Eric Conn over here I am a filmmaker living in the greatest city on earth New
York and in this video I'm traveling to Africa for the first time in my whole
life to summit the largest freestanding mountain on earth Mount Kilimanjaro
keeping it short and sweet this is the start of a 24 hour travel adventure to
Tanzania let's go to the airport for this trip I needed a strong capable
travel partner so I enlisted the help of my firefighter friend from southern New
Jersey so everyone watching that's Patrick hello Patrick is a world
traveler he is like the king of backpacking with the Vietnam you known
each other for I think 10 12 years not no longer longer since high school
freshman year of high school I wanna say howdy Chrissy oh yeah not in my family
and the firehouse I guess so the mission on our trip is singular get to the
summit of Mount Kilimanjaro at any cost so the first leg of the journey is
LaGuardia to Amsterdam six o'clock in the morning in Amsterdam we just touched
down in a very very empty airport area now we got to get some coffee we got
about four hours to kill and then the final leg is from Amsterdam to kill
Manjari fine when you fly from Amsterdam to kill Najjar I sit in the back of the
plane so you're the first ones off that's the pro tip right there because
immigration is insane also visa is a hundred dollars right for us yeah
there's something that's magical magical is the word about arriving to a new
destination in the dark of night and having to wait till daybreak to see
where in the world you actually are I felt the warmth of a TENS Aeneas
sunrise for the first time of the planes soaring over sleepy villages through the
lush green sea of trees so it's now the next day we're now outside of Arusha and
we are with our man here he's guiding us up kilee
yeah Wilber is the co-owner of chile warriors the company bringing me to the
top of Mount Kilimanjaro he's been to the summit over 250 plus times I owe
this man at the adventure of my lifetime you'll find out more in the next two
videos we've attracted a crowd we've got a little group of followers back here
welcome to Africa properly it's interesting because we're already at
about 5,000 feet in elevation and we're from sea level so you can feel there's a
thinner you've been at this elevation I'm saying this now before the trip even
starts with 100% certainty that I'm gonna get altitude sickness on this
climb at the summit of Kilimanjaro the oxygen is half of what I'm breathing
right now at sea level in New York but we're just out here in the countryside
hanging out this is where Wilbur is from this is like my city mutton my village I
don't think we can call it the city it's a village it's beautiful though very
peaceful
one of the reasons why I love traveling so much is it's just immersing yourself
fully into a way of life that's so different from your own
this is Wilbert hometown of Sakaya and this is right outside of Arusha the main
town where we flew into world routes one of those guys where he's friends with
everyone every single person in his town knows
who he is so he's been more or less taking us under his wing and showing us
around where he lives how he lives all the fruit markets the welders all the
people just going about their daily lives I learned the most when I traveled
to places that I would never imagine in my whole life I would ever be in and
Tanzania is one of those places and here we have the wild patchak we're
attracting a crowd yeah the motorcycle crew Dave
so we're gonna top off for the Safari vehicle cruising around we have three
days in the town before we actually some Achille so we're just getting a little
tour of the city in the surrounding area
so we're driving back to the hotel and we hear like singing and dancing and
apparently that is a political campaign someone lost the seat so that reelecting
son oh really sure that that but this is the leading fires oh baby people 95
we're taking a little pissed off right now the first thing that you should do
when you get to Tanzania is exchange your money for some ships make sure you
break your bills down into smaller denominations bunch of two thousand and
five thousand and we're set
the Maasai village was normally a weekly market so we're doing them aside to a
marketing and then we proceeded in my side out of myself I know I said we're
going back to the hotel but we're taking a little bit of a detour we are at a
Masai market it is Saturday so everyone's out in the marketplace today
it's jamming right now and look you can actually buy sandals made from tires we
use tires incredible that they can reuse the tires like you look in the distance
back there you can see mount Sumeru which is about 15,000 feet and so if you
can imagine that kilee is about almost four to five thousand feet higher than
Mount Meru where I grew up that if we mark it pretty similar to this so it's
kind of a bit a bit nostalgic in a weird way coming to a flea market I was saying
how bad can I see can they have a weekend fee mark in Galway oh yeah
farmers market yeah farmers market right by shop right here they have the literal
farmers market
first purchase nice machete and then here we have a lemon bitter soda this
soda tastes better than any sowed I've had in the States like I'll drink soda
in the States and this
go liver is truly try something you want try aren't you pretty good well dry
better you always have to try the food when you come to a new country
yes pig face what is any proper air Conover travel video series without a
drone breaking that's right we're out of the Serengeti filming and there's maybe
one power line for about a thousand miles in every direction and I happen to
hit that power line and the camera got knocked off just hoping that we have a
camera shop with this drone because this is a critical piece of camera gear for
the summit of Chile so fingers crossed we can get one in and save this series
but on our way back got a flat tire here comes our tow truck to the rescue get us
back into town
spare tires here we have about 20 minutes to get back to the camera shop
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already we're off to a pretty hectic start that's the best thing about travel
when you never know what's gonna happen I will leave you here for the first
episode of the Mount Kilimanjaro series I have to get back and help tyre I'll
see you next video peace do we make it to the camera shop in time do they have
the only drone in all Tanzania tune in to the next episode of the Kilimanjaro
series to find out and for the climb to begin