Wilderness experts confront people living on the edge of survival to make them choose between a professional rescue and continuing to live under dangerous conditions.
Network: Discovery
Country: United States
After the tragic loss of his father and wife, a young homesteader attempts to survive alone in the mountains of North Carolina using only the off-grid skills he learned online. His family pleads for the Raneys' help -- but when they arrive to find a crumbling shelter and no means of subsistence, they must challenge his beliefs before they can turn around his homestead.
A worried sister calls the Raneys to save an Arizona family chasing social media clout instead of survival. In the brutal summer heat, they gamble on a disease-ridden, abandoned building that could either secure food and shelter or sink the entire rescue.
In New Mexico, parents plead for intervention with a homestead where a couple battles crippling Lyme disease. The Raneys discover that the couple has turned to bee sting therapy -- a radical treatment that unravels when their homestead's hive disappears. As stress brings on intense flare ups, the couple faces a brutal choice: Do they push on, or risk permanent damage?
In Montana, the Raneys intervene with a family on winter's doorstep. They must scramble to expand their shelter and food storage before being snowed in for good. But a surprising revelation in the middle of the rescue threatens to upend the Raneys' plan.
On a mesa in Arizona, the Raneys step into a homestead and marriage under strain. To secure the family's future, they must pull an ambitious husband away from his years-long, unfinished passion project -- and force a hard reset before total collapse.
The Raneys intervene to save an Alaskan family exiled to tents by a mold-infested cabin. Facing bears, an arsenic-laced spring, and staring down a seven-month winter, they have one shot to make the homestead livable.