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
20-year high. best-case scenario is, is that this lasts a couple days, and then it starts to dry out. we can reset and try again. so it became not an easy decision but like a mandatory decision to get out of there. we left our boats out at the confluence area. the plan was to go back to the shelter. we had left a food cache there. along the way, just these tiny little tributaries that i had hopped across with my sandals on, on the way in one, two, three! all of a sudden, they re like raging torrents. we hiked all day. it took us like 8 1/2 hours to get back to the shelter. this place is messed up, and we really need to be careful.
already spiked to what we would later find out was like a 20-year high. the best case scenario is, is that this lasts a couple days, and then it starts to dry out. we can reset and try again. so it became not an easy decision but like a mandatory decision to get out of there. we left our boats out at the confluence area. the plan was to go back to the shelter. we had left a food cache there. along the way, just these tiny little tributaries that i had hopped across with my sandals on, on the way in one, two, three! all of a sudden, they re like raging torrents. we hiked all day. it took us like 8 1/2 hours to get back to the shelter. this place is messed up, and we really need to be careful.