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Survival Struggles in a Honduras Jungle

Good night, Clarence. There's so much traps in here. What the f***? I heard a noise. There's a snake on me! Holy s***! One man. One woman. Exposed and alone. It's scary. At nature's mercy for 21 days. There's a bear outside my shelter. With no food. So cold. No water. My little bed. No clothes. Alligator down here. Do they have the skill and the will to survive? Naked and afraid. Mother nature will kick your ass. This just got real. real fast. My name is Bree. I'm from Denver, Colorado, and I work in real estate. My father has taught me how to survive since I was a little, little kid. Primitive skills, I would say foraging. I know what's edible. I mean, building forts, I guess you would call them shelters from a young age. Bree begins with a primitive survival rating of 6.9. School's about to start. My name is Clarence. I'm from Baltimore, Maryland, and I... I teach outdoor education. I know how to make a shelter. I can track an animal. And I know how to make a hand drill and a bow drill. My father passed away September 11, 2004. My father was my rock. After my father passed away, lots of people have let me down over the years, and I would never rely on anyone for my success. His PSR is set at 7.2. I get to see you finally. Oh, you're wearing the same outfit. You're helping with me. Yes, sir. All right, I'm going to come down to you. Making my way there. Hi, I'm Bree. Clarence, nice to meet you. Clarence, nice to meet you finally. I have to hug you inside. Bree seems like a very upbeat person. Honey, is she smiling? I'm smiling. The pink toenails kind of threw me for a loop, but... The clearance seems very positive, which I'm really in tune with. The wind is coming from that direction. It's fully raining now. My core temperature goes down about three degrees, hypothermia. And that's going to be a major problem. I hear water. You do? Look! Oh my gosh, the palms. Check it. Yeah. I love it. And there's a lot of water here. This is go time. Let's get some sort of shelter. Off the ground for sure. That's all I want. I'm going to go get some One of the problems I'm having is my hands are wet and it's raining and everything's wet. And I'm going to try to get this bad boy going right now in the dark. I don't like this. I can't see anything. I'm gonna put my... Yeah, there was a little bit of smoke coming off that. This is the first time... I can still smell smoke....I've ever had to make a fire in the dark, in the rain, in Honduras. In the jungle. In the jungle of Honduras. Oh my god. We haven't slept yet. We have no clue what time it is. But uh... We'll survive. We'll survive. What is that? Oh my god, it's a tarantula. Holy, look at that guy! Hey, that's a nice-tasted little snake. It's huge! Alright, buddy, you're gonna get eaten. Oh,. Got it. Oh my god, be careful. I got it. I need a rock. I need a rock. Clarence. I don't want to mush it up too bad. I know. Did you get him? Yeah, I got that sucker. So that's what's on the ground. Nice! Look at teeth in me. You want to try a leg? Yeah, the stretch from legs. Oh, look at that meat. Like a fuzzy little lobster. You told me ten years ago you were going to be naked in Honduras, eating tarantulas. I would have laughed at you. I said, you're crazy. Clarence and Brie spend the next... two hours working on the raised platform for their shelter, racing to finish before the evening storms rolled in. Tonight will be better, as long as we keep this fire going. We got it. Up off the floor with dry feet. All that hard work, I feel like, paid off. It's pouring buckets. We is the dark. Hopefully, we can keep the fire going all through the night. It was freezing cold last night. I mean, cold, cold. I am feeling tired. Oh, yeah, I bet. From a piss-poor sleep. You know, a team effort for the fire would have been ideal. I'm the main one looking for wood, and I'm the main one tending it, and the main one feeding it, and the only one at night doing anything to preserve it. I'm going to make a new shelter completely, and I'm going to make my own fire. I need a warm spot to sleep at night. So sleep's too hard. I know Suj is important. Bri and I are partners, but we don't have to hold hands with everything we do. And we definitely don't have to sleep together. I'm used to being alone, so I don't mind doing it again. Yeah. Good night, Bri. Good night, Clarence. Ah! Ah! It's over here! What is it? Get in here! I don't know, I just heard something growling. Something definitely came through, breathing heavy. You see anything? No! Well that's good. I figured out what the growl was. What? Your stomach? Yep. Oh my god, are you serious? I just heard it again and I've never heard it before. You've never heard your stomach growl? Not like this. That's embarrassing. There's a snake over there. Venomous eyelash viper snake. There's food sitting in front of me. I'm hungry. I'm going to eat it. There's a potential for danger, but I got to eat. Ready to pull the skin off, eat the meat, and hopefully the bones will be nice and crunchy. How close it was to camp does bother me a little bit. Sleeping on the ground, I got to be cautious. My stomach's killing me. I can feel it all in my bowels. So far, a diet of only snake and tarantula is wreaking havoc on Clarence's digestive system. In this foreign jungle environment, crawling with disease-carrying parasites, he may have picked up some bacteria his body simply cannot fight off. I'm sick. I have something in my intestines that doesn't agree with me. So I've got... Crazy diarrhea. Having fire responsibility today makes me a little nervous because I know how Clarence feels about his fire. And I don't mean his fire, but it is... It's his baby. So I really don't want to let him down. Before he left to go rest, I put a ton of firewood on the fire so that I won't be left between a rock and a hard place, because I do have a tendency to. Holy. The whole thing is catching on fire. It's off. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. He's going to be pissed. Oh my god! Get down! Get down! No! Ah! The fire's still going. Hello! Oh my god, hi! I'm back! Your shelter burned up. I'm gonna make a new one. Well, okay. Because I need some insulation. Everything's gone. Everything's wiped out. I got to start from scratch. I can only guarantee my own success in anything, and I can never rely on anyone for my success. Okay. Ever. I am a one-wolf wolf pack. For years, I relied on my father. And he... He was the most reliable person I've ever had in my entire life. So can you rely on me just a little bit? I can guarantee that if the ball comes in this area, I'm going to catch it. But I can't guarantee that you're going to throw it to me accurately. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? All right, I'm gonna knock your shelter out real quick. OK. Clarence wants to do his own thing. I wish he liked to be part of a team more. So it's a little disappointing. I'm going to make a debris shelter that will keep me super duper warm and cozy at night. I need my beauty sleep real bad. Everything's wet. So today, I think I'm going to get Bree on the bandwagon for a debris shelter, which is going to get better insulation. She's shivering like crazy. I'm already 10 times warmer than just sitting in my place. It's super duper insulated. Yeah, I want to do this. I think a debris shelter there will be quite warm for you. And then with the entrances facing each other, we'd be able to have conversations. Conversations. He said he'd help me make my own. And then that way we can be more of a team and closer together and share stories at night. Like I said, I was bound and determined to bring us back together. And I think that's exactly what's happening. What the f***? I heard a noise! Come here! Come here! I think it was a poisonous snake. And we can't find it. So we don't know if it went away, or we don't know if it's still in there. And it's really hard to sleep on the ground in a debris shelter with poisonous snakes crawling in the night. If there's no way in hell that I can go back in there, I can't. So I've been thinking about this a lot. I mean, there's nowhere for me to sleep anymore, so... That just took me to the edge. That's the last straw for me. That coming right at my face, the snake. I can't... I think I'm gonna tap out. Are you okay with that? It's your decision to make. Are you going to be okay? I'm tough. I've been out in tougher situations by myself before. Yeah, I'll be fine. I'm a trooper. Are you sure? Positive. I am a one-wolf wolf pack, and that's my survival mindset. I've got to survive. I know that Clarence can handle being alone, but I still feel like I'm letting him down. I'm going to miss Brie, but I know I can do this challenge alone, and I'm pretty confident that I will. The last time I ate, I think, was day three. Since then, it's just been water. I'm past the hunger stage. My stomach isn't shrinking anymore. I'm not hungry. Now I'm just lonely. This is what life was like for Adam before he lost a rev and got Eve. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. Being here alone, it's not easy. Mother Nature will kick your ass. ...toyals and snares, I have already come. I'm hurting. I've lived in better places. I've lived in worse places. But I'm glad to be done with this one. I don't think I'd make it through one more night in the snake coffin. I can't wait to leave this place. Never, ever to return. I know I'm heading in the right direction because I can still hear the river flowing over to my right using all my senses. My sense of touch as I feel the ground below me. My sense of hearing, listening to that river. Staying in the moment. Look at that waterfall! A lot of power. This is the only way. The only way. That was insane. Woo! I need to have my wits about me. Being homeless, I've had a pretty tough life. I got to keep on pushing. That's what my father always taught me. He taught me how to endure. I see a bridge. Take it to the bridge, Clarence. Take it to the bridge. Don't want to make a mistake. I'm gonna slip up here, twist my ankle, fall, bust my head. It's the worst place to be dizzy. Okay this is the bridge. This was the most grueling three weeks of my life. Yeah, baby! I kept a positive attitude through all of it. My father would be proud. My father would be very proud of me. Yeah, baby! Yeah! Surviving three grueling weeks in Honduras left Clarence 40 pounds lighter than when he began. After tapping out early, his partner Bree returned to her home in Denver. I was naked and I was kind of afraid. Failing to complete the challenge drops Bree's PSR. to 4.8. Clarence bravely endured the final week on his own, overcoming huge obstacles along the way. This earns him a final PSR of 7.9 and a life-changing experience through beating the odds and surviving naked and afraid. If you want to succeed in life, you gotta face your fears.