so the next part of the story is always
really difficult for me to tell it has
never gotten any easier and so what I
think I’m going to do for this is show
you guys a couple minute clips from the
film it’s hard to share this news
without overshadowing all the beauty of
Zack Gorman Becca’s love and partner for
the last five years just three weeks
after our trip to Arizona Zack journey
forward into the great mystery strangely
enough he was flying paragliding in
Tucson when Becca called that Sunday
night he had already passed on words can
never describe how hard this has been
and I can only imagine what this feels
like for his family and for Becca grief
is a journey no one would choose but one
thing is certain Becca has taught me
more about courage in a couple of months
than perhaps I’ve learned in my entire
life and it’s because of her courage
that we are here in Mongolia now Oh hard
dodge so just like that we’re preparing
for this huge trip and one of the
closest people to us passes away but
somehow Becca decided that she still
wanted to go to Mongolia and all of us
unanimously agreed that if she wanted to
go no matter how bad she was grieving
that we would support that and we would
still go do this trip and so that landed
us back in Mongolia so yeah we paddled
about 500 kilometers through northern
Mongolia like I said in one of the most
pristine and beautiful places I have
ever ever been there were a couple
different sections of the own on that we
paddled but this upper section that you
see here we the estimate we’ve gotten of
how many people have seen it is 10 and
the river is flowing completely
unobstructed and with very open almost
no influence from humanity it’s pretty
incredible this is one of my favorite
photos it because it gives the feeling
of how magical that place was
we also encountered the ongoing military
try and remain calm it’s all good and
mangy this is one situation where you
want a translator for sure so mangy and
amber first go off and the rest of us
were sitting there we’re just waiting be
patient and then we all get escorted
away and no cameras so we were held up
for six hours in the military camp I
feel like we’re a bit of excitement for
them you know they don’t see much action
out there but they were making up
excuses as to why we needed to be
detained we gotta play some great games
with the children all day but uh we this
does imply our point here this is you
know we’re back down the kayaks and they
need to make sure we’re not Russian
spies and fell enough it’s the solar
panel equipment you see there that they
were the most worried about and the
reason why I’m taking an image right now
I’ve got the holding the camera down and
I casually just take the card out put
the yesterday’s card in so when they
came over there like oh we need to look
at your images and I had to scroll
through every single image on that card
so good thousand images of just kayaking
in pretty places and thankfully did not
get caught because apparently mangy he
was telling us that we actually could
have gone to jail it turns out we
thought we had the right parents we went
through some logistics there and
Mongolia liked you know illegal and we
thought we did have the right parents
but they’ll telling us that we didn’t
and we could have had a very different
outcome to that day I don’t think we
really had any more dramas until here’s
a lightning scenario and we’re camping
on this river by and you can see the
river splitting around us and you know I
start waiting out further and further it
was quite shallow and like this is
amazing so I start shooting and I get my
tripod because I wanted to get a
lightning strike and you know I wasn’t
really paying attention to how fast that
storm was coming on and suddenly amber
and I were joking around and then
Amber’s like crystal I’m not really
comfortable with you being out water
anymore I might not so good you know
just just one more strike and I promise
I’ll get out next thing the loudest
thunder just rips above us and I’m
sprinting out of that water faster
second and I threw the tribe or down
right beside the tent and we all ran for
the Willows because by the time I’d got
out of the water through that tripod
down this lightning strike goes off just
on the other side of the river about a
hundred meters away and it was like oh
okay this is serious and we hid in the
Willows for a good two hours because
what you can’t see in His image to the
left is this huge cliff that was a
highest point in the area and the stolen
basically was attracted to that cliff
and would stay that raging above us for
a couple hours and we’ll try to seek
shelter and not get struck
you
really difficult for me to tell it has
never gotten any easier and so what I
think I’m going to do for this is show
you guys a couple minute clips from the
film it’s hard to share this news
without overshadowing all the beauty of
Zack Gorman Becca’s love and partner for
the last five years just three weeks
after our trip to Arizona Zack journey
forward into the great mystery strangely
enough he was flying paragliding in
Tucson when Becca called that Sunday
night he had already passed on words can
never describe how hard this has been
and I can only imagine what this feels
like for his family and for Becca grief
is a journey no one would choose but one
thing is certain Becca has taught me
more about courage in a couple of months
than perhaps I’ve learned in my entire
life and it’s because of her courage
that we are here in Mongolia now Oh hard
dodge so just like that we’re preparing
for this huge trip and one of the
closest people to us passes away but
somehow Becca decided that she still
wanted to go to Mongolia and all of us
unanimously agreed that if she wanted to
go no matter how bad she was grieving
that we would support that and we would
still go do this trip and so that landed
us back in Mongolia so yeah we paddled
about 500 kilometers through northern
Mongolia like I said in one of the most
pristine and beautiful places I have
ever ever been there were a couple
different sections of the own on that we
paddled but this upper section that you
see here we the estimate we’ve gotten of
how many people have seen it is 10 and
the river is flowing completely
unobstructed and with very open almost
no influence from humanity it’s pretty
incredible this is one of my favorite
photos it because it gives the feeling
of how magical that place was
we also encountered the ongoing military
try and remain calm it’s all good and
mangy this is one situation where you
want a translator for sure so mangy and
amber first go off and the rest of us
were sitting there we’re just waiting be
patient and then we all get escorted
away and no cameras so we were held up
for six hours in the military camp I
feel like we’re a bit of excitement for
them you know they don’t see much action
out there but they were making up
excuses as to why we needed to be
detained we gotta play some great games
with the children all day but uh we this
does imply our point here this is you
know we’re back down the kayaks and they
need to make sure we’re not Russian
spies and fell enough it’s the solar
panel equipment you see there that they
were the most worried about and the
reason why I’m taking an image right now
I’ve got the holding the camera down and
I casually just take the card out put
the yesterday’s card in so when they
came over there like oh we need to look
at your images and I had to scroll
through every single image on that card
so good thousand images of just kayaking
in pretty places and thankfully did not
get caught because apparently mangy he
was telling us that we actually could
have gone to jail it turns out we
thought we had the right parents we went
through some logistics there and
Mongolia liked you know illegal and we
thought we did have the right parents
but they’ll telling us that we didn’t
and we could have had a very different
outcome to that day I don’t think we
really had any more dramas until here’s
a lightning scenario and we’re camping
on this river by and you can see the
river splitting around us and you know I
start waiting out further and further it
was quite shallow and like this is
amazing so I start shooting and I get my
tripod because I wanted to get a
lightning strike and you know I wasn’t
really paying attention to how fast that
storm was coming on and suddenly amber
and I were joking around and then
Amber’s like crystal I’m not really
comfortable with you being out water
anymore I might not so good you know
just just one more strike and I promise
I’ll get out next thing the loudest
thunder just rips above us and I’m
sprinting out of that water faster
second and I threw the tribe or down
right beside the tent and we all ran for
the Willows because by the time I’d got
out of the water through that tripod
down this lightning strike goes off just
on the other side of the river about a
hundred meters away and it was like oh
okay this is serious and we hid in the
Willows for a good two hours because
what you can’t see in His image to the
left is this huge cliff that was a
highest point in the area and the stolen
basically was attracted to that cliff
and would stay that raging above us for
a couple hours and we’ll try to seek
shelter and not get struck
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