Rio Roosevelt expedition - photo update
OK, I can't give away the ending, I think that National Geographic Television would ex-communicate me if I did, but here's a pretty cool update with photos and all:
On Nov. 27, the Epicocity Project joined up with a team of scientists to descend the remote River of Doubt in southwestern Brazil. Our mission — to catch some of the huge fish that Teddy Roosevelt first described during his exploration of this Amazon tributary in 1914.
We followed the paddle strokes of Roosevelt and are the first team to descend the river in more than a decade, the fourth team ever. This stretch of the River Of Doubt — now renamed the Rio Roosevelt — is nearly inaccessible because of its remote location and rapids that prevent navigation. Roosevelt’s expedition was forced to portage many large rapids and nearly lost much of the team. So far, EP’s team of explorers and scientists has only had to make one 5-hour portage around a rapid too burly for the rafts to take.
And this expedition’s scientists have a huge advantage over Roosevelt’s team with modern whitewater rafting equipment and EP’s experienced expedition paddlers to ensure a safe 300-kilometer descent of the River of Doubt and access to this remote ecosystem.
Roosevelt also wrote about a giant fish on his expedition. Our goal in Brazil is to complete a biodiversity inventory of the river and to find and document the giant fish written about by Roosevelt, before, damming, mining and deforestation change the ecosystem forever.
With both engines down in the early days of the expedition, the EP team had plenty of extra time to get acquainted with the Amazonian wildlife. Among their jungle finds — a Capybara (the world’s largest rodent), monkeys, parrots and a 3-foot-long catfish!
The Capybara is the world's largest rodent and exists only in South America.
On Nov. 27, the Epicocity Project joined up with a team of scientists to descend the remote River of Doubt in southwestern Brazil. Our mission — to catch some of the huge fish that Teddy Roosevelt first described during his exploration of this Amazon tributary in 1914.
We followed the paddle strokes of Roosevelt and are the first team to descend the river in more than a decade, the fourth team ever. This stretch of the River Of Doubt — now renamed the Rio Roosevelt — is nearly inaccessible because of its remote location and rapids that prevent navigation. Roosevelt’s expedition was forced to portage many large rapids and nearly lost much of the team. So far, EP’s team of explorers and scientists has only had to make one 5-hour portage around a rapid too burly for the rafts to take.
And this expedition’s scientists have a huge advantage over Roosevelt’s team with modern whitewater rafting equipment and EP’s experienced expedition paddlers to ensure a safe 300-kilometer descent of the River of Doubt and access to this remote ecosystem.
Roosevelt also wrote about a giant fish on his expedition. Our goal in Brazil is to complete a biodiversity inventory of the river and to find and document the giant fish written about by Roosevelt, before, damming, mining and deforestation change the ecosystem forever.
With both engines down in the early days of the expedition, the EP team had plenty of extra time to get acquainted with the Amazonian wildlife. Among their jungle finds — a Capybara (the world’s largest rodent), monkeys, parrots and a 3-foot-long catfish!
The Capybara is the world's largest rodent and exists only in South America.
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Comment by benjamin Ten Eyck on December 14, 2009 at 3:44pm -
when does this show air
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