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Follows Charles Marlow's expedition up the Congo River in Africa as he searches for a rogue ivory trader named Kurtz, exposing the brutal realities of European imperialism.
在这部改编自约瑟夫·康拉德小说的电影中，马洛（Marlow）驾驶着一艘漏水的蒸汽船沿刚果河逆流而上，去寻找一位名叫库尔茨（Kurtz）的神秘人物——此人已在那里开辟出……
在这部改编自约瑟夫·康拉德小说的电影中，马洛（Marlow）驾驶着一艘漏水的蒸汽船沿刚果河逆流而上，去寻找一位名叫库尔茨（Kurtz）的神秘人物——此人已在那里开辟出……
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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.
01:33The End
01:53I don't want to be an infant to ask you when they 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.
02:04All right, let's go back to the old way.
02:07No, no, no.
02:08I don't know what you were doing.
02:10I'm cooking.
02:12Don'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 reestablish equilibrium on this expedition.
02:29That's not a way of getting to people, isn't it?
02:34Sorry, I lost it.
02:35Oh, it's okay.
02:36It's okay.
02:37It's very easy to do.
02:39And the cursing and the yelling, and it does, it gets my blood boiling.
02:46How do we move forward from here?
02:48You have this huge fight.
02:50It'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 in here.
03:07We'll only try to put filtered, cooked water in here.
03:09Okay.
03:11Maria, she's a strong-willed Cuban woman with a hot temper.
03:14And her Cuban temper and my Sicilian temper clashed a lot.
03:18But that 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?
04:04Time 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 night to travel in,
04:22largely because he wanted 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.
05:02Lions and hyenas and snakes.
05:04Yeah, all of them got nightfish and we haven't.
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.
05:25Okay.
05:25Just like this.
05:26I can see a hundred meters.
05:28I like travel at night.
05:29At night, every little sensation of yours is illuminated.
05:32The 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 hit 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.
06:11We're sitting right here on 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.
06:38Everybody pretty much ready?
06:39Yep.
06:40Packed up?
06:41Yep.
06:43This is one of the most dangerous portions of our trek.
06:45We're going to be amongst animals
06:47that are familiar with the dark.
06:49Lions, hyenas, predators,
06:52and hippos, of course, who are highly territorial.
06:55Ah, yeah, yeah.
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, it's one day.
07:03And you're going to be at the lake.
07:03Oh, my gosh.
07:03Hey, Rick.
07:17Hey.
07:21You woke up the hippos.
07:22Yeah, the hippos are back in the river.
07:24Mm-hmm.
07:25Sounds like they're...
07:26No.
07:26No.
07:27They've been disturbed by us,
07:28and they've jumped back into the river.
07:30Did you hear how close those hippos are?
07:32Oh, yeah.
07:33Yeah, we're still at the river.
07:35You know, walking at night is quite dangerous out here and we just have to keep our eyes open.
07:42There's hippos, there's lots of predators that come out at night.
07:45It's very difficult for us to get around and to see, for our eyes to adjust,
07:50and make sure that we all stay together as a group.
08:06Our job here, we have come to work as the soldiers of the group in case of an attack.
08:14We have been having weapons in case of any incident to our friend, then we can assist.
08:21Being really careful here.
08:23The danger of getting lost is you're lost.
08:26If you start getting lost and you don't have a compass, you start going in circles.
08:30The dangers are, snakes are definitely nighttime creatures.
08:33Although, when it gets cold...
08:45Let's go this way.
08:50Hey, Pasquale.
08:52Hey.
08:54Yeah, I dropped my bow and arrow.
08:57Okay.
08:58Give me one sec.
09:00I had my bow and arrows strapped to my pack and they must have fallen as we walked.
09:08Of course, everything is so difficult to see right now.
09:13The Masai 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, otherwise we'll lose the advantage.
09:27Morea?
09:29Morea?
09:31Morea?
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 where people have been pulled out of tents have been hyenas.
09:45And they're capable of taking a fully grown man and just grabbing him by the neck and just dragging him
09:49off.
09:49So it's dangerous.
10:01Morea?
10:06Morea?
10:08Morea?
10:09Morea?
10:10Morea?
10:12They try to find a bow and arrow and all these sticks and everything.
10:15Good luck, huh?
10:18Let me just search to there.
10:21The Masais didn't hear animals.
10:24Yes, I know animals are dangerous, but I can know how to escape an animal.
10:30But if you know ways of escaping an animal, then you're not going to be attacked by an animal.
10:39Oh, great.
10:41Good eyes.
10:45Oh, happy about that.
10:51Morea?
10:52Are you okay?
10:53No, no.
10:54Got it.
10:54Got it.
10:55Brilliant.
10:55Sorry about that.
10:56Okay, ready?
10:58Okay, keep your eyes open for a clearing.
11:07When you're in a forest setting like that, pitch black for quite a ways, with a compass that you can't
11:13barely read,
11:14it makes you nervous because you keep begging, oh, something's wrong, something's wrong.
11:18Got a 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, but we're getting to thicker woods right now, so we need
11:36to check compass readings.
11:37I've been heading 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.
11:49See if we can continue to 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.
12:06And this track's not leading us away.
12:14Squally, how are we doing on the Bering?
12:16Let me double check.
12:18There's some sunrise coming up behind us.
12:22We're heading to east, aren't we?
12:25Generally, we should be dropping right down towards 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, which was south.
12:43Okay, let's go back.
12:45Turn around.
12:47Yeah.
12:48That was a good catch by Benedict.
12:49Yeah.
12:50Either 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, and then you should take it out a lot more.
13:01You really took that hard, didn't you?
13:03Oh, yeah.
13:03I 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 because of this expedition.
13:22Look at that.
13:23Beautiful.
13:25Do you think seeing 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.
13:54Beautiful.
13:55Yeah.
13:55It's just gorgeous.
14:13the most dangerous stage of any expedition I think the three-quarter stage you lose
14:18concentration you're starting to think of the end you're forgetting about now but actually things can
14:24go so quickly wrong one bad foot and you sprain your ankle break your ankle all you're just
14:30snatched by a crocodile as you go and fill up your water container I always find that's when
14:35most people have the most difficult time because they can almost see the end if we
14:38got to be careful not to let our guard down it at all because you know it could be deadly
14:50hey hey it's a bigger river and I thought it was too 60 meters across maybe yeah babe
14:59probably close to 100 meters across guys we've got about 20 minutes huh let's go let's get a good
15:12camp setup in the Malagorasi this is three-quarters through Stanley's journey and this is one of the
15:16most difficult times for him yet he's left to Bora and yet he's contracted cerebral malaria which can
15:22kill you he's running out of food supplies he needs a miracle to save him and at the same time
15:28Living
15:28Stone is in Ujiji destitute no food he needs a miracle as well so you have these two men both
15:35in dire
15:36situations and who knows if either of them are gonna survive it's just an avenue of palms everywhere
15:49you look look at all the way up the river to question we have is do we want to camp
15:53before
15:54it or right on the river if we're thinking that this might be a campsite I don't think we should
15:57bother should we see the site though first you know just check the other options yeah we go do
16:01that what about leaving our packs here because we're running out of time I just like to look
16:05at it right before we make that decision you know what you can see how dense that vegetation is on
16:09the banks the risk of flooding because it's the start of the rains let's go take a look correct and
16:15it
16:15was thundering earlier yeah it's a good safe that's a really good spot it's not as picturesque as down
16:19there but on the other hand picturesque places tend to get absolutely Kevin wants to be down by the river
16:24I think to camp but sometimes the prettiest places are the worst sort of places to actually camp in
16:29and it has to be an entirely practical decision not a romantic decision that is a floodplain there
16:36it's now the rainy season we've heard thunder it's a classic scenario for getting washed away
16:42by a flood of water yeah no people have lived abandoned houses so that's always a good sign why
16:49don't we just take a look drop our packs and then we can set up yeah so we're really it
16:52is we should
16:52start setting up camp but we we're gonna be in the dark right now right so if we look in
16:56five
16:56minutes okay then we'll come back and say Campo all right oh okay our guys are fast if I just
17:00stay
17:00here and start building fire yeah so we're not even gonna get in or anything or three quarters
17:05more daylight there were times quite honestly when the expedition was very frustrating for me it's a
17:11constant battle he's gonna go check just give me five minutes just give me five minutes I'm someone
17:17that's been in a lot of war zones and hairy situations but this is different there hasn't
17:21been a lot of let up in this thing it's wearing on me physically and mentally
17:35gosh look at all those palms this is one of the more stunning places we've been to so I think
17:40so
17:41I think it's one of my favorites yeah why do you think Kevin wants to be down by the river
17:45to camp
17:46I don't know well they probably started setting up camp I think they waited for us to leave camp
17:51okay break the tarps out all right Kevin's gone put it up okay hey do we start setting camp tarp
17:58here
17:58tarp here or tarp there can you even see the river no I don't yet it seems like we're running
18:04parallel to
18:05it it's getting dark and there's a lot of crocs in there so we should try and cut to it
18:10as soon as we
18:10can and head back okay in the Maligarasi Stanley was crossing it in a dugout canoe and he had his
18:19favorite donkey swimming beside him they were leading it and the donkey unfortunately got eaten
18:25right out from under him by crocodiles why is this place abandoned it's because the crocodile way attacking
18:37kids while swimming wow this used to be their home yes and there's so many crocodiles in this river
18:45they moved oh yeah because of the progress oh here it is right check it out oh look at this
18:53oh wow
18:54right here does not look great it's not flowing as much as we would like it to um would it
19:01make a
19:01difference to like borrow one of those dugouts and if you went in there I could just push you out
19:05a
19:05little bit yeah I'll just get you away from the shoreline a little bit problem with standing this
19:09close to the banks is that there are a lot of crocs here and they're able to jump out of
19:14that water
19:14quite quickly and aggressively exactly boy I really hope a croc doesn't decide to spring up from down
19:20there I'm keeping an eye out okay I'll brace it all right good ready cool be really careful seriously
19:32yeah for a second just take a good look around the things we've done for water on this trip
19:43you don't look all that comfortable it's really funny because I love the water and I always feel
19:48so comfortable in it but when you're in areas like this you are so vulnerable oh without a doubt
19:58I look down and I saw a shadow and that should be good thank you all right glad we got
20:08that one out of
20:09the way then I have a lot of respect for African waters okay
20:36note to self send Benedict and Pasquale tomorrow
20:54okay today is the 26th day of the expedition and we're on the banks of the Malagorasi River you
20:59know Stanley did this journey in nine months we've been trying to do it in 30 days and I think
21:04it's
21:04taken its toll emotionally physically and otherwise I'm still tired still kind of underfed and I'm
21:13ready for a shower I'm ready for you know three square meals maybe get a little protein in the diet
21:19and maybe sleep in a bed or at least somewhere that's not on the ground
21:36hey look at the clouds over this ridgeline beautiful huh the mist
21:51Oh hello this is really cool because this is a python these guys can actually get up to 15 16
22:00feet
22:00long I'd like to get closer it's just settling in because it's got a nice patch of sunlight there
22:06look at that these guys are really strong and you can actually feel it as you're tugging on it
22:11the muscles in this thing are just amazing yep don't want to do that or that they're one of the
22:24few
22:24non-venomous snakes they can actually cause a lot of damage because just the force of the impact from
22:31these things it uses its head to just knock its prey out these guys they bite down but their their
22:36fangs are hooked causing the prey when it when it moves to shift back and rip its flesh apart you
22:44really don't want to anger one of these doesn't want this map real quick yeah we're actually here we're
22:53gonna head this due west hit the river kind of follow the river around to that point and then what
22:58we do then is we head straight cross-country we cut off this s-bend to the air so I
23:05think it could
23:05be 10 miles then it's a river trip Stanley never paddled down the Malagorasi but rivers are key
23:12part of that early African exploration and we want to have some of the same experiences and we're also
23:18trying to beat the rainy season so we're gonna take the Malagorasi to Lake Tanganyika because of time
23:22constraints okay we've had a taste of the rainy season the cigar mountains and we're wondering
23:29it could come back at any time it could turn some of the areas that we're going through in the
23:34swamps
23:34and that could really derail the expedition check this out guys look at the rock so this you guys want
23:45to know what this is yeah I know caliche like freshwater lake deposits what it is is a limestone
23:50and these bugs this is called tear pant structure this this term called tear pant structure I have
23:57an exploration geologist I worked around the world so I am excited about rocks and this the Africa is
24:02an exciting place for rocks the river coming right out of camp was a pink red quartz bedded fluvial sandstone
24:10when all the continents split apart it created these huge valleys that filled up with water and formed
24:16the big lakes that feed the Nile and the Zambezi and the Congo and it was in these lakes that
24:23the great
24:24explorers came up to try to find the source of the Nile and these lakes are completely controlled by the
24:31geology of Africa yeah but it's just you feel it it's just a feel of the look at it the
24:36color if you look
24:38this under microscope you'd have lime professor Pasquale has given us some very insightful lessons
24:44on every rock that we would pass along the trail this is actually called a caliche what this is the
24:51limestone rock that's almost modern it's not old there's only so much you can really hear about rocks
24:56I mean I like rocks but I don't want to hear about them for eight hours this may be my
25:01favorite hike yet
25:11sounds like there's a bad storm yeah there is
25:18there's a lot of lightning behind us we're climbing these hills these mountains cut off the bend of the
25:26river try to get a shortcut but we don't want to be up on this mountain when this storm hits
25:32because
25:34we could get killed by lightning lightning pick any of us off it's really dangerous to be on the
25:39tops of mountains in lightning storms there's a village right here all right I need three minutes
25:46okay hey Julius yes I just wouldn't mind talking to this guy for a second the guy of the house
25:54just
25:54see how it is to live here yeah you mind translating yeah thanks jumbo unfortunately Africa has been
26:02rife in conflict for much of its history and during the time of Stanley he was experiencing what was
26:08going on in a war between the slave traders and a local chieftain marambo and that created a refugee
26:14problem people fleeing from the fighting and you see people fleeing conflict even to this day has
26:19there been any problems with refugees coming from the Congo or from Brundi or any other places Stanley
26:25was a journalist this was ultimately a newspaper project that he was doing so I'd like to explore
26:32my profession within the means of this too you know refugee usually when they arrive they arrive at the
26:38right in big group oh son of a it's gonna rain
26:46is there another story yeah can we just dance we do now thanks we're in a small village and it's
26:54there's thunder
26:54everywhere black clouds all around us and if we don't get to camp we're gonna be setting up camp in
26:59the pouring rain and
27:00it's like Kevin starts talking to a local there through interpreter and it goes on and on five minutes ten
27:07minutes
27:07had they been able to uh get enough food to survive and feed the family and it's almost as if
27:12he intentionally
27:13extended the his talking and slowed down just in spite of the fact we wanted to get going
27:21well they have um i know you guys want it's been 10 it's gonna start raining we just want to
27:26i just it's one interview just let me just ask my question this is christ there's lightning and
27:32thunder rain well i want to go what's the big deal i'm so tired
27:42i know it might rain this is taking a little bit longer than you want but it was 15 minutes
27:48out of
27:48our day the expedition has stopped for every you know tree and flower and every anything that anybody
27:53else has wanted it was my turn to satisfy my intellectual curiosity are they able to fish or
27:59anything like that there's lightning and thunder he decides to stop her it's been 10 minutes it was
28:03a three-minute stop i got him go he blows me off pissed at it now
28:31the food here is enough it's not that much but however they have something to survive but it's not
28:38like we're in a small village black clouds all around us and kevin wants to an interview but
28:43he's not even beginning to think of the fact that everybody's sitting around waiting to leave
28:49we'll just say goodbye to him um thank you very much if i walk through tanzania
28:56and haven't talked to the people of africa i'll be remiss for the rest of my life
29:01all right everybody you know this is what i do i was gonna get a sampling i'll get more before
29:07this is
29:07over okay so we have basically uh three miles in the open and then we hit the river kind of
29:20follow
29:20the river around to that point over here
29:26there is a chilliness in the air now which means rain yeah
29:35clouds are becoming really slaty dark i think we're about nine miles out we've got a mile to camp
29:42i'd like to get to camp as quickly as we can it's starting to rain a little bit now what
29:46we don't
29:46want to do is get there in a downpour have set up in soaking wet conditions so we're going to
29:51push pretty
29:51hard here and uh try to uh try to get there but i don't know if we'll beat it or
29:57not i think it's
29:58gonna i think it's gonna get us storms now this way yeah just don't speak too soon i know all
30:05right
30:05here's a forest clearing we can go up in this clearing you know what i mean what do you think
30:09off to the right maybe here we go this will this will work any place in here it's more open
30:15over here
30:16what do you think it's up to you guys um i don't think so a lot of stumps up there
30:22all right let's
30:24um all right right here that's our camp right here rivers right here uh yeah no um but this is
30:36just kind of uneven kevin is very started he doesn't understand that expeditions are not always what you
30:42think they are they're going to be hard it's the process that drives us to these things it's being
30:48in africa that's a little uneven up there i mean there's big divots what do you think hans we'll
30:53do our camp over here there won't be an argument with you hans i'll guarantee you that there's one
30:57person i won't argue it's with you everybody else but him it's all about the attitude right here
31:03you know and that attitude is starting to start worth in what's going on well just uh you know to
31:11me
31:11the whole thing's just about attitude you know what i mean and uh yeah you're tired not happy you want
31:20out but keep your attitude out amongst other people don't bring everybody down this don't bring everybody
31:26down to the same level it's just it it's your it's it's a bummer puts a lid on your enjoyment
31:30of this
31:31thing that it yeah i just get bummed you know what are we going to do about that you got
31:40a bottle of
31:40whiskey you gotta score some booze all right so you know i've done my share of wine you know for
32:01whatever reasons i mean you you know i see how you're enjoying this and i see how this is part
32:07of
32:07who you all are um and you know i rarely try to say things um that that in some ways
32:17you know dampens
32:18the enthusiasm someone else has for for their life and their experience and i hope i didn't come
32:23across that way no i think at one level it's very easy for us to enjoy these challenges because that's
32:28what our whole life is about what's been missing a little bit personally for me is that we've only had
32:34snippets of each other's past and i'd love to learn a little bit more and i'm thinking perhaps we can
32:39all share a story from our past that we feel kind of defines us in some ways oh you want
32:45me to go first
32:47yeah um you know i've been a war correspondent for the last seven years of my life and when i
32:53went to
32:53northern iraq just prior to the invasion we ran into a fedi checkpoint we pulled up and this angry man
33:00in a
33:01red could be in a dirty raincoat pointed an ak-47 right in the car he forced us to get
33:06out of the
33:06car and we were face down on the asphalt with ak's at our heads and when you're in that position
33:13that's
33:13probably an execution position but our our fixer tofiq started saying things to them i don't know what
33:20he was saying but eventually he ended up getting one of our vehicles back we got in there and we
33:26drove
33:26north and we got to uh to safety we asked tofiq um you know well what was it that you
33:33said to them
33:34um and he said i just i did my job don't worry about it this has been a successful expedition
33:40with kevin
33:42he's discovering himself how he operates under the uh under the pressure of an expedition and that's
33:48what makes it successful all right guys while i share my story i want to hear some of your stories
33:53who's gonna go next you know i came from a really unstable family background as a young kid you
34:00know my father didn't spend much time with the family and my mother was a paranoid schizophrenic
34:05the entire time i was growing up really and from the time i was probably eight years old we didn't
34:12have any parents in the house and i left home when i was about 14. you know my mother was
34:18in a mental
34:19institution at the time and so i learned at a real young age just take care of myself just do
34:24my own
34:24thing you know you are incredibly independent well i'm i'm very independent no one's ever given me
34:31anything i just if i need it i go do it relying on other people and things i just i'm
34:35nervous i can
34:36feel nervous when i have to rely on other people to do things i think you've noticed that too
34:43sharing what we shared probably came at the perfect time i went through this initiation ceremony
34:48we've beaten every day for six weeks i like learning about people slowly you have to to get an
34:56understanding of who someone is by spending time with them and i've spent a lot of time with these
35:01individuals i almost died out there because i wouldn't quit it was it was actually my downfall
35:08hearing those personal stories they shared i think came with much more credibility because i had
35:14spent so much time with them so for me it was perfect if you don't have empathy for your fellow
35:19human
35:19beings you can't really have hope
35:40uh
35:44coffee without sugar coffee with sugar coffee
35:46Kaffi Kavu. Black. Kaffi Kavu.
35:50You know, I'm not afraid to learn foreign languages.
36:03I think it's an honor to the countries we travel through, and the porters, and I hope
36:07I'm not embarrassing them or embarrassing the locals. I don't think I am. I think I'm
36:11trying to be respectful.
36:12Too much work is gaza nyingi. Nyingi or nyingi? Nyingi. Nyingi. Nyingi. Nyingi. Nyingi.
36:21Nyingi. Nyingi. Nyingi. Nyingi, yeah.
36:22Very good, huh? Yeah, nice, nice.
36:24By spending so much time learning Swahili, learning their customs, what's happened is I've built
36:30up a really tight friendship with the porters. I've had such good times with them. It's a
36:34hard language, because you add beginnings to the numbers also.
36:37Oh, .
36:42Have you decided what you're going to take or keep?
36:45Yeah, I just take another change of clothes, my flops. I mean, I never have truth on a river
36:49trip. I just have flops.
36:52We have three days, and two of those days will be in the water or three of those days?
36:56Probably three of them today, next two days. Tomorrow, yeah.
37:00The plan is to go ahead and march down a little bit to find some canoes and a kilometer, two
37:06kilometers, three kilometers. And then what we want to do is we want to get on the river
37:10and push down and then take off towards the Gigi.
37:13So how are you feeling about the porters today?
37:15I think they know it's ending for them. Yeah.
37:18Yeah, they're afraid to death of the water, the crocs, they can't swim.
37:22I know we're going to have to let the porters go. A lot of ways they were kind of expecting
37:26to go all the way to Gigi with us, and that's just not possible. You know, we have the canoes,
37:30they can't swim. It's just too big a group to risk taking across the lake, and so we're
37:35going to have to let them go. And I don't know, it's sad.
37:37We need to get down there, sort out all the canoes, but then more importantly, sort out
37:42the porters, and make sure that we do that in the best way possible because they've been
37:46so amazing during the expedition.
37:49It's really difficult right now for me because we've had the porters with us from the beginning.
37:53They've dredged the swamps, the deserts, the mountains, and they've never given up,
37:57never complained. It's sad. It's going to be tough.
38:04Okay, you guys hurry up get in line before it rains.
38:06Yeah, it's going to rain. Come on.
38:08Wendy!
38:09The rain's coming.
38:10Come on, guys.
38:12Oh, no.
38:13We're going to push pretty hard here, but anyway, it's starting to rain already.
38:17Big drops.
38:18We're less than 80 miles to Gigi, but it is the rainy season, and as close as we are,
38:24we know that unless we're careful, that the rainy season could easily stop our expedition.
38:32Are you excited about getting in the water?
38:34I am excited.
38:35I am excited about getting on the river.
38:53Wow.
38:54Yes.
38:55Look at that.
38:59Guys, the river comes around, looks like it slows, eh? We're almost there, eh?
39:03So it's only a matter of minutes now, and then we're on the water.
39:08And then only a matter of days.
39:10Up to now, the expedition has been a series of obstacles, and we've hardly dared look ahead.
39:15Now, this river, the Malagorasi, is like all rivers, it's leading somewhere.
39:20It seems like a passageway out for us.
39:25It's not that easy, though, because we've got to get up Lake Tanganyika.
39:28That's going to be hard work.
39:30For Jambo?
39:32Yeah.
39:32We'll be on water, which is a shifting, mysterious, often treacherous place, which likes to seize control itself.
39:50Nice canoes.
39:53Yeah.
39:59I'm Jambo.
40:00I'm Jambo.
40:02How about it?
40:05This is pretty.
40:07Julius, we like their, uh, canoes.
40:09They know where we can rent some for ourselves.
40:11These are pretty simple dugout canoes, just a hollow palm that's carved into a boat.
40:18The canoes here are a bit bigger and stronger than the ones we had previously seen leading up to this,
40:23which is a relief to all of us.
40:25Okay, should we go and, uh...
40:26Yeah, we should...
40:27Yeah.
40:29Hey, Bisquale?
40:29We should probably, uh...
40:31Yeah.
40:33All right, let's go talk to our guys.
40:36This is D-Day.
40:37This is the moment where we're getting rid of all our porters.
40:39We're only keeping Julius and the Maasai.
40:42Unfortunately, this next leg of the expedition is far too dangerous.
40:45Guys, we gotta go on another leg of this journey, and it's gonna be all in these canoes.
40:51We want all of you to go to Ujiji with us, but it's not gonna be possible.
40:56Lake Tanganyika, there's big, big waves, and, uh, the crocodiles there, you don't swim.
41:02It's gonna be risky even for us.
41:05First of all, um, I think you guys are some of the strongest,
41:13most honest, hard-working people I have ever known.
41:17Your attitudes and your strength is an honor to Tanzania.
41:24And we shall never forget that.
41:30It was a very emotional day when we released the porters,
41:33because I've gotten extremely close to them myself.
41:36And I shall not forget you.
41:39It was almost like I was leaving my brothers when I got that close to these guys.
41:43And it was, it was hard. It was, it was really hard.
41:47I just want to shake every one of your hands, man.
41:51Throughout the entire expedition, we've had porters that were basically our support system.
41:57And we've now cut them loose.
42:00We have no support system.
42:01We're totally dependent on ourselves.
42:03If anything were to go wrong, that's the end of the expedition.
42:07We make a mistake, no do Ujiji.
42:11Here we go.
42:11Get your jacket.
42:11It's on here.
42:12Get your jacket.
42:13Here we come.
42:16Rain, rain, rain.
42:22Thanks, brother.
42:24Bring your backpacks over here.
42:27Yeah, we can cover this stuff.
42:28Yep.
42:29I believe our luck has just run out.
42:31That rain, that sudden rain, really instilled a lot of fear in us.
42:36It was a huge thunderstorm.
42:37And there's a lot of danger in getting on the water while there's a storm.
42:43Because you may get electrocuted.
42:44It doesn't look like it's going to pass any time soon, either.
42:47Well, we were so ready to go.
42:48And then suddenly that 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 we thought we were beating the rainy season.
43:01But in fact, the rainy season is about to beat us.
43:06A little boat in the middle of the river.
43:12We just didn't know.
43:13Had we not moved quickly enough.
43:15Had we let the rains catch up with us and just kill the end of the expedition.
43:24At this point, it's us, TGD, or we fail.
43:36Next time on Expedition.
43:38Ah, brutal.
43:40They're all over the place.
43:42After nearly a thousand miles, the explorers battle rain-flooded swamps on their final push
43:47to reach Ujiji.
43:48I just twisted my ankle.
43:49You okay?
43:49My legs are just cut.
43:51This is the toughest going that we've had.
43:53We just feel like giving up.
43:55Finish that one.
43:55Niya?
43:56No.
43:57No!
43:57No!
44:00No!
44:01You
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