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00:02Previously on Expedition...
00:03Come on, guys. Don't stop. Let's walk.
00:05He just takes charge in such a way that you want to take charge back.
00:09Food, shelter, fire, fire, food, shelter.
00:14He doesn't listen. Or at least he certainly doesn't listen to me.
00:16I was talking to you, actually. Let's go on here.
00:19Where's Benedict? Where's Moran?
00:21We felt deserted, actually. We felt abandoned.
00:24What the ? What the ? What the ?
00:25It was really not cool being left that far behind.
00:28The Expedition can't stop for one person.
00:30The Expedition comes first.
00:32The plates come off.
00:33We'll go up, come down, and get the water.
00:35You don't leave the water behind.
00:37Someone with his experience should know better.
00:40You take the water and the rest of the team.
00:42You don't leave the water behind.
00:43But the goal is you do not carry double loads up a mountain.
00:45We're not on a mountain.
00:46It's not a mountain. Then what is this?
00:48And now on Expedition.
00:50The Expedition is paralyzed by a deadly disease.
00:53Reduces them to a sweating, vomiting piece of flesh.
00:56I just can't imagine the rest of this Expedition without him.
00:59I can't.
01:06When the world's greatest explorer, Dr. David Livingston,
01:10vanished deep in the heart of uncharted Africa,
01:12a young journalist, Henry Morton Stanley,
01:15began a desperate search that would become
01:17one of the greatest adventures of all time.
01:21Now, using only a compass and basic maps,
01:24four modern-day explorers are on a quest to relive
01:27the most grueling parts of Stanley's 970-mile journey
01:31to find Dr. Livingston.
01:47I made the suggestion very clearly as a 30-year mountain guide
01:52that we all go to the top, drop our packs,
01:55then we go down and carry the water up.
01:57It's the normal, safe, standard way it's done in the mountains.
02:01When we got to the escarpment, Pasquale wanted to move up the hill
02:04and he shouted to Benedict and Maria,
02:07drop the water, come up yourselves.
02:10Benedict and Maria didn't want to do that.
02:12It's like a cockfight in some ways.
02:13You know, they're just like battling back and forth.
02:15You know, one guy is using brute strength,
02:17one guy is using finesse.
02:20The survival prerequisite is that this is an arid place.
02:22You just stay with your water.
02:24And that's simply what we were doing.
02:25But it's crystal clear to me.
02:27I can't see any room for argument at all.
02:29Well, I can't see any room for argument either.
02:43I think it'd be really good to go over what happened today,
02:46just so that it doesn't happen again,
02:48because it really has put such a divide, it seems, on the team.
02:54Because it's not just getting to UGG, is it?
02:57I understand that philosophy, but the fact is,
03:00is I cannot keep porters back stopped on 110 degrees,
03:06with 60 pounds on their head.
03:08It is not fair to the people, the expeditions or anything.
03:12No, no, no. So what you do is carry on up the slope.
03:13Which is what we did, which is what I did.
03:16You know, not order us, but instead say,
03:19okay, you two, what do you want to do?
03:21I think, as leader...
03:22All right, all right, okay, I'll give that to you.
03:24I'll give that to you.
03:25Okay, great.
03:26I'll give that to you.
03:27We know we've got to get over it.
03:28The great thing about this expedition, this venture,
03:31is that it carries on and on.
03:33And we know that we have to put our problems aside
03:36and start again all over tomorrow.
03:37That's it, guys. 10 o'clock, early morning, huh?
03:40Yeah.
03:46What do you think, Benedict? We're right here.
03:47I think it was a good tactic you did,
03:49which is to aim for the middle of the...
03:51Yeah, yeah, I just didn't want to...
03:53What I didn't want to do is freaking end up over here.
03:54Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:55We have a long way to go today.
03:56Amazingly detailed.
03:57It's pretty much that central route that Stanley took
04:00all the way up to Tabora.
04:02So...
04:02And let's not forget what Stanley did in Tabora.
04:04Stanley had a party in Tabora.
04:06He resupplied in Tabora, and that's important,
04:08because we've got to resupply.
04:09Yeah.
04:10All right, let me roll these up.
04:11Let's get out of here, huh?
04:13Everybody ready?
04:14Yeah!
04:15All right, Tayari.
04:19Okay, .
04:29Tabora seemed to be a real benchmark for Stanley.
04:31I mean, he had gone through hell and back.
04:34He wasn't through with the expedition,
04:35but he was getting closer.
04:37And I feel the same way.
04:38We're not done with this thing yet,
04:39but we're getting closer.
04:44Okay, river crossing.
04:45Boots off if you want them.
04:48Can I just try and carry across?
04:50That'd be great.
04:51I promise to carry you across next time.
04:54Do you?
04:55Are your fingers crossed or something?
04:57Benedict and I, we've had very similar experiences,
05:00and there's also the vast difference of experiences
05:03that we had that I think has led to a mutual respect.
05:06One, two, three.
05:08Oh.
05:09You know what?
05:09You're lighter than my rucksack.
05:12It was refreshing and reassuring to know that we were so similar
05:17and had so much in common.
05:18Do I carry you the rest of the way?
05:20It's up to you.
05:22Well, the answer is no.
05:23I'm not too proud.
05:24I feel like I have somebody out here that I can confide in,
05:27that I can trust and have an immediate bond
05:30that I just wasn't expecting.
05:32Payback time.
05:33I don't want to hear it for the rest of the expedition
05:35that you carried me.
05:38Thank you so much.
05:50We've arranged for a car to meet us once we get to a major road
05:52so that we can drive through the major towns and villages.
05:58You guys ready?
05:59From here, we're off to Tabora,
06:01which is where Stanley did his major resupplying and partying.
06:06Tabora, here we come.
06:18These are the best beans, right?
06:20They cook fast.
06:20Someak.
06:21Someak.
06:22Fish, how much?
06:23Tabora was the crossroads for trading for decades.
06:26Slave traders had used it.
06:28That was a real stopping point for resupply,
06:31for rest, all of those things.
06:32Beef with flies.
06:33Is that extra?
06:35That's extra.
06:35Every fly 100 shillings more.
06:38Let's go.
06:38We got some stuff for the party.
06:41When Stanley went through Tabora,
06:43he stayed at a house that Livingstone had been at previously,
06:46and he decided to throw a huge party for his men.
06:49We're going to do the same thing.
06:51That's awesome.
06:51That is beautiful.
06:53This is a great party house.
06:55This is a great location.
06:57The shadow of history here, huh, guys?
06:59Jumbo.
07:00Jumbo.
07:02Jumbo.
07:03Come in.
07:04I just kept thinking, Livingstone and Stanley,
07:07they walked through that door.
07:09It was such a humbling and amazing feeling.
07:11Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd be standing here.
07:14It's just an amazing place as far as history.
07:17Here's Livingstone's letter.
07:18H.M. Stanley and James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald
07:22acted nobly and both deserve and have my lasting gratitude
07:27for the relief sent to me
07:29and for Stanley's truly noble braving of death and danger
07:33to serve me as a son might have done.
07:35Oh, that was Livingstone's letter.
07:36You really feel like he's a humble, kind man.
07:40Beautiful letter.
07:41I think it's amazing.
07:43You know, it's great to be in the midst of this history,
07:45and I think it's going to be pretty remarkable
07:47to actually camp out in the front yard
07:49where Livingstone spent so many years.
07:51Should we start setting up and getting this party on the way?
07:54I think we should.
07:55Okay, good. Well, let's get the gear.
07:59Benedict, do you have a headache?
08:09At the moment, I'm just not feeling very well.
08:11I don't know what I've caught, but I've caught something.
08:13Well, let me give you some water.
08:16It is great to be here.
08:18I just wish I was in a better state a little bit.
08:21I picked up some sort of bug
08:22and got a slight fever and, um, I feel nauseous,
08:27which is not brilliant.
08:29But it's getting worse, whatever it is.
08:32I'm very excited to feel quite cold.
08:37Let me just take your temperature.
08:42Oh, Jesus.
08:45You just shot up to 100 already.
08:49101.2.
08:51I feel like I got malaria.
08:53Malaria is an infection of the blood.
08:55It's really caused by a parasite called Plasmodium,
08:59which is carried by infected mosquitoes.
09:01300 to 500 million people get infected with it every year,
09:04and 1 million people die from it,
09:06a good majority within Africa.
09:08Steve, that Advil brings it down a little bit.
09:11Yeah.
09:12And then just tell me if you start to feel worse.
09:14Okay. Yeah, thanks, man.
09:16Yeah.
09:17Benedict is a strong guy,
09:19but we still have some serious legs ahead of us.
09:21Uh, there's a lot of trekking.
09:23Things are probably gonna get tougher for us.
09:25If Benedict has malaria,
09:26I don't know how he can finish the expedition.
09:47You feeling any better?
09:50Take advantage of it.
09:51We're all gonna baby you now.
09:52You'll be getting breakfast in bed.
09:55Yay!
09:57That's the trouble.
09:59I've got no appetite,
10:00the thought of food.
10:01Smakes water.
10:02Well, mates.
10:05We've all been so looking forward to being in Tabora,
10:08to celebrating this arduous journey
10:10that we've been through together.
10:12And Benedict, he's just, he's out of it.
10:14There's something reassuring about warmth and fire in it.
10:17No matter how bad it gets,
10:18when you're sitting in front of a fire,
10:20life is, like, nice.
10:22It could be that he's fighting off an infection,
10:24but it's also possible that he's fighting malaria,
10:27because this is a very prevalent area for malaria.
10:35Can I ask you about malaria?
10:38You both have malaria?
10:39Me?
10:40Yes.
10:40Yeah.
10:41Do you think I have got malaria?
10:43Yes.
10:43Yeah.
10:43Yeah.
10:45What do you think I should do now?
10:47Just, you sit down,
10:49and then sometimes you lie down, you sit.
10:51It's like you are doing an exercise.
10:53Okay.
10:53And then also it's,
10:54you don't have to think a lot about sickness, yeah?
10:57Huh.
10:57We just tell him that,
10:59don't sleep,
11:00because of malaria.
11:01If you still lie down,
11:03you can feel that,
11:04oh, you have no power,
11:06so you should sometime do exercise.
11:11Uh-oh.
11:12This is going to be fun.
11:14Turn right.
11:16Hey, Benedict.
11:17Yeah.
11:17Let's walk out and see Shaw's grave.
11:20I just saw it.
11:21It's right over there.
11:22Let's go now.
11:22It's beautiful with the light hitting it.
11:27So what happened,
11:28so Stanley came through here,
11:31after Tawra.
11:32Stanley just left Shaw behind,
11:34didn't he?
11:34He had some fever or something.
11:36He was just as unsympathetic
11:38as anyone could ever imagine,
11:40and he left his companion to die out here.
11:43John Shaw was one of Stanley's team members.
11:46Shaw got sick,
11:48and Stanley just kept pushing and pushing him.
11:50Eventually Stanley just walked away
11:52from his supposed friend out there,
11:54and just left him to die.
11:57What a lonely love.
11:59Lonely grave.
12:00It is, isn't it?
12:01Stanley just walked on,
12:03left him here.
12:04What a sad, sad grave.
12:07We'll remember him.
12:08We'll remember him.
12:10It was so moving,
12:11because it just looks like a place of despair,
12:14really,
12:14rather than a place of rest.
12:17I really think you've got malaria.
12:19Feels a bit like that, yeah.
12:21But anyway, let's just keep our fingers crossed.
12:31Drumming.
12:37Stanley came to Tawra to resupply
12:39and, I think, replenish the morale
12:42and the spirits of the troops,
12:44and that's what we wanted to do, too.
12:46We wanted to have a big celebration,
12:47but I felt terrible,
12:48because Benedict was sitting out by the campfire
12:51trying to stay warm.
12:52He wasn't enjoying it,
12:54or able to enjoy it.
13:05and, I think,
13:12I've got a fever,
13:16pains in my abdomen,
13:18and, um,
13:19at the moment,
13:19I'm feeling very, very cold.
13:26You know,
13:27I'm normally someone who's up there,
13:29trying to dance,
13:30but I just couldn't.
13:31I was shivering away
13:33underneath all my blankets,
13:34falling asleep half the time.
13:36It's just a shame.
13:43that's a shame.
13:54It's just a shame.
13:55You guys, look, look.
13:55My God.
14:02Hey, Benedict.
14:03Yeah?
14:03You got anti-nausea medication?
14:05You want to try it?
14:05I need it.
14:06I need it.
14:09All of a sudden, Benedict vomited, threw up.
14:12So we immediately made the decision
14:14that we had to give some medical care to Benedict.
14:16We're really lucky that we're in Taborah,
14:19and the doctor was nearby, that he could come see him.
14:27It could be we could have been across the Makata Plain.
14:29We could have been anywhere.
14:31If this happened to him, there would be no doctor,
14:34in which case we really wouldn't have an idea what was wrong.
14:36We probably had to carry him out.
14:49They put him in the ambulance.
14:50They spiked an IV bag, got some saline in him,
14:53some anti-nausea medication.
14:54They're rehydrating him.
14:56You know, all the symptoms are not good at this point.
14:58Benedict. Benedict. Benedict.
15:04I'm going to put these tablets in your mouth, okay?
15:07So it's in your mouth.
15:08Yeah, I'll show you.
15:09It's all okay.
15:10Yeah.
15:11Put these in your mouth, and I'm going to give you some water.
15:14What do you think?
15:17Those are much smaller.
15:19I'm really concerned.
15:20I've had malaria eight times myself.
15:22I know what it's like to go down with malaria.
15:23I don't care if you're the strongest person on the planet.
15:26It reduces them to a sweating, sick, vomiting piece of flesh
15:31is what it does.
15:38Benedict.
15:40Who's this?
15:43Benedict.
15:46Benedict.
15:46Benedict.
15:48Who am I?
15:50Benedict?
15:56Who am I?
15:58Who am I?
16:09I just can't imagine the rest of this expedition
16:11without him on it.
16:14I can't.
16:28How are you doing now?
16:31Hello?
16:32Hello.
16:33How do you feel?
16:36Water.
16:37Water.
16:40Malaria is a common disease in Kenya, in Africa.
16:43All of the country is common because malaria is caused by mosquitoes.
16:50Malaria is a big problem in Africa because it kills children,
16:54young babies to kill, adults to kill every person.
17:04We need to think of an option.
17:05We need to decide, do we want to stay here tonight
17:07or do we want to push on?
17:09So what do you guys think?
17:10Depends on.
17:11I don't think that's even something to question.
17:15We're staying here tonight.
17:21I mean, is that definitive though?
17:24I mean, we've got to stay here tonight.
17:27It is on my part.
17:28I can't make him move and I'm certainly not ready to leave him behind.
17:34We'll just set up camp again and start cooking some food.
17:37I've made it really clear that we're not going to leave Benedict behind.
17:42And it surprised me that Pasquale thought it was within the realm of possibility.
17:49I don't think we can afford to lose him.
17:51I know that we're so pressed for time, but he is a part of this team
17:55and a very important one at that.
18:02Do you want a tea?
18:06Sorry?
18:07Um, what I want to get to is in October in Sumatra.
18:12It's October in Sumatra?
18:14Yeah.
18:15But if we are going there, anyway.
18:18We're not going to Sumatra, we're going to Ujiji.
18:21Once you get better.
18:30Hey, Pasquale?
18:31Yeah?
18:32There is one other thing we should discuss as a team now.
18:35What's that?
18:37Well, the possibility that he isn't well in the morning.
18:41Yeah, I'm concerned most about, you know, the fact that we get, it's hot, it's rainy.
18:46You know, we get ten miles, five miles out and he's got a relapse of malaria.
18:49Is it something that you guys would consider leaving him behind and going?
18:53Is that something that we have to consider?
18:55Yeah, I don't think we have to consider that if he's sick.
18:57If he's got a bad infection and he's got here for three, four days.
19:00We don't have three, four days.
19:01I mean, we can do a day.
19:02Today's the day.
19:03Like Stanley, we're chasing the rainy season.
19:05Unless we're careful, the rainy season could easily stop our expedition.
19:10So we may have to leave him.
19:12So if he's not well enough tomorrow, we may have to consider going forward without him?
19:17And I think that's just hope for the best.
19:20Kevin?
19:21Yeah?
19:21Do you want to chime in to this?
19:23Well, that's going to be a really hard decision, but that's got to be something that we've got to make
19:27tomorrow.
19:28I'm terrified right now.
19:30I can't believe how quickly he's deteriorating.
19:32You're watching somebody that you care about suffer so much and you're completely helpless.
19:37You know, he could die.
19:47Today is day 23 of the expedition.
19:49And surprisingly, we're still at the Livingstone house.
19:52Unfortunately, Benedict was still feeling ill this morning.
19:55He vomited.
19:56It is a bit ironic considering that both Stanley and Livingstone had suffered from malaria during different times in Africa.
20:04And hopefully Benedict will get a good night's sleep and keep our fingers crossed and hope to continue.
20:14What's your temperature?
20:15A little bit hot.
20:19This blue one is Benedict.
20:23Just for me to be hot drinks.
20:25But the trouble is, despite its nature, this malaria gives up and down.
20:31So I don't know whether I'm over it or whether this is just a nice peak before another dip.
20:38The sort of malaria I've got, I think, is probably falciparum vivax.
20:42Malaria that has bouts of fever.
20:45You can go up, you go down, you go up, you go down.
20:47So it may just be that I'm in a good phase.
20:49I suddenly was fearful last night, thinking, my God, I've just got to get better.
20:53I just can't stop here.
20:55I just wanted to say thanks so much to all of you, Kevin, Malaria, Asqualee.
21:01Both sort of, well, just keeping things going and, you know, looking after me, giving me all that support.
21:07And it was great.
21:09But even though I'm much better now, the truth is I might not be tomorrow.
21:13So, I mean, realistically, although we said we'd all get to UGG as a group, the reality is that if
21:19I'm in that sort of state, I'm going to become more of a burden than a help.
21:24It's only a few kilos.
21:25What do you think the possibility of cycling down again?
21:28I'd say the chances of having minor relapse tomorrow are quite high.
21:32But I think I will dip tomorrow.
21:33I mean, regardless of our differences on this thing, it's concern for your health and the success of the expedition.
21:40And you weigh heavily in both of those.
21:43What would you say to carrying on for another day, me just reassessing it?
21:54Oh, I think everybody's in favor of that.
21:56Yes.
21:56Without a doubt.
21:57Benedict seems to have recovered quite a bit.
21:59So the danger is if today that he's well enough and he says, I feel great, we're going, he goes
22:09down, it takes the expedition with him.
22:11Let's look at them out then and get going.
22:13Yes, let's see.
22:13I'll show you why we're concerned.
22:17So we're leaving here, Livingstone House, and then we're going to be in the Ugala River plain, trying to cross
22:22the Ugala River and then get to the south.
22:24And again, there's a lot of animals here.
22:27We're going back, classic Africa, a nice waterway with hippos, crocs, elephants.
22:32You know, lions, tigers and bears, baby.
22:42Okay, let's go.
22:432020.
22:47You all right with that?
22:49Okay.
22:51Stanley had been using the slave traders' roots for most of his expedition.
22:56But because of the war between one of the local tribal chieftains, Marambo, and the Arab slave traders, he couldn't
23:03take the direct path to Ujiji.
23:05For Stanley's expedition to succeed, he had to go south.
23:08He was entering uncharted territory.
23:10We're going to do the same thing.
23:11We're going to go south.
23:20How are you feeling, Benedict?
23:21Yeah.
23:22How are you feeling?
23:23I'm feeling fine, actually.
23:25Yeah.
23:31The Ugala River corridor, it's one of the main wildlife areas of Tanzania.
23:35There's no people out here, and it's very remote.
23:38And there's animals.
23:39There's wild animals.
23:39And we have to understand that there is danger out here in Africa.
23:42Is that elephant on?
23:43Yeah.
23:44We've got a few elephants here.
23:47What's this, a hippo trail?
23:49Hippo trail, huh?
23:50Sort of.
23:52Check this thing, huh?
23:59Wow.
24:01Unbelievable.
24:02What a sight.
24:05Oh, wow.
24:07Cool, it's a hippo.
24:09It's a hippo.
24:13It's a hippo!
24:16The hippos, the animal, is leading in Tanzania and Africa, for killing humans.
24:22I know somewhere in Europe, America, it's very sweet, you can play with.
24:27But never, ever, never dreamed to touch him, but to pat him.
24:33Please.
24:36I just can't believe this is the most infested hippo water I've ever seen.
24:40Look at that.
24:41All this population has to spread out at night.
24:43Yeah.
24:44So that means a huge distance from the river is going to be quite dangerous.
24:49We want to make sure that we camp far enough away from the river,
24:52that we're not right in grazing ground and through the path of the hippo,
24:57because if we get between them and the river,
25:00they're going to be extremely aggressive because they're such territorial animals.
25:07And you can see the hippos scatter their dung to mark their territory.
25:12Let's bring everything here. We'll just walk straight across here,
25:15get up on that high, and let's camp up in there.
25:18It seems very close to me.
25:21Yeah, but it's...
25:22The key is not to block the hippo's path back to the river.
25:26But in my river experience, just as long as you're actually not on the trail,
25:29if you set a fire far ways away, they're not going to come inside that fire quarry.
25:33Benedict.
25:34Yeah.
25:34There's hippo and elephant dung everywhere in here.
25:38Look at that.
25:39One or two days old, that is, isn't it?
25:41Yeah.
25:42Okay, guys, we can't freak out about too much .
25:44This is Africa, and there are animals in Africa.
25:46I have traveled thousands of river miles.
25:49I may have more river miles than any human being on Earth.
25:54Except they're grazing here.
25:55You know, this is far.
25:56I mean, there's trails all over the place.
25:57This is a great open spot right here.
25:59Other people may think they're the experts on hippos,
26:01but I've dealt with them for almost 30 years.
26:03We're safe.
26:04We're going to have to keep those fires going,
26:05because hippos don't stick to trails.
26:07You know, this is just a route elsewhere.
26:10Okay, well, let's...
26:10We can be afraid to death to travel through this continent.
26:12The goal is to try our hardest to push, march ahead,
26:17and minimize those risks, knowing that we're not going to be completely safe.
26:21Right here is a good camp, huh?
26:22Do you feel comfortable then?
26:23Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:24I'm asking you partly, because my judgment might not be what it should be.
26:28I mean, I realize that we're now pressed for time,
26:30and we need to get water and get camps straightened out.
26:33But this is a lot closer camping to the hippos than I had anticipated.
26:38I haven't got enough strength in me to have a big battle with Pasquale, so...
26:42Pasquale, in his usual way, just is so impulsive.
26:46Again, we weren't comfortable,
26:47because our tent is smack in the middle of three hippo trails.
26:50Benedict, right now, doesn't have the strength to argue with him.
26:55It's almost like Pasquale's taken advantage of that fact
26:58by just insisting on camping there
27:00and not paying attention to what Benedict is saying.
27:04Great camp.
27:05Yeah, well, um, I'd probably fight more if I wasn't recovering.
27:21There was just some rustling through the grass.
27:23Always got to look up for snakes out here.
27:29You know, here we are just 100 feet from camp,
27:32and here's this boomslang.
27:34This boomslang is one of the deadliest snakes here in Tanzania.
27:37It's highly venomous,
27:39and compared to, like, the puff hatter and the black mamba,
27:42it's not as quick acting and resulting in death,
27:44but immediate bleeding will result on the first day,
27:47and then two to five days later,
27:49that's when the internal bleeding takes place.
27:51These snakes are known to congregate in huge numbers,
27:55so it's probably a good reason to move away from these trees
27:57because I may not be seeing all the other ones around us.
28:14I sort of feel fine now,
28:16but there's still a big chance that I might relapse,
28:19might have another dose of malaria.
28:23So my mind is full of self-doubt,
28:27because I keep thinking,
28:28if I have another relapse, that's it for me.
28:31I'll be out of here, eliminated from the expedition.
28:34I've just got to make sure it doesn't happen.
28:41You want me to go try to take care of the water?
28:43I'll do it. You sure?
28:43Yep, I'm on it.
28:44Well, we need it to cook right now.
28:45Okay, well, then let me get it.
28:47Let's go to the river.
28:55All right, you see the bubbles?
28:57Yeah, it's good, but I don't sure
28:58that some human being is going to assume this one.
29:03As we go further west,
29:05you know, we're having more difficulty
29:07in actually sourcing water.
29:08That's all hippo dung.
29:11Yeah, we go.
29:12I don't know whether we can find
29:14some other source of water up there.
29:15The problem here is that the river
29:18is really infested with crocodiles,
29:20lots of hippopotamuses.
29:22There's dung in the river,
29:23and most of it is very stagnant water.
29:26Oh, man, this is bad.
29:28It's here a lot.
29:29What about...
29:30Let's go take a look at this stuff.
29:34Milky.
29:37When you're parched and dehydrated,
29:39you're willing to drink almost anything.
29:41I mean, anything looks good.
29:42Okay.
29:43This is the best we got, I think, guys.
29:45I just thought how far I've come in my life.
29:49Look at how there's tadpoles in here,
29:51so that needs a little bit cleaner, you know?
29:57Fusquale, let me tell you about this water source.
29:59I mean, this is milky, but at least it was,
30:02you know, it was in the clay and the sand
30:03and there were minnows in it.
30:04All right.
30:04How does it look?
30:05Yeah, I mean, it tastes okay.
30:07Kevin found a river up here,
30:08a little side stream of basically milk-white water
30:11that's flowing through a bunch of calcium deposits
30:14into the sand.
30:15And then the main water?
30:18.
30:18I'd rather drink hip .
30:19And this stuff.
30:20He thinks it's cleaner.
30:21I think it's abysmal to drink.
30:22I'd rather drink it out of the main river,
30:24or at least, you know,
30:25we can pretend like it's clear.
30:27So Julius and I went off to clear up the water situation.
30:30See, this is better water right here.
30:32Yeah.
30:37Oh, look at that one.
30:38Look at the size of that croc.
30:39Oh, oh, oh.
30:41Another one.
30:41There's a bit of that one.
30:43Big crocs.
30:43Those are good 12-footers there, huh?
30:51So we're on the Gala River, and there's hippo pools,
30:54because the river doesn't flow in the dry season.
30:55It's kind of muddy.
30:56It has some floating feces from the hippo.
30:59It's pretty ugly.
31:00Pretty ugly water.
31:01What we're trying to do is just get, as a first stage,
31:03is just get far enough away that we can get rid of some of the,
31:08some of the hippo .
31:09So what we're banking on is the water coming through the sand into this pool.
31:14And then we're going to go back, and we've picked up a bucket full of just the clean sand without
31:21the clay.
31:22And we're going to make an artificial filter to try to get rid of all the fecal matter, all the
31:27hippo crap we can in that sand.
31:30And then the water that comes out is a lot clearer than what we've been drinking.
31:33It does not have this clay in it.
31:35And then we'll iodine that, that we drink, and then we'll boil the rest of the stuff that we use
31:40to cook and clean dishes with.
31:42Yeah, it's filtering.
31:43It's coming from here, and it's filtering through.
31:44And this should be good drinking water.
31:46We can drink this.
31:50This is working great.
31:51I mean, that's just, you see, it's clean.
31:53It's, we see all this stuff.
31:55This is all the hippo dung.
31:56What it's doing is the filter of sand is so fine, it's just settling on top.
32:00Okay, get some water.
32:03Go ahead.
32:05Hope this thing doesn't break.
32:07It's cleaner, cleaner, cleaner, huh?
32:10See, watch.
32:11I tested the waters initially, and, and I just had to do it.
32:14I've taken that role on for myself.
32:16I don't think everything has to be democratic.
32:18You know, people have their assigned roles, and you do it.
32:20But we hadn't discussed what was going on.
32:23If we're going to work together as a team, you've got to respect.
32:26This is going to be my job.
32:28All right.
32:29I'll cook.
32:30You go hunt ducks.
32:31I'll cook.
32:32Do two breaks.
32:33You make Pasquale?
32:34Yeah.
32:35What water was used for the coffee?
32:38Was it treated?
32:39No.
32:40Was it given iodine?
32:41No.
32:42Okay.
32:43But, guys, it was boiled for an hour.
32:45You see, that, therefore, has not been iodinated.
32:47It doesn't matter.
32:48God, trust me, guys.
32:49You know, I'm going to feel much, much happier if the whole lot gets iodinated.
32:53You guys don't trust boiling?
32:55Well, no.
32:56For an hour?
32:56We cook this stuff for two hours.
32:58Yeah, well, if it's beans, but then some things don't get boiled in the kettle.
33:01So you're going to boil this for two hours?
33:03No, but you don't have to boil things for two hours.
33:05I understand, but I want to know what it's being used for.
33:06It's used for the soup.
33:07It's used for the soup.
33:08So how long is it going to be boiling for?
33:10Probably boiling for 45 minutes or an hour.
33:12I mean, guys, you know, boiling, you don't have to boil for an hour to kill things.
33:16There was four of us.
33:17No one named him leader, except maybe he named himself leader, but no one named him leader.
33:22And if three of us are concerned about something, then I think that's reason enough to address it.
33:27That's why.
33:28Just stop.
33:29Just stop.
33:30Please.
33:30It hasn't boiled long enough.
33:31He said 45 minutes.
33:32It's been on there, but it hasn't been boiling for more than like five or ten minutes.
33:37Just let it go up.
33:37That's fine.
33:38Put it back on.
33:38Put it back on.
33:39What is he?
33:39Need your permission?
33:40No, no.
33:40I'm talking to him, man.
33:41Go do what you were doing.
33:43I'm cooking.
33:44That's what I'm doing.
33:45Well, cook it the way you said you would.
33:48All right.
33:48That's good.
33:48That's good.
33:49Go ahead.
33:50Don't yell at me.
33:52you.
33:52Don't wait me off either.
33:54You go that way.
33:55All right.
33:56God, Pasquale.
33:57I'm not.
33:58But God, we're doing the cooking.
33:59Pasta's almost ready.
34:01No, it's not.
34:02It needs, according to you, 30 more minutes boiling.
34:05I've taken over more or less the water kitchen setup.
34:08Why?
34:08Because it's abysmal.
34:10I'm not about to open a can of worms by asking their opinion.
34:13I was just going to go ahead and do it, and hopefully they would be thankful enough that
34:17I did the thing that they would at least let me do the job.
34:22All right.
34:22Guys, let's just keep working.
34:25Let them sit in the tents.
34:40Did you hear how close those hippos are?
34:42Oh, yeah.
34:43Yeah, we can steer those hippos right here.
34:45Let's do the moves on.
34:46Let's do it.
34:48It's probably a good time to light that fire.
34:54Our camp is surrounded by these bonfires.
34:57I can't imagine there being any hippo coming out.
34:59In fact, we can hear them in the river right now.
35:00We can hear them belching at us, and they're just, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, all the way
35:05down the river because they want to come out of that water, and they want to come through
35:08here.
35:09We're safe from the hippos here.
35:10We built these three huge, huge bonfires with logs, big old African hardwood logs, so there
35:18won't be any hippos near here, hopefully.
35:23Do you hear hippos?
35:25Well, I heard them from my tent.
35:27They're quite loud.
35:28Ah, I think it's interesting.
35:30Maybe it's your first time to hear about hippos or to see hippos.
35:32Yeah, this is the first time that I've camped this near hippo.
35:35They're extremely aggressive, and they're very territorial, and we are smack in the middle
35:43of their territory.
35:44Sure.
35:44This is by far the most dangerous camp that we've been at.
35:48There was just so much evidence of recent hippo activity right here.
35:53We saw more than 50 hippos in the river.
35:56We've been hearing them all night, very close by.
36:01We've got all four fires going, and the Maasai will be awake at all times.
36:07So, not the ideal camp, right?
36:12This isn't the best place to camp.
36:14Sure, yeah, sure.
36:15But we're here, so we need to just make sure that we do everything we can.
36:20I'm now taking care to look after the hippos so that they might not attack people.
36:26People are getting actually restless.
36:51I had a very good night's sleep, and no sign of fever, feeling fully fit, all ready to go.
36:57And that's a great relief, because yesterday was the day that I might have had a relapse
37:04with my malaria, but then that relapse never came.
37:07And this morning, I'm fully functional, I think.
37:13Or at least it's as good as it gets.
37:17So, what do you think?
37:19Guinea fowl, no guinea fowl?
37:21Um, I'm feeling lucky, but it's getting a bit late.
37:24Guinea fowl might have flown home.
37:26My big hope is that there are guinea fowl in this immediate area.
37:30We've seen them a little bit further off, so what I'm thinking of doing is constructing
37:34a little cage out of wood.
37:44How many of these are you going to need?
37:45Well, I'm afraid to say about 40.
37:48So I've been collecting long lengths of branches, twigs, and so on, and constructing more or
37:53less a cage structure.
37:55And the idea is going to be to fit a trigger to it, and then this cage is going to
38:00drop
38:00down onto the birds.
38:01It will have triggered the mechanism when they ate my tasty morsels that I've left for them.
38:10Cool.
38:10Fantastic.
38:13So how are you feeling about Pasquale making that camp decision yesterday?
38:18I felt uncomfortable about the whole arrival here yesterday because I was taken out of the picture.
38:24You were taken out of the picture because you kindly looked after me.
38:27So Pasquale was suddenly running everything.
38:29Pasquale used my absence due to malaria to sort of take over the whole expedition.
38:34Suddenly he arrived here sort of feeling unopposed.
38:38Yeah.
38:38And he just simply didn't hear us when we were saying, this is hippo grazing ground.
38:44I'm still not quite up to having a big battle, and I don't even want to lead the expedition
38:48per se.
38:49I just want it to be the right sort of expedition as I see it.
38:53You can ignore us, but you can't ignore hippos.
39:06Well, Muray and Benedict are trying to find us some food.
39:09So what I figured we'd do was I filter water and then most importantly,
39:12I'm trying to get some clothes cleaned.
39:13And I'm a big, big believer in hygiene.
39:16I think most, if you look at most complaints people have,
39:19even Stanley, he talked a lot about hygiene,
39:21being filthy all the time.
39:23And he tried really hard every time,
39:25this Ugala River, for example,
39:26every time he tried to come somewhere where there was water,
39:29he tried to get washed up and get some hygiene.
39:32He talks in his book about how I found Livingstone,
39:34how when he got to the Ugala River,
39:36all he could think about was taking a bath and cleaning up.
39:38He went down to the river, of course,
39:39there were crocodiles in it, he couldn't do that.
39:41With clean clothes and clean bodies,
39:43you know, yeah, you may be hungry, you may be tired,
39:45but at least your attitude, it picks up.
39:49There's the water, that water was,
39:51that water was crystal clear when I started doing this shirt.
39:54And it's just black.
39:59I feel like I'm gonna fight the urge to throw up now.
40:04That's weird.
40:04But it was just so sudden and really strong.
40:07I mean, I was surprised I didn't.
40:09But Polly's been using water for cooking
40:13that isn't treated, which I'm not sure is such a good idea.
40:15I think even if we're gonna cook with it, we should treat it.
40:19Yeah, so do I. I thought it was me. I thought that was the rule.
40:22Part of the reason that I'm not feeling well is because
40:25something's going on with the water.
40:27And I just don't understand the system that Pasquale has suddenly adopted
40:31and not really informed all of us about.
40:34Pasquale, I think, you know, we should just
40:36iodine is everything.
40:37Guys, boiling it.
40:38It's right across the board.
40:39I know, I know what you mean.
40:40But we're just talking about putting iodine into treating water.
40:43I don't think anybody knows what's been treated or not treated.
40:46Just ask, hey, PV, what water's been treated?
40:48That water.
40:49Yeah, but dude, dude, it is getting confusing
40:51because I usually, when I do it, I set apart all the water that I iodine,
40:55and then it gets pulled over by another tree,
40:57and I don't know what's what.
40:57Well, that's now been changed.
40:59Okay.
41:00You say it's been changed.
41:00Can we try to change it back to the original system?
41:03That was a lovely clear.
41:04All right, all right, whatever.
41:05Although the issue might seem to be about water purification,
41:09actually, it was about something much bigger,
41:11trying to reestablish equilibrium on this expedition.
41:14If you guys have a question, just...
41:16Well, I mean, the thing is, but we don't want to be...
41:17Pasquale, the question is, why are you taking over everything?
41:21Because there's four of us, you are, there's four of us,
41:23three of us are saying we'd like to do it this way,
41:26and you keep insisting that your way is so simple.
41:28Well, we're all confused by it, so it's not working.
41:30Guys, that's all that's because...
41:31Let's go back to the old way.
41:33We're trying to get things clean.
41:34We're trying to get food clean.
41:35We're trying to get dishes washed.
41:37And for them to sit there and demand all of a sudden now
41:40say-so and changing things, it's not more than ingrateful.
41:43It's insulting.
41:45Can I recommend something?
41:46There's one person should control every aspect of the water.
41:49If they do that, you will never have a problem.
41:51I've done doing this for every expedition I've ever had.
41:53I usually control all the water.
41:55I know where the water is.
41:56But you asked me to do that.
41:57Now you're taking it away from me.
41:58We're filtering the water.
42:00Well, what's the difference?
42:01I'll pour it in the filter, too.
42:02There's four of us, and right now Pascali is calling all the shots.
42:07And he's somehow puzzled by the fact that we have a voice and an opinion in all of this.
42:12We're all experienced.
42:13We are all adults.
42:14And the fact is, majority rules.
42:17Three of us out of the four were totally confused.
42:20No, the four of us were not.
42:21That's what I was trying to say.
42:22Three of us out of the four were confused.
42:24Just, just, I was just saying, this is the water to be filtered.
42:26This is the water that's filtered.
42:28I'm the one that's treating it, and I don't know what's going on.
42:31So something must be wrong.
42:32I don't want to be an infant to ask you when they need to drink a water.
42:36Okay, what the f***?
42:37Just do it.
42:37Okay, it's a democratic decision on the waters.
42:39Go do that, too.
42:40The safety and the security and the success of the expedition trumps everything in my mind.
42:44It trumps more than ego, democracy, people's feelings.
42:50Those are all going to get hurt.
42:51They'll heal, but that expedition is important.
42:54All right, guys, I got it.
42:55Let's all agree.
42:55No, let's not agree.
42:56You guys decide what the hell you want to do, and then let me know.
42:59I thought we just decided.
43:00What I want is simply to get to Ujiji, and I want to do it in a way that brings
43:06together
43:06all of our talents.
43:08This is an expedition we have to do together, or not at all.
43:11It just seems like a more consistent, steady way of doing things just to iodine-ize it all.
43:15You have to be focusing on the things that really matter out here, the dangerous things.
43:20You can't be focusing about egos and leadership issues.
43:24You have to be in the moment, just fully aware of your surroundings at all times,
43:29or you are compromising your safety.
43:37Next time on Expedition.
43:38We're running out of time to get to Ujiji.
43:40The explorers press on in a perilous night hike.
43:43This is one of the most dangerous portions of our trek,
43:46laundering through the vegetation that you're not familiar with.
43:49But the explorers face an even bigger threat.
43:52We thought we were beating the rainy season, but in fact, the rainy season's about to beat us.
43:56We're playing in the way of joining the nice weather and getting better.
43:59It's rather than the difficult, just as it was not there for us.
44:01We're running out of time.
44:02Theitated question of the destruction of the person the most dangerous,
44:02and that's what we're working to do to do.
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