Victor Vescovo

And they do, you know, little staged fights every now and then.

But they're serious people.

And, you know, kids I ran into there, some of them had never seen a Caucasian before.

You know, they did the typical come up and like trying to, you know, feel what it's like, or they just get mesmerized by my eyes and my hair.

They'd never seen it.

But there were a couple of interactions where we would go into a town in so-called enemy territory, and we would thought we had arranged safe passage with our guides.

And there was one very tense moment where they were going to try and extract...

value from us, money or whatever we were carrying.

And we were in the middle, the Westerners, and then our tribe was in a circle around us.

And then there was another circle around them and kind of a Mexican standoff.

And it was very, very tense.

And we couldn't understand a word they were saying, but they were yelling a lot, which is never a good sign.

I mean, I got my knife ready to go.

No, I wasn't going to go down quietly.

And eventually they worked it out.

And very tensely, we kind of got up and slowly got through.

Went on our way to the mountain.

Yeah.

I've compared these things a lot.

Going to the bottom of the ocean is like going into a pyramid.