coming up on the whole story. just one enormous traffic jam of people through the jungle. maybe you die here. good evening. welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. we re bringing you the best story telling from all over the world. one whole story, one whole hour every sunday at 8 p.m. tonight we take you on a dangerous journey through the darian gap. it s a 66 mile stretch jungle between colombia and panama for migrants hoping to get to the u.s. have to get through the darian gach first. that means trekking through rivers, mud, up steep mountain sides. along the way they face exhaustion, disease, drowning, the very real risk of being robbed, assaulted or killed. so far this year five times as many people have made this journey compared to the same period last year. a record number of them are children. to see what they face, cnn be s anything peyton walsh walked the entire route. some things are graphic and hard to watch. we want you to see the reality of
coming up. on the whole story is just one enormous traffic jam of people through the jungle. it s hard to listen looking, look fired. everybody maybe have died here. good evening. welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. starting tonight. we re bringing you the best of cnn, storytelling from our reporters and anchors all over the world. it s one whole story one whole hour every sunday at eight pm tonight we take you on a dangerous and difficult journey through the darien gap. the only land route connecting south america to central america. it s a 66 mile stretch of jungle between colombia and panama, so migrants hoping to get to the u. s. have to get through the darien gap first. that means trekking through rivers and mud and up steep mountainsides along the way, they face exhaustion, disease, drowning and the very real risk of being robbed, assaulted or even killed. so far this year five times as many people have made this journey compared to the same period last yea
coming up on the whole story. this is just one enormous traffic jam of people through the jungle. [ speaking non-english ] good evening, welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. starting tonight we are bringing you the best of cnn s storytelling from our reporters and anchors all over the world. it s one whole story, one whole hour every sunday at 8:00 p.m. tonight, we take you on a dangerous and difficult journey through the darien gap, the only land route connecting south america to central america. it s a 66-mile stretch of jungle between colombia and panama. so migrants hoping to get to the u.s. have to get through the darien gap first. that means trekking through rivers and mud and up steep mountainsides. along the way they face exhaustion, disease, drowning and the very real risk of being robbed, assaulted, or even killed. so far this year, five times as many people have made this journey compared to the same period last year, and a record number of them
save but also poison. we use state of the art filters on river water to keep healthy. it s hard enough for us with all of this expensive gear to filter water. you wake up here and there are people burning the forests to live off it drinking straight from the stream, eating maybe their last crackers they brought with them thinking the journey was just a matter of a couple of days. it s really quite depressing. the fight to live here is not just against nature. this tent, we are told, was used by chiefs when they spent the night between picking their targets. it is a short walk from this, a major crossroads to the end of the walk, where migrants camp. those at times seemed unlikely to make it are pushing on. fueled by hearing the boats taking them to safety inside of
by thieves where they spent the night between picking their targets. it is a short walk from this, a major crossroads close to the end of the walk where migrants camp and key rivers meet. those who at times seemed unlikely to make it are pushing on. fueled by hearing the boats taking them to safety inside panama are a matter of hours away. even salvaging her stick from the water. yet, this is where stories of survival now merge with a darker past of death and violence, where our path still relatively new and clean used for only 12 days by the cartel meets a much older one. occasionally, people still emerge from this route, but it s mostly walked by the ghosts of those before. their clothes and plastic caught in the trees from when the rains took the rivers higher. now it is flat, silent, and