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
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
on the hiking scale. 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