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[water rushes]
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[Scott] When you're standing
on top of a rapid,
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everything's theoretical.
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You're imagining every movement.
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Every current.
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Every stroke.
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And you still know full well
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that even though you've done
all of this work
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to prepare for that one moment,
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that it could still all go wrong.
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[chanting]
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{\an8}When I walked away from kayaking,
initially, it was...
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{\an8}three months, and I'll be good as new
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and I'll be right back at it.
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It wasn't like I was planning
to walk away from kayaking forever.
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But once I wrapped my head
around the type of surgery
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I was about to have,
there were no guarantees.
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I had dedicated my life to running
the most dangerous rivers in the world.
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But this time, it was different.
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It was at that moment I knew
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I was about to run the scariest rapid
of my life.
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And it was all in my head.
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This is Today with David Bloom.
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{\an8}[David] Guys, good morning.
Congratulations.
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{\an8}-[Scott] Thank you.
-[Johnnie] Thanks.
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Scott, I mean, you are, we said,
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a world-class kayaker.
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But even you kind of went,
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"Gulp, I can't believe
that we're gonna do this."
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Why do people call this
the Mount Everest of rivers?
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[man] In the annals of adventure,
this first descent
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will be remembered as one
of the most accomplished expeditions
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of our time.
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Scott, what's next for you?
I mean, you're 30 now.
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So what's the next big adventure?
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Well, for me, there's a place
in western Tibet.
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It's called Mount Kailash.
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And there are four rivers
that come from this one peak.
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And they flow
in the four cardinal directions.
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And that would be completing
the four biggest rivers in the Himalayas.
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You don't recommend this
to any novice kayakers.
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This is something
that's just such a challenge.
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No, this is for somebody
that's completely laser-focused,
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and has made the commitment
to, you know, running big rivers.
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My earliest memory is probably this boat.
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My dad was into drag boats.
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{\an8}And he would start the thing up,
and it would just shake the whole house.
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My dad was wild back then.
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{\an8}We didn't live near the mountains.
We didn't live near the ocean.
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{\an8}We grew up in hot valleys,
San Bernardino, Fresno, Sacramento.
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We're true valley kids.
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{\an8}The boys, I'm gonna speak
about both of them,
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{\an8}'cause one goes with the other almost.
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The brothers were very close.
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I believe that healthy children
were active children,
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and meant no doctor bills.
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Early years were fun. Really fun.
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And then, their dad and I got a divorce.
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{\an8}For many years,
I've kind of regretted that, you know?
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I felt that we should have stuck it out.
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But it wasn't to be, you know.
It wasn't gonna happen.
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[Scott] My mom had just lost her job,
and she had decided to go back to school.
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At that point, we were living
off of student loans.
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And my dad was like a traveling salesman.
He just wasn't in the picture.
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We were living in San Bernardino,
and the neighborhood that we grew up in
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was definitely rough.
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Our home was very safe.
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But you walk out the front door,
and two blocks down,
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it was a completely different world.
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There were street hookers on the corner.
There were drug dealers.
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There were kids carrying weapons
to school.
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[Dustin] At the time,
there was really one way, in our mind,
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to climb the ladder
in getting any sort of respect,
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and that was through being physical,
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and getting into a fight
to prove yourself.
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[Scott] If somebody challenged us,
that was it.
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We would just pull the shirt off
and start throwing blows.
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We were heavily picked on, especially me.
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I was walking home from a friend's house,
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and I got in a fight with a couple kids.
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And one of the kids stabbed me
in the shoulder.
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And, fortunately, I was faster
than both the other kids,
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and I literally just outran them.
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I remember running in the front door
and telling my brother I just got stabbed.
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[Dustin] I remember him and I talking
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about how we were gonna keep it
from my mom.
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And he wanted to make sure
that I wasn't gonna say anything.
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[Scott] And we knew that the more we kept
from our parents,
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the less stress it put on them.
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It was like, "Okay, let's bury this thing.
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Let's not have a conversation
ever again about it."
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There were things that throughout our,
you know, childhood,
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whether it was getting suspended
from school,
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or Scott getting arrested
for stupid stuff,
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it kind of created some negatives
in our character.
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[Mary] We lost the house.
I was out of money.
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One of those, you know?
We were at the end.
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It was time to get Scott and Dustin
out of San Bernardino.
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[Dustin] And so then,
my mom got out of college,
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and we moved to the Sacramento Valley,
to Rocklin/Roseville area.
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And that's when things kind of
mellowed out a little bit.
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[Scott] Our next-door neighbor at the time
was the Stanley family.
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They lived real close
to Mary and the boys.
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And got them into rafting.
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[Dustin] As soon as school got out,
we would head to the river.
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We'd head to the mountains.
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Did things that Scott and I
had never experienced.
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And I think that we saw that
as an opportunity.
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[Scott] Doug, the oldest brother,
was running this rafting guide school.
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And he really presented the idea
that there was something more to life
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than partying, getting in fights,
and doing illegal shit.
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[Mary] Dustin and Scott both went through
their guide school,
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and became river guides.
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And they worked summers doing that.
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That's when I was like,
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"Wow, this is something that is really
singing to my heart."
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[men cheer]
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♪ 'Cause I can't let go ♪
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♪ It's the greatest thrill
I've ever known ♪
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♪ I'm not sure there's somethin' more
There's no tellin' what's in store ♪
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♪ Now I can't let go ♪
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When you're a river guide,
you're responsible for people's lives.
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And that all of a sudden gave my brother
and I both a whole new outlook on life.
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We went from up to no good
to, all of a sudden,
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being in the outdoors
with a huge amount of responsibility.
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[Mary] I really wanted them
to follow their dreams
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and their own path
and do what they wanted to do.
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And I knew they were good
at whatever they did.
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All I could see was him being up
on the riverbank,
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you know, sleeping in a sleeping bag,
and what future was there in that?
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I couldn't see a profession.
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And it wasn't until I went with him
on the Colorado river.
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♪ I'm out the door for somethin' more ♪
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♪ There's no telling what's in store ♪
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♪ Now I can't let go ♪
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I was overwhelmed.
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It was an amazing trip, for me.
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I knew. That's when I knew.
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[Scott] The river enlightened
both my brother and I.
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It channeled an energy that we had in us
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that we were using in a negative way,
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to a positive way.
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And there was nothing else in life
I wanted to do,
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other than travel down a river
at that point. I was sold.
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Hook, line, and sinker.
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When I first was exposed to kayaking,
it was actually through rafting.
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And I remember it being described to me
through a friend of mine.
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And he's like, "This rafting stuff,
it's kind of like driving a bus.
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But kayaking is like driving a sports car.
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You want to be driving the sports car."
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And I was like, "Yes, I do."
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For somebody that knows nothing
about kayaking,
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rapids in a river are essentially
made up of waves, holes,
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rocks, and currents.
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If you don't avoid some of these features,
you can get stuck.
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You can get flipped over in your kayak.
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And if you can't roll the kayak,
that can cause a swim.
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And then, you're at the mercy
of the river.
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Kayaks give you this incredible
opportunity to navigate down a river,
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unlike any other watercraft.
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I got in the kayak,
and I struggled a bunch at first.
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But that was my first real extended period
of time in a kayak.
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And I came off of that,
and I had a decision to make.
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Whether to go to college
or do this river guiding, kayaking thing.
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And I decided to do the latter.
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And that spring,
when I finished up guiding,
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I loaded up my kayak
and drove to Banks, Idaho.
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And then, boom.
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I was paddling North Fork
at the Payette every day.
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The North Fork, at that time,
was the place to be.
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You know, that's when I met
Charlie Munsey.
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At that time,
Charlie was king of the North Fork.
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{\an8}North Fork at the Payette.
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{\an8}I got them to put that
on my driver's license,
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and probably made, I don't know,
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700 or 800 descents down the North Fork
at different levels.
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Scott Lindgren showed up in Idaho,
drove up in a Toyota
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that looked like it had
a couple million miles on it.
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Definitely had a little bit of a chip
on his shoulder.
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And he was very motivated to kayak.
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[Scott] Charlie and I
connected immediately.
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[Charlie] It was just
kind of a natural fit.
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I was four or five years older,
and he had some natural ability.
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I always felt really comfortable
having Scott out there with me.
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I knew I had a solid partner,
and I could count on him.
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In the early '90s,
I went over to Nepal once,
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and did nine or ten rivers.
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So I talked Scott into
going over there with me.
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[Scott] And that was all he needed
to say to me.
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I was just like, "Yeah,
I'll save all my money that I make here,
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and we'll go to Asia."
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[Mary] He was barely out of school
when he went to Nepal.
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And that was hard to let him go.
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He's very focused, and it became his life.
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[Scott] That's when I realized that
kayaking wasn't just something
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that happened in California,
and in Idaho and in the U.S.
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It was being practiced all over the world.
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I was still super young, you know.
I'm 20 years old at this time.
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I was a kid.
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[Charlie] We always tried to do the things
that hadn't been done before,
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so that brought an extra element.
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And--
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[Craig] I had heard that there was
this sacred mountain called Kailash.
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[Charlie] Kailash is way out
in western Tibet.
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And for 5,000 plus years,
people had been writing about
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how these four great rivers
of the Himalayas and Karakoram
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drained from its glaciers.
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[Scott] Once we started to learn
about the mythical lore of Kailash,
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the direction for me
became really apparent.
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I'm gonna drop everything in my life.
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I'm just going to go as hard
as I possibly can
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to get myself in the best shape
to run all the four rivers.
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[Charlie] And that was really
the start of the dream.
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[Scott] When I came home
from that first year in Nepal,
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it was that style of expedition kayaking
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that really set the precedent
early on for California.
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That next spring, I bought this cheap,
little Hi8 video camera,
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{\an8}and that's when I met John
and Willie Kern
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{\an8}and Chuck for the first time.
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[Willie] It doesn't matter
whether you're a kayaker,
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{\an8}if your essence started on
or near a river,
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there's kind of this implied humility,
there's a sense of place,
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there's like a camaraderie.
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Back in the day,
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there just weren't
that many people doing it.
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When you saw a kayaker,
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it was an enthusiastic time.
When you ended up at a river
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where there were other kayakers,
you found your family.
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{\an8}[Johnnie] As soon as we met Scott,
we brought our game,
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{\an8}he brought his game,
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{\an8}he's a natural leader,
there's no question.
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[Willie] Scott really gave back
to the group with this idea, he's like,
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"I'm gonna stick a camera between my legs.
I'm gonna carry this thing downriver."
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You know, Johnnie had a still camera,
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and Chuck definitely
incited something else.
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[Scott] Chuck was the standout.
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He absolutely was the driving force
for all of us.
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There was nobody better
in the world at that time,
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and it kind of felt like we were along
for the ride.
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[Scott] You guys can't make him laugh.
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{\an8}Kayaking with Willie
and Johnnie, you know.
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They're my two best friends too.
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{\an8}Kayaking with those guys is,
that's one of the goals right there.
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And it automatically
brings the energy level up.
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Makes you feel a lot better at the top
of the drop when you look down
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and see both of your brothers
down there smiling in the eddy.
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For me, my role became like
I'm the guy without a camera.
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I'm not thinking about that.
I'm thinking about the group,
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and wear safety, and what's going on.
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And so we all kind of established
our places on the river.
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[Dustin] And we started firing as a team.
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[Scott] It was an eclectic group of kids
from all over the world,
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and we all were just, for whatever reason,
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seeing it all at the same time.
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[Willie] There was a base of knowledge,
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but there was a lot of room
to expand on that knowledge.
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I truly believe that was the turning point
in what was possible in a kayak,
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because of the equipment,
and because of my brother's movies.
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We'd go back and look
at his little video camera footage,
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and like no one's ever documented
stuff like this.
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And then, we were like,
"Let's start a production company
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and see where it takes us."
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And there was just opportunity everywhere.
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♪ If I fall back down
You're gonna help me back up again ♪
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♪ If I fall back down... ♪
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[Scott] And for the first time
in kayaking history, really,
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you had a group of people,
their sole focus was to kayak.
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That was it.
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{\an8}[Todd] I literally remember going,
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{\an8}"Well, how can you make money doing that?"
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[Knapp] We'd watched some of the other
extreme kayaking films
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{\an8}and there wasn't that much out there.
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{\an8}There was Southern Fried Creekin'.
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Uh...
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now, let's see, what would you do
in a situation like this?
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That's how you could do that.
You can start making kayaking films.
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Their filmmaking started
with Good 2 the Last Drop.
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Fucking awesome film.
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♪ If I fall back down
You're gonna help me back up again ♪
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♪ If I fall back down
You're gonna be my friend ♪
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Fuck, that was so good.
Did you guys ever see that?
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[Dustin] As cheesy as those
very first movies were,
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at the time, they were mind-blowing
to the white-water world.
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{\an8}[Scott] And that was the beginning
of Driftwood Productions.
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[Dustin] I went from being a river guide
to shooting kayaking for my brother.
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He realized the better he got
at using cameras,
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and winning things like his Emmy
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were avenues for him
to get bigger budgets,
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which led to going on bigger trips.
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It was exciting to be their mom. [laughs]
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They were becoming quite well known.
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We were in the right place
at the right time doing the right thing.
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{\an8}And kayaking was blowing up.
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[Dustin] Come on, Scott.
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Woo-hoo!
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-Yeah!
-You saw it?
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That was sick.
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[Willie] That was a really happy time,
you know?
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Everything was sort of right in the world.
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We had wings.
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[men yell]
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-[Scott] How was that, dude?
-That was sick.
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That's the best ride I've ever done.
What about you, Scotty?
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{\an8}[Scott] So where are you going now?
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{\an8}I'm gonna drive to Colorado,
go kayak there.
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[Dustin] It was that summer,
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we hear about the Black Canyon
of the Gunnison.
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It's a national monument.
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Just this super deep cut
in the Colorado plateau.
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[Willie] We decided that we would stay
closer to river level.
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We might be able to find a new way
to kind of piece the puzzle together.
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As we're coming down it,
there's a lot of water that's disappearing
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and you gotta be sure
that you can make a move.
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Chuck went to go make the move.
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[Dustin] Chuck paddles into this flat,
kind of submerged rock,
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and gets pinned fairly quickly,
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and he's up to his waist or so,
and he disappears.
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Within the span of me looking,
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turning to check upstream,
and looking back,
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Chuck was overcome by the water,
by the force of the water at his back.
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It was just the moment, the momentum,
the whatever it was, you know?
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It was that spot.
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I would say that the closeness
that existed between Chuck and Scott
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is not too dissimilar to the closeness
that existed between me and Chuck.
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We were brothers.
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And so they grew around that, you know?
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They grew around that relationship,
as we all did.
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[Scott] That year, that was the seventh
person that had drowned,
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and four or five of them
were in our circle.
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It just became brutal.
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Like, "What the fuck are we doing?"
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[Willie] When Chuck died,
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that's when things, I think,
really became way more serious for Scott.
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It compelled him
to be that much more edgy.
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And the emotion
that I got stuck in was anger.
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I became super angry.
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[Scott] If you showed up out of shape,
or if you were mentally unstable,
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or if you showed any sort
of emotional weakness,
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you were a threat
to the safety of the trip.
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And so you were instantly ostracized.
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Instead of coming over and asking, like,
"Hey, man, are you okay?"
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We were like, "Harden the fuck up.
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If you're falling apart,
you should get your shit and hike out."
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It's like standard protocol, isn't it?
It's the reverend.
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Reverend, will you take away all my sins?
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[Willie] We didn't have a lot
of touchy-feely conversations
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about how people were feeling.
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We debriefed experiences
in the way that we knew best,
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which was bust open a bottle of whiskey
and spend a little time with it,
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and reminisce,
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but we weren't necessarily
learning a lot about ourselves.
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{\an8}He shared with me, in the early years,
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{\an8}how, you know, he had it
pretty rough growing up.
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You know, I think that all kind of
put a chip on his shoulder
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and forced him to kind of find a way
to protect himself.
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And the way that he did that was
to be hard, and hard on other people.
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I'd lost too many friends,
lost too many friends.
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And so it was easy to be a dick about it.
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You know? It was just like,
"You're not cut for this. Beat it."
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None of us knew how to cope.
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Anytime it became challenging,
I would just run to the river.
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[Johnnie] You lose this person, right?
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You want to... uh...
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You want him back, right?
So you want to find him.
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So not paddling wasn't finding him.
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The best way to connect with him
was to get back to the river.
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[Willie] We had to go fall in love
with kayaking again
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and re-inspire what started
in California for all of us,
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but overlay it on a much bigger geography.
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It also, for Scott's sake,
it really started to set this tone
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for that, you know, the four rivers.
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And the first time we kind of really
got back on that horse together
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was the Upper Karnali.
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Are you rolling?
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As river runners, Mount Kailash really
holds a very special meaning.
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As the Hindu believe,
when it rains on top of Mount Kailash,
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it goes underground and circles
seven times around the mountain.
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And it comes out in four cardinal
directions through the Locks of Shiva.
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In the west flows the Sutlej River.
In the north flows the Indus River.
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In the east flows the Tsangpo River.
And in the south flows the Karnali River.
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The Karnali River is where
we're gonna start our journey.
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[Charlie] Making a pilgrimage
into Kailash,
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and then, being able to kayak
the four great rivers that come off it,
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in my mind it was kind of like,
as high as you can go in the sport.
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Now, we've made our way down the source
of the Karnali river here.
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And we're looking at the first descent
of the Upper Karnali gorges.
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This is day one of about 20.
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[Scott] We drop in and it takes us
seven days to navigate the head waters.
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[Johnnie] The first canyon
was totally inescapable,
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six to eight-thousand-foot walls.
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[Scott] You're in a canyon.
You're in the middle of fucking nowhere.
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The only way out is downstream.
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You're on your own.
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{\an8}[Charlie] What's up, Scott?
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[Charlie] You worried?
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[Willie] When we got into the heart
of the Karnali,
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it was a gut check for everybody.
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But probably nobody more acutely
than for Charlie.
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He felt it very strongly that we had
potentially taken it a little too far.
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This is a... big canyon, I'll tell ya.
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[Scott] He was out of his comfort zone.
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It started feeling
like I was in a war zone
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when I was out there,
and it messes with your mind.
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I felt they were stronger paddlers,
and that really broke me down.
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It was some really hard stuff.
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[Scott] I've witnessed a lot of people.
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I've witnessed their moment
when they've walked away.
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This doesn't last forever.
You got to have an inner fire.
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And the second that it becomes unstable,
it becomes dangerous.
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[Willie] And then,
we came out of that gorge.
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And the next day,
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he decided that he wasn't going
to move downstream with us from there.
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And I don't think I realized that
that meant forever.
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That was a monumental moment
for Charlie and I,
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because that was the last time
I paddled with him.
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Charlie understood the history,
like the ancient history.
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[Scott] It was Charlie's dream
just as much as my dream
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to run all four rivers.
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-[indistinct]
-There you go, buddy.
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-All right. You guys be safe.
-You, too.
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We'll see you back.
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[Charlie] I saw myself
as a mentor of Scott's.
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And you know, he's got more talent than I,
and gosh, Scott's got a good shot at this.
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[Scott] And we were clearly operating
on another level,
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and uh, it kind of broke my heart.
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We ended up finishing it,
and it was, at that time,
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one of the most impactful river trips
I had ever done.
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It wasn't too long after that,
I meet Mikey and Allan
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for the first descent of the Sutlej.
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[Mikey] Scott first told me
about the dream
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to run the four rivers from Kailash
while we were on the Sutlej.
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{\an8}To compare that with another sport,
I guess it's like climbing four faces
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{\an8}on the highest mountain in the world.
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[Allan] One of the main features
of the Sutlej
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{\an8}is a eight, 900-meter vertical rock wall
and the river down the bottom.
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For me, that was the first time
I paddled with Scott.
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He might have got a bit frustrated
because maybe we're a bit slow,
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and he was used to charging into things.
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But by the end of it,
we were all charging.
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[Mikey] Sometimes the scale
can be a bit daunting
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when you know you have thousands
of meters of gradient.
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But just one day at a time.
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And that trip I remember well as being one
of the first times the realization hit me
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that these rivers that we had been
paddling in the Himalayas,
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we're racing against a dam
and the river being destroyed from this.
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And now, that section,
one of the coolest, deepest,
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best white-water sections, is flooded.
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Brilliant white water.
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And we've got a big party of people
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waiting to celebrate with us here
in Rampur.
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[Allan] I think we were really fired up
after the Sutlej,
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Mainly because we spent every night
talking about the Tsangpo.
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[Scott] The Tsangpo,
logistically speaking,
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was on a whole 'nother level.
It was a beast.
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And I remember reaching out to Charlie.
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I was like, "Hey, I'm making
a full court press for the Tsangpo,
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and I want you there."
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[Charlie] By then, you know,
I was really into photography,
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and I was getting a little older,
and not kayaking as much.
462
00:30:46,511 --> 00:30:50,515
And so it wasn't so important to me
to try to get all four rivers.
463
00:30:50,598 --> 00:30:54,477
But really, my future
was photographing the next generation.
464
00:30:55,311 --> 00:30:58,857
[Scott] For Charlie and I,
we were obsessed with the Tsangpo.
465
00:30:59,607 --> 00:31:02,151
[Charlie] That's really the deepest gorge
in the world.
466
00:31:02,235 --> 00:31:05,113
You've got 25,000-foot Gyala Peri
on one side,
467
00:31:05,196 --> 00:31:08,491
and 25,000-foot Namcha Barwa on the other.
468
00:31:10,076 --> 00:31:12,871
And you drop through this gorge
for 150 miles.
469
00:31:13,454 --> 00:31:19,419
[Scott] It's a 12,000-foot descent
through something that's dropping
470
00:31:19,502 --> 00:31:22,547
off the Tibetan plateau
at an astronomical rate.
471
00:31:23,464 --> 00:31:27,677
At the same time, there was another crew,
the Whitwalker crew.
472
00:31:28,303 --> 00:31:32,140
I basically start to get nervous that
these guys are gonna go bag this thing.
473
00:31:32,724 --> 00:31:34,851
Those guys showed up over there
and put on,
474
00:31:34,934 --> 00:31:39,230
and it wasn't too long after putting on,
Doug Gordon missed a move,
475
00:31:40,148 --> 00:31:43,192
and got pushed into the center
of the river and was never seen again.
476
00:31:47,780 --> 00:31:50,199
You know, when that happened,
as tragic as it was,
477
00:31:50,283 --> 00:31:53,953
we kind of, we realized
we needed to take our time.
478
00:31:54,913 --> 00:32:01,669
There was a ton of buildup
and months of staring at satellite maps,
479
00:32:01,753 --> 00:32:03,338
and being terrified.
480
00:32:03,713 --> 00:32:07,175
You layer up this like,
political inaccessibility,
481
00:32:07,258 --> 00:32:10,720
and it becomes bigger than life
really quickly.
482
00:32:16,601 --> 00:32:19,145
[indistinct chatter]
483
00:32:19,228 --> 00:32:21,439
[Scott] And there were so many components,
484
00:32:21,522 --> 00:32:25,902
and I had so many sleepless nights
planning for that expedition.
485
00:32:25,985 --> 00:32:28,988
I mean, I sold my soul
on so many different levels.
486
00:32:33,242 --> 00:32:35,536
For me to pull that thing off,
487
00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:38,623
I had to bring in just the very best
of the best.
488
00:32:39,832 --> 00:32:43,044
{\an8}Today is quite a day in history.
489
00:32:43,127 --> 00:32:46,714
{\an8}Today, Scott Lindgren,
Johnnie Kern, Willie Kern,
490
00:32:47,382 --> 00:32:51,970
Dustin Knapp, Mike Abbott,
Allan Ellard, and Steve Fisher
491
00:32:52,887 --> 00:32:56,099
are gonna run the Yarlung Tsangpo river.
492
00:32:59,852 --> 00:33:04,941
[Scott] It's gonna be pretty full on.
The river, it's definitely big.
493
00:33:18,287 --> 00:33:20,832
[Allan]
[indistinct] out in the backwash, and...
494
00:33:21,374 --> 00:33:24,377
and when I rolled up it was, uh,
it hit him straight back up.
495
00:33:24,460 --> 00:33:26,587
It's turning into a pretty ugly spot.
496
00:33:36,931 --> 00:33:39,058
[Scott] I don't know if Dustin
got that shot or not,
497
00:33:39,142 --> 00:33:40,601
but I just got absolutely hammered.
498
00:33:43,146 --> 00:33:44,188
Went into a hole.
499
00:33:45,023 --> 00:33:46,733
I didn't think I was gonna come out.
500
00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:49,986
Long day.
501
00:33:50,737 --> 00:33:53,823
We're about six miles above Rainbow Falls.
502
00:33:53,906 --> 00:33:58,494
This rapid right here is the entrance
to a major gorge
503
00:33:58,995 --> 00:34:01,497
that was a major problem on our maps.
504
00:34:12,967 --> 00:34:14,677
[Scott] It was the endurance.
505
00:34:16,012 --> 00:34:18,306
It was the long haul.
It was the suffering.
506
00:34:20,892 --> 00:34:22,894
Nothing better than a good suffer fest.
507
00:34:24,437 --> 00:34:27,482
I mean, I don't know,
I was attracted to it. I kind of liked it.
508
00:34:28,524 --> 00:34:30,860
Where I'm sitting is right above
509
00:34:30,943 --> 00:34:34,030
what I believe is one of the more
powerful places on the planet Earth,
510
00:34:34,113 --> 00:34:37,075
Rainbow Falls,
which is a 70-foot waterfall.
511
00:34:37,158 --> 00:34:40,620
And directly below it
is a 110-foot waterfall
512
00:34:40,703 --> 00:34:43,956
that just harnesses the power
of the Himalayas.
513
00:34:47,710 --> 00:34:51,672
And our journey ahead of us now
is taking a different road.
514
00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:54,467
We're having to hike up over a pass
515
00:34:54,550 --> 00:34:57,595
that is still a major obstacle
to this expedition.
516
00:34:58,387 --> 00:35:01,224
That was one of the gnarliest
little sections right there.
517
00:35:01,724 --> 00:35:05,478
One slip and you're 2,000 feet
down to the river.
518
00:35:07,063 --> 00:35:10,525
No one told me we were climbing
Namcha Barwa on the way.
519
00:35:10,608 --> 00:35:14,362
I just hope that all of us
will safely make it off of this thing,
520
00:35:14,445 --> 00:35:18,658
because we've got a descent here
that's gonna be harrowing.
521
00:35:18,741 --> 00:35:22,078
You learn a lot about somebody
and the way they operate pretty quickly
522
00:35:22,161 --> 00:35:25,206
when you sign up for something
that's not necessarily easy.
523
00:35:25,289 --> 00:35:27,375
It's the life under a magnifying glass.
524
00:35:28,668 --> 00:35:32,296
[Scott] We had just walked
over a 12,000-foot pass.
525
00:35:33,506 --> 00:35:38,386
And the porters say, you know,
"If you don't give us twice as much money
526
00:35:38,469 --> 00:35:42,473
as you were gonna pay us,
we are gonna leave you guys up here."
527
00:35:43,057 --> 00:35:47,478
[Scott] And they were threatening
violence.
528
00:35:47,562 --> 00:35:48,396
What's the number?
529
00:35:48,479 --> 00:35:50,273
[Willie] These people are gonna
come steal everything
530
00:35:50,356 --> 00:35:51,607
and hurt us.
531
00:35:51,691 --> 00:35:55,695
[man speaking in local language]
532
00:35:55,778 --> 00:35:58,573
Stop the fucking money talking!
You hear me?
533
00:35:58,656 --> 00:36:03,202
I think Scott had no bandwidth left.
534
00:36:04,579 --> 00:36:10,459
That was the one time
where I saw a part of this rawness,
535
00:36:10,543 --> 00:36:12,336
people might say his edginess.
536
00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:13,421
Fuck!
537
00:36:14,005 --> 00:36:17,300
[speaking in local language]
538
00:36:17,383 --> 00:36:19,802
[Scott] Yeah?
What are you gonna fucking do?
539
00:36:19,886 --> 00:36:21,387
[Dustin] That surprised me.
540
00:36:21,470 --> 00:36:25,516
Is this stress?
Or is there something more going on?
541
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,310
Is there something going on in his head?
542
00:36:27,393 --> 00:36:30,605
-We're already fucked.
-We're not fucked, we're in trouble.
543
00:36:30,688 --> 00:36:32,940
But we're not absolutely fucked.
544
00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:35,860
-Um...
-Right now we have no options
545
00:36:35,943 --> 00:36:37,904
except for to pay them what they want.
546
00:36:38,154 --> 00:36:40,907
Once you start hitting the 25,
30-day range,
547
00:36:40,990 --> 00:36:44,076
everything becomes
a little different dynamic.
548
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,413
[yelling in local language]
549
00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:51,792
It becomes a lot more sensitive.
550
00:36:51,876 --> 00:36:54,212
And I hadn't had a break the entire time.
551
00:36:57,715 --> 00:37:02,970
What happened today was the first time
in my ten years of coming to the Himalayas
552
00:37:03,054 --> 00:37:08,100
where I've been held hostage
and robbed by our 43 porters.
553
00:37:08,893 --> 00:37:12,605
We're off to Payu, which is a good thing.
554
00:37:12,688 --> 00:37:14,815
I think everybody's ready
to get out of here.
555
00:37:15,942 --> 00:37:20,154
We should have failed
a thousand times in there.
556
00:37:20,488 --> 00:37:22,698
I mean, every day
there was something happening
557
00:37:22,782 --> 00:37:25,910
where the livelihood of the expedition
was being threatened.
558
00:37:27,536 --> 00:37:30,206
The fact that we made it,
even to this day,
559
00:37:30,289 --> 00:37:33,751
I look back on it,
and it just blows me away.
560
00:37:36,254 --> 00:37:38,089
When I came home from the Tsangpo,
561
00:37:38,172 --> 00:37:42,593
I was emotionally
and physically so drained.
562
00:37:43,302 --> 00:37:44,929
[David] Guys, good morning.
Congratulations.
563
00:37:45,012 --> 00:37:46,555
{\an8}-[Scott] Thank you.
-[Johnnie] Thanks.
564
00:37:46,639 --> 00:37:49,642
Scott, I mean, you are, we said,
a world-class kayaker.
565
00:37:49,725 --> 00:37:52,019
But even you kind of went, "Gulp."
566
00:37:52,103 --> 00:37:56,607
The Tsangpo experience definitely,
it took a lot out of everybody,
567
00:37:57,066 --> 00:37:59,652
but I would venture to say
it took a lot more out of Scott.
568
00:38:00,486 --> 00:38:02,363
[Johnnie] And it changed everything.
569
00:38:04,282 --> 00:38:07,618
[Scott] This sport, mental focus-wise,
570
00:38:07,702 --> 00:38:12,164
you would hold for days,
and days, and days on end,
571
00:38:12,248 --> 00:38:14,083
and then, when we would get off,
572
00:38:15,126 --> 00:38:18,254
we'd be so exhausted
from holding that space,
573
00:38:18,879 --> 00:38:21,966
the only way we knew how to release it
was to send a bender.
574
00:38:22,967 --> 00:38:28,764
Reentry is one of the hardest parts
about putting yourself in these places.
575
00:38:28,848 --> 00:38:31,600
♪ Another pocket of beer ♪
576
00:38:33,686 --> 00:38:36,397
♪ It's all I ever have ♪
577
00:38:37,273 --> 00:38:41,402
[Johnnie] How do I absorb this
into my life and use it for good
578
00:38:41,485 --> 00:38:44,989
and not just a point where I'm like,
"I wish I was still there?"
579
00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:49,577
[indistinct chatter]
580
00:38:49,660 --> 00:38:52,455
[Scott] And so then, you just find
yourself in this pattern
581
00:38:53,080 --> 00:39:00,046
where you're full throttle,
locked down for days on end,
582
00:39:00,129 --> 00:39:04,091
come out, send a bender,
gear up, right back at it,
583
00:39:04,508 --> 00:39:06,344
and you just repeat the behavior.
584
00:39:07,011 --> 00:39:09,555
And it's a crazy way to live.
585
00:39:12,850 --> 00:39:18,064
{\an8}When you finish some big expedition
that gets a lot of attention,
586
00:39:18,397 --> 00:39:21,859
the very first thing everybody asks you
is what's next?
587
00:39:23,361 --> 00:39:25,071
This is what you wanted to do.
588
00:39:25,154 --> 00:39:27,573
You're 30 now,
so what's the next big adventure?
589
00:39:27,656 --> 00:39:30,618
At that time, I was looking at the Indus.
590
00:39:30,743 --> 00:39:32,536
You know, that was the fourth
and final river.
591
00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:37,124
And I've done now the Sutlej,
the Karnali, and the Tsangpo.
592
00:39:37,208 --> 00:39:38,751
And that leaves the Indus.
593
00:39:38,834 --> 00:39:42,546
And then, Pakistan's completely
off-limits to any sort of tourism.
594
00:39:43,089 --> 00:39:45,633
I felt I just needed
to take some time off,
595
00:39:45,716 --> 00:39:47,802
and breathe a little bit.
596
00:39:48,094 --> 00:39:50,805
And that was the thing.
I wasn't getting any time off.
597
00:39:51,931 --> 00:39:56,310
We've done a tour throughout the U.S.
And it's been a success,
598
00:39:56,394 --> 00:39:58,687
and I really hope you guys
enjoy the show tonight.
599
00:39:58,771 --> 00:40:03,067
I was being flown all over the country
to do premiers for the movie,
600
00:40:03,150 --> 00:40:05,653
and I had a television show to deliver.
601
00:40:05,736 --> 00:40:08,489
It was something
that I wasn't really used to.
602
00:40:08,572 --> 00:40:11,992
I didn't know how to handle,
and I let it get the best of me.
603
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,330
Before, everything was about kayaking.
604
00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:21,961
And then, all of a sudden,
now, it was more about the production.
605
00:40:22,503 --> 00:40:25,214
[Willie] It was clearly a transition
for him
606
00:40:25,297 --> 00:40:28,843
to bigger budgets, and now,
you're on the hook for results.
607
00:40:28,926 --> 00:40:31,137
Now, you're on the hook
for accomplishments.
608
00:40:31,220 --> 00:40:34,348
People have a whole different set
of expectations for you.
609
00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:36,809
[Scott] It was more of like,
a full-time job,
610
00:40:36,892 --> 00:40:41,313
and it was more about playing
that sort of corporate role
611
00:40:41,397 --> 00:40:44,817
in working with bigger sponsors,
and more money.
612
00:40:46,402 --> 00:40:50,156
I think that that was a big turning point
for everybody
613
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:53,701
in terms of hanging out with Scott,
and going on trips with him.
614
00:40:53,784 --> 00:40:57,830
There's a conversation he had with me,
and it's a standout conversation.
615
00:40:57,913 --> 00:41:01,167
He said, "I don't care about high-fiving
down this river.
616
00:41:01,667 --> 00:41:05,629
All I care about is getting my shots
and paying my mortgage."
617
00:41:06,505 --> 00:41:09,800
And I'd never heard that kind of language
from Scott before.
618
00:41:10,301 --> 00:41:12,887
That's the opposite
of what we're trying to do.
619
00:41:12,970 --> 00:41:16,098
We literally are there
to high-five down the river.
620
00:41:17,892 --> 00:41:21,645
[Scott] The next several years,
I started going to Africa.
621
00:41:28,110 --> 00:41:32,031
I probably physically and mentally wasn't
in the best space ever,
622
00:41:32,114 --> 00:41:35,159
but we were headed into Murchison Falls.
623
00:41:39,622 --> 00:41:46,170
As far as river trips are concerned,
one of the scariest things I've ever done.
624
00:41:46,962 --> 00:41:52,301
You have the river right side,
which is the Lord's Resistance Army.
625
00:41:53,177 --> 00:41:56,263
You have insanely huge white water.
626
00:41:56,972 --> 00:42:01,477
You have the highest concentration
of crocs and hippos anywhere in the world.
627
00:42:02,478 --> 00:42:05,397
[Mikey] It's the kind of place
that you've got to take very seriously.
628
00:42:05,481 --> 00:42:07,149
Something goes wrong in the white water,
629
00:42:07,233 --> 00:42:10,819
well, there could be somebody waiting
for you at the bottom of the rapid.
630
00:42:11,570 --> 00:42:15,407
It's the kind of stretch
that I've only done once,
631
00:42:15,699 --> 00:42:17,493
and I don't plan to go back to.
632
00:42:23,415 --> 00:42:27,836
{\an8}On that trip, I could tell
something was up with my brother.
633
00:42:28,629 --> 00:42:33,008
He was feeling weak physically.
634
00:42:34,134 --> 00:42:35,511
He knew he had to bury that fear.
635
00:42:35,594 --> 00:42:40,933
He knew that he couldn't be the guy
that brought the group down.
636
00:42:41,016 --> 00:42:42,476
He knows the rules.
637
00:42:43,602 --> 00:42:47,648
The first thing I noticed was
that his paddling wasn't up to par.
638
00:42:49,984 --> 00:42:54,655
[Scott] What started happening was that
when I would flip over,
639
00:42:55,948 --> 00:42:58,158
I was starting to lose spatial awareness.
640
00:42:59,493 --> 00:43:03,914
I wasn't blacking out,
but like, I didn't know where I was at.
641
00:43:04,373 --> 00:43:06,083
And I was struggling to roll.
642
00:43:07,710 --> 00:43:10,296
And this was the last place in the world
643
00:43:10,379 --> 00:43:14,633
you wanted to be struggling
with a roll upside-down.
644
00:43:15,759 --> 00:43:20,014
The kind of pressure that Scott would put
on people in the group was
645
00:43:20,431 --> 00:43:23,517
if somebody wasn't paddling up to par,
he would tell them,
646
00:43:23,601 --> 00:43:25,019
"You need to sit this one out."
647
00:43:25,102 --> 00:43:27,646
So, on the Murch section
for the first time,
648
00:43:27,730 --> 00:43:31,442
he was the guy that he would have given
the pep talk to.
649
00:43:34,695 --> 00:43:38,949
I came off of that expedition,
I told myself,
650
00:43:39,033 --> 00:43:42,870
"I'm going to take three months off.
I gotta figure out what's going on here."
651
00:43:44,580 --> 00:43:47,625
And I couldn't put my finger on it.
652
00:43:47,708 --> 00:43:49,293
I went to the doctor a few times,
653
00:43:49,376 --> 00:43:53,339
and all my vitals seemed
to be, you know, pretty good.
654
00:43:54,548 --> 00:43:57,343
Maybe that's it, you know,
I'm just getting old, and...
655
00:43:57,968 --> 00:43:59,261
I had a hell of a run.
656
00:44:00,304 --> 00:44:02,056
But I think, intuitively,
657
00:44:02,139 --> 00:44:05,726
I kind of felt like something deeper
was going on at that point.
658
00:44:05,809 --> 00:44:09,146
You can't operate at that level forever.
659
00:44:09,229 --> 00:44:12,441
This is the guarantee, right?
You can try.
660
00:44:13,651 --> 00:44:15,235
[Scott] And the one thing
661
00:44:15,361 --> 00:44:20,741
that I was really hanging onto the most
was the Indus.
662
00:44:21,367 --> 00:44:24,536
It was the hole in my soul.
663
00:44:24,620 --> 00:44:31,251
I mean, I knew that I was letting that go
when I walked away.
664
00:44:32,419 --> 00:44:33,420
And...
665
00:44:36,757 --> 00:44:38,008
I walked away.
666
00:44:40,386 --> 00:44:42,888
[Willie] For Scotty,
to see that transition,
667
00:44:43,347 --> 00:44:46,016
like, professional, to like,
668
00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:48,727
professional, now,
I don't even know if I love what I loved.
669
00:44:48,811 --> 00:44:51,063
Now, I'm out on the river,
and now, I'm not healthy,
670
00:44:51,146 --> 00:44:53,107
and now, I'm not on the river
'cause I'm not healthy.
671
00:44:53,190 --> 00:44:57,486
What a crazy spiral that is,
and can be for somebody.
672
00:44:58,487 --> 00:45:02,616
[Dustin] He was going to the bar.
He was taking everything too far.
673
00:45:03,158 --> 00:45:06,120
[Scott] I used everything.
I was a, "More, please," guy.
674
00:45:06,662 --> 00:45:08,497
Anything that made you feel better.
675
00:45:09,498 --> 00:45:11,417
And then, what ended up happening is
676
00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:18,215
that slowly but surely, one by one,
everyone started to go away.
677
00:45:19,591 --> 00:45:23,804
And that was the fucked-up prison,
678
00:45:24,471 --> 00:45:27,933
because you're just alone.
679
00:45:31,812 --> 00:45:36,817
Three months off the river
turned into eight long years.
680
00:45:44,074 --> 00:45:46,702
I'm at home by myself,
681
00:45:48,745 --> 00:45:50,372
and I start getting a headache.
682
00:45:52,291 --> 00:45:55,794
I just start seeing double.
And I start moving.
683
00:45:58,297 --> 00:46:00,841
And then, I kind of just black out.
684
00:46:03,969 --> 00:46:06,305
I was just laying there,
685
00:46:07,931 --> 00:46:11,685
and woke up,
and my head, it was splitting in two.
686
00:46:12,811 --> 00:46:17,065
Like, something's wrong.
I gotta figure out what's going on here.
687
00:46:19,568 --> 00:46:21,111
I go to the doctor.
688
00:46:21,778 --> 00:46:23,614
I kind of told him what was going on,
689
00:46:23,697 --> 00:46:25,991
and he's like,
"Let's take a picture of your brain."
690
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:33,040
That was the beginning of it all.
691
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,295
Got the call, was at night.
692
00:46:40,756 --> 00:46:41,882
And then, he said,
693
00:46:41,965 --> 00:46:46,845
"It turns out that I have a brain tumor
the size of a small baseball
694
00:46:46,929 --> 00:46:48,430
in the back of my head."
695
00:46:49,473 --> 00:46:51,016
I went to my knees.
696
00:46:53,101 --> 00:46:55,395
Probably one of the worst moments
of my life.
697
00:47:02,152 --> 00:47:03,904
[Dr. Jian] Scott has a pituitary adenoma.
698
00:47:03,987 --> 00:47:07,241
Pituitary tumors are basically found
in a few ways.
699
00:47:07,324 --> 00:47:10,035
{\an8}People have a severe headache,
they show up to the emergency room.
700
00:47:10,118 --> 00:47:11,537
{\an8}They get a scan. And we see it.
701
00:47:11,620 --> 00:47:15,707
The major concern that we have
is vision loss.
702
00:47:15,791 --> 00:47:17,709
The tumors can occasionally bleed.
703
00:47:18,168 --> 00:47:22,005
And when they bleed,
the tumor's not growing quickly,
704
00:47:22,089 --> 00:47:27,678
but the volume is growing quickly
because the bleeding fills up the space
705
00:47:27,761 --> 00:47:30,097
and pushes on the optic nerves right away.
706
00:47:30,180 --> 00:47:34,017
And so when people present
with the worst headache of their life
707
00:47:34,101 --> 00:47:37,980
and sudden vision loss,
that's a medical emergency.
708
00:47:38,063 --> 00:47:41,275
They go to the emergency room
and get operated on
709
00:47:41,358 --> 00:47:43,068
usually within the next 24 hours.
710
00:47:43,944 --> 00:47:47,447
His tumor was of a very large size
pushing on his optic nerves,
711
00:47:47,531 --> 00:47:50,701
and it needed to be dealt with surgically.
712
00:47:50,784 --> 00:47:53,954
I knew that I was looking at
an eight-to-ten-hour brain surgery,
713
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,916
and there were no guarantees.
714
00:47:59,501 --> 00:48:01,837
[Dr. Jian] His wrapped around
his right carotid arteries.
715
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:06,091
That made his surgery more complicated
than the average pituitary surgery.
716
00:48:06,174 --> 00:48:10,137
There are injuries to the carotid artery
when you're operating on them.
717
00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:14,349
Let's just say, if he were to become
completely incapacitated
718
00:48:14,433 --> 00:48:17,936
from the surgery, right?
What kind of a lifestyle is that for him?
719
00:48:20,939 --> 00:48:23,066
But worst-case scenario would be death.
720
00:48:27,446 --> 00:48:30,949
[Scott] I was walking down the hallway
with my family and Johnnie and Willie,
721
00:48:31,033 --> 00:48:33,452
and it was the longest
fucking hallway ever.
722
00:48:34,870 --> 00:48:38,040
We get to the door to where we walk
into the operating room,
723
00:48:38,332 --> 00:48:41,168
and the nurse looks back at me
724
00:48:41,251 --> 00:48:45,005
and was like,
"Okay, this is hugs and kisses, goodbye."
725
00:48:59,353 --> 00:49:03,607
I have a picture of him in the ICU
after the surgery,
726
00:49:03,690 --> 00:49:08,153
and seeing Scott in that way
is also scary.
727
00:49:08,236 --> 00:49:13,033
I don't believe anybody's invincible.
I lost that perspective when Chuck died.
728
00:49:13,116 --> 00:49:16,036
But to see your friend hooked up
to all the machinery,
729
00:49:16,119 --> 00:49:19,665
was an interesting pivot point for us,
like, "Okay, what's next?"
730
00:49:21,208 --> 00:49:23,293
[Dr. Jian] When we removed it,
731
00:49:23,377 --> 00:49:25,295
we took everything off
of his optic nerves,
732
00:49:25,379 --> 00:49:28,757
took everything that filled up
that saddle area.
733
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:34,596
There was just maybe not even
a peanut's worth size of tumor left.
734
00:49:36,306 --> 00:49:41,311
His has the threat of regrowing
because the stuff to the outside
735
00:49:41,395 --> 00:49:45,857
of the carotid artery was unreachable
without excessive risk.
736
00:49:49,486 --> 00:49:52,906
[Scott] A month goes by,
and my head was clear,
737
00:49:52,989 --> 00:49:54,449
my ears were clear,
738
00:49:54,533 --> 00:49:57,744
things were coming back
that I didn't even know existed
739
00:49:57,828 --> 00:49:59,705
because they'd been gone for so long.
740
00:49:59,996 --> 00:50:04,334
When you physically feel good
it helps your mental stability.
741
00:50:05,085 --> 00:50:09,715
But I wasn't talking to anyone about it.
742
00:50:10,298 --> 00:50:12,092
And I fell right back into pattern.
743
00:50:13,009 --> 00:50:15,637
[Dustin] It's no different than
when he got stabbed as a kid.
744
00:50:15,721 --> 00:50:17,848
It's like stuff that stuff away, hide it.
745
00:50:17,931 --> 00:50:20,517
It was super important to him
that nobody knew.
746
00:50:21,351 --> 00:50:24,438
[Willie] I mean, the easiest way
to not deal with something
747
00:50:24,521 --> 00:50:27,190
is to bottle it up and block it out.
748
00:50:28,567 --> 00:50:31,319
That doesn't really equal out
to dealing with anything, right?
749
00:50:31,403 --> 00:50:33,947
That just relies on your ability
to absorb it.
750
00:50:34,948 --> 00:50:37,492
[Scott] I looked at my tumor
as a weakness.
751
00:50:39,369 --> 00:50:43,832
And I spent my entire life not being weak.
752
00:50:44,833 --> 00:50:47,002
[Willie] Vulnerable is a scary place to be
753
00:50:47,085 --> 00:50:50,547
when you have fought to be secure
your whole life.
754
00:50:51,298 --> 00:50:55,886
The further along I got
in the physical healing part of it,
755
00:50:57,471 --> 00:51:00,432
the more I slid backwards mentally.
756
00:51:02,392 --> 00:51:05,312
[Dr. Jian] The pituitary tumor pushes
on the pituitary gland.
757
00:51:05,395 --> 00:51:10,275
The gland is important in making you feel
how you feel every day.
758
00:51:10,358 --> 00:51:13,820
Those hormones don't rebound that quickly.
Sometimes they don't rebound at all.
759
00:51:14,529 --> 00:51:15,947
So I tell patients,
760
00:51:16,031 --> 00:51:19,242
"Listen, you may feel lethargic,
you may feel depressed."
761
00:51:19,785 --> 00:51:22,454
It takes months for the body
to recalibrate itself.
762
00:51:23,371 --> 00:51:26,875
[Dustin] Scott idling and waiting around
for scans for a year,
763
00:51:26,958 --> 00:51:28,919
and "Oh, you got six more months."
764
00:51:29,294 --> 00:51:31,129
You know, you need to be mellow.
765
00:51:31,213 --> 00:51:34,341
And the way he dealt with it
was not the best thing for his tumor.
766
00:51:35,217 --> 00:51:39,346
It's always hard to say as a friend,
"Is this life bearing down on you?
767
00:51:39,429 --> 00:51:42,557
Is this the long, slow ramp
after your peak adventure?"
768
00:51:43,058 --> 00:51:45,018
How do you even reconcile that?
769
00:51:45,769 --> 00:51:49,689
I just was screaming for help,
and just didn't know how to ask for it.
770
00:51:53,068 --> 00:51:55,403
[siren wailing]
771
00:52:03,745 --> 00:52:05,914
[Dustin] I think the turning point
for Scott, honestly,
772
00:52:05,997 --> 00:52:07,707
and I've never even told him this,
773
00:52:07,791 --> 00:52:11,169
but actually, him hitting rock bottom,
and getting that DUI.
774
00:52:11,253 --> 00:52:13,338
And that morning,
when I went to pick him up
775
00:52:13,421 --> 00:52:15,799
at Sac County Jail,
and we're driving home,
776
00:52:15,882 --> 00:52:18,343
and, you know,
I think things hit him pretty hard.
777
00:52:23,306 --> 00:52:25,100
That DUI saved his life.
778
00:52:33,149 --> 00:52:34,568
[Scott] I've always believed
779
00:52:34,651 --> 00:52:37,696
that the universe brings people
together for a reason.
780
00:52:41,074 --> 00:52:43,201
{\an8}I do remember the first time we met.
781
00:52:44,786 --> 00:52:47,581
{\an8}Scott and I were introduced
by a mutual friend.
782
00:52:47,664 --> 00:52:50,917
We met on a ski hill,
and it was a blind date,
783
00:52:51,001 --> 00:52:53,169
and definitely there was a magnetism.
784
00:52:54,296 --> 00:52:55,839
When I first met Scott,
785
00:52:55,922 --> 00:53:00,760
it was the hard Scott coming out
of healing through his brain tumor.
786
00:53:01,678 --> 00:53:03,430
[Scott] She was intuitive,
787
00:53:03,513 --> 00:53:09,019
and she had this way
of communicating with me.
788
00:53:09,477 --> 00:53:12,314
And I instantly fell in love with her.
789
00:53:15,984 --> 00:53:17,110
[laughs]
790
00:53:18,069 --> 00:53:24,409
To my lovely Patricia, I love you so much.
791
00:53:24,492 --> 00:53:26,077
-[Patricia giggles]
-Mwah.
792
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:30,498
[Patricia] We had this fierce
and incredible love.
793
00:53:30,582 --> 00:53:35,754
He surrounded me in this bubble
of protection and strength.
794
00:53:35,837 --> 00:53:40,926
It was undeniable that we both
were healing layers upon layers
795
00:53:41,468 --> 00:53:43,345
of history together.
796
00:53:43,762 --> 00:53:46,264
But still, there was an ocean between us.
797
00:53:47,599 --> 00:53:53,647
It was like feeling trapped
in the greatest love of my life
798
00:53:54,189 --> 00:53:57,484
with someone who didn't know how
to allow me in.
799
00:53:59,819 --> 00:54:02,572
I couldn't understand why
I couldn't get closer,
800
00:54:02,656 --> 00:54:06,576
and I believe that mindset
that he needed to have on the river,
801
00:54:06,660 --> 00:54:11,581
also translated into a relationship
of him just being walled off.
802
00:54:12,540 --> 00:54:16,086
If I was having a bad day at home,
or if I called him crying,
803
00:54:16,169 --> 00:54:18,296
it would be like,
"Harden the fuck up, Trish."
804
00:54:20,715 --> 00:54:25,303
She approached me and was like,
805
00:54:25,387 --> 00:54:27,180
"I can't do this anymore.
806
00:54:28,723 --> 00:54:32,936
You're totally emotionally unavailable."
807
00:54:33,687 --> 00:54:36,523
And so for me, it was like,
808
00:54:37,190 --> 00:54:39,985
"We've got to find a different language
for us to communicate.":
809
00:54:40,068 --> 00:54:44,280
And it was at that time
I encouraged him to go
810
00:54:44,364 --> 00:54:49,035
on this therapeutic process
of exploring our negative love patterns
811
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:53,164
and the way and why's
of how we show up in this world.
812
00:54:53,248 --> 00:54:54,666
Who uses therapy?
813
00:54:54,749 --> 00:55:00,672
I spent the better part of my youth
making fun of that shit.
814
00:55:00,755 --> 00:55:03,508
[Patricia] There was so much
he hadn't dealt with in his childhood.
815
00:55:03,591 --> 00:55:05,844
There was so much that was glaringly clear
816
00:55:05,927 --> 00:55:08,555
that needed to be healed
in his relationships.
817
00:55:09,931 --> 00:55:14,352
5I had started to wrap my head
around the idea of surrendering,
818
00:55:15,020 --> 00:55:18,940
and I, at that point,
819
00:55:19,774 --> 00:55:24,070
listened to what she had to say,
and uh...
820
00:55:26,531 --> 00:55:27,991
I went and got help.
821
00:55:30,285 --> 00:55:35,165
I very slowly started having conversation.
822
00:55:36,708 --> 00:55:38,793
The more I started to talk about it,
823
00:55:39,878 --> 00:55:44,340
the more healing started to happen.
824
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:50,847
I could feel that vulnerability
was strength, it wasn't weakness.
825
00:55:50,930 --> 00:55:54,851
And vulnerability was the way forward.
826
00:55:54,934 --> 00:55:59,105
[Patricia] You know, he really took
a deep dive into yoga, and meditation,
827
00:55:59,189 --> 00:56:01,900
and reading, and aligning for once,
828
00:56:03,276 --> 00:56:07,864
that he could lead with his heart
and also be a fierce athlete.
829
00:56:09,199 --> 00:56:12,911
[Willie] At some point, he couldn't live
behind that curtain anymore.
830
00:56:13,953 --> 00:56:17,082
He saw the benefit of coming out
from behind that a little bit.
831
00:56:17,707 --> 00:56:19,626
And putting himself forward,
832
00:56:19,709 --> 00:56:22,420
not what he had done
in his life previously,
833
00:56:22,504 --> 00:56:25,715
not his accomplishments, not his,
you know, the feathers in his cap,
834
00:56:25,799 --> 00:56:30,136
but more like, "Who am I right now?
What's my truth?"
835
00:56:31,888 --> 00:56:35,100
[Scott] Now, I was not only
physically healing,
836
00:56:35,642 --> 00:56:38,436
but I was mentally
and spiritually healing.
837
00:56:38,937 --> 00:56:42,690
He was wanting to try on kayaking again.
838
00:56:43,441 --> 00:56:46,402
And I don't think I fully understood
839
00:56:46,820 --> 00:56:49,906
or could comprehend the magnitude
of what that meant for him.
840
00:56:51,741 --> 00:56:56,037
[Dustin] The only thing left for him to do
is get back on the horse
841
00:56:56,121 --> 00:56:58,289
and start being the athlete that he was.
842
00:57:00,208 --> 00:57:03,002
[Scott] I just told myself,
"Get out of bed and go.
843
00:57:03,586 --> 00:57:07,924
Don't worry about anything else other than
just put yourself in a space
844
00:57:08,007 --> 00:57:11,052
to go sit in the thing,
force yourself to get in there."
845
00:57:12,095 --> 00:57:14,430
And I slowly start getting back
into kayaking.
846
00:57:15,515 --> 00:57:19,394
And the first month was humbling.
847
00:57:26,943 --> 00:57:28,236
I swam a lot.
848
00:57:29,863 --> 00:57:30,905
[faint scream]
849
00:57:32,115 --> 00:57:33,700
I missed a lot of moves.
850
00:57:49,174 --> 00:57:52,177
I was getting my ass kicked
on a regular basis.
851
00:58:04,564 --> 00:58:07,358
It was literally like starting over
from scratch.
852
00:58:11,070 --> 00:58:14,908
But then, I started to feel better.
853
00:58:19,996 --> 00:58:22,874
It started to become like second nature.
854
00:58:32,842 --> 00:58:36,846
And I was starting to feel that love again
855
00:58:37,514 --> 00:58:40,266
from having the river back in my life.
856
00:58:41,434 --> 00:58:42,727
I was healing.
857
00:58:46,481 --> 00:58:49,317
I knew I had to go back
to the North Fork of the Payette.
858
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:54,322
It was where it all began,
and it's a place that meant so much to me.
859
00:58:54,989 --> 00:58:57,283
I'm getting in my car
to go up to the North Fork,
860
00:58:57,367 --> 00:59:01,246
and this kid comes out,
and I had met Aniol.
861
00:59:02,330 --> 00:59:03,623
[crowd cheers]
862
00:59:13,216 --> 00:59:16,844
And I knew he was one of the best kayakers
in the world.
863
00:59:21,307 --> 00:59:22,850
He's like, "Hey, you going up
to the river?"
864
00:59:22,934 --> 00:59:24,435
I was like, "Yeah, I'm going up
to the river."
865
00:59:24,519 --> 00:59:27,063
And he was like,
"Cool. Can I catch a ride with you?"
866
00:59:27,146 --> 00:59:29,482
And I was like, "No problem, kid.
Go grab your shit."
867
00:59:30,108 --> 00:59:32,151
{\an8}Back in the day, yeah, he was the idol.
868
00:59:32,235 --> 00:59:34,362
{\an8}You know, he was the person to look up to.
869
00:59:34,445 --> 00:59:36,781
And many stories came
on that one-hour drive.
870
00:59:36,864 --> 00:59:40,952
We talked about how he really wanted
to paddle the four rivers.
871
00:59:41,995 --> 00:59:45,081
[Scott] And he was like,
"What's the fourth river?"
872
00:59:45,623 --> 00:59:49,127
[Aniol] It happened to be that
that year I was going to Pakistan.
873
00:59:49,544 --> 00:59:51,337
[Scott] And he invited me to the Indus.
874
00:59:52,088 --> 00:59:54,882
{\an8}It just sent a bolt of lightning
down my spine.
875
00:59:55,466 --> 00:59:59,345
{\an8}I won't believe it until I'm going,
but yeah, let's do this.
876
01:00:00,805 --> 01:00:02,682
What Aniol did for me,
877
01:00:02,765 --> 01:00:08,146
I would have never done for somebody else
in my situation.
878
01:00:09,188 --> 01:00:14,736
Taking me back in and letting me
relearn something that I had lost.
879
01:00:15,570 --> 01:00:18,406
At the beginning,
he was more like an idol to me.
880
01:00:18,990 --> 01:00:22,410
You know, the great Scott,
the great kayaker, the legend.
881
01:00:22,994 --> 01:00:24,412
As months went by,
882
01:00:24,495 --> 01:00:26,914
he just has become
a really good friend of mine.
883
01:00:28,041 --> 01:00:32,754
[Scott] I had spent the better part
of my kayaking career
884
01:00:32,837 --> 01:00:37,592
ostracizing any form of weakness.
And here I was,
885
01:00:37,967 --> 01:00:39,552
by far the weakest link,
886
01:00:39,886 --> 01:00:44,932
and my friends in the kayaking community
didn't ostracize me.
887
01:01:03,534 --> 01:01:07,163
I've surrendered to the fact
that if I get hurt, it wasn't meant to be.
888
01:01:07,246 --> 01:01:09,957
If I die trying, so be it.
889
01:01:10,291 --> 01:01:15,088
And that's when the work
really started to pay off.
890
01:02:10,435 --> 01:02:14,605
That was insane.
I'm so fucking grateful for you guys.
891
01:02:14,689 --> 01:02:15,815
Holy shit.
892
01:02:21,195 --> 01:02:25,908
I was looking towards a bunch
of 20-something year old kids
893
01:02:25,992 --> 01:02:27,577
to get me back in shape
894
01:02:28,202 --> 01:02:30,705
to go run the Indus.
895
01:02:32,206 --> 01:02:34,917
And I'm set to go in for an MRI.
896
01:02:38,504 --> 01:02:41,340
This is kind of my reality once a year.
897
01:02:41,424 --> 01:02:42,258
Um...
898
01:02:43,176 --> 01:02:44,635
I go get a picture taken
899
01:02:44,719 --> 01:02:48,973
and basically it lets me know
if my tumor's stable or not.
900
01:02:50,933 --> 01:02:55,021
Doctor Jian called me up, and he's like,
901
01:02:55,104 --> 01:02:59,525
"Hey, it's time to do radiation.
Your tumor's growing."
902
01:03:00,485 --> 01:03:04,739
And I remember they explained what it is
that he would need to go through,
903
01:03:04,822 --> 01:03:07,241
radiation,
and different treatment options.
904
01:03:07,909 --> 01:03:12,371
And I remember so distinctly at that time,
Scott was like, "Fuck it."
905
01:03:12,622 --> 01:03:15,500
And so I canceled
all my doctor's appointments.
906
01:03:15,583 --> 01:03:18,836
I didn't want to know.
I didn't fucking care.
907
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:20,421
The only thing I thought about
908
01:03:20,505 --> 01:03:23,508
was getting myself in a space
to safely go kayak the Indus.
909
01:03:23,591 --> 01:03:24,842
That's all I cared about.
910
01:03:25,468 --> 01:03:31,516
[Patricia] Pakistan became this rift,
I think, in our relationship.
911
01:03:31,766 --> 01:03:36,521
Thank you, thank you, for letting me go.
Oh, my God.
912
01:03:37,647 --> 01:03:39,857
[Patricia] Me or God?
[laughs]
913
01:03:39,941 --> 01:03:43,361
Everything, you, God, my body,
914
01:03:43,903 --> 01:03:48,199
my brain, my tumor, everything.
It's so good.
915
01:03:49,492 --> 01:03:53,830
At that point, he had made it
so crystal clear in his mind
916
01:03:53,913 --> 01:04:00,336
that no one and nothing would come
in the way of him running the Indus.
917
01:04:01,587 --> 01:04:03,047
And I think, for me,
918
01:04:03,548 --> 01:04:08,719
you know, not only did I have a partner
that had a brain tumor,
919
01:04:09,512 --> 01:04:14,642
I then had a partner who was going
to go risk his life in another way.
920
01:04:15,476 --> 01:04:20,022
How do you sit back and wait
for what's going to come of that?
921
01:04:22,817 --> 01:04:25,194
We were faced with this choice point
922
01:04:25,278 --> 01:04:28,614
of do we continue on this path
of our love,
923
01:04:28,698 --> 01:04:32,535
or do we honor our souls
and go our separate ways?
924
01:04:32,618 --> 01:04:36,873
And I think that we made the choice
to honor ourselves.
925
01:04:36,956 --> 01:04:40,626
And for Scott,
it was to go run this river.
926
01:04:45,006 --> 01:04:48,301
[woman] Ladies and gentlemen,
we thank you for flying with us...
927
01:04:52,805 --> 01:04:56,392
[Scott] Where this all goes at the moment
is like the biggest question mark ever.
928
01:05:12,199 --> 01:05:14,702
I'm scared shitless to do radiation,
929
01:05:14,785 --> 01:05:18,497
and I'm scared shitless
to do another surgery.
930
01:05:18,581 --> 01:05:20,833
I'm a fighter, and I'll fight,
931
01:05:20,917 --> 01:05:24,420
but I think, you know, if it gets the best
of me, it gets the best of me.
932
01:05:34,096 --> 01:05:35,806
[Aniol] I think, for me, there's no doubt
933
01:05:35,890 --> 01:05:38,517
that the Indus is the hardest river
I've ever done.
934
01:05:40,269 --> 01:05:44,357
And not only because of the number
of rapids, which is tremendous.
935
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:46,275
There's over 200 class five rapids.
936
01:05:51,697 --> 01:05:53,866
{\an8}It's the length,
and being there every day,
937
01:05:53,950 --> 01:05:56,577
{\an8}pushing yourself
and being in a gorge locked in.
938
01:06:00,790 --> 01:06:03,376
[Scott] To be here right now is surreal.
939
01:06:03,793 --> 01:06:06,087
With where I'm at,
and how much I've forgotten,
940
01:06:06,170 --> 01:06:08,965
what I've been through,
I just didn't think it was gonna happen.
941
01:06:09,048 --> 01:06:10,591
I had given up on it.
942
01:06:12,635 --> 01:06:17,473
The surgery from my tumor
was the single most humbling thing
943
01:06:17,556 --> 01:06:18,766
that's ever happened to me.
944
01:06:18,849 --> 01:06:23,896
And then, to find out that my tumor
was growing again
945
01:06:24,647 --> 01:06:27,316
was another insanely humbling moment.
946
01:06:29,276 --> 01:06:33,531
Got the next eight to ten days
to put it all together.
947
01:06:34,323 --> 01:06:37,201
Super, super, super blessed,
and super, super grateful.
948
01:06:40,121 --> 01:06:42,873
[Aniol] Well, having Scott here
is really, really great.
949
01:06:42,957 --> 01:06:49,338
It's a culmination of a life's work,
and to be able to share that with him,
950
01:06:49,422 --> 01:06:54,260
with a person that I admire so much,
it's really a very unique experience.
951
01:06:57,263 --> 01:07:01,767
[Mike] I'd never met Scott until yesterday
when we arrived here in Pakistan.
952
01:07:01,851 --> 01:07:04,729
I didn't know anything
about his illnesses,
953
01:07:04,812 --> 01:07:07,023
or the troubles he'd had
in the last few years.
954
01:07:07,106 --> 01:07:08,774
{\an8}And he'd kind of been out of the scene
for so long,
955
01:07:08,858 --> 01:07:10,317
{\an8}and that was something
in the back of my head.
956
01:07:10,401 --> 01:07:12,778
{\an8}I was like,
"Man, has this guy still got it?
957
01:07:12,862 --> 01:07:15,448
Is he going to be able
to step forward and run the Indus?"
958
01:07:15,531 --> 01:07:17,408
Because we're not running a chill river.
959
01:07:17,491 --> 01:07:19,744
You know,
the Indus is the top of the game.
960
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:23,330
[Benny] The fact that,
you know, after this trip,
961
01:07:24,165 --> 01:07:27,251
he's going home to an MRI
to check tumor growth.
962
01:07:27,334 --> 01:07:33,632
{\an8}He might not have the full life expectancy
that, you know, we all hope he would have.
963
01:07:37,553 --> 01:07:40,306
Woo-hoo! Here we go.
964
01:07:48,355 --> 01:07:52,610
[Aniol] I definitely have some
responsibility to guide the crew,
965
01:07:52,818 --> 01:07:55,988
help them out with our lines,
and know where we're going.
966
01:07:58,407 --> 01:08:01,994
I feel pretty confident that I know
the most important parts,
967
01:08:02,078 --> 01:08:05,873
but we are talking about
a couple hundred rapids out there.
968
01:08:05,956 --> 01:08:07,541
Some of the rapids are back-to-back,
969
01:08:07,625 --> 01:08:10,086
so if you were about to swim
on the top rapid,
970
01:08:10,169 --> 01:08:12,088
you would flash into the next one,
971
01:08:12,171 --> 01:08:16,634
and that just gives you a feeling
of never being safe.
972
01:08:17,176 --> 01:08:18,677
You are always on the line.
973
01:08:18,761 --> 01:08:22,056
{\an8}You are always on the edge,
and there's pressure out there.
974
01:08:22,139 --> 01:08:24,558
{\an8}It's not paddling without consequence.
975
01:08:47,957 --> 01:08:50,668
[Scott] Holy shit. Fuck!
976
01:09:12,898 --> 01:09:15,401
Hang on to that one. Grab on. Grab on.
977
01:09:17,319 --> 01:09:18,612
Grab on!
978
01:09:28,998 --> 01:09:32,251
I can't get you over this.
Sorry. Get out, get out.
979
01:09:36,797 --> 01:09:40,759
When Aniol took that swim,
I think all of us realized,
980
01:09:41,969 --> 01:09:45,014
if he could swim, anyone of us could swim.
981
01:09:47,016 --> 01:09:50,269
And that changed the tone
for me, personally.
982
01:09:54,356 --> 01:09:58,235
None of us really have much left in us
to take a big beat down at the moment.
983
01:09:58,319 --> 01:10:03,782
We're ready to get warm
and, uh, get a good night's rest,
984
01:10:03,866 --> 01:10:05,492
and go at it again tomorrow.
985
01:10:08,704 --> 01:10:13,167
I don't feel any pressure to do anything
more than I'm comfortable doing.
986
01:10:13,250 --> 01:10:16,462
And I'm just going to listen to my heart.
987
01:10:16,545 --> 01:10:20,716
And I hope that I end up in one piece
at the bottom of this thing.
988
01:10:22,718 --> 01:10:25,387
I'm not in a space
to be paving roads anymore.
989
01:10:25,638 --> 01:10:31,435
I'm more in a space of being blessed
to be back on the road.
990
01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:55,542
Just feeling super small
in here at the moment.
991
01:11:00,547 --> 01:11:03,968
[indistinct]
992
01:11:08,514 --> 01:11:09,640
Hey!
993
01:11:13,269 --> 01:11:14,186
Fuck!
994
01:11:14,853 --> 01:11:19,733
The rapids are long, they're complex,
and it's just a big puzzle.
995
01:11:19,817 --> 01:11:21,902
We're just slowly putting it together.
996
01:11:24,780 --> 01:11:29,660
There's multiple moves around,
just massive pour over holes
997
01:11:29,743 --> 01:11:32,079
that if you went into you were going
to for surely swim.
998
01:12:30,304 --> 01:12:36,310
With any sport, you have the generations
before you who set a precedent.
999
01:12:36,393 --> 01:12:41,523
Who take something and push it
as far as possible
1000
01:12:42,107 --> 01:12:47,404
until something else comes along
that's younger, that's more creative,
1001
01:12:47,488 --> 01:12:49,281
that's been studying
what you've been doing
1002
01:12:49,365 --> 01:12:51,283
from a very early age.
1003
01:12:53,452 --> 01:12:56,538
And now, I'm paddling
with all of these kids
1004
01:12:56,622 --> 01:13:00,501
that have taken the sport
to such an incredible level.
1005
01:13:00,876 --> 01:13:05,381
You know, I feel like I'm growing,
and I'm learning again.
1006
01:13:06,548 --> 01:13:10,636
Every single person on this expedition
has been unbelievable.
1007
01:13:10,719 --> 01:13:13,722
It was a lot different than it was
when I was their age.
1008
01:13:14,473 --> 01:13:16,392
There was no ego involved.
1009
01:13:17,393 --> 01:13:19,603
Woo! That was fucking awesome!
1010
01:13:20,312 --> 01:13:21,397
[all cheer]
1011
01:13:21,855 --> 01:13:26,443
It's been the most supportive expedition
that I've ever been in.
1012
01:13:30,989 --> 01:13:34,368
To be able to embrace that
and encourage that behavior
1013
01:13:34,451 --> 01:13:38,997
and to be a part of that is an honor
at this point in my life.
1014
01:13:43,752 --> 01:13:49,383
To see Benny,
and to watch Aniol shred that river apart.
1015
01:13:49,842 --> 01:13:52,010
{\an8}I was just blown away. I was awestruck.
1016
01:14:55,782 --> 01:14:57,493
[indistinct]
1017
01:15:02,831 --> 01:15:05,209
I've traveled a lot of places
in the world, and I love them all.
1018
01:15:05,626 --> 01:15:08,754
But this place has something special
for me. It's very unique.
1019
01:15:08,837 --> 01:15:12,799
I feel like at home, and the rivers,
the mountains, the good people,
1020
01:15:12,883 --> 01:15:17,471
it all makes a really good combo
of a good place to come and enjoy
1021
01:15:17,554 --> 01:15:20,641
and discover, because this area
is unlike anything I've seen.
1022
01:15:20,724 --> 01:15:21,850
Cheers, bro.
1023
01:15:21,934 --> 01:15:22,809
Yeah, thanks. Thank you.
1024
01:15:22,893 --> 01:15:24,019
Salud, amigo.
1025
01:15:24,102 --> 01:15:25,604
Damn, that's damn good.
1026
01:15:29,525 --> 01:15:34,655
[Scott] To know that we're about to drop
into is the crux of the run.
1027
01:15:34,738 --> 01:15:39,785
The anticipation is definitely there.
The nerves are a little bit there.
1028
01:15:57,010 --> 01:16:01,306
Just downstream here is a rapid
that I've had a little anticipation for.
1029
01:16:01,390 --> 01:16:04,726
It's called "Need for Speed."
It's so intimidating.
1030
01:16:19,408 --> 01:16:21,577
I tried to control everything in my life.
1031
01:16:23,912 --> 01:16:30,419
And once I realized, with my tumor,
that I had no control over that,
1032
01:16:31,837 --> 01:16:34,506
I just surrendered to the flow of life.
1033
01:16:42,931 --> 01:16:46,768
And I no longer try
to control the outcome to anything.
1034
01:16:48,312 --> 01:16:50,731
I just show up with my heart.
1035
01:16:53,650 --> 01:16:57,112
And it gave me so much freedom.
1036
01:17:40,322 --> 01:17:41,323
Yeah, dude.
1037
01:17:41,990 --> 01:17:43,158
We made it!
1038
01:17:43,241 --> 01:17:44,159
Thanks, buddy.
1039
01:17:44,242 --> 01:17:46,870
[Aniol] The fourth! Awesome, dude!
1040
01:17:46,953 --> 01:17:48,955
-I'm so glad we did it.
-[Scott] Thank you so much.
1041
01:17:54,127 --> 01:17:56,672
[Benny] I could see out of the corner
of my eye, Scott just...
1042
01:17:57,964 --> 01:17:59,716
He had his head down
on the spray deck.
1043
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:01,843
And I could see how much that meant to him
1044
01:18:01,927 --> 01:18:06,223
to finally knock off this fourth river.
You know, it's been a 20-year journey.
1045
01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:07,974
Fuck, yeah.
1046
01:18:13,480 --> 01:18:15,982
[Scott] Never, ever would I have thought
I could have made it.
1047
01:18:51,601 --> 01:18:52,728
Made it.
1048
01:18:53,979 --> 01:18:56,815
[indistinct chatter]
1049
01:18:57,482 --> 01:18:59,317
This is a true story.
1050
01:19:03,697 --> 01:19:07,701
When I finished the Indus,
I had an MRI lined up.
1051
01:19:10,704 --> 01:19:15,041
And I thought for sure it had grown.
For sure.
1052
01:19:17,085 --> 01:19:20,255
It was told, once it starts growing,
it typically doesn't stop.
1053
01:19:22,674 --> 01:19:24,885
And I go in for the MRI,
1054
01:19:25,427 --> 01:19:29,598
anxiously waiting to hear
how much it's grown.
1055
01:19:32,934 --> 01:19:37,063
And I get a call from Doctor Jian,
1056
01:19:38,940 --> 01:19:41,568
"Hey, I just want to let you know
that, um...
1057
01:19:43,445 --> 01:19:45,489
there's been no growth in your tumor."
1058
01:19:48,992 --> 01:19:51,578
I couldn't believe what had just happened.
1059
01:19:52,829 --> 01:19:56,333
It's just unbelievable to me
that kayaking,
1060
01:19:56,416 --> 01:19:59,711
and opening yourself up
to the people around you
1061
01:19:59,795 --> 01:20:03,465
would have ever had an effect
on tumor growth,
1062
01:20:03,548 --> 01:20:05,509
or anything, for that matter.
1063
01:20:07,969 --> 01:20:09,012
Imagine that.
1064
01:20:22,651 --> 01:20:27,948
I ended up with something that, initially,
I looked at as...
1065
01:20:29,241 --> 01:20:32,410
a weakness, and was the thing
that brought me down.
1066
01:20:33,453 --> 01:20:36,373
And now, I look back at it.
1067
01:20:39,125 --> 01:20:41,127
It's like the best thing
that ever happened to me.
1068
01:20:44,047 --> 01:20:45,966
And I'm here to live to tell about it.
1069
01:20:54,182 --> 01:20:56,977
[outro music]
1070
01:25:33,128 --> 01:25:34,838
There's an amazing guy.
1071
01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:42,554
Very, very good.
1072
01:25:44,472 --> 01:25:46,224
Okay. Good.