Ed Stafford's Rite of Passage (2025) s01e01 Episode Script

(BLOWING HORN)
-ED: Am I ready?
-TRANSLATOR: Yeah.
ED: Failure is never an option
when doing a rite of passage
into manhood.
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
ED: I am (BLEEP) scared.
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
ED: I'm Ed Stafford.
As an explorer and survivalist,
I've made a career out
of mucking about in the wild.
If I'm honest,
I've never really grown up.
Look at that!
So now
PILOT: Ready, guys?
ED: I've set myself a mission
to see how cultures across the world
navigate the messy business
of becoming an adult.
I believe many of us
in the modern world
have lost our sense of identity.
But I'm hoping by immersing myself
in the often-extreme trials
that young people face,
I can figure out how these rituals
make us better members
of our communities.
I've never experienced anything,
even comparable in terms of pain.
By joining them on their journey,
I hope I'll learn
to become a better man
(TINIKO SPEAKING)
ED: maybe even grow up
"Expelliarmus."
Okay, he wants me to jump.
I'm going to jump now.
and successfully pass my own
"Rite of Passage."
(WOMAN SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
"Mana's brother,
son of Bargi's mother,
brother of Bargi, who took the cattle
for better greener pasture."
I'm deep in the heart
of Ethiopia's Omo Valley,
heading to live
with the Hamer people.
It's taken me three days
of travel just to get here,
but I'm now only an hour away
from my home for the next week.
ED: In one of the most remote areas
of Ethiopia,
Shafala Village
is a community surviving
on the margins of existence.
While I'm here,
I'll be living exactly
as the Hamer do
(BULL MOOING)
but I also want to take part
in a very special ritual.
Their cattle represent everything
that they own in life
and are at the center
of their unique rite of passage.
ED: It involves jumping up
onto the backs of a group of bulls
that have been lined up
and running along them at least
four times without falling off.
Only then can they marry.
It will be an incredible challenge
as I'll have just seven days
to discover an athleticism
I've never really had,
but for which most
of these Hamer boys
have been building
their entire lives.
ED: Right, I'll jump out.
We're way off the beaten track.
There's no power,
no running water,
we're hours away
from the nearest hospital.
And as this is Africa,
the likelihood of venomous
snakes, scorpions,
and other wild animal
encounters is high.
This really is the middle of nowhere.
-(ED SPEAKING)
-(SHARDO SPEAKING)
My name is Ed.
ED: The Hamer way of life
hasn't changed much
in hundreds of years.
Everything is based
around their livestock.
But before I can make friends
with the bulls,
I need to meet the people,
and so far, that's proving tricky.
(ED SPEAKING)
-ED: Yeah.
-(MAN 1 SPEAING)
ED: This?
Thank you.
Thank you.
(SNICKERING)
Good local dialect, Ed.
ED: My translator, Kila,
is meant to be meeting me
inside Chief Sembele's hut,
so until I find that,
it seems I'm on my own.
And hello again?
(DIRECTOR SPEAKING)
-(ED SPEAKING)
-(DIRECTOR SPEAKING)
-(ED SPEAKING)
-(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
ED: I'm Ed.
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
-(ED SPEAKING)
-(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
ED: Can I, can I come in?
Uh
Sembele the chief is inside
the house, and, I'm
I've run out of local dialect,
I'm afraid.
So I'm just gonna take
my bag off and go in.
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
-(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
-My name is Ed.
Um, and it's an honor to be here.
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
I'm so not used to sitting
on the floor.
(HAMER MAN 1 SPEAKING)
Sembele, can I just start
by saying thank you so much
for having me to stay here.
I hugely appreciate it. I've, um
I've heard a lot about, um,
your people and your culture
and your rite of passage ceremony,
and it's an absolute honor
to be here.
Hm.
ED: I would love to stay
here for a week,
um, and I would love to take part
in the rite of passage ceremony
that you guys do
with jumping over the bulls.
Um, do you think
that might be possible?
(CHUCKLES)
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
Thank you.
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
Kila, Kila, how do I say thank you?
(KILA SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
ED: Since I wasn't born Hamer,
being adopted is the only way
that I'm going to be able to
take part in the bull-jumping.
It's a crucial first step.
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
Dancing?
-SEMBELE: Dancing. (LAUGHS)
-ED: Dancing?
I'm not a dancer. (LAUGHS)
(SINGING FOLK SONG)
ED: For the Hamer,
dancing helps keep community
bonds strong.
A lot of these boys
are working towards
their own bull-jumping ceremony,
and I can't help but notice that
jumping seems to be a theme here.
By the way, I'm not doing
that (BLEEP) classic cliche
white man going into
the middle of dancing (BLEEP),
-if that's what you want.
-DIRECTOR: Go on, off you go, Ed.
No.
ED: But the chief's son, Magi,
makes it clear participation
is not optional.
Here we go.
My worst nightmare. (CLEARS THROAT)
(SINGING FOLK SONG)
ED: Magi is the boy I'll be doing
the bull-jumping ceremony with
in a week's time.
(CLAPPING)
ED: For him, it's deadly serious.
I need to learn as much as I can
if I'm going to have any chance
of succeeding.
(CLAPPING)
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
ED: It's a lot of jumping.
It's a lot of display of manliness,
and the women are coming in
and kicking dust on their feet.
Similar to giving
an invite to school prom,
the girls kick the boys' shins
as a kind of flirting method
to try and secure a dance partner
during the celebrations on the day
of the bull-jumping ceremony.
It feels very inclusive. Um
And I do feel
very accepted now within,
within amongst the boys, certainly.
I feel like I'm part of the gang.
I reckon I got off pretty lightly
by not really having to do
too much dancing.
And with my two left feet,
I'm glad I don't have to make a fool
of myself straight off the bat.
Dancing over
and it's down to business.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Magi introduces me
to his uncle Shardo,
who is the local
bull-jumping specialist
and will mentor me
in the Hamer way of life.
To the Hamer
the bull-jumping ceremony
is extremely important,
so they take me to a dry riverbed,
where they will need to test
my skill level.
All right, there's more coming.
(BLOWS RASPBERRY)
(SHARDO SPEAKING)
ED: Do you know what? I can do this.
No problem. I'm gonna do this.
Just jump up,
run along the cows and jump down.
Straight up. Across. Down.
I'm gonna just do this.
(LAUGHING)
(HAMER MAN 2 SPEAKING)
All right, I'm over, I'm over.
I, I think it's just good
having me around
for the entertainment value,
basically.
I should hang out here,
charge for my services
and everyone will be a lot happier.
ED: However, the laughs soon fade,
and I'm putting on a brave face.
But my first bull-jumping test
is nothing short of an embarrassment.
ED: There's something else
that's crucial to the ceremony,
besides bulls.
Bull-jumping without sorghum beer
would be like a wedding without cake.
Providing a lot demonstrates
the family's social standing,
while fostering unity between
villages and marking celebrations.
Magi takes me to one of the fields
where they grow
this gluten-free grain,
that's a vital source of food
as well as drink.
Magi's job is to keep it safe,
and I'm going to see
if this is somewhere,
but I can actually help.
-ED: So, are these all your crops?
-(MAGI SPEAKING)
(MAGI SPEAKING)
And what's this?
(MAGI SPEAKING)
ED: Can you show me how you use it?
(MAGI SPEAKING)
Jesus!
Come on, let's try it.
ED: Let's hope my slingshotting
is better than my cattle jumping.
Okay.
(BLEEP) Yeah, hell.
(ED SNICKERING)
Glad I didn't kill myself.
This kind of slingshot is one
of the hardest methods of hunting
that I've ever actually done
and, and incredibly difficult
to get accurate
and incredibly difficult to get fast.
Clearly these guys have been doing
all their lives since they were,
you know, probably knee high. Um
(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
How did you get the snap like that?
(MIMCS SNAP SOUND)
(MAGI SPEAKING)
ED: Okay.
(BLEEP)
That went over there somewhere.
(SNICKERING)
Um
That was exactly the same
as what I did.
That is next level slingshotting.
All right, last go,
and then I'm gonna have
to call it a day.
(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Oh! That almost did
a little snap thing.
Almost.
Don't laugh at me.
(ED LAUGHS)
ED: At the moment, I feel like
a total joke to the Hamer.
At least the sling-shotting
wasn't as bad as the bull-jumping.
Back at the village,
my bull-jumping coach, Shardo,
has very kindly sorted me out
with a roof over my head
during my stay here.
-In here?
-Yes.
-Okay.
-Yes.
-For me?
-(SHARDO SPEAKING)
-ED: Thank you.
-Yes.
(INAUDIBLE)
ED: Although fairly
inconvenient for me,
the small doorways
in traditional Hamer huts
are supposed to help
keep the elements out,
which is pretty critical
in a harsh environment like this.
Cool, okay.
So, this is my room
for the next week. It's, uh
Yeah, it's amazing that
I've got somewhere to stay.
And this mattress,
I think it's new, actually.
On it, look.
Oh, food, gone.
ED: This is definitely one of
my more unique sleeping arrangements.
Right, cool.
See you tomorrow morning.
(COW MOOING)
ED: It's 6:15 in the morning.
Just feel a little bit rude
just staying in my house,
so I'm coming out.
(BULL MOOING)
I didn't realize how little impact
there has been
from the outside world.
There's no power at all.
I've seen two or three mobile phones,
but they're the old sort of
Nokia mobile phones, it's
ED: At nighttime,
there's no light at all,
so there's no light pollution.
I've lived with a lot of
indigenous tribes,
never one that was quite
as authentic as this one.
And therefore, it's all the more of
a privilege to experience a culture
which is so, so different to my own.
I'm keen to immerse myself
and then pick up
as many of the skills that,
that they're using as possible.
ED: To get a better handle on
what exactly I've gotten myself into,
I asked Chief Sembele
if he can tell me more
about Magi's and my upcoming
bull-jumping ceremony.
So, we're days from
Magi's Rite of Passage ceremony.
Is it such a big event
that it's causing,
um, causing you some stress?
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
ED: Obviously,
Magi is the chief's son.
He's your son.
If he does if the pressure
of the event gets too much
and he doesn't succeed,
um, does he have another ceremony?
Does he get a chance
to do the whole thing again?
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
ED: I can understand
why you're stressed now.
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
That's good advice.
Do it like you
because you succeeded.
ED: How big is this event?
Like how many people will come?
What can we expect?
Can you tell me a bit more about it?
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
ED: Wow!
I can let you into a little secret.
I'm not very good at the moment.
I'm really not very good.
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
And, if I was to fail,
would that be a shame
um, for me and my family as well,
or on you?
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
ED: In a way,
I don't think I'd fully realized
just how serious this ritual is.
And I have now.
Okay, I will try
and not humiliate you.
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
(SEMBELE SPEAKING)
ED: I'm worried that
if I don't improve a lot,
I'm going to embarrass Sembele,
and ruin the most important day
in Magi's young life.
(DOG BARKS)
ED: With preparations
for the bull-jumping ceremony
now going into overdrive,
Chief Sembele's sister-in-law
is hard at work
making one of the ceremony's
indispensable staples using Sorghum.
What are your names?
(WAAKO SPEAKING)
(ED SPEAKING)
-(WAAKO SPEAKING)
-(ED SPEAKING)
-(GNAITE SPEAKING)
-(ED SPEAKING)
ED: Can you explain
what you are doing now?
(WAAKO SPEAKING)
ED: Can I, can I get
involved in this?
(WAAKO AND GNAITE SPEAKING)
(WAAKO SPEAKING)
Uh-huh.
(WAAKO SPEAKING)
How many of these do we need to do
to make the beer?
(GNAITE SPEAKING)
ED: A lot? A lot?
Okay. It's all that over there.
And is it, is the rite of passage--
does it change the men in your eyes,
or are they more attractive?
Are they more eligible as husbands?
(GNAITE SPEAKING)
ED: Yeah.
So, are you two,
are you two married?
(WAAKO SPEAKING)
-(GNAITE SPEAKING)
-ED: You're, you're married?
Yeah, yeah,
and how many children do you have?
(GNAITE SPEAKING)
Six children. Six. I've got four.
ED: Do either of your husbands
have other wives?
Because I heard in this community
the men can have more than one wife.
-(WAAKO SPEAKING)
-ED: No, just you.
And same with you?
Oh, there's two. Okay.
And do you mind me asking,
how do you, how do you feel
about the other wife?
(GNAITE SPEAKING)
Does she become like
your best friend?
-(GNAITE SPEAKING)
-ED: Yeah.
(GNAITE SPEAKING)
Yeah, that's cool. I like it.
That is amazing.
ED: Although,
it's unlikely in this village
and most places in the world,
for that matter,
for the women to be allowed
to have two husbands.
It's funny how polygamy tends
to work more in favor of the man.
And when you're not making beer,
in an average day,
what would you, what would you
guys be doing in the village?
(WAAKO SPEAKING)
Half day, half day.
Long way, long way to get water.
(WAAKO SPEAKING)
ED: A sort of underground oven.
-(WAAKO SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
-ED: Uh-huh!
There's sticks within the water.
And the balls are going on
top of the sticks above the water
and being steamed,
kind of half boiled half steamed.
This is the most bizarre
beer making ceremony I've--
Or process I've ever come across.
Where are we taking this?
Back inside?
Okay.
(GOAT BLEATS)
ED: Good morning.
It's quite firm this mattress.
The voice of the goat
is very, very similar
to the voice of a screaming child
or human being.
(MIMICKING SOUND)
These chaps here
who were keeping me awake
for the majority of the night.
Not terribly respectful
of a good night's sleep they're not.
I think the idea
from my mentor, Shardo,
uh, is that let's get a small bull,
let's up the ante a little bit.
Clear the, clear the bull.
Clear the bull.
Jump up, sail through the air.
Clear the bull. Down.
Down.
Land on feet. Turn around, wink.
I guess you could say
the "stakes" are high.
-Oh, it's small.
-DIRECTOR: Brilliant.
(MAGI SPEAKING)
Okay.
ED: And any last minute tips?
(MAGI SPEAKING)
Tips the next day.
Good, thanks.
Okay, let's jump a cow.
-Jump high.
-(MAGI SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
My advice, jump high.
Go on, Magi.
(SHARDO SPEAKING)
So, I mean, Magi clipped it
with his foot,
and he's an, he's an athletic beast.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Okay, he wants me to jump.
I'm going to jump now. Okay.
-(VOICES ECHOING)
-(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(MUSIC FADES)
I think that went pretty well.
(SOFT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
Maybe I clipped it
a little bit harder
because the reaction of the bull
was slightly more dramatic.
I've jumped a cow.
I've jumped a cow.
ED: That is a big step forward.
I'm actually quite pleased
that I've done that.
Also pleased that I haven't broken
the back of the little bull.
So, what do you think
of my cow jumping?
(SHARDO SPEAKING)
Yeah, really?
(SHARDO SPEAKING)
So Magi, your first jump
you actually hit the bull,
does that worry you a little bit
that you didn't clear it cleanly?
(MAGI SPEAKING)
Yeah, yeah.
I believe you. I believe you.
(ED SPEAKING)
ED: In the Omo Valley,
the Hamer people must make the most
from what little resources
are available to them.
So, Shardo's got an arrow
and he's sharpening it up.
So, there's a rope going on
like a kind of tourniquet.
Exactly like a tourniquet.
(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
ED: So the blood
is actually going into a jug
that has already been
used to collect milk.
So, it's a mixture of blood
and milk in there now.
That won't affect the cow?
-(MUKO SPEAKING)
-ED: It'll be fine.
Why? Why you're stirring it
as much as you are?
(MUKO SPEAKING)
ED: Is it for everyone
or is it more for the children?
(MUKO SPEAKING)
This gentleman here is sick
and therefore the cow has been bled
in order to give him
the nutrients that he needs
to get better.
(SHARDO SPEAKING)
No, never.
ED: Although hard to eat raw,
blood is high in protein, iron
and other vitamins and minerals
that may be hard
to find anywhere else out here.
Thank you.
(BLOWS AIR)
It's not meat,
it's all come out of the cow.
This is coagulated blood.
But interestingly,
he's referred to it as meat.
I'm quite capable of eating
many things,
but this coagulated blood
is worse than drinking blood,
that is, it's chewy.
Across the world,
blood is used in various dishes
to avoid any waste.
Back home in England,
it's called black pudding.
(MUKO SPEAKING)
ED: Wow, look at that.
It's like Ribena and milk.
Obviously, when there's less food,
there's less water around,
um, you've got both
nutrients and hydration.
And this one does not taste too bad.
That is good.
For a tribe that is literally
occupying an area
where it is only
just possible to live,
they are using absolutely everything
at their availability to survive.
Incredible.
(ED SPEAKING)
ED: It's the day before the ceremony.
Oh my goodness, that's beautiful.
Doesn't blood look amazing
when it's being poured?
We're making a mixture.
I love making mixtures.
We're making a mixture out of, um
milk and blood that's been drained
from the neck of a cow.
And it's part of the celebration
drinks for tomorrow.
Um
And it's very much
part of the ceremony.
Eating and feasting but also drinking
this amazing concoction.
That looks amazing.
It looks like sort of strawberry
and chocolate milkshake.
Mackey D's.
It literally does look like
you've put a strawberry milkshake
and a chocolate milkshake
in one big bowl.
(MAGI SPEAKING)
ED: That would be so, so much better,
wouldn't it.
It would be so much better
if we spoke the same language.
I'm sorry, Magi.
I will try and learn Hamer next time.
(MAGI SPEAKING)
Nice one, thank you, mate.
That's really sweet of you.
ED: It's my last night
in this Hamer village.
What an experience, I mean,
living with the Hamer has been
unlike any experience
I've ever had in my life before.
It's been humbling
time and time again.
I've, uh
(CHUCKLES)
I've been laughed at
more in the past 10 days
than I've probably been laughed
at ever in my life before.
But I feel like
I've come on a huge amount.
The only way through was to,
was to accept that, you know,
I am
compared to Hamer people,
I am almost a laughingstock.
If there's no surprises,
I feel like I'll be all right.
If there are surprises,
I might struggle.
I think it's time to hit my sack,
so that's it from me.
(WOMAN SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
"Your namesake is not yet ready
for your ceremony, dancing, father
of Wato, who is named Lutura Kara."
ED: It's the day
of the bull-jumping ceremony.
(BLOWING HORN)
ED: And all the women of the village
are blowing horns to signal
to their neighbors
that a boy's rite of passage
is about to begin.
(BLOWING HORNS)
ED: But the ceremony
can only properly start,
once a group of men called, Maza,
join to lead the proceedings.
The Maza are a group of young men,
who themselves have only recently
done the bull-jumping ceremony
and must then help the boys
from nearby villages do theirs,
both practically and symbolically.
ED: We're heading down
to the dry riverbed
where the women
have gone down to now,
because the Maza have arrived.
And Magi's presence there
will initiate the beginning
of the whipping.
And this is definitely the most
contentious part of the ceremony.
But I definitely want to go
into this with an open mind
and not a judgmental one,
but it will be somewhat
challenging to witness.
One of the most controversial
duties of the Maza
is the whipping of the village's
women and girls.
Okay, so from what I understand,
the whipping is about to start,
and this is something
I've never seen before.
But can you tell me what the whipping
represents in Hamer culture.
(WOMAN 2 SPEAKING)
And then does it take a long time
for the scars to heal.
(WOMAN 3 SPEAKING)
ED: So, you actually
bring the sticks yourself?
Um, so, is part of the process
that you invite the Maza to whip you?
(WOMAN 2 SPEAKING)
So, they, they're whipping you
with your own stick.
(WOMAN 2 SPEAKING)
-ED: Yeah.
-(WOMAN 2 SPEAKING)
Okay, so, it,
it's something that
you would definitely want to keep
in Hamer culture.
You wouldn't want it to be part of
the Hamer culture that died out?
(WOMAN 3 SPEAKING)
(BLOWING HORNS)
Okay, the whipping has started.
It's very difficult to address
this whole subject
without looking through
that western lens
but the women
are lining up to be whipped.
There's no crying out in pain
and there, there is
an obvious readiness
to be whipped.
And they really want to demonstrate
their loyalty, support, love
for Magi.
And this is the way of doing that.
This is a hard one to compute,
it really is.
ED: Obviously deliberately
putting myself in that space
where I'm trying not to judge,
trying not to have, um
a perspective on it that
isn't appropriate to their culture.
(BLOWING HORN)
They're being whipped
and their backs are bleeding
and they're very accepting
and in fact,
wanting the suffering attached
to demonstrating their love to Magi.
It's, uh, it's such a juxtaposition.
It's quite difficult,
especially when you're looking
into the faces of the girls who,
an hour ago,
I was just laughing with.
(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
ED: I obviously can't condone
anything like this,
and through a western lens
it could be seen
as degrading to women,
but this is not my place to judge
or change these traditions
embedded in their culture.
We're heading
towards the cow jumping.
Have to admit, they all butterflies
are starting to stare in my stomach.
ED: Hamer boys do
the bull jump totally naked,
symbolically bringing
nothing with them
as they transition into adulthood.
But luckily,
I've been given a pass on that.
I don't think anyone wants to see
a near 50-year-old bloke
jumping the bulls naked anyway.
Clearly, it's not really about me,
it's about Magi.
But I don't want to,
I don't want to fail this one.
I wanna, I wanna give it my best.
So one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 cows.
(COWS MOOING)
I think it's just ridiculous.
There's another seven coming behind.
(LAUGHS)
Makes 24.
Never even heard of 24 cows
being used for this ceremony.
Ay-ay-aya, this is getting real now.
Look at the size
of the horns on that one.
I feel like it's my first rodeo.
(LAUGHING)
ED: So, these cows are bigger
than the one in the village, yeah?
-(SHARDO SPEAKING)
-They're bigger.
(SHARDO SPEAKING)
I'm (BLEEP) scared.
ED: Hi, Magi.
He looks nervous.
He looks nervous.
(COWS MOOING)
ED: My thoughts are starting
to get scrambled,
if I'm honest. I, um
There's so many things,
there's the physical danger
of doing it.
There's all of the attention.
There's that kind of ridicule.
There's the size of the cows.
There's so much going on.
(TENSE MUSIC)
I'm just visualizing,
clearing the first cow,
skipping lightly across them all
and then going down the other side
and then doing that eight times.
The smaller cows
are being removed from the herd
and, um
only the big ones
are going to remain.
ED: Looks like they've picked six
of the biggest bulls for this.
But thank God they left a small bull
in front to help us do the jump up.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
So, Magi's done it,
very gracefully, I have to say.
One of the bulls was a bit spooked
and moved out,
but the rest of them
are still in line.
I'm about to be called up.
ED: The small cow on this side
has been taken away.
TRANSLATOR: Yeah,
because it is now Magi's cow.
I told you already.
Okay, but that makes it easier
to get up.
(TRANSLATOR SPEAKING)
-ED: Am I ready?
-TRANSLATOR: Yeah.
ED: This can not be happening.
The last thing
I want is to let Magi,
Chief Sembele, and myself down
by humiliating us all.
The small cow that Magi used
to get over has been taken away,
that's his cow.
It's not graceful, but I'm over,
and that's all that matters.
It's not graceful, is it?
(CLAPPING AND APPLAUSE)
ED: Magi. Thank you.
-(MAGI SPEAKING)
-Well done.
-(MAGI SPEAKING)
-Well done, Magi.
I just want to say thank you so much
for letting me share your ceremony,
because I know this is a really
special day for you, so thank you.
-(MAGI SPEAKING)
-(ED SPEAKING)
Mate, it was a pleasure,
give me a hug.
(MAGI SPEAKING)
ED: I think one thing I have learned
from the Hamer people is that
failure just isn't an option.
I didn't come here to show off.
I didn't come here to beat my chest.
I came here to learn,
and I've learned so much.
It was a big success for Magi.
He's now on his way
to becoming a man.
He's passed his rite of passage.
But for me, it's just about
the lessons that I've learned.
And above everything,
it's the resilience
that the Hamer people have shown
throughout the entire week.
It feels like I've been accepted
amongst the Hamer people.
It feels like I could carve myself
a life out here if I wanted to,
but I'm not 100 percent sure
that I would want to
because to live out here
you need to be ridiculously tough.
Is that gonna work?
(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
You like laughing at me,
don't you.
-Oye!
-(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Oye!
(LAUGHING)
(LAUGHING)
ED: Yes.
He used to play football for England.
TOM: No, I didn't.
ED: Didn't you?