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A co-production Younited & Studio 71 In partnership with Cdiscount Voyages A program conceived by Sébastien Frit, Grégoire Aussavy & Francis Leduc directed by Francis LEDUC

SEB in Papua The real adventure I don't know where the camp is. Ok it's over there, I can see it. I'm out of here.

Alright, I need to tell you. I introduce myself, my name is Seb and I make video on the internet I'm 22 years old, I have a dumb face. Heyyy! Sometime ago, I asked on Twitter if I would do a good adventurer.

And globally you answered me... NO So it really really offend me. Because it was a childhood dream for me.

Since childhood, I always liked stories about explorer and adventurer. And the only problem is that I like... but to watch on the other hand. Really... And actually, I took on this bit crazy challenge : become an adventurer.

I decided to leave on an expedition to the depths of the jungle in Papua to prove myself that I was capable of it The problem is I don't know much about Papua other than some clichés like cannibal tribes and scary animals

Anyway the only thing I know is that there still exist unexplored place And I ask myself : "How do we do to survive in the jungle ?" I mean in terms of experience, I already did camping... Ok.

So I don't really have problems with animals in general, but there are some limits. Aaaa, I have a shiver. And when I met the team, I was too intimidate to tell them. You'll see when you'll have the leeches fall on you.

Yes, I look forward (sarcasm tone). Of course I do not go alone, I'm accompanied by people that know what they're doing. Like, really well. After all, I don't want to die.

Let's take back, he's Bruno. He's the expedition chief. He is a speleologist and used to explore the most isolated place. And it's perfect, it's where we're going. Here there is no path.

Pfiu ! Here we are really really in exploration. He's Christophe. He is an ornithologist. And, for him, Papua is a synonym of promised land.

It's completely astonishing to see a kangaroo in a tree. And finally, he's Julien, our guide. He knows Papua by heart and speaks the local language. Which will really be useful. Guys, reaction, he got the Cuscus.

What am I doing here, what's is happening to me, and what will happen, I don't really know. Everything's well globally, I'm not stressed, I'm not anxious. Okay guys, there is something walking. Aaaa, I have a shiver.

I feel like I'm in an horror movie. Listen, I will meditate, I will sleep and it's gonna be "some-awe" (reversed in french argot). So we're the eve of departure Awesome. I forgot we're on tv. Because "some-awe" is a bit too Internet.

I don't know in what I'm getting to, but one thing is sure, it's gonna be a real adventure. So, now I'm going to pack my bag : Sleeping bag Really important. I don't know, for real we took that but...

Boxers! Socks! Crocs. It's only for style. Adventurer shirt. I don't explain you what this is.

I think I'm taking way much stuff here. I forgot the most important : the adventurer hat. If you want to be an adventurer, you need to look like an adventurer.

Hello, my name is Sébastien Halo nama saya Sebastien. Creator of content on the web

Halo nama saya Sebastien.

Pembuat konten di web. *Proceed to repeat* Barely arrived at Sorong in Papua, I find Julien our guide. -Hi ! -Hi ! -How are you ? -Nice to meet you, Seb !

Pembuat konten di web.

Of course here, no one knows me. And yet upon my arrival, people take picture of me. So I don't really understand why until I heard :

- They mistaked you for Justin Bieber ! - They thought you were Justin Bieber ! They think I'm a megastar. Oh yeah that's why. We're going to have breakfast at the hostel.

- Ils t'ont pris pour Justin Bieber - Ils ont cru que tu étais Justin Bieber

After almost 40 hours trip, we finally arrived . There is a lot of things I don't know and it's really stressing because I'm on the opposite and far away from home. Papua is this big Island between Australia and Asia. In one side there is Papua New Guinea, independent.

And on the other side there is West Papua which is a province of Indonesia And we are here at the far west of the island. The inhabitants of Papua, at the origin, are the Papuans. So I won't lie to you, we may be in town, the change of scene is already intense.

Fortunately, Julien planned me a little adjustment session. It involves tasting local stuff. Urgh, it's disgusting. Learning to cross the street without getting run over.

Listening to the local music Natal Papua and the 100 best hits 2016. I take both.

And especially, looking like Justin Bieber, makes you take a lot, but lot of pictures. Anyway I remind you that I'm suppose to leave on an exploration in the jungle. And of course it's not something you do on a hurry like that.

So to check if I'm able to go through it, the team planned for me a sort of test. So Christophe, the scientist of the expedition, organized a little trip. And I don't know why, but it looks bad. I can not stand it anymore.

It's incredible though. There is nothing that goes well. We're preparing to join a Papuans village isolated in the mountain. Chapter 1 : Initiation

It's the first time that I go in those mountains and now I'm particularly impatient and even moved to go because it's a mythic place not only for the naturist but also for the scientist. And it's Hans, the village chief that's going to guide us up there. To get to Mupi Gunung, you need to cross the tropical forest through the mountains.

And all that through multiple kilometers. On paper, it looked pretty simple. But I quickly changed my mind. Normally, we leave at 4 am but he said that currently it's raining a lot starting 12 so we leave at 2 am.

I hope you're down for it because... Well, we'll have to eat and sleep now. So for you it's your first encounter with the tropical forest. Oh, first time that I put a foot in it.

But it's good you don't look scared 2 hours later. I'm looking forward to tomorrow, I'm also eager to sleep. I really need to sleep a little. So here we are.

It's going to be pretty crazy, it's really an experience... Ok ! I'm really happy, a bit of apprehension on the tiredness and all that but it's normal. Otherwise all the rest really cool, I tell you ; in a few hours. 2 hours more later.

It is 3 am. We're all in good shape. Some noise everyone. We slept well !

I slept 2 hours, but I feel pretty good. The only thing that concerns at the moment are the leeches. So, I try to minimize the chances that leeches gulp down blood of the calves and the rest of the body. So, T-shirt in the pant, raised socks.

Let's go! After I reassure you, the leeches, they won't devour you all raw, it's pretty kind in fact. I think you need to make acquaintance at one point. Well you're right, you're right...

I feel that we intrigue a lot the Carriers that accompanied us. But I can't really know if it is because of our material. Or because we are REALLY slow. At the break, they make me taste a local specialty :

The durian. It's a well renowned fruit in Indonesia. They're crazy about it. These fruits have the particularity to be stinky.

but like so stinky that they are prohibited in all public places. It's a bit like their stinky cheese. As I know you really like precisions. It tastes like vomit...

with cheese. Yeah. I wouldn't eat everything. What do I do, do I give it back ? Well, it's really rude.

Oh yeah ? Yeah, you'll need to finish it. Well, let's go. Shall we go ?

So to offend no one, I hided it in my pocket for the time of a steep and my pants stank like hell for an entire week. Have you seen how it stands straight ? It's a blood radar. Get out leeches !

Get out ! I don't want you ! After several hours walking, I feel like we already walked 30 kilometers. But according to Christophe,

it's rather... -7 or 8 km maybe... -Only ? Forget what I said before. -And still, maybe 5 or 6 km...

Yes, but it's like that ! Or maybe I complain too much... So yes, I complain a lot, but I would like to justify myself on what I said, to have a little empathy from you. First, I discover hiking, and it's not my thing.

And it can become very long when the conditions are not ideal. That's so hypocrite, that's fake! I'm fed up... In a large group like this one, there might be a person with fears

which will not succeed in overcoming them, you see, who'll crack, who won't want to move on... It can still happens actually! It never ends, I'm fed up ! Watch that ! That's endless !

I won't lie, the cardio... It doesn't follow anymore ! ***... The Seb... The Seb is not fit enough !

So. Now, I'm gonna explain you our conditions. We walked. under 95°F in the shadow. Humidity rate close to 100%

Which means whatever you're doing, you sweat. Of course it was only a climb, with rocks, mud,

and all that with cameras on me, asking me every hundred meters : Not too much tired ? I'm fine ! In great shape ! Seb, a reaction ?

I'm dizzy! How do you feel at the moment ? At this moment, I stay polite because I'm well-behaved. But I want to collapse on the ground and insult the whole world.

But I don't want to crack either. Yeah, but I have the feeling to walk, to exhaust myself and to not enjoy what's around me you see. I'm just like, wait... Don't faint!

And it ruins everything.. It's the main problem about major ascents. It's tomorrow that we will make the most of it. But the worst in all that.

Is that, it didn't last 2 hours... neither 4... nor 6... But 10 fucking hours walking.

I can't stand! I never thought it would be that hard ! We have to move on. I think we have seen that there is a cloud,

and we don't want to be under the rain. So, that was the first hike of my entire life. And in all honesty, I didn't really liked it...

I wasn't ready, neither physically nor mentally, nor nothing at all.

That's so good ! Ah, it's better. It's the best thing that could happen. It's a welcoming rain ! It offers you a shower !

We are so tired, that we will fall asleep without having the time to meet the inhabitants of this village. But we go to bed in knowing that tomorrow morning, we'll wake up in an authentic Papuan village. And that...

...is completely crazy ! Look at this wake up ! I'll show you. It's still one of the most atypical wake up I ever had in my short life ! The Papuan tribes that is hosting us, is called the Mandacans.

This campsite is their former village. Today, it's used to host people like us who comes to observe the nature. So, I had couple of preconception about the Papuan,

and I didn't really expect that. In my mind, when we arrived in a Papuan village, it was huts. Well it's very simple, let's not lie to each other.

But... We still have... ...at least for this part of the trip... roofs

which is something important and I think that you'll see thereafter I'm getting ahead but at the same time I don't really take risks... we will live even simpler than that.

So, if there are some Papuan tribes who still live traditionally. Today, more and more Papuans live in town. Here, they live bare foot, using machetes. But all have cell phones.

So we are far from the clichés. And what is striking, is that the contact between the Papuan and what we call the "modern world", Happened in only one generation. Some Papuan grew without a single metal tool.

And some years after, they were taking the plane. And that, it's pretty unique in human history. I've just met them and what I can tell you is that it's people that are deeply kind and most of all really shy. You prepare the garlic and I do the tomatoes

So it's unlucky because I'm shy too. And in front of them, you don't want to do any mistake. Anything disrespectful, which could create... unease.

Do you think it would be possible that they teach me some word in Papuan, it could be cool.

Could you teach us a few words from the local language?

Pourriez-vous nous apprendre quelques mots de la langue locale ?

You have several ways to say "Hello"?

Vous avez plusieurs façons de dire "Bonjour" ?

Yes ! In the morning it's different. And the simple, "how are you ?" I propose that we memorize this one instead. Tomorrow there is a test, it's gonna be hard.

Oui ! Le matin c'est différent.

The forest that surrounds the village is full of wild animals. And there is one in particular that intrigues me. We're gonna see tree-kangaroos. It's really cool, really cute and it's especially rare.

And the Papuans knows some spots. They know by heart the forest. So I prefer to warn you when we talk about forest, here, it's at another level. You have to tell yourself that this forest have never being cut nor exploited by men. That's what we call a primary forest.

It's there since millions of years. And when you find yourself here, you quickly feel like you're in Jurassic Park. And precisely, the work of Christophe is to study the dinosaurs. or rather their descendant.

One of the stakes for me, is to understand how species form. How an ancestral specie give birth to multiple species during our history. For example groups of birds that are endemic, like we say, in New Guinea. It means we find them only in New Guinea, where do they come from ?

And for that you need to know the scream and chant of each birds. For example here what we hear, I propose that we create a bit of silence. Here we can hear the Oriole. It's crazy that. It's crazy to be able of...

Yes but, most of the birds are at the top of the trees at 70-100 feet high. If you want to study birds it's necessary to learn their screams and chant.

How did it come to you ...

Comment ça t'est venu toi...

this passion for birds?

cette passion pour les oiseaux ?

Yeah it's a childhood passion.

Ouais c'est une passion d'enfance.

But it happens to me sometimes I'm a little ...

Mais moi ça m'arrive parfois je suis un peu...

I do not know... I don't feel well

Je ne sais pas... Je ne me sens pas en forme.

Basically depressed

Limite déprimé.

I take my pair of binoculars,

Je prends ma paire de jumelles,

I am going to take a walk,

je vais me balader,

and I observe some birds

et j'observe quelques oiseaux

that I’ve seen a thousand times.

que j'ai déjà vu un millier de fois.

But they never do the same.

Mais ils font jamais la même chose.

And then to see all this life and everything ... It perks me up. And me too it perks me up. I admit that they talk to me about tree-kangaroos, so I couldn't wait to go see some. Hans sent some trackers to try to locate them.

Et puis de voir toute cette vie et tout... Ça me redonne la pêche.

And after several hours of walking. It's here ? Oh, yes here. Oh yes ! You see the head ? It feels weird to see those kind of animals like that.

Atypical in the middle of nature. It's completely astonishing to see a kangaroo in a tree, to start. It's true that it's not... It's a crazy luck to be able to see some with your own eyes.

It's a specie that live exclusively in this part of the world. Uniquely in those mountains. And they are sadly endangered It's incredible though... We're gonna call him Gilles.

*Gilles : tree-kangaroo* I just find that incredible to be able to observe animals like that in their natural habitat. It feels good to see that. When I see those kind of thing, I feel like it's sometime not even true. Like it's fantasy animals, one that were created. Like half scorpions half spider half grass hopper

There's some hybrids of animals that I don't understand but it fascinate me. I feel like it's some Pokemon. There's a wasp on my camera, right next from the handle. I'm not your friend, huh. I'm not your friend, you're going to calm down !

And of course, at a moment, I told myself, and what if we discover a new specie. And you're not going to believe this... But in the heart of the forest... We've made an incredible discovery :

An unknown specie, Absolutely unique in the world, What's that, wait? This!

But euh, yes... If you're looking for new species Yes It's more in the little things, it's in the little things that you have to turn to.

Not to the big ones There's a good chance Good chance, more like... That we're looking at a species that's never been described before.

And we could call it... I don't know "the Mustache", "the fluff" *Mustache : cochineals* What you need to know is that primary forests are disappearing all over the world.

And so many species are endangered. We can say that here is a true natural sanctuary. Hans and the villagers know that well so rather than selling the forest to mining and forestry companies or palm oil plantation,

Hans develop the economy of his village by welcoming the curious like us who come to observe nature. It's what we call ecotourism. *song in papuan* Bravo.

It's quite impressive being here. So you will say that I repeat myself but I'm always afraid of saying bullshit and saying something that isn't culturally acceptable. I don't know if I can ask them this question but aren't they afraid for their forest?

We are very afraid of deforestation.

On a très peur de la déforestation.

Yes.

Oui.

If this were to take place, it would cause disasters.

Si celle-ci devait avoir lieu, elle provoquerait des catastrophes.

In the forest we find wood, rattan, drug

Dans la forêt on trouve le bois, le rotin, le médicament

and also the bark to build our house.

et aussi l’écorce pour construire notre maison.

Everything comes from the forest.

Tout vient de la forêt.

Indeed, the villagers of Arfak live together with the forest.

En effet, les villageois de l'Arfak vivent ensemble avec la forêt.

So she is considered like our mother.

Donc elle est considérée comme notre mère.

What is it for?

Ça sert à quoi ça ?

It is to warn the village behind the mountain

C'est pour prévenir le village derrière la montagne

when one of ours is dead.

lorsqu'un des nôtres est décédé.

If someone dies?

S’il y a quelqu’un qui meurt ?

Yes. In anticipation of such meetings, I didn't want to come empty-handed And as I was in a hurry before departure

Oui.

And I was running out of ideas I took what was left in the fridge "Saucisson" You have to say "saucisson is good"

Nothing is more convivial than deli meats Luckily, I guess they enjoyed it! During dinner, Frank tells us that one of the villager is able to imitate the sound of a mysterious animal

that only go out at night, and called : the Cuscus So, it makes me laugh because I'm not mature enough But at the same time, it makes me even more curious !

You won't regret when you'll see it later So, we go with an entire crew in the middle of the night And go in the middle of the forrest to call the famous Cuscus So yes, it's with that sound that he is supposed to call it

20 minutes later, still no sign of the cuscus, so we decide to go to another place The forest is giant, and it can be anywhere and we start again. 20 minutes later, still no cuscus on sight We don't give up, we walk 100 meters further, and we start again

Still no cuscus And we start again At this moment, we have been in the dark for an hour In the middle of the forrest, waiting for something, that may never come

Maybe it's sleeping, I don't know We decide to turn back, and go back to the camp Papuans have a really strong code of honor And they don't want to disappoint us

"We'll try again tomorrow!" Until we hear a Papuan shouting through the forrest We rush to the village, and it turns out that a Papuan stepped on a python Or almost stepped on it

So, they catched it, so that's not a cuscus... -It's still nice ! -It's very beautiful ! It's a beautiful beast. But barely enough time to relax that we hear :

"Guys ! He got the cuscus!" That is something that we only see on television ! It doesn't exist in real life ! But for people...

They keep seeing it on TV ! For me, it belongs to TV ! But that's real ! Anyway, let's move... We find Hans, who saw the cuscus, but lose sight of it

"It doesn't make any sense!" I'm disgusted, but I laugh nervously "There's nothing right!" 15 minutes later, the Papuans spot it at the top of a tree

And now, everything changes. One of the Papuans begins to cut out the tree in which there is the cuscus We tell him to stop But...

"Anyway, they don't listen to us anymore..." At this moment, we are completely embarrassed But at the same time, we can't go back, because we don't know where we are! And it's their forrest, they do what they want !

We've been running after a cuscus for 2 hours and a half I have no fucking idea what it is And we'll finally see it What a deliverance !

What an adventure... So you're gonna tell me, "All this for that?" In the end, the real moral I get from it is that, if a Papuan makes a promise, And if he tells you that he's going to show you a cuscus

he will show you a cuscus ! So yes ! *Cuscus : marsupial family* All this for that !

Upon leaving the village The Papuans give us a surprise ceremony And that's very touching You need to know that every verses of this traditional song are improvised

They tell about their daily lives The forest And their lives in general And what's very touching at this moment

Is that they added a verse on our visit to the village I'm not sure about what they're saying Maybe they make fun of me ! Thanks to this experience, I noticed that I had managed to forge links with people with whom I only exchanged a few words.

The bare minimum. Everything opposed us. And yet one thing is certain, is that I will remember this meeting with those Papuans for a long time. The adventure has only just begun and I already feel like I have experienced so much.

And then, well... The goal was also to prove to myself and to others that I was ready to go to the depths of the jungle without any problem. And I think I'm ready ! I'm out.

argh... aaah I got a shiver. Don't move, don't move. ... well I think so.

It's time to go back down. Do you remember what it was on the way up ? I don't do it again... Back in the town, we have to find the speleologists of the team to review our expedition. But before, I have only one obsession :

Take a shower ! Oh, I smell the locker room ! It's something, really you don't wanna smell that, it's crazy ! Well, first contigency : Bruno and Didier aren't there... (We're on the lookout. We're still looking for the river)

They are still tracking... And it seems to be a bit of a hassle. *Area not found* Let me explain :

Using satellite images, Bruno and Didier have determined an exploration area where they think they have spotted caves. Except that once on the ground, it's immediately more complicated... You have to find canoes, a guide and above all find the right river, among hundreds! On our side, we decide to join them but by sea.

Ok. That's true, it's quite the detour. But hey, boating is still cool. Ouah, it's super cool. And when in addition, the boat goes through the Raja Ampat Islands, then it becomes downright crazy !

Wow ! Ok ! Oh my god ! Wooooo ! (echo)

I'm not overacting, I swear. Are you ready? Chapter 2 : The Last Paradise What an environment !

Yeah, it's cool. There are less mosquitoes, in addition. There are less mosquitoes. - But, pffff... - It's one of the last paradises on Earth ! Julien sailed in the region for almost ten years.

He knows these islands like the back of his hand ! It looks like... Biscarros. but in 2 millions times better. It's indescriptible. Look at that.

These islands are known to be among the most beautiful diving spots in the world So, I can't miss this ! I'm so happy because I wanted to go diving since I was a kid. I have the occasion of accomplishing this dream, this experience !

There's no better place in the world to do that, we should prepare to be amazed So good ! Just put your head underwater to enter a completely magical world! We are in what is called the "Coral Triangle".

We're surrounded by more than 600 species of corals and more than 1500 species of fish. It is a region so important for biodiversity that it is a marine protected area. And in these islands, there is something else i would like to show you : it's this marine lake.

And this one is a bit particular. So, I know you are wondering and no, fortunately they don't sting. Actually all those little jellyfishes got trapped in this lake 12 000 years ago.

And with no predators, they manages to reproduced, evolved and proliferate by the millions without any problem. Suddenly over time they lost their means of defense. He's good the kiddo. Spectacular.

Fishes everywhere. Well that's good! Well baptized. Yes, baptized.

You don't even have enough time to see everything seen how much things there is, that's what awesome. So I don't know if I'm a water person but after several days of navigation, I picked up the pace. Must be said that it's a lot more comfortable than in the mountains. Well that's debatable.

I was a bit afraid of being seasick or puking. Actually I understand the meaning of the swell. If you focus on it, you can only see that and it's annoying. But as soon as you're asleep, that's ok.

On our way, we encounter many awesome boats cover in lights. These are fishing boats and we call them baganes. And I'm gonna tell you a secret, I like fishing. Yes I know and I assume, my father initiate me to it when I was a kid and I never stop loving that ever since.

So of course, I insist to go see one. So I thought it would be simple but actually it's not. First we must wait for night. Then we must find a bagane that accept to let us on bard.

They'll resume fishing at 3 am. And if that's not enough, we must be there at the same time than the fishes which depend of currents and tide. After many failed attempts, we decided to do one more attempt at night. Strike of luck, after some negotiations, the captain accept to let us on board.

Hi everyone !

Salut tout le monde !

Hi ! Ah yeah, you need some muscles for that... So what are they fishing here? They fish pelagic

Salut !

that you find in deep frying or in dried fish. So here they let the nets go down they light up all the lights and little by little they will light off from the exterior - To attract all the fishes - toward the interior, yes.

- So it's the bait? - It will assemble the fishes in the middle of the boat. - After that they pull up the net on the sides, you see - Yeah - And in the end, they're trapped. - Ok.

when are you here? It's been almost a year they didn't went home. Seriously? ***, that's long. There's boat which came to recover the fishes they got.

quand êtes-vous ici ?

OK. Yeah that require patience. Patience and a rhythm of life. They work at night and they sleep at day. And you see it on the boat, it's not easy to sleep at day in the blazing sun in their small houses.

Hey look the fishes are coming, we can see them. So I'm not gonna lie to you, I was basically skeptical. For me sportive fishing made sense while net fishing don't. Holy cow

- He's big. - He's huge! So I don't know what got into me but to see them do that, it gave me the urge to try. Holy cow He has to climb on it.

They are doing that by themselves. No wonder why they're strong. On this bagane, you had the same welcoming and the same kindness than with the papuans. And if for them, it's only one more day, for us it's time to set sail.

*sea chanty* With this detour in the Raja Ampat, it's like I fulfilled one more childhood dream by accident but with reality being a thousand times better that everything I imagined. Between the mountain and the islands, I already feel like I left for months and succeed my bet.

I could go home right now and it would already be an exceptional adventure Calm down except for one tiny detail: Aaargh

It's just now things start being serious. Back from the islands, it's the emergency reunion with Bruno and Didier the speleologists. Because of our detour in boat, we will clearly lacking time for our expedition in the jungle. And it's a real problem because in the jungle, finding a grotto isn't an easy thing.

On the satellite images, Bruno notice a river that suddenly stop at the foot of this massif. And that's a hint that there's maybe underground galeries around there and so grottoes. But only one way to find out: to go there and explore the area. The idea is to go the next day to join a village where we have 2 pirogues.

On the way, I feel that Julien seems quitte stressed. As for me, it's quite the contrary. Let's say I'm starting to get used to it. Once arrived at the village where the pirogues are supposed to be, I now understand why Julien was getting worried:

one of them is missing. In the mean time, I decide to go check what it looks like and it's not reassuring. Dis you see the size of that thing?

We...we're gonna sink. We have too many bagages. Look at the size of that thing! Huh? Yes that's it. Ok so we're supposed to come up 60 kilometers of river on that

Normally it's ok but the pilot of that pirogue is still at Sorong so he's coming by motorcycle, it'll take maybe one and a half hour. We'll get there, that's part of aventure. Well it's the contingency.

Let's say they're less... aware about time, timing, being on time than us. We can't blame them. So we wait. Like a long time.

And when finally the captain of the second pirogue arrived, we realize he want us to pay for his pirogue that we already paid for since it's the same one. I told them "Guys, seriously?" Wait, it's the same one? -Yeah

The guy found a pirogue for me but it's the one we have already rented. Apparently it's a local scam: he don't come on purpose so than another guy can say "If you want, I have a pirogue available but... it'll cost you."

So we paid for a third pirogue. Suddenly we got the second one and we were ready to go. This is it. After all that time,

we're finally sailing toward the unknown. Chapter 3: toward the unknown Just being here, it's already... it's already amazing.

I really feel like I'm in one of those adventure movie I watched when I was a kid. Even the Papuan, we don't know if they come here. To imagine being in a place so remote that no man set foot in it, it was unthinkable in my mind. After 6-7 hours of pirogue, the river shrink up to disappearing completely under rocks.

Impossible to go further, therefore we arrived at destination. - Francis? -Yeah? You told me about camping. There's no camping. We're about to stay one week camping in this jungle.

It's Jurassic. And now we're here, it's too late to go back. Well let's go. You already used a machete before?

Well very little, like I have a knife in my hand when I eat. Beside I still didn't introduce you to Bruno. Bruno, it's the guy you would like to have with you deep in the jungle.

How convenient. His passion is spelunking: go underground as deep as possible and explore tunnels, cavities and all that. And of course he like to do that in the most remote places on Earth

otherwise it would be too easy. Well it's into the fucking wild. We can't do more wild, we agree? Yes yes, here there's no path.

Here we're really in exploration. But no time for sightseeing. The first thing to do is to set up camp before the fall of night. Everyone has to chose the place where they will set their own camp.

Super. Yeah it's obvious there's place. I'm gonna try to find 2 little trees. Rah it won't be confortable for sleeping.

*** there's already critters everywhere. 5 days of that... Take the mosquito net, I will take the 2 little thingies... And here... the wood was rotten.

After 2 hours, I finally have my own place confortable enough. I think we're good here. There's already leeches, spiders, lot of disgusting things. It's infested of vines, shitty vines

which have thorns, it's called rattan, it's everywhere. Let me pass! When it encounter your clothe's fabric, it cling to it and if it's not your clothes, it's your skin and it makes you scratches everywhere, it's so annoying.

Once finishing setting up camp, I decide to explore the surrounding. Ok there's nice leaves up there. I will try to collect a maximum of those leaves and it will do nicely. So let me explain:

I wanted some giant leaves to put my belongings on something else than mud and so I went alone in the jungle with my camera. *** is that the night falling? You hear the whole forest waking up.

Why did I go that far? Ok guys, something's walking. I saw something dog size...

*** I don't have my glasses. Ok I'm out of here I'm out. The whole forest start moving, I'm quick to imagine things.

I'm telling you, I'm fearful. No it's good, I see a tarp up there. I see a light. It's good, we're good. So it's not to dramatize that I'm telling you about that.

It's simply that it has served as a reminder: deep in the jungle, this ain't your home. Well I'm happy to be here. Well yes, we're better here that in the village.

Here, silence didn't exist. All night you will hear crickets, frogs, birds... This is at 4 am. And sleeping in a mosquito net hamac with 100% humidity and 35°C (95°F),

it had to be noisy in addition. Well I don't know if I'm gonna sleep well. Yo. This is the map.

So let's say that if we have 900 meters here, we have 1,5 km here, it makes 2,4 km. Given the time we have on the project, I'm not sure we can reach objective number 3. There's climbing in there? I don't know, maybe, we'll see.

It's the unknown for us. We'll see. Actually when we talk about exploration, we don't really think about what it truly mean. Now I know.

It consist of walking far into the forest to reach untraceable GPS points and in this forest, we progress slowly, very slowly by bushwhacking with machete and marking trees to not get lost. No wonder nobody come here.

Day 1 And so it goes up it goes down it goes up again

Day 2 We get lost Day 3 we turn back

4 hours out and 4 hours back and to often come back Day 4 empty handed.

But all that it was without counting on out strike of luck of our last day. It's hot. Ouah! Wait a minute. Pause.

Before that, let me tell you about the daily life in the jungle. At the beginning, why I was wondering was: how long could I hold up? You're far from everything: far from your home, far from your relatives, far from men

and with this strange impression of living outside time. What's cool with that, it's that it allow to forge strong links. ♬ The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black ♬ And then we take a step back on things on which we don't focus usually, like a return to basics.

Taking a shower It's filling little by little. or drinking water. So you don't drink that. you drink that, you get sick.

We're going to pump the water. What's this ***? We drink and we get cautious. I crafted a little bench to sit down.

Because in the forest, apart from sitting on rock, root or disgusting leaves, you don't have much of a choice and so this little bench is very confortable. Yes, there's dinosaurs. Daily life is also coexistence with leeches.

Don't move. I don't move. I think we will have to use the lighter. Nope, it's good

-You got it? -Yeah I was like "my shirt label is pretty sticky" But the worst remain all those little critters which lay their eggs under your skin and which makes you crazy with how itchy it becomes. And when I tell you it's itchy, it's itchyyyy.

Aaargh... And still we accept all that, we play along, it's ok. But during the third night, I think I never were that much scared before in my life. What are you doing?

AAAAAH! In the middle of the night, he started screaming... yelling So we all got very very very scared. We all believed different things, that we got attacked...

Actually, the story is that one of the papuan that accompany us got attacked in the middle of night while he was sleeping on the ground. He felt claws on his belly. Because there's beasts, we hear beasts sometimes passing under our hammocks at night. So to try to track said beast, Christophe put trap cameras around the camp.

Wait wait wait So he put little fruits down the cameras and normally he should attract the animals so we will see if it saw anything So 12:02 pm

ah there's something on the right Oh it looks like a... - A kangaroo or a monkey. -Yeah a marsupial - Maybe a kangaroo - It walk on 4 legs

So if that's our savage beast, it's hyper disappointing. Actually it's Gilles. So on the exploration side, the grottoes are still nowhere to be found. Yes

Ah it's hot, it's terrible. I can’t take it anymore, really. I can understand that some people like that, the surrounding are beautiful but walking that much just to explore,

it's killing me. Day 5 Several times I wondered myself: What am I doing here?

Ok I wanted to test the adventurer life, admittedly but that's good, I had enough. It's been days we're searching and finding nothing in this *** jungle. Yes.

And at some point, you can't take it anymore. Or maybe I’m not cut out for this. But I made a promise to myself and now I have to keep it. On their side, Bruno and Didier hang on and want to try one last route through the forest

Here we go. and I don't want to deceive them. While we were progressing on a rocky ridge, Bruno thought he spotted something. Seems like there's a hole down there.

Nice entry there. Oh yeah the hole down there? We'll see if we can go down. Apparently this way it should work but after that I don't know. Maybe we'll have to go down with ropes but at least go seeing what's there.

This gulf wasn't visible on the satellite images. The problem is that there's at least 40m of vertical wall to get there. Which mean equip yourself, setting up the ropes, rappel down and up and so learn to rappel.

It's good, you're ready to go down. Look, your rope you put it here you hold it tight, the thumb here, never let go and you go down quietly Here, everything rely on my hand, if my hand let go, I fall.

Don't worry we'll belay you. Good, feet wide apart First you let your *** go down then your feet It's so cool, I'm a child again.

We're doing a remake of Lost. Yeah it's so cool. Holy cow. Do you hear that? What's super impressive, it's to hear those shrill screams without knowing what it is.

Sound like witches. Ouah! Bats everywhere of every size and flying everywhere.

There's thousands of red eyes looking at you like that, it's horrible. And at the same time, I find that very cool because we're in "security". We ain't in danger, right guys?

Hey Seb? Yeah I'm coming. There's a nice one here. There.

Aaah I got a shiver. It's just incredible to discover such a place. You feel like you get out of reality and you enter into a fantastical tale. Hardly time to compose myself that Bruno and Didier spot something unusual on one of the wall.

There's what? Come look. There's drawings. Wait there's drawings?

- You see there? - Oh yeah Light it from the side, we're onto something. Look at this one, that shape you see? They're everywhere, there's another spiral here!

A big spiral. There's engraving here too, looks like arrows. Yeah there's arrows there. So it's the most...

That mean we ain't the first ones coming here, there were people here, I don't know when exactly, maybe 2 or 3000 years ago. It might worth inventory the shapes of the drawing on a sketch You know that what we just discover, it's... it's Maybe there's new figures. Seb, do you realize?

Yes it's crazy but -You see, there's a cross here. - no I don't realize That's crazy, I don't realize, I can't stand back, it's incredible. It might had been made thousands and thousands and thousands of years ago

and nobody came here even since. Incredible. Given the shape of the engraving, it can only be of human origin. But from which era?

Humans from 2000 years ago or those from 40 000 years ago? Oh magnificent. It was incredible.

Know that what you're doing here, not many in France had done it, speleologist I mean. Honestly it's quite exceptional. We might have discover human traces from thousands years ago in a grotto which is accessible only by rappel, nobody come here.

Papuans have been on this island for 50 000 years I think. It might had been made 40 000 years ago It might had been men who were here thousands and thousands of years ago who engrave those things, it had a meaning to them.

I don't know if you realize, we discover a grotto with human traces which can advance I don't know but the facts are here and it's incredible. It's filled with emotions and it overwhelm me more than it gave me emotions

I'm destabilized. According the first analysis of the archaeologists we send those pictures, they are shamanic symbolic dating from at least 15 000 years. And it's a very likely hypothesis since in this region of the world, we already found traces of human life from 40 000 years ago

It's such an incredible discovery that archaeologists are already organizing an expedition to explore this place next year. Careful about the tree that might fall. And it's with stars in my eyes that this adventure end. And now we wait hoping that the gentleman will come with our pirogue.

But he'll come. Right? If I learn one thing during this adventure, it's that adventure is synonymous of unforeseen.

And what's certain is that I just lived the most intense experience of my life physically, humanly and emotionally. I absolutely wanted to bring back a souvenir from all that but I don't really know what.

And in the end, we got an idea with Julien. It will tickle a bit. By marking my skin with one of those symbols we discovered in the grotto, I'm getting tattoo more than that. I can't stand it anymore.

Papua! Nice to meet you. I'm getting tattoo of this experience, Do you hear that?

those places, Ouah! those encounters, those emotions

and especially I'm getting tattoo of a childhood dream that I finally realized: That's adventure. live the real adventure.