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It all started when I was old
blacksmith shop in Ventura, California
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at the beginning of the 1960s.
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It was a small workshop
rudimentary,
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but we made the best there
climbing equipment in the world.
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We made things
for us first of all,
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and we were at the forefront
of climbing, at the time.
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We certainly didn't want
be businessmen,
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but we had to
do something,
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so that we can indulge in
our passions of climbing and surfing.
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I had hired some vagabond friends,
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mountaineers and surfers,
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and when the wind rose,
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we abandoned the workshop
to go surfing.
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One day in 1968,
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my friend Doug Tompkins said,
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"Let's go to Patagonia to do
the ascent of Fitz Roy."
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We bought a camera
Bolex 16 mm to film the trip,
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we loaded the equipment car
mountaineering and surfing,
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and we left for a journey
16,000 km south.
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{\an8}I believe that between the decision
to leave and departure,
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{\an8}two weeks have passed.
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{\an8}YVON CHOUINARD
FOUNDER OF PATAGONIA
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{\an8}DOUG TOMPKINS
FOUNDER, THE NORTH FACE
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We bought an old van
and we left Ventura.
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In 1968, we must remember,
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the Pan-American highway
was pretty wild.
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It was a dirt road
from Mexico City to the south.
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It was like Montana
or Wyoming 100 years ago.
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We were in a space
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the size of
the entire American West,
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uninhabited.
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For those of us
who grew up
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visiting the places
wild around the world,
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where nature was still virgin,
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we felt
beauty in our souls.
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This trip had a great influence
about Doug and me.
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This is what determined
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what we would do
later in life.
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It was the best for me
trip of my life.
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Ten years ago,
I found this old movie
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from Doug and Yvon's trip
of 1968 in Patagonia.
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It was like watching everything
I wanted to do in my life.
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From this moment,
I promised myself that one day,
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I will find a way
to make such a trip.
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{\an8}Years passed before
that I have the opportunity.
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I heard about a boat
docked in Mexico
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who was leaving for Patagonia.
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{\an8}They needed crew,
I needed transportation.
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{\an8}MEXICO
DAY 1
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My name is Jeff Johnson.
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You will find 10
in any directory.
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I spent my childhood
� Danville, California.
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You probably don't know,
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but it's very far from the ocean
and mountains.
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When I was eight years old,
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two things made me
on the path where I am still.
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One, when my parents
took me camping
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in Yosemite Valley.
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I remember watching
at the telescope
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a huge granite wall,
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and some guys were climbing it
A thousand meters away.
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I couldn't believe my eyes.
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It was like seeing someone
walk on the moon.
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The same year, I saw surfing
for the first time,
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on television, in
a sports show.
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I saw these guys surfing
on huge walls of water.
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There were people
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who went where they were
not meant to be.
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I knew at that very moment
that I wanted to be there too.
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All my life,
I managed
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to leave according to the seasons.
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I did the diving,
I was a lifeguard,
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steward...
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Anything for
finance the next trip.
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But in recent years,
I found a real job.
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I started to crash
roots,
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and I spent a lot less
time on the road.
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But I never forgot my dream
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to see Patagonia
with my own eyes.
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Certainly, I could take
my two weeks of vacation
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and take the plane
for Patagonia,
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but I will never have again
opportunity like this.
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If I don't take this boat,
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I know exactly
what awaits me back home.
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If I take it,
my future is not yet written.
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I am attracted
not the great outdoors.
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This is where
everything becomes clear,
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where the world has
the most sense.
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When I go there,
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I always come back
with something new.
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One day, a friend told me,
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"The best trips
answer questions
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"that we wouldn't have had the idea
to ask at the start."
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{\an8}450 KM FROM THE COAST
FROM CENTRAL AMERICA
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{\an8}DAY 15
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I met Yvon
for the first time
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in the South Pacific
a few years ago.
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I told him I found
his old movie
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and want to go to Patagonia
myself.
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Jeff is real.
A real wanderer.
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He can live in his car,
climb the valley.
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He became
good mountaineer,
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it takes any wave.
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He manages
as he can
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to stay on the road.
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It reminds me a lot
How I was.
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I met
many young people
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who asked me what books
to read or what films to watch.
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It's a good start, I think,
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but nothing beats going there yourself.
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Yvon gave me
a photo taken by Doug,
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we see a very distant coast
in Patagonia,
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with a mountain
called Corcovado.
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I still have this photo
on me since that day,
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and I imagine myself at the top
of this ice-covered peak.
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For Yvon and Doug,
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the best transport
Was an old van.
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For me, it's
a 16 meter speedboat
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called theSea Bear.
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Alan, the captain,
grew up in Patagonia,
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and he takes his boat home.
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And I'm just lucky
to enjoy the trip.
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But I never passed
several months on a boat,
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and my foot is not
as sailor as I thought.
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It moves a lot,
there is a lot of movement.
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I am all the time
about to feel nauseous.
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I am at the most point
bottom of my life.
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I didn't sleep much.
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I'm trying to sleep now.
It's going great.
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I might vomit
at any time.
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� travel for six months,
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we're getting into the rhythm.
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We feel like we can
do this all his life.
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Climb Everest,
it is the ultimate and the opposite of that
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because you have all these surgeons
powerful aesthetics,
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these CEOs,
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and they pay 80,000 dollars
and have sherpas
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who install the ladders,
and 2,500 meters of fixed ropes.
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They arrive at the camp
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and don't even need
to spread out their sleeping bags.
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It is already done, and there is
a chocolate on the pillow.
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And all the point of doing
an ascent such as Everest
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is to achieve a kind
spiritual and physical gain,
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but if you compromise
the process,
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you are an asshole
when leaving
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and you are an asshole
on the way back.
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{\an8}483 KM FROM THE GAL�PAGOS ISLANDS
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{\an8}DAY 27
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Yvon and Doug should be
in Patagonia when I get there.
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They said they would welcome me
with a blanket
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and a hot meal
on the way to Corcovado.
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Doug lives there full time
with his wife Kris,
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and Yvon will be there to help them
on a big project
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what they are working on
for almost 20 years.
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Yvon also told me
than the ice cream on Corcovado
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could have completely melted
if I can do it
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after the month of December,
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and this can make it more difficult
arrival at the summit,
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which brings me to
a minor detail...
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I have never done any climbing
on the ice.
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Even if I had done so,
I need a team,
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and who is better than
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my friends Timmy O'Neill
and Keith Malloy for that?
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And you can check it
by doing like that.
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It will be a little abrupt,
but look. See?
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Do you see how it works?
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If the catches were to
disintegrate mysteriously,
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you go down on your Grigri
and it stops you instantly.
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Yes.
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Timmy went rock climbing
worldwide
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and broke ascent records
in Yosemite Valley.
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He climbed El Capitan
in 3 hours 30 minutes.
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Even excellent mountaineers
can take days.
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Keith gave up pro surfing
six years ago,
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and since then, he has devoted himself
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discovery of news
surf beaches.
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He was chased away by
grizzly bears in Canada
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and rebels shot him
in the Moluccas.
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He speaks little,
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but if there is surf there,
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he will find it.
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We thought that good training
for Keith
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would be the North American wall
of El Capitan.
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Yvon made the first ascent
of this road in 1964
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when it was considered as
the hardest climb in the world.
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It's still not easy,
what was interesting
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because Keith did not
lots of mountaineering.
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Not to mention the fact
that he is afraid of heights.
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{\an8}THE BLACK CELLAR
NORTH AMERICAN WALL
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{\an8}We thought that mountaineering was
worthless to society.
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{\an8}YOSEMITE VALLEY
1964
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{\an8}We didn't want to be part
of the military-industrial complex.
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Life was easy
in the 60s.
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We could buy a car
for 50 dollars
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and live in this car
and camp in Yosemite.
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And there were these big walls
that no one had climbed
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also large, smooth
and difficult
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than all the walls in the world.
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The largest is
theNorth America Wall
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on El Capitan.
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My friend Chuck Pratt,
Royal Robbins,
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Tom Frost and I,
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we made the first ascent
in ten days.
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The wall is overhanging,
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and we wonder
if we can go back down
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if we get halfway
and we can no longer move forward.
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It's like the first guys
who surfed the giant waves,
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like �Waimea.
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They didn't know
if they could be retained
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by one of these huge waves
and die.
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Fear of the unknown
is the greatest fear,
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but we got started.
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{\an8}3000 KM FROM THE COAST OF PERU
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{\an8}DAY 40
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Keith and Timmy couldn't do
the long crossing of the Pacific,
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but let's hope that they
will join in Patagonia.
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Every morning I look
the sun rises.
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It took me a month
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to put myself in the right frame of mind
long-distance travel.
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Every day that passes,
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I feel more detached from
my schedule at home
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and more in rhythm with
what surrounds me.
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The mast has fallen on deck!
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All hands on deck!
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This morning, during
my turn of guard,
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our 21 meter mast was
broken like a twig.
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We were drifting
in the middle of nowhere.
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Everything was in the ocean,
beating the hull.
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For me, it was obvious
that we would get rid of everything.
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But Alan had a different plan.
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He climbed onto the bridge
knife in hand
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and announced that all
would come back on board.
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Twelve long hours later,
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we finally have the mast broken
and everything else on board.
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It's a faulty rig
which had been the cause.
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I wonder
if I could have detected
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the problem earlier.
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Tonight, we are too
tired to eat.
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We don't have enough fuel
to go to Chile,
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then our only option is to do
640 km to Rapa Nui,
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better known as
of Easter Island.
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The term “adventure”
is overused.
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For me, adventure is
when everything goes wrong.
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This is where the adventure begins.
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A month and a half at sea,
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and we finally arrive
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the most isolated island in the world,
Rapa Nui.
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{\an8}RAPA NUI
OR EASTER ISLAND
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{\an8}DAY 44
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We were supposed to spend a few days
on Rapa Nui to get supplies,
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but it looks like we'll be here
for much longer.
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00:17:58,286 --> 00:18:00,913
The first person I meet
is a girl named Makohe.
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I saw her learn to surf
�kids in the bay.
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She was born here
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and promised to
show me around the island.
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00:18:09,589 --> 00:18:12,341
It's almost December,
but for the first time,
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I don't worry
to arrive in Corcovado
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before the ice melts.
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00:18:21,601 --> 00:18:24,145
Going to Rapa Nui is like
return to the past.
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And the people
its history in the blood.
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My mother lived at the time
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where a plane came to fly over the island
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and licked something
in the ocean,
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letters, supplies.
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00:18:37,033 --> 00:18:38,367
Lots of things
have changed, huh?
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Yes, a lot of things.
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When we were kids,
what entertained us,
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it was seeing the plane
come and go.
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We sat in this big tree
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which was around the corner from my house,
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we brought sandwiches,
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we would sit and watch
the plane approaching
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all the time
that he was there.
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- Was it the show?
- Yes.
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- Was everyone watching?
- Yes.
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You are the first
Rapa Nui surfer?
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When I started surfing,
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there were only guys in the water.
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I had never seen
of woman surfing.
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I told my brother,
“Can I go?”
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Because he was really enjoying himself.
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He said, "No, it's not
only for men."
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One day I told him,
“Take me
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"because I want to see."
I went there, it was great.
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And I was the only woman
for a long time,
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maybe ten years.
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When I'm in a big city,
surrounded by cars, smog...
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I close my eyes and
I think of Rapa Nui.
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The blue sky, the nice people,
the ocean, the waves...
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I think about it in my head,
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00:19:46,143 --> 00:19:49,271
and that makes me strong,
just having Rapa Nui.
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I don't want change
� Rapa Nui.
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00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:04,662
The days have become
weeks.
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When the sea is calm,
we are repairing the boat.
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00:20:08,374 --> 00:20:09,458
As for life,
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I explore the volcanic coast
with Makohe.
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00:20:13,337 --> 00:20:15,464
The island welcomed us
like family.
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The weeks pass,
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00:20:38,195 --> 00:20:40,656
and I entrust my plan to Makohe
to climb Corcovado.
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00:20:42,032 --> 00:20:44,493
Without hesitation, she asks me
if she can come with me.
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00:20:46,287 --> 00:20:47,830
At this point, I wonder
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00:20:47,997 --> 00:20:49,707
if the boat will take us
to Patagonia,
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00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,460
but I promise him
to ask Alan
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if one more person
can come on board.
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{\an8}AHU TONGARIKI, RAPA NUI
DAY 62
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Yvon told me about the book by
Jared Diamond, Collapse,
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where Diamond presents
Easter Island
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as a warning,
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the sad example of a society
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having exhausted its resources and
having suffered the consequences.
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00:21:35,377 --> 00:21:38,214
When the first Europeans
set foot on Easter Island,
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in 1700 something,
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00:21:41,926 --> 00:21:44,386
all the moa� were standing.
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00:21:46,180 --> 00:21:48,599
But with the increase
of the population,
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00:21:48,766 --> 00:21:52,645
the peoples separated
in small distinct tribes,
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00:21:53,562 --> 00:21:57,107
working with all their might
to surpass others,
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00:21:57,274 --> 00:21:59,318
moa manufacturer
bigger and bigger.
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00:22:01,403 --> 00:22:05,241
And that became the goal
central to the entire society.
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00:22:06,867 --> 00:22:09,703
It has almost become
more important than surviving.
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00:22:10,412 --> 00:22:13,082
They ended up cutting
all their forests
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00:22:13,249 --> 00:22:16,669
to transport
these giant statues.
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00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:20,130
And it became
such an obsession
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00:22:20,297 --> 00:22:23,634
that they have exhausted
the resources of the island,
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00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,221
and it led to wars
tribal, cannibalism,
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and the population of the island
went from 30,000
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� 111 people.
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I met Jared Diamond
repeatedly
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00:22:39,358 --> 00:22:41,443
and we discussed his book
Collapse,
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and the way in which
societies of the past
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that he studied
collapsed
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and what it means
for our society.
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00:22:49,660 --> 00:22:51,871
And in the end,
he really says
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that we make the same mistakes
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that all these other companies
have done.
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00:22:59,712 --> 00:23:03,090
The history of Easter Island,
it is that of the planet.
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00:23:04,008 --> 00:23:05,175
It's a disturbing thought,
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00:23:05,342 --> 00:23:07,803
and I start to see these statues
from another angle.
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00:23:08,596 --> 00:23:11,432
{\an8}I remember a quote
by Aldous Huxley
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00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:14,351
{\an8}who never really had me
affected so far.
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00:23:14,768 --> 00:23:17,521
{\an8}He wrote, "Men
learn little
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00:23:17,688 --> 00:23:19,023
{\an8}"lessons from history,
342
00:23:19,481 --> 00:23:23,152
{\an8}"and it's the most important
lessons from history."
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00:23:30,534 --> 00:23:32,161
The island had no port
big enough
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00:23:32,328 --> 00:23:33,829
to be able to repair our mast there.
345
00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:36,665
We therefore had to find
way to fix it
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anchored at sea.
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00:24:08,572 --> 00:24:10,240
Alan unearthed old plans
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00:24:10,407 --> 00:24:13,661
that sailors have used since
centuries to return to sea.
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00:24:15,537 --> 00:24:17,331
Without appropriate equipment,
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these archaic plans
are our only option.
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00:25:16,098 --> 00:25:18,517
We spent a month
to repair the mast,
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00:25:19,226 --> 00:25:21,603
using everything that
came to hand.
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00:25:23,105 --> 00:25:26,025
Our fortune, half
smaller than the original,
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00:25:26,191 --> 00:25:27,985
weighs more than 250 kilos.
355
00:25:30,487 --> 00:25:33,615
Take it up on deck while
the rolling sea could turn bad.
356
00:25:34,908 --> 00:25:36,994
A broken rope could
cause a chain reaction,
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00:25:37,161 --> 00:25:39,830
everything would collapse and
we would fall with it.
358
00:25:41,582 --> 00:25:43,876
When the wind calms down,
we will try our luck.
359
00:25:44,376 --> 00:25:47,504
If we fail,
this will be the end of my journey.
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00:26:18,827 --> 00:26:20,412
Almost a month on Rapa Nui.
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00:26:21,789 --> 00:26:22,998
{\an8}CHRISTMAS EVE
DAY 75
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00:26:23,165 --> 00:26:25,667
{\an8}Soon we will weigh anchor to
Chile, 3,700 km from here.
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00:26:27,377 --> 00:26:29,046
I always felt
better when traveling.
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00:26:30,297 --> 00:26:32,382
As soon as I knew how to walk,
I ran.
365
00:26:33,175 --> 00:26:36,011
But today, I would stay
well here forever.
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00:26:47,272 --> 00:26:49,358
It's difficult to leave a place
with whom I have a connection.
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00:26:49,817 --> 00:26:51,401
I tell myself that I will come back,
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00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:53,695
but I know it’s risky
to never happen.
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00:26:55,739 --> 00:26:58,534
The good news:
the question asked to Alan
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00:26:58,742 --> 00:27:01,411
if we had room
extra on the boat...
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00:27:02,162 --> 00:27:03,247
Well yes,
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00:27:03,413 --> 00:27:05,499
and Makohe comes with me
�Corcovado.
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00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:28,605
Arriving at the top of the wall,
there is nothing up there.
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00:27:29,648 --> 00:27:31,608
Lionel Terray,
the great French mountaineer,
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00:27:31,775 --> 00:27:34,111
talked about
“Conquerors of the useless”.
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00:27:35,529 --> 00:27:37,781
It's true, the result is useless,
377
00:27:38,157 --> 00:27:40,701
but every time I travel,
I learn something, and...
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00:27:41,702 --> 00:27:43,620
I hope to become
a better being.
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00:27:47,749 --> 00:27:49,793
When we have spent our life
in nature,
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00:27:50,043 --> 00:27:52,296
we understand that it is
of our duty
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00:27:52,462 --> 00:27:54,631
to protect these wild spaces.
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00:28:03,807 --> 00:28:08,020
{\an8}ALGARRABO, CHILE
DAY 101
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00:28:09,396 --> 00:28:11,231
After a crossing of
16 days from Rapa Nui,
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00:28:11,398 --> 00:28:13,066
we finally arrive in Chile.
385
00:28:14,818 --> 00:28:18,197
This is the end of Alan's journey,
16,000 km from Seattle.
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00:28:18,697 --> 00:28:21,783
After years of absence,
It's good to see him back.
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00:28:46,767 --> 00:28:49,686
TheSea Bear will spend months
at the port waiting for a mast,
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00:28:49,937 --> 00:28:52,314
then with Makohe, we decide
to continue south.
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00:28:55,692 --> 00:28:59,112
Makohe has a friend in Pichelemu,
a town south of here.
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00:28:59,947 --> 00:29:01,990
He's a surfer named
by Ramon Navarro,
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00:29:02,199 --> 00:29:04,368
and its roots here go back
for generations.
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00:29:04,910 --> 00:29:06,995
She thinks he can accommodate us.
393
00:29:07,246 --> 00:29:09,539
And since his father is a sinner,
he might have some ideas
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00:29:09,706 --> 00:29:11,833
to find us another
boat to Corcovado.
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00:29:12,167 --> 00:29:17,005
My mother says that my grandfather
exchanged the land for a horse.
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00:29:17,214 --> 00:29:18,257
Right here?
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00:29:18,423 --> 00:29:21,301
Yes, where my house is
and all around.
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00:29:21,677 --> 00:29:24,096
50 hectares, maybe more,
for a single horse.
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00:29:25,514 --> 00:29:29,851
My whole family is from here,
I have my roots here.
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00:29:30,227 --> 00:29:31,561
I see around the world
401
00:29:31,728 --> 00:29:33,772
what happens when people
come with money
402
00:29:33,939 --> 00:29:35,399
and change everything.
403
00:29:36,024 --> 00:29:37,818
But we don't want to change.
404
00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:41,321
Here it is the best and
the most beautiful place.
405
00:29:41,863 --> 00:29:43,824
We will fight to keep it.
406
00:31:02,444 --> 00:31:04,946
Having good waves to surf
when I travel comes later
407
00:31:05,113 --> 00:31:07,157
the experience of being on the road.
408
00:31:08,158 --> 00:31:11,370
But on the second day, upon waking up,
the waves were perfect
409
00:31:11,536 --> 00:31:12,913
and no one was in the water.
410
00:31:13,955 --> 00:31:15,415
The last wave
taken that day
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00:31:15,582 --> 00:31:17,501
was the longest of my life.
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00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:19,169
I will never forget it.
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00:32:09,678 --> 00:32:10,929
Gracias.
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00:32:12,180 --> 00:32:14,224
Ramon’s parents
saw the ocean change
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00:32:14,391 --> 00:32:16,184
when the big fisheries
commercial goods have arrived
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00:32:16,351 --> 00:32:18,019
and destroyed the industry
local fishing area.
417
00:32:20,272 --> 00:32:22,899
His father taught him to work
hard, to live simply,
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00:32:23,066 --> 00:32:24,901
and to have deep respect
for the ocean.
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00:32:51,803 --> 00:32:55,849
{\an8}The ocean and the land
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00:32:56,433 --> 00:32:59,978
{\an8}are the suppliers
the most important.
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00:33:00,437 --> 00:33:02,314
{\an8}You have to know how to work the land
422
00:33:02,481 --> 00:33:04,566
{\an8}because the earth will reward you.
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00:33:04,733 --> 00:33:06,568
{\an8}We don't work
land for money,
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00:33:06,735 --> 00:33:09,488
{\an8}but it brings us
something to put on our table.
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00:33:14,201 --> 00:33:17,746
{\an8}Working in the ocean taught me
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00:33:17,913 --> 00:33:19,372
{\an8}what I learn
To my friends:
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00:33:19,789 --> 00:33:21,374
{\an8}We must respect the ocean.
428
00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:27,047
{\an8}For us, industrial fishing
should not exist.
429
00:33:27,380 --> 00:33:29,090
{\an8}Commercial ships
are our enemies.
430
00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:32,052
{\an8}They got closer
more and more from the shore
431
00:33:32,385 --> 00:33:34,554
{\an8}and the fish are gone.
432
00:33:35,055 --> 00:33:37,933
{\an8}Before, the mackerels came
to the beach.
433
00:33:38,725 --> 00:33:40,977
{\an8}Now we have to buy them
at the store.
434
00:33:42,812 --> 00:33:45,774
Ramon tells me that today,
their greatest threat,
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00:33:45,941 --> 00:33:48,568
it is the pulp factories which
are developing on the Chilean coast.
436
00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:54,324
{\an8}Confronting cellulose factories
is like facing a giant.
437
00:33:57,202 --> 00:33:59,162
{\an8}The government
and corporations
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00:33:59,329 --> 00:34:01,456
{\an8}never told us
that their great project
439
00:34:01,873 --> 00:34:04,793
{\an8}was going to contaminate the sea
440
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:09,214
{\an8}with cellulose waste
dumped into the ocean.
441
00:34:09,923 --> 00:34:13,176
{\an8}Until the 1950s,
Constitution was one of the towns
442
00:34:13,343 --> 00:34:15,512
{\an8}resort of Chile
the richest in culture.
443
00:34:15,929 --> 00:34:19,724
{\an8}When the pulp factory opened,
everything was destroyed.
444
00:34:20,517 --> 00:34:25,188
{\an8}She killed the fishery, the city,
the soul of the city.
445
00:34:26,439 --> 00:34:30,485
{\an8}It's sad because a large part
of Chile is now contaminated.
446
00:34:42,664 --> 00:34:45,875
{\an8}Now, in the south of Chile,
to make things worse,
447
00:34:46,751 --> 00:34:48,628
{\an8}they want to build six
hydroelectric dams.
448
00:34:48,795 --> 00:34:52,799
{\an8}There are all the people who invested
their lives and respect these things,
449
00:34:53,466 --> 00:34:55,302
{\an8}like the artisan fisherman who
sinned all his life,
450
00:34:55,552 --> 00:34:58,388
{\an8}and overnight, a huge
dam is built.
451
00:34:59,389 --> 00:35:00,890
{\an8}And suddenly he loses his livelihood,
452
00:35:01,391 --> 00:35:03,018
{\an8}and he must escape
all the smoke,
453
00:35:03,184 --> 00:35:08,023
{\an8}the stench, water pollution
and chemical residues.
454
00:35:08,982 --> 00:35:11,318
{\an8}People have jobs,
455
00:35:11,526 --> 00:35:14,321
{\an8}security with this industry,
but at what price?
456
00:35:58,031 --> 00:36:01,993
{\an8}SANTIAGO
DAY 113
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00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,537
{\an8}Here I am in town
after three months at sea.
458
00:36:13,296 --> 00:36:15,632
This place is more populated
than Los Angeles.
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00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:17,801
Currently they are building
460
00:36:17,967 --> 00:36:19,552
a shopping center
of 100,000 square meters
461
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:20,762
and an office building
462
00:36:20,929 --> 00:36:22,972
which will be the building most
Raised from the continent.
463
00:36:25,183 --> 00:36:28,019
I think of collapse
from Rapa Nui.
464
00:36:28,937 --> 00:36:30,271
Growth is inevitable,
465
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,982
but can we maintain
this speed in the long term?
466
00:36:34,776 --> 00:36:37,070
Being here makes me think of
my life at home,
467
00:36:37,570 --> 00:36:40,240
and I consider my way
to use resources.
468
00:36:53,253 --> 00:36:56,256
Before I left, Yvon told me
that if we went through Santiago,
469
00:36:56,423 --> 00:36:58,717
we had to visit
to his friend Juan Pablo Orrego.
470
00:37:00,260 --> 00:37:03,430
He dedicated his life to ending
� urban growth
471
00:37:03,596 --> 00:37:05,223
and fights to avoid extinction
472
00:37:05,390 --> 00:37:06,808
the way of life of the natives.
473
00:37:07,851 --> 00:37:10,353
{\an8}How people
stuck in the city
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00:37:10,687 --> 00:37:13,022
{\an8}can they try to create a world
more focused on ecology
475
00:37:13,273 --> 00:37:14,899
{\an8}if they don't know
is it possible?
476
00:37:15,275 --> 00:37:18,695
{\an8}A good example of insulation
people from their ecosystem
477
00:37:18,862 --> 00:37:22,157
{\an8}is with their Walkmans
or their iPods.
478
00:37:22,323 --> 00:37:25,326
{\an8}We start by isolating ourselves
more and more.
479
00:37:25,493 --> 00:37:27,203
{\an8}We don't want
breathe polluted air,
480
00:37:27,370 --> 00:37:29,122
{\an8}we don't want to hear
annoying noises,
481
00:37:29,289 --> 00:37:30,707
{\an8}we don't want to look
because it's ugly.
482
00:37:31,249 --> 00:37:34,836
{\an8}This is why we do not
do not understand nature,
483
00:37:35,003 --> 00:37:36,713
{\an8}that we don't like him,
that we neglect it.
484
00:37:36,921 --> 00:37:39,966
{\an8}We don't realize
that we depend on it
485
00:37:40,175 --> 00:37:43,636
{\an8}psychologically
and physically 100%.
486
00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:04,157
My old friend Keith Malloy
finally joined me.
487
00:38:05,241 --> 00:38:07,368
During our climb
from El Capitan last year
488
00:38:07,535 --> 00:38:09,871
he tore his knee
and had to have surgery.
489
00:38:11,289 --> 00:38:13,291
Returned to shape,
just before this trip,
490
00:38:13,792 --> 00:38:16,377
he took one of the biggest
waves of his life at Mavericks.
491
00:38:20,673 --> 00:38:22,091
I thought Timmy
would be with him,
492
00:38:22,425 --> 00:38:23,968
but he goes mountaineering
somewhere,
493
00:38:24,135 --> 00:38:26,513
so I hope it happens
before we are in Corcovado.
494
00:38:38,608 --> 00:38:40,276
We have reached the end
of the road,
495
00:38:40,443 --> 00:38:42,111
and the earth begins
to crumble.
496
00:38:42,904 --> 00:38:46,658
So we found a local boat
to take us to Patagonia.
497
00:38:55,834 --> 00:38:58,211
What I see there is
a 40 year dream
498
00:38:58,378 --> 00:38:59,712
which comes true.
499
00:39:01,422 --> 00:39:05,218
It all started when Doug and Yvon
traveled here in 1968.
500
00:39:06,135 --> 00:39:08,721
This is Conservaci�n Patag�nica,
501
00:39:09,472 --> 00:39:11,891
and it extends
to the end of the horizon.
502
00:39:17,063 --> 00:39:20,191
{\an8}LAND OWNERSHIP OF
PATAGONICA CONSERVATION
503
00:39:20,358 --> 00:39:21,651
{\an8}DAY 124
504
00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:29,177
For 18 years,
Doug and his wife, Kris,
505
00:40:29,427 --> 00:40:31,721
as well as Yvon,
dedicate their lives
506
00:40:31,888 --> 00:40:34,182
one of the largest private projects
conservation
507
00:40:34,349 --> 00:40:37,393
in the world:
Conservaci�n Patag�nica.
508
00:40:37,894 --> 00:40:40,521
In the early 90s, Doug and Kris
raised funds
509
00:40:40,688 --> 00:40:43,942
and used their own savings
to buy large plots of land
510
00:40:44,108 --> 00:40:45,526
in Chile and Argentina.
511
00:40:46,319 --> 00:40:49,489
With the help of hundreds of employees
and passionate volunteers,
512
00:40:49,864 --> 00:40:52,492
they succeeded in protecting
entire ecosystems
513
00:40:52,659 --> 00:40:55,370
and to develop programs
sustainable farmers and livestock.
514
00:40:55,620 --> 00:40:56,788
In total,
515
00:40:57,038 --> 00:40:59,415
the land they have
managed to preserve
516
00:40:59,582 --> 00:41:01,668
is bigger than the Park
Yellowstone National.
517
00:41:16,140 --> 00:41:19,978
I'm more than a month late,
but Yvon and Doug are still here.
518
00:41:20,979 --> 00:41:22,397
I had heard about
of their project,
519
00:41:22,563 --> 00:41:24,774
but I didn't know any
not the extent.
520
00:41:26,526 --> 00:41:29,946
For me, their journey 40 years ago
was an adventure,
521
00:41:30,279 --> 00:41:33,241
but now I understand
that it was a decisive moment.
522
00:41:35,660 --> 00:41:37,412
We haven't changed our lives
suddenly,
523
00:41:37,912 --> 00:41:39,747
but it had a big
influence on me.
524
00:41:40,331 --> 00:41:42,542
For me it was the best
trip of my life.
525
00:41:43,292 --> 00:41:46,838
The history of Latin America,
these are the Conquistadors.
526
00:41:47,213 --> 00:41:49,298
It's not that different
from the United States,
527
00:41:49,674 --> 00:41:50,758
but in the United States,
528
00:41:50,925 --> 00:41:53,428
at least we don't
trust in the government,
529
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:55,513
so we have a tradition
of philanthropy.
530
00:41:56,055 --> 00:41:59,100
Doug comes here and says,
531
00:41:59,267 --> 00:42:01,352
"I will create a national park,
532
00:42:01,519 --> 00:42:03,771
"and I'm going to give it back to the Chileans."
533
00:42:04,522 --> 00:42:06,941
And they say:
“Anything.”
534
00:42:08,693 --> 00:42:10,028
“People don’t do that.
535
00:42:10,445 --> 00:42:11,988
“There must be another reason.”
536
00:42:12,363 --> 00:42:13,698
{\an8}I think that first of all,
537
00:42:13,865 --> 00:42:16,409
{\an8}people don't protect
only the things they love.
538
00:42:17,744 --> 00:42:20,788
And you can't love something
only if we identify with it.
539
00:42:21,456 --> 00:42:24,333
This is one of the reasons
why we are here.
540
00:42:26,836 --> 00:42:31,758
We have more than two million hectares
preserved,
541
00:42:33,051 --> 00:42:35,178
and people think
that it's a lot of land,
542
00:42:35,344 --> 00:42:38,097
but we are
Real losers here.
543
00:42:38,723 --> 00:42:42,769
{\an8}Doug is deeply environmentalist,
that's for sure.
544
00:42:43,102 --> 00:42:49,150
{\an8}What Doug did in Chile,
by creating national parks,
545
00:42:49,776 --> 00:42:54,322
{\an8}it is to launch a subject whose
we didn't talk in Chile,
546
00:42:54,489 --> 00:42:58,034
{\an8}that of preservation
of nature,
547
00:42:58,242 --> 00:43:01,621
{\an8}and the relationship
between conservation
548
00:43:01,788 --> 00:43:03,790
{\an8}and the development of a country.
549
00:43:04,248 --> 00:43:08,169
{\an8}Politics around debate,
and the reason why
550
00:43:08,836 --> 00:43:10,671
{\an8}Doug has opponents
and reviews,
551
00:43:10,838 --> 00:43:15,218
{\an8}it's because it changes
the paradigm.
552
00:43:15,843 --> 00:43:18,262
First of all, you never know
if we do the right thing.
553
00:43:18,554 --> 00:43:21,933
You must always think
in these terms.
554
00:43:22,683 --> 00:43:23,976
But from my point of view,
555
00:43:24,143 --> 00:43:27,396
for the preservation of land,
of this kind,
556
00:43:27,897 --> 00:43:31,859
the risk of negative consequences
557
00:43:32,151 --> 00:43:34,112
seems very weak,
558
00:43:34,821 --> 00:43:39,909
compared to an approach
operating.
559
00:43:41,452 --> 00:43:43,121
If we make mistakes,
560
00:43:43,663 --> 00:43:45,498
they will be rather minimal.
561
00:43:46,624 --> 00:43:48,751
Because I am sure
that we make mistakes.
562
00:43:49,877 --> 00:43:52,171
We just have to minimize these errors.
563
00:43:52,755 --> 00:43:57,218
This offers opportunities for
future generations, I believe.
564
00:43:58,427 --> 00:44:01,347
There is no point in
waste energy
565
00:44:01,764 --> 00:44:04,767
by trying to
rewrite the past.
566
00:44:05,184 --> 00:44:07,770
I understood that at least,
what I was doing
567
00:44:07,937 --> 00:44:09,856
was to do stuff
that no one needed,
568
00:44:10,648 --> 00:44:12,817
and to encourage consumption.
569
00:44:13,609 --> 00:44:15,319
So I left
do something else.
570
00:44:17,363 --> 00:44:19,365
We are really different.
571
00:44:19,532 --> 00:44:23,744
We have the same point of view
about the world and its future.
572
00:44:24,620 --> 00:44:28,249
A different approach.
He is more concerned, no doubt,
573
00:44:28,416 --> 00:44:33,379
by the end of society and
of humanity than me
574
00:44:33,546 --> 00:44:35,506
because he wants to remedy it.
575
00:44:35,756 --> 00:44:40,052
And I'm more of a Buddhist,
zen and relax
576
00:44:40,219 --> 00:44:44,182
and I just say,
"I will do what I can,
577
00:44:45,224 --> 00:44:46,350
“and we’ll see.”
578
00:44:46,726 --> 00:44:47,727
Well...
579
00:44:49,020 --> 00:44:51,731
Tell my friend Yvon,
this good Buddhist,
580
00:44:53,941 --> 00:44:56,194
that he must make his wishes
of the bodhisattva,
581
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,197
which means that before
to awaken spiritually,
582
00:44:59,363 --> 00:45:02,116
we must end
to the suffering in the world.
583
00:45:17,882 --> 00:45:19,592
I didn't know Douglas,
584
00:45:19,759 --> 00:45:22,303
and many people have told me
that he was bad,
585
00:45:22,470 --> 00:45:24,305
because he bought all
this land in Chile
586
00:45:24,472 --> 00:45:26,390
and he takes all the earth for himself.
587
00:45:26,557 --> 00:45:27,892
That's what people say,
588
00:45:28,184 --> 00:45:29,685
because they do not know him.
589
00:45:29,852 --> 00:45:31,187
They don't know
what he does.
590
00:45:31,646 --> 00:45:34,065
And I could see it for myself,
591
00:45:34,398 --> 00:45:38,444
it represents an example
that many should follow.
592
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,989
The solution is in each of us,
I believe,
593
00:45:42,782 --> 00:45:45,493
and I learned it in the south,
with Douglas.
594
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:49,956
In a sense, I saw
the future of Rapa Nui too.
595
00:45:50,456 --> 00:45:52,959
Here we germinate seeds,
596
00:45:53,167 --> 00:45:54,752
and different species.
597
00:45:55,294 --> 00:45:57,755
First we do some work
general catering
598
00:45:57,922 --> 00:45:59,131
and reforestation.
599
00:45:59,799 --> 00:46:01,884
Here is some Alerce.
600
00:46:02,551 --> 00:46:04,887
They come from Lago Negro
and different places.
601
00:46:05,304 --> 00:46:10,101
Since we cannot find
these species in the nursery,
602
00:46:10,268 --> 00:46:11,394
in no number,
603
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,147
we understood that we needed
start our own nursery.
604
00:46:43,968 --> 00:46:45,553
During the Pinochet era,
605
00:46:45,928 --> 00:46:48,723
Chile granted
river rights
606
00:46:48,889 --> 00:46:53,019
of the majority of rivers
to private companies,
607
00:46:53,519 --> 00:46:56,605
which does not happen in almost
no other country.
608
00:46:57,231 --> 00:47:00,985
And the result is that the company
Spanish energy company Endessa
609
00:47:01,152 --> 00:47:04,655
was very methodical for
610
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,575
establish energy projects
611
00:47:07,825 --> 00:47:11,120
in the form of dams
on the rivers of Chile.
612
00:47:17,626 --> 00:47:20,671
I saw what Kris was talking about
to the north, on the R�o Biob�o.
613
00:47:21,505 --> 00:47:23,841
It was in the past
an autonomous ecosystem
614
00:47:24,008 --> 00:47:27,261
where the river, the forest, and the people
depended on each other.
615
00:47:28,596 --> 00:47:31,307
Juan Pablo says that these projects
dams are a symptom,
616
00:47:31,474 --> 00:47:33,559
but he also says that the cause
real problem
617
00:47:33,726 --> 00:47:35,186
is the development model.
618
00:47:36,479 --> 00:47:40,232
I think of these skyscrapers
of Santiago, all lit up.
619
00:47:40,941 --> 00:47:44,445
I think of Ramon and his speech
on the price of progress.
620
00:47:45,571 --> 00:47:47,615
I read that video games,
in America, consumed
621
00:47:47,782 --> 00:47:52,036
annually as much energy
than the city of San Diego.
622
00:47:53,037 --> 00:47:55,539
So I also think of all
these little things that add up
623
00:47:55,706 --> 00:47:57,833
for our comfort
and to distract us.
624
00:47:59,460 --> 00:48:01,837
And I begin to see
the real consequences.
625
00:48:12,723 --> 00:48:14,058
Better late than never:
626
00:48:14,475 --> 00:48:16,102
We can always
count on Timmy O'Neill,
627
00:48:16,268 --> 00:48:19,271
and today, two days before
our departure for Corcovado,
628
00:48:19,688 --> 00:48:22,441
he comes straight from a long
ice climbing
629
00:48:22,608 --> 00:48:23,651
and river crossings.
630
00:48:41,252 --> 00:48:44,422
There are great beaches here.
631
00:48:44,588 --> 00:48:46,298
There aren't as many up there,
632
00:48:46,924 --> 00:48:49,927
and there, above all,
we are very exposed
633
00:48:50,136 --> 00:48:52,096
and the ocean opens there
634
00:48:52,263 --> 00:48:54,557
with this swell
who has no obstacle,
635
00:48:54,723 --> 00:48:57,977
the waves come there and
just arrive at this place.
636
00:48:58,185 --> 00:48:59,728
And with a boat you can...
637
00:49:00,521 --> 00:49:02,523
It depends on how much time you have.
638
00:49:02,940 --> 00:49:04,316
Let's hope there will be a storm.
639
00:49:05,443 --> 00:49:06,652
You will have swell.
640
00:49:06,819 --> 00:49:08,362
Have you ever been there?
641
00:49:08,529 --> 00:49:09,530
Yes.
642
00:49:09,697 --> 00:49:11,157
Take a walk here,
643
00:49:11,323 --> 00:49:13,576
and you will go quickly
to raise the channel,
644
00:49:13,742 --> 00:49:15,661
then you will be slowed down
645
00:49:15,828 --> 00:49:18,330
when it becomes this thing...
646
00:49:18,581 --> 00:49:21,500
Doug is the only one to have succeeded
at the top of Corcovado.
647
00:49:22,710 --> 00:49:25,921
At the beginning of the 90s, he made
the first ascent with a friend.
648
00:49:26,589 --> 00:49:28,799
They reached the base
in three long days.
649
00:49:30,009 --> 00:49:31,469
Arrived at the top of the glacier
650
00:49:31,635 --> 00:49:33,053
under the steep slopes of the summit,
651
00:49:33,220 --> 00:49:35,139
his partner decided
to turn around.
652
00:49:35,681 --> 00:49:37,600
So Doug climbed
the rest on its own,
653
00:49:38,225 --> 00:49:41,479
solo on the last meters
of ice and without rope.
654
00:49:42,771 --> 00:49:44,023
I have to say...
655
00:49:44,398 --> 00:49:46,233
it's pretty crazy,
what he did.
656
00:49:46,442 --> 00:49:48,277
You have to think
not only to climb,
657
00:49:48,444 --> 00:49:50,196
but also to go back down.
658
00:49:50,529 --> 00:49:52,740
There are no anchors for
abseil down.
659
00:49:52,907 --> 00:49:54,700
He must have made a long descent.
660
00:49:55,743 --> 00:49:58,454
It was a fantastic climb.
Nobody redid it.
661
00:50:33,697 --> 00:50:35,616
I love that old son of a bitch.
662
00:50:50,130 --> 00:50:51,590
You know where I want to be
now?
663
00:50:52,424 --> 00:50:53,509
Right here.
664
00:50:55,177 --> 00:50:57,471
Nowhere else, nor in
the future, nor in the past.
665
00:50:58,305 --> 00:51:00,891
Look at that fat guy.
666
00:51:01,058 --> 00:51:03,394
Oh my God.
Don't lose the juice.
667
00:51:05,896 --> 00:51:06,897
Damn.
668
00:51:08,274 --> 00:51:09,858
I've worked for this my whole life.
669
00:51:10,359 --> 00:51:12,027
I will be 70 in November,
670
00:51:12,194 --> 00:51:14,280
and I had a good life,
I tell you.
671
00:51:14,446 --> 00:51:15,531
I have no regrets.
672
00:51:16,490 --> 00:51:17,491
It's...
673
00:51:19,827 --> 00:51:21,078
I live for the present moment.
674
00:51:38,846 --> 00:51:41,140
This is our last crossing
for Corcovado.
675
00:51:42,308 --> 00:51:45,144
And this morning, Yvon surprised us
when getting on the boat.
676
00:51:48,689 --> 00:51:50,691
He goes mountaineering
for over 50 years.
677
00:51:50,941 --> 00:51:52,109
He couldn't resist.
678
00:51:52,860 --> 00:51:55,487
Who knows? This could
Being his last big climb.
679
00:52:32,399 --> 00:52:33,484
Two days later,
680
00:52:33,651 --> 00:52:35,736
the clouds have finally
left the mountain.
681
00:52:36,820 --> 00:52:39,698
After five months of travel,
I'm finally here.
682
00:52:40,407 --> 00:52:45,663
{\an8}CORCOVADO
DAY 132
683
00:52:45,829 --> 00:52:48,123
{\an8}I find it hard to believe
that in a few days,
684
00:52:48,290 --> 00:52:50,376
we will be up there, at the top.
685
00:53:03,013 --> 00:53:04,348
I think you will like climbing.
686
00:53:04,515 --> 00:53:06,266
You have already done it
with women?
687
00:53:06,433 --> 00:53:07,476
They are good mountaineers.
688
00:53:07,643 --> 00:53:09,228
- Really ?
- Yes, I think so.
689
00:53:09,436 --> 00:53:11,063
Do you think I'll be good?
690
00:53:11,647 --> 00:53:12,648
Yes.
691
00:53:14,233 --> 00:53:16,610
Your pickaxe must
is always uphill
692
00:53:17,486 --> 00:53:19,279
because it is a position of balance.
693
00:53:20,072 --> 00:53:21,490
This is how we stay
in balance.
694
00:53:22,324 --> 00:53:23,617
It's easy to follow, right?
695
00:53:25,828 --> 00:53:27,955
Keith discovered that
the coast of Corcovado
696
00:53:28,122 --> 00:53:30,833
is more covered from the swell
than we thought.
697
00:53:31,250 --> 00:53:33,794
It turns out this place needs
of a specific direction of the waves
698
00:53:33,961 --> 00:53:34,962
coming from the south.
699
00:53:35,337 --> 00:53:38,132
But Keith learned that there is
of the movement on Cape Horn,
700
00:53:38,590 --> 00:53:41,176
and decided to stay for
look for the waves on the coast
701
00:53:41,343 --> 00:53:42,845
while we
let's go up the river.
702
00:54:44,031 --> 00:54:46,283
Now that we have gone back
the river to its source,
703
00:54:46,700 --> 00:54:49,328
we have to cross the forest
along four frozen lakes
704
00:54:49,495 --> 00:54:51,079
until we see
clearly the top
705
00:54:51,246 --> 00:54:52,372
on the northeast side.
706
00:55:29,618 --> 00:55:31,662
We really underestimated this thing.
707
00:55:32,246 --> 00:55:33,831
We should have gone higher.
708
00:55:35,499 --> 00:55:37,084
I think a little higher,
709
00:55:37,334 --> 00:55:40,546
it's hillier, but
there is less jungle.
710
00:55:40,712 --> 00:55:42,172
It's denser
towards the river.
711
00:55:42,339 --> 00:55:43,340
Oh, yes.
712
00:55:43,632 --> 00:55:45,509
I would even think
to go back.
713
00:55:45,717 --> 00:55:46,927
Oh, good God.
714
00:55:47,427 --> 00:55:51,765
Kilometers? I don't know.
Maybe five kilometers,
715
00:55:52,140 --> 00:55:55,978
but in hours...
It seems endless.
716
00:55:57,688 --> 00:55:59,565
It's the worst.
It's not climbing.
717
00:56:01,525 --> 00:56:03,861
We could take
a helicopter
718
00:56:04,027 --> 00:56:05,779
until the snow
and go climbing,
719
00:56:05,946 --> 00:56:07,322
but it's cheating.
720
00:56:08,323 --> 00:56:11,577
I guess this shit
is what does the climbing.
721
00:56:19,209 --> 00:56:20,794
We climb and
we make our way
722
00:56:20,961 --> 00:56:23,005
ten hours a day
for several days.
723
00:56:24,339 --> 00:56:26,008
We were sometimes forced
to turn back
724
00:56:26,174 --> 00:56:27,551
and start again.
725
00:56:33,348 --> 00:56:35,934
We've been here for three days
in this section of the new park.
726
00:56:37,269 --> 00:56:39,813
I spent a lot of time in
places that I thought were wild,
727
00:56:40,439 --> 00:56:42,566
but I never
seen nothing like it.
728
00:56:45,569 --> 00:56:48,238
This is probably the part
the craziest in Chile
729
00:56:48,405 --> 00:56:49,740
that I have seen so far.
730
00:56:51,074 --> 00:56:53,118
I don't think that much
humans have come this far.
731
00:57:33,241 --> 00:57:34,993
We can do
all that on this ridge
732
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:36,328
without even touching the snow.
733
00:57:37,412 --> 00:57:38,830
The ridge to the left of the snow?
734
00:57:38,997 --> 00:57:40,040
In front of us, yes.
735
00:57:40,248 --> 00:57:43,543
Walking on snow will be easier
than on loose debris.
736
00:57:43,710 --> 00:57:45,462
- Yes.
- It's less dangerous.
737
00:57:45,629 --> 00:57:48,799
But the problem is that
if you fall on the snow,
738
00:57:48,966 --> 00:57:50,217
you slip...
739
00:57:50,384 --> 00:57:51,677
You risk dying.
740
00:57:51,843 --> 00:57:53,720
The snow scares me a little.
741
00:57:54,096 --> 00:57:55,263
Have you ever climbed one?
742
00:57:55,430 --> 00:57:56,723
Never.
743
00:57:56,890 --> 00:57:58,934
- Zero?
- Zero.
744
00:57:59,101 --> 00:58:00,811
Why don't I learn it?
what now?
745
00:58:01,019 --> 00:58:02,646
I told you a long time ago.
746
00:58:02,813 --> 00:58:05,649
A long time ago ?
I forgot that.
747
00:58:06,233 --> 00:58:09,736
Makohe has an excuse.
She is from Rapa Nui,
748
00:58:10,028 --> 00:58:11,571
an isolated island
in the middle of the Pacific.
749
00:58:11,738 --> 00:58:12,823
What is my excuse?
750
00:58:12,990 --> 00:58:15,534
Your excuse is correct
ignorance, I suppose.
751
00:58:15,826 --> 00:58:17,369
And that's no excuse, Jeff.
752
00:58:17,536 --> 00:58:18,996
But I spoke to you
of my ignorance,
753
00:58:19,413 --> 00:58:20,622
so you don't ignore
my ignorance.
754
00:58:20,789 --> 00:58:22,499
However, that doesn't absolve you.
755
00:58:22,666 --> 00:58:25,877
It just makes me aware
of your ignorance.
756
00:58:27,087 --> 00:58:29,464
What I'm saying, Jeff,
It’s serious.
757
00:58:42,227 --> 00:58:44,021
We camped yesterday
at dusk ;
758
00:58:44,187 --> 00:58:46,314
we got up at 2 a.m.
for the summit.
759
00:58:47,107 --> 00:58:49,943
Now, after months,
years, really,
760
00:58:50,527 --> 00:58:52,279
I am finally approaching my goal.
761
00:59:35,906 --> 00:59:38,867
Keith is somewhere below
of us, looking for waves.
762
00:59:40,535 --> 00:59:42,913
From here, I see waves
fresh on the horizon.
763
00:59:43,830 --> 00:59:45,415
Even if the waves are small,
764
00:59:45,916 --> 00:59:48,043
I know he finds
what he came to look for:
765
00:59:49,377 --> 00:59:50,545
Loneliness.
766
01:01:52,959 --> 01:01:54,294
I'm breaking away!
767
01:02:01,468 --> 01:02:04,638
At the edge of the ice field,
my worries come true.
768
01:02:05,931 --> 01:02:07,807
Our deadline in Rapa Nui
rejected this ascent
769
01:02:07,974 --> 01:02:10,060
until the summer of the southern hemisphere.
770
01:02:11,269 --> 01:02:12,854
There is no ice
on the summit,
771
01:02:13,021 --> 01:02:15,106
and from here, the rock
does not seem solid.
772
01:02:17,442 --> 01:02:19,694
This climb will be much more
dangerous than we thought.
773
01:02:20,904 --> 01:02:25,742
It looks like we have ten slopes
very rotten rocks.
774
01:02:26,034 --> 01:02:28,119
It seems that all the stones
will fall.
775
01:02:28,286 --> 01:02:29,788
It's going to be risky.
776
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:31,998
The team has to go.
777
01:02:33,166 --> 01:02:34,459
You are the fastest,
778
01:02:35,418 --> 01:02:37,420
then you should go for it.
Go for it.
779
01:02:37,629 --> 01:02:38,713
I'm happy.
780
01:02:39,130 --> 01:02:40,507
- Are you sure?
- Yes.
781
01:02:56,606 --> 01:02:58,441
We buckle up and get ready
to pass
782
01:02:58,608 --> 01:03:00,443
hard ice
to the crumbling stone.
783
01:03:01,945 --> 01:03:03,905
At best, we are not safe.
784
01:03:30,682 --> 01:03:33,852
Timmy and I were hoping that the rock
would be better higher up,
785
01:03:34,269 --> 01:03:35,437
but three hours later,
786
01:03:35,603 --> 01:03:38,064
we had the impression of being
on the sloping roof of a skyscraper
787
01:03:38,231 --> 01:03:39,941
with marbles under our boots.
788
01:03:41,067 --> 01:03:44,654
We were only 60 meters from the summit,
but we had to face the facts.
789
01:03:45,613 --> 01:03:47,699
I don't know
if we should continue
790
01:03:48,241 --> 01:03:52,954
because it really looks like
that this next slope
791
01:03:53,413 --> 01:03:57,917
is the worst unconsolidated nightmare
that I have ever seen.
792
01:03:58,084 --> 01:04:01,755
We climbed 150 meters
of this bullshit.
793
01:04:02,547 --> 01:04:05,342
And the worst is ahead of me.
794
01:04:06,051 --> 01:04:08,553
These rocks that move
795
01:04:09,054 --> 01:04:12,599
hold back... Oh, my God,
hold this block of stone,
796
01:04:12,932 --> 01:04:15,185
which holds this block,
797
01:04:15,643 --> 01:04:19,022
which holds our equipment
in the slot.
798
01:04:19,314 --> 01:04:21,608
Wow. Rocks.
799
01:04:23,818 --> 01:04:25,445
This is not a good option.
800
01:04:28,615 --> 01:04:29,866
Hey, Jeff!
801
01:04:30,325 --> 01:04:35,288
It doesn't seem to be worth it
worth risking my life,
802
01:04:36,790 --> 01:04:39,292
but we still have to go down!
803
01:05:34,431 --> 01:05:36,099
I came all this way,
804
01:05:36,349 --> 01:05:38,685
and I completely
dedicated to this journey.
805
01:05:40,228 --> 01:05:42,272
I imagined
at the top of Corcovado,
806
01:05:42,439 --> 01:05:44,315
just like these guys
I saw it through the telescope
807
01:05:44,482 --> 01:05:46,151
in Yosemite Valley
when I was a kid.
808
01:05:48,361 --> 01:05:49,821
And now I retreat,
809
01:05:50,238 --> 01:05:52,365
just a few meters from the summit.
810
01:06:17,056 --> 01:06:19,726
I do not regret my experiences
during the journey,
811
01:06:21,019 --> 01:06:22,353
but it's hard to forget
812
01:06:23,855 --> 01:06:25,982
these last two slopes
which we did not climb.
813
01:08:04,789 --> 01:08:07,083
When these guys came back,
they were disappointed
814
01:08:07,250 --> 01:08:09,919
and discouraged not to have
finished the ascent.
815
01:08:10,461 --> 01:08:13,423
Any mountain, at certain times,
is safe,
816
01:08:13,756 --> 01:08:15,883
and to others, it is
super dangerous.
817
01:08:16,426 --> 01:08:18,553
We just arrived
at the wrong time.
818
01:08:19,554 --> 01:08:21,973
Maybe Jeff and Tim were
still upset
819
01:08:22,140 --> 01:08:24,350
by the idea of not having
was able to make this ascent.
820
01:08:25,226 --> 01:08:27,145
So it's a bit like
the quest for the Grail.
821
01:08:27,312 --> 01:08:29,480
We don't care about this
what is the Holy Grail.
822
01:08:31,024 --> 01:08:32,692
It’s the quest that matters.
823
01:08:34,235 --> 01:08:36,195
The transformation is in itself.
824
01:08:36,362 --> 01:08:37,530
That's what's important.
825
01:08:45,580 --> 01:08:48,916
It's been almost six months since I
left for the ascent of Corcovado.
826
01:08:49,876 --> 01:08:52,128
But failure does not mean
the end of the journey.
827
01:08:53,421 --> 01:08:56,174
The biggest project
for Conservac�on Patagon�ca
828
01:08:56,341 --> 01:08:57,508
is even further south,
829
01:08:57,842 --> 01:08:59,677
and this is where the roadblocks
must be built.
830
01:09:00,845 --> 01:09:02,639
But the locals
are becoming more and more organized
831
01:09:02,805 --> 01:09:03,890
to oppose it.
832
01:09:04,390 --> 01:09:06,225
They created a local organization
833
01:09:06,392 --> 01:09:09,979
called Sin Represas, which means
say "without dams".
834
01:09:11,022 --> 01:09:13,149
We see their signs and
their banners everywhere.
835
01:09:17,945 --> 01:09:18,946
{\an8}DAY 150
836
01:09:25,036 --> 01:09:28,373
This place fills me with humility,
and these people inspire me.
837
01:09:29,582 --> 01:09:31,751
The gauchos work with Doug
as forest rangers,
838
01:09:31,959 --> 01:09:34,754
and I asked Yvon if we could
spend our last days here,
839
01:09:34,921 --> 01:09:36,005
work with them.
840
01:09:36,714 --> 01:09:42,053
{\an8}There are people in Santiago,
or other cities,
841
01:09:42,512 --> 01:09:44,639
{\an8}who have no love
for Patagonia.
842
01:09:45,139 --> 01:09:46,599
{\an8}We have love for Patagonia.
843
01:09:47,725 --> 01:09:53,356
{\an8}It's very easy for Chile
not to love this earth,
844
01:09:53,773 --> 01:09:59,487
{\an8}but in reality, we grew up here,
and we live here.
845
01:09:59,904 --> 01:10:03,032
{\an8}Often, Patagonia is a place
that they can sell,
846
01:10:03,241 --> 01:10:06,619
{\an8}or give as a gift,
as they have already done.
847
01:10:07,578 --> 01:10:11,541
The protest began with
a gaucho from the village of Cochrane,
848
01:10:12,125 --> 01:10:13,960
who had heard
that the electric company
849
01:10:14,127 --> 01:10:19,674
was going to build these dams on
the Baker r�o and the Pascua r�o.
850
01:10:20,299 --> 01:10:22,802
He therefore decided to leave
for the capital
851
01:10:22,969 --> 01:10:26,389
to demand that the government
stop this construction.
852
01:10:27,557 --> 01:10:30,101
The word spread
on farms and ranches
853
01:10:30,476 --> 01:10:33,438
and in two days, hundreds
horsemen had joined him.
854
01:10:39,485 --> 01:10:43,656
{\an8}I will ask you for everything
my heart, as a good Chilean,
855
01:10:43,906 --> 01:10:48,035
{\an8}to think a little more.
856
01:10:49,245 --> 01:10:53,040
{\an8}We came here
for a sacrifice.
857
01:10:54,667 --> 01:10:57,253
{\an8}I am an old mountain deer.
858
01:10:57,670 --> 01:10:59,547
{\an8}We are cousins of the deer.
859
01:10:59,964 --> 01:11:01,174
{\an8}Don't forget it.
860
01:11:02,675 --> 01:11:05,470
{\an8}To young people and children,
861
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:10,433
{\an8}keep this in mind.
862
01:11:11,851 --> 01:11:14,645
{\an8}And know that it is
a great responsibility.
863
01:11:14,812 --> 01:11:16,647
{\an8}Don't stay distant.
864
01:11:18,149 --> 01:11:19,567
{\an8}Keep fighting
865
01:11:19,984 --> 01:11:21,778
{\an8}to preserve our Patagonia.
866
01:11:23,654 --> 01:11:24,655
{\an8}Four days later,
867
01:11:24,822 --> 01:11:27,575
{\an8}arrived at the company steps
electric to protest,
868
01:11:27,909 --> 01:11:29,619
there were more than 300 horsemen.
869
01:11:30,578 --> 01:11:32,413
{\an8}I think the dam
will be built.
870
01:11:32,747 --> 01:11:35,750
{\an8}The government wants it,
the project is approved.
871
01:11:35,958 --> 01:11:39,462
{\an8}It's a disaster, not
necessarily for me,
872
01:11:39,754 --> 01:11:41,130
{\an8}but for the family I leave behind.
873
01:11:41,547 --> 01:11:42,882
{\an8}That's the problem.
874
01:12:05,196 --> 01:12:07,073
This new park was
a sheep farm,
875
01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:09,408
but the animals were moved
of this section
876
01:12:09,575 --> 01:12:11,244
so that the wild beasts
can return.
877
01:12:12,161 --> 01:12:14,121
The gauchos kidnap
the old barriers,
878
01:12:14,288 --> 01:12:16,249
and we volunteer
to help them.
879
01:12:16,916 --> 01:12:17,917
When we started,
880
01:12:18,084 --> 01:12:20,336
there were 640 kilometers
barriers to remove.
881
01:12:21,045 --> 01:12:22,421
That's a lot of barriers.
882
01:12:23,047 --> 01:12:25,800
Now there are some left
less than 480 kilometers.
883
01:12:27,718 --> 01:12:30,471
Let's hope everything is removed
within a few years.
884
01:13:07,091 --> 01:13:10,261
Almost immediately, the guanaco
and all other wild animals
885
01:13:10,428 --> 01:13:12,430
come back and start again
possession of the territory.
886
01:13:13,180 --> 01:13:15,266
It's a small restoration,
but satisfactory,
887
01:13:15,433 --> 01:13:17,059
of the natural order of things.
888
01:14:33,803 --> 01:14:37,515
In a few days, Makohe will leave again
in his family, Rapa Nui.
889
01:14:40,977 --> 01:14:42,645
Timmy will return to Yosemite.
890
01:14:45,356 --> 01:14:47,775
And Keith will go north,
to surf in Canada.
891
01:15:00,705 --> 01:15:02,957
This trip was like
a return in time...
892
01:15:04,875 --> 01:15:08,337
Like seeing North America before
that it is dominated by industry.
893
01:15:11,799 --> 01:15:14,885
But for these people, it is not
a nostalgic journey into the past.
894
01:15:15,553 --> 01:15:16,721
It’s their present.
895
01:15:18,723 --> 01:15:21,434
Their hard work and ability
to live simply with the earth
896
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:23,769
prove that we can
learn traditions.
897
01:15:26,939 --> 01:15:29,358
These people showed me that
if you like a place,
898
01:15:29,775 --> 01:15:31,444
we have a duty to protect it,
899
01:15:32,236 --> 01:15:35,281
and to love a place,
you must first know it.
900
01:15:42,705 --> 01:15:46,125
{\an8}R�O BAKER
DAY 158
901
01:15:53,007 --> 01:15:55,760
Here is one of the rivers that
the gauchos want to protect,
902
01:15:56,510 --> 01:15:58,888
and where one of five dams
must be built.
903
01:16:04,518 --> 01:16:06,562
{\an8}The plan is to have electricity
who passes from here
904
01:16:06,729 --> 01:16:08,522
{\an8}to large, distant cities.
905
01:16:21,035 --> 01:16:22,620
I am not an expert,
906
01:16:23,329 --> 01:16:25,247
but these collapsed statues
by Rapa Nui
907
01:16:25,414 --> 01:16:26,665
are anchored in my memory.
908
01:16:27,041 --> 01:16:28,626
Face down
in the dust,
909
01:16:29,126 --> 01:16:30,836
they try
to tell us something.
910
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:34,173
I left six months ago
911
01:16:34,340 --> 01:16:36,175
to follow in the footsteps of my heroes.
912
01:16:36,550 --> 01:16:40,012
A little surfing, climbing,
lots of virgin land.
913
01:16:40,638 --> 01:16:41,847
Rather simple, really.
914
01:16:42,681 --> 01:16:43,682
I had all of that,
915
01:16:44,225 --> 01:16:46,519
but along the way, I also
started connecting things
916
01:16:46,685 --> 01:16:48,062
which I had never thought of.
917
01:16:49,063 --> 01:16:50,272
In these isolated corners,
918
01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:52,650
I see the effects
of an invasive progress.
919
01:16:53,651 --> 01:16:56,529
And most of it is due to
overconsumption elsewhere.
920
01:16:58,197 --> 01:17:00,116
It is easy for us
to consume blindly
921
01:17:00,282 --> 01:17:02,535
when we don't see the effect
which results elsewhere.
922
01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:06,622
The hardest thing in the world
is to simplify your life.
923
01:17:07,289 --> 01:17:08,999
It is very easy
to make it complex.
924
01:17:09,333 --> 01:17:11,669
But what is important
is to examine one's life
925
01:17:11,836 --> 01:17:14,421
because most of the damage
caused by humans
926
01:17:14,588 --> 01:17:16,382
are caused unintentionally,
I believe.
927
01:17:17,133 --> 01:17:19,677
In response to those who say,
“We cannot go back”:
928
01:17:20,302 --> 01:17:22,054
When
you arrive at a cliff,
929
01:17:22,471 --> 01:17:24,306
you take a step forward,
930
01:17:24,473 --> 01:17:28,435
or you turn around
and you take a step forward?
931
01:17:29,019 --> 01:17:31,730
Which way are you going?
Which is progress?
932
01:17:32,231 --> 01:17:34,817
For many of the world's problems,
the solution is perhaps
933
01:17:34,984 --> 01:17:37,111
to turn around
and take a step forward.
934
01:17:37,611 --> 01:17:41,740
Let's not keep trying to
operate an imperfect system.
935
01:17:44,451 --> 01:17:46,996
All my life I have been attracted
by the great outdoors.
936
01:17:49,290 --> 01:17:51,167
I always go home
a little changed.
937
01:17:53,002 --> 01:17:55,838
But I know now that we cannot
not take them for granted.
938
01:17:57,715 --> 01:18:01,844
When they have disappeared,
we will disappear with them.
939
01:18:15,399 --> 01:18:19,195
One day, if you have done
climbing all your life,
940
01:18:19,820 --> 01:18:21,363
you will succeed in
your last ascent.
941
01:18:24,408 --> 01:18:25,910
I thought this trip was over,
942
01:18:26,285 --> 01:18:28,287
but Doug and Yvon showed me
this virgin summit
943
01:18:28,454 --> 01:18:30,873
at the end of the park they had
attempted to climb last year.
944
01:18:32,416 --> 01:18:33,792
{\an8}They want to try
once again,
945
01:18:33,959 --> 01:18:35,169
{\an8}and asked me
to accompany them.
946
01:18:35,336 --> 01:18:36,837
{\an8}CERRO “GEEZER”
DAY 164
947
01:19:02,696 --> 01:19:04,240
What do you want to call this road?
948
01:19:05,616 --> 01:19:09,119
Nothing. We climb it
and we leave.
949
01:19:12,957 --> 01:19:14,291
It no longer matters.
950
01:19:28,305 --> 01:19:30,474
Each of us must do
something in its own way.
951
01:19:31,392 --> 01:19:32,768
Save your souls, you know?
952
01:19:36,939 --> 01:19:38,148
Whatever that means.
953
01:20:37,624 --> 01:20:38,834
DOUG AND KRIS TOMPKINS
954
01:20:39,001 --> 01:20:40,753
CONTINUE TO LIVE AND WORK
IN PATAGONIA
955
01:20:40,919 --> 01:20:42,421
FULL-TIME ON
CONSERVAC�ON PATAGONICA
956
01:20:50,387 --> 01:20:52,389
YVON AND HIS WIFE MALINDA
SUPPORT HUNDREDS OF GROUPS
957
01:20:52,556 --> 01:20:53,932
PRESERVATION PREMISES
AROUND THE WORLD...
958
01:20:54,141 --> 01:20:57,478
WHEN YVON DOES NOT
SURFING OR FLY FISHING
959
01:21:25,339 --> 01:21:27,508
COMPILE HIS PHOTOS
AND HIS LOGBOOKS
960
01:21:27,674 --> 01:21:29,802
TO MAKE A BOOK ON
HIS TRIP TO PATAGONIA
961
01:21:30,010 --> 01:21:33,138
HE CONSIDERS GOING BACK TO
ATTEMPT THE ASCENSION OF CORCOVADO
962
01:21:42,648 --> 01:21:45,275
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DAM ON
THE R�O BAKER IS SCHEDULED FOR 2013
963
01:21:45,442 --> 01:21:47,778
AS WELL AS SEVERAL FACTORIES IN PETE
ALONG THE COAST
964
01:21:47,945 --> 01:21:51,323
THE GAUCHOS WANT TO RETURN
IN THE CAPITAL THIS YEAR
965
01:22:24,314 --> 01:22:28,735
END
966
01:22:41,123 --> 01:22:43,709
PARTICIPATE
967
01:22:43,876 --> 01:22:46,086
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