♪♪ Colin: Welcome to Survivalists, the first ever extreme family adventure competition show.

I'm your host, Colin O'Brady.

And I'm an explorer who loves to prove the impossible-- Summit!

--is possible.

From becoming the first person to cross Antarctica solo, unsupported, and fully human-powered, to climbing Mount Everest-- Top of the world!

--I've set ten world records, and I'm a New York Times bestselling author.

I have learned that if you push yourself, you will be amazed at what you can achieve.

Now, my wife and I work to inspire kids and their communities to achieve their biggest dreams.

Woo-hoo!

I know first-hand the value of pushing yourself in the wild, and now, each week, I'll be challenging two families, each here for deeply personal reasons, to push themselves further than they've ever been pushed before.

They will head out on a three-day adventure of a lifetime that will test them physically, mentally, and emotionally.

- We've always done everything together.

- I know, but you have to do this.

Colin: They will learn to see loved ones in a new light, rebuild relationships, and find strength as a family.

Boy: For anybody who's ever doubted me, you don't need to doubt me anymore.

Colin: But in the end, only one family can come out on top and take home the $10,000 cash prize.

♪♪ - All right!

♪♪ Colin: This week, the Thompson family from Leesburg, Florida-- - I wanna win, but I don't wanna make it look like I had a hard time winning.

Colin: --will take on the Millers from Baltimore, Maryland.

- This is really just about us, and it's about this experience.

Colin: Who will be the first to raise their family's flag-- - Aaahh!

- Oh my goodness.

- Hey, we're catching up!

Colin: --and be this week's Survivalists?

All: We're the Millers from Baltimore, Maryland.

Man: I think we're a pretty adventurous group.

Girl: Every single person in this family, if we want something, like, we will have a way to get it.

You know, putting all our brain power and motivation together, we can do great things.

All: We're the Thompsons from Leesburg, Florida.

Woman: There are so many words that could describe my family.

Boy 1: When we're together, it's kinda chaos, mayhem, you know.

Boy 2: I think we're definitely geared up to do this.

Like, a lot.

Woman: They're very, very driven.

- We're definitely going to destroy this competition.

♪♪ Colin: Families, welcome to Survivalists!

[all cheering] I love it, I'm loving this energy!

Both teams are fired up!

This is gonna be a serious competition.

Miller family, how's it feel to be out here and take on this challenge?

Girl: I'm just glad that I have these guys to do it with me, because everyone is gonna all work together, and I'm really excited to see how we come together.

- Now, we've all been kind of branching off and doing individual things but, uh, I'm really excited to take this opportunity and kinda come together.

Colin: Luke, bringing your four teenage kids out here, what does this mean for you and what's the larger objective?

Luke: Well, a couple things.

I spend as much time in the outdoors as I can, and I really want them to have that same appreciation that I do.

But I also want to take a step back a little bit and let them carry some of the load and really allow them and their strength to shine.

Historically, in all of our outdoor adventures, I've done the heavy lifting.

I'm excited for them facing challenges and maybe stepping up into that role a little bit and maybe even what can they learn about themselves that they can carry forward to the rest of their life.

- Personally, I want to be present and experience every moment that I can out there to see how we, as a family, can grow together through challenges.

We're gonna see how they step up and lead and make their own decisions and show us a little bit about what they may know more than us.

- Tell me a little bit about your family flag.

- In the center, we have a bunny and a cross, and those sort of represent the center of our lives.

Obviously, faith is a little higher than the bunny, but we have an adorable bunny named Snickers, and he is definitely something that brings us all together.

Colin: How do you think he would survive out here in this competition?

Victoria: Oh gosh, he is the sweetest bunny ever, so I don't think he would do too well.

- Thompson family.

- Yes sir.

Colin: Welcome.

- Woo-hoo!

Colin: You guys are coming from central Florida.

Any big mountains out that way?

- No.

- No.

[laughs] - I've actually climbed the tallest mountain in Florida.

It's Britain Hill, 395 feet.

[laughter] When you look out at these mountains in Idaho, are you nervous?

Ryan: It's kinda exciting.

I like having competitions with my brothers, and especially, like, winning against them.

- I'm really out here trying to have a good time, but also trying to learn something.

You know, trying to bond more as a family.

- I wanna win.

- Saw that one comin' a mile away.

- I really wanna win.

Lucas: [laughs] - I'm seeing a lot of confidence.

- it was-- it was three of us going against each other, so we just had to become confident and competitive.

- Ryan is pretty competitive, but there's a close second, third, and fourth sittin' up here with me.

- What is the objective for being out here as this family?

- I would like to see them have a great time and get a serving or two of humble pie.

[laughter] I know every family's probably out here with a desire to win, but a desire to win should be a bonus.

They obviously think it should be the focus.

I think that that could ultimately be a weakness.

- Tell me about the family flag.

- Our flag has a couple aspects to it.

Its five fingers each represent one part of our family, all connected through the palm, and then the roots represent us as a family being stabled.

- Well, I have no doubt about it, seeing both of these families, getting to know you guys, we are in for an epic battle to the finish line.

You'll be going on a challenging three-day, 24-mile trek through one of the most diverse and difficult landscapes in the country.

Day one, you'll traverse five miles of treacherous black lava, avoiding deep cracks and razor-sharp edges to safely arrive at your first camp for the night.

Day two, you'll navigate a grueling 16 miles in this barren and windswept region, using all-terrain vehicles to survive the harsh elements, helping you conserve your energy and much-needed water.

Day three, you will scramble up a rugged rocky mountain peak, steeply climbing over 7,000 feet before racing down to the finish line, where the first family to raise their flag will be declared the winner.

All right, families, do you wanna find out what we're competing for?

All: Yeah!

Colin: All right.

Well, I've got these two backpacks over here.

I want you to open them up and see what's inside.

- Oh my-- [exclamations] Colin: That is $10,000 cash inside those backpacks.

- What's going through my mind is pretty much what we're gonna do with it, how we're gonna split it up.

- They're assuming we would split it up.

Dad: [laughing] - Before sending you off into this beautiful, yet very challenging backcountry, I'm gonna give you the opportunity to visit the general store, where you can grab all the essential items to survive our three-day extreme expedition.

But you only have 90 seconds inside to find everything you need.

To gain even more time, I've set up three challenges for you to play.

Each challenge you win, you'll earn an additional 30 seconds to your clock.

The first skill that I'm gonna test you on, the ability to light a fire.

Boy: Woo-hoo!

♪♪ Welcome to the fire challenge.

Both: Yeah.

Colin: You're gonna compete to see who can make a fire the fastest using only flint, steel, and natural elements found in the wild.

You have to get your fire burning high enough, burn all the way through the string, which will drop that rock in the water, signifying you have won the challenge.

Ryan, how you feeling?

- I'm feeling kinda nervous, but I'm ready.

- Luke, how about you, how you feeling?

- Yeah, I'm feeling a little nervous as well, but I think I might be able to pull through.

I've proved to be pretty good at being able to start fires, but I'm nervous because I don't know the skill of my opponent, and that's a bit, uh, nerve-wracking for me.

- Three, two, one, go.

Lucas: You got it, Ryan.

Luke Sr.

: Come on, Luke.

Victoria: You got it, Luke.

Jake: You got it, dude.

Logan: Come on, Ryan.

Luke Sr.

: There you go, there you go.

Colin: He's getting his sparking going first.

Luke Jr.

: I'm really scared at this point, because I look over and I see Ryan is throwing a lot of sparks, and I think that he might just spark the flame almost immediately.

- Ryan, you have got-- Colin: Ryan's alternating between going for the spark as well as, uh, putting the magnesium down in there.

Luke Jr.

: All I know is I have to have the right combination of tinder.

My dad always told me to fluff it up to get the most air flow.

Colin: Luke's got a lot of sparks going.

Both are going back to the magnesium now, trying to get enough magnesium.

Oh, look, super close there for Luke.

I'm seeing, oh, Luke has got some fire.

He's got some fire, he's definitely the first one to get some fire.

Courtney: You got it.

Colin: Ryan hasn't given up, but now he's looking over at his competition.

It's burning high, already up onto the string.

Looks--Luke is the-- Luke is the winner of the challenge!

Luke is the winner of the fire challenge.

That was super impressive, I've gotta say, for both of you.

Ryan: I started off getting some sparks, but it just wouldn't light.

I lost.

Bad.

Like, really bad.

Colin: Miller family, you have an additional 30 seconds in the general store.

Luke Sr.

: I couldn’t be more proud of Luke.

You know, the first challenge is kinda important to win, and Luke really stepped up.

Colin: But Thompsons, not to worry.

The second challenge we're going for is the food challenge.

You guys ready for that?

All: Yeah!

- All right, let's go.

♪♪ Luke Jr.

: Yum.

Colin: Mm, tasty treats up there.

All right, families, welcome to the food challenge.

You guys hungry?

All: Yeah.

Logan: Famished.

Colin: The way this food challenge works is up here, we've got both edible and inedible foods.

the goal is to pick a plate of edible food.

If you choose a poisonous food, that will disqualify you from the challenge.

You're gonna need two participants from each family: one to pick the food, and one to eat it.

Who's it gonna be?

- Right here.

- We've got Lucas.

- And my strong female companion here.

Colin: All right, father-daughter team, I like it.

Thompsons, who's it gonna be for you guys?

- Right here.

Kristin: Logan and I.

- Kristin and Logan.

Two, one, go.

Go!

Oh, all right.

Wow, Victoria, you went right for those frog legs.

Feeling pretty confident about that?

- Yeah.

- All right, take a bite.

Jake: [laughs] - Tastes like chicken.

Colin: Tastes like chicken.

Jake: [laughs] Luke Sr.

: It was hard not to eat the entire skewer of the frog legs.

- Kristin, what do you think you've got here for your son?

- I'm hoping I got wild ginger.

- All right, take a bite.

That is indeed ginger.

Congratulations, both teams, you've gotten through round one.

Let's go for round two.

Go!

Jake: Go, Victoria!

Holly: Yeah!

Luke Jr.

: Yeah!

Courtney: Nice.

Colin: Oh, wow.

Another brave selection.

Luke, let's go to you first.

What do you think you've got in front of you?

Luke Sr.

: I think it's a wild carrot.

- Pick it up.

It's edible.

[crunch] Millers: Yeah!

Colin: Logan, is this your first time eating some bugs?

- Yes.

- Those are indeed edible.

Grab a handful.

[laughter] [cheering] ♪♪ Logan: Oof.

[laughs] - All right, Logan, why don't you pick that one up nice and slow for me.

Stop.

That is poisonous.

That is larkspur.

Kristin: Bad choice on my part.

Colin: That means that if Victoria picked an edible plant, the Miller family will take the lead here.

Stop.

- [sighs] Colin: That is poisonous.

Millers: Oh!

Colin: Dieffenbachia.

If you eat that, your tongue will swell up so much, you won't be able to talk or breathe.

Courtney: Ooh.

Jake: Ah.

- All right, let's choose wisely in round four.

Go!

Luke Sr.

: Oh-ho-ho-ho.

Colin: Luke, what do you think you've got in front of you here?

Luke Sr.

: They look delicious, I'm just hoping it's not my last meal.

[laughter] Victoria: I know that mushrooms have a high chance of being poisonous, so I definitely think it's anybody's game for this one.

Colin: Eat it.

Millers: Yeah!

- All right, Logan.

♪♪ Stop.

That's poisonous, unfortunately.

- Ahh.

Colin: Miller family, you won the food challenge.

[cheering] Luke Sr.

: I'm very proud of her and the way that she really used her reasoning to figure things out.

Colin: The Miller family now has an additional 30 seconds in the general store.

But don't worry, we still have another challenge in front of us: animal tracks.

Jake: Ooh!

♪♪ Colin: Welcome to the third and final survival challenge.

This is the animal tracks challenge.

You're gonna have to flip over animal tracks on these wood panels and match them with the pictures of the animals from your podium.

For the Thompsons' family, their remaining two players are Darwin and Lucas.

But the Millers, who's it gonna be?

Luke Sr.

: Big man Jake and Holly.

Jake: Holly and I are feeling pretty confident with the animal tracks-- Holly: For sure.

Jake: You know, I think we can pull out a win in this.

- All right, families, two people, come on up to the podium.

Darwin: We do not want to lose the third challenge.

It will be a disastrous-- poor morale in our family.

Colin: Three, two, one, go.

Ryan: Flip them up, flip them up.

Darwin: I got it, I got it.

Holly: Let me see, let me see.

Jake: All right, you know what that is.

Lucas: All right, put it there, yep.

Dad had his job, I had my job, I paid no mind to the Millers.

It was me, Dad, the prints, and the animal, and that's all I was focused on.

Ryan: Come on, come on!

Holly: Try rabbit.

Colin: Lucas is going quickly.

Darwin: Which one?

Colin: Holly's trying to figure out where does that go.

Holly: No.

Jake: The fox.

Colin: You have three of six correct.

Lucas: So, I think this one's wrong.

- The Millers have five of six correct in here.

Jake: I'm looking over at the Thompsons, and they actually have the elk mixed with the deer.

I think that gives us an advantage.

Colin: Now you have four of six correct.

If we figure out which one we're missing, we can pull it off.

- Five of six.

Darwin: I don't think that's it.

Kristin: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Colin: Is the Thompson family gonna have it?

Thompson family, you are the winners!

Darwin: Yes!

[laughter] Darwin: I feel elated.

I said, yes, you know, we finally got one, we're back in it to give us some-- a morale boost.

Colin: After a back and forth battle on these three survival challenges, it is now time to shop for the gear and supplies you're gonna need to survive.

You guys ready to go shopping for some gear?

All: Yeah!

Colin: All right, let's go to the general store!

♪♪ [latch opens] [doors creak] - Welcome to the General Store!

Logan: Wow.

Luke Sr.

: Woo!

Ryan: Yeah.

- Over the next three days, you're gonna be headed out on a multi-day expedition in some of Idaho's roughest backcountry.

But before doing that, I wanna give you a little bit of time to shop in the general store for crucial gear and supplies that you're gonna need.

Each family gets 90 seconds to start with, but based on how you performed in the last survival challenges, the Thompson family gets 30 seconds additional, and the Miller family, winning the first two challenges, gets 60 seconds additional time.

I have made a list of essential items that includes flint, water bottles, water filtration, a knife, a first aid kit, and a GPS.

If you miss any items on this list, your team will start with a 30-minute time penalty for each of the essential items that you miss.

Everything you grab, you have to bring with you the entire time.

However, if it is not in your designated circle when I call time, it is not coming on this expedition; you have to survive without it.

The Millers have an additional 30 seconds, so they're on my first go, Thompsons, you're on my second go.

Courtney: I have never shopped with a limited time frame.

I just wanna make sure I walk out of the store with clothes and some food.

- Three, two, one, go!

Jake: Go, go, go, go, go!

Colin: And they're off, they're off!

They've got the 30-second advantage here.

See if they can make sure they get all their essential items.

Look like they're kind of dividing and conquering a bit.

Ready, three, two, one, Thompsons, go!

All right, both families are in there.

A little bit of chaos, knocking into each other.

Holly: --right side.

Colin: Thompsons finally put something in their circle.

Jake's got the,uh, marshmallows, clearly a necessity.

Are they gonna have all the essential items?

20 seconds to go,20 seconds.

Holly: Headlamps, where are the headlamps?

Colin: Ten seconds!

They're running, here we go!

Five seconds.

If it's not in the circle, it's not comin'.

Three, two, one, stop!

Stop, nope, nope, drop it.

Luke Sr.

: Looking at our pile, honestly, I'm thinking we have too much stuff.

Colin: Miller family, you guys have quite a haul in comparison to the Thompsons.

- So,we've got the flint, six water bottles, we've got the knife, we've got the first aid kit, and you guys have the water filtration and the GPS.

Colin: Millers, you've got all the essential items.

That means you'll be starting tomorrow with no time penalties.

- Yeah.

Colin: Thompsons, a very different tactic here.

Logan: We went light, they went heavy.

I actually think that the extra time that they got, I kinda wish they got more.

That way, they could keep piling stuff on.

- Flint, water bottles for all the teammates, knife, water filtration, first aid kit, and GPS.

Thompsons, you got all the essential items.

You guys will be on the starting line head-to-head.

My suggestion right now is pack your gear up, get a very good night's sleep tonight, because tomorrow, I'm gonna meet you on the trailhead at sunrise, all right?

Jake: All right.

Juke Jr.

: Woo!

Colin: See you at sunrise.

Luke Sr.

: Yeah!

♪♪ [crickets chirping] ♪♪ Colin: Everyone comes out here for a different reason.

Whether it's the Miller family, looking to give their children outdoor and life experiences that they can take into adulthood, or the Thompsons, whose three driven boys need a dose of humility to learn that winning at all costs has its limits.

The path is here, and their journey awaits.

Welcome to the start line of your multi-day expedition.

You guys ready to do battle with the elements out here?

All: Yeah.

Colin: This is day one.

Today,the Millers and the Thompsons must trek over five of their 24-mile journey.

They'll make their way over a moonlight topography, with each family choosing the quickest and safest routes through the difficult lava field, finishing their treacherous trek together.

♪♪ This is some pretty rough looking terrain.

I've been a lot of places on my expeditions, but this is very unique terrain.

Lucas, when you look out over this crazy landscape, how you feeling?

- A lot of room for error out here.

- We've never been out in something like this.

This place is an accident waiting to happen.

- Courtney, as a mother, are you worried about your kids being out here at all?

- Worried about everybody, actually, but again, with God, all things are possible.

Colin: Okay, well, you guys ready to find out how the game's played?

All: Yeah!

Colin: Okay.

I'm gonna give you this first cannister.

Inside is the coordinates that you'll put in your GPS that is gonna help you navigate to the next checkpoint.

On my go!

Three, two, one, go!

[indistinct talking] - Welcome to Survivalists.

Lava rock leads your way.

Logan: That's that way.

[indistinct talking] Colin: All right, good luck.

♪♪ To reach the first checkpoint, the families need to decide what is the best route to take over the sharp lava rocks through large craters and around dangerous cracks and crevasses.

Jake: Stay to the right of this.

Do not fall in there.

Luke Sr.

: We don't have to go fast, we just have to keep going, all right?

Jake: It's quite windy.

Darwin: Stay on the-- Kristin: Darwin's gonna scout, Lucas is gonna readjust us with the GPS, Logan and Ryan are gonna follow behind, and we all knew I would be bringing up the rear.

Darwin: Lucas.

Lucas: Yes.

- We'll go this way right here.

Lucas: Yeah,I'm thinking we take it down right here.

- Down right here and then the road.

- Dad wants us to take a quick detour right down here, and then we'll move up through here.

Jake: So, uh, the Thompsons took the low road, we took the high road, and I think we might have the advantage.

I think it's up over this little ridge.

♪♪ Colin: Taking a gamble on a lower and easier path, the Thompsons put themselves at a disadvantage.

Darwin: Just follow the route.

- The compass does not say to go that way!

Darwin: What?

Lucas: We're gonna come right here, and then we're just gonna go up and over.

So, I'm looking at the GPS, and we're going down here, but it's not saying that that's the right direction.

Back up we go ,boys!

It's only, like five minutes, but out here, five minutes can do a lot.

- Lucas, just make sure you're in the right bearing.

- Yes, Dad.

Luke Jr.

: It's down there, in the crater, in the crater.

Jake: In the crater?

Holly: We should only have one person, one person.

Courtney: Okay, let me go.

Victoria: No, no, no, no.

Courtney: Yes, because I don't have a pack.

Darwin: I just want to look at the compass real quick.

Lucas: Yeah, here, Imma keep going.

Darwin: No, because look, you're leaving your mother over there.

Why would you wanna keep going?

- Get there first?

My dad's yelling at me, asking to see the GPS.

- Let me look at the bearing.

Lucas: I really wish he would just trust me a little bit more with it.

- Switch the compass-- - It's our compass, here.

Darwin: [breathing hard] ♪♪ Jake: All right,Mom, get it and bring it up here.

♪♪ Holly: Slow and steady, don't try to rush.

♪♪ Lucas: Guys, I think I might have found it.

We're coming up on the first checkpoint, and I look down, and I see the Millers' mother is already climbing out of where it is.

Jake: All right, we got it.

Cool, let's go.

Luke Jr.

: Yeah,the Thompsons look like they're catching up, so I'm a bit nervous.

Lucas: So I immediately drop my pack and head down.

There we go.

Colin: The families carefully continue through the jagged landscape for another mile and a half over unforgiving terrain towards the next checkpoint.

Jake: All right, watch out, there's a drop off here, we've gotta climb down a little bit.

Watch out, there's a step right here.

Victoria: Could you hold this?

Lucas: They may have taken the high road, but we are much closer to the point.

- We have a little bit of a lead on the Thompsons, but right now, we are literally neck and neck, so it could be anyone's game.

Lucas: Whenever I see the family up there, it gives me a bit of motivation, but then I look back and realize that my mom's a hundred yards away.

It's a little aggravating, but, you know, we love her, we stick through it.

Kristin: I'm just not sure I can make those jumps they just made.

Lucas: Okay,Mom, then you can-- if you go to the right-- Kristin: Okay.

Lucas: It's easier down through here.

Do one of you guys wanna wait for Mom?

Logan: We can only go as fast as Mom, Ryan.

Darwin: Kristin is in the back, and I think I'll stay behind her, and then maybe I can be her guide.

Follow me.

Logan: Well,we know the general direction of where we're going, and then the-- us three,the brothers, we're gonna try and go ahead.

Maybe we'll edge the Millers thinking that we're catching up when we really have to wait for our mom to catch up.

Luke Jr.

: Yeah, the Thompsons are going on without their parents.

Courtney: Okay.

Luke Jr.

: Come on, come on, they're literally right behind us, a few feet behind us.

Courtney: I know, I know.

- Our ability to stick together at all times is really helping us.

Victoria: There were a few times that I was falling a little behind, but my family just continued to encourage me, and I felt like I was still a part of the family and a part of the team, so that was really encouraging.

Jake: Oh, there, there, there!

There, right there, Luke.

Luke Sr.

: Don't hurt yourself, son.

Courtney: On the ground.

- Okay,"Like the volcano before you, use your core to fire up to the next point."

Holly: Fire up?

Jake: So I guess we're gonna have to go towards that thing.

Courtney: Yeah, that's a volcano.

Luke Sr.

: Absolutely does not feel like we're ever gonna get out of this lava rock.

Every time we feel like we're on a-- heading to level ground, you know, the next checkpoint just veers us right back into it.

Luke Jr.

: All right, the Thompsons are right behind us.

Lucas: Come on, the Millers are right there.

Ryan: Woo-oo!

Lucas: That's our war cry.

Strike fear into the heart of the Millers' family.

Ryan: It's kinda frustrating how, like, we're just feeling like we're catching up, but then, our mom's back behind us and we have to wait for her.

Lucas: Once Mom gets to the bottom of that, we'll keep going,okay?

You got it, Mom.

Be safe, take your time.

Hey,put a hand on the rock if you have to.

Logan: Mom.

Ryan: You guys see it?

Lucas: It's right there, it's right there.

Darwin: Right here?

- Mom, we got it!

This is the point where we catch up a lot of time!

Lucas: We found it, Mom!

Kristin: The boys yelling at me from an end point is not anything new.

Logan: "Like the volcano before you, use your core to fire up to the next checkpoint."

- I got it.

Darwin: Let's go.

That way!

Logan: Go.

Darwin: Let's go.

Ryan: I think if we can get some flat ground off of this lava rock, we can definitely pull through and catch up to the other team.

♪♪ Colin: Leaving the precarious lava field behind, the families are racing against the setting sun for two miles through a dry brush field to the next checkpoint.

Luke Sr.

: Are we in a good heading,Jake?

Jake: I saw the two, uh, coming up right behind us, I got a little scared.

Courtney: It seems like they're just-- they can't stand being second place.

Jake: We've gotta get there first.

They're running.

Courtney: It's hard for those Thompson boys to feel crushed, you know?

Luke Sr.

: The whole family-- Luke, they've gotta wait till their whole family gets there, son.

Courtney: Just let them go.

It makes them feel like they're ahead.

Lucas: Let's go, Logan.

Logan: So, I sprint really far away from where the checkpoint is, and I would act like I had it so they would follow me.

All right, Ryan, turn around.

- Whoa, the, uh, the point's over here.

- But then, whenever we noticed that our mom and dad were catching up and that they almost found it, then we would sprint right back so we could all open it.

Darwin: Babe, come on.

Come on, come on, come on, they found it, come on!

Over here!

Victoria: I told you not to follow them.

Luke Sr.

: Jake,don't-- relax, dude, relax.

Bring it up, bring it up, bring it up, bring it up, bring it up, bring it up, bring it up, bring it up.

Jake: Thompsons' strategy is a bit different than ours.

They are sacrificing being together as a family in order to, you know, maybe cut some corners.

For my family, I still wanna keep us sticking together.

- "You are out of the ashes and into the sage.

Your camp is just ahead."

Luke Sr.

: All right.

Victoria: Ah, thank-- Luke Sr.

: Onward and upward.

Luke Jr.

: Let's go.

♪♪ Ryan: Come on, Mom, this is really close.

We're trading places, passing them, come on!

Darwin: Come on, dig deep.

Dig deep, come on, let's go.

- It's a clue.

- Go, read it, read it!

- "You're out of the ashes, into the sage, your camp is just ahead."

Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo!

All: Woo!

Darwin: [laughs] All right.

Lucas: That's what's up.

We're playing mind games.

Colin: The families are now in an all-out dash.

The final mile will be a sprint to the finish line.

Luke Jr.

: This is the last push.

Victoria: Pick up the pace, guys.

Courtney: They're comin', though.

Lucas: Guys, I think I see the camp.

Ryan: Let's move.

Logan: Yeah, it's right up there.

Courtney: They're running.

Holly: Let's pick up the pace, guys.

Catch up.

Darwin: Babe, come on, come on.

- Woo, woo, woo!

♪♪ Ryan: Come on, Mom, it's right there.

Kristin: Yeah.

Jake: Let's go!

♪♪ Luke Jr.

: Oh, we're so close!

Holly: Guys, we can do it.

Victoria: Here's our flags!

I see camp!

[laughter] - Yeah!

- Ha-ha!

Luke Jr.

: All right, read it, read it.

Victoria: "Congratulations, you have survived day one.

"If you're the first to arrive, you have your choice of camp site."

Courtney: Yeah.

[tired celebrating] Darwin: Even if we don't win but we tried our best, we are satisfied with that.

Okay.

Kristin: He doesn't want you-- Lucas: Okay, you ready?

Put your hand in.

Colin: Suffering only minor setbacks, both families managed to stay safe and on course.

The Millers worked together and finished first with the Thompson family coming a mere 1 minute and 20 seconds behind.

Victoria: Um, Holly, how do you think-- how do you think we did?

- I think we did pretty well considering the fact that we could've like, sprained our ankle about 20 times.

Um, I feel like we did a really good job sticking together, though, and I'm proud of, you know, how far I made it.

- Me too.

Luke Sr.

: So I am pretty pleased right now with our ability to collaborate and work together.

It doesn't feel like anybody is going their own way.

I'm not gonna say that we didn't make a couple mistakes there, but it wasn't anything that cost us really.

We were able to kinda course correct or maybe power through it.

Courtney: This outdoor experience so far is achieving what we wanted to, which is bringing us all together and working together as a team.

♪♪ Lucas: Okay guys, here we are.

It's night one.

Uh, right now we're in the middle of a field.

Uh... Today went pretty cool, you know.

Logan and I, we hatched a little plan against the Miller family, a little sneaky sneaky.

- Kinda feelin' a little bit guilty... about, about playin' with their mind thing.

[clicks tongue] Uh, you know, bro, it went pretty good.

- All right.

Good night, guys.

♪♪ Colin: The Millers awake well rested, while the Thompson boys, who slept under the stars... - I'm tellin' you, all I need is a sleeping bag and I'm good.

Colin: ...nurse their wounds and their egos, as they will start the day 1 minute and 20 seconds behind.

With the race this tight, strategy and working together will be more important than ever.

Luke Sr.

: I think a little calf stretch.

Straighten your leg and just, ohhh, down on top.

Jake: Mmm, that's good.

Victoria: Hey dad, what do you think the plan is for today?

Luke Sr.

: I think the plan for today is probably similar to what we did yesterday.

Just stay together, look out for one another.

Right?

Everybody on board with that?

[all agree] ♪♪ Darwin: I think we just have to go after it, and if we pass them, we pass them.

We just go hard.

Lucas: If the opportunity presents itself, Mom, for us to get you to catch up, though, like you did yesterday, we're going to take it.

Kristin: Okay, I need y'all to be aware that any head game that could be misinterpreted as y'all not having good integrity needs to not happen.

I don't ever want that to be in question.

I know that you're good people, and everyone else needs to see it.

Lucas: She knows that we can be a little, a little sly sometimes, so she's definitely watchin' out for us.

We're still gonna put the pressure on 'em, we're still gonna keep 'em going, but we're gonna keep it clean.

We're gonna conduct ourselves with integrity.

Let's go.

Logan: Let's go!

Darwin: All right.

♪♪ Jake: Okay, so this is our first clue for day two.

Luke Jr.

: "Deep in the desert lies a key to a quicker way."

Jake: All right, sounds good.

I got it.

We are headed in roughly that direction.

Let's go!

♪♪ Colin: This is day two.

In order to travel today's dusty and desolate 16-mile journey, families will be both on foot and behind the wheel of all-terrain vehicles, working together to navigate the windswept landscape to camp two.

- All right, it looks like we're goin' that-a-way.

Darwin: That way.

All right, let's go.

Jake: Okay, so the Thompsons are pretty close behind us, and it seems like they followed us to the road.

Luke Sr.

: This race is nuts.

Competing with the Thompsons is a lot like walking on the lava.

It's like, one missed step, and you're-- you're just done for.

There's no margin for error whatsoever.

- Yeah, so startin' out today as a family, we're doin' pretty well.

Logan's out in front a little bit.

Our mother's doin' a lot better of keepin' up, and that's basically our strategy, to just keep 'em in our sights, and then whenever we see an opportunity, take it.

Luke Sr.

: Cut over, cut over.

Luke Jr.

: Off the road?

Luke Sr.

: Cut over.

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

Jake: Come on, come on!

Luke Sr.

: Hey, hey, hey!

Logan: Papá, Papá!

Luke Sr.

: There it is, there it is!

Victoria: Gently grab it, loosely.

Luke Sr.

: Oh my goodness.

Luke Jr.

: Whoa,what is that?

Luke Sr.

: [laughs] Luke Jr.

: Wait, they're keys!

Jake: Keys to what?

Darwin: All right, grab it.

Grab it, grab it, grab it!

Luke Jr.

: It says, "Start your engines, it's time to fly."

Let's do it.

Luke Sr.

: All right, let's go!

Lucas: Got it, let's go!

♪♪ Colin: With the families neck and neck it's a fierce race on foot for two miles to find out what the keys belong to.

Lucas: The clue was "Rev up your engines, it's time to fly," so now we're really bookin' it.

Even our mom's pushin' herself.

Kristin: I can't even begin to imagine what the keys are for.

Hopefully, a moving vehicle.

Logan: Lucas, we've gotta pick up the pace a bit.

- One can only dream.

Logan: You got this, Mom!

Logan: Dang,how can they keep pullin' ahead, bro?

Logan: They're scared.

Lucas: Bro, we just jog behind 'em, start barkin'.

Logan: We jog in front of them.

Ryan: [barks] Lucas: [chuckles] Holly: Don't worry about them, Mom.

Jake: Where's the mom and dad?

- Does anyone know?

Family?

Luke Sr.

: We know where our mom and dad are.

That's all that matters.

Lucas: You see that, bro?

Separate the pack a little bit?

Logan: Yeah,we're separatin' the whole pack.

We're runnin' over 'em.

Luke Sr.

: I see some Razors, side-by-sides.

So, I'm feelin' like we might be ridin'.

Victoria: Oh, I'm liking what I'm seeing.

Colin: With both families sprinting to ATVs... Courtney: We have to get in the vehicle!

Colin: ...the Millers arrive first, but the Thompsons are right behind them.

Ryan: Dad, get in, get in, get in!

Darwin: Where does it open?

Ryan: Just jump in, Dad!

Lucas: Just jump it.

Jake: Go, go, go, go, go!

[engine revs] Courtney: Honey, it's fast!

[engines revving] Logan: Time to bounce!

Lucas: Come on, we can go, we can go, we can go.

Darwin: Lucas!

Lucas, you gotta be careful with that one.

Colin: Traveling now at speeds of over 40 miles per hour, the families will race their ATVs over a 13-mile journey through the twisting desert landscape, hitting multiple checkpoints along the way.

Luke Sr.

: Which way, Luke?

Luke Jr.

: I'm not even looking behind us.

Not even worried.

Ryan: Oh, we're catchin' up!

Hey, we're catchin' up!

Courtney: They're back there, they're right there, see, they're straying.

Jake: Go, go, go!

Darwin: There we go!

[cow moos] Luke Sr.

: Get on it!

Victoria: It's okay!

Jake: Arriving!

Luke Jr.

: All right, stop, now, stop!

Courtney: Park, put it in park!

Lucas: Get out, Logan!

Ryan: Unbuckle, unbuckle!

♪♪ Luke Jr.

: That way!

[indistinct yelling] Victoria: Come on,Mom!

Lucas: Logan, let's go, Logan, let's go!

Let's go, let's go!

Luke Jr.

: I've never actually done something this intense!

Jake: Dad, it's back this way!

Darwin: Look at the GPS!

Logan: Lucas, look at it!

Lucas!

Darwin: Lucas, look at the GPS!

Luke Jr.

: I think it's good for me to see how far I can go 'cause I'm really tryin' to like, push myself.

Luke Sr.

: Come on, guys.

Luke Jr.

: Oh-ho-ho-ho!

I got it, I got it!

Luke Sr.

: Yeah, Millers, Millers, get up, get up!

Ryan: Come on, come on, come on!

Luke Sr.

: Yeah, baby!

Luke Jr.

: Holly, go, go, go, go!

Holly!

Colin: The Millers have the slimmest of leads as they head to the next checkpoint, but they will have to make good time because the Thompsons are right on their tail.

Ryan: Aaaahhh, aaahhh!

Logan: Okay, go!

Jake: I'm feeling kinda stressed because I know that if I make a mistake, it puts our entire family behind.

Victoria: Which way?

Jake: This way.

Driving and navigating is pretty difficult, and I'm doing both at the same time.

Jake: Go, go, go!

Luke Sr.

: You got it, Luke?

"Fuel up, you're almost on empty.

Don't let your spirit run out of gas."

This is our chance for a lead!

Victoria: Jake, go, go, go!

Ryan: Mom, come on, sprint!

Mom, it's right here, come on!

Holly: It's fine, go!

Luke Jr.

: Good, good, good!

Get in the car!

Lucas: Fill it up, fill it up!

Darwin: There you go.

Now pull the stalk!

Lucas: My dad was like, "Fill it up, fill it up, fill it up!"

And I was like, "I don't know how to do it, I don't know how to do it, I don't know how to do it!"

♪♪ Darwin: All right, good.

Lucas: Get in the car, dad.

Put it down, get in the car.

Logan: Get in, get in, get up!

Luke Jr.

: Okay, that's a... that's a pretty big lead.

Colin: As they race to the final checkpoint of the day, the Millers are slowly pulling away from the Thompsons, increasing their lead to a minute and a half.

Darwin: I can see their dust.

That is pretty much it.

I can't see them at all.

Kristin: We don't feel like we're right with them anymore.

Darwin: Yeah.

Kristin: And it's discouraging.

Victoria: I see it, I see it!

Jake: Go Victoria, go, go, go, go, go!

Victoria: I see it!

Woo!

Courtney: Don't read it.

Victoria: "Engines off, say goodbye to your ride, and make your way to tonight's camp on foot."

Jake: Oh, yeah!

Darwin: Go, babe.

Go, go, go, go, go, go.

♪♪ Colin: With the Millers just seconds ahead of the Thompsons, it's a scramble to the flag to see who will have the advantage tomorrow.

♪♪ Lucas: I think we can make it.

Let's try and catch up.

Jake: Oh my gosh, I see camp!

Holly: Oh my gosh!

Jake: Go, go, go!

[indistinct talking] Jake: Go, go!

Come on, guys.

Keep goin'.

♪♪ Holly: Woo!

Luke Sr.

: All right!

Woo!

[cheering] Holly: I think I surprised myself.

I thought I was gonna be, like, lagging behind the whole time, but I'm pushin' through, and I feel really good.

- Congratulations, you have survived day two!

[family cheers] Luke Sr.

: If you're the first to arrive, you have your choice of camp site!

Jake: All right!

Luke Sr.

: Woo!

I'm proud of all my kids, but my daughters... I just want them to know that they are, they're stronger than they know, right?

And they're tougher than they think.

And if we take nothin' else outta this experience, that's, that's worth, you know, a million dollars.

Courtney: And it just feels so good that we've all come together as a family to appreciate different things in each other that we didn't know were really there.

Jake: Sorry.

It's my bad.

[flag snapping] ♪♪ Lucas: I don't know, I'm pretty disappointed.

Even if we try our best, you know, they're always just a little bit ahead of us.

Darwin: Okay, come on, come on, come on!

Surprisingly, I should feel deflated, but... I-I'm not rea-- I'm not really feeling that way.

As long as we give everything that we got, energies and effort, then that's all we can do.

One, two, three!

All: Awooo!

Kristin: A day doesn't go by that I'm not proud of all of 'em.

I would like to be a little more proud of myself if I could move a little faster, but... I can only go as fast as I can go.

Darwin: That's right, babe.

Colin: It's been a long day for the families, and they've each had to learn to deal with the struggles they've encountered.

The Thompson kids have had to come to terms with not always being in the lead, while the Millers have found that working together is the best way to succeed, which has left them with a two-minute lead at the end of the day.

♪♪ Lucas: The Millers, they're a strong family, and they've got strong family bonds that they've got, they've got a strong, strong will to win.

♪♪ Luke Sr.

: I feel a lot more confident that, you know, some of those values that we've tried to instill have somehow, some way, you know, crept in, and they really shone through today.

Courtney: Yeah.

- And I really feel like, you guys, no matter what happens, you know, there's lessons that you learned here about yourself, learned in how we all interact as a family that we can carry forward into your individual lives.

Holly: Yeah.

Jake: I mean, I've definitely grown to appreciate you guys more.

Victoria: Yeah, for sure.

Luke Sr.

: And it's hard for parents, too, to, to know like, when to kinda let you go a little bit.

I mean, that's a really hard thing to do.

You guys have been our life for your whole lives.

Jake: Baby bird's gotta jump out of the nest at some point.

Luke Sr.

: Baby bird.

[chuckles] Luke Jr.

: So, thank you.

Courtney: [emotionally] We love you so much.

♪♪ Kristin: Is there anything that you think y'all are gonna take away from this that you weren't expecting to learn about yourselves or about us?

Ryan: I think I might be a little less competitive.

Kristin: I am happy to hear that, Ryan.

I can't wait to see that put into play.

- Yeah.

Kristin: What about you, Lucas?

Lucas: I think the big thing I'm gonna take away from this is that confidence is key, but if it doesn't end up working out, then you just let it go, you know.

Like, you can't, you can't change the past.

- We wanna make sure that, regardless of what happens, that, at the end of the day, we can go home knowin' that we, we did the right thing in every circumstance.

Lucas: Mm-hmm.

Kristin: Right?

Boys: Mm-hmm.

- It feels better to look back and know that you maintained your integrity and that you didn't try to fight dirty at the last minute.

Darwin: Absolutely.

If you fall, if you fall short, we fall short, but if they win, I don't want you to be, you know, like, keeping your head down.

Keep your head high.

Kristin: Oh, I don't think they win.

Darwin: And then, uh,say, "Hey, congratulations," you know?

- Right.

♪♪ [crickets chirping] ♪♪ Logan: We're going out there.

Jake: I believe it's the early morning.

Looked out, could see the moon at the stars.

It was really beautiful, honestly I feel pretty well rested and ready to take on the day.

Luke Jr.

: We're gonna be off on our way back into the most difficult terrain I've ever been in.

The Thompsons are a really good opponent.

They were only, you know, a few seconds behind us.

If we make a good pace, then I think we should be fine.

See you guys later.

- For both the Thompsons and the Millers, this race has tested their families in different ways.

For the Thompsons, Lucas, Logan, and Ryan are starting to understand the importance of humility, and with the Millers, the kids have had to grow up and learn to rely on one another.

Jake: A big day ahead of us.

Colin: With the Thompsons trailing by only two minutes, this is still anyone's race.

Jake: "Walk towards the moonlit ridge."

Luke Sr.

: Let's get out.

Let's go, guys.

Courtney: This way?

Luke Sr.

: Let's get this done.

Colin: This is day three.

Today the families will travel the final three miles with a pre-dawn start, climbing a demanding 40% slope over a dangerous boulder field, up a 7,200 foot mountain ridgeline.

Then, a windswept descent to the finish.

Darwin: All right, grab the clue.

Logan: What does it say, what's it say?

Ryan: "Walk towards the moonlit ridge."

Darwin: Okay, I think that's that way.

Let's go.

Kristin: Let's go.

♪♪ Lucas: Our families have been right neck and neck at each other for the past 48 hours, and right now, whoever gets there first is takin' the lead, and we don't know how it's gonna go.

Darwin: I'm already having a hard time.

Heh.

Luke Sr.

: You got a heading, Jake?

Jake: This way, guys.

Luke Sr.

: You know where you're headed, buddy?

Jake: Yep.

Courtney: Why are you goin' that way, Jake?

Luke Sr.

: I don't know, he told us to make a horseshoe.

Jake, just peek at that heading every once in a while.

Jake: Yep.

Darwin: You're gonna go up this way?

Lucas: Yeah.

Logan: Dad, they're goin' up-- Darwin: Okay, go.

Jake: I think it's taking us pretty close to the mountain.

I would imagine that that is the moonlit ridge.

♪♪ Lucas: The Millers, they start takin' the path down the road, and then I'm lookin' at a GPS, and it says to go up the mountain.

I'm like 100% sure, Dad.

I think they went the wrong way-- Darwin: Okay.

Lucas: --and this might be where we make up time.

Kristin: First decision of the day, let's go.

We had a pretty heartfelt conversation with the boys last night to help them recognize that confidence is extremely important, but there should also be a sense of feeling humble.

Lucas: Do you wanna go up this way?

Do you think this is, the,uh... Darwin: Well,which,wh-- you-you show me what path.

Kristin: I think they really took it to heart.

Lucas: Dad, literally, straight ahead of us is the next checkpoint.

Instead of it going in one ear and out the other, it went in one ear and like, just into us, you know?

Colin: As the Thompsons begin to climb the steep mountain, the Millers have continued down the road, and are taking an easier, but more roundabout path to the checkpoint, but even that is far from easy.

- I, I definitely prefer the lava rocks.

Holly: Where's the checkpoint.

Luke Jr.

: Well, it's either at the top of the hill, the top of this point-- Holly: This isn't a hill.

Luke Jr.

: Well,you know, the top of the... mountain peak.

Luke Sr.

: I have a feeling uphill is gonna be the theme of the day.

Just keep stepping, guys.

Luke Jr.

: I mean, we didn't see them comin' down the road.

Luke Sr.

: So I think they went the other way, I think they probably tried to go straight up the hill, which... Luke Jr.

: Yeah.

Luke Sr.

: Hey, God bless 'em if they can make it up there, that's good stuff.

Luke Jr.

: I think they went straight up that one.

Darwin: Babe, do you think you can scale that?

Kristin: It won't be fast.

Logan: You got this!

Kristin: After yesterday and the day before, I'm not sure I can make it to the top of that mountain.

Lucas: We decided to take a completely different route from the Millers.

It's shorter, but it's harder.

Hey, Dad.

Darwin: Yeah.

Lucas: Our waypoint's at the top.

Darwin: All right.

[heavy breathing] Luke Sr.

: Then keep goin'.

Courtney: Massage and acupuncture waiting at home.

Luke Sr.

: Jake, heading?

Jake: Straight and to the right.

Luke Jr.

: He says to the right.

Holly: I'm gonna scream.

Luke Jr.

: It might be at the bottom.

Look, there's a, it flattens out down there.

Luke Sr.

: It might be where they are.

Courtney: Yeah, maybe they got to it first.

Jake: I'm gettin' mixed readings, I think it's this way.

Victoria: We got to the top, but, unfortunately we weren't going the correct way.

Colin: As the Millers survey the landscape, the realization that they just climbed higher than necessary sets in, putting them behind for the first time in the competition.

Holly: Jake's taking us, like, all the way down the mountain, so... we're kinda confused right now.

Jake: It still says I'm .11 miles away.

How?

Luke Sr.

: That's, we can't be a tenth of a mile away.

Jake: Well, that's what it said, Dad.

Victoria: Please, let's not go anywhere till somebody checks the GPS.

Hey look, I think they found it down there.

Jake: Well, then that sucks, then we're behind.

Victoria: But now we're gonna be a lot behind.

Jake: Well, I'm sorry!

Okay?

Luke Sr.

: It's all right.

We're gonna get through this, you know, we're, we,this is just a, it's a bump in the road.

Holly: So we walked up that mountain for, why?

Luke Sr.

: No, no, we're good.

Lucas: Boom!

Boom, Logan!

Hey, you got this, Mom, it's right here.

Darwin: All right!

Lucas: Dad, we don't-- we don't wanna let them know there's, we found it.

Darwin: Okay.

Ryan: "See your climb and know your test."

- That way.

Lucas: That way.

- Go that way.

Lucas: Let's go.

Darwin: Go.

♪♪ Colin: To reach the next checkpoint, the families will make a 3,000-foot climb to the crest of a perilous ridgeline.

♪♪ Luke Sr.

: There it is, there it is.

Luke, Luke, Luke, Luke, Luke.

Luke Jr: What?

Luke Sr.

: Right here.

Luke, you wanna do the honors?

Luke Jr.

: Well, we have to wait till-- Jake: It was a mistake.

I kinda got discouraged for a while, but my dad and mom and all my siblings helped me.

Luke Sr.

: Put your feet under you a little bit.

Ready?

Push into your feet.

Push into your feet.

Jake: [sighs] Luke Sr.

: Good job, good job.

This is a drop in the bucket of the kind of adversity you're gonna face in your life.

You just gotta keep goin', man.

You just gotta keep goin'.

Jake: They're like, willing to just, you know, take more time just to make sure I'm doin' okay.

Darwin: [sighs] That's motivating now.

I'm motivated now.

Lucas: This is the moment we've been waiting for out of all these days.

We're goin' to where we think the checkpoint is.

♪ Walking down the street.

♪ Ryan: Bro, if you can sing, you're not goin' fast enough.

What my parents said last night definitely sunk in a lot more than usual because we've all been, like, hiking and having, like, kind of a hard time going through this.

I think it's more about us and how we move as a whole.

Darwin: Come up this way again.

Small steps.

Kristin: Darwin and I noticed that the boys are up at the top, and they're like, pointing us different directions and encouraging us.

Lucas: You got it Mom!

- That... I felt it.

Darwin: You got it.

Just over these boulders right here, we're good.

Colin: It's clear that the Thompson boys are really taking their mom's words to heart, and with a newfound sense of togetherness, the families continue their climb.

Just a short distance down the mountain, after climbing back up the steep slope, the Millers stop for a brief moment to reflect on where they've been before making the final push.

Luke Sr.

: Well, I'll tell you what.

If you come up here, you will find a reward for sure.

♪♪ Luke Sr.

: That's incredible.

We were all the way over on those lava fields.

So we had a setback, obviously, but we're just gonna push through it, and a motivation to do that is just sort of wring the life out of this experience.

Holly: I don't even think there are words to describe how I feel.

This is a once in a lifetime experience.

Victoria: We are still in it, and it feels really nice to look down and see how far we've come.

Luke Sr.

: It's incredible what we've done, how much ground we've covered.

The fact that we have come here and stuck together.

It-it's pretty amazing to be here right now.

Colin: It's amazing to see the wilderness have such a transformative effect on the Millers, appreciating not only the awe of the landscape, but the importance of staying together as well.

Meanwhile,the Thompson family get an early warning for the terrain that lies ahead.

[bird sings] - We're arriving.

whoa!

Ryan: It's right here!

Lucas: We got it!

Kristin: The boys found it.

Lucas: Nice.

Ryan: Leave it right here on this rock.

- Oh my goodness.

Logan: "Push through fear, the end is near."

Darwin: Woo!

♪♪ Colin: The final mile of the journey will pit the families against a loose boulder field and a final dash across a wind-swept plateau.

♪♪ [birds chirping] Luke Sr.

: All right, guys, bring it up.

This is really just about us, and it's about this experience.

"Push through fear, the end is near."

So, you know, I think we got back on track.

Luke Jr.

: I see the Thompsons right over there.

Colin: Down, but not out, the Millers trail the Thompsons as they both navigate the loose boulder field.

Lucas: Right here, right now, we're actually climbing atop a ridgeline that goes between mountains, and if you go 20 feet to your left or right, you're gone.

Colin: And for the first time, we're seeing the Millers' heavy packs start to take a toll.

Victoria: One little mis-step or one loose rock could-could definitely be a big injury.

Holly: WAH-ha-oww.

Courtney: Holly, are you okay?

Holly: I think I'm like, partially afraid of heights, and I think that's definitely a problem.

Jake: Holly.

We're gonna be okay.

Holly: I'm very scared.

There's rocks that are like, really loose, and, and I'm like, I feel like I'm gonna die every time I move, so... [breathes heavily] Victoria: Looking down at Holly, I can definitely tell she's scared, but she's very strong, she's definitely proved that she has it in her.

♪♪ Luke Sr.

: Oh, hold on, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Holly: Oh my gosh.

Luke Sr.

: Sweetie, are you okay?

Kristin: I don't wanna disappoint the boys.

That's my motivation.

I know they're puttin' a lot into this, and I don't wanna see 'em feel like we didn't give it all we got.

Logan: Face your fear, the end is near!

♪♪ Lucas: We discussed each of our takeaways from bein' out here and doin' this competition.

You can be confident in something, but don't let that confidence, like, get in your way.

Darwin: [grunts] Lucas: Let's get through this, uh, let's do this as a family.

Mom, just one foot in front of the other.

Darwin: [grunts] Woo!

Heh.

Wow!

♪♪ - What a view!

Woo!

Ryan: Being out here, and like, overexerting yourself, I think it definitely makes you closer with everybody.

Kristin: This adventure for us has been both what we hoped, which is us to just have a good time together, and to accomplish something as a group.

Lucas: Logan, Ryan, and I really started, like, listening to our parents and like, kinda understanding what they were tryin' to say.

♪♪ Luke Sr.

: It's really hard to see Holly struggling, um, I think as a father, it's harder to see her have that real, kinda visceral, emotional reaction to, to, to genuinely being scared.

Holly: I'm trying not to cry right now.

Luke Sr.

: You wanna scoop 'em up like when they were little, you know, and say, "It's gonna be okay," and, um, that'd be my instinct to do that.

I'm not sure that that's useful.

Jake: You're okay.

You're okay.

Holly: [breathes heavily] Jake: You're okay.

You're okay.

You didn't die.

You just scaled this literal mountain.

You're okay.

You are very strong, Holly.

Like Dad says, stronger than you know.

- Thank you, Jake.

Jake: You're welcome, Holly.

♪♪ Lucas: It seemed like, I don't know, like eight hours ago, we didn't know when it was gonna end, and then all of the sudden it, just like that.

Darwin: WOO!

Colin: Looks like it's the Thompson family comin' first.

Lucas: We got there first.

Colin: This has been a neck and neck battle.

One of the closest races we've seen.

Thompsons!

All: [cheer] Colin: Come on!

Darwin: Woo!

Colin: Come on in, come on in!

You've made it to the finish line area.

Darwin: Yeah!

Colin: Here's what you need to do.

Thompson family flag that you guys designed, get this 20 foot flag pole in the air, and get your flag flyin' proud for the Thompson family.

Darwin: Woo!

Kristin: Do you got the flag on the end?

Ryan: Yeah, I got this part.

Jake: I see flags.

Logan: Oh, it's upside down, it's upside down!

Colin: I have no idea where the Millers are, they could be comin' up over the ridge any time.

Luke Jr.

: I see Colin!

Logan: Put it in!

Colin: Thompson family's got the flag pole, they're raisin' it up.

The wind is ripping, are they gonna get the flag pole in?

There we go, that's it!

Let it go!

♪♪ Colin: Thompson family, you are the winners of Survivalists!

You are the winners!

Lucas: Like, going through it, you never thought it was gonna end, and then all of the sudden, that's it, we won.

Colin: Here it is, $10,000, congratulations!

[Thompsons cheering] Kristin: I couldn't be more proud of how they handled the situation, how they kept their motivation up.

Colin: Well done.

Darwin: It's hard.

Sometimes you have to apply hard work to accomplish something, something special.

- Congratulations, you guys!

Kristin: Thank you.

Colin: How you feelin'?

All: Good!

Lucas: This competition has kinda made me realize that sarcasm and snarkiness can definitely not be the best thing, and I should set the example for that.

- Kristin.

Your family won, you got the victory.

Kristin: Them really comin' together and trusting each other's choices and helping lead us up the mountain today, that brought us this win, and that makes it that much more important.

Lucas: 'Kay, you ready?

[pops cheek] Darwin: [laughing] There you go, one, two, three.

One, two, three.

All: Awooo!

Luke Sr.

: Hand in hand.

Luke Jr.

: This is it!

Jake: Yeah!

Luke Sr.

: You know, win, lose, we were just convinced from the outset, no matter what, that we were gonna finish.

Colin: Millers are holdin' hands as they get to the finish line, that's always a good sign.

Luke Sr.

: You know, we, we faced a lot of challenges, but today was the first time we faced, like, real, genuine adversity.

Start together, finish together.

But really, watching everybody just bounce back and pull together I think was maybe the most rewarding thing.

Colin: Miller family!

Millers: [cheer] Luke Sr.

: I feel super proud of my family.

Everybody just showed up.

Holly: This was really about individual growth.

Victoria: We can each challenge ourselves individually, but we can also be there for each other.

Holly: I know that, uh, whenever I doubt myself, you know, I'll have them.

Luke Sr.

: I can't protect my kids in the way that I would want to, and, uh, that's frustrating, but it's also refreshing to see, uh, that maybe they don't need me to protect 'em as much as I think they do.

Colin: Unfortunately, you guys didn't win it, but what does it mean to have this experience as a family, Holly?

Holly: I mean, going into this, I was really going straight for the win, but,after we had that little error today, and we all just kinda came together and we decided that this really is about us, I just think that we're all closer because of this.

- Jake, how has it been for you?

- I've, I've basically learned that it's okay to be vulnerable, and it's okay to get help from others.

My mom or dad would help me push onward when I felt discouraged, and honestly, they were the ones that got me to the end.

- That's amazing.

- I felt so proud of these kids and our entire family as we worked together as a team.

Luke Sr.

: And, uh, I can just hope that they learned things today that they can carry on in their life as they move on and begin to become their own people and really have their own lives.

- I love that, I love just, the gratitude, and honestly, the radiant positivity.

I see you guys cresting that ridge all holding hands.

I think that's a huge testament for overcoming the obstacles, and ultimately bringing that closer together as a family.

Thompson family, come on in.

♪♪ Colin: I bring you out here on Survivalists to compete as a family, to compete as individuals, but ultimately, the sportsmanship and the back and forth is what this entire competition is about.

From the lava fields to the summit of this mountain and the raging winds, congratulations to both teams is what it's all about.

Well done.

All: [congratulating] ♪♪