Paul Rosolie

And I always said, man, if I could, we just climb it.

And I never had the rope skills, you know, and I developed as a rock climber.

I was working on strength and I trained for it.

You know, it wasn't it's like most things.

It's not you can't just do it.

You know, I'd gone and climbed up, you know, 30 feet and gone.

No way.

You know, the the the trunk of the tree goes vertical for about 70 feet before branches even come out.

So there's just this one big vine.

And JJ and I did it at.

I want to say like four in the morning, like really early.

The howler monkeys had just started.

And you start climbing with the rope up this one vine and you have to, it's not a technical climb, it's a strength climb.

You have to gorilla up this vine and it's all back strength.

And so I did it, no shirt, no shoes, straight up.

And JJ had the belay device.

And so every like 30 feet, I would put in a piece of webbing and a carabiner.

So then you go up another 30 feet and you put a piece of webbing and a carabiner and you don't know what you're gonna find.

And you're going up in the dark.

So it's extremely exhausting.