Mariana van Zeller

We're going down these tunnels, and it's 100 meters down, hand-dug tunnels with nothing to buttress them, no safety precautions or anything.

But we filmed it all, and we get to the end, and there's people basically...

Mining for gold.

And again, constantly with the idea that the military is telling us, OK, we have to film fast.

We have to do this fast.

We can't be out at night.

So we went to a sort of safety, more safe location to sleep that night under the stars.

And then the next day, it's time to come back to Agadez, the town, which is about 100 miles but takes anywhere between like 3 to 12 hours to get because lots of things can happen along the way.

And we arrived in Agadez, and we got word that there had been a military coup and the president had been deposed.

And he was now being kidnapped inside the presidential palace.

Basically, he was stuck there with his family.

And that we were about to lose our military compounds and security.

And they closed all the land borders and the airspace.

And we were stuck with no way out because you can't travel by road without security in that part of the world.

And there were no planes leaving.

So we were stuck.

It was about nine days.

The military coup happened on a Wednesday and we left on a Thursday.

Sorry.

So eight days.