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Veteran mountain man Marty Raney is leading his son Matt and survival expert Austin Manelick through the river valley.

Brothers Dallas and Tyrell Seavey navigate along the ridgeline, crossing land with little cover. These born racers are resolute to be the first to arrive. The men are divided into two groups, building competing rafts. Mountain man Marty Raney is taking charge, building a colossal raft weighing nearly 2 tons which he hopes will be sturdy enough in the rapids. After spending five hours on construction, the five-man crew get on their way, but hunger starts to take its toll.

Dallas Seavey, his brother Tyrell and survival expert Austin Manelick are meticulously engineering a smaller raft that's speedy and maneuverable to tackle the turbulent Yukon. Helicopters leave the eight explorers on a snow-capped summit. The men split into three groups and approach a foot cliff, descend a ravine and traverse eight miles of the Triumvirate Glacier. Marty Raney, his son Matt and Brent Sass take a low route and are the first to cross. Willi Prittie and the Seavey brothers cross far from the icebergs, across degree water.

Austin and Tyler bypass the glacier, traveling along the ridgeline. They arrive last and Austin's showing signs of hypothermia. The eight explorers are on the fourth leg of their expedition and are struggling to stay afloat on the Talachulitna River. With currents rushing at dangerous speeds, it's no easy feat to navigate the frigid waters. Expert climber Willi Prittie teams up with Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey and his brother Tyrell to find a much-needed food source.

Meanwhile, mountain man Marty Raney and his son Matt enter the river further downstream hoping to minimize their time on the water. Facing the brink of collapse, the eight starving explorers set out with one mission: harvest as much food as possible from the barren landscape of Nunivak Island.

In , following in his grandfather and father's footsteps, Dallas Seavey became the youngest person to ever to win the Iditarod. Dallas is a master of Alaskan survival, spending months in the bush training his dog team for the demanding race. The 5 months of the year he is not training, Dallas works the deck of a salmon boat with his brother, hauling in nearly 2, pounds of Salmon a day.

Dallas is constantly finding new ways to challenge himself. Tyrell is Dallas' older brother. The brothers grew up in the coastal fishing town of Seward, Alaska and the call of the ocean has always drawn Tyrell to it. A commercial fisherman by trade, every day season he fishes thousands of pounds of salmon from the waters off the coast of Alaska. It's a grueling way to make a living but one that allows him to do what he wants the rest of the year. Out of season, Tyrell, like his younger brother, is always on the lookout for adventure.

He too has run the Iditarod a number of times. While he was still a teenager he walked across South America just to see if he could. Fourth generation Alaskans, the boys grew up with romance of Alaska, the world and the promise of a life with no fear.

Inconsequential, he says. Marty has led 17 trips up Denali, the highest peak in North America, with people who never thought that they would ever be able to achieve such a thing. It's Marty's job to make sure they do. There is no question that Marty knows the best and worst of what the Alaskan wilderness has to offer. Matt Raney is a true product of the Alaskan bush. Born and raised in Wasilla, at the age of 12 Matt and his father Marty Raney built their family home with nothing but a chainsaw and the logs on their property.

Another adventure took Matt and his father Marty to Mt. After 28 days on the mountain, the duo was forced to turn back just feet from the summit after being caught in 50mph winds and blinding snow.

Though Matt is in expert in survival, he knows he still has a lot to learn from his father and hopes this trip will be an opportunity to do just that. The first thing you notice about Tyler Johnson is his fierce intelligence. Four teams — the Military, the Endurance team, the Alaskans, and the Lower 48 — face forbidding peaks, deadly tidal waves, massive glaciers, bottomless crevasses, man-eating predators and treacherous whitewater.

Each leg, teams have just 60 hours to make it from start to finish…surviving off the land with only the gear on their backs. No GPS. No phone.

No mercy. In the end, only one team will be crowned the Ultimate Alaskan Survivor. Ultimate Survival Alaska: Arctic Hell. Ultimate Survival Alaska: River of no Return. Ultimate Survival Alaska: Desolation. Ultimate Survival Alaska: Belly of the Beast. Ultimate Survival Alaska: Into the void. Ultimate Survival Alaska: Sink or Swim. Ultimate Survival Alaska: Desperate Measures.

Ultimate Survival Alaska: Beasts of Prey. Ultimate Survival Alaska: Vertical Hell. Ultimate Survival Alaska: Arctic Battleground. Ultimate Survival Alaska: Savage Beasts. This week's mission: Set out on Chichagof Island, home to more brown bears per square mile than any other place on earth, to reach the extraction in the fishing town of Pelican.

The Mountaineers stumble upon a homesteader who loans them his rowboat. The Endurance team heads for higher ground where they're less likely to encounter bears.