Big River Man Page #5

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And even though

we were scared,

exhausted and totally alone

the day ended perfectly.

Seventy days

that would follow

would be the

strangest of my life

and also the worst.

DAY 2

MATT MOHLKE:

NAVIGATOR:

Martin is pissed

we forget the machetes.

This is Mathew Mohlke

Martin's head

river navigator.

It is Matt job to make

sure Martin doesn't die

or get lost in one

of the thousand

of channels on Amazon.

He has been with Martin

on expeditions for years.

He lived in Fountain

city, Wisconsin.

Matt is a professional

poker player by night

and at day works for

Sam Welten's family.

He quit his job with them

to come on the

Amazon expedition.

Martin trusts him more

then anyone on the world

except for me

even thought his not a

professional river navigator.

Matt, you know

where we are? -Yes.

It's difficult

to see ahead.

You know?

-Yes. -OK.

Martin is afraid we lost

because he can't

see sh*t an far.

The problem is

if the river turns quickly

we can't see a coming

and if there a bad water

we are f***ed.

We are top on it.

It's too late.

So, it's gonna be a

really dangerous day.

The river was extremely

high and moving fast.

This creates

deadly whirlpools.

This fortacess

can suck down

entire boats full of people

much less a swimmer.

Dangerous, Martin.

More this way.

More this way.

Dangerous.

Sound like f***ing

death trip today or something.

I am telling him

it's dangerous

but he swim right into it.

Motherf***er.

STREL'S CREW BOA

This is the Cielito Linda

the boat we will be living on

for the next three weeks.

People told us

it was the

worst boat in Peru

and they were right.

It was a very bad boat.

ALFREDO CHAVEZ:

BOAT CAPTAIN:

This is Alfredo Chavez

captain of the Cielito Linda.

I was concern

that our boat

will crushing the banks

like a pink pound

after only two days

but Alfredo said

things like this

happen a lot in Peru.

No need to worried about.

Alfredo is a very special

taboo Amazon to the guy.

Alfred said

there are three

rules in Peru.

The first is to through

away your plan A

the second is to through

away your plan B

and the third is to relax.

Peruvians accept

they can not control nature

and especially not

the Amazon river.

We would have

to do the same

or the river would break

us by the end.

He ask me where

we were this morning.

I'm natural guy. I don't

know how to use GPS.

I'm learning.

I just have...

first training yesterday.

Borut teach me how.

So, when we have fog

like that Martin ask me:

"Do you know

where we are?"

Look, I don't

know where we are.

We are lost in

Amazon somewhere but

I just try to find

the best curve

and keep him not to hit

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