“I always say at the beginning that you’re going to need guts on this show,” Bear says when introducing a survival food-eating challenge that includes some not-so-delectable dishes he’s had to live off while in the wilderness (skunk anus, anyone?) To move on to the final level, the remaining three players have to be the first to correctly answer questions or swallow not-so-tasty meals, such as beaver anal glands and pig brains. It’s time to head to the desert for the challenge “A Spoonful of ‘Sugar?’” “For being bird poop, it kind of tastes tropical,” the loser notes. Despite Bear’s advice to “ignore the bird poop” splashing around, one of the game’s biggest athletes craps out and goes home. In case that’s not difficult enough, the host decides to make the course “awkward, stinky, difficult and dangerous” with simulated bird droppings. The method relies on steel wires bolted to mountains faces, and the week’s aspiring survivalists use carabiners to race each other along “cliffs” to retrieve a lantern they must return to Bear.

The players go from slick ice to slippery mountains in “Don’t Drag Me Down.” Bear advises that climbing in the wild is never straightforward like it is in a nice sanitized gym: “It’s often raining, it’s windy, you’re on your own, you’re up against it.” The seasoned survivalist notes that in his lifetime he’s done a lot of climbing known as via ferrata, or literally the iron way. Still, the social media star adds, “I’m going out with my head held high, taking selfies.” This Stinks “The two Pilates videos that I did to prepare for this just weren’t cutting it.” “It’s harder than I thought it was going to be,” she admits.

Influencer Katelyn ends her game with a loss that is far from picture perfect. Mountain rescue is the name of the first game, “Surefooted Sherpa.” Contestants must slide down a slope, retrieve items ranging from boots to a bed, and grab a rope to scale their way back to the top - all while dodging obstacles that include bulky boulders and errant animals. SIGN UP FOR THE FREE OUTDOORS.COM NEWSLETTER

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