Paul Rosolie

When we got the phone call, it was a mix of, you know, we should keep, cause we're over here like trying to get land concessions and doing all this important work.

And part of me was like, that's, that can't be real.

So we're going to keep, keep, keep our heads down.

Bigfoot is emerging from the forest.

Like, yeah, sure, sure.

And then cause we got the call, we hung up and we said, okay, maybe tomorrow if they're like still there or something.

And then it was crazy cause it was, it was probably about noon and we had an important day of meetings.

We had a meeting with the police.

We had a meeting with the landowner.

We were trying to do all this stuff for the conservation work.

And then I got together with the core team of directors, JJ, Moses, Stefan, and we said, wait, if this is real, we have to get there like now, like now, now.

And so we dropped what we were doing, canceled the meetings.

We put other people on the meetings.

We got a boat.

We called Ignacio.

We called our most hardcore ranger who has been shot, who in 2019 was shot in the head by an arrow.

um and still bears the scar and he barely survived and we said look this is going down he said i already know because the whole river already knows and he said we said can you get us there by tomorrow morning and he said look it's a two-day journey by boat so no and we said is there any way you can get us there and he went i'll get you there and so we got a couple sacks of rice a couple cans of tuna our dry bags our tents we got on a boat by

6 PM.

And we started riding up the river through the night, through the night.

And so two day boat journey that we're trying to flex in one night.