Surviving In A Desert For 7 Days: No Food, No Water, No Shelter

I’m gonna survive in the desert for seven days straight with no food water or shelter but before i die i hired a legendary survival expert to teach me how to survive my name is matt graham and i’ve been doing hunter gathering skills for about 30 years i’m gonna condense that 30 years with

Tyler in just seven days we can survive out here and this is all of the year i’m gonna have for the first three days but by day three matt’s gonna leave me completely alone to survive by myself out here in the desert and after sculpting a knife by literally

Smacking rocks on even bigger rocks crafting a bowl from a thousand-year-old gourd sharpening my blade with a wet rock learning how to throw an ancient spear and then crafting my own spear with a literal stick all in the span of a few hours we still had to put food in our bellies

Before the sun set using our newly crafted spears in search of the elusive desert fish we’re going deeper deeper into the river right here keep in mind we’re in the middle of winter right now and yet despite having braved to the frozen river in the middle of winter

It was so cold that all of the fish we would have caught were busy sleeping in their holes and with an hour wasted the soon-to-be below freezing night was descending upon us and we hadn’t even started to build our shelter yet we just wasted what an hour or so trying to fish

Caught nothing nightfall is approaching us pretty rapidly we need a shelter where we headed basically what i’m looking for right now you can see this wall right behind us that’s a good start and that little cubby and see how it’s pocketed everywhere we want to find one of those

Pockets because if we do we can we can make a shelter there and after eliminating a few sketchy locations i finally found my dream cave for the night first thing we want to do i want to build a nest in here like a big eagle nest

Yeah now we have what an hour and a half or so to build an actual shelter and if we don’t i’m going to freeze to death at night my new house my life this is actually kind of comfortable i’m not gonna lie all right matt

So we need a fire let’s do this this is called the hand drill method come on my arms are dead we got it okay how do we feed it so this is our nest right here so i’m gonna have you blow it the flame pinch it a little bit tighter

Oh my god we got a fire we started fire that was epic all right we actually just started fire in two days you’re gonna leave me completely and i’m gonna be left alone out here i think you’re gonna survive i think it’s going to be a challenge

This fire is like a crying newborn baby that needs to be tended to every hour so i’m starting to feel the gradual effects of no sleep and no food fire fully extinguished it’s day two eyes feel a bit heavy my feet froze the blocks of ice my lips are super

Chopped right now it’s so cold day two we’re headed into the abyss come along and after descending thousands of feet deep into the abyss of the desert in search of the legendary desert oasis an unusual desert region ripe with resources and drinkable water we still hadn’t eaten in almost two days straight

After a couple hours of hiking we’re officially in our base camp number two come along we’re in a giant cave and conveniently enough i can’t light any fires out here because it’s illegal so we’re gonna have to figure out a way to stay warm and survive with zero flame

Tonight we have roughly three and a half hours till dark and then to build this shelter and eat some fish we’re fighting against time right now yeah that’s work to do let’s get started and after building my shelter with the surrounding resources we still didn’t have any food at all

I can officially sleep pretty snugly tonight but i need some food asap we literally haven’t eaten in two days straight so i need some grub he’s gonna teach me how to catch some fish this is a simple hand line method this is a lure mechanism so what that means is when we

Throw it into the water we have to reel it back real fast because the fish is chasing us because it thinks it’s a little wiggling fish we found a river nearby we’re gonna catch some fish now please god no way are you kidding me you got a fish

That you did it he did it he got a fish he actually caught a fish just now dude no way oh man right in the eyeball jesus christ anyways though we’re eating good tonight baby this poor sucker the final blow thanks to matt we got some dinner tonight well done good sir we’re

Actually gonna eat dinner tonight let’s get some more let’s do it all right i like his attitude but to my despair it didn’t look like i was gonna catch a single fish so thank god matt caught us some more yo i think i got something i caught a laptop conveniently sealed in

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Get honey now thanks again honey and back to the video we got two decently sized trout this is going to give me some major energy today and tomorrow hopefully but sadly i had to kill them there goes its small intestine all right i’m sticking my blade in his poophole

I’m sorry fish i hate to do this something definitely just popped this fish lived a nice wild happy life literally tearing its gills out of its face that’s a lot of blood man here he is clean and ready to be consumed well done sir nice one let’s go

Eat i’m finally gonna eat for the first time in two days i can’t wait for tonight’s feast we’re straight up in a cave from a video game or something this is epic and after preparing a fire to grill my delicious looking fish and collecting wild vegetables for a salad

Which i’m pretty sure were actually poisonous stinging nettle so we can eat this but it does sting yours yeah i got me i don’t want to put this in my mouth we finally got to eat for the first time in two days so good i have five more days of

Survival and i might just have a fighting chance wish me luck and after 12 hours of pure sleep it was day three didn’t move a muscle ready to begin the next day i need some water but since it was day three the day i would finally be by myself in the wild

I had to learn how to make the ultimate mousetrap if i wanted to survive on my own but i literally had 20 minutes left until matt left me forever this is difficult all right final final attempt got the rock trigger around the stick Yo yeah we got it yes the trap has been fully assembled thank god i figured it out a hungry rat pulls up now i need to master this and i’m going to be eating mice like no one’s business hell yeah and finally i was on my own

And before matt leaves me for my solo survival the next four days we’re gonna check out my three options for shelters this is option a what do we have this shelter is actually a place that i lived in for a month let’s check out option number two

It’s a cave you built the big nest that we slept in fire this way in the back there option number three would be like you just wander away out in the desert and see what you find i think that looks a bit too suspect this looks like a good option to sleep

Warmly at night create that little bird’s nest maybe get a nice fire going i have a river nearby i think this is survivable maybe it’s a good choice all right well crash course of survival is basically over thank you for all your teachings master

She did well now it’s all up to me yeah that’s my life and after building a shelter collecting drinking water and firewood i was left to complete the most difficult task in all of human history all by myself okay is the hole big enough it should actually work all right

First time i’ve ever done this alone alone ready let’s go now i’m just gonna twist twist twist until i get a flame plus ultra almost there come on oh we have a car we got the coal place it in there all right now i’m gonna start blowing on it pinch it tightly

We got fire oh god hell yeah we’re gonna place the fire down beautiful not bad for the first day by myself a fire was born and with it came hope and of course some steaming hot tea [Applause] oh jesus and tonight will be the first night i’m sleeping completely alone

The loneliness and starvation depression is starting to hit in main challenge tonight is babysitting that fire for the next 12 hours i never would have thought a desert could be this cold but i’m honestly just tired and burnt out right now and after reviving my flame at 3 4 and 5

A.m in the morning i was finally blessed with a three-hour chunk of sleep but of course not without pain and suffering alright it’s day four i just woke up my lips pretty dang messed up the only food i’ve eaten is one fish in the last four days

I don’t know if i’m gonna make it i’m just exhausted at this point but luckily i’ve heard a crazy wives tale that if you take your own earwax and put it on your lips it’ll act as like a natural lip balm and cure your lips i guess

Anyways i got a little bit of gunk here oh it’s stinging jesus ah trying to get some firewood but after exploring the high desert for firewood food and water all i found was loneliness and despair before matt ditched me he showed me that i could eat some berries out here

This is called lemonade berry these are tasty are there any berries that look like those that might poison me yeah i found the exact berry he showed me they look either deadly or really delicious let’s try it out you want to try one i swear they are

Sweet they’re so good dude i’m not kidding it reminds me of like a strawberry we’re gonna collect a bunch and i’m gonna feast right now it’s the mother lode look at this juicy little prune i haven’t pooped in almost five days so hopefully these might help my digestion

But i’ve literally not had one urge to poop yet how many times have you pooped out here i’ve dug about five holes i haven’t pooped once that’s a new world record for me i got my hand full berries right here it’s basically gonna be my breakfast lunch and dinner if i don’t

Catch any fish right now i suck not only at life but at fishing and apparently the only thing worse than a hot desert in the middle of summer is a cold desert in the middle of winter there’s literal snow on the ground forming i thought i was gonna be in a desert why

Is there snow here it doesn’t make sense and after attempting to eat pine cones snow and even tree branches out of desperation and hunger i finally gave up god we’ve been out here for almost five days and five nights just depressing out here i’m not gonna lie

Pains me to say this but after five days almost of only eating one fish and some berries we’re gonna break the fast with some muscle milk that’s amazing they’re tears my eyes i’m grateful to be alive in a society as meme applause we gotta go home i can’t do this anymore