Paul Rosolie
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And JJ made eye contact with me behind him and he was just going, this is not good. And so I think it was day three we're going.
We went with a whole day with no water whatsoever.
We went with a whole day with no water whatsoever.
We went with a whole day with no water whatsoever.
99 degrees full humidity oh my god so you're like full dehydration yeah probably a little delirious completely delirious and so we're body's not working well and you start making errors right you start taking bad steps because you're tired so you go i'll just step on this thing and so you step on a route that goes down you slide you hit the ground you get tangled up in vines we had we had um pack rafts is this company alpaca rafts they we had paddles sticking out of our backpacks that kept getting stuck on vines
99 degrees full humidity oh my god so you're like full dehydration yeah probably a little delirious completely delirious and so we're body's not working well and you start making errors right you start taking bad steps because you're tired so you go i'll just step on this thing and so you step on a route that goes down you slide you hit the ground you get tangled up in vines we had we had um pack rafts is this company alpaca rafts they we had paddles sticking out of our backpacks that kept getting stuck on vines
99 degrees full humidity oh my god so you're like full dehydration yeah probably a little delirious completely delirious and so we're body's not working well and you start making errors right you start taking bad steps because you're tired so you go i'll just step on this thing and so you step on a route that goes down you slide you hit the ground you get tangled up in vines we had we had um pack rafts is this company alpaca rafts they we had paddles sticking out of our backpacks that kept getting stuck on vines
And what happened, though, was as we're going through this forest, we're going, God, this is so incredibly dense. And I see this tree, this huge tree the size of this room. And I go, JJ, what tree is that? And he smiles at me, teacher to student. And he goes, you know why you don't know what that is? He goes, you've never seen a mature mahogany tree.
And what happened, though, was as we're going through this forest, we're going, God, this is so incredibly dense. And I see this tree, this huge tree the size of this room. And I go, JJ, what tree is that? And he smiles at me, teacher to student. And he goes, you know why you don't know what that is? He goes, you've never seen a mature mahogany tree.
And what happened, though, was as we're going through this forest, we're going, God, this is so incredibly dense. And I see this tree, this huge tree the size of this room. And I go, JJ, what tree is that? And he smiles at me, teacher to student. And he goes, you know why you don't know what that is? He goes, you've never seen a mature mahogany tree.
Because the loggers down there, they took them all out. This forest has never been cut. Millions of years, the Amazon rainforest forming geologically has never been cut. Wow. And so we're going through this forest. We see jaguar tracks, ancient mahogany trees. We're seeing ironwood trees. No one's been there. It's not even signs of uncontacted tribes. This is forest that no one's been through.
Because the loggers down there, they took them all out. This forest has never been cut. Millions of years, the Amazon rainforest forming geologically has never been cut. Wow. And so we're going through this forest. We see jaguar tracks, ancient mahogany trees. We're seeing ironwood trees. No one's been there. It's not even signs of uncontacted tribes. This is forest that no one's been through.
Because the loggers down there, they took them all out. This forest has never been cut. Millions of years, the Amazon rainforest forming geologically has never been cut. Wow. And so we're going through this forest. We see jaguar tracks, ancient mahogany trees. We're seeing ironwood trees. No one's been there. It's not even signs of uncontacted tribes. This is forest that no one's been through.
And so right at the time, I remember we stopped for lunch. We stopped to eat the last food we have. And the problem that we were doing was I had a compass. And we were getting to the top of these hills. And you know when you look on the ocean floor and the sand makes like those geometric ripples and there's a pattern to it.
And so right at the time, I remember we stopped for lunch. We stopped to eat the last food we have. And the problem that we were doing was I had a compass. And we were getting to the top of these hills. And you know when you look on the ocean floor and the sand makes like those geometric ripples and there's a pattern to it.
And so right at the time, I remember we stopped for lunch. We stopped to eat the last food we have. And the problem that we were doing was I had a compass. And we were getting to the top of these hills. And you know when you look on the ocean floor and the sand makes like those geometric ripples and there's a pattern to it.
And so we were coming to the top of a ridge line and we were like, we don't want to go down again. And we don't want to hike up again. So we're staying on the ridge lines. And what that was doing was taking us a 30 degree tick
And so we were coming to the top of a ridge line and we were like, we don't want to go down again. And we don't want to hike up again. So we're staying on the ridge lines. And what that was doing was taking us a 30 degree tick
And so we were coming to the top of a ridge line and we were like, we don't want to go down again. And we don't want to hike up again. So we're staying on the ridge lines. And what that was doing was taking us a 30 degree tick
to the i think it was to the west but that what that was doing though was taking us about another 20 miles off course so we had to hit the river here but we were going to hit over there oh no so we had to correct for course we stopped we're eating the last of the food we have we drank water out of a puddle i have a video and we're going to release all this do you have a filtration system we went with nothing we had our we had our tents and our machetes jesus christ and i have a video a video of lex and he's looking at this why don't you bring a steripen or something