Cara Delevingne in the Sardinia Mountains (Full Episode) | Running Wild With Bear Grylls

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(grunting).
BEAR: You're doing so well just inch it out, muscle it out.
Push that device as far forward as you can.
(grunting).
CARA: Oh god. This is going to be so long.
BEAR: Dig deep, Cara. Come on, go girl.
(grunting).
CARA: Oh (bleep)!
BEAR: So, she's about a quarter the way and already she's grinding to a halt.
(grunting).
BEAR: You're just going to have to muscle it out.
CARA: Ok. Come on you bastard.
(theme music plays)
♪ Born to be wild ♪♪
BEAR: Okay. Let's go.
CARA: I've been dropped on this very,
very long road and just been told to walk.
I've been given a key, and I do not know what this is for.
Uh-oh. Oh no. That is a Vespa.
I'm pretty sure that might be mine.
Oh, no!
Bear, where the frig are you?
Okay. So that's on.
Oh, my God. Guys.
I'm definitely putting my money where my mouth is.
This is meant to be one of my favorite things in the world.
To like be on adventures, to experience everything,
to push myself, to put myself out of my comfort zone,
like this is the epitome of what I love doing.
Come on (bleep).
Ooh, excuse me.
Woo! Yeah!
I'm not scared of getting hurt.
My biggest fear is failure but now I'm actually here I'm like,
just a little bit scared.
Which is very sad to admit.
Ok! Woo-hoo!
BEAR: The jagged mountains of Sardinia are probably the last place you'd expect
to see supermodel, actress, and singer Cara Delevingne.
That's because she's been gracing red carpets and
catwalks since she was a teenager.
And nowadays, she's making her mark in Hollywood.
But if you're one of her 42 million Instagram followers;
you'll know she has a wild, fearless side...
(growling)
She's not afraid to stand up for what she believes in,
and her uninhibited, unapologetic behavior has made
her a powerful voice to a generation of fans.
Cara is a fellow Brit and I know that her public persona
is only a small part of who she really is.
I can't wait to get to know the real Cara Delevingne.
I'm flying over the rugged mountains of Sardinia.
And for over 2,000 years miners have braved these steep
ravines and these towering cliffs looking for precious metals.
They reckon some of these old mining routes are still in
existence and Cara and me are going to try and follow one.
She better be ready.
CARA: Ahh!
Oh my...
Ha-ha!
Hi!
BEAR: Well done. CARA: How you doing?
BEAR: Good seeing you. Are you all right?
CARA: Yeah, very good. BEAR: Well done.
CARA: Well that was pretty cool!
BEAR: Okay. So from here, we're heading into the mountains.
But before we go, we're gonna try and strip anything
we think we can use off this into the helicopter and then we're out of here.
CARA: Okay.
BEAR: Fuel we should definitely take, for fire.
CARA: Okay. Okay.
BEAR: Let's try and find the fuel tank.
So from here we're heading straight to the mountains in the helicopter.
I want to use every bit of survival equipment I can off her little scooter.
It's going to involve being imaginative.
So I've got some fuel.
I've got a mirror.
I've got the battery out of the scooter.
I've got some wire.
I've got the wrench.
All things that I can use in the backpack.
CARA: This bag is getting heavy now.
BEAR: We're on our way. Okay, good.
CARA: Okay. BEAR: Let's do it. Come with me.
Okay. We're out of here.
CARA: Whoo!
BEAR: Improvise, adapt, overcome.
Here we go.
CARA: Oh, my God.
Your life is (bleep) awesome!
Whoo-hoo!
BEAR: Okay. So we're going up to about 6,000 feet.
CARA: Ha-ha!
BEAR: So it is quite high.
(excited noises).
Okay. We're gonna try and get on to one of these spires here.
Maybe that one there.
PILOT (over radio): It will be just behind this ridge.
BEAR: Okay. Holding on, okay. Holding on.
CARA: Yeah.
BEAR: Let me step off first. CARA: Yeah.
PILOT (over radio): We've got Bear stepping off.
Bear's off the skid.
She's stepping off. She's off the skid, they're clear.
CARA: Bye!
So, what just happened?
I got whisked away on a helicopter,
it's what every girl wants, right?
Um and just brought into this incredible, incredible landscape.
I don't know whether I was more scared that the ground
was going to fall beneath my feet or that my hair didn't
look good in the camera.
BEAR: It's pretty remote here.
CARA: Yes.
BEAR: But it's beautiful, you know.
CARA: So gorgeous.
BEAR: Our extraction is about 13 miles that way.
It is steep, rocky terrain.
Definitely badass. Perfect for you.
CARA: Perfect.
BEAR: Let's do it, okay? We're heading this way.
From where we've been dropped off,
Cara and I are over a mile high in elevation.
We need to head east to reach our extraction point,
so we'll be working our way down loose,
crumbling rocks and sheer cliffs,
similar to what miners would have done in this region
hundreds of years ago.
Our first priority is to try and reach the river valley below
in the hope of finding a place, to make shelter for the night.
Okay. So, we're essentially gonna try and keep heading down.
CARA: Okay.
BEAR: Okay. Let me just spot you down here.
CARA: Who's spotting you, Bear, huh?
Has anyone asked you that before?
BEAR: I know, so nice, thank you.
CARA: I was designed to be a rock climber.
My arms are far too long for my body so...
BEAR: Really? That's a good natural talent.
CARA: Well, 'cause you know your arm your spa,
your arm span is meant to be your height.
Mine is 6'1".
BEAR: Let's have a look.
Yes. You are, you are...
CARA: I-n't that crazy?
BEAR: Yes. CARA: Yeah. Rock climbing. BEAR: Good second career.
CARA: Yeah, right? BEAR: Yeah.
CARA: Go on and quit, quit my day job.
BEAR: Ok, careful on that, that's wet.
Or should I say the wet stuff is super slippery,
and if we slip, is a long way down.
CARA: Oh, wow.
BEAR: With an average rainfall of 40 inches,
this whole region is constantly wet.
The water carves its way through the mountain rocks
made up of limestone and granite and over time, erosion occurs.
That creates a dangerous and unstable environment.
BEAR: So, this stuff, really careful on.
CARA: Yeah, watch out. That could be us!
BEAR: So where were you brought up, Cara?
CARA: England, London.
BEAR: And were you kind of adventurous, or...
CARA: Yes. I prefer to be outside and climbing and being naked than
being clothed and inside and boring.
BEAR: I mean, who needs clothes?
I mean, come on, you know.
CARA: Yeah. Agreed. BEAR: Okay. Come up here.
We're right on the edge. Well done.
Okay. So if you turn around...
CARA: Okay. Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo.
BEAR: That is our direction. CARA: Oh, my God.
BEAR: I've set up this line here.
And where we are here is a lot of the old mining routes,
so this is exactly something they'd use to get supplies in
and out of inaccessible places.
CARA: Mm-hmm. BEAR: We're gonna use this.
Clip onto it, okay, and just go across.
CARA: Terrifying.
BEAR: I'm gonna give you a little Jumar device you can clip on.
CARA: Great.
BEAR: And you can pull yourself along.
The first bit's gonna be easy because your weight gravity
will take you down.
CARA: Yeah. And then that second bit...
BEAR: Second half just use that to pull yourself along.
CARA: Pull.
BEAR: But it will work your, work your guns, okay?
And just don't look down.
CARA: Okay. I've done that too much already.
BEAR: Okay. This is called a Tyrolean traverse.
It's 150 feet across, and 200 feet above the jagged rocks
and shallow pools below.
Cara, will be attached to this line and she's gonna have to
pull her way across.
BEAR: So you put it on like that.
CARA: Yeah, and close it off.
BEAR: Click it, and it won't come back.
CARA: Great. BEAR: Okay? Okay.
So that's the way to do it.
You have the longer one initially,
and then you put your weight on it.
CARA: Then sink down.
BEAR: So now you're on with both of those and that,
and then you've just got to trust it.
CARA: Okay, bye. Good luck.
(chuckles)
Now I'm scared. Now I'm a little scared.
Oh, no, that's no joke.
That's no joke.
Oh, no. What's he doing?
BEAR: Oh, this is hard work.
Okay. So, quite a long way down.
And I can tell already this is gonna be a physical one.
CARA: Oh, no, Mr. Grylls.
Oh, no.
BEAR: Oh, my God, that's a workout.
Definitely hard work.
I made it across, if I'm honest though, only just.
Okay, you're good, Cara.
You know the bit I said about gravity doing the first bit?
CARA: Yeah? BEAR: That's wrong.
You're just gonna have to muscle it out most of the way.
CARA: Oh, no.
(rushing water)
BEAR: Okay. You're good, Cara.
You know the bit I said about gravity doing the first bit?
CARA: Yeah.
BEAR: That's wrong.
You're just gonna have to muscle it out most of the way.
CARA: Oh, no.
Hopefully I'll get across before I get scared.
That's what I'm hoping for.
So speed is my, my key.
Which probably isn't very clever but whatever.
(groans)
BEAR: I'll tell you what, this is gonna be a workout for her.
Oh, my God.
CARA: Oh, God, I'm scared.
Bro, oh, no.
(grunting).
Oh, (bleep).
This is gonna be so long!
BEAR: There's so much friction with the rope and the
carabiner over it that each couple of feet is like a pull-up.
CARA: (bleep)!
(sighs)
BEAR: So she's about a quarter of the way and already she's grinding to a halt.
Come on, Cara. You can do this.
(grunting).
Push that device as far forward as you can.
There you go.
You can use both hands.
Great job. Keep pushing. You can do it.
CARA: Guys. Ffffff.
(grunts)
Oh, God!
BEAR: Come on. Go, girl.
You're doing so well. Just inch it out. Muscle it out.
So close. So close. Keep coming.
CARA: Okay. Come on, you bastard.
BEAR: Another five foot and you're there.
CARA: I'm so close. I'm so close.
BEAR: Yes. Come on. Come on.
CARA: Ah! Whoo! BEAR: Here we go. Here we go. CARA: Whoo! Oh, my God.
That was really hard.
Sweat.
Speed is usually my go-to.
It was a bad idea 'cause after I got halfway,
it just tore me up.
My core, my arms. Yeah.
That last bit was really hardcore.
My, my stomach is shaking.
It's good. It's good. Never give up.
BEAR: Never give up. CARA: Never give up.
BEAR: So that was definitely harder work than I anticipated,
but uh, Cara muscled it out.
She got great natural physicality and strength,
but most importantly, kind of that,
never-give-up spirit.
And out here, that is key.
So what was your, what was your life like growing up?
Didn't you start modeling at, when you were really young?
CARA: Um, Yeah. I mean, I don't think it was modeling.
I mean, in my mind I was, like,
doing sports day one day, and my mom was like,
"Someone's gonna come take pictures of you." So...
BEAR: And did you understand that?
CARA: It didn't seem, no, not at all.
I remember someone telling me it was, like,
Bruce Weber and Italian Vogue or something and I was like, cool.
I don't know what that means.
BEAR: Yeah.
CARA: You could've told me I was doing something for
Captain Underpants, I probably would've cared more.
BEAR: So where did it come from?
Who was driving that?
CARA: Well, I think I was quite a peculiar looking kid.
So I think people looked at me and were like,
"Oh, I want to take pictures of her," and that's how I
think where it came from.
But again, I never looked at models in magazines and was like,
wow, that's something I really want to do or...
you know, I obviously noticed.
I was like that's a beautiful person,
but everyone's beautiful as a kid, you know.
Everyone, there's,
there is no ugly or beautiful when you're a child,
so to me it was just like, why am I different?
BEAR: I read that great thing of one of your first encounters at Burberry,
and didn't they say, "get out" or something?
What was it?
CARA: Mm-hmm. Most castings I went to and most people I met were kind of like,
you know, turn, turn away and kind of just,
I would try on clothing and they'd tell me to leave, or...
BEAR: At what age was this?
CARA: 17, 18.
BEAR: Rejection was that a huge,
is that a, it must have been a huge part of that then.
CARA: I mean, I think I'd always felt a sense of
rejection my entire life just because I was never that good at school.
Um, I always wanted to be really smart and I always
wanted to be the best or I always wanted to be better um
than what I was.
So, when I started getting rejected in modeling it just
helped me affirm that I wasn't good enough.
So, it was kind of like giving a self-harmer a knife.
I was like just great, I knew I wasn't good enough for this.
And then finally when I got a job,
I was like, oh, that's weird.
CARA: The only thing I attest to that is never giving up.
BEAR: Yeah.
CARA: Which is the most important thing,
I think, I've ever, my most important skill in life.
BEAR: Well, the wild's always good like that because it doesn't ask anything of you
apart from, "Do your best," you know.
CARA: Mm-hmm.
Outdoor space and the wild and nature is the most important thing in the whole entire
world for my sanity.
If you go into the forest and you just sit with your thoughts and feelings,
everything kind of becomes clear.
BEAR: Mm-hmm. And you're not being judged.
I do think that's a huge part of why the wild can be so
transformative for people.
CARA: Recently I went out into a forest.
I was doing like a, I had worked too much and my,
I have psoriasis, and my skin got really bad,
and I was trying to go get healthy.
And I was in the woods by myself,
and I just took off all my clothes and I just sat there
and I was like and not for any reason,
not to prove anything just because I was, like, so comfortable, and I cried.
BEAR: Mm-hmm.
CARA: You feel so unjudged and just comfortable. It was so nice.
BEAR: But that's great healing, isn't it? Wow.
CARA: It's the best.
BEAR: I mean, that is nature's therapy for you really.
CARA: Mm-hmm. BEAR: Okay. You ready?
CARA: No. BEAR: Let's do it.
CARA: Yay! You wouldn't care if I was anyway.
BEAR: Careful on this stuff.
(distant rushing water)
You hear water?
CARA: Yes. BEAR: Water is a good thing.
Yeah, there you go. There's a stream.
CARA: Ah-ha! We found it.
BEAR: It looks like that river bends east,
so I reckon if we can follow it down out of this peak,
it's gonna make for a much easier path for us.
One of the difficulties that this sort of terrain has got
all of these canyons and gullies criss-crossing our route.
So, you kind of think you were heading that way and
suddenly a huge drop off.
We can get down this, and that's a chance for us to
refill our canteens and then keep going.
Maybe we just rappel off this?
CARA: Yeah. Simple rappel.
BEAR: Straight down that. Use the rope.
The most important thing with this...
CARA: Yeah.
BEAR: Is making sure we tie off to something strong.
CARA: Strong. BEAR: Okay? CARA: Good.
BEAR: What about this?
CARA: That does not look strong.
BEAR: You don't reckon? CARA: No.
BEAR: What can possibly go wrong?
CARA: This tree is definitely not stable enough, but I, I trust Bear.
I trust his instincts.
I don't trust mine right now, because I'm now fearing,
so fear is not good.
So, I'm just gonna trust him.
BEAR: Well, let's put some weight on it together.
CARA: Okay. Oh, God! Yeah, it's pretty good.
BEAR: You happy? CARA: Yeah. BEAR: Okay.
It's about 180 feet from the top of this cliff to its base.
The steep terrain is made up of loose and sharp rocks that
can easily cut through the rope especially under tension.
So, good rope management is key to this rappel.
CARA: Oh, wow. Nice throw.
You know you're cool when you have matte black carabiners.
BEAR: Yeah, brilliant. Okay. Hand, right hand on here.
CARA: Yeah. BEAR: Never let go.
CARA: Yeah. BEAR: Okay? I'm gonna go first.
I'll give you a tug from the bottom,
rope's clear, and then you're good to go.
CARA: And then my turn. Great.
BEAR: All right? You're now entirely on your own.
CARA: (bleep). BEAR: Okay. Here we go.
Where it's awkward, Cara, just remember lean back,
take your time, nice wide stance.
CARA: Great. BEAR: Good? CARA: So ready.
BEAR: So, leaving Cara on her own to do this,
and it is awkward terrain and slippery, but she'll be all right.
CARA: Oh, God.
I'm just watching Bear rappelling down the mountainside.
Oh! He seems to be stuck.
Oh, Lord.
It's making me a little scared to see Bear struggle.
BEAR: That's awkward terrain that.
CARA: Ooh! Was that a tug?
BEAR: Okay. CARA: (bleep) All right.
So, I'm trying to remember what I was told.
Okay. All right. Off I go.
Okay.
(grunting)
BEAR: Come on, Cara, you can do this.
Well done. Looking good.
CARA: Oh, God. Okay.
BEAR: That's it, well done. Really good.
For me, I get such a kick out of seeing somebody learn
so fast and embrace difficult things.
Embrace it with real positivity.
And then being able to also keep calm in the moment and think calmly.
That's a skill not a lot of people have,
and it's great seeing Cara smash it.
Good for her. Okay.
You want to go a bit faster down this bit?
CARA: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
BEAR: A little bounce off and then straight down.
CARA: Whoo! Ooh.
BEAR: So good. Well done, you.
Straight down all the way.
Really good. I mean, amazing.
CARA: That was literally so much fun.
That was fun.
Honestly, it's my favorite thing just getting head-first into stuff.
I feel pretty good about it.
I feel excited to be on the ground.
A little bit of fear, but um, you know,
with Bear kind of giving me directions, it was really good.
I had a really good time.
I want to do it again. I really want to do it again.
Again, again!
BEAR: Well done. CARA: Yeah. BEAR: Cool.
For a first-time rappel off that cliff, big smile.
Totally committed.
The main thing is, she's definitely got that ability to
stay calm when you're scared.
And using the adrenaline,
but not getting overwhelmed by it,
and she's definitely got that quality.
She's good and a survivor out here.
Clear water isn't clean water.
CARA: Clear water, no.
BEAR: So we're gonna boil that later.
Let me stick it in your pack.
CARA: Yeah. Great.
BEAR: Cara and I are halfway down this mountain,
and the route we've taken has leveled out for now.
So we're gonna follow the flow of the river until we can find
a spot to make shelter for the night.
BEAR: Be really careful on this bit.
(gasp).
CARA: Oh my, rat.
Rat.
BEAR: Oh, this is good. Make sure it's not alive.
CARA: Ugh.
BEAR: Yeah definitely not alive.
CARA: No. Please don't make me eat that.
Please I beg you. Hoy!
CARA: Oh my, rat.
Rat.
BEAR: This is good. Make sure it's not alive.
CARA: Ugh.
BEAR: Yeah definitely not alive.
CARA: No. Please don't make me eat that.
Please I beg you.
Hoy!
Any animal I can deal with,
just somehow rats somehow get to me.
It's like Bear knows my deepest fears in life.
BEAR: Well, I reckon a lot of the Sardinian miners would've lived off this stuff.
CARA: I'm sure.
BEAR: You're slowly collecting a lot of very weird things.
CARA: Oh no, really? Not in my bag.
BEAR: It's going in the bag.
CARA: Oh, no.
BEAR: I'll leave the tail just poking out.
CARA: Oh, no. BEAR: Good. Dinner. Done.
CARA: Great. Done.
BEAR: Okay. We're looking also somewhere to make camp now.
In the wild, you've got to kind of scavenge what you can scavenge,
eat and use what you can find.
And a little rat, hey, you know,
might not be entirely fresh,
but if we cook it for long enough,
will make a good dinner.
CARA: This is beautiful.
BEAR: Okay, look.
This actually, this would be a good place to camp.
So look, if we get a bunch of sticks,
lean them that way, put loads of brushwood on top,
that will make a nice shelter.
We could have a fire out here.
You clear some of those.
CARA: Okay.
BEAR: I'm gonna get a bunch of these.
You make it nice and flat, 'cause this is where we're
gonna sleep here, like...
CARA: Okay.
BEAR: Let me get some, some branches.
CARA: Do we care about these like acorn-y things?
BEAR: Where are the acorns?
CARA: We don't care about all of this. BEAR: Oh look this is...
CARA: Oh no. BEAR: Do you know this trick? CARA: What?
(whistle)
BEAR: So, there's always a really good little trick you
could do with the little acorn,
uh, shells and you put it between your thumbs,
and you blow over the top of it,
and you get the angle just right,
it creates a really loud whistle.
So you go like that and you blow just across the top of it.
You take...
(loud exhaling)
(makes whistling sound)
CARA: Good one. BEAR: There you go.
CARA: Good one. Yay!! Thanks.
BEAR: Good trick, good trick. Good survival thing.
If you're lost, use that, signal for help.
Okay so you lay those out.
CARA: Yeah? Where?
BEAR: So like... CARA: Like on top?
BEAR: Start, maybe start from here, so look.
So this is really just a simple lean-to shelter.
You know, you've got a great natural bow of this tree.
You can lean some branches against it.
Lots of brush on top, and then that's gonna protect us from any bad weather.
Also, nice and warm underneath.
Fun, easy shelter to make.
BEAR: Okay. So you got the rag soaked with fuel.
I'm gonna put that under there.
We've got your motorbike battery.
CARA: Yeah.
BEAR: Got two terminals.
When you touch them...
Okay, we're gonna get that.
CARA: Yeah.
BEAR: Touch it on there.
I'm really pleased we got that battery from that little moped.
And, you know, if you get the two terminals,
that straight onto a rag with a tiny little bit of the uh,
the fuel on it is gonna create fire.
But you've got to be really careful doing this.
Do not do this at home.
Don't mess with petrol.
CARA: Come on. Come on.
BEAR: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice, nice.
CARA: Yes! Whoo! BEAR: Good job.
CARA: That is so cool! Now we roast s'mores, aka rat.
(coughs).
BEAR: First of all, we need to get the guts out.
CARA: Okay. BEAR: Knife? And so just gently there...
CARA: Which way? Which way? BEAR: Just, just maybe...
CARA: That way?
BEAR: Yeah. Okay. Okay, good. Okay. So...
CARA: Yeah. That was fun.
BEAR: Skinning and gutting a rat is never particularly fun.
So now, fingers in there.
CARA: Okay.
BEAR: And we're pulling out all of those guts.
CARA: Into where? The floor?
BEAR: Just the floor, yeah.
CARA: Ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha.
BEAR: I'm a little bit sort of nervous because it's not entirely fresh.
Uh, so I'm gonna really make sure it's well cooked.
But generally, rule of thumb, if you cook it long enough,
you're gonna kill the bad bacteria and it just tastes
like it's been on the barbecue too long.
CARA: What is that dude??
BEAR: It smells a bit old, this rat.
CARA: A little bit. I feel the bones in my hand.
(gagging).
BEAR: Okay, so...
CARA: I mean, you're in the wild.
You have to survive. What else can you do?
Okay, it's not an animal.
It's a (bleep) thing that I'm eating.
Great. Mm.
BEAR: Okay. That's good. CARA: Now what are you doing?
BEAR: Okay. So now we're taking the head off.
So that's what you want to do, and then...
CARA: Okay. BEAR: So grab that bit.
CARA: Oh, God!
BEAR: And then same for the back legs.
CARA: Back legs, okay.
Ah!
BEAR: And there you go, look. You're left with one rat.
CARA: I've never done that before.
I mean, I've, nope. It was weird.
It was definitely weird with the little guts and the fingers and stuff?
Unh-unh.
BEAR: So when you were a teenager,
did you always want to be, an actress or a model,
or did you not really know as a teenager?
CARA: I wanted to always be in the entertainment industry
because I knew that that's, I was good at creating.
I like to create, perform.
It was something that scared me,
but it was an escape, because I got to be other people.
BEAR: Yeah.
CARA: When I was a kid, my mom dealt with a lot of,
you know, depression, and she's bipolar and manic depressive and, um, you know,
you add in addiction to that as well,
and it's just, it becomes a very big,
it's a very hard cycle to get out of.
BEAR: Mm. So what was her addiction?
What was...
CARA: She was a, she was a heroin addict.
Growing up with that, I think,
I didn't really have a female...
I mean, apart from my older sisters,
I didn't really have a female role model who really was like,
showed me how to look after myself.
BEAR: Yeah.
CARA: You know, I didn't know how to wash my hair properly.
Or like, to wash my hands every time I went to the bathroom.
Like, really embarrassing stuff like that.
BEAR: And what sort of things did you go through?
CARA: So, for me, I think, I just,
I looked after everyone a lot.
I held in all my feelings and emotions,
you know, whether it was like my mom being in a hospital and nearly dying,
and I just held everything in.
BEAR: So when did that happen?
CARA: Holding things in?
BEAR: No. Your mom...
CARA: Like four or five.
There was just a lot, like, periods of time where I'd be
in the hospital most of the times.
It was, you know, kind of blurry.
But at about seven I stopped eating.
That's when I started to not hurt myself,
but I would throw myself off things, and I,
because I was so, I wanted to feel something,
that physical pain became quite...
BEAR: Yeah.
CARA: Interesting to me because I couldn't feel emotionally,
and because I wanted attention too.
So when I would have a cast on my arm,
I, I was able to be like asking for help for a reason
and not because I needed emotional help.
BEAR: Yeah. You wanted to be loved, you know,
really just held and...
CARA: That's it.
And then I just kept kind of going through life,
and then I just had a mental breakdown at 16, and I just lost it.
It just got to a tipping point, and I just plummeted.
It was like it was the first time I really saw the light though.
Like I really understood how messed up I was and how much
I had been holding everything in, but, it was also,
I had no control over my thoughts, feelings, emotions.
My head was just my worst enemy.
Every thought in my head was,
"Kill yourself. Kill yourself.
Run away. Numb. Like just don't think, feel."
It was just so horrible.
I was really, I was so scared of myself.
That's why, like, I don't really have fear of anything
because the scariest thing in the world to me is my own head.
BEAR: Yeah. And then success doesn't necessarily...
CARA: No.
BEAR: You know, so suddenly, you haven't dealt with it,
but then you get successful and that doesn't solve anything.
CARA: It doesn't solve anything and you're kind of more alone,
but you're more, should be more happy.
But I had no sense of who I was.
I had no identity.
All I had been was a mental illness,
a child, a caretaker, or a supermodel,
which just seems so ridiculous to me.
BEAR: Yeah.
CARA: Um, so it was like my integrity, my, my morals, everything was rotting.
Like, I just had nothing left because I honestly was just selling myself.
BEAR: Yeah.
CARA: Because I wanted to belong and I thought that by
people hiring me that that was giving me a sense of who I was.
BEAR: What changed for you? What was the turning point for the better?
CARA: Just through working on myself and going away and
doing these kind of, like, you know,
learning about trauma and doing stuff like this,
and doing things for myself.
You can't love yourself if you don't know who you are, you know?
And I really didn't know who I was outside of work,
so I needed to figure that out.
BEAR: Yeah. I look at you and hear your story and the thing that,
to me, jumps out is that you have a really big heart.
Through it all, your heart has always been big from your
loving and looking after your mom and your loyalty and kindness there,
through to, you know, all your,
what you value now in your work and the relationships and stuff,
and that's your greatest asset, you know?
Cara was really honest in that chat.
And, you know, I knew she'd been through some battles,
but what's amazing is to see her come through that with such light,
really, and it shines out of her face.
She's really figured out that life isn't about sort of,
you know, fame or success or partying or drugs, you know.
It's, it's, happiness is always rooted in in great friendships and,
and love and loving people and, and learning to accept yourself,
the good and the bad.
And her journey was really inspiring to hear.
And what would you say to the 15-year-old Cara now?
CARA: I would say communicate more and to be more open about what you're going through.
Because honestly, if you can have any confidence,
to be confident in your own vulnerability is the best thing you can ever ask for.
BEAR: Yeah.
CARA: You know, kind of sitting with Bear has really
made me realize how much I have grown up and how strong I am.
BEAR: I think you're a strong, remarkable lady.
CARA: Thanks, you too Bear. BEAR: Yeah, good for you.
BEAR: Yeah... CARA: A strong, remarkable lady.
BEAR: Yeah, I'm hopefully not a strong, remarkable lady...
But I'll take it.
CARA: But you know one, you've got one.
BEAR: Should we try some rat?
CARA: All right. Let me.
Can I have some hand sanitizer first?
BEAR: Okay.
CARA: Uh...
BEAR: Okay. Should we try some rat?
CARA: No.
BEAR: Cara Delevingne and I are deep in the Sardinian mountains.
We've made camp for the night, and now it's time to eat.
CARA: Uh...
BEAR: Well, it's, it's been well charred.
CARA: Cheers. Oh, no.
(grunts)
(Bear giggles).
Oh, no.
BEAR: The last rat I had was in the Vietnamese jungle.
CARA: Okay.
BEAR: Where it was all rotted apart from the head because the brain had
begun to sort of...
CARA: No. No.
BEAR: You know, the last thing to rot.
So I ended up cooking the brain and this is a definite improvement.
We've got it two days ahead of my last rat.
CARA: Now you're making me feel spoiled.
Oh, God.
Is that all we have to eat now?
BEAR: It wasn't a substantial meal.
CARA: It was not, I don't, how long,
look at its teeth, dude.
BEAR: Yeah. Oh, good job.
CARA: Delicious.
To be honest, it didn't taste that bad.
It was very chewy.
It was just the whole thing of like gutting it with my
fingers first and then eating it not that soon after was
a bit of a weird experience.
Can I take off my harness now?
BEAR: Yeah.
CARA: I'm gonna do it while I'm here.
BEAR: Here you go, let me, you all right?
CARA: So now, what do I do if I need to go for a poo?
BEAR: Always fun to be able to introduce people to my kind of
golden top tips for defecating in the wild.
So this is the master class of how to take a crap in the wild.
CARA: Right here.
BEAR: There are... CARA: Yeah. BEAR: Some different techniques.
CARA: Yeah.
BEAR: Number one is the "lean to."
CARA: Yeah.
BEAR: That's the lean to.
I've been perfecting a lot of these kind of number two techniques
for quite some time.
CARA: Mine was always a "lean on."
BEAR: Oh, the lean on. CARA: Yeah. BEAR: An old favorite.
But you can of course go for the "free solo."
CARA: What's that? Oh yeah, yeah...
BEAR: My favorite though, the Kung Fu method.
CARA: Stop it.
That's a bit intense, isn't it?
BEAR: But the "kung fu" has dangers as well, with the back of the boot.
You know.
CARA: On your right.
BEAR: Then you have the "first date."
If you're with someone, the first date is back to back.
CARA: Shut-up! Are we gonna do this later?
BEAR: Okay.
CARA: Yeah. But what if we poop on each other?
BEAR: Well, no, you won't. This is solid and good.
CARA: Okay. I was thinking more like a...
BEAR: Do want to know the second date?
CARA: Yeah.
BEAR: Now, the second date is when you know each other better.
CARA: Like this. Shut up. That is so horrendous.
(laughing).
CARA: And I fall into my (bleep).
I was also thinking something hanging upside down,
but then that wouldn't be good for the poo.
Anyway.
BEAR: Good luck. CARA: Bye!
(blows).
(whistle)
BEAR: Whoa! CARA: Oh! Morning!
BEAR: You've nailed the acorn trick.
CARA: I did?
Do I, do I get that prize now?
Oh, he wants to go back to sleep.
Good night Bear! Sleep well!
BEAR: Night, Cara.
(laughs).
CARA: So annoying. Okay, bye. Night, guys.
♪ ♪
Oh, good morning, sir.
BEAR: Hey. You okay? CARA: Yeah. Are you good?
BEAR: Kung Fu done. CARA: Kung Fu done?
BEAR: Started free solo, went, went to Kung Fu.
Okay. Did you sleep okay?
CARA: Very, very good. BEAR: Good. Okay.
So definitely a big day still ahead, Cara.
CARA: Bloody tissue in there. Is that from the rat?
Oh. Thanks.
BEAR: So we've still got a lot of travel to do today.
A lot of down. We need to descend now.
CARA: Okay.
BEAR: Okay, so put the fire out and then we're outta here.
(coughing).
Okay, good.
CARA: Leave the rat?
The adventure is not over yet.
All I know is that we have quite a long way to go.
We've got to travel downstream.
I'm not sure.
BEAR: It's always nice to get moving and get warm.
CARA: Ahh.
BEAR: Cara and I have come a long way and we're less than
three miles from our extraction point at the base of this mountain.
We've still got a lot of dangerous terrain to cover,
so we need to be vigilant as we begin the final push.
CARA: This is beautiful. BEAR: Let's go this way.
Good grip here. Just be careful.
CARA: Wow.
BEAR: From here you can actually almost see our extraction point.
It's gonna be round this gorge.
But first we're gonna go straight down this.
CARA: Oh, God.
BEAR: Let's get down. Just watch yourself down here.
Uh, the terrain is getting steeper,
and really I just want to get down this,
where we get proper eyes on because my gut says this next bit
is gonna be steep.
Use your hands.
CARA: Yeah.
BEAR: Especially where it's wet.
CARA: Yeah. BEAR: Here's another wet bit.
Well done.
CARA: Whoo-hoo! BEAR: Oh, wow.
Ok, super careful on the edge here, this is a long drop.
(rushing water)
CARA: Oh, God. BEAR: Ok, this one?
Maybe we just rappel together off this.
CARA: Oh no!
BEAR: I'm not entirely sure the rope is gonna reach all the way to the bottom.
CARA: Good, good to know, good to know.
I can't really see how high up we are at this moment in time,
so I don't know, I'm scared, a little bit scared.
Tiny, tiny bit.
BEAR: We've also got to get this rope secure which is not going to be easy
on this stuff.
I wonder if we use that, uh, just in the backpack.
CARA: Yeah.
BEAR: That wrench we took off the scooter.
CARA: Oh yeah. This guy.
BEAR: Yeah. Let's tie the end of the rope around this.
Uh, we can use that kind of like a grappling hook.
You know, whether we just go for this,
into the pool, trying to get it jammed on one of these...
CARA: Oh wow.
BEAR: Under these rocks.
So close. We're getting there.
Might take us a few go's.
There we go.
CARA: Well done.
BEAR: Put some weight into that and make sure that's absolutely strong.
That is good, that's actually not going anywhere.
CARA: Oh yeah, wow.
BEAR: So that's secure.
And we'll tie a second line to that.
Over here.
Down the waterfall, this is our last bit and then we're out.
(Cara laughs).
BEAR: This waterfall is 200 feet high.
The real danger, though, is at the halfway point,
where spray from the waterfall soaks the rock,
and my concern is that if Cara lets go of her brake hand,
where the rock gets really slick, she could fall.
BEAR: We're on single lines, here.
CARA: Yeah.
BEAR: Ok? There's no back up on this. For real.
CARA: No. Great.
BEAR: You are your own safety on this.
CARA: Yeah.
BEAR: Whatever happens, even if you slip and fall...
CARA: Don't let go.
BEAR: You're good, you're good.
CARA: So, the things that I'm a little bit scared about is,
you know, what we're tied to, being the wrench in the water
um, and yeah, that I am my own safety on this.
So, it's all down to me.
BEAR: When you're in the water,
slip this off, there's buoyancy inside it.
Don't get pulled down by it.
CARA: Totally. Yeah.
BEAR: Ok, we'll go side by side.
We are check, check, check.
CARA: Oh, wow.
BEAR: You ready? CARA: I suppose so.
So, the things that I'm scared about is,
you know, what we're tied to,
being the wrench in the water um,
and yeah, that I am my own safety on this.
So, it's all down to me.
At least I have Bear next to me holding my hand.
But not really, 'cause my hands are on my rope.
Okay, let's go before I cry.
BEAR: Okay, here we go.
So, remember, never letting go of that rope.
CARA: Here we go. Game face on.
Whoop-whoop!
BEAR: Good job, Cara. Nice and steady.
CARA: Oh, wow. Whoo!
Oh! Okay.
(groans)
Nice and steady.
BEAR: Walk it down. Let that rope run.
Nice wide stance.
Always looking where you're going, where your feet are gonna go.
CARA: This moss is so slippery.
Oh, God! Whoo!
Wide stance, wide stance.
BEAR: So we're getting close to the waterfall here,
it's just a natural pendulum.
CARA: Oh, my God, hi.
BEAR: It's gonna push us into it a little bit.
Now the rock is gonna get a lot more slippy.
CARA: Slipperier.
BEAR: So whatever happens, right hand never comes off.
CARA: Yeah. BEAR: Okay. Here we go.
CARA: Oh, God! Whoo -hoo!
BEAR: Keep it coming. Whoa.
CARA: Ahh! BEAR: You all right?
CARA: Yeah. BEAR: Come down to me.
Come down to my level.
CARA: Whoo! God!
BEAR: Okay. Hold it there a sec.
Okay.
So, what we're gonna do, we're gonna go down fast together.
Come next to me.
CARA: Yeah. Whoa. BEAR: Okay. We're gonna go down.
We're just gonna let the rope run through the system.
CARA: Yeah. BEAR: Then we'll be free.
Backpack off.
Good, strong swim out.
It's gonna be Baltically cold.
My (bleep) are gonna be in my throat.
CARA: My (bleep) are gonna be around my neck.
BEAR: Let's do it. One, two, three.
Here we go.
CARA: Whoo!
BEAR: Backpack off.
Let's do it.
Well done. Nice. Great job.
CARA: When you just get into that water just can't breathe.
That is a way to wake up in the morning.
I'm actually proud of myself.
That's pretty high, so I'm, yeah, I'm really happy.
I'm definitely awake now, so that's good.
BEAR: You ready?
CARA: I'm so ready. I'm so ready. Oh, my God.
BEAR: So, from here we're both cold.
That water was Baltically cold.
But we're in it, we're through it,
we're out of it, and we're heading down now.
CARA: The sun! Oh!
BEAR: I've got that mirror that we took from the scooter.
I'm gonna use that to try and reflect the sun,
signal the helicopter and then we are officially out of here.
BEAR: The mirror reflecting onto there.
I mean, you'll see that from tens and tens of miles away.
So, as soon as you hear the chopper,
give him a flash and hopefully he'll spot us.
CARA: Hopefully.
Bear, I just want to say thank you so much.
Honestly, this has been a dream come true.
It's changed me a lot.
BEAR: There you go. Chopper.
CARA: Thank you for helping me appreciate the finer things
and just realizing what's important in life.
This has been honestly one of the best experiences in my life.
I'd do it again.
I'd, I'd, yeah, 100%
(laughs)
BEAR: Cara has had a hard start in life, and you know,
she had to grow up fast.
But the thing is, she's learned to adapt and to
improvise and to learn some difficult things and get stronger.
And she also has this infectious, tenacious,
never-give-up spirit.
That in a survivor takes people a long way,
and Cara, you, girl, you're only just getting going.
You're amazing.
BEAR: Cara Delevingne! CARA: Whoo-hoo!
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