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00:01Previously on Expedition.
00:03Okay.
00:03Careful!
00:04We could be afraid to death to travel through this continent.
00:07Well, how are we gonna get past it?
00:08The goal is to try our hardest to march ahead.
00:11Hold it down, guys.
00:12Minimize those risks, knowing that we're not gonna be completely safe.
00:17You guys, look, look. My God.
00:19If Benedict has malaria, I don't know how he can finish the expedition.
00:23We may have to leave him.
00:24I can't believe how quickly he's deteriorating.
00:27I'm certainly not ready to leave him behind.
00:30Squalius used my absence due to malaria to sort of take over the whole expedition.
00:34But now we're filtering the water.
00:36Well, what's the difference? I'll pour it in the filter, too.
00:38He's somehow puzzled by the fact that we have a voice and an opinion in all of this.
00:42And the fact is, majority rules.
00:45And now on Expedition.
00:47We're running out of time to get to you, Gigi.
00:49Walking at night is quite dangerous out here.
00:52Not something you normally do.
00:53Luntering through the vegetation that you're not familiar with.
01:02When the world's greatest explorer, Dr. David Livingston, vanished deep in the heart of uncharted Africa,
01:08a young journalist, Henry Morton Stanley, began a desperate search that would become one of the greatest adventures of all
01:15time.
01:17Now, using only a compass and basic maps, four modern-day explorers are on a quest to relive the most
01:23grueling parts of Stanley's 970-mile journey to find Dr. Livingston.
01:28six- masked patients
01:53who would be supported by structure of Bölar lost his heart
01:53Number One
01:53You've got to take... No, let's not agree. I'll just... teraz... it's not agreed . I'll just... you guys decide
01:56what the hell you wanna do.
01:57I don't want to be an infant to ask you when I need to drink a water.
02:00And you keep insisting that your way is so simple.
02:02We're all confused by it, so it's not working.
02:05Let's go back to the old way.
02:07No, no, no.
02:08Don't do what you were doing.
02:10I'm cooking.
02:13Don't yell at me.
02:16God, Pasquale.
02:19Although the issue might seem to be about water,
02:21actually, it was about something much bigger,
02:24trying to re-establish equilibrium on this expedition.
02:29He does look like a way of getting to people, doesn't he?
02:34Sorry, I lost it.
02:35Oh, it's OK. It's OK. It's very easy to do.
02:39And the cursing and the yelling, and it does, it gets my blood boiling.
02:44Oh.
02:46How do we move forward from here?
02:48You have this huge fight. It's an in-your-face confrontation.
02:51You get it all out.
02:52I mean, we have to talk to each other.
02:54We have to make decisions along the way.
02:56I'm willing to bury the hatchet as long as he starts listening.
03:00From now on, the big containers will try to get full water in there.
03:04We'll only try to put wash water here.
03:06We'll only try to put filtered, cooked water here.
03:09OK.
03:10Maria, she's a strong-willed Cuban woman with a hot temper.
03:14And her Cuban temper and my Sicilian temper clashed a lot.
03:19That said, it's so important for us to get to a Gigi.
03:22It's so important for us to go there as a team and go in harmony
03:24that I'm willing to sacrifice any feelings I have, you know,
03:28over how we should run an expedition.
03:46I think we want to get out of here, don't we?
03:48Yeah, I want to get moving already.
03:50Plus, it just seems like we're running out of time to get to you, Gigi.
03:56Yeah.
03:56It's that final push.
03:58Yeah, final push. It's not easy.
04:02It never is, is it?
04:03Mm-mm.
04:04Time is running out.
04:05The rains are going to arrive sooner or later.
04:07And we've lost a whole day, effectively, because of my malaria.
04:10But now we've recuperated here at the Ugala.
04:15And now, in order to make up that time,
04:17we're slipping away very early in the morning.
04:19Stanley also used the light to travel in,
04:22largely because he wants to get away from the local people.
04:25They were exacting larger and larger tributes.
04:28He's running out of supplies, running out of gifts
04:30to give all the local chief students.
04:32The men stole quietly out of the village.
04:34And by 3 a.m., the entire expedition was outside the Boma.
04:38And not the slightest alarm had been made.
04:42Stanley broke camp at midnight
04:44and traveled for nine hours in the darkness
04:46to avoid these tribes
04:48and try to get as much distance as he could between them.
04:51We're going to kind of retrace that tonight.
04:53Yeah, it's been 140 years, but what's changed about that?
04:57It's going to be us in the dark,
04:59the same predators when he did it.
05:01Mm-mm.
05:02Lions and hyenas and snakes.
05:04Yeah, all of them got nightfish and we haven't.
05:08Yeah.
05:16Can we put the lanterns out already?
05:17Yeah, we need to relight them.
05:19You know, for me, if we keep the lanterns back a bit,
05:22I see like a thousand times better, just like this.
05:26I can see a head of 100 meters.
05:28I like travel at night.
05:29At night, every little sensation of yours is illuminated.
05:33The sounds and the feels, and it's really nice.
05:37Makes you use senses you generally don't use.
05:40What I need to do now is I have to read
05:41a white needle on a compass,
05:43so I need to make sure that I know exactly
05:45what that compass needle is.
05:46It's hard keeping at night.
05:47It's hard keeping within five degrees.
05:48I can't, because I can't see.
05:49My compass is dark.
05:50It's not illuminated.
05:52Okay, guys, let's take a look at some maps, huh?
05:55We're sitting here right now.
05:57We're heading 180 degrees, obviously, to the south,
06:00about three kilometers to the river.
06:02Also, too, once we leave the trees,
06:05we have a clearing in a little less than a kilometer.
06:08But then we have a pretty long way to go.
06:10Come all the way up, we're sitting right here
06:12on the banks of the Malagorasi.
06:14And our goal here is to get all the way down the river.
06:17Obviously, you've got to be really careful.
06:19It's a long way.
06:20There's crocodiles.
06:21We have a long, long day ahead of us.
06:23We want to get this day behind us
06:24so that we can get to our next camp before dark,
06:26be able to set up camp in the safety of the light,
06:29get our shelter, fire, everything built.
06:38Is everybody pretty much ready?
06:39Yep.
06:40Packed up?
06:41Yep.
06:43This is one of the most dangerous portions of our track.
06:45We're going to be amongst animals
06:47that are familiar with the dark,
06:49lions, hyenas, other predators,
06:52and hippos, of course, who are highly territorial.
06:56So we'll be at a distinct disadvantage to these animals.
07:00Let's get going.
07:01Okay, is everybody ready?
07:02Yep.
07:02Okay, Eddie?
07:03Okay, Wendy.
07:21We'll be back in the river.
07:26We'll be back in the river.
07:30Did you hear how close those hippos are?
07:32Oh, yeah.
07:33It was stereo hippos right here.
07:35You know, walking at night is quite dangerous out here,
07:39and we just have to keep our eyes open.
07:42There's hippos.
07:43There's lots of predators that come out at night.
07:45It's very difficult for us to get around and to see,
07:48for our eyes to adjust,
07:50and make sure that we all stay together as a group.
08:06Our job here,
08:07we have come to work as the soldiers of the group
08:12in the case of an attack.
08:14We have been having weapons.
08:15In case of any incident to our friend,
08:17then we can assist.
08:21Be really careful here.
08:23The dangers of getting lost is you're lost.
08:26If you start getting lost,
08:28and you don't have accomplished,
08:29you start going in circles.
08:30Dangers are snakes are definitely nighttime creatures,
08:33although when it gets cold...
08:45Let's go this way.
08:51Hey, Pasquale?
08:52Hey.
08:54Yeah, I dropped my bow and arrows.
08:57Okay.
08:58Give me one sec.
09:00I had my bow and arrows strapped to my pack,
09:03and they must have fallen as we walked.
09:08Of course, everything is so difficult to see right now.
09:13The Maasai is so good at spotting these things.
09:16Hopefully she'll be back in a second with her bow.
09:19But we've got to keep pressing on.
09:21Otherwise, we'll lose the advantage.
09:27Maria?
09:29Maria?
09:32There's some eyes out in here.
09:34At night, they feed.
09:35Animals come out after dark.
09:38The biggest concern I have is hyenas.
09:41All the injuries and deaths I've read of
09:43where people have been pulled out of tents
09:44have been hyenas.
09:45And they're capable of taking a fully grown man
09:47and just grabbing him by the neck
09:48and just dragging him off.
09:50So it's dangerous.
10:02Maria!
10:03Maria!
10:05Maria!
10:12They try to find a bow and arrow
10:14in all these sticks and everything.
10:15Good luck, huh?
10:19Can we just search to there?
10:24Yes, I know animals are dangerous, but I can know how to escape an animal.
10:30But if you know it's of escaping an animal,
10:33then you're not going to be attacked by an animal.
10:39Oh, great.
10:41Good eyes.
10:46Oh, happy about that.
10:51Maria, are you okay?
10:53No, no.
10:54Got it.
10:54Got it.
10:55Brilliant.
10:55Sorry about that.
10:56Okay, ready?
10:57Dwind it.
11:01Okay, keep your eyes open for a clearing.
11:07When you're in a forest setting like that,
11:09pitch black for quite a ways,
11:11with a compass that you can't barely read,
11:14it makes you nervous because you keep begging,
11:17oh, something's wrong, something's wrong.
11:18That big tree out there,
11:20just walk straight to that big tree.
11:26Have we passed our clearing yet?
11:29No.
11:31It's dark out here.
11:32We had the moon for part of the way,
11:34but we're getting to thicker woods right now,
11:35so we need to check the compass readings.
11:38I haven't had due south quite a ways.
11:41We have not hit that clearing yet.
11:43The river's here to the left,
11:46so let's do this.
11:47Let's just go to the left a little bit.
11:49Let's see if we can hit that thing.
11:53Right there.
11:55Looks like we've hit our open field.
11:57Yeah.
11:58Okay, so we're safe.
12:01We shouldn't be heading away from the river like this.
12:03We should be trying to cross the river.
12:06This track's not leading us away.
12:14Twali, how are we doing on the bearing?
12:16Let me double-check.
12:17Unless the sunrise is coming up behind us.
12:22We're heading to east, aren't we?
12:25Generally, we should be dropping right down
12:27towards the south.
12:28Oh, you know what?
12:28Hold on a second.
12:29I get up here.
12:30Hold on.
12:33No.
12:33No, you guys were in the wrong place.
12:34We're heading this way.
12:35You're right.
12:36We did turn the other direction.
12:38We should have gone that way to the right,
12:40which was south.
12:43Okay, let's go back.
12:45Turn around.
12:48That was a good test by Benedict.
12:49Yeah, either way.
12:50Good to be back on track.
12:52Yeah.
12:53I should know better than that.
12:54I took off and checked my compass.
12:57Of course, they put it away,
12:58and then you should take it out a lot more.
13:01You really took that hard, didn't you?
13:03Oh, yeah.
13:04I don't like making mistakes like that.
13:05It's stupid.
13:05It's a mistake to make.
13:07I think that Pasquale's come a really long way.
13:10He's learned to listen more.
13:12Overall, I think that Pasquale is a better leader
13:15because of this expedition.
13:22Look at that.
13:23Beautiful.
13:25Beautiful.
13:25Do you think you see a brand new day like this?
13:27I love it coming up.
13:34Sunlight rise at 6.30.
13:36We just crossed the Ugala River,
13:41and we're going to Malagorasi.
13:45We have a very long day.
13:53God, what a beautiful, beautiful.
13:55It just is gorgeous.
14:13The most dangerous stage of any expedition,
14:16I think, the three-quarter stage,
14:17you lose concentration.
14:20You're starting to think of the end.
14:22You're forgetting about now,
14:23but actually, things can go so quickly wrong.
14:26One bad foot,
14:27and you sprain your ankle,
14:29break your ankle.
14:30All you're just snatched by a crocodile
14:31is you go and fill up your water container.
14:34I always find that's when most people
14:35have the most difficult time
14:36because they can almost see the end.
14:38We've got to be careful
14:39not to let our guard down at all
14:40because, you know, it could be deadly.
14:49Can you see the river guys?
14:50Hey, you look at it.
14:51Hey, Malagorasi.
14:52Hey, it's a bigger river than I thought it was, too.
14:54Yeah, very big river.
14:55Sixty meters across, maybe.
14:56It's got to be more than that.
14:58Yeah, maybe probably close to 100 meters across.
15:03Guys, we've got about 20 minutes, huh?
15:05Yeah, let's go.
15:06Let's go.
15:06Let's get a good set up.
15:12In the Malagorasi,
15:13this is three-quarters through Stanley's journey,
15:15and this is one of the most difficult times for him yet.
15:18He's left Tabora,
15:19and yet he's contracted cerebral malaria,
15:22which can kill you.
15:23He's running out of food supplies.
15:25He needs a miracle to save him,
15:26and at the same time,
15:28Livingstone is in Ujiji,
15:29destitute,
15:30no food.
15:31He needs a miracle as well.
15:32So you have these two men,
15:34both in dire situations,
15:36and who knows if either of them are going to survive.
15:47It's just an avenue of palms everywhere you look.
15:50Look at all the way up the river, too.
15:52The question we have is,
15:53do we want to camp before it
15:54or right on the river?
15:55If we're thinking that this might be a campsite,
15:57I don't think we should bother.
15:58Should we see the site, though, first?
15:59You know, just check the other options.
16:01Yeah, we'd go do that.
16:02What about leaving our packs here?
16:03Because we're running out of time.
16:04I'd just like to look at it
16:05before we make that decision.
16:06You know what?
16:07You can see how dense that vegetation is on the banks.
16:10The risk of flooding,
16:11because it's the start of the rains.
16:13Let's go take a look.
16:15It was thundering earlier.
16:16Yeah, it's a good safe option.
16:17It's a really good spot.
16:18It's not as picturesque as down there,
16:20but on the other hand,
16:20picturesque places tend to get cut it out.
16:23Kevin wants to be down by the river, I think,
16:25to camp,
16:26but sometimes the prettiest places
16:27are the worst sort of places to actually camp in.
16:29I mean, it has to be an entirely practical decision,
16:31not a romantic decision.
16:35That is a floodplain there.
16:36It's now the rainy season.
16:38We've heard thunder.
16:39It's a classic scenario
16:40for getting washed away by a flood of water.
16:45Yeah.
16:45We know people have lived in abandoned houses,
16:47so that's always a good sign.
16:48Why don't we just take a look,
16:49drop our packs, and then we can set up.
16:51Yeah?
16:51But we're really...
16:51It is quarter past six.
16:52We should start setting up camp,
16:53but we're going to be cooking in the dark right now.
16:55Right, so if we look in five minutes,
16:57then we'll come back and set camp up.
16:58All right.
16:58Okay, our guys are fast.
16:59Do you mind if I just stay here
17:00and start building fire?
17:01Fire, yeah.
17:02So we're not even going to...
17:03It's in a rainy day.
17:04Three quarters of an hour, more daylights.
17:06There were times, quite honestly,
17:08when the expedition was very frustrating for me.
17:10It's a constant battle.
17:12He's going to go check.
17:13He's going to go double check.
17:14Just give me five minutes.
17:15Just give me five minutes.
17:16I'm someone that's been in a lot of war zones
17:18and hairy situations,
17:19but this is different.
17:20There hasn't been a lot of let up in this thing.
17:23It's wearing on me physically and mentally.
17:27Oh, gosh, look at all those palms.
17:38This is one of the more stunning places
17:39we've been to so far.
17:40I think so.
17:41I think it's one of my favorites.
17:42Yeah.
17:43Why do you think Kevin wants to be down by the river
17:45or to camp?
17:46I don't know.
17:48Well, they probably started setting up camp.
17:49I think they waited for us to leave camp.
17:51Okay, break the tarps out.
17:53All right, Kevin's gone.
17:54Put it up.
17:56Hey, do we start setting camp?
17:58Tarp here, tarp here, and a tarp there.
18:00Can you even see the river?
18:02No, I don't yet.
18:03It seems like we're running parallel to it.
18:05It's getting dark,
18:06and there's a lot of crocs in there.
18:08Yeah, definitely.
18:09So we should try and cut to it
18:10as soon as we can and head back.
18:11Okay.
18:14In the Malagorasi,
18:15Stanley was crossing it in a dugout canoe,
18:18and he had his favorite donkey swimming beside him.
18:21They were leading it,
18:22and the donkey, unfortunately,
18:24got eaten right out from under him by crocodiles.
18:29He's going to raise his house.
18:31Love, love, love.
18:33Why is this place abandoned?
18:34It's because the crocodiles were attacking kids
18:38while swimming.
18:40Wow.
18:41This used to be their home.
18:43Yes.
18:43And there's so many crocodiles in this river,
18:45they moved.
18:46Oh, yeah, because of the progress.
18:49Oh, here it is.
18:50We're going to check it out.
18:51Oh, look at this.
18:53Oh, wow.
18:54The water right here does not look great.
18:56It's not flowing as much as we would like it to.
19:00Would it make a difference to, like, borrow one of those dugouts,
19:02and if you went in there,
19:04I could just push you out a little bit?
19:06Yeah, I'll just get you away from the shoreline a little bit.
19:08The problem with standing this close to the banks
19:10is that there are a lot of crocs here,
19:13and they're able to jump out of that water
19:14quite quickly and aggressively.
19:16Exactly.
19:17Boy, I really hope a croc
19:18doesn't decide to spring up from down there.
19:20I'm keeping an eye out.
19:24Okay, I'll brace it.
19:25All right.
19:26Good?
19:29Ready?
19:29Cool.
19:30Be really careful, seriously.
19:32Yeah.
19:32For a second, just take a good look around.
19:37The things we've done for water on this trip.
19:43You don't look all that comfortable.
19:46It's really funny because I love the water,
19:48and I always feel so comfortable in it,
19:49but when you're in areas like this,
19:52you are so vulnerable.
19:53Oh, without a doubt.
19:58I looked down, and I saw a shadow, and...
20:01That should be good.
20:03Good.
20:07All right.
20:08Glad we got that one out of the way, then.
20:19I have a lot of respect for African waters.
20:22Okay.
20:28There you go.
20:29Okay, don't move.
20:30Let's go.
20:36Note to self, send Benedict and Pasquale tomorrow.
20:54Okay, today is the 26th day of the expedition,
20:56and we're on the banks of the Malagorasi River.
20:59You know, Stanley did this journey in nine months.
21:01We've been trying to do it in 30 days,
21:03and I think it's taken its toll emotionally,
21:06physically, and otherwise.
21:07I'm still tired, still kind of underfed,
21:12and I'm ready for a shower.
21:14I'm ready for, you know, three square meals,
21:17maybe get a little protein in the diet,
21:19and maybe sleep in a bed
21:21or at least somewhere that's not on the ground.
21:36Hey, look at the clouds over this ridgeline.
21:40Beautiful, huh?
21:41The mist.
21:49Oh.
21:52Hello.
21:54This is really cool because this is a python.
21:57These guys can actually get up to 15, 16 feet long.
22:01I'd like to get closer.
22:03It's just settling in
22:04because it's got a nice patch of sunlight there.
22:06Look at that.
22:07These guys are really strong,
22:09and you can actually feel it as you're tugging on it.
22:11The muscles in this thing are just amazing.
22:19Yep, don't want to do that or that.
22:23They're one of the few non-venomous snakes.
22:25They can actually cause a lot of damage
22:27because just the force of the impact from these things,
22:31it uses its head to just knock its prey out.
22:34These guys, they bite down,
22:36but their fangs are hooked,
22:37causing the prey when it moves
22:40to shift back and rip its flesh apart.
22:43You really don't want to anger one of these.
22:48You guys want to look at this map real quick?
22:49Yeah.
22:51We're actually here.
22:52Right.
22:52So we're going to head this due west,
22:54hit the river,
22:55kind of follow the river around to that point,
22:57and then what we do then
22:59is we head straight cross-country.
23:00We cut off this S-bend to there.
23:03It's due west.
23:04So I think it could be 10 miles.
23:07Then it's a river trip.
23:09Stanley never paddled down the Malagorasi,
23:11but rivers are a key part
23:13of that early African exploration,
23:14and we want to have some of the same experiences.
23:17And we're also trying to beat the rainy season,
23:19so we're going to take the Malagorasi
23:21to Lake Tanganyika because of time constraints.
23:23Okay, go on, date.
23:26We've had a taste of the rainy season
23:27in the Cigar Mountains,
23:29and we're wondering,
23:30it could come back at any time.
23:32It could turn some of the areas
23:33that we're going through into swamps,
23:34and that could really derail the expedition.
23:40Check this out, guys.
23:41Look at the rock.
23:44So this, you guys want to know what this is?
23:46Yeah, I know.
23:47Kalichi, freshwater lake deposits.
23:49What it is is a limestone,
23:50and these bugs,
23:52this is called terrapan structure.
23:53This term called terrapan structure.
23:56I have an exploration geologist.
23:58I've worked around the world,
23:58so I'm excited about rocks,
24:00and this, Africa is an exciting place for rocks.
24:04The river coming right out of camp
24:06was a pink-red quartz-bedded fluvial sandstone.
24:10When all the continents split apart,
24:12it created these huge valleys
24:14that filled up with water
24:15and formed the big lakes
24:17that feed the Nile
24:18and the Zambezi and the Congo.
24:21And it was in these lakes
24:22that the great explorers
24:25came up to try to find
24:27the source of the Nile.
24:28And these lakes are completely controlled
24:30by the geology of Africa.
24:32Yeah, but it's just,
24:34you feel it.
24:35It's just the feel of,
24:36and the look at it, the color.
24:37If you look at this under a microscope,
24:39it'd have lime.
24:39Professor Pasquale has given us
24:42very insightful lessons
24:44on every rock
24:45that we would pass along the trail.
24:48This is actually called the caliche.
24:50What this is is a limestone rock
24:51that's almost modern.
24:53It's not old.
24:54There's only so much
24:54you can really hear about rocks.
24:57I mean, I like rocks,
24:58but I don't want to hear about them
25:00for eight hours.
25:01This may be my favorite hike yet.
25:03Ah.
25:11Sounds like there's
25:12a bad storm forming.
25:13Yeah, there is.
25:18There's a lot of lightning
25:20behind us.
25:22We're climbing these hills,
25:23these mountains,
25:25to cut off the bend of the river,
25:27trying to get a shortcut,
25:28but we don't want to be
25:30up on this mountain
25:31when this storm hits
25:34because we could get killed
25:35by lightning,
25:36but lightning could pick any of us off.
25:37It's really dangerous
25:38to be on the tops of mountains
25:39in lightning storms.
25:43There's a village right here.
25:45I need three minutes, okay?
25:47Ah.
25:50Hey, Julius?
25:51Yes?
25:51I just wouldn't mind
25:52talking to this guy for a second.
25:53The guy of the house,
25:54just see how it is to live here.
25:56Yeah, do you mind translating?
25:57Yeah.
25:58Thanks.
26:00Jumbo.
26:01Unfortunately,
26:02Africa has been rife in conflict
26:03for much of its history,
26:04and during the time of Stanley,
26:06he was experiencing
26:07what was going on
26:08in a war between the slave traders
26:10and a local chieftain, Marambo,
26:12and that created a refugee problem,
26:14people fleeing from the fighting,
26:16and you see people fleeing conflict
26:18even to this day.
26:19Has there been any problems
26:20with refugees coming from the Congo
26:22or from Rundi
26:23or any other places here?
26:25Stanley was a journalist.
26:27This was ultimately
26:28a newspaper project
26:30that he was doing,
26:31so I'd like to explore
26:32my profession
26:33within the means of this, too.
26:34You know,
26:35refugee usually,
26:36when they arrive,
26:37they arrive at the Kibom.
26:38Right.
26:39In big group.
26:41Oh, son of a b****,
26:42it's gonna rain.
26:46Is there another story?
26:48Can we just answer?
26:51We're in a small village
26:52and there's thunder everywhere,
26:55black clouds all around us,
26:56and if we don't get to camp,
26:58we're gonna be setting up camp
26:59in the pouring rain,
26:59and Kevin starts talking
27:01to a local there
27:02through an interpreter,
27:04and it goes on and on,
27:06five minutes,
27:07ten minutes.
27:07Had they been able
27:08to get enough food
27:09to survive and feed the family?
27:11And it's almost as if
27:12he intentionally extended
27:14his talking
27:15and slowed down
27:16just in spite of
27:17the fact that we wanted
27:18to get going.
27:20Well, they have, uh...
27:23I know you guys want...
27:24It's been ten.
27:25It's gonna start raining.
27:26We just want to...
27:26Dude, I just...
27:27It's one interview.
27:29Just let me just ask them
27:29a question.
27:30Jesus Christ.
27:31There's lightning and thunder.
27:32F***ing rain.
27:33F***ing mess.
27:35I want to f***ing go.
27:37What's the f***ing big deal?
27:39I'm so f***ing tired.
27:43I know it might rain.
27:44This is taking
27:45a little bit longer
27:46than you want,
27:46but it was 15 minutes
27:48out of our day.
27:48The expedition has stopped
27:50for every, you know,
27:51tree and flower
27:52and anything
27:53that anybody else has wanted.
27:54It was my turn
27:55to satisfy
27:56my intellectual curiosity.
27:57Are they able to fish
27:58or anything like that?
28:00There's lightning and thunder.
28:01He decides to stop her.
28:02It's been ten minutes.
28:03It was a three-minute stop.
28:05I've got him go.
28:05He f***ing blows me off.
28:07I'm getting f***ing pissed
28:07at it now.
28:31The fish here is enough.
28:33It's not that much,
28:35but however,
28:36they have something to survive.
28:37But it's not like...
28:38We're in this small village.
28:40Black clouds all around us.
28:41And Kevin wants to enigre,
28:43but he's not even beginning
28:44to think of the fact
28:45that everybody's sitting around
28:46waiting to leave.
28:49We'll just say goodbye to him.
28:51Asante-san.
28:52Asante-san.
28:53Thank you very much.
28:54If I walk through Tanzania
28:56and haven't talked
28:57to the people of Africa,
28:59I'll be remiss
29:00for the rest of my life.
29:01All right, everybody.
29:03You know, this is what I do.
29:05I was going to get a sampling.
29:06I'll get more
29:06before this is over.
29:08Okay, Wendy.
29:14So we have basically
29:16three miles in the open.
29:18And then we hit the river,
29:20kind of follow the river around
29:21to that point over here.
29:26There is a chilliness
29:27in the air now,
29:28which means rain.
29:29Yeah.
29:31We'll get this guy
29:31in the escarpment over here.
29:32Yeah.
29:34Yeah.
29:36Clouds are becoming
29:37really slatey, dark.
29:40I think we're about
29:41nine miles out.
29:42We've got to model the camp.
29:43I'd like to get to camp
29:43as quickly as we can.
29:45It's starting to rain
29:45a little bit now.
29:46What we don't want to do
29:47is get there in a downpour,
29:48have set up
29:48in soaking wet conditions.
29:50So we're going to push
29:51pretty hard here
29:54and try to get there.
29:55But I don't know
29:57if we'll beat it or not.
29:57I think it's going to get us.
30:00Storm's now this way.
30:01Yeah, just don't speak too soon.
30:03I know.
30:05All right, here's a forest clearing.
30:06We can go up in this clearing.
30:08You know what I mean?
30:08What do you think?
30:09Off to the right, maybe?
30:10Here we go.
30:11This will work.
30:13Any place in here.
30:14It's more open over here.
30:16What do you think?
30:17It's up to you guys.
30:18Um, I don't think so.
30:21A lot of stumps up there.
30:22All right, then let's, um...
30:27All right, right here.
30:30That's our camp right here.
30:32Rivers right here.
30:33Uh, yeah, no s***.
30:34Um, but this is just kind of uneven.
30:38Kevin is very tired.
30:39He doesn't understand
30:40that expeditions are not always
30:42what you think they are.
30:43They're going to be hard.
30:44It's the process that drives us
30:46to these things.
30:47It's being in Africa.
30:48That's a little uneven up there.
30:50I mean, there's big divots.
30:52What do you think, Hans?
30:53We'll do our camp over here.
30:54There won't be an argument with you, Hans.
30:55I'll guarantee you that.
30:56There's one person I won't argue.
30:57It's with you.
30:58Everybody else but him.
31:01It's all about the attitude right here.
31:03You know?
31:04And that attitude is starting to...
31:06Start to work in.
31:08What's going on?
31:10Well, just, uh...
31:11You know what I mean?
31:11The whole thing's just about attitude.
31:13You know what I mean?
31:17And, uh...
31:18Yeah, you're tired, not happy,
31:20you want out.
31:21But keep your attitude up
31:22amongst other people.
31:23Don't bring everybody down.
31:25Don't bring everybody down
31:26to the same level.
31:27It's just that it's a bummer.
31:29It puts a lid on your enjoyment
31:30of this thing.
31:33Is that it?
31:34Yeah, I just get bummed.
31:37Hmm.
31:37What are we going to do about that?
31:39You got a bottle of whiskey?
31:41You got to score some food.
31:42You got a bottle of whiskey.
31:58All right.
31:58So, you know,
31:59I've done my share of wine.
32:01You know, for whatever reasons.
32:02I mean, you know,
32:04I see how you're enjoying this
32:05and I see how this is part
32:07of who you all are.
32:09And, you know,
32:10I rarely try to say things
32:15that in some ways,
32:17you know, dampens the enthusiasm
32:19someone else has
32:20for their life and their experience.
32:22And I hope I didn't come across that way.
32:24No, I think at one level
32:25it's very easy for us
32:26to enjoy these challenges
32:27because that's what
32:28our whole life is about.
32:29What's been missing
32:30a little bit personally for me
32:32is that we've only had
32:34snippets of each other's past.
32:36And I'd love to learn
32:37a little bit more.
32:38And I'm thinking perhaps
32:39we can all share a story
32:40from our past
32:41that we feel
32:42kind of defines us
32:43in some ways.
32:45Where do I need to go first?
32:46Oh, you want me to go first?
32:47Yeah.
32:47Yeah.
32:49You know, I've been a war correspondent
32:50for the last seven years of my life.
32:52And when I went to northern Iraq
32:54just prior to the invasion,
32:56we ran into
32:57a Feddine checkpoint.
32:58We pulled up
32:59and this angry man
33:00in a red keffiyeh
33:01in a dirty raincoat
33:02pointed an AK-47
33:03right in the car.
33:05He forced us to get out of the car
33:07and we were face down
33:08on the asphalt
33:09with AKs at our heads.
33:11And when you're in that position,
33:13that's probably
33:13an execution position.
33:15But our fixer, Taufik,
33:18started saying things to them.
33:20I don't know what he was saying.
33:21But eventually,
33:22he ended up getting
33:23one of our vehicles back.
33:25We got in there
33:25and we drove north
33:26and we got to safety.
33:30We asked Taufik,
33:32you know,
33:32well, what was it
33:33that you said to them?
33:34And he said,
33:35I just, I did my job.
33:36Don't worry about it.
33:38This has been
33:39a successful expedition
33:40with Kevin.
33:41He's discovered himself,
33:43how he operates
33:44under the pressure
33:46of an expedition,
33:47and that's what makes it successful.
33:49All right, guys,
33:50while I share my story,
33:51I want to hear
33:52some of your stories.
33:53Who's going to go next?
33:55Pascoli.
33:57I came from
33:57a really unstable
33:58family background
33:59as a young kid.
34:00My father didn't spend
34:02much time with the family
34:03and my mother was
34:05paranoid schizophrenic
34:05the entire time
34:06I was growing up.
34:08Really?
34:09And from the time
34:10I was probably
34:11eight years old,
34:11they didn't have
34:12any parents in the house.
34:14And I left home
34:15when I was about 14.
34:17You know,
34:17my mother was
34:18in a mental institution
34:20at the time.
34:21And so I learned
34:22at a really young age
34:23to take care of myself.
34:24Just do my own thing.
34:26You are incredibly
34:27independent.
34:28Well, I'm very independent.
34:30No one's ever
34:30given me anything.
34:31I just, if I need it,
34:32I go do it.
34:33Relying on other people
34:34and things,
34:34I just, I'm nervous.
34:36I get so nervous
34:36when I have to rely
34:37on other people
34:37to do things.
34:38I think you've noticed
34:39that too.
34:40Very cool.
34:42Yeah.
34:43Sharing what we shared
34:45probably came
34:46at the perfect time.
34:47I went through
34:47this initiation ceremony.
34:49We've beaten
34:49every day
34:49for six weeks.
34:51I like learning
34:52about people slowly.
34:55You have to
34:56to get an understanding
34:57of who someone is
34:58by spending time
34:59with them.
35:00And I've spent
35:01a lot of time
35:01with these individuals.
35:02I almost died out there
35:03because I wouldn't quit.
35:05It was actually
35:06my downfall.
35:08Hearing those
35:08personal stories
35:09they shared,
35:10I think,
35:11came with much
35:12more credibility
35:13because I had spent
35:14so much time with them.
35:15So for me,
35:15it was perfect.
35:17if you don't have
35:18empathy for your
35:19fellow human beings,
35:20you can't really
35:21have hope.
35:43Coffee without sugar,
35:45coffee with sugar.
35:46Coffee with sugar.
35:48Black.
35:49Coffee with sugar.
35:56I'm not afraid
36:02to learn foreign languages.
36:03I think it's an honor
36:04to the countries
36:04we travel through
36:05and the porters.
36:06And I hope I'm not
36:07embarrassing them
36:08or embarrassing the locals.
36:10I don't think I am.
36:11I think I'm trying
36:11to be respectful.
36:12Too much work
36:13is kaza nyingi.
36:15Nyingi or nyingi?
36:16Nyingi, N-Y-G.
36:18Nyingi.
36:19Nyingi.
36:20Nyingi.
36:20Nyingi.
36:21Nyingi.
36:22Very good, huh?
36:23Yeah, nice, nice.
36:24By spending so much time
36:26learning Swahili,
36:27learning their customs,
36:28what's happened is
36:29if I built up
36:30a really tight friendship
36:31with the porters,
36:32I've had such a good time
36:33to them.
36:33It's a hard language
36:34because you add beginnings
36:36to the numbers also.
36:37Oh,
36:38.
36:42Have you decided
36:43what you're going
36:44to take or keep?
36:45Yeah, I just take
36:46another change of clothes,
36:47my flops.
36:48I mean, I never have
36:49Truth on River Trip.
36:50I just have flops.
36:52We have three days.
36:53And two of those days
36:55will be in the water
36:55or three of those days?
36:56Probably three of them.
36:57Three.
36:57Today?
36:59Next two days.
37:00The plan is to go ahead
37:02and march down a little bit
37:03to find some canoes
37:05and a kilometer,
37:06two kilometers,
37:07three kilometers.
37:08And then what we want to do
37:09is we want to get on the river
37:10and push down
37:11and then take off
37:12towards Ajiji.
37:13So how are you feeling
37:14about the porters today?
37:16I think they know
37:16it's ending for them.
37:18Yeah.
37:18They're afraid to death
37:19of the water,
37:20the crocs,
37:20they can't swim.
37:22I know we're going to have
37:23to let the porters go.
37:24A lot of ways,
37:25they were kind of expecting
37:26to go all the way
37:26to Ajiji with us,
37:27and that's just not possible.
37:29You know,
37:29we have the canoes,
37:30they can't swim.
37:32It's just too big a group
37:33to risk taking
37:33across the lake,
37:34and so we're going
37:35to have to let them go.
37:35And I don't know,
37:37it's sad.
37:38We need to get down there,
37:39sort out all the canoes,
37:40but then more importantly,
37:42sort out the porters
37:43and make sure that we do that
37:44in the best way possible
37:45because they've been so amazing
37:47during the expedition.
37:49It's really difficult
37:50right now for me
37:51because we've had the porters
37:52with us from the beginning.
37:53They've dredged the swamps,
37:55the deserts,
37:55the mountains,
37:56and they've never given up,
37:57never complained.
37:59It's sad.
38:00It's going to be tough.
38:04Okay, you guys hurry up
38:05and get in line before it rains.
38:06Yeah, it's going to rain.
38:06Come on.
38:08Wendy.
38:09The rain's coming.
38:10Come on, guys.
38:12Oh, no.
38:13We're going to push
38:14pretty hard here,
38:14but anyway,
38:16it's starting to rain already.
38:17Big drops.
38:18We're less than 80 miles
38:20to Ajiji,
38:21but it is the rainy season,
38:22and as close as we are,
38:25we know that unless we're careful
38:26that the rainy season
38:28could easily stop our expedition.
38:32Are you excited
38:33about getting on the water?
38:34I am excited.
38:35I am excited
38:36about getting on the river.
38:52Wow.
38:54Yes.
38:55Look at that.
38:57Guys,
38:59the river comes around,
39:01looks like it slows.
39:01Hey, we're almost there.
39:02Hey?
39:03So it's only a matter of minutes now,
39:06and then we're on the water.
39:08And then only a matter of days.
39:10Up to now,
39:11the expedition
39:11has been a series of obstacles,
39:13and we've hardly dared look ahead.
39:15Now,
39:15this river,
39:16the Malagorasi,
39:17is like all rivers.
39:19It's leading somewhere.
39:20It seems like a passageway out
39:22for us.
39:25It's not that easy, though,
39:26because we've got to get up
39:27Lake Tanganyika,
39:28and that's going to be hard work.
39:30So, Jumbo.
39:32Yeah.
39:32We'll be on water,
39:33which is a shifting,
39:35mysterious,
39:36often treacherous place,
39:37which likes to seize control
39:39itself.
39:51Nice canoes.
39:53Uh-huh.
39:59I'm Jumbo.
40:00I'm Jumbo.
40:02How about it?
40:03How about it?
40:03Yeah.
40:05This is pretty.
40:07Julius,
40:08we like their canoes.
40:09They know where we can rent
40:10some for ourselves.
40:11These are pretty simple
40:13dugout canoes,
40:14just a hollow palm
40:16that's carved into a boat.
40:18The canoes here
40:19are a bit bigger
40:20and stronger
40:20than the ones
40:21we had previously seen
40:22leading up to this,
40:23which is a relief
40:24to all of us.
40:25Okay, should we go in?
40:26Yeah, we should talk
40:27about the porters.
40:28Yeah.
40:29Hey, Bisquale?
40:29We should probably,
40:31yeah.
40:33All right,
40:34let's go talk
40:34to our guys.
40:36This is D-Day.
40:37This is the moment
40:37where we're getting rid
40:38of all our porters.
40:39We're only keeping
40:40Julius and the Maasai.
40:41Unfortunately,
40:42this next leg
40:43of the expedition
40:44is far too dangerous.
40:45Guys,
40:46we've got to go
40:46on another leg
40:47of this journey
40:48and it's going
40:49to be all
40:50in these canoes.
40:51We want all of you
40:52to go to Ujiji with us,
40:54but it's not going
40:55to be possible.
40:56Lake Tanganyika,
40:57there's big,
40:57big waves
40:59and the crocodiles there,
41:01you don't swim.
41:02It's going to be
41:03risky even for us.
41:05First of all,
41:07I think you guys
41:09are some of the
41:10strongest,
41:12most honest,
41:15hardworking people
41:16I have ever known.
41:18Your attitudes
41:19and your strength
41:21is an honor
41:22to Tanzania
41:24and we shall
41:25never forget that.
41:30It was a very
41:31emotional day
41:31when we released
41:32the porters
41:32because I've gotten
41:34extremely close
41:34to them myself.
41:36And I shall not
41:37forget you.
41:40It was almost like
41:40I was leaving my brothers
41:41when I got that close
41:42to these guys
41:43and it was hard.
41:45It was really hard.
41:47I just want to shake
41:48every one of your hands,
41:49man.
41:51Throughout the entire
41:52expedition,
41:53we've had porters
41:54that were basically
41:55our support system
41:56and we've now
41:58cut them loose.
42:00We have no support system.
42:01We're totally dependent
42:02on ourselves.
42:03If anything were to go wrong,
42:06that's the end
42:06of the expedition.
42:07We make a mistake,
42:09no do gg.
42:10Here we go.
42:11Get your jacket.
42:11It's on here.
42:12Get your jacket.
42:13Here we come.
42:16Ready.
42:22Thanks, brother.
42:24Bring your backpacks
42:25over here.
42:27Yeah, we can cover
42:28this stuff.
42:28Yep.
42:29I believe our luck
42:30has just run out.
42:31That rain,
42:32that sudden rain,
42:34really instilled
42:34a lot of fear in us.
42:36It was a huge
42:36thunderstorm
42:37and there's a lot
42:38of danger
42:38in getting on the water
42:40while there's a storm
42:42because you may
42:43get electrocuted.
42:44Doesn't look like
42:45it's going to pass
42:46anytime soon, either.
42:46We were so ready to go
42:48and then suddenly
42:49that all changed.
42:50We couldn't go.
42:51It carries on all day.
42:53We couldn't just sit here.
42:54Well, it carries on all day.
42:58It's possible that
42:59we thought we were
43:00beating the rainy season,
43:01but in fact,
43:01the rainy season
43:02is about to beat us.
43:12We just didn't know.
43:13Had we not moved
43:14quickly enough,
43:15had we let the rains
43:17catch up with us
43:18and just kill
43:19until the end
43:20of the expedition.
43:24At this point,
43:25it's us to UGG
43:26or we fail.
43:36next time on Expedition.
43:39Brutal.
43:40They're all over the place.
43:42After nearly a thousand miles,
43:44the explorers battle
43:44rain-flooded swamps
43:46on their final push
43:47to reach UGG.
43:48I just twisted my ankle.
43:49You okay?
43:50My legs are just cut.
43:51This is the toughest
43:52going that we've had.
43:53We just feel like
43:54giving up.
43:55I'm not giving up.
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