Paul Rosolie

And in this moment on this tree as sweating and just ripped apart and bleeding, I was sitting up there and I saw

the mist river and it was flowing over the canopy in the golden rays of the morning and the macaws start taking flight and there was monkeys below me that were looking up and you could tell they were confused.

They're looking at me going, what is that?

And I just had this absolutely incredible moment.

I wanted to, you know, it felt like, it felt like you're seeing God.

I wanted to, I wanted to share it with everyone.

You know, I felt, I felt, I felt guilty afterwards for having had a moment like that.

But it felt like I had done this insane risk and, you know, risked falling out of the tree or getting strung up on the ropes.

And of course, it's just me and JJ.

So if something goes wrong, no one's going to help you.

And being out there on that branch felt suicidal because even then, if you fall, it's a giant swing back to the tree.

But the beauty that I saw up there

was so intense that it sucked the air right out of my lungs.

I had tears in my eyes, and I'm just watching this incredible process flow over the earth, this legendary thing that I'd heard about that scientists described, and now I'm seeing it with my own eyes.

It felt like the gift of the tree.

Thank you.

I mean, come on.

I'm just describing what happened.

Yeah, I mean, when I went down there, that's like I said, you know, for young people, if you want to get out there, go do it.

I agreed to stay at the station and do like six hours of macaw research every morning.