Nathalie Cabrol

And so now you are actually entering a time machine, basically.

So remember, I'm a diver.

And the first time I got in 2002 to the places we wanted to explore, all of a sudden I was standing at 14,000 foot, looking at 20,000 feet and saying, okay, well, I need to get up there.

No.

No, because we are prepared.

And the only thing I didn't know is if I was going to be able to make it to the top, because now you're dealing with high altitude.

You can deal with high altitude sickness.

You can deal with a number of things.

And for God's sake, these are volcanoes and they are dormant.

They are not extinct.

That can bite us a couple of times.

There is a lot of hiking and trekking at altitude around here, but not so high because we don't have anything closer to those elevations around here in the U.S.

But in volcanic environment, climbing volcanoes here, we have plenty of those.

diving as well.

I am a free diver.

So this is where it's going to be hilarious because I started with a completely rational fear of pressurized vessels that comes from an incident in my childhood.

And so I became a free diver to avoid having to carry oxygen tanks on my back.

Free diving is diving without- Without anything, just your lungs, right?

Yeah, no, it was to the point where when I saw a pressure vessel, like a methane tank or anything, I would be going around and put a lot of distance between me and that tank.

So I was not going to carry any oxygen tank.