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00:09:44I travel across the vast expanses of Africa in my pickup truck and my objectives
00:09:50on this trip in addition to capturing animals for zoos are to bring back specimens
00:09:54of a new subspecies of Egyptian Cobra for the American Museum of Natural History.
00:09:58And to assist Uganda government surveyors in mapping an unexplored section of the mountains of the moon.
00:10:05And to get a taste of high adventure in the years that lay ahead.
00:10:13I often travel off the road and sometimes my only means of navigation is a compass.
00:10:23If I head for the ridge in the center I'll be right on course.
00:10:28I pitched my camp here in Tanzania and one day as I walked to my safari truck I saw a startling
00:10:35sight.
00:10:36A full grown cheetah.
00:10:38I ran for my rifle because in this district cheetah are classed as vermin since they kill
00:10:43so many domestic animals and the government encouraged me to collect any I found.
00:10:47But cheetah are the fastest four legged animals in the world.
00:10:52Chances are this fellow is half a mile away by now.
00:11:09In most countries and colonies of Africa cheetah are classed as royal game.
00:11:14That is you are not permitted to shoot them under any circumstances.
00:11:17But in this district it's just the reverse.
00:11:19Oh well it's a nice sunny day so I think I'll go for a walk to the felt and see what wildlife
00:11:24this district holds in store for me.
00:11:26This rhino is standing just about where I have to walk because there is marshy ground to both left and right.
00:11:40I'm going to skirt as far to the left as I can but I don't want to provoke him if I can help it since I don't have a rhino on my game license.
00:11:47This rhino weighs about two tons so game license or no game license I'm going to slip a cartridge into the chamber just in case.
00:11:57But I'm not going to shoot if I can possibly help it.
00:12:12One step closer and he would have gotten a bullet.
00:12:14Nope, you just can't go for a walk nowadays.
00:12:27Rubies.
00:12:28Tanzania is rich in minerals particularly in gemstones.
00:12:33And practically every rock on this outcropping had about eight or ten rubies in it.
00:12:42These are genuine rubies.
00:12:44But I didn't have a geologist's hammer or a pick and I couldn't very well get them out with my fingernails or my teeth so they're still there.
00:12:53I got out my pocket chart and made a notation of exactly where this place is in case I decide to come back someday and put a road through here.
00:13:17Here in Tanzania flies are a scourge to man and beast alike.
00:13:27Looks like a couple of Thompson's gazelles squaring off for some sort of match.
00:13:35Don't look now but I think there's going to be a fight.
00:13:42I knew it, I knew it.
00:13:47I fought like that once and just look what happened to me.
00:13:57By George looks like a fight.
00:14:08Lions.
00:14:09A pride of six.
00:14:10One hiding up in some rocks and five out in the open.
00:14:13The best thing to do in a case like this is to walk right on past and show no sign of fear.
00:14:19Because contrary to what most people think lions do not normally eat people.
00:14:23If you run from a lion he's bound to give chase.
00:14:26That is the worst possible thing you could do.
00:14:33But lions are like people.
00:14:35They all have different personalities.
00:14:36Where one will decamp, another will stand his ground.
00:14:46This third fellow seemed even less inclined to move than the first two.
00:14:53The next two didn't even look friendly.
00:14:55Notice the hair on the back of his neck.
00:15:05Nope. They're just putting on a performance.
00:15:07This is simply a demonstration to try to frighten me off.
00:15:10They don't really mean it.
00:15:11This last fellow was a downright coward.
00:15:15Guinea fowl are common here on the plains of Central Africa.
00:15:17Guinea fowl are common here on the plains of Central Africa.
00:15:34But they have many natural enemies.
00:15:37And they must be constantly on the alert because sometimes death stalks just around the corner.
00:15:41In the uppermost branches of a tree, high overhead, sits an African hawk eagle.
00:15:51And he scans these guinea fowl very intently because he is hungry.
00:15:55This is how he captures his prey.
00:16:06Like all birds of prey, he kills with his talons, not with his beak.
00:16:18Birds of prey use their beaks only for shredding meat into bite-sized pieces.
00:16:22And do not attack or defend themselves with their beaks.
00:16:24Vultures. Hundreds of vultures.
00:16:43And as I look below, I see the cause of it.
00:16:48A hyena is dragging a wildebeest carcass through the water.
00:16:52He's got it there so the vultures and jackals can't get to it.
00:16:56He's been feeding on it for so long, he just can't take another bite.
00:17:00But he'll be darned if he'll let anybody else have any.
00:17:03Vultures wait patiently.
00:17:06Others soar overhead.
00:17:09And the jackals wait patiently.
00:17:22Well, now it looks like he's had his fill and the vultures wade in.
00:17:38Vultures spend more time fighting with one another than they do in getting down to eating.
00:17:57They never do seem to get along with their own kind.
00:18:00I found a baby chimpanzee and at first she was trembling with fear.
00:18:08But in a few minutes she grabbed my jacket with her little fists as if she was looking for protection from the big bad world around her.
00:18:15I guess she thought I looked like a reasonable facsimile of her mother.
00:18:17I called her Trudy and she now lives in a zoo in America.
00:18:22At this point she had a tummy like a beach ball and a face like a dried up prune.
00:18:26She was a very clever little ape.
00:18:38Within three or four days I taught her to come to me when I called her by name.
00:18:42Which is pretty good going for a wild creature.
00:18:44Next day her relatives paid me a social call and stole some food from my truck.
00:19:01I loaded my truck with animals for the trip to the nearest airport.
00:19:28This is a cheetah cub.
00:19:38Next a large crate of colorful East African lovebirds also known as Fisher's parakeets.
00:19:48And then we loaded boxes of poisonous snakes.
00:19:51I extended the range of my truck from the normal 300 miles to better than 1,000 miles by carrying these spare jerry cans.
00:20:03Now watch how Trudy grabs my bush jacket with her little fists.
00:20:20Once she gets hold of me like that you just can't get her off.
00:20:23If you try she will scream and cry like a little baby.
00:20:27And it's tough to drive with her between you and the wheel but she's just got to sit right there.
00:20:32On the way I saw some Thompson's gazelles which are characterized by their windshield wipers in the rear.
00:20:41Their chief natural enemy is the wild dog which gangs up in packs and runs them down.
00:20:50Another one of their natural enemies is the lion.
00:20:55It's no secret this fellow just had a full meal.
00:20:58But their fleet footedness is the thing that saves them because they can generally outrun their predators.
00:21:04I saw many wildebeest which were having their young about this time of year.
00:21:23The men of the village don't do this and they think the women are absolutely mad.
00:21:28They paint their faces the same way but this pigment lasts only about three or four days.
00:21:33So they have to go through this whole process at least twice a week.
00:21:40Little boys played strange games that I never could quite figure out.
00:21:45A unique thing about pygmies is that without exception all the women have masculine faces.
00:21:51Then the chief showed me their favorite musical instrument which they call a lukambi.
00:22:06It is a hollow wooden sounding board on which they have mounted flattened steel nails.
00:22:11And oddly enough it is exactly the same sort of instrument natives use in widely scattered parts of Africa.
00:22:16I asked the pygmies if they would like to go for a ride in my truck.
00:22:22They thought this would be a great and glorious adventure.
00:22:25The whole village turned out in single file.
00:22:28Sixty seconds after I drove up I had 39 pygmies on top of and inside of my truck.
00:22:47I bet the Ford Motor Company never knew they could carry this many people.
00:22:51This fellow said he had a spear he would like to trade with me.
00:23:05I just happened to have a piece of cloth I bought in Nairobi for this purpose.
00:23:10Aha! That really struck his fancy.
00:23:13Well it's a trade. The spear is mine, the cloth is his.
00:23:17We each thought we got a bargain.
00:23:20This fellow that made the trade with me is a very bashful pygmy.
00:23:35He wants to go for a ride in the truck too.
00:23:37But he doesn't want to brazenly climb aboard without first asking my permission.
00:23:41I never saw such a polite pygmy before.
00:23:44And now we're off for an exciting ride at all of two miles per hour.
00:23:51I was afraid that if I went any faster I'd lose those fellows on top.
00:23:55After living with these tiny people for a few weeks I visited a Bantu village at the edge of the forest.
00:24:02It was here that I saw how they operate their old fashioned muzzle loaders.
00:24:15They pour some black powder down the barrel.
00:24:28Slide in a paper seal.
00:24:30Then drop in a piece of lead fashioned to the shape of a bullet.
00:24:41Whoops! Time out for snuff.
00:24:43He can't do his work properly without snuff.
00:24:45He puts as much powder up his nose as he puts down the barrel.
00:24:49Now he cocks the hammer and puts a percussion cap on the striker base.
00:25:01Then he slowly closes the hammer down on it.
00:25:04Now all he has to do in order to fire is simply cock the hammer.
00:25:08Now he's going to demonstrate his prowess with this noisy weapon.
00:25:12Missed by 15 feet.
00:25:25When I arrived in Uganda I made arrangements with a game ranger to use the launch which the government put at his disposal.
00:25:31Because I'm searching for monitor lizards and these four foot lizards frequent the banks of rivers in Central Africa.
00:25:38I'm now on the Victoria Nile between Lake Victoria and Lake Albert.
00:25:41And I'm going to scan both banks carefully for these giant monitors.
00:25:58On the way I saw many of the colorful birds which are so characteristic of this part of Africa.
00:26:03Marabou storks, pelicans, Egyptian geese, darters and cormorants.
00:26:12This hippo ran along an underwater plateau.
00:26:15And then suddenly he stepped off the edge.
00:26:20A yellow-billed kite spotted a dead fish floating on the surface and he swooped down and snatched it up in his talons.
00:26:36I saw many crocodiles along the banks of this river.
00:26:41Then I saw some cattle egrets landing on a mud bank.
00:26:56Aha, it wasn't a mud bank at all.
00:26:59It was a herd of sleeping hippos.
00:27:01Crocodiles often wander far from water at night but seldom more than eight or ten feet from it during daylight hours.
00:27:18They had the odd custom of sleeping with their mouths wide open.
00:27:25Notice all the flies in this fellow's mouth.
00:27:28Boy, I hope those flies don't drown.
00:27:34Then I saw some hippos kissing.
00:27:41And a couple play fighting.
00:27:44Monitor lizards, just what I was looking for.
00:27:47They're digging in a hole in the sand bank for turtle eggs.
00:27:51Monitors like eggs of all kinds, bird's eggs, crocodile eggs and turtle eggs.
00:28:07And when they find one, they gulp it down voraciously.
00:28:11I disembarked at a landing that the game ranger had erected nearby.
00:28:25And I instructed the crew to return before nightfall with my natives and my camping gear.
00:28:30Meanwhile, I'm going to survey this area for a campsite which will serve as a base for capturing these giant lizards.
00:28:37The next morning, while my camp was under construction, I went out for a walk.
00:28:49And on what was practically my front lawn, there was a monitor.
00:28:54I made a rush for him, but he turned the tables on me and for a minute I was wondering who was trying to capture whom.
00:29:20He has very powerful jaws and sharp teeth and you must be very careful how you grab him not to lose a finger.
00:29:25Well, now it's all over but to grab him by the head.
00:29:44But this is easier said than done because he's not going to cooperate one bit.
00:29:49This is what is known as having a lizard by the tail.
00:29:53I packed him in a comfortable wooden crate and sent him off by air express to my animal agent in America.
00:30:12I packed my animals and my gear in my truck and I headed for the Serengeti plains of Tanzania.
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00:31:14At about this time of the year, lionesses are having their young on the Serengeti Plains.
00:31:22They usually have three or four cubs to a litter and stay with them for about two years
00:31:27to protect them from danger when they're tiny and to teach them the fine art of hunting.
00:31:32Lion cubs don't know all the fine points of stalking their prey by instinct.
00:31:37They have to learn these through long, hard hours of instruction from their mother.
00:31:40If they make a mistake, they get cuffed good and hard, and they learn mighty fast.
00:31:51Lions show real affection for one another, pretty much as in the case of human beings.
00:31:56They have a very closely knit family life.
00:32:03But when a lioness has her young, she is usually in a very nasty protective disposition,
00:32:08and this is no time to disturb her or to get too close.
00:32:14But she is very patient and accommodating toward her cubs.
00:32:18She is literally a mobile milk bar out here in the hot, dusty plains of Tanzania.
00:32:25A unique thing about lionesses is that they will nurse cubs from another litter besides their own.
00:32:30They never cared less whose cubs they are.
00:32:32For example, here you'll see that one cub is much larger than the others,
00:32:36which shows that this lioness is babysitting for another lioness who's gone off hunting.
00:32:41Sort of a cooperative society.
00:32:46Yep, life is one big bowl of cherries when you're a lion cub.
00:32:50Ma and pa do all the work and you have all the fun.
00:32:52These cubs will be full-grown lions in less than three years.
00:32:57Adult males weigh about 450 pounds.
00:32:59Adult females, about 350 pounds.
00:33:02Animals can tell when you're a lioness who's gone off hunting.
00:33:32when lions are out to make a kill.
00:33:35And when they know that they're not,
00:33:36they will stand by and let one pass very closely.
00:33:39It's sort of a sixth sense that animals have that lets them know this.
00:33:43But these wildebeest and zebra know that this old boy is up to no good,
00:33:46so they give him a wide berth.
00:33:48Actually, he is frightening them to a point downwind
00:33:51where the lionesses are lying in wait with their cubs
00:33:54because it is the lionesses that usually do the killing for a pride, not the males.
00:33:58Males will condescend to help,
00:34:01but they leave the dirty work up to the ladies,
00:34:03pretty much as in the case of human beings.
00:34:08There is not a tree for miles around,
00:34:10and it's 110 degrees in the shade.
00:34:12Boy, I wish that old man would hurry up and bring home the bacon.
00:34:31So he accommodates and shifts into second.
00:34:33Now he shifts into high.
00:34:42And this ostrich decides this is no place for him.
00:34:46And these two hartebeasts say,
00:34:48Boy, let's get out of here.
00:34:50This is no place for us.
00:34:53In less than an hour,
00:35:12there is nothing left but skin and bones.
00:35:14Lions know what it is to go hungry.
00:35:16Sometimes they do without meat for four or five days.
00:35:19So when they have a kill,
00:35:21they make the most of it while it's available.
00:35:22They literally gorge themselves,
00:35:25leaving nothing behind if they can possibly help it.
00:35:34Now I headed north,
00:35:35and on the way I crossed an improvised log bridge.
00:35:38The unsettling thing about these bridges
00:35:40is that you never know what load they're built to withstand
00:35:43until you get to the other side.
00:35:45Then it might be too late.
00:35:46On the way,
00:35:49I saw one of the most fabulous sights in all of Africa.
00:35:54Colombo Falls,
00:35:55the highest waterfall on the continent,
00:35:57twice as high as Victoria,
00:35:59a 720-foot drop.
00:36:01It's situated way down at the southern tip of Lake Tanzania
00:36:04on the Tanzania-Zambia border.
00:36:06This waterfall is so high,
00:36:19the entire river atomizes before it strikes bottom.
00:36:22So it's a perfectly silent waterfall.
00:36:25There's no thunder here whatsoever.
00:36:27Its name,
00:36:28Colombo,
00:36:28means greatest of the great
00:36:30in the local vernacular.
00:36:31Zebras have few pleasures in life,
00:36:50but this is one of them.
00:36:58On the way,
00:36:59I discovered that I had several broken spring blades
00:37:01and I took time out
00:37:02to apply homemade steel clamps.
00:37:04During the years that this safari lasted,
00:37:07I had 19 broken spring blades
00:37:08and 15 flat tires.
00:37:10I brought this truck to Africa
00:37:12on a freighter
00:37:12and sold it in Cape Town
00:37:14a few years later.
00:37:15It is now owned by a man in the suburbs
00:37:17who uses it for selling vegetables.
00:37:24These natives really were a great help.
00:37:26I don't know what I would have done without them.
00:37:29I made a base camp here
00:37:55and one day as I returned from a hunt,
00:37:57I heard a very strange sound.
00:38:04Two young leopards.
00:38:12I took a quick look around
00:38:13from other leopard
00:38:14because she would be very displeased
00:38:16if she knew I was going to adopt her cubs.
00:38:18They were about three weeks old
00:38:20and weighed two pounds apiece.
00:38:21I called them Sputnik and Wutnik.
00:38:30As far as I know,
00:38:31Mother Leopard never did follow me back to camp.
00:38:34At least I never saw her.
00:38:36They were so tiny,
00:38:38they just didn't know what fear was.
00:38:40They are now full grown
00:38:41and they live in the zoo
00:38:42in Rochester, New York.
00:38:43I had some dehydrated milk
00:38:51already prepared for my baby antelope
00:38:53and of course I always carry baby bottles with me
00:38:55when I'm on safari.
00:38:57They're one of the most useful items of equipment.
00:38:59Oh, Mother Leopard must have been away
00:39:16a long, long time.
00:39:18I fed them up on calcium gluconate,
00:39:20cod liver oil, vitamins, milk and meat
00:39:22and they doubled their weight in a month.
00:39:25Leopards are easy to raise
00:39:26and they make wonderful pets.
00:39:27One day as they were playing at my feet,
00:39:38one of my natives shouted.
00:39:42Buena, buena, mamba.
00:39:44And there he was,
00:39:46a black mamba,
00:39:46the fastest and deadliest snake in Africa.
00:39:51I ran for my snake stick
00:39:53because these snakes are highly sought after
00:39:55by zoos in America
00:39:56and I'm going to try to capture him alive.
00:39:59The poison of a mamba
00:40:00acts very much like the poison of a cobra,
00:40:02paralyzing the nerve centers of the body,
00:40:04but it acts much more quickly
00:40:06than cobra venom.
00:40:07I had no serum for the bite of a mamba,
00:40:11so I had to be very careful how I handled it.
00:40:21Mambas have the characteristic
00:40:22of traveling with their heads held high above the ground,
00:40:25which makes it very difficult to pin them down.
00:40:27When a mamba is angry,
00:40:38he flattens his neck.
00:40:38There, now I have his head pinned down.
00:40:54And now it's all over,
00:40:55but to pick him up and pop him into a sack
00:40:57and send him by air to America.
00:40:59He is perfectly uninjured
00:41:00and in excellent condition,
00:41:02and he measured exactly eight feet long.
00:41:04Mambas are long, thin, graceful snakes
00:41:09and they have real poise.
00:41:18But life on safari
00:41:19has its more prosaic moments.
00:41:21For example,
00:41:22sometimes you have to hang up your pajamas.
00:41:25And there are camp pets
00:41:27that require attention from time to time.
00:41:30Natives come to me constantly
00:41:32looking for medical care,
00:41:33like this Maasai tribesman
00:41:35who has a bad eye infection.
00:41:36These tribal natives
00:41:37look upon all Europeans
00:41:39camped in remote bush country
00:41:40as doctors.
00:41:43They believe we all have magical powers,
00:41:46and every day I have at least
00:41:47three or four natives coming to me
00:41:49looking for medical care.
00:41:55I gave him some penicillin capsules
00:41:57and a cup of water.
00:41:58But if you remember,
00:41:59these Maasai drink about as much water
00:42:01is a Frenchman,
00:42:02so I had a devil of a time
00:42:03getting him to swallow these capsules.
00:42:17Notice how reluctant he is
00:42:18about the whole thing.
00:42:22Nope, he doesn't think much of that drink.
00:42:24I asked this fine-looking tribesman
00:42:32to come back the next morning
00:42:34for some more penicillin.
00:42:35His trouble was cleared up in one week.
00:42:43There are lots of chores
00:42:44to take care of around camp.
00:42:46My baby reed buck
00:42:47needed her bottle
00:42:48every four or five hours.
00:42:49And Trudy whooped and hollered
00:43:00like a little girl
00:43:01looking for attention.
00:43:04And I had to take time out
00:43:05occasionally for a bath for myself.
00:43:07And out here,
00:43:08there was such a water shortage
00:43:09that I had to bathe in dishwater
00:43:11and save the water
00:43:12after the bath.
00:43:13Meanwhile,
00:43:17Sputnik and Mutnik
00:43:18fought over last night's kudu bone.
00:43:25Leopards grow very fast
00:43:27and in just seven months,
00:43:28these leopards grew
00:43:29to be a real armful.
00:43:31But chimps don't grow nearly
00:43:32as fast as leopards
00:43:33and every time I took
00:43:34these beasts out of the compound,
00:43:35Trudy ran for the truck.
00:43:37She wanted no part
00:43:44of these animals anymore.
00:43:47Old Sputnik loved
00:43:49to play roughhouse
00:43:49and you just couldn't
00:43:50be too rough with him.
00:43:52You could drop him
00:43:53and kick him
00:43:54and step on him
00:43:54right up to the point
00:43:55of breaking his ribs
00:43:56and he'd come back for more.
00:43:57He loved it.
00:43:59But the thing he loved the best
00:44:00was to be laid on his back
00:44:01and tickled.
00:44:07Sputnik had a passion
00:44:17for going for the back
00:44:18of my neck.
00:44:19After I'd played roughhouse
00:44:20with him,
00:44:21the back of my neck
00:44:21was scratched and bleeding.
00:44:23But of course,
00:44:23it was all in fun.
00:44:24Sputnik weighed about 75 pounds
00:44:40at this point.
00:44:46Boy, I wish he'd leave
00:44:48the back of my neck alone.
00:44:54Sputnik's favorite playmate
00:45:04was Jackie,
00:45:05a dog that belonged
00:45:06to a professional hunter
00:45:07in Livingston.
00:45:08And although they were
00:45:09about the same size and weight,
00:45:11you can see that nature
00:45:12intended them
00:45:13for entirely different functions
00:45:14by the difference
00:45:15in the size of their paws.
00:45:17These two fellows
00:45:18were fast friends.
00:45:19They really loved each other.
00:45:24These are two lions
00:45:28in the Springs Game Reserve
00:45:29in the Transvaal.
00:45:31I included these pictures
00:45:33to show the long side
00:45:34of Sputnik and Mutnik.
00:45:35These two fellows
00:45:36had absolutely no manners
00:45:37whatsoever.
00:45:38They are not my lions.
00:45:39I'm just visiting them.
00:45:48Each time I played
00:45:49with these beasts,
00:45:50it cost me a shirt,
00:45:51a pair of pants,
00:45:52and a bit of hide.
00:45:54There's the beginning
00:46:09of the end
00:46:10of my shirt.
00:46:10One day,
00:46:25a little boy
00:46:25came running to my camp
00:46:27and told me
00:46:27that a native
00:46:28in the nearby village
00:46:29had been bitten
00:46:29by a cobra
00:46:30a few hours before.
00:46:31I grabbed my hypodermic
00:46:37syringe and serum
00:46:39and I followed him.
00:46:56But I was too late.
00:46:58I heard a native woman
00:47:10shout nohah,
00:47:11which in the Selozi language
00:47:13means snake.
00:47:17It was an Egyptian cobra.
00:47:19I couldn't find a stick
00:47:20long enough
00:47:21to pin him down with,
00:47:22so I'll use a twig
00:47:23and capture him
00:47:24by distracting his attention
00:47:26with the kerchief
00:47:26while I grab his jaws
00:47:28from behind
00:47:28with the other hand.
00:47:30He is a very deadly snake
00:47:31and I've got to be certain
00:47:32of my aim.
00:47:34This is my helper.
00:47:36and I'll see you next time.
00:47:37I'll see you next time.
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00:54:05No one, to their knowledge, has ever set foot in that river valley above the 7,000 foot level before.
00:56:40Some of us camped in a clearing on the right.
00:56:46And some on the left.
00:56:53One of our men caught a tree hyrax in a snare and they carved it up for supper that night.
00:57:32And they broke out their cassava flower which is made by grinding the roots of the manioc tree.
00:57:41This is their staple diet.
00:57:42They mix it with water, stir it over a fire and roll it into little balls and pop it into their mouths.
00:57:47And it tastes...
00:57:49And it tastes...
00:57:51Terrible.
00:57:53But they love it.
00:58:03They also had mutton for the evening meal.
00:58:10We didn't go much for the cassava flower so we broke out some tin goods.
00:58:17The man on the left is the head of the Department of Lands and Surveys for the Uganda government.
00:58:25And this is a British mountain climber who was invited to guide us across the ice fields.
00:58:41He's had considerable experience climbing the Himalayas of Tibet.
00:58:46And this seedy looking character is yours truly.
00:58:53After a satisfying meal the boys fashioned pipes from long stemmed jungle plants.
00:58:58And then the clouds rolled in.
00:59:11Ruan Zori is almost constantly shrouded in clouds.
00:59:20In a few minutes the visibility dropped to a few yards and it was cold and clammy.
00:59:25This is typical Ruan Zori weather.
00:59:28Next morning we got up early.
00:59:45We took sightings on the elevations of nearby peaks and found in many instances the latest government charts were in error.
00:59:51And now the temperature dropped close to the freezing point.
01:00:01There is the valley through which the government suspects the Nyamagosani River flows.
01:00:06They're not sure because it has never been seen above the 7,000 foot level before and we are much higher than that now.
01:00:11As usual it is shrouded in heavy mist.
01:00:16And there is the source of that river at 13,500 feet above sea level.
01:00:20This is the first time it has ever been seen or filmed.
01:00:23The river had an eerie appearance because it was so heavily shrouded in mist.
01:00:28We wanted to map the upper reaches of this river but we were defeated by logistics.
01:00:32Because we had a seven day march to a point where an advance party had cashed away food for the porters at a forward base.
01:00:38And had only a seven day supply of porter food remaining.
01:00:43Which meant that we had to start out the very next day if we were to keep from running out of food.
01:00:48This happened because our porters were eating at a higher rate than we had calculated on.
01:00:51The river flowed through a forest which was festooned with hanging moss.
01:01:13We saw a placid pool at the 12,000 foot level.
01:01:16We checked our charts for the best approach to the rock divide which separates us from the snow peaks.
01:01:22Which is where the advance party had cashed away the food.
01:01:25And now starts the hardest, coldest part of the climb.
01:01:36It rained for 17 days out of the three weeks which made the rocks doubly slippery and treacherous.
01:01:46All of our gear was constantly soaking because of the incessant rain and because the sun never shone long enough for us to dry it out.
01:01:54When the temperature dropped below freezing we found we often had ice in the tent in the mornings.
01:01:59One of the men in the advance party died of pneumonia four days after they crossed the tree line.
01:02:04He was a 31 year old Briton.
01:02:05This is the first time in my life that I had ever climbed a really big mountain.
01:02:21And it will probably be the last.
01:02:22We saw a lake which was discovered two years previously but which remained unnamed.
01:02:33It is the policy of the Uganda government to name new geographical features after local names.
01:02:39Our guide said he calls it Kachopi.
01:02:41Henceforth on all government charts this will be known as Lake Kachopi.
01:02:44This is the top of the rock divide which separates us from the snow peaks.
01:02:50And there at the foot of this glacier are two tiny huts.
01:03:14In one of these the advance party cashed away food.
01:03:16and left behind one of their men who's been awaiting our arrival for one week.
01:03:29Needless to say he was very pleased to see us.
01:03:34He is a young Oxford graduate who is now in the government service in Tanzania.
01:03:41He said that he had taken sightings on the elevation and azimuths of nearby peaks
01:03:45and found many errors in the latest government charts just as we have.
01:03:49It's not hard to realize when you consider that Ruan Zori was discovered less than 100 years ago.
01:03:54And a good deal of the upper reaches still remain incompletely meant.
01:03:58After a warm meal in his hut we started out across the ice fields which believe it or not are right on the equator.
01:04:10There is ice up here all year round.
01:04:13We are at the top of Stanley mountain at the very summit of the mountains of the moon.
01:04:17With Uganda on our left and the Congo on our right.
01:04:19These glaciers are actually rivers of ice.
01:04:28Our progress here dropped to less than one half mile per day not only because of the rarefied air,
01:04:32but because of the steepness of some of the glaciers that we had to cross.
01:04:49There were huge crevasses which were about 200 feet deep covered by a thin crust of ice.
01:04:54And we had to be very careful how we walked across these areas not to fall through.
01:05:01These are the very first drops of the white Nile from a glacier melting at the top of Ruan Zori.
01:05:06These drops join together with the drops from other glaciers to form tiny rivulets which race down the rocky faces.
01:05:13These rivulets join together to form little streams that run through the vegetation a few thousand feet below.
01:05:17And the streams combine to form a real river which ultimately becomes the mighty Nile of Egypt.
01:05:29At this point the entire volume of the Nile surges through a narrow cleft of rock only 19 feet wide as it races toward Lake Albert.
01:05:38There is tremendous thunder and power in this tiny little castle.
01:05:41So it is here on the roof of Africa that the Nile is born nearly 4,000 miles from its mouth in the Mediterranean.
01:05:56From rivers of ice to mountains of fire.
01:05:59Less than 100 miles from Ruan Zori a volcano was in full eruption.
01:06:04I asked the owner of a light plane if he would fly me over it.
01:06:07He said he would be pleased to as he had seen the smoke from the eruption a few days before and was just as curious to see it at close range as I was.
01:06:15This volcano was born from a perfectly flat forest when a fissure suddenly opened up in the ground and molten lava flew skyward.
01:06:23It was one of the rare instances in recorded times that a volcano was born from a perfectly flat surface.
01:06:28We saw great destruction to the forest below us as a result of the lava flows.
01:06:48A river of molten lava flowed for 16 miles through the forest causing the destruction of thousands of acres of woodland.
01:06:55Those patches of white are steam resulting from the rain that's falling now vaporizing when it strikes the hot lava.
01:07:02A river of molten lava Bob has been able to come.
01:07:04You're not safe but the river hice really feels like that's a bit so powerful and brightening but if you're in a small and small space,
01:07:05a river of molten sand that's a tunneling that's fully able to destroy the ocean.
01:07:07It's more than a cloud one when it strikes the hot lava.
01:07:09The weather of a mountain with the water spikes of the sea have more left andy and into the forest
01:07:13and the sea have more left.
01:07:15A river of a nice andy andy andy andy, andy andy andy, andy andy andy andy andy,
01:07:18andy, andy, andy andy andy andy.
01:07:21Andy andy andy andy, andy andy, andy andy, andy andy.
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