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00:03Now, on the finale of Expedition.
00:06Hey, they're all over the place.
00:09As we're moving forward,
00:10we're realizing this is some of the toughest going that we've had.
00:13The whole thing is flooded. It's getting deeper.
00:16This is worse than the RuVu.
00:17One of us gets bitten by a snake.
00:19We're dead before we ever get out of here.
00:27When the world's greatest explorer,
00:29Dr. David Livingston,
00:31vanished deep in the heart of uncharted Africa.
00:34A young journalist, Henry Morton Stanley,
00:36began a desperate search
00:38that would become one of the greatest adventures of all time.
00:42Now, using only a compass and basic maps,
00:45four modern-day explorers are on a quest to relive
00:48the most grueling parts of Stanley's 970-mile journey
00:52to find Dr. Livingston.
01:13It's getting really early.
01:16Yeah.
01:18This doesn't look like it's going to pass any time soon, either.
01:21We're finally at the Malagalasi,
01:23which for us means the end is in sight,
01:25but we're still 80 miles away.
01:27And it starts pouring rain.
01:29I mean, the skies just opened up,
01:31and out of nowhere it was torrential.
01:34When the rains come down, you know,
01:36everything becomes more difficult, more treacherous.
01:39In fact, Stanley would always choose to wait out the rains.
01:43and if camping out in this spot,
01:45which none of us really loved,
01:46is the way to do it,
01:48then that's what we've got to do.
02:11I got up early this morning just to stand and watch the water go by.
02:16It was a wonderful little moment to myself
02:19just to look at the way the water's coming from the east.
02:21It sort of symbolized our journey somehow.
02:23And then I turned the other way
02:25and I looked to where the water's going, Lake Tanganyika.
02:28We've known that we were going to be arriving one day at Lake Tanganyika,
02:32and today is the day.
02:41You look good.
02:43It took off a few years.
02:45Yeah, it does.
02:46Everybody's really excited about this morning.
02:48I think when we first see the mouth of Lake Tanganyika,
02:52it's going to be a huge moment for all of us.
02:54It's not the finish line, but it leads to the finish line.
02:57I'm planning on doing the same, you know,
02:59getting all decked out in the Stanley spirit.
03:02I got one more good shave in me.
03:04Stanley was as excited at this point in his expedition as we are in ours.
03:08He had heard in Tibora from slave traders
03:11that there was an old white man in Ujiji with a long beard,
03:14and I think he saw Livingston still being alive
03:18and wanted to get there as fast as he could.
03:20We now need to get in these canoes.
03:23We need to go all the way down the river.
03:24It's about three miles where the Malagorasi confuses with Lake Tanganyika.
03:28Once we get out in the open, we need to go north.
03:31We've got to make a kabeba.
03:32So we have to make sure we get there.
03:34We've got to make a kabeba.
03:37Okay.
03:38This is going in with Pasquale in the front.
03:40You and I?
03:42Benedict and you.
03:43Just change it up a little bit.
03:44Okay.
03:45And then Mireya and I and one of the side will go in here.
03:49All right.
03:50When it was time to board the canoes, Benedict went off with Pasquale,
03:53which is perfect because, boy, have they bunted heads
03:56during this whole expedition.
03:57We wanted, over these last few days, to make sure that we end that divide
04:01so that we unite as a team before we arrive in Ujiji.
04:05Thank you very much.
04:06Okay.
04:07Final push.
04:08All right.
04:08We all ready?
04:09Ready?
04:10Stay ready.
04:11Stay ready.
04:13I'm jumbled.
04:21I'm jumbled.
04:23Wow, look at that man.
04:24Beautiful, huh?
04:25Isn't that wonderful?
04:27Wow.
04:27Dude, worst day on the river, better than the best day mountaineering any time.
04:32I've spent a lot of time in Africa on the rivers, thousands of river miles.
04:36And for me, it's just absolutely a passion to smell the water and the feel of the current
04:40is, there's nothing in life could describe it.
04:43I feel like we're following Stanley when he's wearing that hat.
04:46I know.
04:47Stanley never paddled down the Malagorasi, but we want to.
04:50Rivers are a key part of that early African exploration, and we want to have some of the
04:54same experiences.
04:55Check it out, huh?
04:56So, paddling down the Malagorasi and dugout canoes, I think we're truly keeping with
05:01the spirit of explorers at that time period.
05:06It's so peaceful, isn't it, Pasquale out here?
05:08I love it.
05:09So nice, isn't it?
05:10You know, Pasquale and I have had our differences, and we all know we have different talents and
05:16different ways of doing things, and I think it's great having a bit of time with Pasquale,
05:20just to chill out on the water and enjoy each other's company.
05:25I like this.
05:26You can see a little bit of Tanzania by river.
05:29We're also quite captive out here on the water.
05:33This is crocodile country, isn't it?
05:35Yeah, it is.
05:35Let's cover that.
05:38Greed.
05:39Although it looks so peaceful, this glassy water that's so quiet, actually it masks a
05:47whole range of dangers.
05:50There are our canoes, which are quite honestly quite rickety and leaky.
05:56Then, they're the crocodiles.
06:00You guys, look, look.
06:01Yeah, I can see them.
06:02Crocodile.
06:03I hate cross rivers crocodiles.
06:05He's just cruising there about two meters away.
06:07There it is.
06:08Right, buddy.
06:09We've got to be careful.
06:10Yeah.
06:10What's the procedure over crossing over with crocodiles?
06:12Don't.
06:14I said they don't swim, and I don't know how to pilot a canoe, so I was a little bit
06:22worried about water.
06:24You can see his head there.
06:25It just looks like one more root.
06:27So well camouflaged in these murky waters as well.
06:39You can still see him back there.
06:44Wait, wait, wait.
06:46What a crocodile.
06:47Completely disappeared.
06:49Okay, let's get at her.
06:52Pasquale, is that Lake Tanganyika there?
06:55We're really close.
06:57You can't see anything on the horizon up ahead.
06:59Yeah.
07:00That looks like we're almost there.
07:01It looks like that's estuarine grass, floating islands of grass.
07:05We mark the end of the Malagorasi and the opening up of the water into Lake Tanganyika.
07:14There it is.
07:15Lake Tanganyika.
07:18Whoa.
07:19We've come a long, long way to see that site.
07:30All right, what a great site.
07:32Lake Tanganyika opening up.
07:33I know.
07:34I'm so excited.
07:34When I saw the white caps, I thought, there we are.
07:38It meant so much to us to finally get to Lake Tanganyika.
07:43It doesn't even seem like a lake.
07:45It seems like this beautiful ocean.
07:47It's that moment that we've really been waiting for, just like Stanley did.
07:53All the waves coming in.
07:54Yeah, it is.
07:55It's kind of big time.
07:57Okay.
07:59We've got to make this right-hand turn up here to get to Tanbeba.
08:02What we've got to be really careful of is this white caps up here,
08:05probably small waves breaking against the mudflats.
08:10It's like getting on open ocean.
08:11Yeah.
08:16What's that one?
08:17This wind is making it really choppy as well.
08:20Yeah.
08:21No longer feels like a river.
08:22Feels like a lake.
08:24The threat of capsizing was extremely real,
08:26especially when you're coming from a river into a lake that's got waves on it.
08:30Okay, support strokes, guys.
08:33There you go.
08:34Just...
08:35Okay, forward.
08:36Julius, sit in the middle of the boat, Julius.
08:38Don't sit in the side of the boat.
08:39There you go.
08:40Okay, now.
08:41Right into the waves.
08:42Okay, guys.
08:43Paddle.
08:44Keep coming into these waves.
08:46Make the right-hand turn here, okay?
08:47Oh.
08:48Easy.
08:50These are just not adequate.
08:52Yeah, yeah.
08:53This water.
08:54Paddle on the left-hand side, guys.
08:56There we go.
08:58Let's pull up after these freaks, don't you think?
09:00We knew that we had to change boats, that there was no way that our dugout canoes would
09:04make it across Lake Tanganyika.
09:06So it was such a relief to all of us when we saw these bigger boats that actually had sails
09:11on them.
09:12Are they hard?
09:14I was a little bit worried, though.
09:16I know, I know.
09:17I hate going with turning in a wave.
09:19It's scary.
09:22We're going to a Gigi, but we like to rent the boats.
09:25Will they take a point?
09:28That's not a thing like that.
09:30It's our one.
09:31Okay.
09:31Okay?
09:39It's going to be rough, huh?
09:41Yeah.
09:42All the waves coming in.
09:43They're crazy, huh?
09:45It's like we're in the ocean.
09:46Yeah.
09:47The wind is gathering now.
09:49The problem with open water, a lake as massive as Lake Tanganyika, the third largest freshwater
09:55body in the world, is that they can create their own climates.
10:00In a few moments, a calm surface can erupt into a thrashing mess.
10:07Guys, we have this wind.
10:09It's blowing straight north.
10:11Well, let's go ahead and take advantage of it while we have it, huh?
10:14Yeah.
10:15Want to go with me?
10:16Oh, I'll go with you.
10:17Okay, let's go.
10:17Okay, 20, huh?
10:19Okay, 20, huh?
10:22Oh, good.
10:23Heading right out into a headwind.
10:25Not ideal.
10:27The winds can come from nowhere, be whipped up, and turn a place that's on your side into
10:33a deadliest enemy.
10:34What?
10:35Hi.
10:37Hi.
10:38My big rollers here.
10:40That's brutal.
10:41Yeah.
10:42Oh.
10:43Not a good start, Pasquale.
10:45That's pretty .
10:51Didn't I do it too well?
10:53They're like all over the place.
10:56Go.
10:57Yeah, let me get out, let me get out.
11:17As we hit those first waves, we really understood, too much is bad.
11:18They're like all over the place.
11:21Ugh, my big rollers.
11:23Yeah, let me get out, let me get out.
11:24As we hit those first waves, we really understood
11:28that Lake Tanganyika is a hell of a handful.
11:31It's vast, and it's moody, and it's, it's dangerous.
11:36It's gonna be brutal.
11:38How old is the mountain, is it?
11:40Ah!
11:40Ready, Captain?
11:42Raise the sail.
11:45Okay, tie it off.
11:46Right in the sail.
11:47There you go.
11:47It's like flying a really heavy kite.
11:49It's all right.
11:50They're okay now?
11:51They're coming.
11:52Yeah, they're good now.
11:53There we go.
11:54Okay.
11:55That looks better.
11:58There we go.
12:03Oh, don't break that, mate.
12:06Ah, shoot.
12:07Uh, we've broken our mass.
12:09Whatever you call that.
12:10Cross piece.
12:11Cross piece.
12:12Ah, this is not good.
12:14Yeah.
12:17Well, we're the first ones up with the sail.
12:19Yeah.
12:20In fact, they're having problems with their sail.
12:21Check it out.
12:21Oh, no.
12:23Whose boat is that?
12:23I don't know.
12:24We're way the hell ahead of themselves.
12:26Oh, you know what?
12:26I've got my binoculars.
12:28Let's see.
12:30Yeah, they're having problems over there, huh?
12:31The whole sail's in the water.
12:33It's Benedict and Kevin.
12:35That's a problem when you're on the water.
12:37Like, we can't wait for them.
12:38We can't go back and help them.
12:39Yeah, that's right.
12:40These boats are so primitive that it's not like you can tack,
12:44you know, you can stop and turn it around.
12:45This boat can only go forward.
12:48Oh, man.
12:49What a mess.
12:53Now we've fallen way behind.
12:55Yeah.
12:57It's starting to get a little frustrating.
12:59There's just a fishing line holding together.
13:02You know what?
13:03I've got cord behind you, Benedict.
13:05Yeah.
13:06Duct tape helped better, huh?
13:08Ah, of course.
13:09Yeah.
13:09It's a good fix.
13:10We're now using our camp gear to repair the crossbeam.
13:14So this duct tape and the paracord, tying the oar, got a spare oar,
13:19tying that to the crossbeam, try and reinforce it,
13:22stop the crossbeam snapping yet again.
13:26I think with the duct tape, it helps improvise.
13:30Meanwhile, the others have disappeared.
13:33I can just see one sail on the horizon.
13:35There's a second sail.
13:38They're almost gone.
13:40All right, let's try it again.
13:41I guess we're going to do this one more time.
13:44Ready?
13:44All right.
13:45So let's see how this works.
13:47All right.
13:55OK.
13:59We are on our way.
14:01Let's see how we tie this off.
14:02Yeah.
14:03Or I've got to hold it the whole way.
14:05Kevin has, I think it's fair to say, panicked in all sorts of situations.
14:11But today, out there in the middle of Lake Tanganyika, he didn't panic at all.
14:16He took it in his stride.
14:17I think he has learned to take punches, learned to deal with the unfamiliar.
14:22And that was the great thing about today.
14:29It feels good to be underway.
14:31We still have the wind.
14:33Yeah.
14:48We're cruising today.
14:49How far back are Kevin and Benedict now?
14:52Way the heck back there.
14:53At least a mile and a half.
15:03Wait, wait, wait.
15:05The wind has dropped a bit, do you think?
15:07Looks like we're losing some wind now.
15:08A bit of water.
15:12The slack sail.
15:14Absolutely no wind here.
15:15Pull out the wind.
15:17We've got to paddle.
15:19At the beginning, more or less everything's fine.
15:21We were travelling with the wind, and then the wind dropped.
15:27And the realisation came that we now had to paddle this hefty boat.
15:33We've got quite a distance of battle in yet.
15:36Yeah.
15:37What would we do?
15:38We've lost ground.
15:44Hey, Maria.
15:45Yeah?
15:46One of the boats is gone.
15:47I think it's Kevin and Benedict.
15:49Really?
15:50It's out of sight.
15:51I don't even see it.
15:53I can see the other two boats, the one with the Maasai,
15:55Julius, but I can't see the boat with Kevin and Benedict.
15:59I mean, it's at least two miles back.
16:02As it is, we're going to get there so late.
16:04Yeah, yeah.
16:04No, it's way, way back there.
16:07Well, that's not good.
16:08No, it's not good.
16:10Sunset was approaching, and I was really worried about the fact
16:14that Benedict and Kevin would be stuck on the lake at night,
16:18because at night, these waters could get really rough,
16:21because it is a lake, but it very much behaves like a sea.
16:31It doesn't look good, does it?
16:33It doesn't look like we've really gone that far.
16:35We're actually further away from the coast than we were.
16:38I mean, we've steadily been getting further and further offshore.
16:42It's very, very dispiriting to see land ahead of you not getting any nearer,
16:46but when you see that land disappearing, you just feel like giving up.
16:53How much daylight do you think we've got?
16:54I don't know.
16:55Just got to keep paddling.
16:57It's in here and yet so far.
16:59You know what?
17:00I don't want to look forward anymore.
17:01I'd rather have my back to the land and just row.
17:04So if I just pull my back to the oar,
17:08maybe we'll get there at some point.
17:11Three coasts of an hour of daylight north.
17:19This is Gababa?
17:20OK.
17:21Put her in.
17:22Right there.
17:24I have no idea where those other guys are at, Maria.
17:27See anything?
17:29No.
17:30That's just a small little boat out there.
17:32They're nowhere out there.
17:33Not out, you can't see them out there?
17:34They had none of their gear with them.
17:36They had no lantern.
17:38They didn't have any maps, so there was a really good chance
17:42that they didn't even know where to go.
17:44I have no idea where they're at.
17:46All along on this expedition, I've dreamt of that moment
17:49where all four of us walk onto UGG together.
17:53And right now, there's a very distinct possibility
17:56that that may not happen.
18:14I have no idea where they're at.
18:18I have no idea where they're at.
18:18Kevin and Benedict are behind us right now.
18:20We don't know exactly where they are.
18:22We can't see the boat.
18:23We don't know if they can make it to us.
18:24We don't know if their boat's damaged.
18:26We don't know if one of them will hurt, perhaps.
18:28We don't know what's happening.
18:30If we want to get to UGG together,
18:32then we cannot leave this point until they reach us here.
18:37Is that them out there?
18:39What would they be doing out there?
18:41Yeah, that is them.
18:50Yeah, I've got a blister.
18:58Yeah, I put them in the water just to keep them lubricated.
19:01Otherwise, they're going to get calloused and blister.
19:04Water is like the universal lubricant around here.
19:06And we've got plenty of it.
19:08With all that I've read about Stanley,
19:09at this point, I see him very manic.
19:11His career is really riding on this expedition,
19:15achieving this goal.
19:16We'll put him in the history books.
19:18But he hasn't done it yet.
19:20And it's almost like being able to see the finish line,
19:22but you've got to cross it.
19:23Oh, crikey, blimey.
19:25We've had a good reminder.
19:27That as close as we are, we've got to stay focused.
19:37One of the happiest moments I've had on this expedition
19:40was the sight of Benedict waving his hat from that boat.
19:43Hey.
19:43It was just such a great feeling to know
19:46that we're all together again.
19:47And now we're going to head to Ujiji,
19:49and we're going to get there as a team, the four of us, together.
20:04You excited about tomorrow?
20:06Yeah, because, you know, it all boils down to everything we've done so far.
20:09Tomorrow, we can finish it off in style.
20:12Well, good night, guys.
20:21Day 29 of the expedition, and we are getting close to a Gigi,
20:26but not so close so we can get overconfident.
20:28We've had a lot of challenges, a lot of ups and downs,
20:31you know, some personality conflicts, some illnesses.
20:35It's tough, and it makes you respect, you know,
20:37what Stanley did on his expedition.
20:39It makes you understand that, you know, it was hard.
20:43This is not an easy thing to do.
20:44One more day, excited, tired, but ready to go.
20:48See you tomorrow.
21:03This expedition has been go, go, go, right from day one.
21:07And then, suddenly, this morning, everything has slowed down.
21:12All right, come on.
21:14It's day 30, and we are on the shore of Lake Tanganyika,
21:18and just over there is Ujiji, and it feels very, very good.
21:21We really, surely, will get there today.
21:24I mean, what can stop us?
21:32As a tradition, every time I get in a body of water with a river lake or something,
21:36the first thing I do is take all my clothes off, get a bar of soap, and I bathe in
21:40it.
21:41It felt so unbelievably beautiful.
21:44It was like baptizing myself.
21:46All the sins, the last 30 days, washed away, baby.
21:51Squeaky clean.
21:52You know, when Stanley and Livingston got here, I'll guarantee you they did just what I did.
21:56You know, the molecules of the water that touch them are still in this lake,
22:01and the thought that we're at almost the exact same place that Stanley and Livingston bathed 140 years ago
22:09is sobering, and it's an honor.
22:11What a great feeling.
22:19Oh, check this out, you guys.
22:22It's a Lake Tanganyika water snake, and they're only found here in Lake Tanganyika.
22:27They're nocturnal, which means that they are most active at night,
22:31and they like to submerge themselves, and they just pop out to breathe.
22:37And they're not typically as big like the pythons and the pawfatters and that sort of thing.
22:43They're just small like this.
22:44Yeah, and guess what they eat?
22:47Insects?
22:47They eat fish that you guys won't eat.
22:53All right, let's take a look at the maps, huh?
22:56Yeah.
22:56Hope we don't get lost.
22:58So our goal today is we're camped right here.
23:02We've got about four miles.
23:04There's a small river coming into the big delta here.
23:07We'll try to land at the mouth of that small river,
23:09trek the last four miles into Ujiji.
23:12And as close as we feel, there are many more objective dangers,
23:16and so we have to be really careful to make sure we don't become complacent.
23:21Stanley had heard rumors that Livingston was probably in the west of Tanzania.
23:25Here we go.
23:26Ujiji is our goal because that's where Stanley was headed to find Livingston
23:30and where he ultimately did.
23:39The Ujiji are not too far away at all now.
23:43What a good sight.
23:44After all that trekking through jungles and swamps and deserts,
23:49it feels like we're going home somehow.
23:58We're heading upriver.
23:59We just got to one of the tributaries on the big muddy estuary here towards Ujiji,
24:03so since there's so much jungle here,
24:06what we've decided to do is push up this tributary,
24:08see if we can get a clearing in the mud.
24:10Otherwise, we've got to walk through the swamp.
24:13Hey, dude, be careful of crocodiles, huh?
24:16Yep.
24:16There could easily be crocodiles in this stretch.
24:21Isn't this a great habitat for crocodiles?
24:23It's perfect territory for them.
24:25It's swampy.
24:27There's the reeds where they like to hide under.
24:30I mean, really, it could just so easily swing out.
24:33You don't see them, but they're there.
24:35Yeah.
24:48As we were pulling up this blood-red, mud-filled torrent coming out of the swamp,
24:55I thought of Joseph Conrad in the heart of darkness,
24:57and I thought that this is so much like what he must have experienced going up to Congo.
25:02Okay, guys, come on.
25:03Put some back on there.
25:04Ready?
25:05We know that Conrad was inspired by Henry Morton Stanley in his book,
25:09How I Found Livingston, and that thought actually went through my mind.
25:14I thought, you know, this is crazy.
25:15We need to turn back.
25:17We're not going forward at all.
25:20Oh, my gosh.
25:21This is so stupid.
25:23We're just stuck here now.
25:25Ooh.
25:26No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
25:36We're not going forward at all.
25:38Oh, my gosh.
25:39This is so stupid.
25:42We're just stuck here now.
25:44No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
25:47What do you think about abandoning these boats and just cutting through these gardens that are here?
25:52All right, let's get out of here.
25:54So we were really hard going up this thing.
25:56When finally it was obvious that we had to stop.
26:00We couldn't go any further.
26:01We just stepped off in a knee-deep mud and water.
26:04God damn it!
26:06See, guys, this ain't good.
26:08The whole thing is cluttered.
26:10It's getting deeper.
26:11This is worse than the Ruvu.
26:13Yeah, it is.
26:16Ooh, don't know, boys.
26:18I feel better here than out there.
26:21Just the snakes.
26:22Just the snakes is the only reason being.
26:24If one of us gets bitten by a snake, we're dead before we ever get out of here.
26:29This is very dangerous.
26:30It's too much water coming.
26:31But it's strong, kind of, you know.
26:34And cooks.
26:36There's many crocodiles.
26:37And you know what?
26:38The water was very dark.
26:40So you can't see these animals.
26:43And we had to go because there was no choice.
26:48It's like a .
26:51It makes it really hard going.
26:53It's really slippery, too.
26:55They'll be really careful not to slip on the mud.
27:02Oh, .
27:05God, I just twisted my ankle.
27:08Huh?
27:08You okay?
27:09Yeah, I just, I twisted my ankle.
27:13How bad?
27:15Give me a second, I'm sorry.
27:18I already felt like Tanzania had kicked the hell out of us.
27:20And here we are on the last day, a few more miles to go.
27:23And that's when it really starts kicking the hell out of us.
27:27I can look at this, my nail, split open.
27:30Ah, nasty.
27:31I'm going to slice right under that nail.
27:33Yeah.
27:34You need to cut off the nail a bit.
27:36Wait, careful, then it really hurts.
27:40Oh, yeah.
27:42Yeah.
27:42Okay.
27:47There's a path here.
27:48There is a path here.
27:49Let's see where this path leads us.
27:54By the way, guys, this is cutting the out of my legs.
27:57I hate razor grass.
28:02Swamps are never easy at the best of times, but every step seemed to take five minutes.
28:07You're way down by the water, you're being sucked by the mud, and at the same time you're
28:11getting slashed by the razor grass, each grass is a sort of blade like a, oh, that's the right
28:18razor.
28:19Ah, I picked that grass.
28:24Here we go.
28:25Is that trail there?
28:26Yep.
28:28It's the right direction, too.
28:30You see that, that hill, that's sort of three or four kilometers away, so that's certain
28:36firm ground.
28:37The question is, whether we can find something before that, because at this rate, we won't
28:41get there until nightfall.
28:47Getting deeper.
28:48As we're moving forward, we're realizing this is some of the toughest going that we've had.
28:53Woo!
28:53We take one step, and we'd be up to our knees, another step to our waist.
28:59It almost seemed like there's no way out of this.
29:01How deep are you going to be in there?
29:03You all right?
29:04It's pretty deep.
29:06Uncomfortably deep.
29:08Woo!
29:09At the end of an expedition, it's very difficult to keep the focus away from the end.
29:16And it's dangerous, because you still have more to conquer.
29:20You still have challenges ahead.
29:21We're still not there.
29:25We're full of fire street ahead, so it's deep water.
29:29Oh, I think we're f***ed.
29:31Let's see if we can get across.
29:33This is perfect crocodile territory, and just as we started walking in here, Benedict and
29:39I think we saw what looked like crocodile nest.
29:43All right.
29:45All right, guys.
29:46Windy.
30:05Oh, boy.
30:06That is cool.
30:23You GG.
30:25Yeah.
30:26My friend.
30:27Totally.
30:29Morale was real down.
30:30Attitudes were starting to sink rapidly, and so I was really concerned that if we did
30:34not get to high ground quickly, the expedition would grind to a halt.
30:39For the first time during the entire expedition, I thought, we may not finish.
30:45It's got to get some high ground here.
30:47That's 340 right there.
30:48Those trees right there, see that clump?
30:51That's 340 right there.
30:52And that clump of trees should be high.
30:54It should be, but whether it's easy to get through, though.
30:56I don't know.
30:57Well, you know, just as long as we get out of this water.
31:05That should be right up there, should be hard ground.
31:09Looking hopeful.
31:19Dry land.
31:20Well done, everyone.
31:22Suddenly, we were on dry land, and that dry land was on the outskirts of Ujiji, a place
31:29we've been aiming to get to for so long.
31:32Cool.
31:33This is it, Pasquale.
31:34The final?
31:35The final push.
31:36Final push.
31:37Stanley revered Livingstone, so he wanted to impress him in that final day.
31:41So he kept a pair of clean clothes just for this meeting, and on the expedition, Pasquale
31:47and Mireya wanted to do the same thing.
31:50Ooh, look at that smile on her face.
31:52Do you recognize me?
31:54No.
31:55Look at you.
31:56You're cleaning up the hog now.
31:59We've been through so much to get here.
32:02949.5 miles, you know, the last half mile ahead of us.
32:07Are you excited?
32:08Yeah.
32:34Yeah, I am.
32:37It's only now that, really, we can look back and take in the full scope of this expedition.
32:43Not just this moment of arrival at the end of our journey, but the journey itself.
32:49Just to look back and think, how far have we been?
32:53Say goodbye to Zanzibar, guys.
32:56Wind's picking up.
32:58It sails all the way up.
32:59It needs to be down.
33:00Hey!
33:01Okay.
33:01Let's turn it down.
33:02Our expedition's starting in Bagamoyo.
33:05Our goal is to go 10 miles to the Aruba Swamp.
33:07Oh, here we go.
33:09Can I suggest we take...
33:10Hold on.
33:11Asquale is used to having things his way, and I'm not very good at obeying orders.
33:16Let me tell you guys something.
33:17Navigate my community.
33:30We're not...
33:31Crack open.
33:32We're going to start our trek through the Makata Plain.
33:35We're going to have to be extremely careful now with the wildlife.
33:39Amazing Africa.
33:40How do these animals survive?
33:42Look at them run.
33:42It's like in slow motion.
33:43It's like in slow motion.
33:46You're joking, right?
33:50Coming into the Skars was the point of no return to the expedition.
33:53The minute it starts raining, you find yourself no longer trekking, but suddenly surviving.
33:58Okay, mud, be careful.
34:00It's downhill.
34:00Real, real, this one's money.
34:03Welcome to Bahi Swamp, guys.
34:05At this time of the year, it isn't actually a swamp.
34:08It should be renamed the Bahi Desert.
34:10It's about a sight.
34:11See the heat shimmering off it.
34:16Does anyone want to comment on what just happened yet again?
34:19It's the normal way it's done in the mountain.
34:21And we're not on a mountain.
34:23It's not a mountain.
34:23Then what is this?
34:24The expedition seems to be tearing apart, and I've been struggling trying to figure out, you know, what it takes
34:29to make it a thing.
34:31It's a boy.
34:32It's a boy.
34:32Here we go.
34:33You guys, look, look.
34:36Benedict has malaria.
34:38I don't know how he can finish the expedition.
34:40We may have to leave him.
34:41I just can't imagine the rest of this expedition without him on it.
34:47We'll be leaving here, Livingstone House, and then we're going to be in the Ugalo River Plain.
34:54Did you hear how close those hippos are?
34:56Oh, yeah.
34:57Walking at night is quite dangerous out here, and we just make sure that we all stay together as a
35:02group.
35:05We're going to Malagorasi.
35:08It's the most difficult now to stay focused, because you're just looking at the end.
35:13We've arrived at the Malagorasi River.
35:1580 miles left before we get to Ujiji.
35:27Pasquale, I know your pace well enough now.
35:30You're excited.
35:31I can feel your pace picking up.
35:34That's what I do.
35:34I usually start out walking nice and relaxed, and it picks up, and it picks up, and it picks up.
35:39I was flooded with the emotion of 200 years of history, the slave trade, the great explorers of Africa.
35:47I wanted to run to the finish, down towards our goal, which was that old market of Ujiji.
35:53But I didn't want, because I wanted us to savor it.
35:58That's hard to believe, huh?
36:00Well, this is the end.
36:01It's the end.
36:02I suppose Stanley was probably like us, thinking, is this man really?
36:05Maybe he'll be killed or die of a fever just before I arrive.
36:10Yeah.
36:10Because his thoughts, I mean, you know how near we were, and suddenly we're stuck in that swamp.
36:14Yeah.
36:14I can't imagine what Stanley was really feeling as he came into Ujiji, you know, at that moment,
36:20knowing that within his reach is Livingstone, the holy grail of this expedition for him.
36:28So we're going to stand in the very spot that Stanley and Livingstone stood in.
36:32Yeah, and met where that famous handshake could place.
36:35We're making history, man.
36:37As we turn the corner in the final stretch, you know, here's this avenue just lined with mango trees.
36:43It was like walking into Garden of Eden.
36:47It was so beautiful.
36:48I knew that once we hit that spot, that last dot on the map, that would be the end.
36:54And it felt really good to, at long last, walk side by side instead of one behind the other as
37:02we traveled through those mango-lined avenues.
37:05It was as if we had finally decided that we were equals.
37:10It was really one of the most amazing moments in my entire life.
37:13This is what a beautiful entry to Ujiji.
37:16I never would have thought it would be like this.
37:18This is glorious.
37:19It looks like a place you enter in style.
37:22Wow, this is truly spectacular, isn't it?
37:25Let's slow down and enjoy it.
37:27Hi, buddy.
37:27I'm Jambo.
37:28Jambo.
37:29Jambo.
37:31Hi, buddy.
37:32Look at this.
37:33I was almost in tears.
37:35It grew and grew and grew.
37:37And we thought Ujiji itself is acknowledging us.
37:41They're acknowledging the end of our journey.
37:43It was reflecting exactly what Stanley did on the day that he was going to meet Livingston.
37:47So it was a lovely little echo of that previous journey's end.
37:53Hello.
37:54All those days.
37:56All right.
37:59Bye-bye.
38:00There we go.
38:01Bye-bye.
38:27I felt this celebration,
38:31all these people coming out and clapping and waving and welcoming us.
38:36It brought the whole experience to a wonderful climax
38:40and made us feel this really is it.
38:45It made the end of our journey, our mission, complete.
38:49It told us that this really was the end.
39:05You can imagine this moment when Stanley actually meets Livingston.
39:10Livingston had been basically starving in this village, looking for someone to rescue him.
39:14Stanley has been on this track for over nine months at this point.
39:17He wants it to be momentous.
39:19And so he writes in his autobiography, he says, Dr. Livingston, I presume.
39:25And yet that page was actually torn from his diary, leading many historians and experts to say he probably never
39:32uttered those words.
39:33But the line, Dr. Livingston, I presume, became bigger than the meeting itself.
39:38I know I was going to say Dr. Livingston, but well done.
39:52We cannot go back in time.
39:54But the expedition we've accomplished in the spirit of Stanley is as close as any human being in history will
40:01ever have
40:02to go back 200 years and recapture the thrill and the sense of discovery and exploration that Stanley had.
40:11Julius and the Maasai, they were such an integral part of our team.
40:16Julius helped us along every step of the way.
40:19The Maasai taught us so much about the world that we were traveling through.
40:24We couldn't have done it without them.
40:28I can't really explain this, but it was really wonderful.
40:31I remember these guys for my life, you know, the whole expedition.
40:37I'm very proud to do this.
40:41I thank God.
40:44To me, I feel like I have won the battle and I'm proud of it because I have done it.
40:50Like my friends, I love them and say bye-bye to them.
40:54And then God will see you one another time.
41:09After all the excitement in the town center in Oggie, the four of us decided we really needed to slip
41:14out of there
41:15and really kind of contemplate what we had done, you know, a quiet moment amongst ourselves.
41:19This place is so beautiful.
41:21Yes, it is.
41:22Remember that night on the beach in Bagamoyo?
41:24We were sitting around the campfire.
41:26It was really our first night together.
41:27It seems like years.
41:28And we had this book that we all decided that we were going to sign to take our place in
41:36history besides Stanley.
41:37Well, I think we vowed to ourselves that if we all crossed the finish line, if we all got to
41:43Oggie together, we'd sign the back of the book.
41:46We put our hopes and expectations in the front of the book when we started the journey
41:50and we wanted to put our thoughts about completing the journey at the very end.
41:57When we first set off on our expedition across Tanzania, we were strangers in a relatively strange land.
42:04950 miles later, we have come to know each other, Africa and HMS Stanley in ways in depth that I
42:10never expected.
42:11I hope there are many more expeditions in our future.
42:15Thank you for being gentlemen, friends and fellow explorers, brothers and sisters for life.
42:20It was indeed a privilege to pass through and into Africa.
42:25We underwent many of the experiences of Stanley, wading through swamps, climbing hills and mountains, trekking across deserts.
42:32And through them did gain a greater understanding of the man.
42:35We all have a greater empathy and admiration for someone who was indeed genuinely great and deserved his place in
42:43history.
42:44Here we are, 950 miles, 30 days, and innumerable memories later.
42:49What have we learned?
42:51For me, the struggle for survival is a constant.
42:53While we searched for food, water, and shelter for a month, this is an endless struggle for the people of
42:58Africa.
42:59My hope is that we ultimately take away the respect both for this environment and its people,
43:04and the humility of having shared briefly in their experience.
43:07From the shores of Lake Tanganyika, the end of our journey, we can reflect back on many ways our relationships
43:13were tested.
43:14The egos, strong wills, moods, and illnesses.
43:18All strive to break us and drive us apart, but all fail to do so.
43:23We have emerged victorious and successful just as Stanley did.
43:27In the end, however, it's not the destination that really mattered.
43:31It's what we shall take away with us.
43:33Something more important.
43:34Friends and memories.
43:48Track's over, guys.
43:52All right.
43:53Have to make some tracks, yeah?
43:55Shotgun.
43:56Okay, guys.
44:00Last time?
44:01Yeah.
44:02Clear.
44:02Okay, Twendi.
44:04What's next?
44:05I think Marco Polo.
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