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  • holy cow.

  • That is a big Kurt.

  • I've never seen the musk ox in real life.

  • So walking up to it, it was surprise is actually bigger than I thought it would be.

  • Impressive beast, for sure.

  • I mean, this thing is gonna be a challenge.

  • Theano Mel's featured in this show has been ethically harvested in accordance with the laws of Canada's Northwest territories and those of the let's all Cajun A people.

  • We're gonna get something that lets do this.

  • When I go looking for a rock to make a knife, I'm looking for something that I can very quickly break that will hold a sharp edge.

  • Best kind of rocks.

  • When you hit the two rocks together, you'll hear that snap, sound or crack sound just like someone dropped a pane of glass.

  • But this is a huge, huge animal.

  • Try to cut this thing open with stone tools is going to be horrendously difficult.

  • This musk ox is the hardest animal I've ever attended to process.

  • I was just thinking, like who was the last guy toe skin and musk ox in this area with a stone?

  • It's probably been a while, so that's kind of cool.

  • You feel connected to the past in that way, and it's like, Yeah, this is challenging, but it will humble you, too, as a hunter.

  • Something that I take very personally needs to respect that animal.

  • We have a full musk ox that gave its life so that we can eat.

  • So my determination is to preserve as much as we possibly can.

  • There are a lot of tools that we can make from the animal, whether it be making a Boudreaux making roper cordage.

  • There is a level of ingenuity, a level of engineering in trying to figure out what different parts of this animal we can use to make those tools that we're going to desperately need.

  • My biggest concern is the meat spoiling.

  • We only have one shot at this.

  • If we mess up and the meat goes bad, we're gonna have a real rough time surviving out here.

  • You get a fire.

  • Going over, get a fire started without tools, is really challenging way.

  • Have to make cordage first and then try to Farrell in the bow drill.

  • The fact that I don't have a feral rod or anything to start a fire with means they have to start thinking back to how primitive man survived.

  • And looking at the resource is of the land to accomplish this mission.

  • So what we're looking for is the shoe lace on the inside.

  • And this is a small on.

  • This will split right here.

  • Going dig out the spruce for strip them and then break them together is very time consuming.

  • And they don't last for a loan.

  • We're having one guy hold the bearing block and the footboard near two guys just operating this drop until we get a number.

  • We keep having the problem with the court is wearing out before we get enough heat we ruin.

  • Ate a lot stronger quarters.

  • I think we should see if we can utilize musk ox hair to make stronger cordage hair on.

  • Unless Cox is so coarse and strong that flute it won't break every two tries.

  • There's smoke.

  • Good.

  • Oh, she's going.

  • Yeah, could be all you, rob.

  • Just going straight over.

  • It's all you.

  • Yeah, Yes.

  • Good job, buddy Way that changes the game.

  • Today's day three.

  • We woke up immediately jumped on fire.

  • It's been 48 hours since I've had anything to eat but we've got a lot of work to do.

  • There's entire musk ox toe finish processing and smoke out what we're hoping to do.

  • You build the smoking rocks.

  • We can quick dry the meat.

  • Quick drying it may last a lot longer on the smoke will kill all the bacteria.

  • That's all in the meat while preserving quite a bit longer.

  • When using primitive technology or primitive skills, you have to or he had to at that time, just look around and see what he had around.

  • There is no fancy ropes, no fancy knives.

  • He had to go on the fly to build and use everything he had.

  • I'm going to dig out the hillside a little bit and trying to put in a stove so that I can stay warm at night because we're sleeping on the ground and it's like sleeping on ice.

  • The whole goal was to do on Earth berm shelter.

  • Try to get the Earth to protect us from the wind and cold.

  • We take spruce bows and we break him down and set him up so we have beds in a fire inside, the cold is coming.

  • If we don't have ourselves prepared.

  • That's gonna be a huge danger.

  • I am making a primitive hatchet.

  • I found this the other day by the like.

  • You've been using a hand ax.

  • Nate found a piece of wood to use for the handle.

  • Your hand gets soared with all this type of work out here.

  • And so using something with a handle makes it less vibration.

  • When you hit things with it, the sin use really struck a chord.

  • Yeah, making a fishhook made out of musk ox bone center.

  • Tie it.

  • You set your meat, and then I can pull it down and hook it so that it travels through the water like this.

  • But when the fish takes, it swallows it.

  • The hooks spins perpendicular to the line and a gorgeous itself in the mouth of a fish so that it can't come out.

  • Everything is more difficult without tools, so we're gonna have to improvise.

  • I'm really hoping to make some fishing line out of Seenu.

  • The way you process in you is to basically cut large tendons on, dry them thoroughly, and then you kill that apart and they have a bunch of really little, very strong strings stripping fibers We've been back together in the streets.

  • We're going to go fishing.

  • We do have all this meat here, but your body can only use so much of it without the presence of fat.

  • So fish is mainly fat.

  • It's very, very important to our bodies into our survival out here that we catch fish.

  • So we get that fat to keep us going.

  • Otherwise, we're just not going to make it to the end.

  • The Arctic is really a harsh place.

  • It's raw.

  • Everything struggles to survive here for Sean.

  • Oh, my God, That's a big O.

  • Yeah.

  • Finally.

  • Oh, my God.

  • Oh, my God.

  • It's great.

  • Uh huh.

  • I'm overwhelmed.

  • We got a fish.

  • Oh, that's like they go meet it right now.

  • It's moving from surviving into sustaining with what we had.

  • We know we can catch a fish to me.

  • That's a step in the right direction towards thriving.

  • So my Yeah, Yeah, what should see Ninja band with the club that is a honker.

  • Taking all the internal organs of the fish is pretty easy.

  • Most times you can just pull ornament.

  • It is cooperating way, way different Cutting red meat still beating fresh fish bed.

  • Warm beef?

  • Yeah.

  • Wow.

  • Really tender meat After eating all that musk ox, It's just such a difference.

  • We're really grateful for it.

  • Everybody needed that.

  • I could run on, like, four days on this fuel.

  • You actually feel your body absorbing the oil that it needs so, so bad.

  • Come here, Energy.

  • We're ready to boogie.

  • Final day they were Yeah, that's the end.

  • This experience has been challenging.

  • We came out here with nothing, Nothing to make fire, no knives, no tools whatsoever.

  • Having to deal with wild animals and consuming one.

  • I've gained a new appreciation for what we shouldn't waste.

  • I just never really knew the value in certain items off of an animal coming out here with nothing.

  • I have even more respect for the intelligence and ingenuity or Stone age ancestors.

  • It's amazing to think of what our ancestors went through and what they overcame.

  • Thio get us where society is today.

  • We're ready to keep going.

holy cow.

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