Survival 101 | Weird But True! | S1 E7 | Full Episode | @natgeokids

what's up guys here's the situation we're in the Alaskan Wilderness now we gotta build fires construct shelters and make sure we survive I just started this fire with some lip balm it's time for weird but true [Music] [Music] Victory oh hey guys charlie here you know my sister Kirby hey you guys are never gonna believe what just happened this incredible incredible the coolest thing all right check it out Kirby and I eat a lot of salmon like a lot of salmon our favorite slam and salmon from Sitka Alaska slam and salmon it's so good and they have this contest on the package every time you send in Slam and salmon coupon codes you get entered in to win a camping trip in Alaska so naturally we ate like a boatload of salmon sent in about 100 coupon codes and we won we're going to Alaska Victoria we have a problem camping in the Alaskan Wilderness requires Mad Skills it's so big and cold and don't they have Bears we need to be prepared in case something goes wrong so today we're unraveling the world of [Music] human survival all right guys we got two tickets on a flight to Alaska for our camping trip and it leaves in about oh shoot very soon look first we need to do some research to learn how to survive gotta hit the books all right I got some info here me too turns out if we want to know how to survive in the wilderness we need to know the basic needs and limits of the human body here are the big three body temperature food and water and sleep one of the first things you got to do is think about your body temperature because if your body gets too hot or too cold things are going to go downhill super quickly this is our normal body temperature 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees celsius if your body gets this hot 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit 38 degrees Celsius you've got a fever and you're feeling pretty sick add just a few degrees and you're approaching life's threatening temperatures going the other way a few degrees down and you're shivering just a few more and your skin is already turning blue because of reduced blood flow so your body functions perfectly at a very narrow range only 5 degrees Fahrenheit or 3 degrees Celsius which just goes [Music] Coast lady Anna bacon home in 1999 while skiing in a vegan home fell into a stream and became trapped under a thick layer of ice she was trapped in the water under the ice no air for 80 minutes and her body temperature dipped to 56.7 degrees Fahrenheit miraculously she was rescued and made a full recovery the number two thing you need to think about is food and water we've all heard the facts right up to 60 of our body weight is water the brain is 73 water and our lungs are 83 water our body uses water in every organ in every tissue and every single time you sell and we all know food fuels our bodies without it eventually our bodies would just stop working which is not what we're looking for so they say the human body can only last three weeks without food and three days without water and there was one man who pushed himself to the absolute limit this guy Mahatma Gandhi in the 1940s Gandhi went 21 days without eating any food he only sipped on water to survive all the while leading a movement for peace Independence and unity in India let's check this out if Gandhi was eating a healthy diet he would have consumed 42 000 calories over those 21 days that's about 150 turkey sandwiches or 440 bowls of cereal or 820 pancakes but his inspiring campaign was worth the hunger the next thing you want to think about is getting some sleep just ask Randy Gardner sleep All-Star in 1965 as a high schooler Randy stayed awake for 11 days and 12 minutes all as part of a science fair project 11 days and 12 minutes during those 11 days he should have gotten around 88 hours of sleep that's like sleeping from Monday morning to Thursday afternoon straight the trouble is during the experiment Randy started slurring his speech he had trouble concentrating and by day five he was hallucinating and as Randy demonstrated sleep deprivation brings on a lot of medical issues what medical issues aching muscles confusion memory laps hand tremors hallucinations depression decreased accuracy an impaired judgment the Outlook does not look good so if you want to survive it's best you get some sleep trust us we're doctors wait no we're not all right the three key limitations of the human body are body temperature food and water and sleep that's it we got it hey Charles what time is it we got about five minutes until our flight leaves oh shoot I don't know if we're prepared we gotta do more research grab a book we'll see you guys in a bit weird but true up to 50 of body heat can be lost from the head and neck area when uncovered [Music] hey so we've done a lot more homework on what it takes to survive in the wilderness because survival is nothing to mess around with and we thought it was so drink from us from Miss hungry eat some berries from a little mush but if that's your plan you're not gonna last a day check it out water in streams lakes and ponds is not safe to drink unless you can treat it or boil it it's got bacteria viruses and all sorts of things with weird names that'll make you sick like cryptosporidium and Giardia nasty stuff and berries are a whole other monster all right curb I'm going to show you some tasty looking plants and you tell me if you'd eat them sounds good here's a nice one horse nettle I'd eat that right up well it has high amounts of solanine nice which is poisonous to humans oh check it out Wild Cherries have cyanide in their pits so they're poisonous Virginia creeper poisonous American Bittersweet poisonous Nightshade pokeberries Polly berries poisonous poisonous and very poisonous the vast majority of white yellow and green berries and about 50 of red berries are poisonous too so finding food in the wild is much more difficult than we thought and while you're trying to find food you're also starting a fire and building a shelter and hiding from bears and wolves and bugs and everything's just going nuts man it seems impossible that's why survival stories are so impressive so impressive so impressive like Don fendler 1939 this boy scout was only 12 years old when he got separated from his family while hiking in Maine suddenly a storm hit he was completely lost with 300 National Guardsmen mountain climbers police officers and volunteers searched for him and came up with nothing he spent nine days nine days wandering around the Wilderness surviving by eating safe berries drinking water from streams and sleeping in an old burlap sack he found Don walked for 35 miles until he stumbled across a group of campers that brought him to safety Don fendler the truest mightiest Boy Scout there ever was oh my gosh her flight's leaving we gotta go we are not prepared don't worry about it I figured this might happen so I scheduled us a class before things get rolling what no time to explain time to pack and time to go we'll see you guys in a bit in Alaska Anchorage Alaska here we come Alaska is so huge that the 22 smallest U.S states could all fit inside in this vast expanse of wilderness is where we'll put our survival skills to the test so stay tuned weird but true a man survives six days in an Australian desert with no water by eating ants [Music] hey guys we made it the state of Alaska the Last Frontier with more than 30 mountain ranges over 3 million lakes and 54 million Acres of national parks this place is the definition of wild so if you want to test your survival skills this is the place to do it right here but I definitely don't think we're ready curb don't worry man I booked us a little training sesh I got us covered okay let's do it let's go guys this is it this sounds perfect [Music] learn to return is one of Alaska's Premier and longest running survival schools it's exactly the place we need to be to learn how to survive in the wild and this is the guy who's going to teach us Clint Clint is the toughest guy you'll ever Lay Your Eyes on he was a Green Beret an expert instructor for Wilderness medicine dropped Clint anywhere in the world he will survive guys it's Clint hi Clint I'm Charlie Charlie it's a pleasure nice to meet you how's it going guys Clint Clint guys hi everybody Quinn's favorite weird but true fact it can get so cold in Alaska that your spit can freeze in midair Kirby and I are going on a camping trip and we're kind of nervous because we don't know a lot of survival skills can you teach us a few love too you guys ready to go yep let's do it this is our main training Arena so this is where it all starts where people learn how to survive correct this is where we learn Hands-On skills trained to get you ready to go out into the woods on your camping trip sounds good Clinton will cover the most important elements of survival shelter water food and heat and we'll find out how bringing along a few everyday household items could help save lives in the wilderness gonna be awesome come on let's go first up is shelter there's two types of shelters you have your personal shelter that you wear and then your group shelter that you would build let's start off with a very basic personal shelter here you go we got a garbage bag a garbage bag you're technical put your hand through it you're gonna put this on your face cool ah you can do it just like so so take a look at this now you're looking fashionable but now remember the key to warmth is what insulation insulation if it was cold outside what could i stuff inside here grass sure Moss nice insulation yeah there you go right there not too big weird but true a garbage bag can save your life now we learn to build a group shelter using a tarp the key is being able to tie the corners to something and if the tarp doesn't come with usable holes Clint uses a cool technique called button it we're going to unfold it okay so go ahead and grab yourself a corner so what we're gonna do is we're going to take this rock and we're going to put it just like so go ahead and hold that Kirby there we go I'm gonna do an overhand slip just like so a quick little overhand slip yeah not a big deal I'm going to pull that tight so this right here is going to help us attach it to anything that can give me a good solid anchor and try it again ready [Music] and got it there you go down rotate up got it you want to have the tarp angled slightly it all depends on which direction the wind's coming from angling the tarp with the bottom facing into the wind helps give a wind break and also allows rain water to run off our next survival lesson is about building a fire and man it's good to have a striker we've got to get a spark okay and that's our first goal ready now watch me first and just like so look at that there's the technique I'm looking for all right I'm getting it oh excellent all right guys fire super important for surviving in the wilderness we need to stay warm and our clothes need to stay dry go oh my God [Music] holy cow that was so quick it's burning fast too let's make that cotton ball burn longer we're gonna add a wax this lip balm any petroleum-based product will work so just yeah Smash It Up smash it up so why does wax slow it down you are making exactly what you burn all the time it's a candle that's awesome real but true fact number one thing I guess we gotta bring on this camping trip is lip balm shelter done heat done what about finding water and food we're gonna go outside and work on those finally on the elements you want to go perfect that's it this way let's roll we want to look for clean clear fast-moving Waters we're not going right out of the stream right we're using stuff to help purify the water and what I would recommend is this system right here once you get full of water close it up and now this has a filter in here that all you got to do is open the nozzle and you can squeeze it so water Super Key you can only last about three days without water so if you go into the Wilderness or go camping make sure you got a super crazy nice filter like we got here what happens if you don't have a filter basically you're gonna have to figure out a way to boil that water so boiled water is kind of your only hope if you don't have one of these all right now that we're all refreshed we've got some water in our systems topper the other part of the equation food if you pack something with you that has enough proteins fats and also some items that have sugars that you get in your systems really quickly what's the best strategy if you run out of your food it's either going to be lower your activity so you don't need as much food and also you're gonna have to try and find something start foraging exactly exactly you have to be super careful when you look for food in the wild but Clint has an unexpected go-to have you guys ever seen Cattails that are in kind of in swamps and stuff they have that little tuber on top yeah on a long stem well if you actually go to the base of those and you dig out the roots and they're about the size of your pinky almost you just clean those things off you start a fire and you toss them it right directly into a bed of coals wait until they get soft just like a potato baked potato exactly great survival food I love them it's it's a delicacy else pretty crazy Clint takes us back inside for one more important lesson we have black bears and brown bears where you're going to be first option if we can leave the whole situation and keep anything from happening yeah that's good all right quietly leave slowly back away without it seeing us next if the bear does look over at us as we come around the corner we want to freeze we want to make sure we don't run the other way because then the bear might think you're what pray yeah pray make sure that we kind of stand our ground let the bear know hey buddy it's all big hey Bear yeah next you have bear spray on you bear spray works you just spray it in this general direction big old wall weird but true guys over 3 000 people are reported missing in Alaska each year the good news is that more than 90 percent of them are found within the first day all right guys I think you're ready for a test uh what did you have in mind a good old Alaskan survival SmackDown today's survival Smackdown Kirby versus Charlie location the Alaska Wilderness objective build a fire build a shelter the best Survivor wins you guys need to save it for the smackdown give us a couple minutes to get ready but when you come back it's Smackdown time you don't stand a chance group spectacled bears are the only wild bear species found in South America [Music] hey guys all right perfect timing right now we're in Alaska learning survival skills from a Man Clint and it's time for a good old Alaskan survival Smackdown gotta make a fire build a shelter of best Survivor wins let's go okay you guys ready for your survival Smackdown absolutely Born Ready Kirby let's roll here's your survival kits awesome they're exactly the same remember build a fire build a shelter the best Survivor wins you have one hour and three two one go [Music] red tarp knife we can always use that we got the striker nice for a little fire right there we gotta set up a shelter first let's do it this side's clear I'm gonna go with this side I don't think it has to be that tall I feel like it's downhill so the water's gonna whip over that way if it rains I'm rocking it I don't know about you but I have three quarters of my tarp up already huh I'll invite you over for dinner later curb huh I'm focusing man don't you be like distracting me over here well you can't multitask I thought you're a good Survivor there curb ran out of corn already for my last corner of the shelter I need to test like that one right there I got this tape so I'm spinning it around trying to make another cord GoPro move hopefully Clemson press super tight this is perfect guys too yeah nice and roomy spacious just enough space to take a nice snooze our shelters are done but there's no time to relax we've got fires to build Clint throws us a last minute curveball gotta get that flame one foot tall what's up really tiny all right Chomp it all up and mix it in [Music] oh yes we've got to keep a close eye on our fires to make sure they don't get out of control we have a true Earth is the only known planet where fire can burn all the other planets they know about not enough oxygen five four three two one done all right come on over here originally you start off with your shelter really high I was a little nervous about that at first I liked where you put her fire you could still be under your shelter and have that warming fire and bounce the heat into your little shelter area awesome Charlie I liked how you kept your tarp nice and tight however your fire was a little bit away from your shelter both of you have positives and negatives however this is still a competition Charlie had the one foot flame first so I'm gonna claim Charlie as the winner for this round of the Alaska Wilderness survival SmackDown good job there you go Charlie yes this right here it's in Alaska's survival Lifeline that all a survival instructor carrying our backpacks whenever we go out with our families to not only protect ourselves but the people we go out with so it's a responsibility to help other people survive now too that is correct Charlie Kirby it's been an honor you're worthy opponents how are you until the next Wilderness Smackdown man I think we're ready guys time to go on our slamming salmon camping trip we've been true in 2006 three men survived a drift on the Pacific Ocean for nine months when their boat engine died hey guys what a trip we just got back from Alaska I started a fire with lip balm we learned so much today heck yeah like the human body has limits on what we need to survive the big three are body temperature food and water and sleep and I proved that I am the Ultimate Survivor good job oh man it was one day in Alaska still the winner yeah whatever what else did we learn today there were so many weird but true facts the human body functions perfectly at a very narrow temperature range only 5 degrees Fahrenheit or 3 degrees Celsius water in the wilderness must be filtered treated or boiled for at least a minute before it's safe to drink learning to improvise with random things you have around you is key to survival you gotta love slam and Sam honestly nothing like it hey do you have any sauce for this pop and raise pineapple glaze it's the perfect glaze for any date ah perfect sweet whoa check it out pop and raise getaways contest curb we're gonna need more salmon and more Rays thanks for coming by come by again when we discover more things that are weird but true we'll see you soon foreign [Music]

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Length: 22min 10sec (1330 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 14 2023