Paul Rosolie

And so I was at the front with the, with the headlamp, with the torch.

And so the first few hours it was clear.

And that comment, remember that comment that was going, there was that comment in the sky.

I remember looking at the comment and going somehow I was like, this is it.

I knew this was it.

And the first few hours was clear and the stars was out and it was beautiful.

And then it clouded over and the lightning started and then it just apocalypse downpoured.

And from midnight until 8 a.m., it was just the front of the boat with the light.

And it was just Star Wars vision of just, you know, raindrops and galaxies and moths flying in my eye.

And people don't realize you can get hypothermia in the tropics, but it's like as you're going at night, even if it's 80 degrees outside in the rain, in the wind at night,

in a lightning storm, you're freezing.

And so by, you know, 2 a.m.

I'm convulsively shivering and we're using the crocodile eyes, the Cayman eyes on the side of the river as, because it was so dark, we couldn't see where we were going.

So those shine back at you.

So I was finding the Cayman eyes and then motioning with the light to Ignacio where to go.

And he knew how to find the channel.

We had to jump the waterfalls.

We did the two day boat ride in one night.

And we got there and we arrive at this community where, and it's morning now and the howler monkeys are calling over the jungle and, you know, the little naked children are all by the side and everyone's scared.

And we get a hug from this guy, Bacho, who we know.