In memory of my friend Gabriel Buchmann
- Nyove! - Yes?
Come.
- What for? - Come!
- I found the white one. - What? Where?
There.
Really?
- Here? - Yes.
He's dead, my friend.
- Are you sure? - Yes.
Dead as can be.
With all his belongings.
What do we do?
We try to find some coverage and call.
Call for help.
He wasn't killed, he has all his belongings.
We leave everything?
Yes, let's hurry.
Leave everything.
Come, let's go.
We'll make a call and see.
A plane searched the mountain and he was there all along?
Incredible.
GABRIEL AND THE MOUNTAIN
Chapter one
KENYA
70 days before
Good morning, Gabriel.
Good morning, Alex.
Mzungu!
- Mambo! - What?
What does "Mzungu" mean?
Mzungu means "the white man".
But I'm Brazilian, so I'm not a Mzungu.
Even if you are Brazilian, in Africa
someone of your color is called a Mzungu.
First of all, Gabriel...
was a man who smiled a lot.
He was a very simple man,
very sociable.
He was doing research on poverty in Africa.
And he used to eat a lot.
He really ate a lot,
at least three or four plates of food.
He was very generous to my family
which is why I decided
to call my son Gabriel.
- Let us pray. - Oh God,
thank you for this food,
before we eat and bless this soo-dan-tam
in Jesus' name, we pray, amen.
- Amen.
- It is our first time to have a white visit at this house.
- Ah.
- You, we never, we never receive any visitor from...
I'm a Brazilian Mzungu,
so it's kind of different.
- Gabriel, can you sing one song for us
from your country?
- Now? - Yes.
- Okay.
This I like very much.
With drenched clothes and a shining soul
Every artist must go where the people live
If it is so, so it will be
When singing, I disguise myself and I never tire of living
Nor of singing...
- It's nice. - Thank you.
Rachel. - Yes?
- Could you sing us a song for your country?
- Uh, but it's for English.
- Okay.
♪ You are bigger than more people say, my Lord ♪
♪ You are bigger than more people say ♪
♪ You are bigger than more people say, my Lord ♪
♪ You are bigger than more people say ♪
♪ 'Cause you are excellent ♪
♪ Marvelous, you are bigger than more people say ♪
♪ You are bigger than more people say, my Lord ♪
♪ You are bigger than more people say ♪
♪ You are bigger than more people say, my Lord ♪
♪ You are bigger than more people say ♪
♪ 'Cause you are excellent ♪
♪ Marvelous, you are bigger than more people say ♪
- Gabriel, those shoes are very nice,
they're all-season shoe.
You can wear them on a dry season and even on a wet season.
- Really? - Can even shower
with the shoes. - Oh.
- Every Masai man in this village
have put on these shoes, once in a lifetime.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
How do you feel?
- I feel good.
- Perfect.
- It's comfortable. - How do you feel in the shoe?
Is it squeezing your feet?
- No.
- You can walk in the shoe?
- Of course. - Run?
- Sure. - Lemme see running.
Bring your backpack.
- Faster than the fast.
- Gabriel!
Hey, where is he?
Oyez!
This is my brother friend.
- Pleasure.
- He is a Masai mo-ray.
- Hello, I'm Brian. - I'm Gabriel.
- From? - Brazil.
- Yes.
- I've come to Kenya.
- This Brian is my older brother.
He has two wife.
- Two? - Yes,
it's normal in Masai life.
- Even I want to add more, one more.
- Plus. - Yeah.
- Eight kids.
- Eight kids? - Yes.
- Having kids in Masai life's an investment.
- Really? - Yeah, it's wealth.
It shows how wealthy you are.
So the more kids you have, the more wealthy you are.
Can you imagine that?
- Yeah, in Brazil's the opposite.
- How many kids do you have in Brazil?
- No, the more kids you have,
the more money you have to spend to--
- I know that's enough like that.
Oh.
- Sweet. - Sweet?
- Yeah, very sweet.
- Very good? - Very good.
So we use firewood to cook.
This is where you're going to spend your night.
- Really? - Yes.
- That is real? - Yeah.
Now it's hot because of a fire,
but once the fire goes out, the place will be friendly.
That sucker there.
- I see twice. - That's twice.
- There's another there. - It's running.
- There's another there.
- Let's stop. - Okay.
- Stop and watch.
Let's stop.
Are you seeing anything?
- Not yet.
- Oh yeah,.
Ah, it's a rabbit!
Okay, just, it's still alive.
Okay, this one, this one, you're going to slaughter this.
- Me? - Yes.
Do you have the guts to do this?
If you kill it, I'll give you that sword.
- Excuse me. - Do you have the guts
to do this?
- I'll give you the sword.
Good!
Yeah,
you already cut it, you are done.
You did it, you're done, you did it.
This one?
Okay now? - No.
You see? - It's dying.
- This one? - Uh uh, this one.
You put it in your pocket,
and take it to your girlfriend in Brazil.
Yes, put it in there.
Great, if-- - I'm very good
in cooking.
- You are? - Very.
- Should I get the rabbit?
- Oh, please no.
Just relax here with friend, I make fire.
- I can get it. - Come on.
- He can get it? - Come on.
How is it?
Gabriel. - Hmm?
- I'll watch you eat.
- What? - I'll watch you eat.
- We don't eat rabbit.
- That's creepy. - No, no.
- Of course. - It's, sorry.
We wish we could, but Masai don't do red meat.
- This, this is white meat.
- This is white meat, we do red meat.
White meat for dogs.
We are sorry; just enjoy it.
- Gabriel. - Gabriel!
- Your name is Gabriel.
- Yes.
- You guys should climb Kilimanjaro with me.
- Kilimanjaro, no.
- Why?
- We don't have papers to cross the border.
No passport. - I've got a passport..
- We'll get passports.
- It's not easy.
- Like the Hell's Gate?
- Yeah, Hell's Gate too. - Hell's Gate.
- Yeah, but then Kilimanjaro,
you should climb Kilimanjaro with me.
The best time of our lives.
- Oh, I'm done; I was very hungry.
- Ask him for more, ask him more, more meat.
- No, oh no.
- No, no, no, no no.
- Hey!
Hey!
- I sent him a friend request, and after two years,
I was like, why Gabriel is not accepting my friend request?
And I was like, why why why.
I went to his friends, and I found a lady called Regina.
She actually didn't break the news to me.
I went to the website and I was like, oh my goodness.
So it was like there are some specialists from Brazil
and the US who went to Malawi, look for his body.
Gabriel?
You have proven enough to be a Masai.
All that is missing now, it's a Masai name.
I'm going to give you a Masai name.
Called da-may-a.
- What does it mean?
- Da-ma-ya mean the most blessed.
You're a blessing to our community.
And as you walk out from our community,
I'll bless you too.
So it's a blessing twice, coming in and coming out.
Thank you.
- We had a long day.
We need rest.
I wish you could have stayed a bit longer.
- Me too.
- I'll miss you, though, friend.
- Miss you too. - Good night, brother.
My dearest Mom, my sweet love and João,
fellow travelers on this fantastic journey
and my little sister, Nina...
After a week of total immersion in the heart of Africa
I found a cybercafé in Jinja, Uganda, at the source of the Nile,
and I'm writing to say that I'm doing great.
After spending a few days with my Congolese refugee friend,
in a shanty town in Nairobi,
I ended up, God knows how, amongst a remote Maasai tribe
with whom I chased after giraffes, zebras and antelopes
in "roots" fashion.
I dress in colorful printed fabrics,
I carry a stick and a steel sword.
Since I arrived in Africa, I've met no other Mzungus.
I travel as I've always dreamt of doing,
in a non-touristic and sustainable manner,
spending 2 or 3 dollars a day
and giving 80% of my daily budget
to the locals who feed and shelter me.
Here, with almost nothing, you can really impact people's lives.
My Congolese friend, for example... With 12 dollars,
I paid his rent.
With 40 dollars,
I paid for a year's schooling for a Ugandan child.
Every day, I meet fascinating people,
who introduce me to others,
and encounter by encounter I delve into the soul of Africa.
I could write for hours.
I'm very happy, as everything is beyond my expectations.
But I'm writing, above all, to say I'm alive.
- Hey, brother, how are you?
Hey, brother. How are you?
- I'm Tone, from Mauritius, where are you--
- Le-may-a from Brazil.
- Ah, Le-may-a from Brazil.
Uh, what are you doing in Mauritius, safari or what?
besides I'm very hungry.
- Oh, ah, you're very hungry.
So what do you wanna eat?
- What do you usually eat?
- Oh.
You, what do you wanna do, safari or what?
- Kilimanjaro.
- Mm, you want Kilimanjaro.
- Fast, cheap.
- Right, the cheap way.
The cheapest way, it's, I know someone
who could, John Goodluck.
He can take you for Kilimanjaro.
- Goodluck?
- Yeah, Goodluck, and he has good luck,
'cause he take many people to the top.
So we need to stop tomorrow, in Mo-she,
so have you need to the Goodluck.
Thank you.
- How about the place to stay?
I know some cheaper guest house, I can take you.
- Could I sleep in your house?
- Oh, you want to sleep in my house, why?
- Because maybe I'll do safari later
when my girlfriend arrives,
so I'm trying to save some money, so.
- Right, yes, well that is okay.
You can come, just depend,
if it's okay to sleep at my house, it's okay.
- Great.
- You can pay him.
- How much for meal?
How much?
- Uh, 300.
I like the way you stay, you travel like a local.
You are different like other tourists.
It's okay, the change.
- 200? - Yeah, 200.
Thank you very much.
How do I say in Brazil?
Mm-hmm.
- That's my name, Goodluck.
- Oh, your name is really Goodluck.
- Goodluck, good luck,
that's the name for my grandfather.
My grandfather before, he climbed Kilimanjaro
without the same shoes, Masai shoes the same like you.
- Nice. - Yeah, man.
- How many days you can do the Ma-rang-go route
without waters and without cook?
- Ma-rang-go, you can do,
you can do four nights, five days.
- Is it possible to do it in four days?
- It's possible, but,
enough pay, five days.
- Why?
- Because the government. - Okay.
- Why not you are very rush?
Because you need a mountain, you need luck,
you need enjoy it, why not to be rush?
- 'Cause I have some things to do.
Something. - Yes.
- Next week, I have to pick up my girlfriend
in Dar es Salaam.
- Ah, next week. - Yeah.
The shorter we get to the big, better.
- How long you miss?
- How long? - Yeah.
- Three months now. - Oh, very long, yeah yeah.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Five days, four days are good.
- Thanks.
Where's the mountain, where's Kilimanjaro?
- Kilimanjaro behind it, on the cloud.
- Let's go, John Goodluck.
- Mon-go.
Come on, man, we have go.
You know?
- Slowly, slowly. - Yeah, yeah, good.
- So now we are going the moor-line, right?
Good day
Good day, everyone
How are you?
Very well
Strangers, you are welcome
At Kilimanjaro, no worries...
Let's go, let's go.
Yeah, Gabriel, you are gonna stay here, man.
- Yeah? - Yeah, gonna stay here.
- And you?
- I'm gonna stay the other side of the border.
- No no no, you stay here with me.
- I can't, man.
- Sure you can, there's only me in this hut.
You stay here with me this night.
- You walk very fast.
But you eat too slow.
- You walk fast too, John.
- Day after tomorrow, you'll be on the top.
- Day after tomorrow's my father's birthday.
- Ah, really?
Oh, good.
- My father died four years ago.
- Really?
I'm so sorry, Gab.
Sorry, sorry.
How's you say in Brazil?
Okay, let's go.
- Gabriel. - What?
- You need to put glasses.
- No, I don't want glass, please.
- You don't have?
- No I don't, don't even have.
No, no it's okay, John.
Let's go. - You got some--
- No no-- - It's too bright, man.
- No, I don't like glasses, I don't want anything.
- Okay. - Just my eyes.
- Okay, take my stick.
I drink a draft oi incredible power
That shows us all in its very truth
Up I went, up and up
I rose with joy
And when I reached the summit
I found the Virgin Mary
When I reached the summit
I found the Virgin Mary
Up I went, up and up
I rose with love
Until I found the Eternal Father and Christ the Redeemer
Hound the Eternal Father and Christ the Redeemer
Up I went, up and up
As I'd been taught to do
Until I found...
Long live the Eternal father and the divine beings
- John, wake up, brother; let's go!
John.
- Gabriel. - Yeah.
Let's go, brother.
- It's too early, too early now, Gabriel.
- Bullshit, everybody left already.
Let's go, John, don't be lazy.
- You need trust me, I'm your guide.
- I'm freezing, John, I gotta move!
- Gabriel.
Are you okay?
Almost, almost Gilman Point, yeah.
- Please, please.
- Gabriel.
Almost, almost.
- Okay, John.
- You need to be strong, you need to be serious, right?
Let's go, almost.
- Thanks, thanks.
Okay, thanks John.
- Drink some water? - Yeah, please.
- A little more.
- John? - Yes.
- I can't go any further, this is enough for me.
Let's go down, please.
- Gabriel-- - Let's just rest
a little bit and go down, please.
- Gabriel, please, I promise you.
- No, it's okay. - You'll make the top.
- It's okay.
- From here only one and a half.
- It's okay, John. - Please, let's go try.
- We did it, John, thanks.
- Yeah.
- Ah, thank you, John. - Good job, man.
Yeah, man.
- Thanks.
- Good job. - Sorry for bein' rude at you.
- Good job, man. - Sorry for bein' rude
with you, John.
Thank you. - Okay.
You're welcome.
Welcome.
- We did it, John.
- Yeah, man.
- Come on, come on John, come on.
Let's do this together.
- Just say, yeah man.
- Yeah, man!
- Excellent, man, good job.
Wait, wait man.
Yo ho!
On the way down,
we met an old Chagga, from the Marangu region,
like me.
"This man is rich.
Do not judge him by his poor man's clothes.
Take good care of him, because later,
this man will change your life."
When I heard his words,
my heart was glad.
Chapter two
TANZANIA
What's this outfit?
You took ages.
I didn't know the hotel's name and I was last through immigration.
I sent you at least 30 emails!
So what's with the costume?
- It's not a costume. - Yes, it is!
I missed you.
I have to get this bag off.
You dropped your magic wand.
It's not a magic wand.
Jump!
Everyone's looking at us!
Careful!
Like it?
- Mm-hmm.
The advantage oi dressing like this, with this sword,
is that it creates empathy.
As if you needed extra empathy.
Which hand?
Both, it looks big.
What is it?
Open it.
A sarong?
What is it?
A necklace!
The Maasai,
for their rite of passage
at the age of 13 or 14, head out into the savanna
and hunt down a lion.
They encircle the lion, and the strongest Maasai
grabs it by the tail,
while the others kill it with their spears.
No kidding.
Yeah, my friend Brian, Lenny's brother,
grabbed a lion by the tail when he was 13.
Or 14...
You believe that?
It's true, baby.
What else? Tell me more.
I want to see you...
dressed as a Maasai.
You'll be a Maasai too,
my Mzunga Maasai.
Let me see you for real.
Let me see you as you are,
I've forgotten.
I've not been with anyone since we parted in India...
I love you.
I missed you so much.
I met Gabriel
at a party I organized with three friends of mine.
I saw him from behind.
He was talking with a friend.
But I noticed
that they were in deep discussion.
So I gave up and went to the kitchen.
Later on, Gabriel came into the kitchen.
Stop.
We began to chat.
He was kind of awkward.
He suggested we go outside, so I agreed.
And he began...
to recite a poem by Mario Quintana.
We hooked up
that day.
And a month later
he set out to travel the world for a year.
- We go down? - No, let's do it.
Quickly.
"asante sana",
"hakuna matata",
"pole pole",
"sawa sawa".
What else?
"Tutu-nana"...
- What does that mean? - "Bye".
Ah, "kwaheri".
- He thinks that he's a Masai.
Maybe he will hunt some zebras for us.
- Oh!
- For dinner.
- Oh, it's for dinner.
- Gabriel!
- Oh, he's getting really close.
No, he's crazy.
Rashid, is it safe?
- No, it's not safe.
- So. - Tell him to come back.
- I cannot tell him.
- So far. - He's too far away.
You have to go, go there, Rashid, please.
- Go there and bring him back.
- Yeah.
- Gabriel!
Gaby!
No!
- So Rashid.
- Yes?
- Are we gonna be able to
see the migration of the wildebeest, right?
- Now you know, the migration is a really big,
very, very difficult to get there,
because we need time, we need like
almost like two nights to be in sare-en-gets,
then to get there.
- This safari is very expensive
and I'm paying only to see the wildebeest migrations,
like, somethin' special.
- Yes it is. - I promised you guys.
- And Tony promised me that I would see the wildebeest.
And everybody here wants to see it.
- Ah, you know, Tony know nothing about the migration.
- What do you mean, Tony know nothin'?
- Because otherwise, if he's going to tell you
that you are not going to see the migration,
mean that you're not going to pay.
You guys, look at the lions there.
- Whoa! - Yeah.
- It's very very amazing, real amazing.
This is more interesting, more than the wildebeest.
- Oh, what is it doing?
- You see now they are moving,
they are looking for you.
They move, they want to meet.
- They're gonna make love now.
- Make love.
And you guys?
- I'm volunteering here, yeah.
So, but we're going on this safari together
because I'm going off to Denmark soon.
- Ah. - Yeah.
- I love Denmark. - You do?
- I didn't tell you before,
but it's like my second country, it's like my favorite.
I love it, I just love it.
- Oh, so you've been there?
- Yeah.
Århus. Where were you in Denmark?
Vordingborg.
- Oh, okay.
- And what about you?
- You going with her?
- I would love to go, but we already tried for a visa.
But I got rejected.
- Why?
- Because some document doesn't fit well, so.
And I appeal again and then I also got rejected,
but they say they had to wait for couple months,
then I can try again. - That sucks.
- But the plan was going together.
So then I didn't get in, so,
we don't know what's gonna happen.
- We don't know what's gonna happen.
- You should stay together. - Yeah.
You make such a beautiful couple.
- Thanks, you, yeah, you too.
- Was expecting it.
Thanks. - So what,
what is your story, why are you here?
- Gaby's doin' research, he's about to start a PhD
in public policies for poor countries.
- PhD? - Yes.
- Dr. Gaby, very cool.
- Not quite, not quite a doctor yet.
- Okay, but you will be.
- And I happened to be invited
to a conference in South Africa
where I presented my last talk.
- Yeah, it happens, just happens, like,
of all the places in the world,
South Africa while I was in Africa.
- Oh. - We have
a word for that in Portuguese, saudade.
- Ah, that's really good.
- When you miss a person. - Yeah.
- He was missing me too, you know?
- Yeah. - Yes, I was.
I was dyin' of saudade. - Yes, I know.
- Are you okay? - Don't sit on the top please.
- But why? - Can't get...
- Yeah, come up-- - Rashid--
- But it's great here. - No.
- Let's go, let's go down.
- Gabriel, the sunset.
- Gaby.
- That's cold, I'm freezing, okay.
- Okay, whoo!
- Everybody says that it takes too long.
- Yeah, it does, it takes too long.
Rashid's saying it takes too long,
because he doesn't want us to go because he's lazy!
- Do you think I do not know more than that?
- You trust your, you trust your lite on that man?
- Kind of have to, he's the guide.
- You do trust him also, that's why you come here with him.
- No, I don't.
I mean, let me, no, let me explain why that I came here.
I came to see the fuckin' migration.
- With who? - With you guys--
- And who was here?
- What? - Who is driving us?
- How are you, my friend?
- Hey, Rashid. - Dam-el ready.
- What, I wanted to talk about Ben-ee.
- What? - Migration.
But this is way more than we agreed.
- No, I just paid for six, five peoples.
- Five people? - Yeah,
I paid for five people.
Which I-- - Why?
- Because I told you that,
you are going to get the money back,
because the card which I was supposed to use it,
the credit's not enough, brother.
- You swiped my card, without my authorization,
without my signature.
- I don't know, I give the guy that counted the the card
is swamp without to ask give it the pin card.
- I should be there with you!
- I didn't know that. - What's wrong, Gab?
He charged me triple, he paid for everyone!
That wasn't the deal.
Can't he cancel it?
- Brother, you have to cancel this.
Cancel this. - No, no, no no.
- Yes, you have to cancel this.
Yes, you're wrong. - No easy for me,
I don't-- - You have his money.
- I didn't do that. - If you will not cancel,
if you don't cancel that, then I will say
that you're robbin' from me. - No, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
- Don't touch him, are you crazy?
- Don't push me to the-- - Don't touch her, all right?
I was very sad when I heard the news.
No one wishes the death of another human being,
even if that person is your enemy.
You know, the wildebeest, they are very, very stupid animal.
Sometimes, they don't have a good memo,
sometimes they see like predators around them,
lions or a cheetah, then they forget and they get killed.
So they're very, very stupid,
they don't have a good memory.
Gabriel.
- What? - You understand?
- Yeah, I'm not stupid.
- I want
this one too. - 1,000.
- No no no, come on. - 1,000.
- This one is 800, 800.
price, 1,000.
- 1,000.
2000, it's okay...
It's okay, thank you.
You're paying Mzungu price.
- Mzungu price! - Mzungu price.
My Mzunga.
How did your presentation in South Africa go?
I thought you'd never ask.
At last!
It went fine.
I'd forgotten my suit, so I was a bit ill at ease.
Dressed like a hippie.
Otherwise, it was fine.
So what was it about?
On the importance of public investment for Brazil's economic development.
Obvious, no?
No, otherwise 100 people wouldn't have come to listen.
That's not what I meant...
Sure, you must invest in infrastructure,
health, security, education...
You're minimizing the issue.
of public investment has nothing to do with efficiency.
Not at all!
What did you present, a mathematical, analytical model?
No, just a historical overview.
So you proved nothing!
Since when do we need econometrics to prove an argument?
No, Gabriel.
Baby, I'm not denigrating your work.
But I think the state should play a role of regulation, not of production.
It's impossible to have a discussion with you,
as you're totally formatted by your education.
I studied in the best schools in Rio,
perhaps even in the country!
My God, listen to him!
If heterodoxy was as important as you say
it wouldn't be frowned upon in the top universities.
In the top universities,
people have different points of view.
The problem is that the world's political elite
has a doxa based on individualism and profitability
instead oi redistribution and it's totally absurd.
Not out of bad faith, just pure ignorance!
No.
- No. - No, thanks.
- No thank you, thank you, no thanks, thanks,
thanks a lot.
I don't see why you get so worked up.
When you're annoyed, you're not clear.
You get riled and it's not clear...
It's perfectly clear!
No, neither your argumentation, nor your discourse.
It's not clear to you because you just don't get it!
- You explode... - Damned orthodox!
Just to keep up your reputation...
- Reputation as what? - A radical.
Is that what your neo-con friends say?
It's crazy, you talk just like them.
Like the one you slept with?
That was before India.
Don't start on that.
So why did you tell me?
If it was before.
So as to be honest...
Well, it hurts!
I preferred that you heard it from me!
Than on your return, goddammit...
He was my roommate in Brazil.
How can I ever look him in the face? It's so embarrassing.
Are you with your roommate now? No, you're with me! So stop.
It bothers me, sleeping with my buddies...
Shut it!
Go find yourself a spotless little virgin
on a par with your own self image!
This image of the super man... It's ridiculous!
Honestly!
For example...
After you let everyone down, what did you do?
You ran off to Africa, to hide!
Who's this "everyone" I let down?
- I ran off to Africa? - Yeah, to hide!
What's up, Tonny!
- How was the safari?
- It was good, I'm gonna talk to you.
I'd been planning this trip for ages
and at last I'm living my dream,
- not running from anyone. - Sure you are.
You're the one who's running.
- Watch out.
- So tell me about it. - The safari was good,
Rashid was a bit, how can I say, a little angry.
- No, thanks.
No thanks, no thanks, no!
- It's good.
- It's good stuff, we take it from the Masai range.
The Masai ma-ma, always they take, they go ,
it's the best in Tanzan'.
- Masai weed. - Yeah, Masai weed.
- They say that the weed in Malawi is also very good.
- Yeah, they call it a gold weed.
- Gold. - Yeah.
'Cause of the color.
- Uh huh.
- Wait wait wait wait, wait wait wait.
I'm not, wait, wait, wait, no, my friend's not here!
- Okay, let's go.
- Okay.
Let's buy some bananas. - Yes.
- I'm hungry.
- Let's go, 20.
- Just, wait wait please, wait wait wait.
Gabriel!
- Eesh, have to go.
Brother, thanks a lot for the hospitality.
We see each other too, wait wait wait wait!
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait!
Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
Ah-ba, sorry.
♪ Ooh ooh ♪
It's funny.
You compare me to my neo-con friends,
and yet they call me a "poorologist".
Did you know that? We're worlds apart.
If I wanted to work in finance, I'd earn as much as them, if not more.
But I don't!
I want to work in education, with social programs
for those who need them and don't have access,
instead of wasting my life on theoretical models.
But I hate American culture
and Los Angeles really typifies it.
Are you listening?
Isn't it ridiculous to study poverty and public policy
in Beverly Hills?
It makes no sense, it's absurd.
It's like talking about squalor in a five star hotel.
You wouldn't say that if you'd got into Harvard.
Two months on a waiting list.
The worst two months of my trip.
I had my computer stolen,
I split my skull on the Mekong in Vietnam...
You'll get over not getting into Harvard.
Too bad for them. So stop dwelling on it!
I wasn't refused, I was on a waiting list.
Well, UCLA is great.
- You think so? - Everyone thinks so!
Want to live with me in Los Angeles?
I'm serious.
Me, I don't have a scholarship.
You'll find work.
There's nothing for me in LA.
- What do you mean? - Apart from you...
And I'm not enough?
Of course not.
- Hi. - Hey.
Good morning, how are you?
- I'm good, and you? - Fine, thank you.
How beautiful!
A present from my lover.
He must love you a lot.
You think so?
Sure.
Take a shower?
No, there was no water.
No water...
Shit!
You spilt the kerosene!
Is it wet?
I don't know.
Damn.
Your notebook is wet?
Yes, but it's okay.
Doesn't matter.
I'm sorry.
- What's in it? - The lot.
What do you mean?
All my travel notes, everything.
- Hey, sir, do you know the Ham-ah-nee Bath?
- Ha-ma-nee Bath. - Yeah.
- This way. - This way?
- Yeah, it's sure this way, I know Ha-ma-nee Bath.
Let's go, I show you the Ha-ma-nee Bath.
- Let's go with him, come on.
- Listen my friend, that's not the way
for Ha-ma-nee Bath, is the right way, this way, right way.
- I uh, I uh-- - Can you take us there?
- Yeah, I take for him. - Okay.
- Let's go together. - Come.
- No problem, brother, let's go together.
You're gonna see many things in the Ha-ma-nee Bath.
But this is official, this is Arabic door.
But the Arabic door, this sign is like, is for elephant,
because it's used, it's for copper, to make this.
And this is like a sign of the chan,
'cause this sign for the slave traders.
Like this sign, and this wood, call it
this wood is come from India.
Yeah, this is a very, very strong wood.
- Yeah, it's wonderful.
- From here, let's go, I show you Ha-ma-nee Bath.
This is the Zanzibar bath, but is.
Like this, when you right here, you gonna see
how the historical people sometime were swimming here.
And they get warm water.
By the way, maybe let's go together inside.
Don't be worried, my brother, be peace.
Be peace, Gabriel, don't be worried.
He's only explaining to us.
Want to pay him?
You don't know about this stuff.
- So you'll pay him after? - Yes.
- Okay.
- Let's go inside. - Okay, let's go inside.
You are too gonna look.
You know, of course, I'm sick from malaria.
Even I walk away, but is, I'm really sick, if you want--
- How can I help you, Tony?
- Maybe we going together pharmacy
or dispensary, depend, but is, I'm really sick.
I know this is malaria, because it--
- Are you sure that it's malaria?
- Yes, sure that it's malaria, because--
- You wanna go to the hospital to make sure?
- Of course if you, either way you want.
For us, people in Zambia, we used to have to sell spice.
And that people, and that one and other one is here.
But where I want to go, I really,
I can't place for ride to place.
I'm going to buy one for my mom.
- Don't.
For my sister too.
- Ar-co-sa, yeah, this like Zam-pee-bo Island.
I don't like the color.
- This one. - No?
- This one not good one.
They have it in green.
- Listen, Gabriel, not good one.
The green is nice.
- This is a red one, hey, this is the red one,
this is a nice one. - Yeah.
This is a nice one. - Yeah.
- This is a good one, Gabriel.
I lost.
- I take a picture of you. - Okay.
- Can I take a picture with you?
- Yeah, okay.
- Is here.
Yeah, it's here.
- Low income. - Yes.
I need medicine for malaria.
How much?
- Give to me, say 25 real.
Leave it, I'll pay.
- You sure? - Yeah, I'm sure.
♪ Carry on, carry on ♪
♪ 'Cause nothin' really matters ♪
It was my father's favorite song.
A toast to your father!
To the prettiest girl on the island!
To our first year together!
A toast to...
Three days without a shower!
I love you.
- Hello, sorry, you're welcome in for the food.
But I think we are good
just with the wine, for now.
- Sorry, if you sitting by the sea,
you have to order food.
But if you are only drinks, you can sit at the bar, sorry.
Will we order something?
- Okay, I'll bring a bit, sorry.
Why?
- It's a shame.
We could've ordered a snack.
Yeah, but...
I don't like feeling as if...
I'm being preyed on... I'm not a tourist.
- I hate tourist traps. - But this is a tourist restaurant.
So why did we come here?
- For you. - Ah, for me...
- Jambo!
- Go to beach, go to beach!
Go to beach!
I think there's a snake.
- Snake?
- No, impossible?
- Jambo, jambo. - Hey, how are you?
- How are you today?
- Ba-dee, you are beautiful.
- Ah, very beautiful, beautiful.
- No no no!
- Sorry, sorry!
- Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa.
- Stop! - Why not?
Il y a du monde.
- No, no, no no! - Sh!
- No.
Let's go, I'm cold!
- What's up? - I lost my Maasai stick!
Can't you leave it for the sea spirits?
It's cold!
Forget it!
Tomorrow then...
Let's go!
♪ When my life ♪
♪ On the painful way ♪
Chapter three
ZAMBIA
♪ When my day and night ♪
The only traveller who recognized the sacred jersey
"Flamengo, Cairo!"
"Flamengo!", in Cairo.
I misread it.
"May 22nd, 2009"
It's blotched...
with the kerosene.
But it's still legible.
♪ When my season ♪
How long have we been on this bus?
- Twenty hours or more. - Millions of hours.
That sun is so hot.
My God, that music!
Even Jesus would hate that music!
♪ Oh, la la la la ♪
True.
♪ Oh hallelujah ♪
- Not even Jesus liked this song!
- Sh.
♪ La la, oh, la la la la ♪
I'm baking.
I think we're dead.
But they forgot to tell us.
We're in purgatory.
Think they told my mom?
Bad news travels fast.
We're the only ones who don't know.
Purgatory!
Stop the bus!
Let's get off.
We're in the middle of nowhere, there's nothing here.
"Randomization." Let's just get off.
- Rod?
- Yes, brother.
- How do I ask the driver to stop the bus?
- Hi. - Hi.
- How are you? - I'm good, and you?
- I'm George.
- I'm Cris; it's nice to meet you.
- Ah, hello.
- Nice to meet you. - How are you?
- I'm fine, I'm sorry for entering like this.
- No, it's okay, I'm George.
- Thank you, I'm Gabriel.
- Thank you; from which country?
- Brazil. - What is your mission?
Why have you come to Zambia?
- That's a hard question, but,
yeah, I'm researchin' education.
Yeah, I'm researchin' education.
But I'm also livin' my life and traveling around,
and getting to know new places.
What about you, do you teach here?
- Yes, I'm a teacher here.
- What subject?
- I teach sight, that is a step into English.
- What about this subject, like--
- Which one? - Yeah, yeah.
- Mathematics. - Yeah, I love it.
- For grade nine. - Grade nine.
- Grade nine is-- - That's what I was...
- By the way, is she your wife?
- Ah ha, mm, she's my girlfriend, yeah.
- What do you mean when you say your girlfriend?
- My girlfriend, we date.
- How can you come with a girlfriend
over from Brazil to Zambia?
In our tradition, it is not allowed, it is an offense.
- Really? - Yes.
First you have to pay,
to the father of the girl, then they give you official.
- Ah, so I need to buy her.
- Almost that.
So it means you are a thief, you have stolen her.
- Oh, I've stolen her.
- Yeah. - I like that, I stole her.
- Why?
- 'Cause I just love her.
And she's a thief too, because she stole my heart.
- Hey, hey, hey.
- Hey.
- Where are you going?
- Uh-- - The school con-for
is just finished here.
On this side there are no houses.
How may I help you?
- We just came from George's house,
we were just explorin', this is my fiancee.
We are soon gonna marry.
- When you are drinking, you have to shake first.
Because if you don't shake, what'll happen is,
you only take the water part.
So as you are drinking, you have to do this.
Then-- - Thank you very much.
- Very good.
- It's very sweet, very good.
- Thank you. - So,
are you married?
- I'm married, yes. - Your husband's around?
- My husband is not around, he is studying.
He's at the university all the time, but...
- Let me ask you something.
When you got married, it was because you wanted to?
- It was because I loved Dennis so much.
We shared a lot with him, we went to the same school.
We knew each other,.
I was not forced, it was after all from my heart.
- That's good to know. - You have children?
- I have three children.
As you hit like that, the grains will start to dropping.
So when doing this, you have to do it really hard.
With a lot of energy, like this.
Like this. - Okay.
Like this; you are scared? - No, no, no no it's okay.
Here, you can start. - I was just,
I just got shy, but it's okay.
- Okay, you must apply a lot of energy there.
- All right. - Okay.
Ah, ah, apply energy.
- Not enough energy? - You have hitt-en, go ahead.
- Okay, I need to be angry with the maize, right?
- Uh huh.
- Think now I got it.
- If Gabriel was alive today,
I would have wished to see his family.
I would have loved him to marry Cristina.
It he had not died, they should have been together,
because they were in love.
Pass me the camera.
Taking one of me?
Strike the pose.
Look.
- You managed to make me handsome. - But you are!
My mom thinks so too.
You've been handsome ever since you recited Mario Quintana for me.
At Milla's?
Friends, check not your watches
When one day I shall leave your lives
Lives lost in so many futile problems
That they seem more like necrologies
Because time is an invention of death
It knows not life, true life
As a single moment of poetry
Is enough to give us the whole of eternity
Whole, yes
Because this eternal life
Is only divisible by itself
It cannot be fractioned
And the angels
Trade looks of bewilderment
When someone, awakening in the afterlife
Happens to ask them
What time is it?
Thank you, Victoria Falls!
Thank you!
Nina,
your state of mind and emotions depend only on you.
You are a strong girl
and you must find that inner strength.
Happiness, beauty,
truth, love...
are to be found everywhere.
You only have to see that
and then choose happiness.
And when you truly decide
to seek within
you will find it, as it's already there.
Shall we go?
Just a minute.
It's my sister's birthday.
It's my last day, I want to ride an elephant.
I'm backing up my photos, I don't want to lose them.
- They really matter to me. - Yeah, like the Maasai stick...
"Please, think about all this,
and try to really feel it."
Can I read it for you?
I've been dreaming of riding an elephant since India.
Be nice, come.
Can't I read it for you?
"A big kiss
from your brother
who loves you
so very much."
You can't ride elephants in India.
- But in Zambia you can. - "Gabiruba."
- Hi. - Hi.
- I'm well; yourself?
- I'm good. - I'm good.
- Hi, brother. - Hi, how are you?
- I'm fine, and you? - Well, come on through.
- We want to ride elephant, is it possible?
- No, I'm sorry, it's not possible.
- Why not?
- They came out from a ride already.
They are roaming freely now.
Wanna give them a rest.
Should have come earlier.
- Yeah. - Sorry.
Take a picture of me.
We take a bus to the bungee jump?
We'll take a taxi.
No, over here.
So let's go.
- Hello, brother. - Hi.
Hi. - Hi, how are you?
- I'm fine, and you?
- Good.
- I'm Gabriel, what's your name?
- Hosiah. - Hosiah.
- I'm the next one, you can write my name down.
- No, you're not.
- What do you mean?
- Because I'm closed, these guys, they're the last
to jump off the bridge today.
- No, but I can be the last one, just--
- No, you can't.
No man, you can't, we're closed man.
There's nothing I can do for you.
- But wait, wait wait, he's still jumping, they're--
- I'm sorry, we're closed, try another time, eh?
- Please please please, man, please,
this is my last chance, man, come on,
come on brother, this is my last chance to jump.
You have to, listen,
Wait, Cris!
You have to listen to me, man.
Come on, okay, okay, you do this jump,
then we talk again.
- Arms out, put your arms strong, eh?
- Five, four, three, two, one!
- Good luck! - Okay!
- Whoa!
Wow!
- Go, boy!
- Brother, brother, please, please, please.
Look at my eyes.
- That's the end of the day, man.
Sorry.
I never thought it'd be so cold in Africa.
I'm a Corinthians supporter!
But the Flamengo jersey really suits you.
No, I have my period.
That never stopped you before.
As we'd argued a lot during the trip,
he asked me if it was
because...
I thought it'd be easier, if we argued,
to say goodbye.
I answered, yes, perhaps,
maybe that was why.
We kissed and he asked me:
"Will you come with me to Los Angeles?"
I answered:
"I don't know, we'll see.
We'll see when you get back to Rio."
We looked at each other and I remember
I could see his feet through the...
And I don't know, but...
I felt that...
it was like a farewell.
- Thank you, have a nice flight.
- Thank you.
- Sorry, sir, you wait there, that's--
- I got it.
- May I have your attention, please.
See you soon.
This is a final call
for South African Airlines flight 061
South African Airlines, flight 061 to Johannesburg.
Passengers who will be boarding first tor this ﬂight,
please proceed through to the international
boarding gate for your final exit formalities.
Passengers who will be boarding first tor this ﬂight,
please proceed through to the international
boarding gate, for your final exit formalities.
I love you.
Me too.
- Thank you.
- Welcome.
Hi, my little Mzunga,
I hope you got back safely.
Yesterday, I got up late and went to the museum.
It was like a science fair, but nice.
Then I strolled in a market and went to the station.
I spent 4 hours reading the guidebook
and decided to go straight to Malawi.
I'd thought I'd stay in Zambia, but it was just like in India:
I can't be alone in a country where we've been together.
I miss you so, my love.
I'll soon buy my ticket home.
Lots of kisses, see you soon.
- Uh oh, you just jumped the border.
There's no exit stamp in here.
- No, no, my exit stamp from Zambia
is in my Brazilian passport, this one here.
- Ah, okay, this one, Brazil.
75 dollars, this one.
- Yeah, no, but I-- - This one is visa-free.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, I want definitely
to get in with the visa-free,
because I'm also a French citizen.
- Yeah, but there's no exit stamp on this one.
It's in here, so this one, 75 dollars.
- Man, I, look, I don't even have 75 dollars.
- Sir, how are you traveling without money?
- I'm at the end of the trip.
Hello!
- Hey, you're back.
- Yes, I-- - So fast.
- I got the transit visa from the Zambia border.
Paid 50 dollars, so I saved 25.
Yeah? - Yeah.
- Well that's good. - Hey.
- It's not stamped? - Yeah.
No, but there is.
There you go. - Thank you.
So this one is good for 30 days, yeah?
- 30 days, I've given you 30 days, sir.
- So the truck's that one, yeah?
- Yeah.
- Hello, sir.
- Hello, how are you?
- I'm fine, and you. - I'm good.
- Can you give this
a ride, please?
- Where are you going?
- Lilongwe. - Lilongwe, okay,
you have to pay.
- See, that's the thing, I don't have money, man.
- Don't have money?
- No, but I can cash out in Lilongwe.
Can you get there?
- Sure. - Yeah.
- All right, get in.
Why you go north if you want to go south to Mulanje?
- 'Cause I wanna get the ee-la-la ferry
from Tee-tzee-ma, and then come back south again.
- Oh, tomorrow I'm gonna to load some timbers in Mzuzu.
- Wait, ah,
can I go with you?
- No problem, we can go together.
Thank you very much.
- So, have you ever been to Mulanje?
- No, I've never been in Mulanje.
But I like to be there one day.
- You should come with me then.
- Sure. - Yeah.
- No problem, we'll go together.
- They say that Mulanje's one of the most beautiful places
of the world.
- Yeah, it's beautiful place.
And there is some rumors that there's some spirits.
- Yeah. - Yes.
- But you don't believe these rumors?
- No, I don't believe the rumors.
- Why not?
- I don't know, I just don't believe it.
- They say Tolkien found inspiration
to write The Lord of the Rings from Mulanje.
- Yeah, just ain't so, but I don't believe it.
You know it's just the rumors.
Sometimes they say, if you go there, you find food,
you eat, don't tell your friend,
even if your friend just eat the food and you go.
See, things like that.
So when did you leave Brazil?
- Uh, almost one year now, man.
- Oh, you're just traveling?
Okay, that's nice, you see the countries, yeah?
- Yes.
- So when are you going back to Brazil?
- Two weeks from now.
- Oh, wow, that's nice.
Yeah, let's eat sim-mah.
Because tomorrow morning, early in the morning,
we are going to Mzuzu.
- Yeah, thank you.
- Sure.
- So what time do we leave?
- Five a.m. - Really?
- Yeah. - Isn't it too early?
Shouldn't you rest a little bit more?
Is it kind of dangerous?
- No, no, I can wake even three days without sleeping.
- Yeah? - Sure.
- What do you do to keep awake?
- Oh, when you are driving, just have a poured water.
Poured water, sometimes you can have even beer.
- Beer? - Yeah.
It's good.
- Wow.
But like, if I drink beer,
I sleep.
- Not too much beer, just two bottles,
going to keep you awake.
- Hmm. - Sure.
Thank you.
So how much do you make for trip, per trip?
- Mm, they pay me almost 40 dollars per month.
- Per month? - Yeah.
And now it's almost five months without paying me.
Sure.
- Why don't you, I don't know, do something,
get organized, do strikes; fuck, man.
- You know what, here in Malawi, job is too much scarce.
Otherwise, if you do strike, you just fire me,
then I'll lose my job.
- It's okay now. - Thanks.
- Sure.
What happened to your hand, this one?
- This one. - Yes.
- I don't know, actually, no one does.
- Why not?
- Yeah, it's just something that happened.
- How old are you?
- When I was 15.
I wasn't born like this. - All right, okay, I see.
- This one is good.
- It's good now.
All right, doing fine.
Gabriel Buchmann, I was reading the front paper,
the front page, thought, gee,
there's a white man lost, I mean, missing,
in the Mulanje Mountain.
Ya, you have to go now.
So I was telling my friends that this,
I know this one is my friend.
So they said, ah, no, and I showed 'em the card
which he gave me, and it's when they believed
that I was with Gabriel.
Your coming here, it's very wonderful to me.
We are making maybe good place, like a place
coming again to me.
- It's not much, yeah? - Yes.
- But you should keep some. - Thank you very much.
Thank you. - Okay,
I want you to have my card, that way we keep in touch.
- Yes, yeah, thank you very much.
- Thank you, Luke.
Why don't you keep these too? - No.
- Yeah, as a gift.
- Oh, thank you very much. - I don't need it.
- Thank you very much, thank you.
Thank you very much, have a nice journey, my friend.
- You too. - Sure.
- Drive safe, yeah? - Thank you.
- Don't drink too much beer, yeah?
- No, no, no.
- We meet again, yeah? - All right.
- Bye, Luke.
Dear Cris and Mom...
After hitchhiking to the far north of Malawi,
sleeping at the home of a trucker who became a good friend,
I took a ferry that crosses Lake Malawi north to south in 3 days
and that stops in 13 villages along the coast.
Amazing.
Sleeping up on deck beneath the stars,
I'm the only Mzungu on board.
I've just arrived at the famous Nkhata Bay
and as I've only got three hours to enjoy it...
Big kisses.
Chapter four
MALAWI
- Hello, my friend. - Hello, sir.
- Hiya, friend. - Hello.
- Hi. - Hi.
- How are you? - I'm fine, you?
- Fine, and you?
- What your name? - I'm Gabriel.
- My name's Lewis.
- My name is Wa-jee, I'm ho-vah.
- Nice.
- We wanna offer tour guide for Mulanje.
- Oh yeah, you're a guide for Mulanje?
- I'm a guide for Mulanje.
- Gonna take me there, too? - Yeah, but
let's go to tourist office first.
They're going to give you a visa.
- So let's go, let's not waste any time.
- Okay.
So how many days do you want to spend out on the mountain?
- So I want to go in one day.
- One day. - Yeah.
- One day? - Mm-hmm.
- You can't make it one day.
It's a bit, it's hard, and it's too late.
- I like hard things.
- Oh.
- Can I leave my backpack here?
- No problem, you'll get it.
- Okay.
- Yeah, but know that we close at five o'clock.
- I'll be here. - You'll be here?
- Yes. - I'm not sure.
- Let's go, Lewis, we have few time.
- Oh, I see, sorry.
- Then. - Yes, brother?
- You're so lucky.
- I'm sure you're going to see
a lot of different things when you get on the plat.
- I mean, you are a rich man.
- Thank you very much.
As I said, I'm bringing you here
to change the shoes, I have, this is my spare shoes
but you can use it.
- Oh, hey, no no, I don't need any shoes.
I'm good with my sandals.
- No no, but you use this shoes.
I have never trouble with it,
and now the part is without-- - I appreciate it,
but I'm good with my sandals, I wanna do it,
with these shoes-- - Please, I'm--
- This is tire, this is made from tire.
It's good, it's strong, I do everything with this, just,
let's go man, please, hurry up, do what you have to do.
Put your clothes on-- - Listen, please.
I know the mountain very well.
But when you just use, it's very hard
and very difficult to walk without--
- I won't, thank you.
I'll pay what we agreed, probably.
Let's get goin', because we don't have much time, yeah?
- Can you wait, please? - What?
- Can you wait?
- What is it?
- You look this path?
This one going, this is the quickest
to go to Sapitwa.
- What about the waterfall?
- Yeah, the waterfall is quite this way,
it's the pa-loo-ka path.
- Can we get to the waterfall
and then from the waterfall get to Sapitwa too?
- 'Cause there's a shortcut?
- So how long to the waterfall?
- It's 15 minutes only.
- We can do it in half an hour, let's go.
- Let's go, do it quickly.
So are you going to swim? - Yeah, I love waterfalls.
- Okay, I like swim too, but I'm not going swim.
You think you can manage the jump here?
- Yeah.
Get away, get away! - Okay, no problem.
- Where's the jump?
- You jump from over there.
- Where?
- Just up there, let me show you.
- You stay there. - Okay.
- Take pictures. - No problem, okay.
- So where is it?
. Go up.
- Is it safe to jump here?
- Yes, it is!
It's very deep now, and this keep them just deep,
nothin' alive in the pool.
- Have you done this before?
- Yes, very many times.
- Okay, so I'm going!
Set the picture!
- No problem!
Ready?
Well done!
- Let me see.
- Have a look.
- Oh, man.
- Well done. - Should I do it again?
- No problem. - Okay, man.
Because you didn't got this one.
Are you ready? - I'm ready, yes.
- Can I go? - Come along.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- Take one to try!
- Jump, please.
- Whoa! - One, two, three.
Do you know the name Sapitwa means?
- Don't go there. - Yeah, no-go area.
'Cause bee-twa is the
of spirits.
You know man, just historical background about the place,
it was two people that go.
- What are you doin'?
- Gabriel, I just want to take a break.
- No, no breaks, brother, please, we're late.
- If you are late, you can stay at the hut.
So tomorrow morning we can be able to go to Sapitwa.
Then come down in the same day.
- See, the thing is,
my visa to Malawi expires tonight.
So I need to get out from Malawi
to reach Mozambique tonight.
- Sure, I didn't know that, so,
it seem like you don't have enough time to take Malawi,
so let's just go through the heart and see the heart,
take some photos, then go back.
- Brother, I am going to Sapitwa.
Are you comin' with me?
- We said goodbye cha-that,
I think, at 20 after two, at Djembe Plateau.
I didn't allow him to go.
Yeah, if something happened, it would be my concern.
Let's go down, let's quit.
Speaking louder and loud.
Tell me, don't worry about me,
I'm more a mountaineer than Lewis.
Don't worry about anything.
Come back to your house in the night and pick my stuff,
and say goodbye, I'm going to Mozambique.
- I, Gabriel Buchmann, authorize
Lewis, what is your second name?
- Gadson. - Lewis Gadson
to pick up my stuff.
Okay.
- Are you sure that you're going there by yourself?
- Yes. - No.
- Thank you very much, you have helped me very much.
- You didn't pay me.
- Oh, right. - Yeah, from,
taking you from the first office up here.
You pay me, yeah?
- You're completely right; sorry, I was forgetting.
- That time, he paid me not enough.
I said he paid me 400 kwacha, just half.
I also understand that he didn't have enough money
for his safe.
- Where is my wallet?
Okay, it's here, whew.
So.
Okay? - You need change?
- No, actually, you can keep the change.
- Thank you. - Yeah.
- My friend, you didn't end a good thing, you know?
Things started to get ugly together,
what do you think about this?
- I think that you don't need to worry about this.
Because soon we will meet again
and we will bar-ee about this.
- Okay. - Okay.
Thank you, man.
- I'm still thinking about him,
'cause he was one of my client,
who went up on the mountain, die.
So I do remember him, each and every single day
when I wake up.
Night, I sleep, I used to pray
that his spirit may rest in peace.
- Hi.
Where's your guide?
- I let him go, he was too slow.
Did you go to the top?
- Yeah, I just came down today.
- Is it beautiful up there?
- It's gorgeous, you can see all the way to Mozambique.
- Wow.
How long till I get there?
- Like two, three hours, depending on your pace.
- Nice. - Where do you think
you're going?
- Uh, Sapitwa.
- No way, there's less than two hours of sunlight.
- That's why I have to hurry.
- How smart; no guide, no gear, sandals.
- I've done many mountains before.
- Oh come on, this mountain is treacherous.
And if you go up alone, now,
you're not only putting your life at risk,
you're putting at risk the life of other people
who'll have to go up to rescue you
in the middle of the night.
- Oh, you'll go up to rescue me in the middle of the night.
- No way.
I'll be sleeping, and you'll be sleeping here too.
- No, tough decision.
Shall I put it out? - Mm-hmm.
- Hot, that's hot.
Oh, shit, it's hot.
- Should I help with the carrots,
like with the onions?
- We can just eat it like this.
- Are you leaving?
- Yes, I am.
- You're not taking your backpack?
- No, I'm fine with this.
- You should take your backpack.
Just in case you take the wrong trail down.
- So I'll go up to the peak, I'll go down,
and I'll pass you on the way down.
- So, before I forget.
Here's some energy to pass me on the way down.
- Merci.
Sure you don't wanna come with me?
- I'll see you on the way down.
- You keep my tea then.
- Enjoy the mountain. - Okay.
Okay.
Mm.
Help!
♪ Oh God, people say ♪
♪ You are better than more people say ♪
♪ You are better than more people say, my Lord ♪
♪ Better than more people say ♪
♪ Marvelous ♪
♪ Excellent ♪
Gabriel Buchmann disappeared on July 17th, 2009.
His body was found 19 days later by Luka Waiti and Benard Nyove.
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