Spartan ColdFire Challenge

Description

Matt and Olof take on the Spartan ColdFire Challenge, attempting to start a fire with flint and steel under extremely adverse conditions. This is hypothermia training, and should only be attempted under professional supervision.

It offers a rare opportunity to observe what happens as someone enters the first stage of hypothermia. Matt and Olof comment on what they experienced mentally and physically.

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Video Transcription

Madinah Lhasa

a Spartan challenge today so it's been raining all night long and everything is drenched now today it's snowed kind of a nice wet mucky snow and they're going to go out take off their shirts see if they can get a fire going with the materials they find out in the woods and do it without freezing a little bit like the fire and ice challenge we're doing the water but this time it's atmospheric those of you that live in environments where it's wet moist all the time you know how difficult it can be to get a fire going in these conditions all right you guys ready sauna with a little bit of waiting in between all right all right what would you shut your top there you go hey bright side okay winter snowing a problem with the Spartan challenge that we don't have any time get our wood process or remove bark bring it to the inside because we're going to grease the desk if you don't really looks like it's drawn and closing it's all pitch yeah from the balls and first I'm so good about now you can just find the blisters and poppin that's char punk char char hope fungus yeah and my favorite one and then I just put a ton of funk glue it on there so there will be at least hopefully there will be a long hot coal and dry this grass out [Applause]

same maker

Wow the type offices somebody's trying to start you guys please a couple times but that still drying out comment oh oh yeah there's still stuff on the outside to wet stuff on the outside want to preserve this whole we're launching a feeding more concrete in there we go sure

[Applause]

we got bunches tiny sticks so your fingers are warmer are they met yeah look at that awesome what six ml6 meet you yeah

[Applause]

I've got that on the $10 off this is intense in your patient work Oh super tall it has one can you arrange the sticks in efficient shape yes all the tiny ones in a bundle because all the timeyou ones can be right on top of record the people thing was doing the pitching sure I'm not the coldest order for my brain okay Matt you're doing good I remember just like shaking like that doing one of my ice and fire challenges you're okay just using this the tools you have inside you concentrate what you have not on what you don't have you got it yeah and the corners fuck what you get right would keep the dryer you guys keep it dry or I keep it underneath it's going to take really nice if you can get flames on get you saying get it down there

[Applause]

he looks you guys you guys get were down there yeah

go on that's I can walk you long yes Matt okay so you guys got to give yourself huge kudos because you just have gone into the beginning stages I have Etherea and you are performed in that which is super intense I know it kind of says that was close but I think you've earned their reward okay yeah so that's that's the key because if you can be in this for a moment and just see like okay this sucks right the way your body feels but you're you're here you're okay you're functional we should read what I was putting all of my thoughts into the fire and wasn't letting myself thinking about how much it sucked I was just I'm just gonna go until I had to stop before I was going oh there was no stopping before I had no other choice I was kind of drifting into the hopelessness like this doing this it what's this this hopeless we ain't got no we have no driver yeah I do but I think that I was trying not to voice it too much again say a couple of times like I'm considering to pull out I said that but I was I mean I was thinking to us even as I said like why am I saying this is not this isn't helping the situation we're not going to get the fire and question from me complaining about it that's awesome because the mental part is what will take you down right that's like that is exactly what will take you down

you guys got fire okay you get the reward now okay time to arm up thank you let's go

[Laughter]