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Elsmere island. that sounded like the most horrific trip i can ever imagine. his partner went down from kidney failure. he got attacked by a walrus. >> i love this stuff. money is not what i'm chasing. it's the experience. >> the put-in is going to take us two days to kind of just start making progress. and after that, we still have, like, seven question mark box canyon to get to the landing zone, plus some whitewater. so there is no way we make this in eight days. i think realistically it will for sure be more like 10 to 12. and we can stretch two days and not eat for two days, and we'd still...

His river records are just crazy. >> ben's reputation, on one side he's probably paddled more first descent rivers than anybody else in multiple countries all around the world. and on the other hand, he's also got a reputation as being a bit of a cowboy. >> i like to be the one who's going to push the issue to the very bitter end and never say no. i haven't had successes on every river, but i like to push it as far as it will go. >> the mission is on. not on the river yet, but it is still a mission just to approach the put-in. the weather is looking good, so i'm faithful that we can make it

Vertical feet in 50 miles through this remote area, and it's going to be one of the steepest and most technical whitewater descents ever done. >> i thought we could put on and kind of start figuring it out, you know? that's what we're here for. >> well, the water's nice and cold, that's for sure. >> oh, god! >> it took us much long just to get to the put-in. we only had a few hours to get downstream. we're finally mendspending our t night properly on the river. we got really lucky. we're still in the paramo, and we found the very first grove of stout little trees.

Crazy. >> ben's reputation, on one side he's probably paddled more first descent rivers than anybody else in multiple countries all around the world. and on the other hand, he's also got a reputation as being a bit of a cowboy. >> i like to be the one who's going to push the issue to the very bitter end and never say no. i haven't had successes on every river, but i like to push it as far as it will go. >> the mission is on. not on the river yet, but it is still a mission just to approach the put-in. the weather is looking good, so i'm faithful that we can make it over to our shelter tonight, ...

That sounded like the most horrific trip i can ever imagine. his partner went down from kidney failure. he got attacked by a walrus. >> i love this stuff. money is not what i'm chasing. it's the experience. >> the put-in is going to take us two days to kind of just like start making progress. and after that, we still have, like, seven question mark boxed-in canyon to get to the landing zone, plus some whitewater. so there is no way we make this in eight days. i think realistically it will for sure be more like 10 to 12. and we can stretch two days and not eat for two days, and we'd still be fi...