00:00And then we continue, sourced to sea, by a kayak, through the jungle.
00:28Shit, that's not good.
00:31Through the jungle, we've already seen all sorts of wildlife.
00:36We've seen a snake-digested frog.
00:39We've been trapped by night wasps, which were terrifying.
00:43And now we're being brutalised by the river.
00:46But we're going, and this is day one, just the beginning.
00:50So we were just trying to get to some sleep then.
00:53We literally just left, we're in pain. Feet are just soaked.
00:59And we went to get into the hammocks and went over that direction.
01:02And there are army ants in there, millions.
01:11We're down the river, and we're going to search for the source of the Kopenham River.
01:16But right now, it's fully uncharted.
01:18All the maps, GPS, completely wrong.
01:21So we're guessing as we go.
01:23Four per kayak, which is about 50 kg per kayak.
01:28And there's no, if every 100, 200 metres, it's relentless.
01:34But it is nailed really hard.
01:3750 kilogram.
01:40We managed to, Matt managed to get a fish before.
01:52The back doesn't look nice.
01:55And here we are. Rapids.
01:58Lord, we're going to have to individually bring the kayak over the rapids and then over the log.
02:05And look how many ticks I've got on me so far.
02:09From the middle of the Amazon.
02:12Look, you've got one, two, three, four, five.
02:20There's probably more that I can't see.
02:24On my back.
02:27Got to get them all off now.
02:30Very hard, very difficult.
02:33Camped up last night.
02:35Probably one of my favourite nights, actually, last night.
02:38Got some decent sleep.
02:40Although there was a Brazilian wandering spider in camp last night who bloody entered.
02:44I was like, oh, shit.
02:46Jacob stood in an army ant's nest and got eaten.
02:50Literally had ants in his pants.
02:52And between us, we probably had to pull off about 300 ticks.
02:57I've had three toenails drop off.
03:00And my big toenail is absolutely throbbing.
03:03We've had about 400, 500 calories today.
03:07We are literally machete in hand, climbing over trees.
03:12We've only had about a litre of water today.
03:15But our spirits are high.
03:17We might be hazy, we might be dizzy.
03:19We might even be slightly lost in the jungle.
03:22Oh, fucking hell, that one hurt.
03:24But we're still here smiling.
03:37So I'm about to get into camp.
03:40And I've got a caiman right there next to me.
03:50Look at that.
03:52Beautiful.
03:54It's a bloody dinosaur, though.
03:58There's my tent.
04:01This is an upgrade.
04:02My tent.
04:05This is an update from Suriname, from attempting a world first record.
04:11We've been fully uncharted, fully off the grid for a while now.
04:16It's been brutal.
04:18Brutal.
04:20We have been stung, we have been bitten.
04:23We have had to run from camp due to army ants.
04:27We've seen an abundance of wildlife.
04:29Some beautiful, some scary.
04:31We had a scorpion.
04:33So today is day five, and it could be the day that we find the source of the Kopenham River.
04:39That's the Kopenham River just behind.
04:41So it's a lot smaller now.
04:43Of course, we ditched the kayaks yesterday morning.
04:45Made our way up over the mountains, through the jungle.
04:48But, you know, today we hopefully reach the source, which would be, you know, just amazing.
04:56Five days in, you know, to get to the source of mission before the mission has even begun.
05:01From the source we'll hit.
05:03Day six of attempting a new world first record here in the Amazon, in Suriname.
05:09We've been grinding away for six days trying to search for the source of the Kopenham River.
05:14A lot of people said, like, it's going to be so hard, and they were right.
05:18But we found it!
05:22The source of the Kopenham River.
05:26From here we travel all the way to the sea.
05:29This is one of the world's most remote rivers in the greenest country on the planet.
05:33And we are all buzzing.
05:35We have really put the work in.
05:37And we are so happy to be here.
05:39We will keep you updated.
05:41But that's fantastic news.
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