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- We're gonna start
approaching this boil,
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hold that line, just
nice calm strokes,
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good thoughtful
strokes hold that line,
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hold that line, fight
the spin, fight the spin.
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You're good, hard left, hard
left, hard right, hard right,
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hard right, hard right.
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Charge, charge, left
turn, left turn,
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you're good, you're
good, charge, charge!
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- Dad, they don't
fit in the same bag.
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- I know, they just
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fit differently in the same bag.
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Now I got all my, all
my gels in this bag.
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Uh-oh I missed, oh no,
that's somethin' else.
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Hmmm?
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What?
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- This is a gel.
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- It is?
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Let me see it.
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Ah!
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Okay, that's Erik Kayaker.
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- Get some glasses?
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- And then I'm gonna stay home,
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and I'm gonna send
this guy in my stead.
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Is that cool?
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- Here you go.
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Put some glasses on him?
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Why is the neck so huge?
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We're gonna keep Erik home.
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- Little Erik is ready to go.
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All right, so one side of me
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is very sad because
I'm leaving my family,
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leaving my wife, leaving
my kids, but I'm also ready
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to go because I've been
training for a long time,
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I've been kayaking for six
years I mean its time to go.
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Sure about this?
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- Has
anyone told you Erik,
that your shirts inside out?
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- Is it?
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- Yes.
- Oh.
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- Well we can put the
boat up first and then you can--
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- No, I can't.
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- All right.
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- It's annoying.
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- This is my
second catch in like a week.
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- I first met Erik on a trip.
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We had a bunch of blind
and sighted youth,
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kids that were kinda coming
down on their adventure
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and Erik was kinda the
mentor of that group.
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And throughout the trip, you
know we thought it would be fun
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to just get in the ducky
and play around so I started
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tooting a whistle for Erik
and he'd follow me through
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and, and we had a lot of fun.
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It was great.
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And uh, you know it's
like, this is cool!
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And I remember floating
one point downstream
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with Erik after a rapid
just side by side, you know
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and chattin' and,
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the idea came up
like, "Man we should,
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"you should come kayak the
whole Grand Canyon some time."
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And that sounded
like a great idea.
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All right, it's actually
happening, you guys.
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Whoo!
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We're going on a river trip.
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I know, it's hard to believe.
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Um, so you guys I just
kinda wanted to talk about-
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- The Grand
Canyon is Harlan's home,
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so he feels so comfortable
in this environment.
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And it's really cool to
see somebody like that,
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in a way, he's like
a, like a river Yoda.
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- Then you guys, we can,
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let's uh haul our boats
down a little bit and we
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can spread out a little bit.
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Here ya go bud, I'll take
ya over to your boat.
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- Thanks.
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- I'll let ya get naked
and then I'll come back.
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- Okay.
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- I'll grab your paddle.
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- All right.
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- And wanna sorta flip
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this around so here in the
front, so I'll have you spin.
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Keep going, little bit further.
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Yep.
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- Do you want me to lead?
- Sure.
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- All right.
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- I just, I mean
you got the bow.
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A small lap, okay?
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Just I say, you
don't wanna go, okay.
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- Up to you, bro.
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- Uh, Erik, why
don't you go left.
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Left a little further.
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- Yeah.
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- And right down to the water.
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Perfect.
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At the water's edge.
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Hey, Erik?
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I've got your, uh helmet here.
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Now is this the one with
the new, oh guess what?
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There's no headset.
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Oh no here it is.
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- Yeah there's a headset,
its tucked in there, yeah.
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- So Erik, did you guys
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figure out the uh, helmets.
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- Yeah.
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- Cool.
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- Yeah, is yours attached?
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- Yep, I'm attached.
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I'm gonna get dressed and
then we can turn this thing
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on and see how it works.
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- Harlan always
wear a collared shirt
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underneath his dry jacket.
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- You always wear a collared
shirt to the office, don't ya?
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- How you feeling?
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- Really good man.
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I feel great.
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- Been running around.
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- Yeah, that's good.
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This is, this is, you know
the nice thing about this
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right now thought is, you
shove off of here, and then
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we're packed this is
what we do, right?
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- Yeah.
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- We're in our element.
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This is what we've
been training for.
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- Good luck, you guys!
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- Yeah we're
doing it, fellas.
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We're in the Grand Canyon.
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- The Grand
Canyon white water
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is very unique because
of it's sheer volume.
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You get these massive
hydraulics, you get boils
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and whirlpools.
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The Colorado River running
through the Grand Canyon
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is known for big iconic rapids.
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These rapids are spaced
out intermittently,
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and in between them are
these long, calm sections,
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these long pools.
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The biggest of all of
these rapids is Lava Falls.
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A lotta people get offline
and they make big mistakes
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in Lava because you can't
really see where you're going.
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It's a lot of anticipation
leading up to each rapid.
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- Small left.
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Perfect.
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Small right.
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Small right again.
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- Hearing Harlan's voice,
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it goes beyond just
information, like this
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soothing voice is
there that's saying,
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"I'm right here next to you."
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- There you go,
nice easy forward strokes,
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nothing too hard right here.
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Perfect.
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Perfect, small left,
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just nice and loose, be, let
it be keep clear and calm
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in the moment.
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Clear calm head creates
nice, decisive, good action.
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- The beginning
rapids are less intimidating.
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The Grand Canyon has this nice
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build towards these massive
rapids in the inner gorge.
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- We're doing good
we're lined up perfectly.
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So we're going to be
entering the tongue here.
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Nice forward paddles now.
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Hold that line, we're kinda
coming into a bigger waves.
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- I mapped
this place, I know each day.
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I know where the big rapids
are, I've studied 'em.
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Horn, and Granite and
Hermit leading all
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the way up to the granddaddy
of them all, which is Lava.
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And even though I've just
started, Lava's never
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out of my mind.
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It's always there at the edge.
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I got invited to this
recreational program,
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and my dad would drive
me like three hours
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up to this program.
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And once a month they
would take us out
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doing different sports.
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They'd take us
canoeing, and sailing
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and tandem biking and
one weekend they took us
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rock climbing.
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And I was climbing up this
beautiful granite face,
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and I couldn't see the rock
but I could use my hands
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and my feet as my eyes.
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And I could feel all of
the little, like patterns,
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all of the little features in
the rock and it was so wild
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because it was like,
sorta connecting the dots,
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like this, sorta puzzle that
I couldn't see but I could,
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I could sort of figure
out how to decipher it
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with my hands.
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It's just full on
engagement and I got to the
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top of that rock face and I
just remember thinking that
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this is the opposite of what
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I thought blindness
would be like.
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It was probably in my late 20s
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that I started
thinking about Everest.
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It's not like in the movies
where like, you go climbing
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the first time, and then
you're like, "I'm gonna stand
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"on the top of Everest someday."
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You know, it's,
it's a long process.
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When I got to Everest,
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I felt in over my
head most of the time.
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- Okay
if anything happens
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just take a big deep
breath, all right?
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- Too far, too far.
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- It's a
narrow ladder, Erik.
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- Like that.
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And some guy, this dude
Sandy came in today.
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He didn't know I was in the
tent, he didn't know I was
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sitting right here, and he
goes, "Well, you guys are
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"gonna have a hell of a time
getting the blind guy up there.
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"You guys have your
work cut out for ya."
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- What'd that make
you feel like, Erik?
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- Um.
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Half of me thought, "Oh shit.
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"It must be really hard."
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The other half of me said,
"I'm gonna prove him wrong."
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- That's the spirit.
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We're gonna do it, Erik.
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- All right.
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- [Rob We'll pull--
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- I needed to
kinda really force myself
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to believe that this
thing was possible.
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- Good job
buddy, you did it!
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You did it.
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You proved everybody wrong.
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- Okay.
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- Dude, how's it feel?
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- I feel good now.
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So I'm on that high--
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- Congratulations!
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- Thank you.
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When one of my teammates
pulls me aside,
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and he said, "Hey
Erik do me a favor.
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"Don't let this mountain
be the greatest thing
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"you ever do."
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What else is there?
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Like where do I go from here?
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- It's plenty deep.
- Okay.
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- Let me have your hand.
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- All right.
- Now I want you to go
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all the way as far as you
can, and then snap up.
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How's that feel?
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- Cold.
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- Go for it.
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- One, two, three.
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- Erik asked me to
teach him how to roll
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and I had no idea it was
gonna lead to other things.
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Um, started kayaking rivers.
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- Start
paddling forward,
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we're gonna do an eddy
peel out, good good.
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Stay with it, no not yet!
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Little further,
and eddy peel out.
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We're gonna do the
rooster tail this time.
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Hold that line.
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Paddle forward, small
right, left, small left.
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Sorry.
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Good.
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Hold that line, hold
that line, small right.
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Charge!
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- When you flip
over in your kayak,
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your basic instinct
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is just to pull that spray
skirt and swim for your life,
257
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you gotta try to roll.
258
00:15:54,815 --> 00:15:57,508
You're way safer inside
your boat than you are
259
00:15:57,542 --> 00:15:58,992
out of your boat.
260
00:16:00,166 --> 00:16:02,962
But when I would flip
over I would just panic.
261
00:16:11,694 --> 00:16:15,698
How come I started having
unsettled stomach problems,
262
00:16:16,699 --> 00:16:18,149
as soon as it seemed to coincide
263
00:16:18,184 --> 00:16:19,737
when I started
learning to kayak?
264
00:16:46,419 --> 00:16:50,009
- Now this
feels like a river trip!
265
00:16:54,461 --> 00:16:56,705
- Wow, look at that.
266
00:17:00,709 --> 00:17:01,917
- Is that you?
267
00:17:03,781 --> 00:17:06,163
- I'd just like a
hot shower right now.
268
00:17:06,197 --> 00:17:11,202
Come feel this.
269
00:17:12,100 --> 00:17:13,204
- Erik?
270
00:17:18,278 --> 00:17:19,659
Here, in this area
271
00:17:22,110 --> 00:17:24,077
is okay, not the greatest.
272
00:17:25,734 --> 00:17:26,942
- This is a table.
273
00:17:26,976 --> 00:17:30,118
- What's
pass this, up here?
274
00:17:30,152 --> 00:17:31,809
Here we go.
275
00:17:31,843 --> 00:17:33,742
Ammo can.
- Tell her we're
supposed to go this way now.
276
00:17:33,776 --> 00:17:35,399
- Miscellany.
- Miscellaneous.
277
00:17:35,433 --> 00:17:37,090
That's my water bottle.
278
00:17:38,471 --> 00:17:42,233
- Look at this tiny little
thing, that's worthless.
279
00:17:49,137 --> 00:17:50,517
- All right.
280
00:17:52,001 --> 00:17:54,073
- When I
started thinking about kayaking,
281
00:17:54,107 --> 00:17:56,144
I was almost 40 years old.
282
00:17:56,178 --> 00:17:58,007
Everything, rivers were
just so different from
283
00:17:58,042 --> 00:18:00,424
mountains, I thought, "This
is a really vulnerable
284
00:18:00,458 --> 00:18:04,255
"spot, where you're like
actually trying to embark on
285
00:18:04,290 --> 00:18:06,050
"something brand new,
286
00:18:07,258 --> 00:18:09,364
"and I don't know
if I have it in me."
287
00:18:20,168 --> 00:18:21,686
I remember standing
288
00:18:21,721 --> 00:18:23,792
on the river that first time,
listening to the rapids,
289
00:18:23,826 --> 00:18:25,483
thinking, "I climbed Mt. Everest
290
00:18:25,518 --> 00:18:28,037
"so why am I so fucking scared?"
291
00:18:35,907 --> 00:18:37,185
- Slide slide slide.
292
00:18:39,911 --> 00:18:41,361
All right.
293
00:18:41,396 --> 00:18:42,293
Nice.
294
00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,209
- Sometimes I don't
know why I stick with this.
295
00:19:01,243 --> 00:19:04,143
Partly it's because
of my friends.
296
00:19:05,351 --> 00:19:06,800
They're not seeing this
like little blind guy
297
00:19:06,835 --> 00:19:09,355
squirming in the corner,
they're seeing something else
298
00:19:09,389 --> 00:19:11,495
and I wanna be that
thing they see.
299
00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,333
- Right turn again,
300
00:19:22,368 --> 00:19:24,197
okay forward paddle.
301
00:19:25,923 --> 00:19:27,200
There's gonna be
one hit down here
302
00:19:27,235 --> 00:19:30,548
at the bottom I'll
tell you about.
303
00:19:30,583 --> 00:19:32,205
Nice easy forward.
304
00:19:33,551 --> 00:19:36,692
Hold that line, charge on that.
305
00:20:09,277 --> 00:20:10,726
Fight that spin.
306
00:20:11,934 --> 00:20:13,004
There you go.
307
00:20:15,006 --> 00:20:17,250
Steadying out, fight that spin.
308
00:20:51,284 --> 00:20:53,459
- There
are days I was learning,
309
00:20:53,493 --> 00:20:56,393
you know in a thousand
hours of preparation.
310
00:20:56,427 --> 00:20:58,671
When I was flailing and
bleeding and slamming into
311
00:20:58,705 --> 00:21:01,363
rocks and swimming
through these rapids.
312
00:21:04,055 --> 00:21:08,301
I think it fed my ego to
be the only blind kayaker
313
00:21:08,336 --> 00:21:10,199
out of seven billion
people on Earth.
314
00:21:13,444 --> 00:21:14,687
Then I learned about Lonnie.
315
00:21:26,008 --> 00:21:27,907
- Yeah, go go go!
316
00:21:31,255 --> 00:21:32,049
Whoo!
317
00:21:33,395 --> 00:21:34,223
Yeah baby!
318
00:21:41,576 --> 00:21:43,681
Okay, you got the right speed?
319
00:21:43,716 --> 00:21:44,475
- Yeah.
320
00:21:44,510 --> 00:21:46,995
- Hard left, hard left.
321
00:21:47,029 --> 00:21:48,548
On me, on me.
322
00:21:48,583 --> 00:21:51,448
- As long as I can roll up
as many times as I roll down,
323
00:21:51,482 --> 00:21:52,483
I'm golden.
324
00:21:56,038 --> 00:21:56,763
- Fair enough.
325
00:21:58,282 --> 00:22:00,319
- Chris and
Seth and I met the summer
326
00:22:00,353 --> 00:22:01,423
for the first time.
327
00:22:04,046 --> 00:22:08,810
I don't know how
they stay with me
when I screw up but they do.
328
00:22:08,844 --> 00:22:10,190
- Lonnie!
329
00:22:10,225 --> 00:22:11,882
Sometimes I think I push them
330
00:22:11,916 --> 00:22:14,229
a little bit out of
their comfort zone,
331
00:22:14,263 --> 00:22:15,541
if I'm trying a few things.
332
00:22:15,575 --> 00:22:17,888
But uh, so far it's worked.
333
00:22:19,407 --> 00:22:20,615
- Lonnie.
334
00:22:24,550 --> 00:22:26,724
- I mean bluntly kayaking
is a dangerous sport
335
00:22:26,759 --> 00:22:29,382
but you know for
anyone who can see.
336
00:22:29,417 --> 00:22:32,281
There's things that can
suck you down and hold
337
00:22:32,316 --> 00:22:34,594
you there until you, you drown.
338
00:22:34,629 --> 00:22:36,113
You can smash into rocks.
339
00:22:37,425 --> 00:22:40,497
And you can get flipped over
and smash your head against
340
00:22:40,531 --> 00:22:43,534
an under water rock, you
could get knocked out
341
00:22:43,569 --> 00:22:46,606
and be floating down
the river unconscious.
342
00:22:46,641 --> 00:22:49,264
And then all that stuff
is just multiplied,
343
00:22:49,298 --> 00:22:51,473
when you can't see
any of it coming.
344
00:22:53,061 --> 00:22:55,097
I've slammed into some
walls and things like that
345
00:22:55,132 --> 00:22:57,893
so, I, I don't really
like to do that, so yeah.
346
00:22:59,447 --> 00:23:02,104
- You don't like to
go careening into rock walls?
347
00:23:02,139 --> 00:23:04,590
- I've slammed into
a few walls, yeah.
348
00:23:04,624 --> 00:23:06,730
Just like, dented
my helmet, you know.
349
00:23:07,627 --> 00:23:09,629
And it's like I, it's almost
good that you don't know
350
00:23:09,664 --> 00:23:10,734
it's coming, you know?
351
00:23:10,768 --> 00:23:12,874
'Cause then you just
like bounce off.
352
00:23:12,908 --> 00:23:14,427
- Yeah.
353
00:23:14,462 --> 00:23:16,636
- And roll over and ahen
hopefully roll back up, but.
354
00:23:17,844 --> 00:23:19,432
- Hey Erik,
where you at man?
355
00:23:19,467 --> 00:23:20,606
- I'm right here.
356
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:21,469
- High,
high five paddles.
357
00:23:21,503 --> 00:23:22,470
Talk to me.
358
00:23:22,504 --> 00:23:23,574
- All right hold on.
359
00:23:23,609 --> 00:23:25,162
- Here we
come, I'm comin'.
360
00:23:25,196 --> 00:23:26,439
- Talk, talk,
talk, talk, talk.
361
00:23:26,474 --> 00:23:28,407
- Talk,
talk, talk talk, yeah!
362
00:23:31,617 --> 00:23:32,756
- One more time.
363
00:23:32,790 --> 00:23:33,550
One, two, three.
364
00:23:33,584 --> 00:23:34,585
- Whoo!
365
00:23:34,620 --> 00:23:36,311
- Lower, lower.
366
00:23:36,345 --> 00:23:38,624
- Lower
lower, okay hold on.
- One, two, three.
367
00:23:38,658 --> 00:23:40,315
- Nope I
didn't get close to ya.
368
00:23:40,349 --> 00:23:41,972
I gotta get closer, let
me turn back around.
- One, two, three.
369
00:23:42,006 --> 00:23:43,145
- There ya are.
370
00:23:43,180 --> 00:23:45,976
- That's lame,
hold on a second.
371
00:23:53,501 --> 00:23:55,364
Once I got over the
shock of not being
372
00:23:55,399 --> 00:23:57,643
the only blind
kayaker in the world,
373
00:23:57,677 --> 00:24:00,093
I thought, " I really
like this guy."
374
00:24:00,128 --> 00:24:02,233
And so I invited him
on the expedition.
375
00:24:03,718 --> 00:24:06,583
You never know what to
believe with Lonnie,
376
00:24:06,617 --> 00:24:08,585
when he told us that
he had gone blind in
377
00:24:08,619 --> 00:24:10,483
a hunting accident,
378
00:24:10,518 --> 00:24:12,554
he said he was hunting
with Dick Cheney.
379
00:24:13,728 --> 00:24:15,454
And it turned out that
was actually true,
380
00:24:16,524 --> 00:24:17,835
except the Dick Cheney part.
381
00:24:19,423 --> 00:24:21,598
His friend heard a noise,
they were in thick bushes,
382
00:24:21,632 --> 00:24:23,669
he rolled around and shot him.
383
00:24:23,703 --> 00:24:26,050
Lonnie still has lead
pellets all in his skin, I,
384
00:24:26,085 --> 00:24:29,502
I've actually felt the
pellets under there.
385
00:24:44,828 --> 00:24:46,968
- I used to make money
cuttin' firewood for people,
386
00:24:47,002 --> 00:24:49,695
and uh, you know cuttin'
wood around the home
387
00:24:49,729 --> 00:24:50,903
and everything else so.
388
00:24:52,352 --> 00:24:54,562
So it's nice to be able
to feel comfortable
389
00:24:54,596 --> 00:24:57,565
comin' out here and just
doin' stuff I used to do.
390
00:24:57,599 --> 00:25:00,568
Like, I'm not near as fast,
the lengths aren't right,
391
00:25:00,602 --> 00:25:02,742
the angles, but still,
392
00:25:02,777 --> 00:25:04,054
you know I can do it.
393
00:25:07,678 --> 00:25:10,405
I was out at the, the
Disabled American Veterans
394
00:25:10,439 --> 00:25:12,683
Winter Sports Clinic,
395
00:25:12,718 --> 00:25:15,583
and the organization Team
River Runner had kayaks out
396
00:25:15,617 --> 00:25:16,860
there in the pool.
397
00:25:16,894 --> 00:25:18,862
So I'm like, "This,
this is cool." you know?
398
00:25:18,896 --> 00:25:21,589
And uh, they called me
up and asked me if I
399
00:25:21,623 --> 00:25:23,349
wanted to be able to
whitewater in a raft.
400
00:25:23,383 --> 00:25:24,661
And I said, "Nah," I said,
401
00:25:24,695 --> 00:25:27,042
"that would scare me
to death." you know,
402
00:25:27,077 --> 00:25:29,286
and they're like, "Uh,
well you can't do a kayak,
403
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,427
"'cause you, you gotta do
at least a thousand rolls.
404
00:25:32,461 --> 00:25:35,223
You uh, have to have
more experience."
405
00:25:35,257 --> 00:25:36,707
I'm like uh, "Okay,"
406
00:25:36,742 --> 00:25:39,365
well he didn't know I'd had
my kayak here on this porch
407
00:25:39,399 --> 00:25:40,711
and I went, "All right."
408
00:25:40,746 --> 00:25:42,057
And I took my kayak and went and
409
00:25:42,092 --> 00:25:43,956
drug it down to my pond
down there the next day.
410
00:25:43,990 --> 00:25:46,752
Need to practice those babies.
411
00:25:46,786 --> 00:25:48,547
When I first started you
know I was just learning,
412
00:25:48,581 --> 00:25:49,720
and I kinda picked it up.
413
00:25:49,755 --> 00:25:51,550
Well I did 100
rolls the next day.
414
00:26:15,988 --> 00:26:19,439
- God it's gigantic, it's almost
like it doesn't seem right.
415
00:26:23,512 --> 00:26:24,444
That's open, there's an open,
416
00:26:24,479 --> 00:26:25,618
it opens up some
where over there.
417
00:26:25,653 --> 00:26:27,724
- Opens off to the left, right?
- Here take my finger.
418
00:26:27,758 --> 00:26:28,932
- Yeah.
419
00:26:28,966 --> 00:26:30,450
- It opens somewhere there
maybe, I mean I don't know.
420
00:26:30,485 --> 00:26:31,728
- Right yeah that's
kinda what I'm thinkin'
421
00:26:31,762 --> 00:26:32,936
'cause I hear people talking.
422
00:26:32,970 --> 00:26:34,385
- Right.
- And then it's naturally,
definitely open up
423
00:26:34,420 --> 00:26:35,490
in front of me and then--
424
00:26:35,524 --> 00:26:36,491
- Yeah.
425
00:26:36,525 --> 00:26:37,837
- I don't know how
far to my right.
426
00:26:37,872 --> 00:26:39,770
'Bout how far to my
right do you think it is?
427
00:26:40,978 --> 00:26:44,637
- It's closed um, it
seems like it's closed
428
00:26:44,672 --> 00:26:45,638
all the way to like--
429
00:26:45,673 --> 00:26:47,778
- I'm gonna feel
where you're at.
430
00:26:47,813 --> 00:26:50,609
- It seems like its closed maybe
all the way to like, there?
431
00:26:50,643 --> 00:26:53,025
- Now see, to me I would
think, yeah, I dunno.
432
00:26:53,059 --> 00:26:53,819
Yeah.
433
00:26:53,853 --> 00:26:54,647
Or I dunno.
434
00:26:54,682 --> 00:26:55,924
- Yeah somewhere like that.
435
00:26:55,959 --> 00:26:57,616
- Yeah.
But I don't know if
we're right or not.
436
00:27:14,529 --> 00:27:17,118
- Lonnie and I
started kayaking separately
437
00:27:17,152 --> 00:27:19,016
so we were developing
our systems
438
00:27:19,051 --> 00:27:21,640
in a completely isolated way.
439
00:27:21,674 --> 00:27:24,056
- I have a
guide in front of me
440
00:27:24,090 --> 00:27:26,783
giving me voice commands
of left and right.
441
00:27:26,817 --> 00:27:27,784
Simple commands.
442
00:27:27,818 --> 00:27:29,958
And we just go by voice.
443
00:27:29,993 --> 00:27:31,201
- On me, on me.
444
00:27:34,894 --> 00:27:36,827
- So as we're comin'
in down the tongue
445
00:27:36,862 --> 00:27:39,002
we're gonna be making an angle
from the left to the right.
446
00:27:39,036 --> 00:27:40,244
- Okay.
447
00:27:40,279 --> 00:27:41,590
- We're gonna ferry
into the right.
448
00:27:41,625 --> 00:27:43,247
And then just above the
rock, above the big rock
449
00:27:43,282 --> 00:27:45,215
in the middle of the river,
we're just kinda gonna cut
450
00:27:45,249 --> 00:27:47,148
to the right, cut to the right.
451
00:27:47,182 --> 00:27:50,013
- Yeah, sounds good.
452
00:27:50,047 --> 00:27:51,255
- Sounds like a plan.
453
00:27:51,290 --> 00:27:52,567
- Let me know
when you're ready.
454
00:27:52,601 --> 00:27:53,913
- Let me hear you, uh
give some commands.
455
00:27:53,948 --> 00:27:55,812
I don't really
hear you too well.
456
00:27:55,846 --> 00:27:57,883
- I was talking, well I had
the mic a little ways away
457
00:27:57,917 --> 00:27:59,194
from my mouth.
458
00:27:59,229 --> 00:28:01,162
So, left turn, left
turn, hard right,
459
00:28:01,196 --> 00:28:02,681
hard right, hard right.
460
00:28:04,924 --> 00:28:07,686
Charge, charge, charge.
461
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,066
- Yeah they're
getting worse again.
462
00:28:09,101 --> 00:28:09,895
- Yeah?
463
00:28:12,621 --> 00:28:13,761
You're broken, repeat?
464
00:28:13,795 --> 00:28:15,832
- What?
465
00:28:15,866 --> 00:28:20,008
- Left, left,
good, hold that line,
466
00:28:20,043 --> 00:28:21,734
Hold that line.
467
00:28:21,769 --> 00:28:22,804
Hold that line.
468
00:28:29,673 --> 00:28:32,055
Hold that line, hold that line.
469
00:28:32,089 --> 00:28:34,782
Hold that line, hold that line.
470
00:28:36,991 --> 00:28:38,855
Brace a left, there you go.
471
00:28:38,889 --> 00:28:42,444
Hard left, right, hard
right, hard right.
472
00:28:44,067 --> 00:28:47,829
Wait two hard rights,
hard rights, hard right.
473
00:28:57,459 --> 00:28:59,634
- 10 feet of distance
there was nothing.
474
00:28:59,668 --> 00:29:01,670
Five feet of distance
it was super loud.
475
00:29:01,705 --> 00:29:02,602
- It was more like,
476
00:29:04,363 --> 00:29:06,261
- Some muffles.
477
00:29:06,296 --> 00:29:07,987
Oh maybe somethin'.
478
00:29:08,022 --> 00:29:08,781
There we go.
479
00:29:08,816 --> 00:29:09,920
- You got it?
480
00:29:09,955 --> 00:29:10,990
Cool.
481
00:29:11,025 --> 00:29:12,233
- It's not that loud though.
482
00:29:12,267 --> 00:29:13,130
Then I can't hear.
483
00:29:13,165 --> 00:29:14,338
- Is it pretty faint?
484
00:29:15,512 --> 00:29:16,444
- It's terrible.
485
00:29:20,931 --> 00:29:22,761
I figured messin' with Harlan's-
486
00:29:22,795 --> 00:29:25,142
- Correct.
Yeah so we'll take this out
and replace it with one that we
487
00:29:25,177 --> 00:29:27,766
think works, but we
don't know for sure.
488
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,250
Okay so it's the speaker.
489
00:29:29,284 --> 00:29:33,944
So that one labels, labels
bad I gotta bad microphone.
490
00:29:33,979 --> 00:29:36,602
- Yeah, there we go.
491
00:29:36,636 --> 00:29:37,706
- Oh my gosh.
492
00:29:38,984 --> 00:29:40,019
- Can you hear me now?
493
00:29:40,054 --> 00:29:41,365
- Yeah, it's loud.
494
00:29:53,377 --> 00:29:54,965
One thing about
the Grand Canyon,
495
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,657
is that it gets bigger and
bigger and bigger everyday,
496
00:29:57,692 --> 00:30:00,626
you're experiencing
bigger and bigger rapids.
497
00:30:00,660 --> 00:30:03,732
Everyday, you're waking
up and putting on wet gear
498
00:30:03,767 --> 00:30:05,355
and getting in your kayak.
499
00:30:05,389 --> 00:30:10,394
And everyday has a map
of a bunch of hard rapids
500
00:30:11,223 --> 00:30:12,672
that you have to get through.
501
00:30:12,707 --> 00:30:14,847
Day after day it's
pretty exhausting.
502
00:30:28,930 --> 00:30:30,690
Only a small
percentage of the time
503
00:30:30,725 --> 00:30:33,866
is actually running these
chaotic white water rapids.
504
00:30:37,559 --> 00:30:40,355
Each rapid might
last 30 seconds,
505
00:30:40,390 --> 00:30:41,494
maybe a minute long.
506
00:30:43,462 --> 00:30:47,086
The times in between, we're
paddling from rapid to rapid
507
00:30:47,121 --> 00:30:48,743
are these long calm stretches.
508
00:30:58,822 --> 00:31:00,099
I like drifting down the river,
509
00:31:00,134 --> 00:31:02,722
it's a time for me to
listen to the canyon walls
510
00:31:02,757 --> 00:31:05,933
and bring in a lot
more information into
my mind, you know,
511
00:31:05,967 --> 00:31:09,005
like I can hear the little
pour overs in the rocks,
512
00:31:09,039 --> 00:31:13,354
I can feel the sun and
shade lines in the canyon
513
00:31:13,388 --> 00:31:14,976
at the different times of day.
514
00:31:15,977 --> 00:31:18,083
I love the peaceful
times on the river,
515
00:31:18,117 --> 00:31:20,740
I think I like 'em actually
better than the rapids.
516
00:31:27,057 --> 00:31:29,577
- On me, on me, hold that line.
517
00:31:30,958 --> 00:31:31,751
Scorpion!
518
00:31:34,996 --> 00:31:37,930
Dude there's a scorpion crawling
up the inside of my thigh.
519
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,142
That's an adrenaline rush.
520
00:31:43,177 --> 00:31:44,730
- Yeah!
521
00:31:44,764 --> 00:31:46,697
At least something in
this river can get you.
522
00:31:47,975 --> 00:31:50,805
- I'm gonna drown that
little sucker outta here.
523
00:31:50,839 --> 00:31:52,220
I think he's still in my boat.
524
00:31:52,255 --> 00:31:53,704
We never saw him floating.
525
00:31:55,465 --> 00:31:58,468
And he got me too, the inside
of my leg is totally numb.
526
00:32:00,366 --> 00:32:02,161
- The one
I got scorped by,
527
00:32:02,196 --> 00:32:05,820
my butt was a quarter
that, like tiny little guy.
528
00:32:05,854 --> 00:32:08,167
- Fair warning guys,
check your boats for scorpions.
529
00:32:08,202 --> 00:32:09,341
- Check everything.
530
00:32:09,375 --> 00:32:10,963
- Here we go.
531
00:32:10,998 --> 00:32:15,623
Okay, because Harlan had
to jump out of his kayak
532
00:32:15,657 --> 00:32:17,866
because a scorpion was about
to bite his inner thigh
533
00:32:17,901 --> 00:32:21,698
and other nether worlds,
it's time for what fellas?
534
00:32:21,732 --> 00:32:23,079
- Booty beer!
535
00:32:23,113 --> 00:32:24,804
- Yeah!
536
00:32:24,839 --> 00:32:25,874
Yeah, get that in there.
537
00:32:25,909 --> 00:32:26,806
Yeah!
538
00:32:26,841 --> 00:32:29,188
Ah, drink drink drink drink!
539
00:32:30,672 --> 00:32:31,984
Good job!
540
00:32:32,019 --> 00:32:33,123
Yeah!
541
00:32:33,158 --> 00:32:34,987
Give it up for him, guys!
542
00:32:35,022 --> 00:32:36,126
- Whoo!
543
00:32:37,507 --> 00:32:39,129
- Three beers.
544
00:32:39,164 --> 00:32:40,130
- Oh that was excellent.
545
00:32:40,165 --> 00:32:41,028
All right.
546
00:33:10,781 --> 00:33:15,786
Yeah.
547
00:33:21,102 --> 00:33:22,379
Yeah!
548
00:33:25,451 --> 00:33:28,144
- When I was four
years old I was diagnosed
549
00:33:28,178 --> 00:33:30,767
with this really rare eye
disease, retinoschisis.
550
00:33:32,527 --> 00:33:34,322
And my brain just
went into denial.
551
00:33:34,357 --> 00:33:35,737
I just wanted to be a kid.
552
00:33:39,707 --> 00:33:41,709
I had people that
I loved who said,
553
00:33:41,743 --> 00:33:43,021
"Hey, it's gonna be okay."
554
00:33:45,230 --> 00:33:47,611
Not, and I appreciated
that, I loved that support,
555
00:33:47,646 --> 00:33:48,854
but nobody knew.
556
00:33:48,888 --> 00:33:49,648
Really.
557
00:33:52,789 --> 00:33:54,066
It doesn't matter how
many people have said,
558
00:33:54,101 --> 00:33:55,688
"Get ready for this
it's happening,"
559
00:33:55,723 --> 00:33:57,069
like I was not ready.
560
00:33:57,104 --> 00:33:59,071
It felt like I was, like
I'd gotten hit in the head
561
00:33:59,106 --> 00:34:00,107
with a sledgehammer.
562
00:34:03,075 --> 00:34:05,284
A week before my freshman
year in high school,
563
00:34:05,319 --> 00:34:08,736
I lost the last
traces of vision.
564
00:34:08,770 --> 00:34:11,187
And I wasn't like a little
bit seeing impaired,
565
00:34:11,221 --> 00:34:12,429
I was blind as a bat.
566
00:34:12,464 --> 00:34:15,122
Like I could not
see to take a step.
567
00:34:17,227 --> 00:34:19,919
I was born into this
really great family.
568
00:34:19,954 --> 00:34:24,303
My dad's a Marine pilot aviator,
569
00:34:24,338 --> 00:34:26,581
just really tough,
really disciplined.
570
00:34:28,238 --> 00:34:30,206
- I have a, a placard,
571
00:34:30,240 --> 00:34:32,656
I send it to sons and daughters
when I think they could
572
00:34:32,691 --> 00:34:36,004
use it but it's, "When things
go wrong as they sometimes
573
00:34:36,039 --> 00:34:39,146
"will, and the road you're
trudging seems all uphill,
574
00:34:39,180 --> 00:34:41,320
"and the funds are low and
the debts are high and you
575
00:34:41,355 --> 00:34:43,736
"wanna smile, but
you have to cry.
576
00:34:43,771 --> 00:34:46,325
"When care is pressing
you down a bit,
577
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,088
"rest if you must,
but don't you quit."
578
00:34:55,369 --> 00:34:58,820
- My mom was really
loving, really soft.
579
00:34:59,683 --> 00:35:01,720
Almost fragile in a way.
580
00:35:04,861 --> 00:35:06,483
- His
mom, she was the one
581
00:35:06,518 --> 00:35:07,829
that went into schools
582
00:35:09,003 --> 00:35:13,283
and absolutely demanded
that he be schooled
583
00:35:13,318 --> 00:35:15,941
like a normal kid.
584
00:35:15,975 --> 00:35:18,633
So she was a real
tiger, lioness.
585
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,293
- I remember
listening to my brothers
586
00:35:23,328 --> 00:35:25,157
out there playing basketball
as I was going blind,
587
00:35:25,192 --> 00:35:27,953
and just really wanting
to be a part of that
588
00:35:27,987 --> 00:35:32,026
and really sort of
angry because you know
589
00:35:32,060 --> 00:35:33,269
what was I gonna do?
590
00:35:33,303 --> 00:35:34,787
I couldn't catch a
baseball or anything,
591
00:35:34,822 --> 00:35:37,307
and one of the things I heard
that a blind person could
592
00:35:37,342 --> 00:35:38,515
do was to wrestle.
593
00:35:41,553 --> 00:35:43,175
And so one day after school,
594
00:35:43,210 --> 00:35:45,557
I found myself tapping
my cane down the hallway
595
00:35:45,591 --> 00:35:49,871
towards that stinky, musty
wrestling room and just
596
00:35:49,906 --> 00:35:51,528
signing up, and uh,
597
00:35:51,563 --> 00:35:54,669
and that first day,
the captain of the team
598
00:35:54,704 --> 00:35:56,637
slammed my head against
the mat so hard just
599
00:35:56,671 --> 00:35:58,190
like every other
kid and I loved it,
600
00:35:58,225 --> 00:35:59,847
that this is my family.
601
00:36:02,194 --> 00:36:03,333
- Come on, Erik!
602
00:36:06,060 --> 00:36:06,854
Whoo!
603
00:36:19,073 --> 00:36:20,419
- After I went blind,
604
00:36:21,593 --> 00:36:24,699
I felt like I was
stuck in this prison.
605
00:36:26,874 --> 00:36:30,395
It was scary being inside
and it was also scary
606
00:36:30,429 --> 00:36:32,155
trying to get out of it.
607
00:37:07,397 --> 00:37:08,916
- Cool, how
you guys feelin'?
608
00:37:10,435 --> 00:37:12,471
- Eh, kinda like, business.
609
00:37:12,506 --> 00:37:13,265
- Business?
610
00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:14,301
- Business moment.
611
00:37:14,335 --> 00:37:15,129
- Yep.
612
00:37:15,163 --> 00:37:16,095
Focus.
613
00:37:16,130 --> 00:37:17,304
- Focus.
614
00:37:17,338 --> 00:37:18,891
- I like focus, I think
that's a good word.
615
00:37:18,926 --> 00:37:20,962
Downstream you guys we
have Horn Creek rapid,
616
00:37:20,997 --> 00:37:23,517
it's actually the steepest
rapid in the Grand Canyon.
617
00:37:25,346 --> 00:37:26,278
- All right.
618
00:37:26,313 --> 00:37:27,314
- So--
619
00:37:27,348 --> 00:37:28,280
- I can hear it.
620
00:37:28,315 --> 00:37:29,177
- One of my favorites
621
00:37:29,212 --> 00:37:30,420
down here in the Grand Canyon.
622
00:37:34,459 --> 00:37:36,806
But yeah, and you know
just just be loose,
623
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,292
be thoughtful in your
strokes and calm and--
624
00:37:40,327 --> 00:37:41,604
- Are we gonna jump in,
625
00:37:41,638 --> 00:37:43,295
do you want us to jump
into that eddy down below?
626
00:37:43,330 --> 00:37:44,917
You want us to--
627
00:37:44,952 --> 00:37:46,505
- Oh you know we'll
probably eddy out there
628
00:37:46,540 --> 00:37:48,162
and then once everybody's
through we can peel off
629
00:37:48,196 --> 00:37:51,130
and celebrate and we're
all gonna just grease
630
00:37:51,165 --> 00:37:52,615
our lines you know?
631
00:37:54,030 --> 00:37:55,100
- There you go.
632
00:37:55,134 --> 00:37:56,204
- Yeah.
633
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:56,998
- Thank you, man.
634
00:37:57,033 --> 00:37:57,930
Good luck.
635
00:37:57,965 --> 00:37:58,655
- Thank you, thanks, Lonnie.
636
00:37:58,690 --> 00:37:59,449
- Yep, see ya man.
637
00:37:59,484 --> 00:38:00,485
- All right.
638
00:38:02,694 --> 00:38:03,591
- Good seeing you.
639
00:38:05,075 --> 00:38:06,456
- Cool, any
questions about it?
640
00:38:06,491 --> 00:38:09,148
- Nah man, sounds good.
641
00:38:09,183 --> 00:38:10,184
- All right.
642
00:38:11,012 --> 00:38:12,324
I'm feeling it-
643
00:38:12,359 --> 00:38:14,188
- So the first uh,
when you angle in,
644
00:38:14,222 --> 00:38:17,881
the first, will, will
probably be left, right?
645
00:38:19,158 --> 00:38:20,298
- Yep,
so we're gonna be,
646
00:38:20,332 --> 00:38:22,334
we're gonna be
running right to left-
647
00:38:22,369 --> 00:38:23,162
- Yeah, okay.
648
00:38:23,197 --> 00:38:24,509
- And uh, yeah.
649
00:38:24,543 --> 00:38:26,476
There's actually,
there'll be a lateral
650
00:38:26,511 --> 00:38:28,547
so on that left we're
gonna be kinda squaring
651
00:38:28,582 --> 00:38:30,446
up to a lateral coming
off the right horn,
652
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,551
so there'll be a one pit there.
653
00:38:32,586 --> 00:38:34,208
And then we'll have a
little bit of slack water,
654
00:38:34,242 --> 00:38:35,416
so we'll push through that.
655
00:38:36,728 --> 00:38:37,487
Yeah.
656
00:38:37,522 --> 00:38:38,592
- Yeah, okay.
657
00:38:39,420 --> 00:38:40,939
- On me.
658
00:38:42,734 --> 00:38:47,739
On me.
659
00:38:49,050 --> 00:38:51,950
Hard right, hard
right, hard right.
660
00:38:53,538 --> 00:38:56,334
Hard right, hard right, paddle,
661
00:38:56,368 --> 00:39:01,269
on me, on me, on
me, on me, on me.
662
00:39:10,451 --> 00:39:13,868
We're just about to
enter the tongue here,
663
00:39:13,903 --> 00:39:15,249
hold that line,
664
00:39:16,940 --> 00:39:17,803
small left,
665
00:39:18,770 --> 00:39:19,702
small left,
666
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,430
hold that line,
667
00:39:23,464 --> 00:39:25,224
let that current take you
a little bit, perfect,
668
00:39:25,259 --> 00:39:26,536
hold that line.
669
00:39:27,986 --> 00:39:30,195
Hold that line,
charge a little bit,
670
00:39:30,229 --> 00:39:32,577
couple laterals
here, small left,
671
00:39:32,611 --> 00:39:35,407
left, there you
go hold that line.
672
00:39:52,424 --> 00:39:53,183
Charge!
673
00:39:57,602 --> 00:39:59,500
Hard left, hard left!
674
00:40:03,366 --> 00:40:04,160
Perfect!
675
00:40:06,265 --> 00:40:07,612
Good job, brother!
676
00:40:34,535 --> 00:40:38,505
You have the beach about
10 feet in front of ya.
677
00:40:42,509 --> 00:40:45,650
And five feet, and there
she is right there.
678
00:40:45,684 --> 00:40:46,858
- Touchdown, thanks.
679
00:40:55,798 --> 00:41:00,665
- One of the life
tragedies that you face,
680
00:41:01,735 --> 00:41:04,323
uh Erik was at wrestling
camp and his mom
681
00:41:04,358 --> 00:41:06,049
was in a car accident.
682
00:41:06,084 --> 00:41:10,191
I walked onto the
edge of the mat
683
00:41:10,226 --> 00:41:14,126
and he knew that it was
his dad and he said,
684
00:41:14,161 --> 00:41:14,886
"Dad, dad!
685
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,370
"Where are ya?"
686
00:41:16,404 --> 00:41:19,166
He said, "you know the
tournaments not until Saturday."
687
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,894
And then I had to tell
him that his mom had died.
688
00:41:32,282 --> 00:41:37,287
So that was a, that
was a huge blow to him.
689
00:41:40,670 --> 00:41:44,536
- Losing my mom was
the definition of pain,
690
00:41:44,571 --> 00:41:49,196
like so painful, uh
that you know you wonder
691
00:41:49,230 --> 00:41:51,163
how your body goes forward.
692
00:41:51,198 --> 00:41:53,027
How your heart keeps ticking.
693
00:41:57,100 --> 00:41:58,550
- Not long after that
694
00:41:58,585 --> 00:42:02,934
he went totally, blindness
at the same time.
695
00:42:02,968 --> 00:42:05,557
Blindness and losing your
mom, and I've thought many
696
00:42:05,592 --> 00:42:08,042
times about the fact
that that would uh,
697
00:42:08,077 --> 00:42:10,424
destroy many people, right?
698
00:42:13,772 --> 00:42:16,119
I never figured out why
it didn't destroy him.
699
00:42:19,606 --> 00:42:22,401
- Wait wait wait, oh.
700
00:42:22,436 --> 00:42:23,230
- Nice.
701
00:42:27,614 --> 00:42:30,133
The way people
react to bad things
702
00:42:31,997 --> 00:42:34,621
is that they shut down and
they build a lotta crust
703
00:42:34,655 --> 00:42:37,624
around themselves and
I, I'm the first person
704
00:42:37,658 --> 00:42:42,145
who does that, and yet
something keeps nagging
705
00:42:42,180 --> 00:42:44,769
at me telling me that
that's, you know, to build up
706
00:42:44,803 --> 00:42:47,772
that crust is the, the
exact wrong thing to do.
707
00:42:51,327 --> 00:42:53,916
Lay it open, and
that's where like,
708
00:42:53,950 --> 00:42:56,608
that's where the great
stuff happens in your life.
709
00:42:58,852 --> 00:43:03,235
The river isn't really alive,
but it has a strong character.
710
00:43:03,270 --> 00:43:06,756
Some rapids are big and
friendly and big waves,
711
00:43:06,791 --> 00:43:08,586
and some are really violent,
712
00:43:08,620 --> 00:43:10,829
like going into a boxing
match, you just get stomped.
713
00:43:10,864 --> 00:43:13,729
So, it's uh, easy to
think about the canyon
714
00:43:13,763 --> 00:43:18,388
and the rapids as sort of
having a life and energy.
715
00:43:23,808 --> 00:43:25,741
Each rapid you wanna do well,
716
00:43:25,775 --> 00:43:28,640
you know you wanna, you wanna
squeak through the gauntlet.
717
00:43:34,335 --> 00:43:37,269
But now I hear something below,
it's hard to know exactly
718
00:43:37,304 --> 00:43:38,857
what it is.
719
00:43:38,892 --> 00:43:43,413
And so, it just like gets that
little tingle in your belly,
720
00:43:44,656 --> 00:43:46,624
and you're like, okay,
what is that ahead?
721
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,568
- Small left,
there hold that line.
722
00:44:00,603 --> 00:44:02,709
We're still about 150 feet away.
723
00:44:02,743 --> 00:44:04,849
- There's always
that potential chance
724
00:44:04,883 --> 00:44:08,162
that the river takes me away,
or washes me one direction
725
00:44:08,197 --> 00:44:10,717
and him the other direction
or I flip upside down.
726
00:44:10,751 --> 00:44:13,512
And that, and that is
a very stark reality.
727
00:44:15,722 --> 00:44:18,794
Never before have
I felt so, adamant
728
00:44:18,828 --> 00:44:20,140
that I have to be upright.
729
00:44:20,174 --> 00:44:22,694
I have to be upright
and be you know aware
730
00:44:22,729 --> 00:44:23,730
of what's going on.
731
00:44:25,524 --> 00:44:27,734
- Hold that
line, left turn.
732
00:44:27,768 --> 00:44:29,080
Hold that line.
733
00:44:34,533 --> 00:44:38,434
Right turn, hard right,
hard right, hard right.
734
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:42,887
- Small right?
735
00:45:13,469 --> 00:45:15,816
- And hard left, there you go.
736
00:45:18,577 --> 00:45:20,718
Eddying out, fight that
spin, there you go,
737
00:45:20,752 --> 00:45:22,789
good job buddy, good job.
738
00:45:24,583 --> 00:45:26,033
- When I first met Erik,
739
00:45:26,068 --> 00:45:28,760
I think the thing that drew
me to him and being involved
740
00:45:28,795 --> 00:45:31,798
on this project the
most was not necessarily
741
00:45:31,832 --> 00:45:34,593
kayaking the Grand
Canyon with a blind guy,
742
00:45:34,628 --> 00:45:39,633
but we were both given
uncertainties at a young age.
743
00:45:42,809 --> 00:45:45,156
It's definitely
interesting that several
744
00:45:45,190 --> 00:45:50,195
of my pivotal moments in my
life have happened with water.
745
00:45:54,544 --> 00:45:56,892
My mom had been taking
us on river trips
746
00:45:56,926 --> 00:45:58,686
since I was probably
three years old.
747
00:46:00,274 --> 00:46:03,588
This is a bunch of
old random photos,
748
00:46:03,622 --> 00:46:06,729
this is my first waterfall
I ever dropped kayak.
749
00:46:08,144 --> 00:46:11,251
Up in Oregon, middle of
winter freezing cold.
750
00:46:11,285 --> 00:46:15,151
So this is me, probably
when I was three or four,
751
00:46:15,186 --> 00:46:17,809
and then this is
my sister Marika
752
00:46:17,844 --> 00:46:20,847
and then my dad his name is
Guerin, his name was Guerin.
753
00:46:22,158 --> 00:46:25,679
He died when I was seven
and he was 41, I believe?
754
00:46:25,713 --> 00:46:26,818
So he was probably my age.
755
00:46:29,579 --> 00:46:31,858
After my dad died
I got really quiet
756
00:46:31,892 --> 00:46:33,825
and didn't say much
for a couple years.
757
00:46:35,378 --> 00:46:38,209
I think I lost myself in
a way, I, I didn't process
758
00:46:38,243 --> 00:46:41,074
the grieving or the loss at all.
759
00:46:42,592 --> 00:46:45,009
Finding my dad dead in a
bathtub with water spraying
760
00:46:45,043 --> 00:46:48,806
on his face, not being able
to pull him out of the water.
761
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:53,224
I remember just feeling totally
fucking helpless, you know?
762
00:46:53,258 --> 00:46:58,229
Big 250-pound sack
of muscle and guy
763
00:46:58,885 --> 00:47:00,162
laying in a bathtub,
764
00:47:00,196 --> 00:47:01,819
and not being able to
really know what to do.
765
00:47:01,853 --> 00:47:03,890
I think that is something
I carried on with me
766
00:47:03,924 --> 00:47:05,029
for quite a while.
767
00:47:22,391 --> 00:47:24,496
There's the, a part
of you you know
768
00:47:24,531 --> 00:47:28,569
that wants to live and
survive and continue on,
769
00:47:28,604 --> 00:47:31,158
but I, I think for some
reason my relationship
770
00:47:31,193 --> 00:47:35,853
with water has always
felt um, like it's okay.
771
00:47:40,029 --> 00:47:40,927
I'm haunted by water.
772
00:47:58,116 --> 00:47:59,600
- You know,
I'd always thought
773
00:47:59,635 --> 00:48:02,189
of Harlan as indestructible.
774
00:48:02,224 --> 00:48:03,950
You know, he's like a superhero.
775
00:48:05,296 --> 00:48:10,301
But, I don't think you can
ever really truly see a person.
776
00:48:11,129 --> 00:48:12,475
You know, see past that armor.
777
00:48:13,683 --> 00:48:15,893
To this kid that's just
sitting there helpless
778
00:48:15,927 --> 00:48:17,791
and shattered and
779
00:48:20,138 --> 00:48:20,967
speechless.
780
00:48:22,106 --> 00:48:23,279
You know?
781
00:48:23,314 --> 00:48:25,109
Feeling the weight of
that water on his soul.
782
00:48:27,974 --> 00:48:31,632
It's not lost on me
that after his dad died,
783
00:48:31,667 --> 00:48:34,083
he had to find his own way
out of that deep well of
784
00:48:34,118 --> 00:48:36,948
despair just to find
that voice again and,
785
00:48:36,983 --> 00:48:39,364
that's the voice that's
carrying us down the river.
786
00:48:56,347 --> 00:48:57,141
- Whoo!
787
00:48:59,039 --> 00:49:02,456
- If you
break down things like Lava,
788
00:49:02,491 --> 00:49:04,976
you realize it's two minutes.
789
00:49:05,011 --> 00:49:08,152
It's two minutes, and I
can handle two minutes.
790
00:49:09,808 --> 00:49:11,465
I'm really trying to
block that out of my mind
791
00:49:11,500 --> 00:49:13,605
right now, 'cause
that's several days away
792
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:15,849
and I'm not just gonna
sit and harp on it.
793
00:49:15,883 --> 00:49:18,645
It's a miserable sort of way
to do it, it's not healthy
794
00:49:18,679 --> 00:49:19,473
for my brain.
795
00:49:34,178 --> 00:49:37,975
Like the Khumbu Icefall
that's 2,000 foot jumbled up
section
796
00:49:38,009 --> 00:49:41,461
of boulders of ice of like
every size imaginable.
797
00:49:41,495 --> 00:49:43,877
I remember feeling
panicked you know,
798
00:49:43,911 --> 00:49:46,742
just like um, "I'm
gonna be trapped
799
00:49:46,776 --> 00:49:48,502
"in this landscape forever."
800
00:49:50,332 --> 00:49:53,059
It, and so it was after
getting beat up by the Icefall
801
00:49:53,093 --> 00:49:58,098
many times, that I realized
that I was kind of going
802
00:49:58,788 --> 00:50:00,238
through the motions.
803
00:50:00,273 --> 00:50:02,689
That I wasn't really believing
that I could stand on top.
804
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:08,039
- It's gonna be a long
fall if you stay like that.
805
00:50:08,074 --> 00:50:10,248
- I can't hear ya, what?
806
00:50:10,283 --> 00:50:11,491
- Stand up.
807
00:50:11,525 --> 00:50:13,217
- Stand up.
808
00:50:13,251 --> 00:50:16,082
- It's so hard to be
fully in the moment
809
00:50:16,116 --> 00:50:17,669
when you're on that mountain,
810
00:50:17,704 --> 00:50:20,051
because there's so much fear,
there's so much anxiety.
811
00:50:20,086 --> 00:50:23,503
And all that stuff becomes
like a layer between you
812
00:50:23,537 --> 00:50:24,297
and the mountain.
813
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:31,511
Harlan has this really
deep affinity to the river.
814
00:50:31,545 --> 00:50:34,376
He experiences the river
in such an honest way
815
00:50:34,410 --> 00:50:36,757
and I want to experience
it that way too.
816
00:50:39,657 --> 00:50:42,522
I keep feeling like I'm
letting myself down somehow,
817
00:50:42,556 --> 00:50:45,249
because I'm not in the
state that Harlan is in.
818
00:50:48,597 --> 00:50:52,187
It's like a person
looking through a window
819
00:50:52,221 --> 00:50:55,121
at an experience rather than
being in the experience.
820
00:50:57,330 --> 00:50:58,779
I slept till like maybe30,
821
00:50:58,814 --> 00:51:01,230
and then just couldn't fall
asleep and just laid there
822
00:51:01,265 --> 00:51:04,130
listening to the, to
Nevill rapid out there.
823
00:51:05,338 --> 00:51:06,132
It's kinda loud.
824
00:51:16,935 --> 00:51:18,558
- I'm getting ready to run
through this little rapid here,
825
00:51:18,592 --> 00:51:20,629
uh gonna try it solo.
826
00:51:20,663 --> 00:51:22,734
The only thing I'm gonna
want from these guys is
827
00:51:22,769 --> 00:51:26,290
to tell me going in, if you
know I split the sound of
828
00:51:26,324 --> 00:51:28,395
the big roar, or if I keep
it off to one side or the
829
00:51:28,430 --> 00:51:29,948
other going in.
830
00:51:29,983 --> 00:51:32,089
And then I'm just gonna
try to feel the waves,
831
00:51:32,123 --> 00:51:34,194
and see if I can roll
right down through.
832
00:51:49,209 --> 00:51:51,142
- Tell me about that
run, how was that?
833
00:51:52,626 --> 00:51:54,490
- It was independence, man.
834
00:51:54,525 --> 00:51:55,284
- Uh-huh.
835
00:51:55,319 --> 00:51:57,148
- You know, and uh, uh,
836
00:51:57,183 --> 00:51:58,460
I don't know.
837
00:51:58,494 --> 00:52:00,358
I know you know
the feeling of uh,
838
00:52:00,393 --> 00:52:02,153
well that's one of the harder
things of not being able
839
00:52:02,188 --> 00:52:06,053
to see is losing that freedom
and total independence
840
00:52:06,088 --> 00:52:09,367
and that's uh, just a
small moment of just--
841
00:52:09,402 --> 00:52:10,334
- Yeah.
842
00:52:10,368 --> 00:52:11,611
- It's just good, you know?
843
00:52:11,645 --> 00:52:13,509
- Just going down by
feel that's super cool.
844
00:52:13,544 --> 00:52:14,303
- Yeah, yeah.
845
00:52:14,338 --> 00:52:15,718
So, uh--
846
00:52:15,753 --> 00:52:17,030
- Nice, well good job.
847
00:52:17,064 --> 00:52:17,996
- Yeah, yeah thank you, man.
848
00:52:18,031 --> 00:52:19,274
Appreciate it.
849
00:52:19,308 --> 00:52:21,034
- Ooh, and your
T-shirtin' it too.
850
00:52:21,068 --> 00:52:22,725
- Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
851
00:52:22,760 --> 00:52:25,314
Seth what is it, sun's out
guns out kinda stuff, man?
852
00:52:25,349 --> 00:52:26,488
Yeah, thanks bud.
853
00:52:26,522 --> 00:52:27,903
- Hold on a second
though, you gotta go--
854
00:52:27,937 --> 00:52:29,284
- Yeah I gotcha, I gotcha.
855
00:52:29,318 --> 00:52:30,112
- We gotta go.
856
00:52:32,218 --> 00:52:34,185
- Gotta go, oh yeah,
gotta roll huh?
857
00:52:40,018 --> 00:52:42,297
- All right now you're,
now you're better.
858
00:52:42,331 --> 00:52:43,815
- Yeah, yeah, but
I aint got the guns
859
00:52:43,850 --> 00:52:47,371
you got so there
you go, you know?
860
00:52:47,405 --> 00:52:50,374
But you got the guns out,
I's got the chicken wings so.
861
00:53:05,458 --> 00:53:07,667
- There's a rapid called
Upset and it's uh,
862
00:53:07,701 --> 00:53:08,564
kind of a big one.
863
00:53:10,221 --> 00:53:13,880
And uh, some people
say it's fun.
864
00:53:16,296 --> 00:53:18,229
Hope that's the case.
865
00:53:20,818 --> 00:53:21,715
- Hey, Har.
866
00:53:22,958 --> 00:53:23,959
- Thank you.
867
00:53:25,547 --> 00:53:26,444
Eating your porridge?
868
00:53:26,479 --> 00:53:28,066
- Yeah.
869
00:53:28,101 --> 00:53:29,723
- I'm gonna go
get some porridge.
870
00:53:29,758 --> 00:53:32,554
- Yeah, porridge is
good breakfast 'cause
it goes down easy.
871
00:53:34,107 --> 00:53:36,109
- When you're tummy's
upset above Upset--
872
00:53:36,143 --> 00:53:40,941
- Yeah, sausage before Upset
is just not, not flying.
873
00:53:40,976 --> 00:53:41,908
- No.
874
00:53:43,565 --> 00:53:44,290
Well how 'bout this--
875
00:53:44,324 --> 00:53:45,601
- A big meaty sausage.
876
00:53:45,636 --> 00:53:47,362
- I'll put some in
your pants for later
877
00:53:47,396 --> 00:53:48,432
and you can have it after Upset.
878
00:53:48,466 --> 00:53:50,261
- Thanks, I'll slide
it in my pocket.
879
00:53:50,296 --> 00:53:51,435
- You can
have some pocket meat.
880
00:54:04,482 --> 00:54:09,246
- Well, I mean I can
hear some loud waves
right down there.
881
00:54:11,420 --> 00:54:15,631
Um, I think maybe that's on
the right side, right Harlan?
882
00:54:15,666 --> 00:54:17,599
We'll maybe miss that stuff.
883
00:54:17,633 --> 00:54:19,946
- Yeah.
- That loud noise there,
some little pour overs isn't it?
884
00:54:19,980 --> 00:54:21,119
- Yeah.
885
00:54:21,154 --> 00:54:22,569
So just like we
were talking about,
886
00:54:22,604 --> 00:54:24,295
you know you pointed out you
heard something over there
887
00:54:24,330 --> 00:54:26,297
so we're gonna
stay off the wall.
888
00:54:26,332 --> 00:54:27,402
- Yeah.
889
00:54:27,436 --> 00:54:28,610
- But we also kinda
wanna be moving
890
00:54:28,644 --> 00:54:30,612
almost towards the wall
to get away from that,
891
00:54:30,646 --> 00:54:31,854
there's a hole at the bottom.
892
00:54:31,889 --> 00:54:32,683
- Yeah.
893
00:54:34,443 --> 00:54:37,964
- How you feel
about Upset, Lonnie?
894
00:54:42,451 --> 00:54:45,454
- Nice, on
me, on me, on me.
895
00:54:45,489 --> 00:54:46,352
On me, on me.
896
00:54:50,079 --> 00:54:50,873
On me.
897
00:54:53,531 --> 00:54:54,325
On me.
898
00:55:00,814 --> 00:55:01,574
On me.
899
00:55:04,162 --> 00:55:04,922
On me.
900
00:55:08,926 --> 00:55:10,237
Very nice.
901
00:55:12,067 --> 00:55:14,690
Keep comin', keep comin'.
902
00:55:14,725 --> 00:55:17,935
Keep comin', keep
comin', keep comin'.
903
00:55:19,523 --> 00:55:23,423
- Dude you came so freaking
close, to this monster hole.
904
00:55:26,909 --> 00:55:28,394
- Hold that line.
905
00:55:32,501 --> 00:55:34,054
Hold that line.
906
00:55:34,089 --> 00:55:37,506
Little bigger waves here, hold
that line and small right.
907
00:55:37,541 --> 00:55:41,890
Right turn, hold that line,
hold that line, charge.
908
00:55:43,788 --> 00:55:47,723
Hold that line, hold that
line, charge, charge.
909
00:55:51,417 --> 00:55:54,420
Hold that line, small
right, hold that line,
910
00:55:54,454 --> 00:55:58,803
charge, charge, charge,
small right, hold that line,
911
00:55:59,942 --> 00:56:02,255
right turn, then left turn.
912
00:56:14,543 --> 00:56:16,856
One left, perfect,
brother perfect,
913
00:56:16,890 --> 00:56:20,515
hold that line and
we're almost through it.
914
00:56:20,549 --> 00:56:23,587
Hold that line, hold that
line, you're perfect,
915
00:56:23,621 --> 00:56:27,418
you're perfect,
you're good, brother.
916
00:56:27,453 --> 00:56:28,385
Nice job, E.W.
917
00:56:30,559 --> 00:56:31,595
Perfect.
918
00:56:35,150 --> 00:56:35,944
Good job.
919
00:56:39,844 --> 00:56:40,880
You're doing it,
like you're doing it,
920
00:56:40,914 --> 00:56:42,157
like we, we've talked about it,
921
00:56:42,191 --> 00:56:43,883
it's our little mantra
above the rapid, right?
922
00:56:43,917 --> 00:56:47,127
Like, be clear, calm and
precise in your action
923
00:56:47,162 --> 00:56:50,234
and be at peace in where
you are in the moment.
924
00:56:50,268 --> 00:56:51,546
And then at that moment,
925
00:56:51,580 --> 00:56:54,238
that just allows you to
let everything else go.
926
00:56:54,272 --> 00:56:56,620
You know and I think
seeing you harness that,
927
00:56:56,654 --> 00:56:58,760
I mean I, it freakin'
brings tears to my eyes
928
00:56:58,794 --> 00:57:00,417
'cause it's amazing.
929
00:57:00,451 --> 00:57:01,970
You know, it's
like, that I think
930
00:57:02,004 --> 00:57:04,835
is you reaching this
next level of the sport.
931
00:57:04,869 --> 00:57:06,975
That's something that I've
had to learn how to harness,
932
00:57:07,009 --> 00:57:09,495
now I get to share it with
you and seeing that you're,
933
00:57:09,529 --> 00:57:11,531
you're letting it
in is really cool.
934
00:57:42,528 --> 00:57:45,876
- I've dry heaved several
times this morning,
935
00:57:45,910 --> 00:57:47,222
when I think about it.
936
00:57:49,155 --> 00:57:50,501
- Yeah.
937
00:57:50,536 --> 00:57:52,779
You said you didn't,
didn't eat so.
938
00:57:52,814 --> 00:57:53,573
Have you ate yet?
939
00:57:59,683 --> 00:58:01,478
- You know I think
a lot about Lava
940
00:58:01,512 --> 00:58:03,514
and it's starting to
weigh a lot of my mind,
941
00:58:03,549 --> 00:58:05,274
consume a lot of
space in my mind.
942
00:58:06,068 --> 00:58:07,691
And I can get sort of
down in thinking about,
943
00:58:07,725 --> 00:58:11,177
oh you know, so many
things could go wrong.
944
00:58:12,385 --> 00:58:13,904
But then I think, gosh
it's just another rapid,
945
00:58:13,938 --> 00:58:17,666
you know, I just gotta
execute and do what I've done
946
00:58:17,701 --> 00:58:18,564
in the past.
947
00:58:24,259 --> 00:58:26,848
- Forgot how far it
is, we gotta go a ways.
948
00:59:20,626 --> 00:59:23,145
- So as we're coming
in the green water,
949
00:59:23,180 --> 00:59:24,733
we're gonna meet what
I call the slick,
950
00:59:24,768 --> 00:59:27,633
and it's kinda right
where the eddy line meets.
951
00:59:27,667 --> 00:59:28,979
- Mm-hmm.
952
00:59:29,013 --> 00:59:30,601
- And we're just gonna
kinda hug that eddy line.
953
00:59:30,636 --> 00:59:32,638
We're not gonna, it's not
gonna mess with us too much,
954
00:59:32,672 --> 00:59:35,572
'cause we're gonna be pointed
kinda right down the stream.
955
00:59:35,606 --> 00:59:36,331
Um--
956
00:59:36,365 --> 00:59:37,125
- Pointed right down?
957
00:59:37,159 --> 00:59:37,919
Uh-huh.
958
00:59:37,953 --> 00:59:39,437
- Pretty much.
959
00:59:39,472 --> 00:59:40,991
And then when we kinda start
getting close to the rapid,
960
00:59:41,025 --> 00:59:44,063
there's some boils that kinda
start to form, and the boils
961
00:59:44,097 --> 00:59:45,996
are gonna feel like it's
kinda surfing us one way
962
00:59:46,030 --> 00:59:46,824
or the other.
963
00:59:49,827 --> 00:59:51,795
- Could the two entry
ways knock you over?
964
00:59:51,829 --> 00:59:54,763
- Uh no, no two entry
ways you'll be fine on.
965
00:59:57,628 --> 01:00:00,251
If it does tip ya, just
you know again nice
966
01:00:00,286 --> 01:00:02,909
and calm in the moment,
just be where you are,
967
01:00:02,944 --> 01:00:06,085
focus on nothing else but
just setting up for that roll.
968
01:00:06,119 --> 01:00:08,674
Nail your roll, and then
be listening for commands
969
01:00:08,708 --> 01:00:11,262
and we'll get ya, we'll get
through those tail waves.
970
01:00:11,297 --> 01:00:12,470
And then it'll be done.
971
01:00:12,505 --> 01:00:13,955
- All right.
972
01:00:22,204 --> 01:00:24,172
- Charge, charge,
charge, charge, charge.
973
01:01:02,831 --> 01:01:03,832
All right, E.W.
974
01:01:03,867 --> 01:01:04,661
How you feeling, buddy.
975
01:01:04,695 --> 01:01:05,869
- Good.
976
01:01:10,252 --> 01:01:11,529
- Just find that feeling,
977
01:01:11,564 --> 01:01:13,186
remember that feeling is
harnessing everything,
978
01:01:13,221 --> 01:01:15,188
nice calm breaths.
979
01:01:18,571 --> 01:01:20,159
Bring everything in
right here right now,
980
01:01:20,193 --> 01:01:21,470
we're in the moment.
981
01:01:23,127 --> 01:01:25,682
Nothing else matters,
just kayaking.
982
01:01:25,716 --> 01:01:29,616
Clear, calm precise
thoughts and actions.
983
01:01:29,651 --> 01:01:31,066
Whenever you're ready, buddy,
984
01:01:31,101 --> 01:01:34,414
we'll just take some forward
strokes into the current.
985
01:01:37,590 --> 01:01:40,075
Small left, there you go.
986
01:01:40,110 --> 01:01:41,421
Hold that line.
987
01:01:42,664 --> 01:01:44,631
Have a good one, fellas.
988
01:01:44,666 --> 01:01:49,636
Small right, there you
go, hold that line.
989
01:01:51,293 --> 01:01:56,264
Small right again, hold that
line, another small left,
990
01:01:56,954 --> 01:01:58,266
okay hold that line.
991
01:01:58,300 --> 01:02:00,717
So we're still about
100 yards above here,
992
01:02:00,751 --> 01:02:02,442
some nice calm water.
993
01:02:04,134 --> 01:02:05,756
And I will speak
up in that rapid.
994
01:02:10,519 --> 01:02:12,521
Small left, hold that line.
995
01:02:26,984 --> 01:02:27,951
Small left.
996
01:02:38,547 --> 01:02:39,859
Hold that line.
997
01:02:44,036 --> 01:02:47,453
Getting closer to that first
slick I told you about.
998
01:02:47,487 --> 01:02:52,492
So we're still in green
water, still in green water.
999
01:02:55,150 --> 01:02:57,808
We're gonna start approaching
this boil, hold that line.
1000
01:02:57,843 --> 01:02:59,879
Just nice calm strokes.
1001
01:03:01,536 --> 01:03:03,780
Good thoughtful strokes, hold
that line, little boil line,
1002
01:03:03,814 --> 01:03:05,298
fight the spin, fight the spin.
1003
01:03:09,993 --> 01:03:12,374
- You're good, hard left,
hard left, hard right,
1004
01:03:12,409 --> 01:03:16,482
hard right, hard right, hard
right, hard right, hard right,
1005
01:03:16,516 --> 01:03:19,830
charge, charge, left turn,
left turn, you're good.
1006
01:03:19,865 --> 01:03:22,315
That's good, charge, charge.
1007
01:03:40,023 --> 01:03:42,888
You're good, you're
good, hard right!
1008
01:04:11,882 --> 01:04:13,884
You're good, buddy, you're
on me, you're on me.
1009
01:04:13,919 --> 01:04:16,197
Go around to the
back of my boat.
1010
01:04:16,231 --> 01:04:18,993
- All right will you
help me so it's all right?
1011
01:04:19,027 --> 01:04:22,030
- Now go to Timmy,
I'm right behind you.
1012
01:04:22,065 --> 01:04:24,101
- I had a shitty run.
1013
01:04:24,136 --> 01:04:25,447
I flipped.
1014
01:04:25,482 --> 01:04:29,072
- That's all right, buddy,
we're good we're good.
1015
01:04:30,314 --> 01:04:33,870
- I flipped on that boil
line right at the very top,
what a joke.
1016
01:04:33,904 --> 01:04:35,250
- Ah, but we knew,
didn't knew line,
1017
01:04:35,285 --> 01:04:37,908
I mean you got lined up
down at the bottom and...
1018
01:04:49,126 --> 01:04:49,920
That stinks.
1019
01:04:51,473 --> 01:04:53,717
My paddle broke in that, right
when we hit that last wave,
1020
01:04:53,751 --> 01:04:54,821
my paddle broke.
1021
01:04:56,271 --> 01:04:59,205
Ended up going up without,
without half a paddle,
1022
01:04:59,240 --> 01:04:59,999
bird-winging it.
1023
01:05:02,968 --> 01:05:03,830
Come here, buddy.
1024
01:05:06,972 --> 01:05:09,319
Give me a hug, we
fuckin' did it buddy.
1025
01:05:09,353 --> 01:05:10,458
You did it.
1026
01:05:10,492 --> 01:05:11,321
Yeah.
1027
01:05:12,805 --> 01:05:14,151
Good job, you know
I'm proud of you,
1028
01:05:14,186 --> 01:05:16,429
you rolled up in one
of the cruxiest places
1029
01:05:16,464 --> 01:05:17,775
you can roll up in this river.
1030
01:05:17,810 --> 01:05:19,674
It's at the top of Lava Falls.
1031
01:05:43,146 --> 01:05:45,010
- You wanted to see
me swim, didn't ya?
1032
01:05:45,044 --> 01:05:46,045
- Maybe I did.
1033
01:06:19,182 --> 01:06:21,149
- You know you get the
idea that you start out
1034
01:06:21,184 --> 01:06:24,118
on this big journey
and you commit to it.
1035
01:06:24,152 --> 01:06:26,327
You surround yourself
with this amazing team
1036
01:06:26,361 --> 01:06:31,021
and you push forward, and
then reality crashes in.
1037
01:06:31,056 --> 01:06:34,611
And you're swimming through
Lava like a drowned rat.
1038
01:06:36,061 --> 01:06:37,476
I don't know,
1039
01:06:37,510 --> 01:06:39,029
you know, you just, you
know, you just keep getting
1040
01:06:39,064 --> 01:06:43,206
flipped and then it starts
to, kind of uh, mess with
1041
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:44,517
you, you know what I mean?
1042
01:06:44,552 --> 01:06:46,243
So you're like wondering
if you're like offline
1043
01:06:46,278 --> 01:06:47,141
or something like that.
1044
01:06:47,175 --> 01:06:48,487
- Yeah.
1045
01:06:48,521 --> 01:06:50,247
- And then I just
couldn't breathe.
1046
01:06:50,282 --> 01:06:51,041
- Yeah.
1047
01:06:51,076 --> 01:06:52,594
- I pulled.
1048
01:06:52,629 --> 01:06:55,390
And then literally I pulled
and I was through it.
1049
01:06:55,425 --> 01:06:56,184
- Yep.
1050
01:06:56,219 --> 01:06:57,220
Yeah.
1051
01:06:57,254 --> 01:06:58,152
- I was through it.
1052
01:06:58,186 --> 01:06:59,394
There was nothing, nothing left.
1053
01:06:59,429 --> 01:07:00,395
Blind five.
1054
01:07:00,430 --> 01:07:01,189
- Blind five.
1055
01:07:04,365 --> 01:07:05,090
There you go.
1056
01:07:07,816 --> 01:07:09,025
Yeah, it was uh--
1057
01:07:10,992 --> 01:07:13,615
- All right, I should get my
booty beer over with here.
1058
01:07:13,650 --> 01:07:15,169
- I pour it fast, and you know--
1059
01:07:15,203 --> 01:07:16,239
- Booty!
1060
01:07:16,273 --> 01:07:17,205
- It's comin' in.
1061
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:18,379
- Wait.
- It's gotta go in first.
1062
01:07:18,413 --> 01:07:19,552
- What's got the--
1063
01:07:19,587 --> 01:07:20,553
- It's gotta be
run into the booty.
1064
01:07:20,588 --> 01:07:21,554
- Yeah yeah yeah.
1065
01:07:21,589 --> 01:07:22,348
Got it.
1066
01:07:22,383 --> 01:07:23,453
- Got the beer, hold on.
1067
01:07:23,487 --> 01:07:25,765
- Yeah, booty!
1068
01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:27,457
- And there is a
little whiskey deal on there.
1069
01:07:27,491 --> 01:07:28,561
- Okay, there you go.
1070
01:07:28,596 --> 01:07:29,838
- Little skip of
whiskey, there it is.
1071
01:07:29,873 --> 01:07:30,563
And now down it!
1072
01:07:31,909 --> 01:07:33,083
- Drink, drink,
drink, drink, drink!
1073
01:07:38,744 --> 01:07:39,814
- Wow!
1074
01:07:39,848 --> 01:07:41,229
Dude.
1075
01:07:41,264 --> 01:07:42,437
Nice work.
1076
01:07:42,472 --> 01:07:43,783
- He didn't
spill a drop.
1077
01:07:43,818 --> 01:07:45,095
- Yeah, you
didn't spill a drop.
1078
01:07:45,130 --> 01:07:46,269
- You'll
never swim again.
1079
01:07:48,995 --> 01:07:50,376
- I'm probably
not supposed to say this,
1080
01:07:50,411 --> 01:07:52,930
but I honestly I hate it
when people tell me anything
1081
01:07:52,965 --> 01:07:53,828
is possible.
1082
01:07:55,243 --> 01:07:56,658
You know barriers,
they're not like imagined,
1083
01:07:56,693 --> 01:07:58,315
they're not perceived.
1084
01:07:58,350 --> 01:08:00,214
They're real, they're real
things with real substance
1085
01:08:00,248 --> 01:08:02,216
and they actually hurt a lot.
1086
01:08:17,369 --> 01:08:20,337
Part of me wants
to keep on going
1087
01:08:20,372 --> 01:08:23,202
and just never look back
at this thing ever again.
1088
01:08:28,449 --> 01:08:32,246
Maybe I just go back, and
I, and I finish the circle.
1089
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:36,629
I, I finish this thing
and I do it fully.
1090
01:08:36,664 --> 01:08:40,323
Not like, with just
giving into myself.
1091
01:08:41,324 --> 01:08:43,257
If I have another,
another disaster
1092
01:08:43,291 --> 01:08:45,500
and I swim through Lava I
can live with that as long
1093
01:08:45,535 --> 01:08:48,124
as I, I did this thing fully.
1094
01:08:52,576 --> 01:08:53,715
- Erik pulled me aside
1095
01:08:53,750 --> 01:08:55,717
when he didn't
successfully run Lava,
1096
01:08:55,752 --> 01:08:57,167
he swam Lava.
1097
01:08:57,202 --> 01:08:58,858
And he pulled me
aside and he asked me,
1098
01:08:58,893 --> 01:08:59,859
"What would be the possibility
1099
01:08:59,894 --> 01:09:01,723
"if I wanted to run Lava again?"
1100
01:09:08,523 --> 01:09:11,008
We're gonna be paddling upstream
1101
01:09:11,043 --> 01:09:13,839
for quite a while, you know
up to uh the black rock,
1102
01:09:13,873 --> 01:09:15,703
and then we'll make
the ferry across.
1103
01:09:18,844 --> 01:09:20,190
He said, "Well if we do this,
1104
01:09:20,225 --> 01:09:21,467
"who do you think
should come with us?"
1105
01:09:21,502 --> 01:09:23,297
And I said, I said, "Your team."
1106
01:09:23,331 --> 01:09:24,298
I said, "Your team.
1107
01:09:24,332 --> 01:09:25,506
"All of us.
1108
01:09:25,540 --> 01:09:27,542
"We'll go up, we'll hike up
and we'll go do it again."
1109
01:09:49,806 --> 01:09:52,429
- When care
is pressing you down a bit,
1110
01:09:52,464 --> 01:09:54,224
rest if you must.
1111
01:09:54,259 --> 01:09:55,570
But don't you quit.
1112
01:10:09,481 --> 01:10:11,379
- Just take a deep
breath and clear everything.
1113
01:10:11,414 --> 01:10:14,658
Just be here in the moment,
and feeling the river.
1114
01:12:23,028 --> 01:12:23,753
- Thanks, Harlan.
1115
01:12:23,787 --> 01:12:24,892
- Yeah, buddy.
1116
01:12:24,926 --> 01:12:25,686
Come here, man.
1117
01:12:29,068 --> 01:12:30,380
Thanks for letting us
be here with you, buddy.
1118
01:12:30,415 --> 01:12:31,416
- Thanks, Rob.
1119
01:12:31,450 --> 01:12:33,521
- You're welcome, bud.
1120
01:12:35,281 --> 01:12:36,075
Good job, buddy.
1121
01:12:38,871 --> 01:12:40,701
- Thanks for letting
us be here with ya.
1122
01:12:43,635 --> 01:12:45,913
- We'll have to come back
though, you nailed it.
1123
01:12:47,328 --> 01:12:49,054
- You did
buddy, good job man.
1124
01:12:50,745 --> 01:12:51,505
- High intensity Lava Falls.
1125
01:12:51,539 --> 01:12:52,747
- That's high intensity.
1126
01:12:58,304 --> 01:13:00,445
I didn't really wanna, like
part of me didn't really
1127
01:13:00,479 --> 01:13:02,930
wanna come back and
do it but I just felt
1128
01:13:02,964 --> 01:13:07,417
like I, I needed to and
then I sort of tossed
1129
01:13:07,452 --> 01:13:11,248
and turned last night
listening to Son of Lava
1130
01:13:11,283 --> 01:13:12,802
thinking like, "Should I do it?"
1131
01:13:16,806 --> 01:13:20,568
I, I tell my kids it's
the open heart policy,
1132
01:13:20,603 --> 01:13:25,608
just trust and, and
uh, give it a whirl.
1133
01:13:32,649 --> 01:13:34,893
- There we go, buddy.
1134
01:13:43,764 --> 01:13:44,972
- I don't
wanna understand love,
1135
01:13:45,006 --> 01:13:46,594
I wanna feel it.
1136
01:13:46,629 --> 01:13:48,527
I don't wanna understand
trust and I wanna feel it.
1137
01:13:54,637 --> 01:13:57,087
I wanna be exposed to things;
1138
01:13:57,122 --> 01:13:59,607
hard things, easy things,
1139
01:13:59,642 --> 01:14:02,265
beautiful things,
the kind of trust
1140
01:14:02,299 --> 01:14:05,717
that you have with somebody
like Harlan or Rob.
1141
01:14:07,304 --> 01:14:11,447
I think being exposed to
that, is what enables you
1142
01:14:11,481 --> 01:14:14,691
to feel it and I think it's
something I've struggled with
1143
01:14:14,726 --> 01:14:15,658
a lot in my life.
1144
01:14:19,834 --> 01:14:23,459
This experience was
this chance to live.
1145
01:14:30,396 --> 01:14:32,468
- This is
the geographical end
of the Grand Canyon,
1146
01:14:32,502 --> 01:14:34,366
so you guys are here
man, you did it.
1147
01:14:35,678 --> 01:14:37,818
- Well, I'm proud of
you Lonnie, good job.
1148
01:14:37,852 --> 01:14:38,715
- You too, buddy.
1149
01:14:38,750 --> 01:14:39,509
You too.
1150
01:14:39,544 --> 01:14:40,545
- Yeah.
1151
01:14:40,579 --> 01:14:41,407
It's awesome, man.
1152
01:14:42,547 --> 01:14:43,513
Harlan, great guiding too.
1153
01:14:43,548 --> 01:14:44,825
- Yeah thank you guys.
1154
01:14:44,859 --> 01:14:46,654
Thank you for letting
me be a part of it.
1155
01:14:46,689 --> 01:14:51,176
- And six years ago,
long time but I remember
1156
01:14:51,210 --> 01:14:54,559
when I first came down
here and I scouted Lava
1157
01:14:54,593 --> 01:14:57,976
and I remember thinking, I
don't know if I can do this.
1158
01:14:58,010 --> 01:15:00,012
So we're through it, we did it.
1159
01:15:00,047 --> 01:15:03,084
- Yeah, you know
it's uh, I gotta say.
1160
01:15:04,465 --> 01:15:05,811
I can't imagine doing
it with someone I have
1161
01:15:05,846 --> 01:15:07,641
anymore respect for.
1162
01:15:07,675 --> 01:15:09,056
- Good job, you guys.
1163
01:15:15,925 --> 01:15:19,100
Small right, hold that line.
1164
01:15:23,242 --> 01:15:25,866
Hold that line, about 10
feet to the beach, buddy,
1165
01:15:25,900 --> 01:15:27,902
small left, and there's
the beach right--
1166
01:15:29,904 --> 01:15:31,906
- The beach!
1167
01:15:31,941 --> 01:15:32,735
Awe.
1168
01:15:38,603 --> 01:15:41,813
- Like a one foot
step up right there.
1169
01:15:45,126 --> 01:15:46,127
Flat on top.
1170
01:15:48,129 --> 01:15:49,752
- Hi, Daddy.
- Hi, little buddy.
1171
01:15:49,786 --> 01:15:50,580
- What?
1172
01:15:53,514 --> 01:15:54,964
You guys are crazy.
1173
01:15:54,998 --> 01:15:56,552
- No, you're wet.
1174
01:16:04,111 --> 01:16:05,768
- That is a surprise.
1175
01:16:07,804 --> 01:16:11,774
- 277 miles, buddy.
1176
01:16:11,808 --> 01:16:12,809
- 278 miles.
81262
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