Cody and Dave head out across a vast peat bog on the island of Tierra Del Fuego, where layers of moist earth conceal centuries of decaying organic matter — including 10,000 year old remains of victims they've swallowed whole.
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Cody uses moss and wilderness medical skills to dress Dave's wound that was first cauterized with a black powder burn.
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Dave shows how to get a fire going with the sparking percussion action of a black powder rifle.
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Cody makes torches using moss saturated with motor oil. Slightly damp moss soaked with a heavy fuel makes a excellent slow fire.
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Stripped to their skivvies, the pair wade through a frigid river with their clothes high and dry. Brief pain is much better than the threat of hypothermia that comes with soaked clothing.
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Dave uses a pair of heavy logs as the weighted striking force in a spiked deadfall beaver trap.
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Cody puts the finishing touches on an elaborate "wiki-up" shelter. Cody has built hundreds of such structures including ones he used as a home during his college days.
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