this is ridiculous. it s so steep. yeah. [ bleep ], [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. oh! doing something that nobody s ever done before, there s no guarantee that your plan s going to work. once you commit, there is no turning around. we re entirely removed from civilization. look at this one! we know once we get there, we re on our own. climbing. we ve chosen to live a life that does have risks. oh, my god. one mistake, and you re dead. come on now. if you harness that fear, you can do something that you never thought possible. is the pursuit worth the risk? to be able to make a journey through a place so few other people have experienced is like maybe being the first person that goes to the moon or the first person that goes to the top of mt. everest. this is a place that doesn t exist almost anywhere else on our planet. the llanganates mountains is a wild place in that it is completely roadless. it s vast, impenetrable jungle with 14,000-foot r
elsmere island. that sounded like the most horrific trip i can ever imagine. his partner went down from kidney failure. he got attacked by a walrus. i love this stuff. money is not what i m chasing. it s the experience. the put-in is going to take us two days to kind of just start making progress. and after that, we still have, like, seven question mark box canyon to get to the landing zone, plus some whitewater. so there is no way we make this in eight days. i think realistically it will for sure be more like 10 to 12. and we can stretch two days and not eat for two days, and we d still be fine. but ideally, there are a few spots that they could drop us food. yeah. i became aware of this little french girl. she was like running some of the biggest rapids. she just came out of nowhere.
table. we ve done several rivers now together from one of the steepest rivers ever run in the united states, in the bighorns of wyoming. we did the first descent of the box canyon and the tongue together. and it was in that steep-ass crazy river that we realized we had something really special and we all functioned well as a group. are we doing seven nights, eight days, or eight days i don t know if we re ready to make that decision, but it would be, i would imagine, eight days from the way we calculated it, right? try eight days of food. see how that feels and then go from there. but that s about the maximum that i want to try to pack into my boat for weight. ben is probably the most experienced expedition whitewater kayaker there is. his river records are just
the one thing about this river objective, nobody s done it. there s no map. there s no information. you re moving through this huge national park that doesn t even have a park ranger. the challenge of crossing the llanganates is only made possible because of the whitewater kayak. and so that becomes some kind of life s accomplishment to have trained as a whitewater kayaker for more than two decades, to bring that to bear on one of the world s greatest river challenges. there s no other accomplishment that i can imagine that would match that for me. it s winning the world series. it s a sporting accomplishment on that level. since the plan is to spend at least two weeks in this river, we re going to have to utilize all of our experience and, you know, rely on each other for hopefully the different attributes we bring to the
table. we ve done several rivers now together from one of the steepest river ever run in the united states, in the bighorns of wyoming. we did the first descent of the box canyon and tongue together. and it was in that steep-ass crazy river that we realized we had something really special and we all functioned well as a group. are we doing seven nights, eight days, or eight days i don t know if we re ready to make that decision, but it would be, i would imagine, eight days from the way we calculated it, right? try eight days of food, see how that feels, and then go from there. but that s about the maximum that i want to try to pack into my boat for weight. ben is probably the most experienced expedition whitewater kayaker there is.