Exploration Guyana – The Potaro River from its source – video
Published on Jul 10, 2013- The natural Beauty of Guyana on Display in this documentary.
Comment from: Trevor O Best –Aug 2015
The trip was okay, some good footage and everything. What I truly abhor though is the statements that he is the first person to make this trip. this is totally incorrect. My grandfather, who worked as a Boat hand and sometimes Pork Knocker (gold/diamond miner) used to regale us with stories of this trip and others which he did numerous times in his capacity as a Bow-man, in his earlier days. To my knowledge the Guyana Defense Force regularly made this trip as part of their training regimen, including scaling Mt. Ayangana, for which its HQ is named.
Just documenting his trip/exploration would have been sufficient for me, to seek to establish himself as a pioneer in a land possessed for centuries by Native Indigenous Indians and by hardy Black men who have traversed every nook and cranny of our beloved country back and forth in search of its hidden treasures (Gold and Diamonds), is a slap in the face of all peoples in Guyana. I hope he is reading this, and I hope he has the ability to realize and understand and a sense of consciousness to admit that he is not blazing any trails here. It’s credulous enough to have done what he did, but let me make him painfully aware that you sir are no Edmund Hillary.
I am equally proud of Rupert and Danny, but we must remember that what is a novelty and an adventure to him is a way of life for Rupert and Danny, therein lies the reason for him choosing them. I seek not to remove this mans’ glory, but only to make him understand that we who live here have gone there before him, and we shall go there again: without him. Reminds me of another famous explorer, who “discovered the Americas” when in fact, Indigenous Americans had long populated the Americas and the Caribbean.
