♪♪ Colin: Welcome to Survivalists, the adventure show where families face nature's most extreme challenges together.

I'm your host, Colin O'Brady.

I'm a ten-time world record holder, bestselling author, and professional explorer.

Top of the world!

Woohoo!

My passion for the outdoors helped me overcome the biggest challenges in my own life, and with the support of my family, I've learned that the impossible is possible.

And now each week, I'll be using those life lessons to help mentor two families, each here with their own deeply personal reasons, as they push themselves physically-- - [screams] Colin: mentally-- - I can't do it.

Colin: and emotionally.

They'll go on a three-day adventure of a lifetime.

Woman: Let's go, Survivalists!

- Yes, girl!

Colin: Where they'll compete for a $10,000 cash prize.

[all cheering] But their real reward comes when they begin to see loved ones in a new light, rebuild relationships, and find new strength as a family.

Man: This is a moment we'll never forget right here.

Boy: Mm-hm.

Woman: Yeah.

Colin: This week, the Majette family from Atlanta, Georgia... Man 2: We plan on comin' out stronger than we've ever been before.

Woman 2: Can you guys see this view?

Colin: ...will take on the Smith family from Wichita Falls, Texas.

Woman 3: The kids are what's pushin' me to keep goin'.

Good job, boys!

Colin: Who will be the first to raise their family's flag-- Boy: Let's go, let's go.

[all cheering] Colin: and be this week's Survivalists?

[bird calls] Smiths: We're the Smith family from Texas!

Woman 3: We are a very competitive family.

Boy: Even if I see that I'm losing, I'm still gonna go even faster.

Boy 2: Failure is not in our dictionary.

Majettes: We're from Atlanta, Georgia, and we're the Majette family!

Woman 2: We are a family that everyone loves once they meet us.

[laughter] Man 2: We're the life of the party.

Woman 2: We don't know exactly what to expect, but we are ready.

♪♪ Colin: Welcome to Survivalists!

Majettes: Thank you!

[all cheering] Colin: Smith family, let's start with you guys.

Have you ever done anything like this before?

Woman 3: Well, we've been campin' a lot, so I mean, you know, this is a little different.

My family has came from the rock bottom.

We were homeless, we had nowhere to stay, you know, we had to live in a campsite.

Now we own our own business, we got through it as a family, and it just brought us all together, closer, stronger than what we ever were.

Colin: What's it mean for you to have your family out here?

Man: Ah, it just means a lot, I mean, I get to bring my family out here, show 'em leadership skills, hand out some things that I've learnt growin' up.

- You know, when thinking about this entire experience, what would you wanna take the most away from it?

- Just watchin' my kids, you know, take that challenge on instead of me havin' to step in there all the time, and I wanna watch us all come together and do it as a team.

That's what we're always tellin' our kids is it's like, you know, we came through so much, we don't ever take nothing for granted.

- I can tell this is a tight, cohesive family unit.

- You know, we run a business, you know, back at home.

Leslie: But it's every day, we are never off, it's seven days a week.

Boy: Kind of the thing that I wanna do in this challenge is to prove to my dad that I'm strong.

I want to be able to take more responsibility in our business, and to take more responsibility in general.

I wanna be able to work and do the same stuff that my dad is doing.

- How is it working with your older brother?

- He's really better at most things, but I'm trying to get better, and I think I'm gonna beat him one day.

Colin: All right!

[laughs] Tell me a little about this family flag.

- Well, we do tree removal, so that's what the four saws are, is each of us, and the tiger is just 'cause we're fierce, we're strong, we're dominant.

Ethan: I'm ready to get out there and just start racing the other family.

Colin: Competitive!

Leslie: How 'bout that?

- That's the attitude you gotta have.

Colin: All right!

Majette family, how you feelin'?

All: Cold.

- Cold, but we're good.

- This not typical weather for you guys back home?

Man 2: Not for us.

Woman 2: Not at all, this is not Atlanta.

[laughs] - I am freezing, my toes feel like icicles.

- This is an adapt and overcome situation.

We have to put our minds somewhere else, like a beach, in order to get through this.

Colin: Terrel, for you, what's kind of your deepest why for bringing your family out in this environment?

Terrel: I grew up without a father in my life, and um, to allow them to experience somethin' that none of us have ever experienced before in our life, and to be right here side-by-side with them, it feels real good.

- Trinity and Tre are biologically my two from a previous marriage, so that makes him Mr.

Bonus Dad over here.

Terrel: Though I'm not their biological father, I know that this'll be a great opportunity for me to be able to do somethin' for Tre and Trinity that I wasn't able to have done for me, so I'm hoping that at the end of all of this, our relationship is stronger than it's ever been before.

- Every parent and child doesn't always get along, but we always end up havin' fun in the end.

I wanna win, but I'm also looking to better my connection with my parents.

I believe that us bonding, you know, being able to communicate and work together, we'll be able to reconnect.

- I would love to hear about your flag.

- So the flag has a music note on it, 'cause our family is grounded in music.

The tree that's attached to the music note, that tree is because we're rooted in each other, and we're rooted in the complete family goal into being a successful family.

- Well, I'll tell you what, what you're about to experience is an adventure of a lifetime, and the bonds formed within the family is going to be priceless.

You'll be going on a challenging 3-day, 13-mile journey across the frozen peaks of the highest mountains in the region.

Day One, you'll travel five and a half miles through dense aspen forest and steep snow-covered passes to safely arrive at your first camp for the night.

Rachel: Hurry!

Day Two, you'll travel three miles of winding, muddy mountainside before reaching a frigid swampy lake, where you'll be faced with a difficult decision of how to get across.

Day Three will take you over five grueling uphill miles to the breathtaking summit over 11,000 feet, before racing down to the finish line, where the first family to raise their flag will be declared the winner.

Wanna know what we're playing for?

All: [voice assent] Trinity: Let's see.

- Well, I've got it right here in these backpacks.

Why don't you have a look inside of there?

[all cheering] That's some cold, hard cash.

Ten thousand dollars cash that's stuffed inside these backpacks, so.

- [laughs] - These'll be waiting for whichever family is the winner at the finish line.

Majettes: Us.

- It's all us.

We are gonna win.

Losing is not an option.

Not an option.

[laughing] - Before sending you out on this multi-day expedition, I'm gonna give you time to shop in the general store, where you can get essential gear to survive three days in the wild.

But here's the thing, I'm only gonna give you 90 seconds to get that essential gear.

- Wow.

Colin: However, I've set up a series of survival competitions.

Each challenge you win gives you an additional 30 seconds to shop for the essential gear.

Trust me, you're gonna want that time, it is crucial.

So it's time to check out your survival skills and see what you're made of.

[all cheering] [dramatic music] Welcome to the fire challenge!

[all cheering] All right!

Here's how this challenge works.

You're gonna use flint and steel and natural elements to light a fire.

'Cause you need to get the fire burning high enough to hit that rope.

When the rope lights on fire and releases, that rock hits the water.

Whichever team's rock hits the water first wins this challenge and an extra 30 seconds for your family in the general store.

Rachel: I'm not good at starting fires, but if you ask certain people, I guess you could say I'm good at starting trouble.

[chuckles] - Three, two, one, go!

All right!

[all shouting encouragement] Leslie: It would mean the world to him if he won.

He'd prove to everybody, hey, you know, I'm just as strong as my older brother, I can do it just like he can.

Colin: They're both startin' out with a nice pile of tinder.

Nathan: It's difficult and it's exciting to do something on my own.

- Get it shaved, there you go.

- Shave it up, shave it up.

Rachel: My strategy is to get as much magnesium on the tinder as I can.

Colin: Oh, Rachel's the first one to try and get that spark goin'.

Ethan: C'mon Nathan, you got this.

Tim: Remember, when you get it, start blowin' on it.

Colin: Lots of sparks flyin' over there, but still no flame.

Rachel: I'm just striking, and striking, and I'm getting nothing.

- You got it!

- Don't get- you can't get frustrated, you can't get frustrated, you gotta just keep goin'.

- You might need some more magnesium.

Colin: A lot of sparks flyin', that's for sure.

Okay, it's getting close!

It's getting close, who's gonna get it, oh!

Rachel's got that first spark!

Rachel's got that first spark, it's all about getting the spark goin'.

Is Rachel gonna get it?

You still gotta get it high enough.

[all shouting encouragement] Colin: Oh, Nathan's got it!

They both got the flames!

Rachel: So I got my flame goin', it was actually a nice-sized flame, but then, here comes the wind, and there goes my flame.

Trinity: Add wood!

Terrel: Wood, wood!

Colin: This is incredibly exciting!

After all of that, they got it sparked at the same time!

Terrel: Get some more, get some more!

Rachel's looks like- oh, Nathan's is burning!

Nathan's looks like it might be on fire, oh, Nathan wins the challenge!

Tim: I'm very stoked that Nathan was able to take it on his own.

Way to go, son!

He's steppin' up now, and he showed us that.

[all cheering] Rachel: I lost.

I'm not gonna give up.

I'm not a quitter, I'm a fighter.

Colin: Not to worry, there's more games to be played.

The next challenge is the slingshot challenge.

[all cheering] ♪♪ [stretching] [clang] Welcome to the slingshot challenge!

- Oh yeah.

Colin: Slingshots have been used over history by hunters and trappers.

It's the difference between a hot meal or goin' hungry, so it's a very important survival technique.

So the way the slingshot challenge works is I'm gonna give you five minutes to shoot down these cans.

The first person to hit all five cans wins, or if the time expires, whoever has knocked down the most cans, wins the challenge and 30 seconds additional time for your family at General Store.

♪♪ It's all about having a steady hand.

I always like to have a nice wide stance.

[clang] [all cheering] - There you go!

- Three, two, one, go!

[all cheering] All right, Trinity's got the first shot off.

Okay.

Terrel: Reload, reload!

Ethan: I look up to my dad big time.

- C'mon!

Ethan: To be honest, going into this challenge, I'm just ready to prove that I could be just as strong as he is.

Colin: Ethan looking good, lining it up.

[clank] Oh, there it is!

He's got one, boom.

I guess that side tactic's looking good, whoa!

Goal!

Ties it back up, it's tied now, 1-1!

Now they're gettin' it.

Okay, I see some confidence, okay.

Ethan takes the lead.

Oh, just below.

[doink] Oh!

She got it, but it didn't knock off!

Trinity: I didn't really listen to the peanut gallery that my family was doin', I was trying to tune them out.

Colin: One more ties it up for Trinity.

Gotta get it right-- [clank] Oh!

Trinity just ties it up!

- Oh yeah, game on!

Colin: She ties it up!

Ethan: She hits one and ties with me.

It scared me.

Colin: Five seconds to go.

Whoever gets the next one gets it.

Rachel: Focus!

Colin: Ethan-- [all yelling] Ethan gets it on the first shot!

Ethan: It just feels awesome, completely amazing.

- Woo!

- Good job!

This week right here, it's gonna gain a lot of trust and team skill and leadership.

- Well, congratulations to the Smiths.

You just won your family 30 seconds in the General Store!

[Smiths cheering] - Yes!

- Yeah.

Tim: I'm proud of those two boys like no tomorrow.

Colin: But it ain't over yet!

The next challenge is the shelter challenge!

♪♪ Welcome to the shelter challenge!

[all cheering] Shelter is a very important survival skill.

When I was climbing Everest, I got caught out in some bad storms.

If I couldn't get my tent set up quickly, it could be a matter of life or death, so, the way this challenge works is you're gonna be racing to set up a two-man tent.

Whoever can set that two-man tent up first wins this challenge and an extra 30 seconds for the General Store.

Step on up.

Leslie: You know, we had to live in a campsite and, we've done a tent or two in our lives.

Terrel: We've never built a tent together.

Tre: I'm glad that my dad is my partner, but doin' this with my dad is very new to me.

Colin: On my go, three, two, one, go!

♪♪ Rachel: Y'all got this.

Ethan: C'mon, mom and dad.

Colin: What's in the bag?

- You got this!

Colin: Who's gonna set that up first?

- I'm gonna lay everything out on the ground, and Tre's gonna grab the poles so that we can start feeding those through.

Colin: It's a pretty even battle at this point.

- Go ahead and start hookin' it on your side, Tre.

- Keep goin', keep goin'.

There you go.

Tre is awesome as a partner.

He doesn't break under pressure ever.

Trinity: Good job!

Colin: I would say the Majettes are clearly in the lead at this point; they've got their tent standing.

But that doesn't mean the Smiths can't still come from behind.

Leslie: It is so much harder than what it looks whenever you're under pressure and you're racing another person.

Tim: Well, where does it need to go?

- This.

Colin: Looks like there's a bit of confusion, but this is neck and neck.

Tim: I think we've got it upside-down.

We're feeling confident at first, and then all of a sudden, somethin' don't look right here.

- The door is the zipper, where's the zipper, it's right there!

So turn it around.

Colin: Tre's puttin' his clips in, do they have it right?

Make sure, it's gotta be fully secure.

Tim and Leslie have turned their thing around five or six times at this point.

- We flop it again, then we flip it again, and then we just settled on one spot.

Colin: That's good teamwork here, Terrel sending his son around the other side to make sure that gets staked down.

Ethan: C'mon, mom and dad.

C'mon, y'all got this!

Y'all got this, c'mon, go, go, go, go, go!

Colin: All right, Tim and Leslie think that they're in.

Unfortunately, you do not have it set up correctly.

Tim: I was like, "All right, let's flip it again."

- Please keep trying.

Terrel: The strategy was for us to just keep our mind on what we were doin', and not focus on what everybody else is doin', or what's goin' on beside us.

- All right, now the Majettes are going inside, do they think they're done?

Trinity: Come on.

- Come on.

Colin: This is fully lined up.

Trinity: Come on, we need the thirty-- Colin: Majettes, you are the winners!

Rachel: [screaming excitedly] Colin: You are the winners!

[laughs] Tre: Yeah!

Terrel: You know, now, when we get home, we can connect on a different level than we were able to connect on before.

Tim: So in handlin' the loss, they seen that we took it so well, we didn't beat ourself up, and in our eyes, we're not gonna let it happen again.

- The Majette family is on the board, congratulations!

- Thank you.

- Woo!

- Thank you!

- It's time to go to the General Store.

[all cheering] Right?

Let's go!

Leslie: All right, let's go!

♪♪ Colin: As you can see, right behind me is the General Store, which has everything you need to survive a multi-day expedition.

Usually when I plan big expeditions, it takes me months to plan.

You guys don't have that kind of time.

Each family only started with 90 seconds to get the gear you need.

Plus, you've earned some extra time based on how you perform in the survival challenges.

The Smiths, you won two of the challenges, so you've earned 60 additional seconds in the General Store, and the Majettes, you came back, you won one of the challenges, so you will have an additional 30 seconds in the General Store.

Some of your shopping preferences are up to you, but I've made a list of essential items that you have to take with you to survive in the wild.

This is a harsh environment, where temperatures can quickly drop below freezing, so on the list is sleeping bags, sleeping pads for necessary insulation, tent, water filtration system, flint and steel, and GPS.

If during your shopping you do not grab these items, I'm gonna have to give you a 30-minute time penalty for each of the essential items that you miss.

You don't want that.

- No.

- All right, it's time to shop.

Smiths, you're on my first go.

Three, two, one, go!

All right, Smiths are off.

- We are dialed in 100% for the General Store, we have our extra time, I know exactly where I'm goin'.

I'm very confident.

- Three, two, one, Majettes, you're off!

Both families are in the store now.

Rachel: I think the strategy that we have is pretty good.

Terrel with the important items, Trinity with the gear, and Tre with the lighter items.

You got the headlamp?

- Yes, I got those.

Get the GPS.

Rachel: Y'all see the GPS?

- Look for the GPS!

Ethan: GPS, please!

Nathan: I'm looking, I'm looking!

- My dad and I can do a better job of communication, but also listening, because when one person says something, it kinda goes to deaf ears.

Rachel: You still don't got the GPS?

Terrel: No, I don't have the GPS.

Colin: Only 30 seconds left, gotta make sure you've got those essential items.

If it is not in there when I call time, it is not coming with you.

Tim: Right here, right here.

[crosstalk] Colin: Three, two, one, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

Let's look at the Smiths first, make sure they got the essential items.

We need a sleeping bag, so one for each member of the family.

We got four, maybe even five sleeping bags.

Leslie: Yes.

Colin: Four, five, six sleeping pads.

Tent, we gotta have at least one tent in here.

- Tell me y'all got a tent.

- At first glance, I'm not seein' it.

This is a pad.

Leslie: Another pad!

Tim: No.

Colin: I hate to tell you, I do not see a tent in here.

Tim: Oh, man.

Colin: So that is a 30-minute time penalty.

Terrel: Me and Rachel kinda looked at each other with the side-eye, like, I was kinda relieved.

Colin: Whose job was getting the tent?

- It was Ethan.

- I think I grabbed the wrong thing.

Tim: There was kinda some miscommunication amongst the boys, and now everybody feels like, "Hey, we gotta step up now."

[rock music] - All right, yeah, we got water filtration.

We got the firestarter, and last but not least, I see the GPS in there.

Smiths, you got your work cut out for you, but uh, hey, there's a lot of competition left.

I'm gonna come over to the Majettes now.

We need sleeping bags for all four participants.

Three, and four, we got four sleeping bags.

Okay, we need four sleeping pads.

Three, four sleeping pads.

We got a tent, water filtration, flint and steel, and of course, last but not least, the GPS.

So you've got all the essential items.

You guys'll be starting 30 minutes in front of the Smiths tomorrow.

Terrel: We were a little down, because we had lost our first two challenges.

It felt really good to get those extra thirty minutes out the store.

Tim: We're strong enough to where we'll just adapt and overcome, and we'll regain that thirty minutes that we just lost at the General Store.

- You've had a long day today, my advice would be this: pack your things up right now, get a very good night's sleep, 'cause we're startin' tomorrow at the trailhead at sunrise.

See you at sunrise!

Tim: Have a good one.

Leslie: Bye.

♪♪ [crickets chirping] [tranquil music] Leslie: We've been through a lot, and I'm hopin' to make sure that Ethan and Nathan have that same spark.

I want them to show us their tenacity.

Tim: I mean, I told my sons, "I want y'all to take everything we've been through, and I want you to show me what you've got in you."

♪♪ Rachel: This is most definitely gonna be a unique experience for the four of us.

I believe that the bonding will bring us closer.

Terrel: I'm so excited about being able to share this opportunity with Tre and Trinity.

I grew up without a father, and now that I have a chance to be a father, I try to do everything in my power to show them what a dad's supposed to be.

♪♪ Colin: Welcome, family, to the start line of your multi-day survival expedition.

How're you feeling?

[all cheering] This is Day One.

Today, the Majettes and Smiths must trek five and a half of their 13-mile journey.

They'll be faced with a steep ascent through thick forests, reaching nearly 11,000 feet in elevation, then must find their way through snow-covered slopes to camp for the night.

Smith family, how're you feeling knowing that you have a 30-minute disadvantage at the start of this race?

Tim: The 30-minute delay is not even a thought in my head; we're not worried about it, we talked about it last night, we got a strategy.

I'm a real high-strung person, but this is gonna help me learn, you know, my leadership skills to kinda slow down and let my family be a part of it as well, to just kinda step back and let them show me what I taught 'em, and let's do it together, because if not, I would run to the end by myself.

Colin: Majette family.

- Woo!

Colin: Lookin' around, knowing you're gonna be spending the next three days in this landscape, is that intimidating?

Tre: It's intimidating, but exciting at the same time, 'cause it's something new, and something for us to enjoy together.

Terrel: We plan on comin' out of this thing on top; we plan on comin' out stronger than we've ever been before, and with more love than we've ever had for each other before.

Colin: You guys ready to find out how the game is played?

All: [voice assent] Colin: Okay.

In each one of these canisters have coordinates that you're gonna put in your GPS.

At each checkpoint, you're gonna find another one of these canisters, which has a clue inside, and the GPS waypoints to your next checkpoint.

And I'll be waiting for you at the finish line.

Sound good?

All: [voice assent] Colin: Majette family, you guys are off first, so I'm gonna give you your canister here.

- Awesome, thank you.

Colin: On my go, three, two, one, go!

- "Welcome to Survivalists.

Right now, it's time to get started."

- Go!

Colin: All right!

The Majettes are off!

[intense music] Good luck, you guys!

The Smiths'll be hot on your heels.

To reach the first checkpoint, families will climb up 2,000 vertical feet, making pivotal navigational decisions along the way that could make or break their difficult journey.

♪♪ Terrel: Love you guys.

Majettes: Love you too!

Rachel: We got this!

Tre: Ooh, this is an amazing path.

Rachel: Oh my goodness, that's a beautiful picture, look at that.

Trinity: Right.

Terrel: Regulate your breathin'.

Leslie: I'm ready.

Ethan: Oh, yeah.

Tim: Stay focused, just stay on the path.

- So, who's, you're goin' first or am I?

- I'mma go first, and you're gonna be behind me.

- I follow you, and you clear the way.

- Okay.

- Uphill, guys.

Rachel: Uphill ain't no joke.

Terrel: Dig in, dig in.

Rachel: Can't keep stoppin', Tre.

Walk through it!

Push through it!

Terrel: Right now is a little rough.

This elevation feels much different than anything we've ever been used to.

We used to could run for a while, but now it seemed like, with the first 30 steps we were beat.

Tre: This feels good to breathe.

Colin: All right, Smiths, it's been 30 minutes, here's your canister.

Leslie: We were gonna start off slow and steady, but now I feel like we need to run for 30 minutes straight.

- Three, two, one, go!

All right, Smiths are off!

They're comin' for the Majettes!

♪♪ [heavy breathing] Ethan: Okay, stay on the trail, stay on the path, we got this.

This is a long trail, but I'm prepared, and I'm ready.

Our main goal is to get past the other family.

Terrel: How close, Trinity?

Trinity: I feel like we just have to keep goin' in a straight line.

Rachel: Y'all ready?

- The truth?

No.

I'm feelin' a pain that I've never felt before; it's getting harder to breathe.

I was a little nervous at first, because I didn't want everybody else to know that I was in so much pain, uh, at such an early point.

[breathing heavily] I tell you what.

[heavy breathing] When we finish this, I'm done with the cigarettes, guys.

Trinity: [laughs] Terrel: Realizing that I may be the weakest link.

It's my job to be there for them, and if I can't do that, I'm not pulling my weight.

It hurts, because I didn't really expect to be, but I've been tryin' to like, quit cigarettes for a long time, and uh, it's been hard, and now I'm kinda feelin' it, so.

- You got this.

Just push through.

We gon' make it, win or lose.

- My family's keeping me going.

[sigh] - Ethan, for some odd reason, it's tellin' us to go left.

Ethan: This looks like a trail!

Tim: Oh.

Leslie: Go down here and see.

Go through here and see what it shows.

Ethan: Let's just go straight.

Leslie: There's a cliff, we can't go that way.

Tim: I don't think we're on the right track, buddy.

I get frustrated when I just see us constantly goin' up, 'cause then I kinda feel like we're gettin' off track a little bit.

- Okay, so, the pathway we were on at first was easy, this is a little bit harder.

I don't know if this'll be a faster route, though.

Colin: In the wild, choosing the best route is crucial.

The Smiths must decide if a more direct and steep route will actually be quicker than the easier path they were on.

Leslie: I feel like it'll be faster, but it's gonna take us longer because of how thick it is.

Tim: Like I told Ethan earlier, just stay on the trail.

I know he's thinkin', you know, shorter, quicker, but he's gotta think about me and his mom.

Leslie: So we're gonna have to just stay on the trail and go around.

Ethan: That's too steep of a route, we have to go the slower way.

Leslie: Stay on the trail, go around it.

Ethan: We could just pick up our pace a little bit.

Tim: We're not gonna be able to do those shorter, quicker routes.

He's just gotta think about that as we're trekkin' on this next go-around.

Ethan: We're back on the trail now.

This is definitely the path.

Rachel: You wanna, um, lead, 'cause we can pace off of you.

We can pace off of you, 'cause evidently we're moving too fast.

So we'll pace off you and Tre.

- Nah, you're not pacin', I know, because I get there whenever I get there.

- But that's not what the rules of the game are, like, we can't do nothin' without all four of us, so that's how we gotta do it!

Terrel: Okay, so then everybody just wanna sit here, then we'll just sit here, then we gon' pace off me.

- So at the end of the day, so at the end of the day, just pace us and we'll go off your pace.

Trinity: I do get what he's sayin', and I get what you're sayin', but y'all yellin' at each other's not gonna do anything.

Rachel: C'mon, Trinity.

We gon' go, um, find the clue.

Terrel: I'm tryin' to figure out why you tryin' to divide the team.

It feels like you tryna divide the team.

Rachel: How am I tryin' to divide-- - Your support doesn't feel like support right now!

Rachel: --and said that we will pace off of you?

How am I tryin'-- [distant arguing] - Oh, is that them?

- That was them.

Ethan: That's them!

[heavy breathing] Trinity: If everybody's not working together, it's not gonna go, it's not gonna go good at all.

[heavy breathing] Ethan: Go faster!

Faster!

Rachel: Somebody behind us.

They behind us.

Terrel: They are.

Rachel: They're right behind us.

- I look over my shoulder, and I see the Smiths comin'.

I mean, the boys were leading.

Ethan: We see the other team!

C'mon!

We gotta pass 'em!

Leslie: To see them after we've been waiting for 30 minutes, to know that, you know, we put in the work to get there, it was amazing.

Terrel: C'mon, we gotta go.

Rachel: They're right there, I see that blue jacket!

Terrel: I can't breathe, I'm sorry.

I'm done.

Ethan: C'mon.

Nathan: I'm goin'.

Ethan: Let's go, let's go!

Tim: Go!

- I'm so proud of all of 'em.

It makes me so proud of 'em, and to see 'em just lead.

It's amazing.

Good job, boys!

You got this.

Colin: It can be disheartening when a team gets passed.

But the Majettes need to realize it's a long race, and will have to stay strong, not panic, and support each other if they wanna make up ground.

- [breathing heavily] I just don't wanna let y'all down, right?

That's my biggest fear.

- Babe, we can't even sulk in that right now, we just need to get up the hill.

We're right here, we're right here.

Trinity: We're right here, Dad, we just gotta dig, come on, we gotta keep pushing.

- We're here already.

So dig deep.

You got it.

Trinity: You got it.

Rachel: We're right here.

- I can see the top, right there.

Nathan: We're almost there!

We're almost to the top!

Ethan: C'mon, we're ahead of the other family, c'mon, let's go!

Tim: We got it.

[Leslie sobbing] Rachel: We might as well break.

- Look it, they're settin' down.

C'mon, we gotta do this.

Trinity: What was supposed to be strongest is our weakest, and we can't pull him.

- But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter who is the weakest.

The point is, we're only as strong as our weakest link.

Trinity: You got it, keep pushing!

Terrel: I couldn't muster up any energy.

Just made me feel deflated, it made me feel like we had lost already.

Trinity: Y'all got it, c'mon!

Terrel: Trinity took over, and she started just taking the reins.

Trinity: I do feel like I can catch up to 'em.

- My whole purpose was, no matter how much this hurts, you know, I just gotta get where she is.

♪♪ Trinity: C'mon, guys, y'all got it!

Tim: Guys, I know this is tough, but I mean, we cannot get a lead like that and just let them get back like that, you know?

Ethan: Let's go, they're right there.

Tim: I mean, we can't just let them come and walk on our heels all the time.

Ethan: Okay, so obviously that way is the way we gotta go.

Rachel: Push.

Push, they're right there in front of us.

Push.

Trinity: Look, I'm all the way up here.

Rachel: It's all mental, you tell yourself you can do it, you can get up there.

Ethan: Hold on, it says arriving.

Look in the trees, keep your eyes up and down.

- Look, right there, is that it?

Tim: Go, go, Ethan.

Ethan: That's it!

Tim: Run.

Go!

C'mon, sweetie!

Ethan: Yeah, this is it.

"There is now a family decision to be made: shorter and harder or longer and easier."

Colin: Families must choose between a shorter route that continues upward another 1,000 vertical feet along an exposed ridgeline before steeply descending into camp and a longer route that adds an extra mile, but is a more gradual and easier path.

Leslie: I think we should do longer and easier.

- Longer and easier.

Ethan: Longer and easier.

Okay, let's go.

Tim: Let's go.

Rachel: C'mon, babe, we see it!

You got it, Tre.

Trinity: "Shorter and harder or longer and easier."

- What y'all think, the long way?

Trinity: Yeah, maybe, maybe we wanna go the shorter route, 'cause it is gettin' late.

- Uh, I don't know.

- We can't do harder, guys.

- We can't, we gotta, we gotta be team players.

- All right.

- Everybody can't do hard right now.

C'mon.

[dramatic music] Colin: Having made their choice, families will now race the setting sun and each other.

Two and a half miles through dense forest and down slick, snow-covered slopes to Camp One.

Ethan: Just keep going, guys.

Rachel: Downhill, the home stretch.

Leslie: We got this.

Terrel: [grunts] Rachel: You all right?

Terrel: Yeah.

Ethan: But it's, yeah, we're gonna go this way.

Tim: No, I see a trail, keep on it.

Ethan: Yeah, this is it.

Rachel: I just think it's weird how we went from lookin' like we were in the desert to we're in the snow blizzard.

♪♪ Nathan: Yeah!

Leslie: Here, I see the flags.

Ethan: Let's go!

Hurry, hurry, hurry!

Tim: That was pretty scary for me as a dad, and I was more worried about them.

Ethan: Hurry!

Tim: But they done well, everybody done well, we came through it.

I'm proud of everybody that came out here and done this, this is hard.

Ethan: "Congratulations, you have survived Day One.

"You're the first ones to the camp, "you will be able to start tomorrow at 7 A.M., but until then, enjoy the reward below."

Leslie: A phone.

Tim: Oh, look at that.

Colin: [on phone] Congratulations on completing Day One.

If you're watching this, you are the first team to arrive.

- Woo!

Colin: As a reward, I've set up a grill so you can cook a hot meal and get ready for your long day tomorrow.

Leslie: Let's get cookin'!

Ethan: Oh yeah, let's go!

- Woo!

- Woo!

[crickets chirping] [chill music] Rachel: Oh, we made it, y'all.

We made it!

On the mountain, it really broke us down.

C'mon, back.

It made us realize that we need each other more than we may have thought.

[exhausted sigh] - "Welcome to camp.

You have survived Day One."

Tre and Rachel: Woo!

- Awesome.

Rachel: Oh, barely, but we made it.

- All right, guys, let's go set up camp.

Rachel: Off to camp.

Terrel: Yeah.

Colin: With the sun already set, today's exhausting uphill battle is over.

Both families summoned the strength to persevere and conquer the mountain.

The Smiths, led by their two boys, managed to overcome a 30-minute deficit to pass the Majettes and are now ahead by 12 minutes.

Leslie: So how, what'd you think about it, Nathan?

Nathan: I think this was a really hard challenge.

I think it made our family stronger from overcoming what happened at first, we all did it together.

Leslie: Yeah.

Definitely worth it!

Nathan: Definitely.

Tim: All right, we got the tent up, guys.

We're good, we got shelter!

Ethan: Yeah!

Tim: Woo!

Tre: We're here.

Trinity: I'm proud of all of us.

Tre: We made it to the camp.

- I'm proud of everybody too, but I'm more proud of you.

Rachel: Yeah, Trinity.

You led us all the way here.

- And we appreciate that.

- We do, we couldn'ta did it without you.

- Because when we felt like quittin', we kept lookin' at you, and you were pushing us.

- And you kept goin'.

And you were motivatin' us.

- And I'm sorry, y'all, I was the first one to slow us down today.

- It's all good, but you kept goin', you kept goin'.

- I have to apologize to Tre, and to you, babe, because I was a little bit harsh because I didn't understand what y'all were feeling until I felt it, and once I felt it, I felt horrible for lashing out at y'all the way that I did.

Trinity: Yeah, I apologize too.

Terrel: And dude, you gotta be the coolest 12-year-old I know, man.

Rachel: The coolest, like, the coolest!

[laughs] [fire crackling, crickets chirping] [gentle music] [birdsong] Rachel: Yesterday was... [exasperated sigh] Uh, yeah, yesterday was yesterday.

But I learned a lot about myself, in the, in the process, you know, I can be a little hard.

[chuckles] When you know, I should show a bit more compassion.

Um... - Hey!

- [chuckles] Hey.

- Hey, guys.

Rachel: This is, this is not our scene.

We're out here tryin' to make it, we have to pull together.

- Hey, guys!

Well, first day was pretty brutal.

Just thought about what my family's been through and thought about... you know, just had to look up and see Ethan and Nathan out there just pushin' us, and that's all I really needed to just keep goin'.

- I think the Smith family is gonna win, and I think we're gonna crush it.

- I think we got this, so failure's not an option.

- Peace out.

- Hurry, hurry, hurry.

Grab it, grab it, grab it.

Ethan: "Good morning to Day Two, can your body be tried and true?"

Colin: This is Day Two.

Over the next three miles, the families will have to wind their way through muddy passages and around dense forests to a lake they'll need to cross by inflatable rafts or paddleboards to reach Camp Two.

Nathan: C'mon, we got this.

Leslie: The kids are what's pushin' me to keep goin'.

They're blazin' the trails like nothin', I mean, just so easily.

Ethan: Oh, this is very slippery.

It's pretty hard terrain right here.

Don't hurt yourself.

Leslie: We run our own company and, you know, Tim's usually the boss; he's the one who tells everybody what to do, where to go.

And you know, with this, Ethan has the GPS; Ethan's the one who's showin' us where to go.

I was worried about Nathan, but Nathan is stayin' up there with his brother.

So I mean, it's a bit different.

Ethan: Let's go, let's go, let's go.

Nathan: This way.

Rachel: Y'all ready?

Terrel: Yeah, here we go.

Rachel: "Good morning to Day Two.

Can your body be tried and true?"

[scoffs] Seriously?

Terrel: [laughs] Let's go.

Rachel: You got it, Trinity, we're following your lead.

Terrel: We're so proud of Trinity, because she's never had an opportunity to have to lead us.

- Mm-hm.

Terrel: Y'all doin' a great job.

Rachel: I'm proud of you, Trinity.

Terrel: We saw a side of her that we'd never seen before yesterday.

She took over, and if it wasn't for her, we don't think we would've made it.

- No, we really needed her.

Terrel: Where we goin'?

This way?

- Hold on, hold on.

Tryna... Rachel: Make a plan, make a plan, stick to the plan.

Trinity: This way.

Terrel: Execute.

- I did step up with my leadership, and I've, I don't do that at home, so I do think I am learning as we go.

Terrel: We gettin' close, Trinity?

- Yes, actually.

Ethan: It says we're here.

Nathan: I see it!

Ethan: You see it?

Nathan: Yeah, I see it.

Ethan: Guys, let's go.

Nathan: This way.

Tim: Can you reach?

Ethan: Yeah, I can reach it.

Leslie: Hurry, hurry, grab it.

- "Frigid water, but beware."

Okay, okay.

Colin: The families must now wind their way through the wooded mountainside to the cold lake above.

Leslie: I don't know about no water.

Ethan: This way, this way.

Let's go, let's go.

Colin: Ethan Smith continues to impress his parents, keeping them on task and ahead of the Majettes, who are working hard on working together, and making good headway up the mountain.

Rachel: I like this pace, guys.

Trinity: Right, this is... Rachel: I feel good today.

Trinity: Way better than yesterday!

- We're kinda... kinda scared about the water thing, frigid waters, because-- - We don't know where it's taking us.

- My brother can't swim very good, and-- - It's cold.

- It's cold out here, very cold.

But I'm ready.

Ready to go.

And you are too, right?

Yeah, you ready to go?

- I'm ready to go.

- Peace out.

Nathan: Peace out.

- Since the boys have done so well, and uh, the leadership that they have proven, you know.

- Yeah.

- So, when we doin' jobs, when we get back home, I think it's probably safe that, you know, we might be able to turn some things over to 'em, you know.

- Yeah?

- And you know-- - Let 'em see what they can accomplish, see what they can do.

- Yeah, see if they can prove it from a business standpoint as well.

- Yeah.

- And uh, got a lot of faith in 'em at this point now.

- Oh, yes, 100 percent.

Tre: See it.

Terrel: Oh, he got it.

Rachel: Oh, he got it down, too, good job!

Terrel: Good job, Tre.

Terrel and Rachel: "Frigid water beware?"

- Oh no!

- Water!

- Ooooh, man.

Let's go, guys.

Rachel: Water?!

Tre: Look at the mountains.

Rachel: Look at that!

Nathan: Look, it's beautiful!

Leslie: Wow!

[joyful music] I am so proud of these kids.

We wouldn't have been able to make it without 'em, so you know, that's, that's what's really important to me, because you know, I can show 'em, "Hey," you know, "You work hard, you get a reward."

That's how it works, you know, that's how life is.

Ethan: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hold on, that's a lot of water.

Watch out for that.

Nathan: You could've said that before I walked straight through it.

Ethan: You can't see them behind us, can you?

Leslie: No.

Focus on ahead, not behind.

Rachel: Do y'all see that?

Wow.

I've never seen anything like this in person before.

♪♪ - We're nowhere near Georgia!

Nowhere near.

- This is beautiful, though, I mean... Rachel: Far, far from home.

♪♪ [birdsong] Nathan: C'mon!

Tim: Hurry!

Nathan: Clue right here!

Ethan: Clue, you see it?

Yeah, there it is, right there in front of our faces.

"Pump four paddleboats or one raft.

The choice is yours."

Colin: To make it to their flags, the families will have to summon any remaining energy to inflate their own transportation and cross the snow line lake.

- One raft.

- One raft.

All: One raft.

- Hey guys, do you see somethin' over there?

Nathan: Yeah.

Yes, it's the camp!

Tim: C'mon!

Leslie: C'mon, undo it.

Nathan: C'mon, grab it.

Leslie: Get your foot off it.

Nathan: Right there, start pumpin'.

Leslie: Come on, we got this.

[pumping] Way easier than walking an incline.

[pumping] Leslie: C'mon, guys, we got it, keep goin', let me see them muscles.

I wonder where they're at.

Rachel: What's goin' on, Trinity?

- Just checkin'.

Make sure, hold on.

Rachel: Hey, look at that peak.

- Nope, nope, nope.

I'm right.

Terrel: You right?

Rachel: Okay, good, good.

- Okay, make sure.

- Please make sure.

- We don't need another yesterday.

Tre: She was right last time, she was right.

Terrel: All right.

Rachel: All right.

Tre: She was doin' good.

Tim: Come on.

[pumping] Okay, stop.

Ethan: Stop.

[air hissing briefly] Okay.

Leslie: Okay.

Tim: Everybody get your life-- Leslie: Let's get the life vests.

Ethan: Okay.

Leslie: One, two, three, four.

Nathan: Hold on, it's my turn.

Ethan: One, two, three, go, big strong, strong strokes.

Leslie: Strong, go all the way to the bottom, go.

Go!

Tim: Keep it to the left, keep it to the left.

Leslie: Ethan, you need to tighten up, Ethan-- Tim: Ethan, you gotta paddle harder, Ethan!

Ethan, buddy, you gotta paddle.

Leslie: No.

Tim: You gotta paddle.

Leslie: Hold on, I'm directin', wait.

Nathan: Directing.

Leslie: Let me direct you.

Tim: Ethan, stay focused, man.

[crosstalk] Tim: All right, now start paddlin', Ethan, go.

Leslie: Paddle forward.

Ethan: Like this?

Tim: Go!

Leslie: Forward!

Tim: With me, Ethan, let's go, with me, come on, look ahead, buddy.

Nathan: One, two, three, paddle!

Tim: Go.

Rachel: Trinity, please keep us on the trail, please.

Trinity: I wasn't tryin' to take y'all off the trail, I was lookin' for the checkpoint, y'all didn't have to follow me!

Terrel: We have to follow you, you're our leader.

Rachel: But you're the leader, we have to follow the leader!

Tre: Since when do we follow the leader, y'all?

Trinity: But I told you, I was tryin' to find the trail, not the-- Terrel: Did he say you're the leader?

Trinity: The checkpoint, not the-- Rachel: Hey, we don't make excuses, just own it-- Trinity: All right, all right, all right, we're on the trail, guys, now.

Terrel: Oh man.

Tre: Wow.

Terrel: Here we go.

Rachel: Oh my gosh.

Trinity: Oh my!

Look who it is!

Rachel: Do y'all see that?

I see the flags.

Terrel: All right, let's look around, let's look around.

Gotta be somewhere in here.

C'mon, Tre.

Rachel: Right here, I got it.

Terrel: Here we go.

Come over here, come over here.

Rachel: Let's see, let's see.

I'm thinkin' the four-person.

- Four-person, yeah.

- Definitely the four-person.

- Okay, okay, so the raft it is.

Oh, it's heavy, huh?

Tre: Yeah, it's a raft.

Tim: Come on!

Leslie: We're good!

Tim: Hard!

Leslie: Keep goin'!

Tim: All right, y'all get up, pull the boat up.

Nathan: Hold on.

Tim: Okay.

Nathan: This is soaked.

Tim: I am soakin' wet.

My feet are soaked.

Ethan: What's it say?

- "Congratulations, you survived Day Two!"

[all cheering] Tim: Oh!

Yes!

Hey guys, we're doin' awesome.

Nathan: We're doin' awesome, come on.

Tim: We got this, we've come back from a long way yesterday.

Nathan: Oh yeah.

Ethan: We're doin' good.

- Nobody can stop the Smith family.

Ethan: One, two, three!

All: Smiths!

Leslie: Woo!

[triumphant music] Let's go get camp set up.

Nathan: My feet are freezing!

Tim: Yeah.

Leslie: My feet are so-- [pumping] Terrel: Pump it up!

Rachel: [laughs] Terrel: Keep going!

Tre: Seein' the flags across the lake, it feels good, knowing that we're close to the finish line.

C'mon.

Terrel: All right.

All right, let's go.

We're feelin' better than ever.

Um, today was a great day for us.

We feel stronger as a unit.

Uh, we feel like we made pretty good time today.

Tre: This is so fun!

Rachel: Y'all see any fish?

Trinity: I ain't lookin' for no fish!

Terrel: I don't care about no fish right now.

Tre: I care about gettin' to the other side of this lake.

Trinity: Oh, there's a fish!

Terrel: Oh, man.

Tre: [laughs] C'mon.

We're almost there, y'all.

Rachel: All right, come on.

Terrel: There it is!

There's that beautiful flag.

Tre: And a little clue, too.

Terrel: Let's see it.

- "Congratulations, you have survived Day Two."

- We made it through Day Two, guys!

[all cheering] All right, we gotta do it.

One, two, three!

All: Majettes!

Terrel: Let's go set up camp.

Tre: Let's go set up our camp.

Terrel: Woo!

[calm music] Leslie: We can put the tent right... Tim: In this area right here?

Leslie: Yeah.

Tim: Okay, come on.

Leslie: And I want you and you to do it.

Ethan: Okay.

Tim: Y'all gonna step up and try?

Leslie: Yeah.

Y'all been steppin' up this whole time, so let's see y'all get it.

Nathan: Okay.

Get the tent out?

Okay, so how do you think-- Ethan: This will go on top.

Nathan: That goes on top, okay, so leave that over there.

Rachel: Hey, where's Tre with that kindling?

Gotta get this fire started.

Tre: I found some sticks!

Terrel: Okay.

- Oh, good job!

- Yeah.

[sighs contentedly] You know, you guys didn't pick me.

Mom did.

And I'm just glad that I picked you guys.

You know what I mean?

Trinity: Yeah.

Tre: Mm-hm.

Terrel: So it just means everything to me to have y'all with me right now, to be able to experience this together.

I didn't have this opportunity to be able to do anything like this with my dad.

This means everything.

As a family, you've been a leader, you steppin' out when everybody said you couldn't do it, and you're doin' it now?

You know what I mean?

Trinity: Yeah, even though we didn't pick you, we're glad that you are here.

We do appreciate you a lot.

- Yeah?

Trinity: Yeah, it takes a lot to step up, especially when it's not your, your own kid.

- You mean that?

- Yeah, I do, honestly.

Rachel: She has a soft side!

[laughs] - I did keep a wall up, you know?

Because my dad did leave, and you know, he started another family, so it, it was hard to actually try to let him in, so, but he's shown me that he's, he's there, so I do trust him with that.

♪♪ So I'm just happy.

I'm happy that I have him, you know, and he's not just a phone call, or a FaceTime, he's there, and I'm, I'm happy about that.

- And come here, I want you to understand this.

I am here, like, for real.

Okay?

Because I got you.

Forever.

You understand me?

And I'mma always be there, until you get married when you're 60, okay?

- [laughs] - Aight?

And we might look at dating when you turn 45, too, just so you know.

- [laughs] ♪♪ Tim: Yesterday was, it was brutal, I mean, for me and your mom, and... you know, for y'all to take lead like you did, and you know, listen to everything that I told y'all to do, the advice I gave you throughout, y'all took that into consideration yesterday, and you're usin' it, you know, and, um, how'd that feel?

Like... - It felt awesome to be in the front, 'cause I'm like, I'm encouraging y'all to go, and keep going.

- You're technically the leader.

Tim: Yeah.

- Yeah.

Y'all were.

Tim: So now... Leslie: Exactly.

Tim: When we get a tree job, or whatever it may be, I can kinda come to you now.

Somethin' you've been wantin' to do in the business.

- Both of y'all.

- And say, "Hey, you wanna show me some leadership?"

And try it now.

So you, you learned somethin'.

- Just take on more responsibility.

Tim: I can't wait to get home and let's see what happens.

Leslie: Yeah.

- Yeah.

Ethan: To be able to take more responsibility feels completely amazing, because I feel like that I've earned it, and that I'm, I'm starting to take leadership, I've learnt that I'm really good at taking leadership, so I feel good about that.

- One, two, three!

All: Smiths!

- Woo!

♪♪ [bright music] [bird call] Leslie: Y'all ready for today?

Ethan: Oh yeah.

Leslie: How'd everybody sleep?

Not too good?

Ethan: It was cold.

- It was very cold!

- These couple days've been very strenuous, uh, when you think you're ready for somethin', might wanna think a little harder, 'cause this was brutal.

- I might be a little bit tired, but I'm ready.

Leslie: Smith family on three.

One, two, three.

All: Smiths!

Leslie: Woo!

♪♪ Tre: Good morning, Day Three!

We are in the tent at the moment.

There's a fire outside, but we do not wanna get up.

Both: At all.

Rachel: You got that side, Trinity?

Colin: The Majettes may be waking up to a defecit this morning, but there's still a long way to go, and they're not out of this race yet.

- Tre, go on the other side and get that one.

Tre: Right.

Terrel: I'm so thankful that I was able to do this with my kids, even though they're not my biological kids, you know?

To, to be able to come out here and show them that, "Hey, I love you too, and you are mine," you know?

And it's gon' feel so awesome to see that flag at the end of this journey.

Trinity: Right?

Awesome is an understatement.

Terrel: Yeah.

Trinity, she was able to display a leadership skill that I didn't even know she had.

I'm so proud of her.

Like, I really feel like I've seen a level of growth in you.

Rachel: Maturity.

- That I'm ready to trust you more.

Trinity: I've seen a lot from my dad.

He just put his trust in me, so I do believe that our relationship has grown a lot.

- Ah!

Tre: I love you.

[laughter] - Tre!

- "It's your final day, so up, up, and away!"

- Woo!

Colin: This is Day Three.

Today, the families will travel the last five miles of their trek up the steep and icy mountain to reach the soaring elevation of 11,050 feet before racing to the valley below, where they will have to raise their flag at the finish line.

♪♪ Nathan: This is the last day, we got this.

Straight up the mountain!

Tim: Yup.

- "It's your final day, so up, up, and away!"

- Huh.

Uh, that don't sound so good.

Tim: Just take your time.

- Yeah.

- I'm behind you, so I ain't gonna rush you.

- Okay.

Ethan: Y'all got it.

This adventure is hard.

I'm gonna help my family through it by motivating them, and not stopping.

Point 39, y'all!

It goes this way up here.

Leslie: We got this.

[heavy breathing] Terrel: The hot tub is callin' my name.

Trinity: Yes.

Rachel: I think so too.

Terrel: And I feel like... every little step we get closer and closer.

Rachel: My brain and my body... workin' against each other.

My brain's sayin', "You can do it," and my body's sayin, "Sit yo tail down."

Terrel: [laughs] Rachel: But I'mma keep goin'.

Terrel: [laughs] - I'm coming, y'all.

I'm coming.

Trinity: Uh-huh, we're right there!

Terrel: So close, so close.

Nathan: Y'all got this!

Tim: You know, you got to push through it, no matter how hard it is.

When you get past this snow, the trek's a little better, but let's-- Leslie: [crying] No it's not!

Tim: Think about it this way, it's downhill from here.

Leslie: Quit talkin'!

Tim: You know, this ain't nothin' compared to what we've been through.

Nathan: C'mon, you gotta make this.

Ethan: You're doin' good, you're pushin' hard.

Tim: Come on.

Leslie: If I got paid every time you said "Come on," I'd be rich.

Ethan: Look at the view!

[inspiring music] Leslie: We've been through a lot of stuff.

We're overcomin' a lot.

Tim: We're overcomin' every struggle we, we come across at this point.

- [indistinct] Tim: My boys have shown so much leadership.

This is a moment we'll never forget right here.

Leslie: Yeah.

Look at this!

Nathan: I think I could see New York City from here.

Leslie: I think you can, almost!

♪♪ I love y'all.

Ethan: Love you too.

Tim: But I'm impressed, I, my family is awesome, I mean... - And we're not stoppin'.

- "Fulfill your wish and race to the finish to claim your prize."

Okay, it's this way.

Tim: Let's go around?

Trinity: Oh, I can see the top!

Rachel: We made it!

Terrel: [laughs] Rachel: Mama made it!

Terrel: [laughs] Rachel: We're here.

Trinity: Oh my goodness, look.

Rachel: Is this even real?

Terrel: Never seen anything like this in all of my life.

Rachel: Never in my life.

We did it.

We did it.

Together.

Terrel: Right now, I am so happy that we were able to make it to the top of this mountain, I can't even explain.

The view, I mean, it's picture perfect, literally.

- We did it!

We're at the top of the mountain.

Look.

Crazy.

It's crazy.

Rachel: Eleven thousand feet.

Can you guys see this view?

We made it.

Just our two feet and our love for each other got us to the top of an 11,000-foot mountain.

I'm so proud of you, Tre!

- I got goosebumps.

- Yeah, I do, I got goosebumps.

- The Majette family did it!

Rachel: We did it!

[all yelling] ♪♪ We did it.

[laughs] Terrel: We did.

- Thank you for this.

This is all 'cause of you!

Thank you for takin' my kids under your wing, thank you for being their dad, thank you for bein' their best friend, their confidant, you know, thank you for bein' everything you are to our entire family, your family, you're the rock.

I gotta say, I'm proud of you.

I'm proud of you.

I love you.

Terrel: I love you too.

[kiss] Colin: Getting to the top of the mountain is only half the battle.

Families must now make their way down the slick route, dropping over 2,000 feet in just two and a half miles with an all-out sprint to the flags.

Tim: Woo!

Leslie: This is the last part, y'all!

Ethan: We're on our way to $10,000, everybody!

Nathan: The dollars are coming!

Tim: It's at our reach, guys.

Ethan: Comin', we're comin'!

Tim: We're comin'!

Terrel: It'll be better when we get out of this right here.

Trinity: Right.

Nathan: C'mon, guys, we're almost there!

Rachel: I'm startin' to break a sweat now!

Nathan: I can see 'im!

- C'mon, you guys, you're almost there!

[heavy breathing, shouting] Smith family, congratulations, you made it to the finish line area, but you are not done yet.

If you wanna win Survivalists, you gotta build the flagpole, get your flag flyin'.

You are so close, but the Majettes could be right over the corner there, so.

Tim: All right, come on.

Rachel: Woo!

Terrel: [laughing mischeivously] Rachel: The home stretch.

Terrel: [laughs] Woo!

Leslie: That goes to that one.

Colin: After all these challenges, I love seeing the families still workin' together here.

Tim: Okay.

Leslie: Woo!

Terrel: Woohoo, woohoo, here I come, Tre!

Here I come, Tre!

Colin: The only thing standing between you guys and $10,000 is getting this flag in the air!

- This family has been through the ringer, but we just kept goin', and you know, came together as a family.

To go from where we've been to right now... amazing.

Colin: Smith family, you've won Survivalists!

[all cheering] You have won 10,000 dollars!

Leslie: [crying] - You guys did it!

- Hey, we were the underdogs, buddy.

- Woo!

Colin: Hey!

Ah, I'm so proud of you guys.

Nathan, how're you feeling, man?

Was there any moment when you wanted to give up?

- Um, I was determined the whole time.

It's just the elevation was the kicker.

- These two killed it, man, they were ahead of us the entire time, didn't even get winded, nothin'.

Tim: Ethan, he led us the whole way, and I mean, I'm so proud of him for that.

I guess what I learnt was I can hand over more to my family now, instead of me always just sayin', "No, I've got it," like I always do.

- Ethan, what do you feel like you learned about yourself through this process?

- I think that I'm really good at leadership.

Leslie: You definitely are.

- I think that I can lead family, or a teammate pretty good.

- There's something about having fought through those times in your past.

Leslie: Yes.

- Also accomplishing something like this that just recalibrates, when you guys go back home, you say, "I've suffered through these things," and that makes you stronger, ultimately.

Tim: Oh, yeah, you know, we use that, you know, that's really what pushed us to come on through.

From livin' in a tent, you know, pushin' our mowers around, knockin' on doors, you know, just hopin' that person'll say, "Yeah, you can mow my yard."

For us to come here and actually conquer what we did.

Man, I'm just super proud of all my family.

Colin: Yeah!

Tim: Oh my goodness, man, we did it.

We were underdogs, can you believe it?

Colin: [laughs] [rustling] [adventurous music] Trinity: We're here!

Tre: We made it!

Rachel: C'mon, c'mon, Tre.

♪♪ C'mon, Tre!

- Ha!

Rachel: Yes!

- I know you're exhausted, you've got one last challenge you gotta do.

Terrel: Okay.

That here.

It's the biggest.

- You gotta look at the grooves.

Terrel: It was really important for us to try to come out here and win this money; there was a lot of things that we could've used it for.

But the most important thing for me was to have Tre and Trinity know that I'm always there for 'em.

Colin: I know you didn't get the W like you wanted, but hey, you finished this thing, and this thing's tough.

- This is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

Colin: Day one, sounded like you were almost in that mindset of saying, "Hey, this might be too hard for us."

- We shed a lot of tears.

- Yeah, we got used to a lot of tears.

Colin: You got 10,000 feet up in the mountains there, that is a huge accomplishment!

Terrel: Yeah, definitely.

There were times when we all wanted to give up, and we all wanted to just say, "Hey, maybe we can't do it."

And there's no greater feeling than seeing them just push forward.

Every fall, they got back up, and they just kept goin'.

- Father-daughter bond, that's a special bond.

How has that grown over the course of this expedition?

- It's one of the most rewarding feelings out of all of this, just to see her and how she just took leadership of this family.

If it wasn't for her drive, if it wasn't for her push, we wouldn't have made it.

Trinity: My relationship with my dad has grown a lot.

It's at its highest point, honestly.

I know if I would've stopped, they would've stopped, and we wouldn't have gotten past day one, so I had to keep pushing.

I do feel like now, I can just tell him anything.

Before, I didn't feel as if I can ever come to him at all, you know?

Colin: Smith family, I did promise you this.

Here are these backpacks, $10,000!

Hold that up, celebrate, that's yours!

No one can take that from you now, open that up.

- Woo!

- How does that feel?

Leslie: Amazing!

This is gonna help our family a million percent.

It's somethin' special for us, and we're... truly excited.

Rachel: Congratulations, guys!

Yes, good job, good job, me too, me too!

Y'all did that thing, man, I'm proud of you.

I'm proud of y'all!

♪♪