of pain
01:41by joining them on their journey I hope I'll learn to become a better man
01:49maybe even grow up
01:52okay he wants me to jump out I'm going to jump out 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
02:25I've been traveling for 48 hours just to get here and this is now my final leg
02:30a five-hour drive deep into one of the most remote corners of the African bush
02:35I'm heading to the socorro community on the fringes of lake a place often called the cradle of mankind
02:43and where human remains dating back around two million years were discovered
02:52I'm here to live with the Hadza and from what I know of their right of passage into adulthood
02:57it involves using expert tracking and bush kills to find honey and big game
03:02the Hadza have been surviving on these lands for over 50 000 years
03:08and one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes left in the world
03:22okay one of the local Hadza boys has just come out it's nice to see a smiling face hello mate
03:34hi guys
03:39um
03:41and head and I'm about I know about about my mama
03:51yeah thank you I'm not gonna stay in a fall on with it
03:59what's your name is I've got a go-go kkkk oh no I can't be was sacro my ah
04:05that's your name sacro my hot ah sacro my hot ah sacro my
04:17ah oh no I can't have a book I don't have me a whole country I go go go go
04:22go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go
04:42go go go go go go go chop the tree cool nice to meet you not only do I not
04:54speak the language
04:55but I can barely pronounce their names this could be a challenging week I appreciate being allowed
05:01to come and live with you for a small period of time in your community the key thing for me
05:06coming
05:07here is to learn about how you guys transition young men into adults and if it's okay with you
05:12the thing that I'm really really interested in learning about is um how you hunt for the honey
05:17and extract the honey from wild sources because of it by like a cloud without quite to the cool
05:22good tip I better not on the local one what thank you very much me no for that turn up
05:27by about coming
05:28on the the clean up wait at the cool woman I'll be sad to talk about the thing you're a
05:32baby that will
05:33could back up a pop-up or a beat enough work for okay
05:46the 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 being introduced to a tribe we're straight out on
05:58hunt had two camps are named after their best hunters with this community named after Socorro
06:14his right-hand man is 17 year old Gonga
06:23yeah
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06:46The Hatsa diet is not for picky eaters.
06:49I reckon they like squirrels.
06:53Consisting of over 30 different wild mammals, including monkeys, porcupines, badgers.
06:58An impala.
07:02Do you want some water?
07:03Tiff out, tiff out.
07:04Yeah.
07:07Other end, other end.
07:08Other end.
07:10Other end.
07:22Amazing.
07:24It's good water, it is good water mate, yes.
07:27Wow.
07:27I mean that's so cool, isn't it?
07:30Look at that, that's extraordinary, look.
07:32He's cut the bottom, drank out the bottom because he didn't know that you could unscrew the
07:37top.
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, isn't it?
08:03What's it called?
08:05DÅ ayak.
08:06DÅ ayak.
08:07DÅ ayak.
08:07DÅ ayak.
08:07DÅ ayak.
08:08DÅ ayak.
08:09DÅ ayak.
08:09DÅ ayak.
08:10DÅ ayak.
08:10DÅ ayak.
08:13DÅ ayak.
08:16DÅ ayak.
08:16Halfway between a potato and a kind of a cucumber.
08:19It's kind of got that watery, inside like a cucumber hash.
08:23But with the flavour of your potato.
08:31What are we looking for, mate?
08:37OK, cool. Looking for honey.
08:47Prohad to boy to transition into manhood and complete their rite of passage,
08:50they 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.
09:23The 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?
09:34I've started in May 19.
09:37The other birds, they definitely Shutter inæ¥,
09:39at that time we land and fall.
09:47They've got lots of compute and all of the batteries
09:54and they wanna see its spezie Georgia issues,
09:55where people are desperately ready then catch them
09:56and then catch them afterwards.
09:56They were going to catch them.
09:57Wow! Okay.
09:58With the hive, more than ten metres above the ground,
10:01It's not exactly the kind of place that you want to be stung by a swarm of angry bees.
10:06I'm not sure I particularly want to go climbing up that one.
10:10To make it even more precarious, the only way to climb is by using homemade wooden pegs.
10:21With only one squirrel successfully hunted, and now shifting our focus to honey,
10:26we've returned home with little food.
10:32Mm, mm, mm, mm.
10:34That's fucking good.
10:38She looked really hungry.
10:41I'm very grateful that that tuberous rube got given to her.
10:45She looked really hungry.
10:55The Hadza's traditional hunting grounds have been whittled away
10:59to only 10% of what it was just 50 years ago, meaning less game to hunt for food.
11:05Yeah, there's a lot of little mouths to feed.
11:10Not that long ago, the Hadza could easily feast on giraffes, elephant, and their favourite, baboons.
11:17But that looks like a distant memory today.
11:23Dead posh service, this is.
11:26Thank you, this is perfect.
11:28Laga, laga, laga, laga.
11:30Laga?
11:30Laga means lie down.
11:32Laga means lie down.
11:34Yeah, yeah.
11:35Puppets, yeah.
11:37Thank you, mate.
11:38Thank you, thank you.
11:38This 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 all the more vital.
11:58Gunga, how many do we need to make?
12:00Pepe, eh, mate.
12:10Gunga, some of the guys were saying there's a girl
12:12that you want to get married to.
12:14I've got a kind of girl.
12:15Well, cool, eh, mate.
12:17Have you known her a long time, then?
12:19Well, a little time, mate, yeah.
12:20Oh, not long. What's her name?
12:23Shumuwa.
12:24Shumuwa.
12:30Shumuwa.
12:31Shumuwa.
12:37Shumuwa.
12:38Shumuwa.
12:39Shumuwa.
12:39Shumuwa.
12:40Shumuwa.
12:43Shumuwa.
12:45For a Hadza boy to complete their rite of passage and marry,
12:49they must prove to the bride's parents
12:51that 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-metre-high baobab tree
13:03to raid a hive filled with bees sounds just as daunting.
13:08The beehive, right in the crux of that,
13:12say about 10 metres off the floor.
13:14Shumuwa.
13:16Shumuwa.
13:20Shumuwa.
13:31Shumuwa.
13:32A baobab tree like this could easily be 2,000 years old.
13:36Archaeological evidence found in this region
13:38reveals that Hadza have lived on these lands
13:41for over 50,000 years,
13:43which means their ancestors were likely hunting
13:45and raiding beehives like this during the Stone Age.
13:49Ganga's skill level of being able to hang on to a little peg
13:53while standing on a little peg,
13:56whilst banging in a little peg,
13:57is crazy.
14:00The East African lowland honeybee
14:01is one of the most aggressive bee species in the world,
14:04making up half of the infamous Africanized bee hybrid,
14:08known as the killer bee.
14:11He's almost at the top now, though.
14:25One wrong move,
14:27and the bees could swarm Ganga and us.
14:30You can hear them up there.
14:32They are angry.
14:35I'd love to get stuck in and help,
14:37but Socorro says this is no job for a newbie.
14:42And this time, I'd have to agree.
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15:39I don't know.
15:54Oh, look at that.
15:57Beautiful.
16:01Yeah? Yeah. Are you sure?
16:05Oh, my God, that's amazing.
16:08Needless to say, that's one of the best-tasting honeys I've ever tasted.
16:14That tastes extraordinary.
16:16So have that as part of your natural diet.
16:21You can see why it's worth the effort of making all the steaks
16:25and going up into the tree and risking your life.
16:40Well done, mate. Congratulations.
16:45Did you get stung much?
16:47Ding, 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?
17:08Yeah.
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.
17:50And 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?
18:35Do you worry that when the men go out hunting that they'll not come back with any food?
18:40Because, obviously, you've got kids to feed and young males to feed.
19:00Do any of you ever get tempted to go and live outside of Hasda community?
19:09Despite the challenges of raising a family in the African bush,
19:13Hadda women believe their way of life is still best for their children.
19:18For them, survival doesn't come from money or possessions,
19:22but from community and a husband who can hunt.
19:26Gonga obviously is looking to get married.
19:30Do you think he's a good catch?
19:38Nice.
19:42I'm already fascinated by the Hadza and how a young man's rite of passage is directly connected
19:47to the survival of the tribe and his future family.
19:51Here, becoming a man isn't just symbolic, it's life or death.
19:59Without barbed metal arrowheads, 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.
20:32The Tatoga are another of Tanzania's oldest tribes.
20:35Their ancestors were fierce warriors and masters of making weapons.
20:40The neighbouring tribe appeared to be blacksmiths.
20:43We've got an arrowhead being made here, and it's all using old little scrap bricks of metal.
20:50Incredibly simple, and yet, obviously, it's a skill that the Hadza people don't have.
20:55But what the Hadza do have is honey.
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.
21:53And he gets a pot of honey.
21:56Everyone's a winner.
22:00It's been a successful mission, and 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, potentially baboon hunting, it's all focused towards Gonga's getting married, so it's time to
22:21meet the lady herself.
22:24The Umko Oboma community is home to other hunters and their families, but with less than 400 Hadza living a
22:31traditional life in the region,
22:32every camp is like an extended family, with 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.
22:52Hi.
22:53Lovely to meet you.
23:00Hello.
23:03She's beautiful.
23:03And friends.
23:04It's here.
23:06She's beautiful.
23:07This is a beautiful boy.
23:12You're beautiful.
23:21She's beautiful.
23:22She's beautiful.
23:22And she's beautiful.
23:24She's beautiful.
23:25her father looks a little less convinced in general how does a Hadza man prove his worthiness
23:33if he was to want to marry a lady in another community how does he how does he prove himself
23:39the American cacaca a co-chee a quick a co-chee a pack of the clata but it's a co
23:46-chote
23:47as a typical body ma papa tana echo gotcha popoko gotcha a mana I think go
24:15It seems like a bit of a tall order, especially since all I've seen so far has been scrappy little
24:21squirrels, 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.
24:30Is 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 of passage.
24:53My time with the Socorro community is quickly running out.
24:57So now, Focus turns to Gonga's rite 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 a
25:17baboon.
25:18Why is it, for baboons, you need these barbs? Do they pull the arrows out?
25:41The arrowhead is lethal, but without feathers, it won't fly.
25:45And when your whole future depends on the success of a hunt, there's no room for error.
25:50So keep going around that.
25:52What's your turn?
26:04What's your turn?
26:33This is some of the happiest people that are
26:36met in a long, long time and they have nothing. You really do not need stuff in your life.
26:43They have a bow and arrow, they have a knife. Even the shelter, the home that they're sleeping
26:49in is a temporary one that will work for the season. And yet it's experience and knowledge
26:54and skill level that's enabling them to actually glean an existence from the environment. Being
27:00able to craft tools, being able to make weapons, being able to know all of the different hunting
27:05techniques that they need. And by putting it all together, you free yourself from the need
27:11to 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. Thank you,
27:43mate. 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. The boys are on a mission.
28:09To stand the greatest chance of success, we're heading to new hunting grounds, an eight-kilometre
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. Gonga gives the signal and we head down into the valley.
29:03All of a sudden, the hunt is on. That was definitely contact with the troop of baboons.
29:13The shouts from that direction, that direction, that direction, that direction. Baboon.
29:18In the chaos of the chase, the group has splintered. I better keep up, because I don't really
29:26want to get lost alone out here. You guys are hot on the trail of a baboon. Or a troop
29:35of
29:35baboons. I'm just struggling to even keep up with them.
29:52Okay. Baboon. Right in the top of that crescent of that tree. Okay, it's coming down. It's
30:03coming down. That was a huge baboon. Exactly what Gonga's. It's coming down. It's coming down.
30:09The future father-in-law wants it. And that big-ass baboon is looking quite impossible.
30:18Okay, there's two baboons moving left to right through that underground there. They're closing
30:28in on them. This is it. With Hong Konga ambushing the baboons with the dogs and Gonga closing in,
30:35we're moments away from a possible kill. But once again, confusion kicks in.
30:50Gonga is constantly the one right at the front. He's the one that's spearheading the whole operation,
30:56but because 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 to
31:41impress her parents, and all his mates are very happy to turn out with him at a stupid o'clock
31:47in the morning to go home to Hong Konga.
31:49That's pretty cool, isn't it? That's what makes it 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.
32:21It's part and parcel of what Gonga needs to provide.
32:25And therefore, if we can just nail that, that would be good.
32:32But all isn't lost when Gonga is leading the brigade.
32:35Eddie!
32:37Uh-huh.
32:40Have we got one?
32:47Nice.
32:50OK, at last, we've got one.
32:54The 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 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 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 rite of passage as one
33:22of the primary harvesters of this wild honey.
33:25Without looking at the sun, I reckon we've got about 40 minutes of daylight.
33:32With the clock ticking, it's now or never.
33:37OK, far going. Stage one complete.
33:43But this beehive is not going to be an easy one to get into.
33:46It's very enclosed, and the bees are very well protected.
33:51OK, so in here, yeah?
33:53OK.
34:02It's brutal work, and the longer we take, the more likely we are to aggravate the bees and potentially cause
34:09a 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 of 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.
35:00These boys are a group of mates. They help each other. They all muck in. They all put the effort
35:05in.
35:05And 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. 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. Time to get some for myself.
35:53OK.
35:56Ah!
35:58Ah!
36:00Ah!
36:08Well done, mate!
36:10Hey!
36:11That is beautiful.
36:13Ah!
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.
36:39Sugar, sugar, sugar!
36:40And in excruciating pain at the same time.
37:06Aah!
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.
37:39Will your future father-in-law be happy with that?
37:46Nice one, Konga.
37:53With the honey bagged, a night upon us,
37:55we have no choice but to spend the night sleeping rough in the bush.
38:03What a day. I mean, that was honestly
38:06one 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.
38:17This isn't a one-man effort.
38:19This isn't Konga demonstrating his prowess on his own.
38:23Clearly, he's one of the most competent in the whole group,
38:25but it isn't about that to the Hadza.
38:27It's about sticking together.
38:29It's about turning up for each other,
38:31and it's about having fun.
38:33And they have done all three of those in bucket loads.
38:40Morning.
38:41And with everyone from the community gathered for our return,
38:44this is the moment of truth.
38:48Has Konga done enough to win the blessing of his girlfriend's parents?
39:14We tried to get a baboon, but I'm afraid it just went away.
39:18We didn't get it in the end.
39:29Konga's been a little bit shy.
39:33Maybe 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.
39:48That's so amazing.
40:00You're happy with that honey?
40:02I'm going to go up.
40:03Let me go.
40:04Let me go.
40:07You're making a business.
40:08You're making a business.
40:10You're making a business.
40:12You're making a business.
40:14That's it
40:19Does Congress stand a chance with your dozer then
40:28Good for bossa
40:34Neck all little cut the food cooler a kitchen
40:39All right, mate enjoy your honey
40:40Well, it's a lovely day. I'm not gonna shake your hand cuz you're coming
40:51Like they say anything easy isn't worth having so hopefully on Gonga's next baboon hunt 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?
41:10I go go cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool. I don't know what I'm gonna go get a
41:15coffee coffee. Yeah, it's a
41:17Gosang at an echo cook all right got hot now, but I call that
41:21Yeah, they're really happy and maybe you're a step closer to marrying their daughter now quite a seco cook
41:32Make can I just say thank you for giving me your time for allowing me to live with you guys.
41:37Thank you
41:37No, quite quick cut it. They go quiet. I come back. I got cut. I go cool. I know we
41:41don't go cool. We eat. I know we get
41:43Yeah, I'm in a quick quick
41:47Oh, yeah, I am
41:50Nice woman kiss. Oh
41:51I get left with everything
42:02This is such a positive and to quite an incredible journey really
42:07Gonga is a step closer to being able to marry the girl of his dreams
42:10Everybody is here is happy. I think they're all slightly high on honey again
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 patronising 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. It'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 don't think worrying about the future is in Hadza at all.
42:59So, no, they're not bothered about it. They're happy.
43:04Fingers crossed Gong is going to get the girl, obviously.
43:07I think he will. He'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 going to have a very happy life.
43:21I don't understand.
43:30What's happening here?
43:33My queen is a man.
43:37You can see yourself.
43:55Thanks, mate.
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