You need a map. You need a headlamp to help you see through the night. And the reason I'm mentioning this today is because I think we together, as a society, are currently involved in that kind of race.
It was, again, in the very early '80s. And I had a headlamp . I was traveling by myself.
especially. And then I had little strobes pointing straight at their face. And at one point, I couldn't really get the pilot on the -- on the left's face to really show up, so I just handed him a headlamp and told him to hold the headlamp at his face. So there's a lot of problem solving, you know, super fast we had to get this thing done. And this is like one of the last shots I got
off, you know, that's a shot every few seconds as the strobe recycles. clicked on my headlamp , shined it into the tent a little bit and then kept walking out of the frame.
You just keep running for 36 hours straight through the night. You just put on a headlamp , and you keep going. That checkpoint I was running into was about mile 115.
And that's really what I was looking for. And kind of trying to balance the headlamp that they're using so that you can see that it's night and that they're actually using headlamps but still see
the summertime, for example, let's say I'm in Alaska in June. I don't have to carry a headlamp with me. But then if I'm in Minnesota in January, then the days are really short.
off, you know, that's a shot every few seconds as the strobe recycles. Here's another shot with just a headlamp . I was in Canyonlands.
when the jet stream diverts from the peak and you get this tiny little moment of lighter, I should say, winds. And those are actually other people's headlamps going up towards the summit.
Let's go up there and get the record, right? Me and my roommate came up in 1988 by headlamp .
and I was so frozen with fear that it took me a couple minutes before I moved. And I sat up and I looked around with my headlamp , and there was nothing there. And I'll never forget that.
And that's really what I was looking for. But to be a lot weaker than the headlamp beam, so that you could really have this island of light idea.
when the jet stream diverts from the peak and you get this tiny little moment of lighter, I should say, winds. And so we get up to the top about where those headlamps end, and we've been unclip this whole time.
It was like I was in heaven. I'm sitting there frozen like a deer in the headlamps . And I looked to my left, and there was David Letterman, with his hand outstretched.
And I saw that there was a chamber in there that was largely intact. So I went back to camp, got a headlamp , and came back and explored. And this is what I found, amazing murals.
scared me and it just went bolting off down the embankment I think I smelled so bad after running for 75 miles it's kind this reflective vest on I've got a flashing red blinker I've got a headlamp on I'm carrying a handheld flashlight
And so I don't know who eventually talked me into it, but they twisted my arm. I would take-- basically, every night I would put a headlamp on and I would just go train. And then on the weekends I would go and I'd memorize all the mile markers for all the routes.
If you go to Madagascar, you can go to almost any village. And if the weather is right, you can go out at night with your headlamp . And if there's some scrubby little forest outside, even if it's very degraded, you can go out with your headlamp , and you see the mouse lemurs jumping around in the trees.
And that's really what I was looking for. You're just seeing a blob of white, which is the headlamp .
before we just stopped and it worked out pretty well. And sometimes you have no gear. No lighting equipment and you have a headlamp . And this was shot in Torres del Paine in Southern Chile at four in the morning. I didn't have a tripod, so I just put the
even okay? Can we talk about this?" Because if you talk about this, and you tell people there's these uncontacted tribes, people have misconceptions. experienced in three days of living with modern camping gear, headlamps , and a sense of direction—they're doing none of that. Put us out there
knowing that people are still going to continue to go to the mountains, but to have the good training and allow people to have better skills. So he and Hillary O'Neil had climbed both peaks in a quick period of time-- and looking at the headlamps as they moved up onto the mountain.
- Through the night? - ...through the night. And so a two-day boat journey that we're trying to flex into one night. And so I was at the front with the headlamp — ...with the torch. And so the first few hours it was clear, and that comet... Remember that comet— ...that was going? There was that comet in the sky. I remember looking at it and going, "This is
And if the weather is right, you can go out at night with your headlamp . And if there's some scrubby little forest outside, even if it's very degraded, you can go out with your headlamp , and you see the mouse lemurs jumping around in the trees. And you see their eye shine.
And that's really what I was looking for. And here I used the flash to illuminate the entire waterfall, but not enough that you would drown out the headlamp beam.
behavior. So, that's another way technology really helps out. And I threw a slide in here about that later on and then, my camera. You can see the camera was about this big. So, just to put that to scale. And there's a rain cape underneath all that. There's plastic bags to keep everything dry, a headlamp because we leave at dark and often come back at dark, extra batteries. A little bit of food. And just some basic medical stuff and lots of blister stuff. Go ahead.