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00:02Previously on Expedition...
00:03An expedition is not a democracy.
00:06That was my original plan. Why would I change that?
00:09I was wondering about Pasquale's navigation skills.
00:12We seem to be all over the place.
00:15You're going to have to get slower than that, Steven.
00:17I will never not push on an expedition.
00:20No, no, no. It's under control, dude.
00:23Guys, let's set up camp, huh?
00:24I understand that. See that sun right there?
00:27He doesn't listen, or at least he certainly doesn't listen to me.
00:30I was talking to you, actually, Pasqualee.
00:32Until you've taken a teammate that you love
00:34and wrapped their body in a tarp,
00:36then you don't stand it.
00:38And now on Expedition...
00:39Where's Benedict? Where's Morale?
00:41We felt deserted, actually. We felt abandoned.
00:44What the ? What the ? What the ?
00:46He's angry. Are you kidding me?
00:48Exploration is more than about arriving at a goal.
00:50It's the normal way it's done in the mountains.
00:53We're not on a mountain.
00:54It's not a mountain. Then what is this?
00:55I thought I'd climb a mountain.
01:01When the world's greatest explorer, Dr. David Livingston,
01:05vanished deep in the heart of uncharted Africa,
01:08a young journalist, Henry Morton Stanley,
01:10began a desperate search that would become
01:12one of the greatest adventures of all time.
01:16Now, using only a compass and basic maps,
01:19four modern-day explorers are on a quest to relive
01:22the most grueling parts of Stanley's 970-mile journey
01:26to find Dr. Livingston.
01:34The End
01:35The End
01:37The End
02:00Welcome to Baji Swamp, guys.
02:03So what village do you think that is, Pasquale?
02:06Chicole.
02:07This leg of our expedition takes us into the Baji Swamp,
02:11which, at this time of the year, isn't actually a swamp.
02:14It should be renamed the Baji Desert.
02:17When Stanley went through, it was just mud, deep mud,
02:21during the rainy season.
02:23But for us, it is just as dry and desolate as you could imagine it.
02:31Okay.
02:32So what we've done is, um...
02:34Yeah, we start, you know, obviously, Zanzibar,
02:37the boat ride over to Bagamoyo,
02:39and then we cross the Uluguru Mountains,
02:42the Makata Plain,
02:43then we went over the cigars.
02:44Now gonna be entering the Baji Swamp.
02:47We still have 600 miles before we hit Lake Tanganyika and Ojiji.
02:51We're gonna have to follow Pasquale.
02:54We've got a direct bearing of 252 degrees.
02:56Um, tomorrow we have to find this village,
02:58which is across the Baji Swamp here.
03:01Now you just measure it off.
03:04Five, ten.
03:05So we've got almost 15 miles.
03:09We have no known water sources,
03:11and it could be the hardest, driest, most inhospitable place.
03:16This is gonna be a tough challenge right here.
03:21We've got a really hard trek for two days.
03:24Yeah.
03:24We know it's gonna be like a desert,
03:26so we need to use a donkey to carry water.
03:28Yeah.
03:28Without a donkey, we are stuck, in fact.
03:31We've just arrived here now in the Baji,
03:33sun going down, very, very little time,
03:35so Maria and I set off to go and get a donkey organised
03:39because we're now gonna cross a desert,
03:41a flat pan of salt.
03:43We need this donkey to carry our water supplies tomorrow,
03:46which is the absolute survival priority above all others.
03:50Can you tell him that we need to hire one of his donkeys?
04:00Donkeys are two or three times more efficient than humans
04:03at carrying weight.
04:04We've gotta carry at least two days water,
04:06and really for survival reasons,
04:08you've gotta keep a margin.
04:09We might get lost out there for days, you know,
04:11just never know.
04:12And he knows where the camp is,
04:14then 5.30 is okay.
04:16Yeah.
04:17All right, let's go back.
04:19Maria and I arranged for the donkey man
04:21to bring the donkeys up 5.30.
04:23Okay.
04:24If we don't leave at first light tomorrow morning,
04:26we are gonna be fried out there in the Bahi swamp.
04:30Julius!
04:31We have a very, very early day tomorrow.
04:34Uh-huh.
04:34We're up at 4.
04:36Oh.
04:364.30.
04:37We leave at 6.
04:39Okay.
04:39Yeah.
04:40We have to leave early tomorrow.
04:41We have the longest day we've done so far,
04:43over 25 kilometers plus.
04:45We also expect it to be well over 100 degrees.
04:48It was brutally hot here today.
04:49Here it is, 6 o'clock, it's still 90-something degrees.
04:52Whew.
05:06What time is it?
05:07It's a little after 4.
05:15We just woke up a few minutes ago,
05:17and we're getting packed up and getting ready to get out of here.
05:19We want to beat the heat of the day.
05:21We need to get moving as quickly as we can
05:23because we had a huge hike.
05:25It's probably the longest trek that we've had
05:27over the entire expedition, about 25 kilometers,
05:29so we want to be ready for it.
05:32All right, I'm packed.
05:34It's 5.30 a.m. right now.
05:35It's cool.
05:36It's a beautiful morning.
05:37It's probably in the 70s.
05:38Our donkey should be here shortly if he shows up on time,
05:41and we'll load some water,
05:43some additional water on the donkey.
05:45It'll take us across these 25 kilometers,
05:47and then once he's packed up, then we're off.
05:596 o'clock.
06:00Whew.
06:01Where's our donkey, dude?
06:03Hey, we're late.
06:05.
06:07We're still waiting for the donkeys.
06:08It was supposed to be here about 35 minutes ago.
06:13We're totally and completely relying on the donkeys
06:16to carry our water supply.
06:18If the donkeys don't show up, we're pretty much screwed.
06:21I mean, I don't know.
06:22We can't go on a 15-mile walk without water,
06:25and we certainly don't have enough people to help carry it.
06:28Guys, I hate to be a rag, but it's after 6 now.
06:33Oh, I haven't turned up.
06:35I'm just feeling a little bit responsible for the donkey thing
06:40since we set it up, and now they're not here.
06:41Maybe I, you know, should have done the donkey myself yesterday.
06:44I was told by Benedict and Maria that the donkey was totally arranged.
06:48They were going to take care of the donkeys,
06:49but, you know, they have no idea what they're doing,
06:52and they want to be heavily involved in the organization.
06:55The planning and all that, but I'm not seeing it.
07:00I actually had faith that today we were really going to get off.
07:03We looked like we were going to.
07:04We looked good for a while.
07:06It's getting a little bit nerve-wracking
07:08with each minute that goes by.
07:10You know, the sun's going to get hot.
07:11The sky's still not here.
07:14It's not feeling good right now.
07:22Okay, donkeys are here.
07:23It's fine.
07:24It's okay.
07:25Fine beast.
07:27Let's go!
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08:20All right, I guess that's why they say stubborn as a jackass
08:25This is our most important load that we have I've often traveled with beasts of burden
08:29And there are all sorts of problems associated with them. They have their own whims and fancies
08:35Donkey we've got now always likes traveling with his donkey friend. So now we had two donkeys one
08:41Who's gonna carry his baggage and then a younger one? All right, we got to get going guys get out
08:46of here
08:47Now it's three and a half hours after we first got up
08:51It's not too hot now
08:52But it will be in half an hour and you can imagine what it's gonna be like in midday out
08:56there on a clay pan effectively a frying pan
09:00eight o'clock
09:02It wasn't our fault. No, all right
09:17We started we can do this sounds terrible and do this we have to do this
09:37Are we there yet
09:46I'm kind of in a rush just I want to keep moving because it's we've probably got an eight-hour
09:51day and we're two hours late
09:53Means the minimum we arrive at camp is four o'clock and if there's any problems at all it'll be
09:57dark when we get to camp
10:00Oh
10:08Where's the water
10:12Where's our mules at? I set out a pace good pace not a fast pace two miles an hour
10:17Maybe and immediately the donkey start falling behind. Do you see them?
10:21The donkey is behind the thing. Yeah, they were right beside
10:2810 meters behind me so
10:30We shouldn't get this sort of distance. I mean, I'm inside and that's our major water supply
10:35But I am concerned about not seeing the donkeys because if they go the wrong way we are completely screwed
10:41The donkey was carrying the only water that we had and the only water that we knew we would have
10:46For the remainder of of that track we needed those donkeys in order to have enough water to cross the
10:53bahi swamp
10:53The worst part about it is is we could not see them at all right. They're that far behind
11:13Do you see them the donkey behind the thing yeah, we've left behind our donkeys and
11:20That's our major water supply
11:23Most of the donkeys once you load them
11:26They don't go fast. They can go a very long distance
11:29A very dry area. It's not a problem, but they slow down
11:33Look, you see them. Um, I can see
11:36I can't see any Maasai. Yeah, that's Maasai. Yeah, they're way back there. Do you think we're going to make
11:42it for this?
11:43Yeah, we'll do it
11:43Okay, go
11:54All right, let's get to those salt plains, huh?
11:59We got to go about a mile past those trees. I think did
12:04Stanley have 22 donkeys just number 22. Yeah quite a few, huh? Oh, wasn't that starting out? Yeah
12:10Well, he lost that last one at Lake Tanganyika. That was the last one. I believe so
12:16One of the things that we try to do on this expedition is
12:20Replicate some of the same things that that Stanley had going on in his expedition
12:24One of those things is getting beast of burden for Stanley. It was a necessity. He had so much stuff
12:30They could carry more weight than the porters, and he really needed them
12:34But at the same time he lost a lot of beasts of burden. In fact, you know lost one of
12:38his favorite donkeys to crocodiles in a river crossing
12:41So all the challenges that that he experienced we started to feel
12:52All right, there's the salt flats guys
12:55wide open great first view
12:58Look at that
13:09This is going to be like going across death valley isn't it? Yeah, yeah, it's got a sight
13:13See the heat shimmering off it already. Yeah, let's take a rest and we'll start across give these guys a
13:18rest
13:19That's going to be a hard one for those guys
13:21This is one of the flattest places on the planet is just you know nothing but you know straight horizon
13:26But we knew we had to steal ourselves with resolve to really get across that thing and that it was
13:31going to be
13:31The longest track that we've taken so far
13:40Hopefully we'll be able to push fast across it. It's about 10 miles about 10 miles away
13:45First off that came to my mind is I hope we can cross this thing in four hours
13:49Because there's nothing out here
13:51But just mile upon mile of rock hard baked clay full of cracks guys ready, okay
13:59Because you know, we left two hours late from our camp that means we weren't crossing in there in the
14:04morning
14:04We were crossing in the middle part of the day that middle four hours of the day where it starts
14:08to get really really hot
14:09Thank you
14:24Oh
14:24Oh
14:32Hey, is it hot?
14:34You can feel it now, huh?
14:35Yeah.
14:37When the sun gets to the top of the sky, it really feels like you're eggs on a frying pan.
14:42I mean, it was just scorching hot out there.
14:44And the sun seems to beat off the ground and reflect back onto you, making it even hotter.
14:51It was unbelievable to me to look around and see nothing.
14:55I mean, no source of life, no trees, nothing.
14:59It was just so barren.
15:01And you look across the horizon, and all of a sudden, your eyes deceive you, and there's
15:06a mirage.
15:08And you think, God, is that an ocean out there?
15:10Is that water?
15:11And it is very deceptive terrain out there.
15:26Let's wait for the donkeys to catch off a bit.
15:28Our entire expedition team.
15:31Hello.
15:34No, I'm just curious that we're the only ones that stayed behind for the donkeys.
15:38I know.
15:39When that is so important.
15:58Have you ever been in a situation where your camels run off with your water?
16:01Yeah.
16:03When I've been left without water, I've always been able to dig.
16:06Start looking around for tamarisks or other trees that indicate water underground.
16:10And then you start digging, and it's a lonely, desperate business.
16:12I've crossed a lot of deserts, Gobi Desert, Kalahari, and so on.
16:16And there's really only one danger out here, and it's running out of water.
16:19Whenever I'm walking along with my camels, I always make sure the water is with the camel
16:24immediately behind me.
16:25That's the supply you need to keep control of, and without it, you're dead.
16:30We're the only ones who've stayed behind for you.
16:33And everyone else has made it.
16:36They're running for our cover.
16:53Perfect, yeah?
16:54Yeah, I can't stroll.
16:55I hate it.
16:57This particular terrain, it's not that interesting.
17:00I mean, the only thing interesting to me right now is the base of those foothills, right
17:05where we're going.
17:07Yeah.
17:08Fahey Swamp's really unforgiving.
17:10There is no place to get any shade.
17:12There's not a tree there.
17:13It's easy to get heat exhaustion, and for that heat exhaustion to turn into heat stroke, which
17:19is deadly.
17:20You know, there isn't any evacuation, you know, on that salt plain.
17:24So it was a dangerous situation, and that in part, I think, motivated our speed to get
17:29across there, to get to a tree line where the porters could get shade, we could get shade,
17:33take a rest, and make the rest of the journey.
17:35The sun's right overhead, so it's getting hot, and we'd like just to keep up the pace.
17:42We'll go ahead and try.
17:43You guys tired?
17:44You want to go a little further?
17:46All right, let's go another 20 minutes.
17:48We stop, okay?
17:49Stop for 10 minutes.
17:51Good pace, guys.
17:52Good pace, guys.
17:54That's the plan.
17:56Stand.
17:59Maria?
18:00So how far do you think they are ahead?
18:02I mean, that's...
18:03I can't believe how far away they've gone, knowing that the donkeys are back here, and
18:06that we're back here waiting for the donkeys.
18:08I don't think Pasquale's looked back once.
18:11I mean, he's easily, what, two miles away now?
18:15I think two miles would be just about right.
18:19Because we were waiting for the donkeys, that distance, that gap, became larger and larger
18:24and larger.
18:25The more slowed down we were by the donkeys, it seems like the more Pasquale picked up
18:30his pace and just ran.
18:32And you never let that happen on an expedition.
18:34You don't leave your team that far behind.
18:36You don't need a lot of desert experience to realize that we have a big team here and a
18:42limited water source, and it's on their back.
18:46And we can't just walk away from it and hope that it's there when we turn around again three
18:50hours later.
18:57So what's our bearing, dude?
18:59Those trees out there, right there.
19:03Okay, let's stop up here, huh?
19:05Okay.
19:05Have a little patch.
19:07Hans, good?
19:09Taking a five-minute break for seven minutes.
19:10Five minutes, huh?
19:12Another hour, hour and a half maybe to the edge of this thing.
19:16Woo!
19:17Porters are awesome.
19:18They're keeping up really well, aren't they?
19:19No doubt.
19:20Porters wanted to get across this thing.
19:22They did not want to sit out in the sun and get their head.
19:24They have neither hats nor sunglasses.
19:26They're also carrying a 50 to 60-pound load around their necks or on their heads.
19:32Kevin and I wanted to get to the trees, get some shade for these porters, get this thing
19:35crossed.
19:36Did you guys feel good?
19:38Not kaput.
19:40Not yet.
19:41So we go haraka haraka or pole pole?
19:44Haraka haraka.
19:45Certain things have to give, and the number one responsibility is the team.
19:49Everybody, the expedition, get the camp.
19:51The safety and the security and the success of the expedition trumps everything in my mind.
19:55Ben, is kaput?
19:57No, he's just back.
19:59Where are those guys?
20:01I don't even see them.
20:03Oh, I see them now.
20:04You can see the Maasai.
20:06I see this Maasai.
20:06I see their hat.
20:07Let's rock.
20:08All right, let's rock, guys.
20:10All right, Twende.
20:14How do you feel, dude?
20:15I feel good.
20:16Yeah.
20:28Do you think Rospali thinks we're just unfit or something, or does he think these people
20:36are doing the correct thing by staying with the water supply?
20:38No, I think he thinks he walks faster than we do.
20:45The thing is, I mean, right now we don't even have sight of them.
20:50You know, there's no way to lead.
20:52Looking forward, I suppose we could see two miles, almost three miles, and no sign of Pasquari,
21:00the leader of the expedition.
21:02It's a disturbing place.
21:05We'd see the bones of animals that hadn't made it across that desert, and we felt,
21:11deserted, actually.
21:13We felt abandoned.
21:14We were doing this journey together, and out there we felt very, very alone.
21:32This stuff sucks, man.
21:37It is one f***ing my day right now.
21:39Seriously.
21:41Oh, man.
21:44Good job, Kevin.
21:46Yeah, good to get off that cell plane.
21:48All right, man.
21:49Good job, guys.
21:50Get done with that one.
21:53Oh, man.
22:01Well, we've been waiting up for the donkeys, and just noticing how Pasquali and his leading
22:09the expedition has just left us behind.
22:13I'm good, brother.
22:13You guys need water?
22:14Anybody?
22:14We look around, and we see this, you know, vast grassland, and we're waiting up for them.
22:19If we had walked at their pace, these guys would be even further behind and would completely
22:23lose us.
22:24So what was the point of even bringing the donkeys or the water?
22:27Let's just make a run for the hills, then.
22:29Here, right in the middle of the Bahi Swamp, under all that sun, the expedition began to
22:35sort of fall apart, and it felt like we'd just been forgotten back there.
22:40We knew that we were doing the right thing, but we felt the others had lost their senses.
22:47We're going to need a water source, because everybody's out of water.
22:50The donkey's coming.
22:50Let's go ahead and get the donkey here, and we can...
22:52We'll top up the canteen.
22:53Yeah, we can go ahead and fill up the water there.
22:57Okay, let's stop now.
22:59The donkey's kaput.
23:01They're coming.
23:01They're behind us.
23:03I'm happy to say something, unless you want to.
23:05Uh, yeah, I could say something.
23:07Okay.
23:08You guys been here long?
23:10About a half an hour.
23:12It was really not cool being left that far behind.
23:14We couldn't see you guys for miles.
23:16Yeah.
23:16We had really no idea where you guys were, and even coming up just close by, we couldn't
23:20see you on this ridge.
23:22Oh, man.
23:23Yeah.
23:23There really was a point where you guys were, like, a mile ahead, and we could still see you,
23:27but then it became two miles ahead.
23:28That's not good.
23:29And then we couldn't see you guys at all.
23:31You couldn't see us at all?
23:31We did feel, uh, but it did get out of hand from our point of view.
23:35That's funny.
23:36Maybe there's the sun in your eyes, because you were always completely right there within
23:40our sight.
23:40In fact, we made a couple stops.
23:41I guess our estimate wasn't that good, but we could see you the whole way.
23:44Can I ask just from my point of view, just for that not to happen again, and...
23:48If you couldn't see us, you were too far out.
23:50And then, you know, that's something we won't let happen again.
23:53Oh, brilliant.
23:54Oh, thanks.
23:57I'm really frustrated with these guys.
23:58They want to kind of let me lead, but they're out of pride or inexperience, and they don't
24:03want to let me lead.
24:04And we never, at one time, lost track of them.
24:07They were always behind us.
24:09The route overreaction was crazy.
24:12Anybody need more water?
24:13I'm going to give everybody half rations on this, because we just don't have that much
24:16water.
24:17Okay.
24:18Hey, ready?
24:20Okay.
24:2120 days.
24:32You guys, check out that water.
24:35Kind of precarious.
24:38That's a lot of digging for water.
24:40Boy, that smell very good.
24:41Sure doesn't.
24:42It smells totally good.
24:43What does it look like?
24:44It's slightly milky.
24:47Clay around it, so it's been filtered a little bit.
24:49It's got a few footprints down there, so people have been down there.
24:52No animal dung, nothing, no dead animal?
24:54No, clear of animal dung.
24:56That's very good.
24:57We've still got quite a lot of water, but things can go badly wrong when it comes to water.
25:03Your donkey can throw off its load, your water can escape, and suddenly you're in trouble.
25:09Does it smell worse down there than it does up here?
25:11Yeah.
25:12It smells like fetid water.
25:14Maybe they use it as a toilet.
25:17One bad sign is that all these bees around, that's often a sign that people urinate.
25:22Bees are attracted to ammonia.
25:24The challenge for me on this expedition has been that we're on the move all the time,
25:27which means you have to gather up whatever you can in a way of resources.
25:30Because the Bahia Swamp is pretty bad, but it was a reminder that there wouldn't be much water anywhere ahead
25:37until we got to Lake Tanganyika.
25:39Oh, how's it looking?
25:41It's actually springing through.
25:43There's been frogs down here.
25:44Does that mean anything?
25:45It's fine.
25:45It's just a good sign that they're living there.
25:47It's not killing them.
25:48Take a look at that and just see what quality you think.
25:50Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:52It smells okay.
25:54Mmm.
25:55Well, it's nice and sweet.
25:56I'd put my finger in the water.
25:57I'd smell it first, see if it smelled acid, stagnant.
26:01If it smelled polluted, and then I'd dab it on my tongue and then spit that water out.
26:07See if it's saline or not, which would totally ruin the water.
26:11Because you can purify water, you know, but if it's salty, forget it.
26:15Very little salt.
26:16It doesn't taste stagnant.
26:18Yeah, that'll work.
26:18That'll work.
26:19All right.
26:33We're heading to that set of palms right there.
26:35These trees look nice, huh?
26:38Yeah, trees look lovely.
26:39The Wagogo, dude.
26:40Check that out.
26:42Yeah.
26:44This is Wagogo country.
26:46The tribe here is the Wagogo, and they are widely feared.
26:50They were feared in Stanley's time.
26:52They had a reputation that when you were traveling through Wagogo country, give these guys as much
26:57room as you can.
26:58Stanley wrote about encountering the Wagogo during his journey and how they demanded much
27:04more tribute than any of the other tribes.
27:07They were just widely feared.
27:08They were fearsome.
27:09Hey, I'm Jumbo.
27:11Hello.
27:11I'm Jumbo.
27:12Speak English?
27:14Hey, Julius, come here a second.
27:17Julius, come here.
27:18We would like to ask your permission to camp.
27:28The Wagogo, they're the warrior class, the fighters, the people who are the real power to defend the land, defend
27:36the precious water resources.
27:39It's got to be hot working in front of the fire during this heat.
27:43They have a specialist blacksmith class, and these people, they're the ones who make the spearheads, make the arrowheads, and
27:51using those bellows and a few bits of iron,
27:53and he managed to produce extraordinary things.
27:56Let's just settle on here.
27:57Do you think the Wagogo are going to pay us a nice little visit tonight, kill us while we sleep?
28:15You haven't got anything interesting to say?
28:19No?
28:20No?
28:21Er...
28:22Oh, well.
28:23I was a bit disappointed, though, because of just the, er, I thought we were all going to work tighter
28:27as a team.
28:29We just seem to be spread out and not communicating.
28:38Everyone's got silent.
28:40It's a strange meeting, because there's very little we can agree on.
28:46The essential problem is that I'm one sort of person, and Pascal is another sort of person.
28:54And that's never going to change.
29:01I think I'm done.
29:02Yeah, of course.
29:15Okay, today is day 20 of the expedition.
29:18As we got across the salt plain, we had some dissension within our team.
29:22There became a huge gap between us and Maria and Benedict, and they felt that we had split up the
29:30expedition.
29:30And it blew up into this situation where it seems like almost irreconcilable.
29:37I think it's going to be something that will continue for the rest of the days of the expedition.
29:55Look at that beautiful sunrise.
29:58Yeah.
29:58All those palm trees sticking out like that.
30:13Benedict!
30:14Yeah?
30:15Uh, Puff Adder here.
30:17Puff Adder?
30:21This is Africa's most dangerous snake, and it's actually responsible for more fatalities than any other snake in Africa.
30:28Hmm.
30:29I mean, they will actively pursue humans, which is so rare for a snake. They're just so aggressive, these guys.
30:35The trouble is that most snakes get out of the way, and it's sort of security.
30:39Yeah, they hear you coming, and they slow their way. Not these guys. They rely on that camouflage, and they
30:44just wait.
30:45They're like the world's laziest snake. They will sit there for hours waiting for their prey to come by.
30:50These guys are known for just striking.
30:52It's amazing, you know, because the Wagogo, they live out here. They've got really virtually nothing, no water.
30:57And then to add insult to injury, I mean, they've got Puff Adders to contend with.
31:01Death can come to you very, very quickly here.
31:04When it comes to survival, things might go wrong. You never know. It could be in five minutes someone bitten
31:10by a Puff Adder.
31:14Okay, map time.
31:15Okay.
31:16You know, let's go ahead and try to go due west. We're gonna take off at this point, and we're
31:21gonna go to Kiwanda.
31:23And that's about four miles, maybe five miles. And starting at Kiwanda is this escarpment right there.
31:31Yeah, quite a steep climb out there.
31:34It's a steep climb.
31:35Three to four hundred feet high, very rough, full of bushes and trees.
31:39We're in the classic Rift Valley now, part of Eastern Africa that, millions of years ago, was part of the
31:45Asian landmass.
31:46And as it drifted apart, it cracked the earth, and it caused a big, deep depression in the earth.
31:51And that result is generally what we call an escarpment.
31:54An escarpment is basically a long, linear, low range of mountains that is steep on one side and flatter on
32:04the top.
32:04And you've got to climb it to get on top. That's generally what we call an escarpment.
32:08So it's gonna be tough for the donkey to keep up.
32:12It's gonna be a challenge.
32:13I'm not looking forward to this.
32:14We've got another long trek in front of us today.
32:17We've got to get over the mountains.
32:19We've got a long distance to go before we even hit the mountain.
32:22And we don't want to run into the same situation that we did yesterday.
32:26But hopefully we don't have our hands around each other's necks.
32:36Slow down.
32:39Uh, let's look for him to catch up.
32:59It's the slowest donkey I've ever seen in my life.
33:05ah we're losing the donkey again he keeps holding back holding back holding back we have now two
33:08team members behind him not sure the effectiveness of the rationale behind that there he is he's
33:13right there all right let's go ready kevin where's benedict where's moran there's neither
33:20from there they're looking at a tree do you know what else is amazing about these baobas
33:25they will go go if one of them died of some peculiar reason like being struck by lightning
33:30or contagious disease they would actually bury the person inside a baobab tree because they felt
33:37that the reason that had happened to them is they had some sort of evil spirit and so they wanted
33:42to
33:42keep it contained within a baobab somebody yell make sure they didn't take a turn benedict benedict
33:54benedict and maria are holding back all the time i never know where they're at i mean it's hard to
33:59be ahead pushed even a moderate pace with them bringing up the rear or hardly ever coming behind
34:04us guys all right just let the donkeys keep moving the donkeys let's move the donkeys ahead
34:10cry about losing this yesterday now they just stop it was just a frustrating day for me in a lot
34:14of
34:14ways because i don't like being a dickhead but we've had to hold up for five minutes here ten minutes
34:20here constantly stop the expedition because the need of maria and uh benedict to dawdle stop just stop
34:28not even ask me hey pv stop i'm right there right what the what the uh damn i'm trooping again
34:36is that a
34:37test that's a test me off it worked though yeah i'm getting tired of it we have stopped over and
34:45over and
34:45over and over and over again ain't done yet i was pissed and now you're slowing us down
34:54we'll show you a lesson all right let's go benedict you okay with it yeah just go slowly
35:01about that let's go are you kidding me he's angry i think he's making point i think it sometimes it
35:07might seem as if this expedition's become more and more pasquale's expedition i'm intent on uh
35:13stopping that happening i think exploration is more than about arriving at a goal
35:19can we just wait a sec there ain't no way surprise surprise
35:23hmm come on guys Wendy i don't think we sorted out the problem
35:30guys listen we got yesterday for leaving them behind whatever the argument that we had the day
35:36before was again breaking up the expedition i don't feel like i have a dog in this fight
35:41um i try to mediate between them you know but um i don't think that the personalities are ever
35:47going to dovetail hey let's sit on this ledge and wait for him to catch up i think that pasquale
35:51sometimes thinks he's dealing with a bunch of amateurs or tourists that he can just yell at and get
35:55them going if anything i think it's going to make me plant my feet even firmer into the ground
36:00Wendy guys this is really now getting frustrating
36:12so ahead of us straight ahead of us about a mile is the base of the escarpment it looks really
36:15steep
36:16and uh i don't know what we're going to do about the donkey and that it's pretty sheer
36:20yeah it does we've walked through the midday heat about five miles always in our view this great big
36:30barrier that bang blocking your progress you always know that whatever it's like down here in the end
36:36you're going to have to walk up that near vertical slope there's a trail right here it's not looking
36:41pretty can the donkey even get up there i mean it's very very steep and we've got to go right
36:49over it
37:00so ahead of us straight ahead of us about a mile is the base of the escarpment it looks really
37:03steep
37:04and uh i don't know what we're going to do about the donkey and that it's pretty sheer
37:08it looks pretty darn steep to me we could see this for the last two days we could see this
37:14escarpment
37:14in the horizon straight 400 feet up right over the escarpment we're going a steep thicket of woods
37:21it's going to be very difficult and uh it looks really challenging back it's much more challenging
37:25than i thought it would look like there's a trail right here it's not looking pretty
37:29and it's going to be tough i guarantee this is going to be a tough climb come on it's windy
37:35guys
37:41how's the donkey doing um he's ready and willing the donkey one donkey hey kevin it's
37:47looks like those guys are in control back there they're coming all right they're moving let's go
37:53the donkeys are making progress
37:59lights come off all right stop the donkey and drop the water we'll go up come down and get the
38:05water okay
38:06that wasn't the donkey's fault it's just this loop let's summit this thing and then we'll come back
38:09down if we need to benedict come on up and drop your pack we're much better off coming back and
38:13carrying the loads no i'm staying here yeah let's hang back okay what's happening here guys i mean is
38:20it a value of you staying there i knew the donkey was not going to make it up this mountain
38:25that's why i
38:26said let's go ahead drop our loads and come back to get the water i've made that decision hundreds of
38:31times on the mountain where if someone's hurting someone's slow we come back we do the rescue
38:36this is sort of a water rescue let's walk with the porters come on porters go on guys come on
38:42porters
38:42let's go the squally's pissed you know yeah but um it just is breaking a rule for me of what
38:50you do
38:51in an expedition you don't leave your water behind it sort of annoys me that there was no discussion
38:56about it i think it was decided very unilaterally yeah the donkey has manifest division in the
39:04expedition it's allowed it to come forward we do this all the time himalayas we go pick up the
39:11accolades and carry them tough reading i say right benedict says left i say go benedict says stop i
39:17say you know blue he says green i'm sure he's convinced i'm making the wrong decisions most of my
39:22career i've spent guiding people up the mountains he's never guided a single person up the mountain
39:27maybe i'm wrong maybe the blind guy walked himself up mount everest
39:33maria yeah i think this donkey can you think we should leave him here uh do you know what the
39:39fee
39:40is well 25 for the donkeys and then 10 for augustine the donkey had done its job which was to
39:46get us
39:47across the bahi swamp it was slow but it was steady and secure and now it was time for humans
39:54to take
39:54over i'll take this one one oh oh there's not anything in that one is that water leaking i think
40:04more than half of the water had been spilling out if we had just left the porters to deal with
40:09this and
40:10drop the bags as pasquale had suggested um all of the water would have been lost okay better go
40:16we've still got hours in this hot hot sun to climb over and through and it's just someone with his
40:23experience should know better kevin that was a pleasant surprise or an unpleasant surprise i just
40:32want to hear that again let's go down here he is rising you guys want to come with me and
40:37maybe him
40:37go see what we get from water we're going to go down and see what happened to the donkey just
40:40in the
40:40event the donkey's broke it's worth the effort to go at least until we see how the donkey's doing
40:45come on 20 guys
40:47come on 20 guys
41:12yeah pasquale just ripped the the sack off of me nearly pulling my hair off where's the rest of
41:18water it leaked out don't you go kaput uh yeah we just made a pragmatic decision to let him go
41:24the water leak out he was going out through the air hole oh guys the way he deals with us
41:29i mean
41:30it's just completely different than the way that benedict and i would lead we just decided to stick
41:35with the decision to stay with the water that was the wrong decision but let's go come on guys get
41:39up
41:39the top of the hill get the quarters of water dude don't rush me now i just carried the donkey's
41:43load
41:49got some shade ahead over here i can see that
41:56does anyone want to comment on what just happened yet again
42:01what happened yet again yeah enjoy your water what happened yet again i made the suggestion
42:07very clearly as a 30-year mountain guide that we all go to the top we drop our packs the
42:13donkey
42:14go as far as you can go then we go down and carry the water up that's the normal safe
42:18standard way it's
42:20done in the mountains the donkey was not going to make we're going to say there's a high
42:23probability that they don't make it and you take the water and the rest of the team but the goal
42:27is you do not carry double loads up mountains you single carry single loads that's the way
42:33it's done that's not necessary to raise your horse and we're not on a mountain well this is not a
42:38mountain then what is this is not a mountain it's the flat plains right is this to you a mountain
42:42well
42:42well it seemed to me like the donkey couldn't make it up well i'm saying if this is your mountain
42:46experience no wonder i mean this is just you want to go with me to a mountain i'd know how
42:50to climb a
42:51mountain yeah 450 yeah i get there too the survival prerequisite is that this is an arid place you
42:57just stay with your water and that's simply what we were doing but it's it's crystal clear to me and
43:02i don't i can't see any room for argument at all well i can't see any room for argument either
43:06the
43:06expedition seems to be tearing apart you know i've i've just never experienced a problem in the hundreds
43:14of expeditions i've led where i just can't quite get a team moving in the right direction and i'm just
43:20struggling trying to figure out you know what it takes to make it a team
43:41next time on expedition i don't care if you're the strongest person on the planet you cannot break
43:47malaria one explorer's journey takes a deadly turn malaria reduces them to a sweating vomiting piece
43:54of flesh i just can't imagine the rest of this expedition without him on it i can't
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