1 00:00:26,192 --> 00:00:27,921 There are still a few places left 2 00:00:28,161 --> 00:00:31,324 that you can't get to from here. 3 00:00:33,333 --> 00:00:39,135 Places without phones or faxesor even roads. 4 00:00:43,643 --> 00:00:47,579 There are still a few corners of the globe so remote 5 00:00:48,281 --> 00:00:49,942 they remain aloof from 6 00:00:50,183 --> 00:00:52,811 what we call the modern world. 7 00:00:54,287 --> 00:00:57,779 This is the realm of the bush pilot. 8 00:01:48,975 --> 00:01:51,205 Tom Clayton is leaving behind his family 9 00:01:51,444 --> 00:01:53,810 and friends for a two-year adventure around the world. 10 00:01:54,380 --> 00:01:56,610 The 28-year-old Radnor resident checks out 11 00:01:56,850 --> 00:01:58,715 his single engine plane for the last time 12 00:01:58,952 --> 00:02:00,385 before taking a solo flight 13 00:02:00,620 --> 00:02:02,349 from wings Airport in Norristown. 14 00:02:02,655 --> 00:02:03,747 The purpose is to try 15 00:02:03,990 --> 00:02:05,423 and go to seven continents 16 00:02:05,658 --> 00:02:06,955 in different parts of the world and live 17 00:02:07,193 --> 00:02:08,421 and work with bush pilots. 18 00:02:08,661 --> 00:02:09,491 As a bush pilot 19 00:02:09,729 --> 00:02:11,754 Claytor will fly daredevil routes while delivering 20 00:02:11,998 --> 00:02:14,091 vital supplies to remote areas. 21 00:02:14,767 --> 00:02:16,758 So before taking to the skies 22 00:02:17,003 --> 00:02:18,300 Claytor got his hugs and kisses 23 00:02:18,538 --> 00:02:20,836 while cameras recorded all the action. 24 00:02:21,274 --> 00:02:23,504 And there was even a special goodbye. 25 00:02:24,544 --> 00:02:25,977 Then as the crowd looked on 26 00:02:26,212 --> 00:02:28,407 the pilot closed the cockpit door 27 00:02:28,648 --> 00:02:29,512 and took off. 28 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,920 The day he left, he made the local TV news. 29 00:02:38,258 --> 00:02:41,352 If he makes it back, he'll make history. 30 00:02:43,463 --> 00:02:45,328 Tom Claytor hopes to be 31 00:02:45,565 --> 00:02:47,726 the first to fly around the world 32 00:02:48,034 --> 00:02:50,161 Stopping on all seven continents 33 00:02:50,403 --> 00:02:52,200 before returning home 34 00:03:13,459 --> 00:03:14,687 I had this tremendous desire 35 00:03:14,928 --> 00:03:17,192 inside to look at other places 36 00:03:17,430 --> 00:03:18,294 to look in places like 37 00:03:18,531 --> 00:03:19,896 Greenland and the Sahara Desert. 38 00:03:20,133 --> 00:03:20,690 Things that I'd only seen 39 00:03:20,934 --> 00:03:22,902 on the map in high school. 40 00:03:23,736 --> 00:03:26,034 So I think it's a desire 41 00:03:26,272 --> 00:03:27,705 to look at different parts of the world 42 00:03:27,941 --> 00:03:28,669 and to live with people 43 00:03:28,908 --> 00:03:30,000 on other parts of the world 44 00:03:30,276 --> 00:03:32,107 but maybe also it's a little challenge 45 00:03:32,345 --> 00:03:33,835 or test for myself as well. 46 00:03:35,114 --> 00:03:36,945 Claytor is 31 years old. 47 00:03:38,651 --> 00:03:40,949 When he was 12 he set foot in an airplane 48 00:03:40,987 --> 00:03:41,817 for the first time. 49 00:03:43,256 --> 00:03:45,554 It was to be the start of an obsession 50 00:03:47,093 --> 00:03:48,151 When he was just 18 51 00:03:48,394 --> 00:03:50,021 he earned a pilot's license. 52 00:03:50,930 --> 00:03:51,988 By his early 20s 53 00:03:52,232 --> 00:03:52,891 he had begun working 54 00:03:53,132 --> 00:03:54,929 as a bush pilot in Africa. 55 00:04:04,611 --> 00:04:07,637 Today, Claytor owns his own airplane 56 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:09,370 named "Timmissartok" 57 00:04:09,616 --> 00:04:11,345 after one of Lindbergh's planes. 58 00:04:12,452 --> 00:04:14,886 Outrigged with a special reserve tank 59 00:04:15,121 --> 00:04:16,713 the Cessna 180 Taildragger 60 00:04:16,956 --> 00:04:19,948 can fly about 14 hours without refueling. 61 00:04:21,461 --> 00:04:23,554 The struggle to keep his gas tank 62 00:04:23,796 --> 00:04:25,195 full has shaped 63 00:04:25,431 --> 00:04:27,490 Claytor's journey from the very start. 64 00:04:28,101 --> 00:04:30,365 I left home with $20,000. 65 00:04:31,137 --> 00:04:32,468 And when I got to Greenland 66 00:04:32,705 --> 00:04:34,536 it cost me $1,000 to fill up 67 00:04:34,774 --> 00:04:35,832 my gas tank once. 68 00:04:36,242 --> 00:04:38,210 So it became very obvious 69 00:04:38,444 --> 00:04:39,342 that I was going to have to 70 00:04:39,579 --> 00:04:40,603 find ways of getting money. 71 00:04:40,847 --> 00:04:43,179 And my idea which was only an idea when I left 72 00:04:43,416 --> 00:04:44,883 was that I'd work the plane on the way. 73 00:04:45,385 --> 00:04:46,443 And when I got to Niger 74 00:04:46,686 --> 00:04:48,347 I found a job doing a survey of a park 75 00:04:48,588 --> 00:04:50,283 which paid me $8,000. 76 00:04:50,890 --> 00:04:53,017 So I've been able to find jobs 77 00:04:53,259 --> 00:04:54,487 for the plane on the way. 78 00:05:06,639 --> 00:05:08,607 Besides working the plane as he goes, 79 00:05:08,841 --> 00:05:10,240 Claytor's writing a book 80 00:05:10,476 --> 00:05:11,306 about his experience 81 00:05:11,544 --> 00:05:13,512 in the far corners of the world. 82 00:05:16,282 --> 00:05:19,581 So far, he's logged 46,000miles 83 00:05:19,819 --> 00:05:23,755 three continents and 28 countries. 84 00:05:29,495 --> 00:05:33,090 On December 2, 1990 he left Pennsylvania 85 00:05:33,333 --> 00:05:34,322 heading north through 86 00:05:34,567 --> 00:05:38,435 Canada to Greenland and then Iceland. 87 00:05:39,972 --> 00:05:43,408 In the summer of '91, he arrived in Europe. 88 00:05:43,843 --> 00:05:45,470 And early in '92 89 00:05:45,712 --> 00:05:48,579 he began travelling through Africa. 90 00:05:53,386 --> 00:05:55,217 The longest leg of Claytor's journey 91 00:05:55,455 --> 00:05:58,652 so far has been on the Africa continent. 92 00:05:59,492 --> 00:06:02,154 His video journal is testimony to a rare 93 00:06:02,395 --> 00:06:04,522 and spontaneous adventure. 94 00:06:08,167 --> 00:06:09,998 We're now in market 95 00:06:10,236 --> 00:06:13,296 which is the largest market in West Africa 96 00:06:43,436 --> 00:06:44,596 We're now in... 97 00:06:50,042 --> 00:06:52,840 and Mr. has with him scorpions 98 00:06:58,217 --> 00:07:01,243 And now he's going to show me that he can use his 99 00:07:01,487 --> 00:07:04,456 so that the scorpions don't bite you 100 00:07:07,527 --> 00:07:08,494 we just did this once before 101 00:07:08,728 --> 00:07:09,888 I hope it's successful again. 102 00:07:10,129 --> 00:07:10,720 Okay... 103 00:07:53,139 --> 00:07:55,972 It's starting to rain now. 104 00:08:05,318 --> 00:08:07,513 Now in southwest Africa 105 00:08:07,753 --> 00:08:09,380 Claytor has spent the last few weeks 106 00:08:09,622 --> 00:08:12,022 exploring the country of Namibia. 107 00:08:15,328 --> 00:08:16,420 Today, he plans to visit 108 00:08:16,662 --> 00:08:19,130 an area rich in African history 109 00:08:19,732 --> 00:08:21,063 a group of abandoned towns 110 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:23,165 near the Namibian coast. 111 00:08:30,576 --> 00:08:33,067 There's a town southwest 112 00:08:33,312 --> 00:08:34,074 of the Namib Desert 113 00:08:34,313 --> 00:08:36,679 called Kolmanskop and this town was founded 114 00:08:36,916 --> 00:08:39,214 because a railway worker 115 00:08:39,452 --> 00:08:40,316 working on the rail line 116 00:08:40,553 --> 00:08:42,145 found a very pretty stone. 117 00:08:42,522 --> 00:08:43,784 And this lead to a diamond 118 00:08:44,023 --> 00:08:44,785 rush which caused 119 00:08:45,024 --> 00:08:46,753 this town to spring out of the desert 120 00:08:47,860 --> 00:08:48,554 and then as quickly as 121 00:08:48,794 --> 00:08:50,284 it started it disappeared. 122 00:08:55,134 --> 00:08:58,399 Kolmanskop was followed by other boomtowns 123 00:08:58,804 --> 00:09:00,999 a sudden cluster of Diamond settlements 124 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,401 that sprang up in the lifeless desert. 125 00:09:44,750 --> 00:09:46,342 At the turn of the century, 126 00:09:46,586 --> 00:09:48,611 Diamonds were so plentiful here, 127 00:09:49,021 --> 00:09:51,546 they say you could collect a jarful a night 128 00:09:51,791 --> 00:09:52,723 by just picking up 129 00:09:52,959 --> 00:09:55,519 whatever glistened in the moonlight. 130 00:09:56,562 --> 00:09:57,722 In the saloons 131 00:09:57,964 --> 00:09:59,363 you could buy your whiskey 132 00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:02,693 and your woman with raw diamonds. 133 00:10:06,973 --> 00:10:09,533 May 10th. It's a ghost town, 134 00:10:09,775 --> 00:10:11,538 almost like the American west. 135 00:10:11,978 --> 00:10:14,503 Casinos. Hotels. Houses. 136 00:10:15,581 --> 00:10:16,411 There's something haunting 137 00:10:16,649 --> 00:10:18,708 and magical about this place. 138 00:10:19,585 --> 00:10:21,644 I keep looking in the sand half expecting 139 00:10:21,887 --> 00:10:22,945 to find a diamond. 140 00:10:23,623 --> 00:10:24,954 But there are none. 141 00:10:29,895 --> 00:10:31,487 When the sand was picked clean, 142 00:10:31,731 --> 00:10:33,221 the people disappeared. 143 00:10:35,801 --> 00:10:38,668 What they left behind is am eerie memento. 144 00:10:39,271 --> 00:10:41,034 An empty museum. 145 00:10:41,374 --> 00:10:42,898 A movie set. 146 00:10:43,809 --> 00:10:44,605 I can almost imagine 147 00:10:44,844 --> 00:10:47,870 the sounds of music and laughter here. 148 00:11:32,892 --> 00:11:36,851 Claytor's itinerary is deliberately unpredictable. 149 00:11:37,663 --> 00:11:39,597 If he has enough money for gas 150 00:11:40,099 --> 00:11:42,966 he can simply scout around off the beaten path 151 00:11:43,202 --> 00:11:44,999 for material for his book. 152 00:11:47,206 --> 00:11:47,968 What I'm trying to do is 153 00:11:48,207 --> 00:11:49,640 visit remote parts of the world 154 00:11:50,176 --> 00:11:53,304 places like this desert jungles ice caps 155 00:11:54,146 --> 00:11:56,341 and places which are basically 156 00:11:56,582 --> 00:11:58,447 the frontiers of civilization. 157 00:11:58,884 --> 00:12:00,112 And the venue by which I do 158 00:12:00,352 --> 00:12:02,547 that is I look for bush pilots 159 00:12:02,788 --> 00:12:05,916 because bush pilots work in these areas andvery often 160 00:12:06,158 --> 00:12:08,319 they're not just pilots but they're scientists 161 00:12:08,661 --> 00:12:10,288 they're businessman, they're researches 162 00:12:10,529 --> 00:12:12,724 they're missionaries and conservationists. 163 00:12:13,165 --> 00:12:15,963 These pilots also teach me the particulars of 164 00:12:16,035 --> 00:12:19,562 these various areas and how to go through them safely. 165 00:12:23,809 --> 00:12:26,607 Recently, another bush pilot told Claytor 166 00:12:26,846 --> 00:12:28,473 about an isolated shipwreck 167 00:12:28,714 --> 00:12:30,045 on the Namiban Beach. 168 00:12:31,183 --> 00:12:33,242 One of the many skeletons along 169 00:12:33,486 --> 00:12:36,148 Africa's infamous Skeleton Coast. 170 00:12:46,365 --> 00:12:48,265 Claytor is looking for a South African 171 00:12:48,501 --> 00:12:50,128 freighter called the Otavi 172 00:12:50,369 --> 00:12:52,269 which sank in 1945. 173 00:12:53,873 --> 00:12:55,534 A mere footnote in history, 174 00:12:55,775 --> 00:12:58,369 the wreck is said to be extremely well preserved 175 00:12:58,944 --> 00:13:01,936 thanks to the tiny cove where it went aground. 176 00:13:04,950 --> 00:13:06,884 Just beyond this swept area and that beach, 177 00:13:07,119 --> 00:13:09,417 there's a rock peninsula and one beyond it. 178 00:13:09,655 --> 00:13:12,954 You'll see in between the two is the shipwreck. 179 00:13:13,192 --> 00:13:13,988 Right here the ocean is 180 00:13:14,226 --> 00:13:16,456 just moving back off the Otavi. 181 00:13:17,029 --> 00:13:18,428 There are seals just piled up 182 00:13:18,664 --> 00:13:19,596 around that wreck. 183 00:13:25,704 --> 00:13:26,693 You can see the wreck 184 00:13:26,939 --> 00:13:27,963 jetting up out of the sand. 185 00:13:28,574 --> 00:13:30,041 And part of it's been split off. 186 00:13:30,409 --> 00:13:31,171 And those are seals 187 00:13:31,410 --> 00:13:32,672 they're just packed all around it. 188 00:14:05,010 --> 00:14:06,773 May 15th. 189 00:14:07,012 --> 00:14:08,309 I am on the edge of one of the oldest 190 00:14:08,547 --> 00:14:09,809 deserts in the world. 191 00:14:10,316 --> 00:14:11,613 The skeleton coast 192 00:14:11,851 --> 00:14:13,045 where countless shipwrecked sailors 193 00:14:13,285 --> 00:14:14,616 lost their lives. 194 00:14:15,788 --> 00:14:18,689 It feels like a place I was never meant to be. 195 00:14:25,831 --> 00:14:29,267 Like a ghost, the Otavi looms before me 196 00:14:29,501 --> 00:14:32,231 rising three decks above the sand, 197 00:14:32,471 --> 00:14:34,939 something almost lost and forgotten. 198 00:14:38,277 --> 00:14:39,301 I try to imagine the men 199 00:14:39,545 --> 00:14:41,775 who wrecked here half a century ago. 200 00:14:42,414 --> 00:14:43,608 How did it feel to be 201 00:14:43,849 --> 00:14:45,680 marooned in such a place? 202 00:14:48,554 --> 00:14:51,182 The wreck of the Otavi is so inaccessible that 203 00:14:51,423 --> 00:14:52,549 Claytor is probably the 204 00:14:52,791 --> 00:14:55,555 lonely vessel's first visitor in decades. 205 00:14:57,930 --> 00:14:59,454 His book promises to be 206 00:14:59,698 --> 00:15:02,292 a guided tour of the middle of nowhere. 207 00:15:14,613 --> 00:15:16,581 May 16th 208 00:15:16,882 --> 00:15:19,612 Today is the 894th day since I left home. 209 00:15:21,253 --> 00:15:22,515 Sometimes I worry that I will become 210 00:15:22,755 --> 00:15:25,189 to comfortable being alone. Already, 211 00:15:25,424 --> 00:15:26,015 I can't imagine 212 00:15:26,258 --> 00:15:27,156 what it would be like to be 213 00:15:27,393 --> 00:15:28,826 in a room full of people. 214 00:15:30,896 --> 00:15:32,227 I miss the most unbelievably 215 00:15:32,464 --> 00:15:33,453 trivial things. 216 00:15:34,166 --> 00:15:35,394 A bookstore. 217 00:15:35,634 --> 00:15:36,532 A movie. 218 00:15:36,769 --> 00:15:38,396 A long hot shower. 219 00:15:38,637 --> 00:15:39,763 A pillow. 220 00:15:43,309 --> 00:15:44,139 The only sound I hear 221 00:15:44,376 --> 00:15:45,866 is a hyena in the distance. 222 00:15:46,679 --> 00:15:48,169 I wonder where it is. 223 00:15:48,981 --> 00:15:52,075 But I relish the quite... the solitude. 224 00:16:08,734 --> 00:16:11,669 May 17th. I wake up at dawn and it's freezing. 225 00:16:16,709 --> 00:16:19,473 I brush my teeth and break down camp. 226 00:16:19,712 --> 00:16:22,681 And then, almost as though it were a part of myself 227 00:16:22,915 --> 00:16:24,473 I see to the plane. 228 00:16:28,921 --> 00:16:31,981 What I'm doing. 229 00:16:32,224 --> 00:16:33,248 But of course I think about it. 230 00:16:34,193 --> 00:16:36,559 I check everything and the I check it again. 231 00:16:39,098 --> 00:16:40,690 Three pilots I met in the Faroe Islands 232 00:16:40,933 --> 00:16:43,026 were recently killed when their helicopter crashed. 233 00:16:44,136 --> 00:16:45,967 That makes 15 pilots... 234 00:16:46,205 --> 00:16:49,368 15 friends who have died since I started flying. 235 00:16:50,909 --> 00:16:51,807 There's so much of flying 236 00:16:52,044 --> 00:16:53,534 that's completely out of your control. 237 00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:57,039 So I try to concentrate on what I can control. 238 00:17:21,473 --> 00:17:23,998 Despite the dangers and perhaps also 239 00:17:24,243 --> 00:17:28,509 because of them Claytor loves to fly 240 00:18:15,627 --> 00:18:17,060 The whole world goes upside down. 241 00:18:17,296 --> 00:18:18,729 And yet everything inside 242 00:18:18,964 --> 00:18:21,899 the airplane stays the same. Kinda fun. 243 00:18:35,681 --> 00:18:37,080 If you do it wrong 244 00:18:37,349 --> 00:18:39,214 you can really get into a lot of trouble. 245 00:18:43,288 --> 00:18:44,016 You can really really scare 246 00:18:44,256 --> 00:18:45,518 yourself if you do it too fast 247 00:18:45,757 --> 00:18:47,725 or too slow or you stall the tail 248 00:18:48,193 --> 00:18:49,217 hour heart drops... 249 00:18:50,162 --> 00:18:52,187 so that's when I do it by myself to practice it. 250 00:18:52,631 --> 00:18:53,757 Because you don't want to do it wrong 251 00:18:53,999 --> 00:18:55,091 when you're trying to show someone. 252 00:19:00,172 --> 00:19:01,332 But the life of a bush pilot 253 00:19:01,573 --> 00:19:03,768 is not all barrel rolls and stunt flying. 254 00:19:04,543 --> 00:19:05,737 With funds running low 255 00:19:05,978 --> 00:19:08,572 Claytor needs to start looking for his next paying job. 256 00:19:12,117 --> 00:19:13,948 He decides to leave Namibia 257 00:19:14,186 --> 00:19:16,017 flying northeast to Botswana. 258 00:19:19,758 --> 00:19:22,727 Here, he'll visit an old friend and fellow bush pilot... 259 00:19:24,062 --> 00:19:25,359 Perhaps, with a little luck 260 00:19:25,597 --> 00:19:27,690 he'll also get a line on some work. 261 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:35,829 Bush pilots everywhere 262 00:19:36,074 --> 00:19:37,939 seem to have an informal network 263 00:19:38,177 --> 00:19:39,371 for news and information. 264 00:19:41,947 --> 00:19:44,279 In Africa, many are involved in wildlife 265 00:19:44,516 --> 00:19:46,074 management and conservation, 266 00:19:46,585 --> 00:19:48,177 like Lloyd Wilmot. 267 00:19:48,754 --> 00:19:51,746 Just keep a nook out for breeding herds 268 00:19:51,990 --> 00:19:53,855 and any sign of vultures and hyenas. 269 00:19:54,159 --> 00:19:55,592 Wilmot runs a safari camp 270 00:19:55,861 --> 00:19:57,385 in Chobe National Park. 271 00:19:58,297 --> 00:19:59,127 In addition 272 00:19:59,364 --> 00:20:00,388 he uses his plane to help 273 00:20:00,632 --> 00:20:03,430 combat poaching in the immense refuge 274 00:20:03,869 --> 00:20:05,769 where he is an honorary game warden. 275 00:20:10,542 --> 00:20:12,669 Today, Claytor has become along with Wilmot 276 00:20:12,911 --> 00:20:14,037 to track a herd of elephants 277 00:20:14,279 --> 00:20:15,610 just outside the park. 278 00:20:16,949 --> 00:20:18,917 You've a huge herd underneath you right now. 279 00:20:19,718 --> 00:20:20,309 Roger. 280 00:20:24,556 --> 00:20:25,352 I'm turning to the right. 281 00:20:25,591 --> 00:20:26,819 I want to have another look at that herd. 282 00:20:29,027 --> 00:20:30,324 Okay, I'm in on your left. 283 00:20:35,867 --> 00:20:36,663 Now that they've spotted 284 00:20:36,902 --> 00:20:37,960 the elephants from the air 285 00:20:38,337 --> 00:20:40,931 they'll continue the search on foot tomorrow. 286 00:21:00,959 --> 00:21:03,427 Lloyd Wilmot is one of the few wildlife experts 287 00:21:03,662 --> 00:21:05,527 who routinely approaches 288 00:21:05,764 --> 00:21:07,789 elephant without the protection of a vehicle. 289 00:21:10,202 --> 00:21:12,500 He and Clayton will wait at a watering hole 290 00:21:12,771 --> 00:21:15,331 for a close up view of the animals. 291 00:21:16,208 --> 00:21:19,700 What do you do if you're surprised by an elephant? 292 00:21:19,945 --> 00:21:22,641 Is there a trick to not getting eaten? 293 00:21:23,081 --> 00:21:24,514 There's no real trick. 294 00:21:24,750 --> 00:21:24,977 The thing is to try and 295 00:21:25,217 --> 00:21:25,774 keep the wind in your favor. 296 00:21:26,018 --> 00:21:28,714 If you if you can see him 297 00:21:28,954 --> 00:21:29,818 before he sees you 298 00:21:30,055 --> 00:21:30,646 you can figure out 299 00:21:30,889 --> 00:21:32,481 which way the wind's going 300 00:21:32,724 --> 00:21:34,385 and then go down wind of him and keep clear of him 301 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,086 but in the ultimate analysis 302 00:21:36,328 --> 00:21:37,352 if you are confronted 303 00:21:37,596 --> 00:21:40,929 you get to something like a big tree, like that. 304 00:21:41,166 --> 00:21:41,632 If you can't climb it 305 00:21:41,867 --> 00:21:44,665 you just get behind it and you have a clot of earth 306 00:21:44,903 --> 00:21:46,268 like a lump over there or a piece of wood, 307 00:21:46,505 --> 00:21:48,905 and throwing that at them 308 00:21:49,141 --> 00:21:50,631 often turns them and distracts them. 309 00:21:51,410 --> 00:21:53,002 In their sort of terms of reference 310 00:21:53,245 --> 00:21:54,735 nothing has ever thrown anything at them 311 00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:56,538 so they get a bit disconnected 312 00:21:56,782 --> 00:21:58,113 when you actually throw something at them. 313 00:22:10,162 --> 00:22:13,620 Wow...! There is 314 00:22:52,237 --> 00:22:53,966 Notice how they skim the top of the water 315 00:22:54,206 --> 00:22:56,333 because that's where it's cleanest and clearest. 316 00:22:59,277 --> 00:23:01,040 The sediment sinks down and you have about half 317 00:23:01,279 --> 00:23:03,270 half an inch to an inch of clean water on top. 318 00:23:03,515 --> 00:23:05,073 So they suck just on the top, 319 00:23:05,317 --> 00:23:06,045 much like you see them doing now... 320 00:23:06,284 --> 00:23:07,216 you have to look carefully, the ears are cocked. 321 00:23:24,069 --> 00:23:27,129 Claytor approaches a bull shoot some video of him 322 00:23:27,639 --> 00:23:29,630 but the large make has no interest 323 00:23:29,875 --> 00:23:31,308 in posing for the camera. 324 00:23:52,130 --> 00:23:52,653 What did you just do there? 325 00:23:52,898 --> 00:23:53,830 It's a bluff charge. 326 00:23:54,065 --> 00:23:55,396 It's to get you to go. 327 00:23:55,801 --> 00:23:56,961 Just call his bluff. 328 00:23:57,202 --> 00:23:58,032 Stay put. 329 00:23:59,805 --> 00:24:00,931 May 22nd. 330 00:24:01,173 --> 00:24:03,607 I have just been charged by a wild elephant. 331 00:24:04,242 --> 00:24:05,072 Lloyd laughs lightly, 332 00:24:05,310 --> 00:24:07,005 like he's seen it a thousand times. 333 00:24:09,714 --> 00:24:11,238 Neither one of us says much. 334 00:24:11,883 --> 00:24:12,508 There's really not much 335 00:24:12,751 --> 00:24:14,275 to say after an elephant charge. 336 00:24:20,559 --> 00:24:21,355 After a while 337 00:24:21,593 --> 00:24:23,527 a large group emerges from the bush. 338 00:24:25,530 --> 00:24:26,724 Its an extraordinary thing 339 00:24:26,965 --> 00:24:29,331 to be so close to these magnificent creatures. 340 00:24:30,902 --> 00:24:31,891 It's so easy to feel small 341 00:24:32,137 --> 00:24:33,798 in the face of such splendid power. 342 00:25:26,625 --> 00:25:28,650 Thanks to bush pilot grapevine, 343 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:30,320 Claytor has secured a job 344 00:25:30,562 --> 00:25:33,156 in an international park in Zimbabwe. 345 00:25:40,472 --> 00:25:43,805 The two pilots part company in the Botswana sky 346 00:25:58,890 --> 00:26:00,687 Claytor's headed for Hwange National Park 347 00:26:00,926 --> 00:26:02,359 in Western Zimbabwe, 348 00:26:03,695 --> 00:26:05,686 but first he'll make a slight detour to one 349 00:26:05,931 --> 00:26:08,525 of Africa's most spectacular natural wonders: 350 00:26:09,467 --> 00:26:11,526 Victoria Falls. 351 00:26:47,038 --> 00:26:49,973 I'm now flying low over the Zambezi River 352 00:26:50,208 --> 00:26:52,301 approaching Victoria Falls 353 00:26:53,178 --> 00:26:55,669 and as you look ahead at the trees 354 00:26:55,914 --> 00:26:56,676 you just see this mist 355 00:26:56,915 --> 00:26:58,780 this towering mist rising 356 00:27:00,285 --> 00:27:03,220 our of the trees that are above the water. 357 00:27:04,222 --> 00:27:05,280 And the Africans call it 358 00:27:05,523 --> 00:27:06,615 "Mosi-oa-Tunya." 359 00:27:06,858 --> 00:27:08,052 Which means the smoke that thunders. 360 00:27:12,030 --> 00:27:14,464 The Zambezi River drops up to a million 361 00:27:14,699 --> 00:27:19,102 gallons of water a second over the 350-foot falls. 362 00:27:20,705 --> 00:27:22,536 Even before it comes into sight, 363 00:27:22,774 --> 00:27:25,572 the roar of the plummeting water is deafening. 364 00:27:41,893 --> 00:27:43,588 The rainbow everywhere. 365 00:27:43,828 --> 00:27:45,318 You see the mist sailing the screen. 366 00:28:58,303 --> 00:28:59,133 Look at that chasm, 367 00:28:59,370 --> 00:29:00,997 and there's a rainbow coming across it. 368 00:29:01,940 --> 00:29:06,036 Wow, look at that 369 00:29:18,456 --> 00:29:19,753 right below the falls 370 00:29:19,991 --> 00:29:21,322 you can see there're gorges 371 00:29:21,559 --> 00:29:22,583 that just zig back 372 00:29:22,827 --> 00:29:24,590 and forth about five times. 373 00:29:25,630 --> 00:29:26,597 And in these gorges 374 00:29:26,831 --> 00:29:28,093 it also drops down 375 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,196 to this boiling black water below. 376 00:29:31,936 --> 00:29:33,904 It's spectacular. 377 00:29:57,061 --> 00:29:59,393 May 26th. I can't resist 378 00:29:59,631 --> 00:30:01,189 flying down into the gorge 379 00:30:01,432 --> 00:30:02,490 even though it's risky. 380 00:30:03,968 --> 00:30:05,060 Not only could I be killed 381 00:30:05,303 --> 00:30:06,702 I could probably get arrested. 382 00:30:08,740 --> 00:30:09,502 As I corner 383 00:30:09,741 --> 00:30:10,605 the water explodes into 384 00:30:10,842 --> 00:30:12,537 a torrent if frothing white waves. 385 00:30:23,521 --> 00:30:25,682 Sometimes flying is just a fast way to travel. 386 00:30:27,125 --> 00:30:30,822 And sometimes it's the greatest thing in the world. 387 00:31:11,002 --> 00:31:12,799 Leaving the falls behind 388 00:31:13,071 --> 00:31:15,232 Claytor reaches Hwange National Park. 389 00:31:17,275 --> 00:31:19,209 Before he can land in a remote area 390 00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:21,774 Claytor has to clear the runway. 391 00:31:22,213 --> 00:31:23,305 Collisions with animals are 392 00:31:23,548 --> 00:31:25,413 one of the greatest dangers bush pilots 393 00:31:25,650 --> 00:31:26,981 face in Africa. 394 00:31:49,807 --> 00:31:51,502 Okay, are you feeling strong this morning. 395 00:31:51,743 --> 00:31:54,177 On the ground, 396 00:31:54,412 --> 00:31:56,710 Claytor gets some help refueling and prepares 397 00:31:56,948 --> 00:31:59,314 for his next assignment in the air. 398 00:32:06,824 --> 00:32:11,193 Conservationist and researcher Janet Rachlow 399 00:32:11,429 --> 00:32:13,488 has hired Claytor to help track an injured 400 00:32:13,731 --> 00:32:15,255 rhinoceros in the park. 401 00:32:17,168 --> 00:32:19,534 Rachlow is part of a controversial program 402 00:32:19,771 --> 00:32:23,070 designed to protect severely endangered rhinos. 403 00:32:23,608 --> 00:32:25,735 Park officials in Zimbabwe have been removing 404 00:32:25,977 --> 00:32:29,606 the horns from dozens of rhinos in a desperate 405 00:32:29,847 --> 00:32:31,314 attempt to deter poachers. 406 00:32:33,451 --> 00:32:35,009 Claytor was there during one of the dehorning 407 00:32:35,253 --> 00:32:38,120 operations and videotaped it. 408 00:32:39,958 --> 00:32:40,754 The first time 409 00:32:40,992 --> 00:32:42,118 I saw rhinos getting their horns cut 410 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,157 off it was in the southeast section of Zimbabwe. 411 00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:48,023 This huge rhino was lying there sedated 412 00:32:48,266 --> 00:32:49,494 and this man pulled the 413 00:32:49,734 --> 00:32:53,067 started ripping the horn off its face. 414 00:33:05,750 --> 00:33:07,012 And you start to ask yourself, 415 00:33:07,251 --> 00:33:08,843 "why made clear tome 416 00:33:09,087 --> 00:33:13,319 was that there's nothing else that can do here. 417 00:33:22,333 --> 00:33:24,358 The rhino Claytor and Rachlow are searching 418 00:33:24,602 --> 00:33:27,332 for is an adult female named Zola. 419 00:33:28,072 --> 00:33:29,539 Even though she was dehorned, 420 00:33:29,774 --> 00:33:32,504 she was shot and badly wounded by poachers. 421 00:33:37,415 --> 00:33:40,942 In the vast 5000 square mile park, 422 00:33:41,185 --> 00:33:43,210 the only way to locate individual animals 423 00:33:43,454 --> 00:33:44,682 is from the air. 424 00:33:45,456 --> 00:33:47,856 Even then, it's no easy matter. 425 00:33:48,893 --> 00:33:50,190 We're starting to get a signal. 426 00:33:50,428 --> 00:33:51,292 Okay 427 00:33:51,896 --> 00:33:52,828 Once we get a little bit closer, 428 00:33:53,064 --> 00:33:54,429 we can listen out of both wings... 429 00:33:54,665 --> 00:33:57,725 and we wanna balance the volume that comes 430 00:33:57,969 --> 00:33:58,799 in on the two wings 431 00:33:59,370 --> 00:34:01,270 and that'll keep us going right towards it... Okey 432 00:34:05,610 --> 00:34:06,235 Geez, it's hard to see 433 00:34:06,477 --> 00:34:07,967 through this bush, isn't it? 434 00:34:10,348 --> 00:34:12,873 Okay, straight... Real close real close 435 00:34:13,584 --> 00:34:15,779 directly under us. 436 00:34:17,889 --> 00:34:20,187 Nothing under us on the left. 437 00:34:21,926 --> 00:34:24,918 It's quite possible that her collar has come off. 438 00:34:25,163 --> 00:34:26,596 It's come off several of the other animals. 439 00:34:26,831 --> 00:34:28,298 So what we'll need to do is just come in on foot 440 00:34:28,533 --> 00:34:30,000 and find the collar or find the animal. But, 441 00:34:30,435 --> 00:34:32,027 you know, now we know the area. 442 00:34:47,518 --> 00:34:49,213 With the help of expert trackers, 443 00:34:49,454 --> 00:34:51,479 the search for Zola continues on foot. 444 00:35:01,466 --> 00:35:03,297 Dr. Michael Kock is the veterinarian 445 00:35:03,534 --> 00:35:05,798 for Zimbabwe's national park. 446 00:35:08,806 --> 00:35:10,068 Once they find the rhino, 447 00:35:10,308 --> 00:35:11,434 Dr. Kock will shoot her 448 00:35:11,676 --> 00:35:12,768 with a tranquilizer dart 449 00:35:13,010 --> 00:35:15,001 so he can treat her gunshot wounds. 450 00:35:59,223 --> 00:36:06,152 I need... The hole is swollen here. 451 00:36:08,833 --> 00:36:10,460 That's from a gunshot there? 452 00:36:10,735 --> 00:36:13,795 What I need is, I need an eye cover 453 00:36:14,038 --> 00:36:15,665 My shirt? 454 00:36:37,461 --> 00:36:38,155 She looks good. 455 00:36:38,396 --> 00:36:39,260 You can see she's done 456 00:36:39,497 --> 00:36:41,431 some wearing here around the edges. 457 00:36:41,666 --> 00:36:42,633 If Zola had died, 458 00:36:42,867 --> 00:36:44,459 the poachers would probably have cut off 459 00:36:44,702 --> 00:36:47,830 what was left of her horn to sell. Still, 460 00:36:48,906 --> 00:36:52,808 dehorning does appear to reduce poaching overall. 461 00:36:54,245 --> 00:36:56,236 It's easy to want to take an emotional stance 462 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:57,606 to conserving these animals. 463 00:36:57,848 --> 00:36:58,678 And if you take that stance, 464 00:36:58,916 --> 00:37:00,713 dehorning is hard to justify. 465 00:37:00,952 --> 00:37:02,044 But I think we have to be realistic, 466 00:37:02,286 --> 00:37:03,583 and we have to look at what's happening. 467 00:37:03,821 --> 00:37:05,812 And, I mean, I'd be really sad to tell my 468 00:37:06,057 --> 00:37:08,150 children or my grandchildren that, 469 00:37:08,392 --> 00:37:08,915 sorry, 470 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:10,559 there used to be something as magnificent as 471 00:37:10,795 --> 00:37:11,193 a dinosaur, 472 00:37:11,429 --> 00:37:12,589 but we killed them all 473 00:37:27,311 --> 00:37:28,972 Strafed with machine gun fire 474 00:37:29,213 --> 00:37:30,578 the huge creature's legs 475 00:37:30,815 --> 00:37:32,908 are swollen with infection. 476 00:37:40,191 --> 00:37:41,749 Once her wounds are treated 477 00:37:41,993 --> 00:37:43,517 Zola will be given an antidote 478 00:37:43,761 --> 00:37:46,195 to the tranquilizer and freed. 479 00:37:58,843 --> 00:38:00,640 May 27th. 480 00:38:00,878 --> 00:38:01,902 The immense animal awakes 481 00:38:02,146 --> 00:38:04,614 and rises to her feet but does not move. 482 00:38:05,750 --> 00:38:07,809 Then, slowly she lowers her massive head 483 00:38:08,052 --> 00:38:10,748 to the ground and uses her chin as a crutch 484 00:38:10,988 --> 00:38:12,285 to limp off into the bush. 485 00:38:14,592 --> 00:38:15,650 The doctor sounds optimistic 486 00:38:15,893 --> 00:38:16,951 but I am not. 487 00:38:18,329 --> 00:38:19,887 She might survive these wounds 488 00:38:20,131 --> 00:38:21,063 but to a poacher, 489 00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:22,129 her life is worth far less 490 00:38:22,366 --> 00:38:24,596 than the sad stump at he end of her nose. 491 00:38:25,603 --> 00:38:26,900 Four days later, 492 00:38:27,138 --> 00:38:29,698 Claytor receives a wire from Janet Rachlow. 493 00:38:31,275 --> 00:38:35,006 Despite all their efforts Zola has died. 494 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:44,178 Back on his way, 495 00:38:44,422 --> 00:38:47,152 Claytor returns to the explorer's life. 496 00:38:50,461 --> 00:38:51,689 He has decided to pay a visit 497 00:38:51,929 --> 00:38:54,762 to an orphanage for chimpanzees in burundi. 498 00:38:58,235 --> 00:39:00,226 Claytor heads north toward Burundi. 499 00:39:01,205 --> 00:39:03,639 But first he'll cross Zambia, 500 00:39:03,874 --> 00:39:07,037 and an area called the Kafue Flats. 501 00:39:11,949 --> 00:39:13,917 I'm now somewhere over the Kafue swamps, 502 00:39:14,151 --> 00:39:16,483 and as far as you can see in every direction, 503 00:39:16,721 --> 00:39:18,052 it's absolutely flat. 504 00:39:18,289 --> 00:39:21,588 And it's this green patina over dark blue water. 505 00:39:22,026 --> 00:39:24,221 If you didn't see the sun reflecting, you know 506 00:39:24,462 --> 00:39:26,623 that it's just a green patina 507 00:39:26,864 --> 00:39:29,924 of growth on top of this vast swamp. 508 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,849 I think if you lost your engine here 509 00:39:46,217 --> 00:39:47,741 I'm not sure how deep it is 510 00:39:48,018 --> 00:39:51,044 but you'd probably just mush into this green gunk 511 00:39:51,288 --> 00:39:52,550 and just sit on top of the 512 00:39:52,790 --> 00:39:54,690 wing and then try to call someone. 513 00:39:56,327 --> 00:39:57,919 You just can't crash here. 514 00:40:00,431 --> 00:40:01,989 If he did crash here, 515 00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:03,461 Claytor's tiny plane would be 516 00:40:03,701 --> 00:40:06,101 almost impossible to spot from the air. 517 00:40:06,771 --> 00:40:08,295 The orange stripes on the tail 518 00:40:08,539 --> 00:40:10,336 and wings are a safety measure. 519 00:40:10,875 --> 00:40:14,311 If he goes down, the right color might make it 520 00:40:14,545 --> 00:40:15,170 easier to find him 521 00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:17,347 in the empty terrain he frequents 522 00:40:19,383 --> 00:40:19,974 Claytor hopes 523 00:40:20,217 --> 00:40:22,014 he'll never have to find out if it works. 524 00:40:26,590 --> 00:40:28,956 And crashing isn't the only thing a pilot 525 00:40:29,193 --> 00:40:30,490 has to worry about. 526 00:40:31,595 --> 00:40:33,153 I've had a couple of close calls. 527 00:40:33,664 --> 00:40:34,858 When I got to Algeria, 528 00:40:35,099 --> 00:40:37,090 it was right after the military took over. 529 00:40:37,334 --> 00:40:38,528 And they thought that a bush pilot 530 00:40:38,769 --> 00:40:39,963 was a pilot for George Bush. 531 00:40:41,405 --> 00:40:43,066 And right after the gulf war, 532 00:40:43,307 --> 00:40:44,501 George Bush was not a very popular person. 533 00:40:45,209 --> 00:40:46,904 I tried to quickly explain that a bush pilot 534 00:40:47,144 --> 00:40:50,204 had nothing at all to do with George Bush. 535 00:40:53,884 --> 00:40:56,284 Claytor decides to make a brief stop in Zambia 536 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,546 to refuel and chart his course to Burundi. 537 00:41:12,136 --> 00:41:13,068 Bueno Bungee. 538 00:41:13,637 --> 00:41:16,333 How's everything here? 539 00:41:19,043 --> 00:41:23,173 I am from Ndola, but I needed to refuel. 540 00:41:24,582 --> 00:41:24,946 Hello. 541 00:41:25,182 --> 00:41:26,149 How are you? 542 00:41:26,617 --> 00:41:27,549 Nice to meet you. 543 00:41:27,985 --> 00:41:28,747 I'm Claytor... 544 00:41:35,159 --> 00:41:37,457 We are just from around here. 545 00:41:37,695 --> 00:41:39,925 The lanky American is 546 00:41:40,164 --> 00:41:41,825 an unusual sight wherever he lands 547 00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:43,524 and his grasp of African 548 00:41:43,767 --> 00:41:46,292 languages is often a crowd pleaser. 549 00:41:58,048 --> 00:41:59,015 This is my first time ever to come here. 550 00:41:59,717 --> 00:42:00,581 It's nice to meet you. 551 00:42:00,818 --> 00:42:01,682 Oh, it's very nice to meet you. 552 00:42:02,286 --> 00:42:03,617 When landing, 553 00:42:03,854 --> 00:42:04,821 you're suppose to pay 554 00:42:05,055 --> 00:42:05,783 something - a landing fee. 555 00:42:06,390 --> 00:42:07,152 How much should I pay you? 556 00:42:07,391 --> 00:42:08,289 I want to pay. 557 00:42:08,526 --> 00:42:09,322 How much? 558 00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,028 How many kilograms? 559 00:42:12,263 --> 00:42:13,924 It's one ton. 560 00:42:14,899 --> 00:42:15,627 5-60 561 00:42:15,866 --> 00:42:17,857 5-60. How many U.S. Dollars is that? 562 00:42:18,502 --> 00:42:20,197 It's about one U.S. Dollar. 563 00:42:20,571 --> 00:42:21,629 I understand that 564 00:42:21,872 --> 00:42:23,965 Can I pay you two U.S. Dollars? 565 00:42:24,208 --> 00:42:25,197 So is that okay? 566 00:42:29,046 --> 00:42:30,604 This is more than okay. 567 00:42:30,848 --> 00:42:32,748 Okay 568 00:42:34,018 --> 00:42:35,645 no but please the change is for you guys 569 00:42:35,886 --> 00:42:36,580 You can have it. 570 00:42:38,222 --> 00:42:40,588 Because landing fees here are very reasonable... 571 00:42:55,506 --> 00:42:56,495 so it's one cent. 572 00:42:59,577 --> 00:43:01,807 These are for you to do 573 00:43:01,979 --> 00:43:03,674 as you wish to improve your airport. 574 00:43:04,815 --> 00:43:05,747 I think that's the cheapest airport 575 00:43:05,983 --> 00:43:07,314 I've ever landed at in my whole life. 576 00:43:34,311 --> 00:43:36,939 When you fly in the day it's very bumpy, 577 00:43:37,281 --> 00:43:39,010 because the sun heats the surface 578 00:43:39,249 --> 00:43:40,079 of the African earth 579 00:43:40,317 --> 00:43:41,409 and it just gets these currents 580 00:43:41,652 --> 00:43:42,619 of air straight up. 581 00:43:45,990 --> 00:43:46,854 At night, 582 00:43:47,524 --> 00:43:49,082 it's completely different. 583 00:43:49,593 --> 00:43:51,458 The air is calm and still. 584 00:43:52,930 --> 00:43:53,794 You can see the stars. 585 00:43:54,031 --> 00:43:55,555 You can see fires on the ground. 586 00:43:56,667 --> 00:43:58,134 You can see the moonlight 587 00:43:58,369 --> 00:43:59,802 reflecting off of lakes. 588 00:44:00,137 --> 00:44:01,229 And it's very calm and 589 00:44:01,472 --> 00:44:03,372 peaceful and kind of reflective time. 590 00:44:04,241 --> 00:44:05,799 You're suspended in space 591 00:44:06,043 --> 00:44:08,136 over this large black think 592 00:44:08,379 --> 00:44:09,471 that you can't see. 593 00:44:10,314 --> 00:44:13,078 It's mysterious. 594 00:44:49,053 --> 00:44:51,248 The chimpanzee orphanage in northern Burundi 595 00:44:51,488 --> 00:44:54,821 was founded by the Jane Goodall Institute in 1989. 596 00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:58,351 Chimps confiscated from smugglers 597 00:44:58,595 --> 00:45:00,085 are brought here to be cared for by 598 00:45:00,330 --> 00:45:02,730 conservationists and volunteers. 599 00:45:05,769 --> 00:45:08,465 Dean Anderson is the director of the refuge. 600 00:45:10,174 --> 00:45:14,133 At the moment, it is home to 17 chimpanzees, 601 00:45:15,479 --> 00:45:17,970 and one baby gorilla. 602 00:45:19,450 --> 00:45:20,314 How old is she? 603 00:45:20,551 --> 00:45:22,178 She's about three 604 00:45:23,554 --> 00:45:26,580 She was confiscated at the airport. 605 00:45:27,291 --> 00:45:29,691 She was taken from her forest 606 00:45:29,927 --> 00:45:31,485 home as all the other chimps here... 607 00:45:32,329 --> 00:45:33,125 In Zaire... eastern Zaire, 608 00:45:33,363 --> 00:45:37,459 because she's an eastern lowland gorilla, 609 00:45:37,935 --> 00:45:41,427 by poachers and then she was brought to ; 610 00:45:42,706 --> 00:45:43,604 she was in transport... 611 00:45:43,841 --> 00:45:50,610 now what they were going to do with her there 612 00:45:51,081 --> 00:45:51,547 I don't know. 613 00:45:51,882 --> 00:45:53,315 Probably a zoo or... 614 00:45:53,550 --> 00:45:54,209 Is that where they were 615 00:45:54,451 --> 00:45:55,679 mostly going to zoos at one point? 616 00:45:55,919 --> 00:45:56,908 Zoos probably. 617 00:45:57,154 --> 00:45:58,781 A gorilla would probably go to a zoo. 618 00:45:59,022 --> 00:46:00,853 'Cuz a private person would just... 619 00:46:01,091 --> 00:46:01,489 No... 620 00:46:01,725 --> 00:46:02,657 Not be so interested, right, 621 00:46:02,893 --> 00:46:04,190 because they get too big and too violent? 622 00:46:04,428 --> 00:46:05,622 Yes, well too big. 623 00:46:05,896 --> 00:46:06,692 I mean, how do you keep 624 00:46:06,930 --> 00:46:09,922 a 300-pound gorilla or something. 625 00:46:20,043 --> 00:46:21,510 June 4th. 626 00:46:21,712 --> 00:46:23,543 There are baby chimpanzees everywhere. 627 00:46:23,947 --> 00:46:25,847 They are affectionate and smart. 628 00:46:26,650 --> 00:46:29,050 Each one has a distinct personality. 629 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,852 One has mastered the art of threading a shoelace. 630 00:46:34,591 --> 00:46:36,149 If they were returned to the forest, 631 00:46:36,393 --> 00:46:38,554 they would be killed by wild chimps. 632 00:46:38,962 --> 00:46:41,021 They can never go home. 633 00:46:42,299 --> 00:46:43,857 My mind drifts back to a day 634 00:46:44,101 --> 00:46:45,728 I spent in Equatorial Guinea 635 00:46:46,370 --> 00:46:47,860 and that little chimp I found. 636 00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:50,904 We just had something to eat 637 00:46:51,141 --> 00:46:52,335 at a restaurant and I came out. 638 00:46:52,576 --> 00:46:53,440 And sitting here tied to 639 00:46:53,677 --> 00:46:56,510 this chair is this little baby chimpanzee. 640 00:46:57,981 --> 00:46:59,676 I don't know how old it is. 641 00:47:00,617 --> 00:47:01,379 He seems very cold. 642 00:47:01,618 --> 00:47:03,108 He was hugging himself when I found him. 643 00:47:04,288 --> 00:47:06,222 And it's, I'm shocked by it. 644 00:47:06,757 --> 00:47:07,382 I don't know what to think. 645 00:47:07,624 --> 00:47:08,784 He's just sitting here. 646 00:47:24,041 --> 00:47:26,669 Oh my god. 647 00:47:30,547 --> 00:47:31,639 I've got to go. 648 00:47:47,865 --> 00:47:49,457 Most of the chimps in the orphanage 649 00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,066 were captured by poachers to be sold as pets. 650 00:47:55,038 --> 00:47:57,336 Though they are extremely appealing as babies, 651 00:47:57,908 --> 00:48:00,468 growing chimpanzees are too smart 652 00:48:00,711 --> 00:48:03,509 and too destructive to make good pets. 653 00:48:10,821 --> 00:48:13,415 Once the chimps become powerful adults, 654 00:48:13,657 --> 00:48:16,148 they must be confined in cages, 655 00:48:16,860 --> 00:48:19,488 a lonely place for these social primates, 656 00:48:19,730 --> 00:48:20,822 who quickly become bored 657 00:48:21,064 --> 00:48:22,998 and desperate for attention. 658 00:48:30,173 --> 00:48:30,764 Soon, 659 00:48:31,008 --> 00:48:33,238 Dean hopes the orphanage may be able to give 660 00:48:33,477 --> 00:48:35,775 some chimps a little more freedom. 661 00:48:36,313 --> 00:48:38,076 This is a temporary situation. 662 00:48:38,315 --> 00:48:41,307 We're hoping to get money together to out 663 00:48:41,551 --> 00:48:43,917 them into the sanctuary that we're talking about. 664 00:48:44,488 --> 00:48:48,083 And there they'll be, they'll all be together. 665 00:48:48,325 --> 00:48:50,225 They won't have cages, they won't have ropes. 666 00:48:51,528 --> 00:48:52,460 They'll be on an open space 667 00:48:52,696 --> 00:48:55,824 where they can have a semi-natural social life. 668 00:48:56,233 --> 00:48:58,633 Which is so important for chimpanzees. 669 00:49:07,511 --> 00:49:11,003 Wildlife in Africa seems to be in direct conflict 670 00:49:11,248 --> 00:49:13,808 with people here because they need space 671 00:49:14,051 --> 00:49:15,040 and the animals need space 672 00:49:15,285 --> 00:49:16,684 and the animals end up losing... 673 00:49:17,721 --> 00:49:20,212 I was impressed that someone was trying 674 00:49:20,457 --> 00:49:22,391 to take these chimps that 675 00:49:22,626 --> 00:49:25,117 had already basically list so much, 676 00:49:25,362 --> 00:49:29,162 they were trying to in a way give them back 677 00:49:29,399 --> 00:49:30,525 to themselves and nature. 678 00:49:31,268 --> 00:49:33,099 May be its not perfect. 679 00:49:33,337 --> 00:49:34,167 Nut it was something. 680 00:49:43,447 --> 00:49:45,642 Soon Claytor must leave Africa, 681 00:49:45,882 --> 00:49:48,282 and make the rest of his way around the globe. 682 00:49:49,119 --> 00:49:52,020 But first, he wants to make one more stop. 683 00:49:54,558 --> 00:49:57,857 For some time, he has wanted to visit Zaire. 684 00:49:58,295 --> 00:49:59,557 But so far, he hasn't been 685 00:49:59,796 --> 00:50:01,957 granted clearance to land there. 686 00:50:03,133 --> 00:50:06,796 Okay, this is Mike Oscar in southern Zaire. 687 00:50:07,037 --> 00:50:07,469 Over. 688 00:50:07,838 --> 00:50:09,239 Mike Oscar... 689 00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,730 is there any way for me 690 00:50:11,975 --> 00:50:13,442 to confirm a clearance from Ndola? 691 00:50:13,677 --> 00:50:14,166 Over 692 00:50:15,379 --> 00:50:19,839 That's very difficult because of the fact that 693 00:50:20,083 --> 00:50:22,643 there's no telephone communication between 694 00:50:22,886 --> 00:50:24,046 the two places. Over 695 00:50:24,621 --> 00:50:25,883 Okay, roger. 696 00:50:26,123 --> 00:50:28,990 If I arrive with my copy of my AFTN request, 697 00:50:29,226 --> 00:50:32,161 how easy is it to negotiate 698 00:50:32,396 --> 00:50:33,158 once on the ground? 699 00:50:33,397 --> 00:50:34,159 Over. 700 00:50:34,398 --> 00:50:35,592 How much money do you have? Over 701 00:50:35,832 --> 00:50:37,094 I've got a fair amount. 702 00:50:37,334 --> 00:50:39,734 How much do you think it would cost? Over. 703 00:50:40,337 --> 00:50:43,101 At least $250 each. Over 704 00:50:43,907 --> 00:50:45,101 Roger, I understand. 705 00:50:46,309 --> 00:50:48,709 The turbulent political situation in Zaire 706 00:50:48,945 --> 00:50:50,037 makes it extremely difficult 707 00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,373 to get permission to enter the country. 708 00:50:54,151 --> 00:50:56,381 Claytor decides to go in any way, 709 00:50:56,620 --> 00:50:57,712 without an official clearance. 710 00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:05,221 He'll touch down at a small airstrip 711 00:51:05,462 --> 00:51:07,521 where he can refuel form his own supply. 712 00:51:08,598 --> 00:51:10,532 If he's lucky, no one will 713 00:51:10,767 --> 00:51:11,734 ask him for his papers. 714 00:51:23,413 --> 00:51:26,314 In Africa there's a rule an unwritten rule, 715 00:51:26,550 --> 00:51:28,040 and that is that it's easier to 716 00:51:28,285 --> 00:51:29,912 get pardoned than to get permission. 717 00:51:30,787 --> 00:51:32,914 Because of communications and how difficult 718 00:51:33,156 --> 00:51:34,248 it is to get clearance and things, 719 00:51:34,491 --> 00:51:35,355 its sometimes easier 720 00:51:35,592 --> 00:51:38,720 just tot do them and afterwards, 721 00:51:38,962 --> 00:51:39,860 of course, you get in trouble. 722 00:51:40,363 --> 00:51:41,887 But the Africans are very forgiving. 723 00:51:42,299 --> 00:51:43,357 Good people, 724 00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,927 and very often they'll forgive you. 725 00:51:47,771 --> 00:51:48,760 For Claytor, 726 00:51:49,005 --> 00:51:49,801 everyday is part of 727 00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:52,270 a grand-if solitary-adventure. 728 00:51:54,277 --> 00:51:56,837 He's been away form home for nearly three years 729 00:51:57,514 --> 00:52:00,074 and it could be three more before he returns. 730 00:52:04,454 --> 00:52:05,421 From Africa, 731 00:52:05,655 --> 00:52:06,849 he will head east to the 732 00:52:07,090 --> 00:52:07,886 four remaining continents 733 00:52:08,125 --> 00:52:10,355 between him a home. 734 00:52:13,830 --> 00:52:15,195 Claytor has grown accustomed 735 00:52:15,432 --> 00:52:17,332 to being a stranger everywhere he goes 736 00:52:18,401 --> 00:52:19,834 but he is also changed 737 00:52:20,070 --> 00:52:21,128 by every place he visits 738 00:52:21,371 --> 00:52:24,340 and every person he meets. 739 00:52:29,646 --> 00:52:30,271 I think there's a part of me 740 00:52:30,514 --> 00:52:32,414 that's become a little bit African, 741 00:52:32,649 --> 00:52:33,775 because the Africans have a saying 742 00:52:34,017 --> 00:52:35,541 which is when you ask them 743 00:52:35,785 --> 00:52:36,547 when they'll come back or 744 00:52:36,786 --> 00:52:38,151 what time something will be ready 745 00:52:38,388 --> 00:52:39,685 they'll smile and look at you 746 00:52:39,923 --> 00:52:40,890 and say anytime from now. 747 00:52:41,591 --> 00:52:42,387 So when people ask me 748 00:52:42,626 --> 00:52:43,888 when I' going to get home 749 00:52:44,394 --> 00:52:45,258 sometimes I just can 750 00:52:45,495 --> 00:52:47,725 only say anytime from now.