Bear Grylls: Survival School

I'm Bear Grylls.

When I was growing up, allof this was my playground.

I want to find out if kidstoday have got what it takes

to abandon their mobilephones and survive for two

weeks out here in the wild.

Woo!

Watch out!

You made it.

You made it.

I really don't want to do this.

Dig deep, finish strong.

Oh!

Welcome to "Bear Grylls Survival School."

I'm heading into the heart of North Wales

to meet 10 young people who areabout to embark on the journey

of their lifetime.

And for the next two weeks, for them, there's going

to be danger at every turn.

Five boys and five girls

aged 12 to 15 have won, throughauditions all over the UK,

to take on the wild.

If you put me out in themiddle of the woods, I just--

I wouldn't know what the hell to do.

The thought of drinkingmy own wee and eating worms

makes me feel a bit sick.

But I think I'd do it anyway.

BEAR GRYLLS They'll be

right back to basics, stripped of home

comforts and all technology.

Two weeks without myphone, it'll be horrible.

I sit inside a lot.

I edit videos.

I film.

And I wanted to get outsideand challenge myself.

#yolo.

I do want it to be hard, but I might regret

that in a few weeks, ha, ha.

If they're not nervous, they should be.

I don't think I'mgonna last, but I'll try.

I have a feeling he's gonnacome in a helicopter, yeah.

Look.

See, look, flare.

That's Bear Grylls, isn't it?

Oh, it's not very wide.

It said he'd come on a parachute, yeah.

Yeah.

Cool.

That's awesome.

- Morning, champs. - Hello.

- Hello. - How are you doing?

- Great. - Hi.

Hi.

So you've done the difficultbit, which is the first step.

Any great journey, the hardestbit is often that first step.

And you've done, you're here, so well done.

But this journey is gonna be tough.

If you want it easy, the time to go home is now.

- All want to be here? - Mm-hmm.

- Yes. - Yeah.

OK, good.

I want to introduce you tothree members of my team

that have been with me throughhell and back many times.

Scott, Tim, and Sarah, these guys are the best.

Scott is an ex Royal Marines commando,

and he's as hard as nails.

Tim is a mountain and expedition specialist.

And Sarah is our fearlessexpert in water activities.

You're in incredible hands.

You've gotta learn from them, you've gotta listen to them,

and you've gotta trust them.

Be prepared for a little bit of hardship,

because there will be timesover the next few weeks

you feel a bit beaten up.

You'll feel exhausted.

You're gonna feel wet, becauseit ain't always sunny in Wales.

And you've also got to endure two

weeks without your smartphones.

Guys, let's gather those up.

Gadgets will be no use

where these guys are headed.

Over the next 12 days, they'llbe learning how to survive

in hostile environments.

They'll be plunging into freezing water--

Justremember this, keep going.

Keep going.

BEAR GRYLLS --climbing

dangerous mountains--

We can do this.

It's cold, and we're all wet and damp.

It was worth going through the pain.

We can't stay out here tonight.

-confronting

the highest cliffs--

They're going to bescared looking down this.

This is high.

This is dangerous.

Oof.

I just jumped off a cliff.

Last push.

You can do this.

-and deep mines.

I'm really claustrophobic.

I don't want to do it at all.

We're nearly out.

Just a walk and we'll get out of here.

- You can do it, Savannah.- We can do this, OK?

It's fine.

It is a sheer drop down there, into the abyss.

They'll be living off the land--

There's three dead squirrels in a bag.

That's disgusting.

Three squirrels.

-spending the night wherever

they can make or find shelter--

--all building up to achallenging final survival

exercise.

Alana, we don't have time, come on!

BEAR GRYLLS --abandoned

on a bare mountainside.

We can't wait any longer!

So I have an extreme test

to find out urgently just whatthe team know about survival.

The first thing you're gonna do

is spend the whole night outin the forest, on your own.

You're gonna have to make your own camp.

You're gonna have to look after each other.

You're gonna have to look after yourselves.

You've got to do it all for yourselves.

The only thing I'm going to give you

is just a little bit of food, but it

isn't gonna be nice food.

It's something that Antarcticand Arctic explorers

for generations have used to stay alive,

and it's called pemmican.

It gets its energy from threesources, fat, meat, fruit.

Oh, no way.

Just eat it like that.

Wow.

Yeah, and I've eaten a lot of bad survival food

over the times, but, mm--

Oh, god.

-that's a new taste.

OK, who wants just totry a little bit of this?

No.

No.

We'll give you a little bit.

There you go.

Just remember, the Antarctic explorers

would live off this stufffor months and months.

Well done.

Disgusting.

It's like a mix of cardboard and dog food.

I've a bad stomach.

Nasty.

That's disgusting.

When you hangwith me for a couple of weeks,

you're going to eat this sortof thing, and a lot worse.

Let's go.

It'sgoing to be a very tough night.

With no experience in the wild, they've

got to build a shelter completely on their own,

using only what they can find in the forest.

I never thought that we'd have

to spend, like, the firstnight with no one to help us.

And we're all, like, gobsmacked.

We've no idea what we're gonna do.

Tonight's gonna be hard, very hard.

First night, and not really learn anything.

Straight up here, come on.

There you go, Kieron, let's go.

I thought it was just gonnabe nice, and like, yeah,

this is what we're gonna be doing.

To help my leaders judge

the young survivors, I've split them into two

teams, girls versus boys.

You need a structure tonight, that's

gonna last four or five hours, get some sleep,

batteries recharged, you'reready start tomorrow.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Go.

No, go something high.

Go somewhere high.

Go up high.

They've got just two hours

until nightfall, and the expedition

leaders will be watching, andjudging, their every move.

Well, we kind of need, like, a plan, of what to do.

We're near the water, right there.

The water's right through there.

I was thinking if weget, like, a giant branch,

and we just put it against here, and we get a few,

and then that's kind of a shelter,

and we'll have to sleep under there somehow.

Oh look, down there, downthere, down there, down there.

Oh, this is actually a good place.

- Yeah, that's perfect. - I think that's fine.

It's fine.

While the girls work together