- Tonight on "Running Wildwith Bear Grylls."
Actress and singerVanessa Hudgens joins me
in the Sierra Nevada desert.
- [screams and laughs]
- I feel so badass.
- Vanessa is best knownfor her performances
in "High School Musical"and "Grease Live."
And she's the star of NBC'sprime-time series "Powerless."
Vanessa's fatherpassed away recently,
and she's stillgrieving the loss.
- It's gonna be crappy I'msure when I'm getting married,
and he's not thereto walk me down the aisle.
- Yeah, but the thing is, he is.
[soft dramatic music]
- [laughs softly]- Aw.
But she's joining meon this adventure.
Watch out.Watch out.
- Oh, my gosh.Oh, my gosh.
- Because it would havemade him proud.
Yeah we haven't gota lot of rope left.
- Uh... this is crazy!
- Vanessa's known for beinga glamorous actress.
- Oh, my gosh!
- But there's another sideof her.
One you've never seen before.- [whimpers]
I feel crazy.There is snake blood on my face.
Yah!
[exciting music]
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I am here waiting for Bear
so that we can goon an adventure,
and I have knotsin my stomach...
[laughs]And I'm kind of terrified.
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- So, apparently,
fly larvae livesunder these rocks,
and Bear asked meto use this bag
and my knife to scrape them out
from under the rocks.
Let's go check it out.
I don't know about this.
- Ew.What is that?
Okay.[grunts]
Oh gosh.Okay, it's totally cool.
Come to mama.
My survival skillsare probably laughable.
I don't think that I could,like, find my own food.
I don't knowhow I would make fire,
and I'm not surehow I would build shelter,
but I do knowthat you need those things,
so that's a start, right?
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Here he is.
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[screams and laughs]
Oh, my gosh!
[screaming and laughing]
Hi, Vanessa!
Whoo!- Ah!
[laughs]- Over the next two days,
Vanessa Hudgens and Iwill traverse
a mountain of boulders,
descending cliffs,
and twisting our waythrough tunnels
in search of food and shelter.
On day two, we'll crossinto volcanic terrain
marked by crumbling rockand massive scree slopes
before reachingour extraction point.
[dramatic music]
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- All right, let's go.
[screaming and laughing]
Oh, my gosh!
[exciting music]
[laughs]
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[laughs]
- I did that!
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- Well done.Great job.
Good job.- I did it!
Feel pretty accomplished.- That's good.
You were cool under pressure.- [chuckles]
Okay, so mission from here...- Yes.
- We're heading south...- Mm-hmm.
so we've got aboutten miles to go.
Let's do it.
Okay, we've gota bit of travel from here,
but the challenge is,it's not easy.
It's gonna be sheer cliffson all sides,
these big desert boulders.
- Oh, gosh, this is--- Just work your way down.
We're just gonna take our timestep by step and begin.
There's a magicto beginning these journeys.
- [grunts]I will survive.
- Okay.
So what motivated youto do this?
- I think probably for my dad.- Yeah?
- We would hike a lot...- Yeah?
- And, um, my dad wasa firefighter.
- Oh, really?- He would fight fighters
in the forest,and, like, he told me stories
about him,like, being chased by bears
and coming face to facewith rattlesnakes
coming out of hibernation.- Yeah?
- And I don't know.
I just love being in natureand exploring
where a lot of peopledon't get to.
- Yeah, so you grew up with allof those sort of stories?
- Yeah.It's just, like, it feels right,
and feels likeit's a part of me.
- Okay, so we're gonna goup this boulder.
So sometimes to go down,
first of all,you've got to go up.
So we have to climbthis kind of--the very summit,
and from thereI can see a route down.
Okay, when we get to the top,then I'll get--
- Okay, am I connected to you?- Yeah, so if I fall, you fall.
- Yeah, that's notwhat I want to hear.
- And if you fall, I fall.
- No, you don't fall.You hold me.
- Yeah, well, we're init together is the bottom line.
- There you go.both: Okay.
- Bear's method of safetygets the job done,
it just doesn't seem likethe smartest way to do it,
but I guess that's teamwork.
[laughs]We're a team.
[dramatic music]
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Bravo!
- It's kind of justlike dancing, but on rocks,
And you're the--you're the queen of that.
- Yeah, I'm--I'm gonna haveto disagree with that statement.
- Okay, so when you're ready.
- Okay.- Take your time.
- [groans]I really don't like
climbing steep rocks,
but I trust Bear,so I'll give it my best shot.
Okay.- It's really nice,
good, grippy rock.- Oh.
Okay.[grunts]
Oh, my gosh.[grunts]
[laughing]Oh, God.
Okay, okay.We're good.
Oh, yeah, there you go.Nope, that wasn't smart.
- Try and get your foot upto where your knee is.
- Yeah.
Okay.
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[quietly]Oh, God.
I sh--oh, gosh.- Okay, good.
- [laughing softly]
- Okay, stay there.
Stay there.- I did it.
[sighs]- So, from here,
what we're looking for...- Uh-huh.
- Is a way down.- Oh.
- Okay, if we go this way,it's probably the better.
- Sounds terrifying.I am afraid of heights,
um, so I think,
like, my entire body iskind of shaking right now,
including my voice,
and I'm just tryingto stay zen.
- Okay, so look.
See that little bitof flaky rock?
- Yeah.
- If we put a loop...
The most precarious bitof this rappel
is actually the anchor pointthat we've secured the rope to.
That looks mega dodgy, butas long as the rope stays low,
we should be all right.We just need to commit to this
and get going now.
Gonna hold the ropein front of you, okay?
- Uh-huh.- And just step your way down.
I'll be lowering you down.- Okay.
- The thing to worryabout is not that.
The thing to worry aboutis that.
- Yeah.It's just weird
trusting a rope
that seems flimsy
that's being tied offof a little lip,
and I just gotta trust it
and walk downthe side of a mountain.
It's just terrifying.
[groans and laughs]Okay.
- So just have a little lookwhere you're going.
- Oh, I don't want to.- Okay.
It's going to bestraight down that line.
- Oh, fudge.- All right,
so if you lean back on it first.- Oh, God.
- Just so you can feelwhat I mean.
and then I'm gonna slowlylower you back.
- Oh, my gosh.This is terrifying.
- You look at where you goif you're going.
See, then it helps you put--- Ah!
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, gosh.Oh, my God!
- Okay, we haven't gota lot of rope left.
- Are you serious?- How's it looking?
How close are you?- Uh, [bleep].
- And later."Grease Live,"
was that terrifyingto have to do?
- Circumstances, obviously,were not great.
My dad passed away,like, the night before,
and that was horrible.- What goes through your mind?
- I'm gonna need some extra loveand support today.
Oh, my gosh.- When--when it gets scary?
- Yeah.- The more you lean back on it
and feel that securityof the rope--
- Okay, I'm gonna lean back.- Okay, lean back.
Really trust that rope.Lean right back.
- I'm telling myself I'm,like, Super Woman.
- You are Super Woman.- I am Super Woman.
I'm going down the sideof a mountain.
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Oh!
- Lots of confidence.
- Okay, Super Woman.Super Woman.
- Good for you.Well done.
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- [breathing heavily]
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- Okay, we haven't gota lot of rope left.
- Are you serious?- How's it looking?
How close are you?- I'm so far!
Oh, God, it's going underneatha little now.
- Steady.Just trust it.
You're safe.You're good.
Well, what was difficultwas seeing
how far it is to the bottom.
Because it's overhanging,you can't see,
you know,where you're gonna land,
so I knew it was going to bea little bit touch-and-go.
- I'm just swinging now.
It dropped off.
- How you doing?
- I'm still not on the ground.- Okay.
We've got about six footof rope left.
- [bleep].Uh...
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I made it!
- Great job.Well done.
- Thank you!
- I'd consider that luckmore than good judgment.
- Leaning offthe side of a mountain,
not really being ableto see where you're going,
is just terrifying.
It's just not something normal,
sane humans do.
- Okay, I'm coming.
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Good job.- Thank you.
You too.- Okay.
Hopefully now it shouldget a bit easier.
We'll try and work our way maybethrough a lot of these boulders.
- Mm-hmm.- You pick a route.
We're heading southwhich is basically that way.
- Oh, don't leave it to me.I don't wanna pick.
- Okay I think that--- That way.
[exciting music]
- So route finding through thissort of terrain is difficult
'cause you've got these massiveboulders the size of houses.
Yep, yep.- [grunts]
[laughs]- Good?
- Yes.
- So you've just gottatake your time.
Be careful, and watchwhere you put your feet.
- Okay.
And kind of snake your waydown through it.
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Look, lizard.See that?
- [gasps]- Do you want to catch that?
- Yeah.[giggles]
- I've learned over the yearsthat good survival
is about being opportunistic,
and when you comeacross something,
suddenly spot something,you've got to go for it
and not hesitate,
and it's rarely aboutthe big kills.
It's not about, you know,trying to hunt a buffalo,
and the little lizard?Bam, we'll take that.
That will bea good little appetizer.
- [gasps and screams]
[squeals]Oh, no, no, no!
- There we go.- There you go.
- That could be part of dinner,
and we'll dispatch him quickly.
- [exhales sharply]Ah!
[screams]
- [gasps]- Here we go.
- Ah!- Ah, don't--
don't fall off the rock.- [whimpers]
Oh, my gosh,there goes his little head.
- Okay, so we'llquickly gut him.
This can be the starterfor tonight.
There go his guts.- Ugh.
I've never seen anything guttedin person before.
- Let's put it in your pack.- Of course.
Makes me a little sad though.[laughs]
- Okay, let's keep going down.
Nice one, Vanessa.That's good.
- I can't believethat just happened.
[both chuckle]- The first time you see
that sort of thing close up,it's never very pleasant,
you know,but survival is rarely pretty,
and you need the energy.You need the calories.
- You always gothe difficult way.
- Well, it's the--it's the shortest.
Go, go.Big jump.
- Hi-ya!- Lots of confidence.
- [exhales sharply]]- Good.
- But she got over itpretty quick.
Wow.Now check this out.
- Wow.Crazy.
- Okay, this is a perfect spotto take two minutes.
Quick drink of water.
Did you get those fly larvaefrom the salt pan lake?
- I wanna tell youthat I didn't...
- [laughs]- But I did.
- And don't forget this isour snack along the route.
- Yep.- Okay, perfect.
So I'd asked Vanessato collect and scrape
some fly larvae off the bottomof the base of this rock.
You know, you canjust have it on the go.
It's a little bit of protein.
Really is like nature's popcorn.
I'm not sure Vanessa's
necessarily gonnasee it like that.
- Yum.- Nice.
I mean we're not goingto get fat on that,
but it's a little bit of energy.
- Ew.They're still moving.
- It's a good protein.They're not moving.
- Yes, there's--they're moving in there.
- Okay, there you go.You take that one.
- Oh, I don't evenwanna touch it.
- Do you wanna get--do you wan--- Can I put a glove on?
- Are you serious?- Yes, I don't wanna touch it.
- You're about to eat it.
You're not gonna need a glove.
- I don't wanna feel iton my fingertips.
Okay.- There you go.
It's a properHigh Sierra desert snack.
You did a good job.Here we go.
Wow.They explode with a pop.
- Are you serious?
- I'm just seeing caloriesand energy.
[laughs]- But they popped?
Oh, no.- They're actually not bad.
- [hums and sighs]Okay, I'm touching it.
It's going in my mouth.Oh, God, it's so gross!
[mimics crying]- Oh, dear.
This is gonna be a long journey.
- No.
[screams]- [laughs]
- [groans]
[playful music]
I did it.- There you go.
Great, and the good thing iswe've got
absolute sack loads of those.- Great.
- [laughs]
- I had the worst snack ever.[mimics cry]
- So where did you actuallygrow up then?
- I grew up in this littletown...
- Mm-hmm.outside of San Diego,
um, but I moved around a lot.
I kind of had, like,a gypsy upbringing, so--
- So then where'd you goto school?
You have to move schoolthe whole time?
- I moved schools a lot,for sure,
and then once I hit 15,I booked a movie
that was supposed to filmin London for six months,
and the schooldidn't want me to do it,
and I'm like, "This isa performing arts school.
I'm supposed to be trainingfor the work"...
- Yeah.- But they didn't want me to go.
So I just started homeschooling,and my mom taught me,
and she came out to London withme and my little sister, and--
- But that must have been quitehard when you're a teenager.
You know, you're moving school.Then you're homeschool--
is it hard to then make--make friends along the way?
- Very hard.It was very hard.
I did not have thatmany friends at all,
and it was a bummer...- Mm.
- And I found myself tryingto latch onto relationships
that were pointless...- Mm.
- Um, but you--you liveand you learn, you know?
- So what did you learn?
- I learned that, like,you find relationships,
and you keep 'em close,and you don't need
a bunch of people in your life.
You just need a core group.
A foundation to keep you strong.
Um, but I think the key to lifeis being grateful...
- Yeah.- And just really
looking in depthat what you have
and how blessed you areto just be alive.
- Mm.- And then to be successful
at what you love doing,it's amazing.
- Yeah, good for you.Should we keep moving?
- Yep.- What's amazing is you realize
actually the key ingredientyou got is positivity.
That's a very empowering thingin people's lives,
and to see in Vanessa,
that positivityand enthusiasm...
- Yah!- Just what it's driven her
to be able to do,
it's no surprisethat she leans on that
out here as well.
Good?- Yeah, good.
A lot of butt sliding.- Yeah.
- [laughs]- Okay, so, look.
We're--we're getting down now.
So what we wanna dois get to that col,
and then we'll go--
go left.
[dramatic music]
Whoa, whoa.- Oh!
What?
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Oh, my gosh.
This is gonna be dinner,Vanessa.
- No.- Okay, get your knife.
- Oh, my gosh.Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.
- Okay, you're gonna gotake his head off.
- I'm gonna do it?- Yeah, yeah.
Come close.Behind the slit there.
- [groans]
[dramatic music]
- Okay, back and go right.- Okay.
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- Whoa, whoa.- Oh!
What?
[snake tail rattling]Oh, my God.
- That would be a bad,bad thing to stand on top of.
That is a rattler as well.
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- You just saved my life.[exhales]
Oh, my gosh.
There's a lot of emotionshappening.
I don't know.Just overwhelmed, and thrilled,
and slightly terrified.
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- Now, watch out.We're gonna flick him here.
[snake tail rattling]
This is gonna be dinner,Vanessa.
- No.- Okay, get your knife.
- Oh, my gosh.Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.
Okay.Here.
- Okay. You're gonna ge--take his head off.
- I'm gonna do it?- Yeah, yeah.
Come close.Behind the slit there.
- Uh-huh.
Oh!- Well done.
Great job.Great, great job.
- [whimpers]
- Look.- Oh, my gosh.
[screams and laughs]Oh, my gosh.
- That can still bite.- Okay.
- That's still gotlive venom in it.
- Oh, my gosh.My heart is racing.
- So look at that.Look.
- Oh, my God.
- That would havebeen your ankle.
- Yeah.Oh, gosh, there's blood--
- Okay, so we're gonnabury that.
- Yeah.
Buh-bye.We don't want that.
- And then that's dinner.- Dinner.
- Great job.So Vanessa's first snake kill.
Uh, you gotta honor the moment.
Here you go.- No!
What?- You've gotta blood--look.
Here you go.Just a little bit.
- Oh, my God, I thought you weregonna try to make me eat it.
- A little bit on the nose.
- I feel crazy.
There is snake blood on my face.
I'm not sure why.
I look like a warrior.[laughs]
- Okay, so if youhold that bit--
- Oh, gosh.- You've got to hold it tight,
'cause I'm going to skin itlike a sausage.
Okay, so hold it tight.- Okay.
Are you ready?- Yeah.
- It's just rattling.[chuckles]
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- Go, go, go.Really the best thing
you can do isskin and gut it straightaway,
and also she's still fired up,
and it gota lot of adrenaline going.
You kind of want to use that.
- Oh, gosh.Oh, gosh.
[skin crackling,muscle squishing]
Ew.The sound!
Why is it making that sound?- Okay, okay.
- Oh, my God!There's a scra--
[screams and whimpers]
[groaning and breathing heavily]- Okay, great job.
Which do you--one do youwanna keep as a memento?
The rattle?- Uh-huh.
- Yeah, I'll take the rattle.
Oh, gosh, I don't wantthat stuff.
- [laughing softly]Here.
Hold--hold that,and I'll clean this up.
- Okay.
Oh, gosh.It's still moving.
That is so weird.[exhales]
- There you go.A little bit of the rattle.
- Wow.
I feel like this is somethingthat I always see Bear doing,
and I'm like, "Man,that'd be cool to do one day,"
and today...
it happened.
- Here you go, and look.We've got the lizard as well.
Hold the gloves.- Uh-huh.
I got the gloves.
- Get the snake.
Put the lizard inside,
wrap it up,
tie it in a knot...- [sqeuaks]
- And that's good to go.You ready for dinner?
- That is possibly one ofthe most disgusting things
I've ever s--[screams]
Oh, my Gosh!Stop.
- [chuckling]- [whimpering]
- Oh, dear, I love it.
Sit that in that.
Good.- There's a--
Okay, you wanna lead on,or do you want me to lead on?
- I like you leading.I'll follow your lead.
- Okay.Okay, let's go.
Well done though.Nice.
- That just happened.
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[sighs]- Okay, so as we lose
a bit of elevation...- Yeah.
- You'll st--you'll breathe better,
but really the goal for us,
Vanessa, is now we'vedropped off this--
- Uh-huh.- Work our way through
all of these boulders now.
It's getting a bit clearer...- Uh-huh.
- And then we're lookingfor a place,
ultimately, to find camp.- Yeah.
- Okay?- Cool, let's do it.
- And we're only limitedby our imaginations.
[both laugh]
So for camp, you don't needanything elaborate.
All you need is a bitof overhead cover if it rains,
and a bit of protection,
and somewhere to make a fire,
and a bit of, you know,soft sand and gravel,
and that's good.Okay, so this is kind of--
pick your bed site.
- It's quite cozy.- It's got proper cover.
We could even have a fire hereas well that we can share.
- Yeah, that's perfect.
I'm very happywith this decision.
- If we collect, like, loadsof rocks like this size,
we'll put 'em the fire...- Uh-huh.
- Whilst we're having supper,
and then when we're ready to goto bed they'll be really hot,
and then we'll just
bury them in the sand like that,and that will--
- It's likeyour own little heater.
- It'll be likeyour own electric blanket.
- That's amazing.
- Don't say I don't lookafter you.
- Very smart.- Okay, so first thing is,
collect a whole bunchof these...
- Okay.- Then we'll make fire,
and then we'll eat.- Okay.
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I feel likeI'm on a scavenger hunt.
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[screams]Holy [bleep].
There was a scorpio.
The problem is,you see all of this loose stuff?
- Yeah.- That's the dangerous stuff.
- Wow, this isextremely precarious.
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Oh, my gosh.Oh, my God.
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[dramatic music]
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- [screams]Holy [bleep].
There was a scorpio.- Huh?
You okay?- There--yeah.
There's a scorpio.I lifted a rock,
and there wasa scorpio underneath it.
- Over here?- Yeah, back in there.
He might have gone in the rock.- Oh, yeah.
Those are nasty and dangerous.
- Really?- Yeah.
- I just have a knackfor finding dangerous things.
- We've got a lizard.We've got snake.
We've got enough to eat.- Yeah.
We don't need any more food.- Okay.
Let's keep bringing these in,and then we'll make fire.
- Okay, I'm gonna gobring these back.
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- Okay, so let's make fireout here.
- Okay.
- You know what I thinkwe should use?
- What?- Don't kill me,
but I think we shoulduse your phone.
So we can usethe battery from that
to make a fire.- [laughs]
- I promise I'll replaceyour phone when we get back.
- I just wanna seehow this works.
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- Just don't eat it.
- Lithium battery.- Mm-hmm.
- Bit of dry grass.That's our tinder.
- Yeah?- If you get the right battery
--the lithium battery--you can actually take it out,
and if you pierce it,when the oxygen,
uh, mixes withthat lithium ion inside
it will createa sort of combustion of...
[mimics fire blasting]Flame and heat,
but you gotta be prepared
'cause you only get one shotat this.
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Here we go.
[fire sizzling]
- Whoa.- Watch out, watch out.
[soft dramatic music]
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It is about to go.Almost there.
I've known these thingsto explode,
so don't do this at home,
uh, but if your life'son the line,
it just might save it.
We've got fire.- Bravo.
I'm glad that we have a fire.
Little bummed about this.
- Okay, let's get dinneron the go.
You pass the snake.
[playful music]
- Please don't move.Please don't move.
Please don't move.Please don't move.
Please don't move.
- Okay, so we'll putthe lizard in.
- Okay.
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- You hold the snake.
[snake craclkling]
- Oh, gosh.Its bones.
Delicious.
- So would you have s'moreswhen you were camping as a kid?
- Yeah.Classic staple.
- It's funny, 'cause insteadof s'more I've delivered--
- Snake.- Boiled snake and lizard.
- Yeah.
- But do you know another fiveminutes that will be beautiful?
- I'm taking your word for it.- [chuckles]
So when you, like,did "Grease Live,"
was that terrifyingto have to do live,
or do you like thatsort of adrenaline?
- I love it.- Why?
- I love that kind of rush.
Just because anything canhappen.
I think it's so exciting.
Circumstances, obviously,were not great.
My dad passed away,like, the night before,
and that was horrible.
- Was it reallythe night before?
- It was literallythe night before, yeah.
- So what were you--what goes through your mind?
Are you thinking,"Can I even do this?"
- I never thought that.
It was just,
"I'm gonna need some extra loveand support today."
Um, which I got.
There was probably not an hourthat didn't go by
without a good, long hug,you know?
- Yeah.
I think sometimes peopleexpect you to get over stuff,
and I don't think you ever--you don't--
you get through stuff.- Mm-hmm.
- You don't get over it.- No.
I don't think I'll everget over it.
- But those first few months,in a way,
it's like,everybody's there for you.
- Yeah.- And then, in many ways,
the hard time's then after that.- Yeah.
I mean, it's gonna be crappyI'm sure
when I'm getting married...- Yeah.
- And he's not thereto walk me down the aisle.
- Yeah, but the thing is, he is.
I really believe that.
- His spirit is so embeddedin who I am.
Like, my sense of adventureand my strengt, that's him.
Like, he is the wildernessinside of me.
- Well, do you know what?From what I've seen today
his fireman's spirit--fighting spirit
is livingand shining bright in you.
It really is, you know,
and I really hopehe'll be looking down.
He would be proud of you today.
- He was probably up theregoing like,
"Yeah!"[laughs]
So stoked on everythingthat I've been doing.
I know he always is proud of mefor my acting skills,
but this is probably next level.
- Yeah?- Yeah.
[soft music]
- Good for you.[laughing]
Aww.Well, you've been amazing today.
You really have.
When you lose someonereally close to you,
it's--it's hard, you know,and it's raw.
And it doesn't kind of heal,
and she's been throughsuch a horrific thing
with losing her dad,
and it's good to be ableto share that
and to connect round a fire
and a bit of snake,but much respect for her.
- Let's--let's eat this.- [chuckling]
- This looksincredibly unappetizing.
- Yeah, extremely.
And good source of protein.- [chuckles]
- I'm just gonna keeptelling myself that.
- Yeah, just focus on the--
- It's a reallygood sense of protein.
- Focus on the protein.- Yeah, all--it's all--
- You want me to go first,or would you like to go?
- Yeah. I want you to go first.
- Although it kind of looksfresh and nice now,
before I've gnawed into it.
What would you prefer?- No, you go.
I don't wanna, like--
[snake crunching]
[playful music]
The way Bear eats snake,
he goes straightfor the big bite
full of bones and snake meat.
[mimics bones crunching]
- There you go.That's--that's yours.
That's pretty well all meat.
Mmm.
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- [laughs]- That's proper ribs.
- Ew.
- You knowwhen everyone always says,
"Snake tastes like chicken?"- Uh-huh.
- And I always think,
"I don't know wherethey're getting their chickens."
- [laughs]- Like, this would be really--
if you got this in a chicken,you'd be going, "Hmm."
- I'd return it.- I'd be returning it.
both: Yeah.
- I mean it kindof tastes
oddly fishy.- Mm.
Well, it's just mega lean.
You know, it's really lean meat.- Mm.
- Eating snake.
I've always been curious.
There are so many bones.- [chuckles]
- It's not bad.
It's not great.
[soft dramatic music]
- Okay, so the importantbit of your body to keep warm...
- Uh-huh.- Is just this bit.
If you've got a warm core...- Uh-huh/
- Your body's gonna be warm,okay?
- Okay.[wood scraping]
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- So all of these rockswill steadily heat up.
- Oh, yeah.- Add a bit more sand.
Otherwise it's gonna...
All right.
And now I can sleep here
and keep the fire stoked upduring the night.
And then we're gonna begood to go.
- The rocks workedreally well, surprisingly.
- Does that work?- Yeah.
It's a nice little toaster ovenfor my body.
- I think you'regonna sleep well.
- It was a long dayfull of exciting things.
That is for sure.
Climbing out of a helicopter.
Rappelling off of a mountain.
Cutting the head offof a rattlesnake.
I feel a bit of a warrior.
I mean I still got bloodon my face.
[laughs]
[dramatic music]
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So the hot rocks are definitelykeeping me warm
which is very nice,
but my face is cold,
so I'm hidingunder my sleeping bag.
- Slightly regretting havinggiven Vanessa
all of those hot rocks.
It's really quite a cold night.
- And I'm also really worriedthat there's gonna be,
like, a scorpion that justcomes along
and try to walkall over my face.
- She seems to besleeping like a baby.
- Bear seems to be sleepingquite nicely...
[sighs]Over there,
so good for him.[laughs]
I'm just gonna hide
and try to stay awayfrom the scorpions.
- Five hours until dawn.[sniffs]
Night.
1,000 foot down that.
- Uh-huh?
- That's gonna beour extraction.
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- [screaming]
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- Those hot rocks didn't becometoo uncomfortable
when they became cold rocks?- Yeah, it was fine.
- The sun's up.- Sun's up.
It's a new day.- We're good to go.
- So quite a cold nightlast night,
uh, but I guessthat's to be expected.
You know, we're atquite high elevation here.
Okay, good.Fire's out.
We're on our way.Let's go.
- Let's do it.
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- The terrain isgonna change a bit
once we get outof this boulder field.
Okay, you can lead the wayon these.
- Okay.
Yesterday, I was kind of scaredof the unknown,
and today,the unknown excites me.
Oh, my gosh. I don't know how.
It's so tiny.- Okay, go on--go on your tummy.
- On my tummy?
Oh, gosh.Please no snakes.
- Is that good?- Yeah.
You never knowwhat you're gonna get with Bear.
- This, literally,
is an old volcanic crater.
- Is it an active volcano?
- Well, it's not,
but there'sno such thing really
as an extinct volcano.- Yeah.
- You know, the whole Earthis always, you know, so--
- Alive.- Yeah, it really is.
Hundreds of thousandsof years ago,
this whole area was createdby a volcano,
and then you getwhat was originally lava field.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy,lunar-type terrain.
- I feel like I'm on the moon.- Yeah.
And you drop out of that,and suddenly you're into,
you know, big peaksand massive broken boulders.
It's constantly changingthis terrain.
Hello.Here you go.
- Ooh, wow.Oh, my gosh!
- Feel it though.- I mean this is steam
coming out of the Earth.- Look, feel this bit.
- Here you go.Put your backside in that.
- [laughs]- There you go.
Have a seat there.- I'm gonna get a dirty bum.
[both chuckle]So this is like nature's way
of warming your backside.You're sitting now
on a volcano and warming up.I love it.
- It's perfect.- I'll take this one.
- It's so wild to come acrossjust steam
coming out of the ground.
- So, Vanessa,you dating at the moment?
- I am.I am dating.
- Yeah?- Well, yeah.
I've been with the same guy for,like, four-and-a-half years.
- Okay, t hat's kind ofmore than dating.
- Yeah, it's definitelymore than dating.
It's like a solid relationship.- Yeah.
- Yeah.- And is it kind of different
going out with someonewho's not so well-known?
- Yeah.I mean we're both
quite private people...- Yeah.
- So it's nice.You know?
We kind of, like, hide awayand live our lives,
and he's--he's a great guy.
He's just kind of,like, the best human ever,
so I'm very lucky.- So you're quite low-key?
- Yeah, very low-key.
Yeah.We don't go out that often.
I mean, I do enjoygetting dressed up,
so, like, Oscar night isa very fun and exciting night
'cause you go out,and you're dancing
next to Matthew McConaughey...- Yeah.
- And, like, he just wonhis Oscar,
and, like, crazy stufflike that happens,
but we're not really,like, the,
"Let's go to the clubevery Friday night," couple.
- Yeah.And so what are your aspirations
for your life?What do you--
what's your kind of focus?- [sighs]
Um, I think that, like,
it's so importantto follow your bliss,
and I'm so grateful and lucky
that what I do is something
that I'm so passionate about,
and that does bring meso much joy,
but also in, like,my personal life.
Like, just to share lightwith the world and share love.
- And do you think thoseare values your dad would dig?
- Oh, yeah.My dad grew up like a hippie.
You know?He saw Led Zeppelin in concert
and Janis Joplin,and, like, he--he gets it.
He's, like,an old hippie at heart,
so it's the same spiritthat I have.
- Yeah.You can see it shining bright.
Better get you off this volcano.Let's--let's keep going.
- Okay.Okay.
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- It becomes a good workoutat this height.
- It's a really good workout.
My glutes are gettinga good workout.
I'm gonna leavewith a bigger butt.
Bear made my butt big.
- I think--you're in dangerof a lot of things.
That's not one of the things.- [laughs]
Wow.
- So that's eventually wherewe're trying to reach.
Down off the volcano,
and we're gonna get picked up,God willing, right down there.
Problem is you seeall of this loose stuff?
- Yeah.- That's the dangerous stuff,
so we'll take our time here.- Okay.
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- So...so look.
Just on all of this--it's really precarious.
You dislodge that,and the whole lot goes,
so don't pull too hardon anything.
- Okay.I'm just not gonna touch it.
[soft dramatic music]
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Wow, this isextremely precarious.
- That's it.
You see all of this stuff?This is why.
That's the loose stuff.
- This is not where you wouldwant to be during an earthquake.
- No.We're gonna keep moving.
Get through this bit.
- Walking on the rocksis kind of scary.
They're all super shaky.
Just kind of loosely balancedon top of each other.
There are sharp edges,
so it feels very unsafe.
- Keep coming.
[rocks scraping]Oh! Oh!
[dramatic music]
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Okay, that's why we're nothanging around long.
Let's keep going.Keep going.
- Oh, my gosh.
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- That's the loose stuff.
- This is not where you wouldwant to be during an earthquake.
- No.We're going to keep moving.
Get through this bit.
- Walking on the rocks feelsvery unsafe.
[gasps]Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.- Stand back a little bit.
- Oh, my gosh.Oh, my gosh.
- We're gonna come upand go that way.
- Oh, my gosh.It just keeps falling.
- Well, I think if one goes andthen the whole lot starts to go.
Okay, stay in tight.This way.
- Okay.- Well, you know,
anything could triggerthese things.
To be honest, the whole thingis just constantly shifting.
You know, the wind blowsa bit of gravel out
underneath the boulder,and then it goes.
It is a moving mountain,essentially.
- [grunts]- Okay, we'll stay high ground
and come to around here.- Okay.
- It was just obviouslygetting dangerous,
so I said, "Hold on.Let's climb back up"
to stay outof that boulder alley.
Okay, so this will bequite hard work.
- Okay.- But it's the last push.
I could see this final crest.
That's the summit.- [exhales sharply]
I knew we get over that
we could probablysee our extraction point,
but between here and thereis a big obstacle.
- Ah!- Okay, look.
This is--this is the summitof our journey.
- Whoo!- We get a whole view...
- Oh, my gosh.- Of where we've come from.
- Wow.The view from the top of here
is simply breathtaking.
All the big, amazing wordsyou can think of
to describe a place,that's what it is up here.
It's Mother Natureat her finest.
- See that huge expanse?- Yeah.
- And then down here.
1,000 foot down that.- Uh-huh?
- That's gonna beour extraction.
- How do we get there?- We get there the fast way.
The exciting way.
It's called scree running.- What?
- And you just run down
this loose stuff.- No.
- You stand from the top,and you realize,
"This is massive."It's about 1,000 foot
from the top to the bottom.
The important thing is a littlebit low center of gravity,
a little bit leaning back,
so if you lose your balance,posh,
you can just touch offwith your hands.
- Bear wants me to run down
the side of this mountain.
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I don't feel really goodabout it.
[laughs]
[laughing]
This is crazy.
Ah!
[helicopter blades whirring]
- I can hear the chopper.You hear that--listen.
A helicopter is duein any minute.
It's not gonna wantto hang around with all of this,
you know,volcanic dust in its rotors,
so we need to get movingand do this.
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Good pace.Good speed.
Let's do it.Go.
- Oh, gosh.Oh, gosh.
You run so fast.
Your legs are longer than mine![breathing heavily]
- We can't miss that chopper!- Okay, okay!
Oh, my gosh.- You've got to stay level.
Stay level.- Oh, my gosh.
- We don't wanna go tumblinghead-over-heels.
- Ah!- 1,000 foot will be
the fastest descentof your life.
- Oh, God.Oh, God.
Oh, my God.Oh, my God.
It's so slippery!
Ah!
[screams]Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.[screaming]
- Okay, here we go.Here we go.
Here we go.- Okay, oh, my God.
Oh, my gosh.Oh, my gosh.
- Okay, stay level.Stay level.
- Oh, my gosh.[screams and laughs]
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- Oh, my God.
[panting]
- Okay, we're almost there.
- Oh, my God.- Last push.
- Ah![laughs]
- Last push.Let's go.
- Okay.
[screaming]
- Run it in.
- Yeah.I gotta make it.
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Whoa.
[soft victorious music]
Oh, my God.
Ah.
That was so hard.
- Gotta get you home.
Last bit.- Yeah, yeah.
[breathing heavily]
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- Now that the journey is over,
it's kind of a--kind of a bittersweet thing.
Oh, my gosh, my heart feelslike it's going to explode.
This is, like, the most intensework I've ever done in my life.
- You got it.- You got it.
- I did it.- You made it.
- I survived.
I feel relieved.
I feel alive.
I feel extremely exhausted...[chuckles]
But I'm also kind of bummed
because it was such a thrillingand amazing experience,
but I know I'm not gonna haveanother experience like this.
- Really proud of you.You've done so well, really.
Amazing.- Oh, my God.
- Vanessa Hudgens.Wow.
Determined to really experienceall that life can offer,
yet still really values,
you know,the important things in life,
and, uh, wow.
You know, she's justgonna keep going up and up.
Respect, girl.
- Bear, I thank youfrom the bottom of my heart
because this is an experienceI will never forget.
- We're signing out.- [laughing]
- Whoo-ha!- Whoo!
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