Mountains of the moon

In the movie Mountains of the moon we see to explorers,exploring the land of Africa in search of the Nile River.There names are Richand Burton and John Spehe. They in countered a lot of problem's in this trip. They had a climate that they were not used to receiving. And they were on unmarked territory therefore not knowing if they are going on the right path or heading backwards.

Another problem they in countered was that there were bugs everywhere at night and they had to sleep wit nets on and if you didn't cover that net bugs well come in and poison you or kill you. The bugs were also attracted to the fire because of the light it gave off so every night they would have to put it out or else bugs would be around the area. Other than the bugs they had to in counter different tribes that owned different parts of Africa. Some tribes demanded gifts so they had to give them some goods or supplies as the gifts. Giving out there supplies wasn't the best thing to gave out because they were getting robbed from former members or other tribes. So as you can see they had it ruff.

The film gave me an idea on how hard it is to navigate threw unknown places without that much supplies and the constant look out for tribes or robbers. Even with there minor set backs they were able to locate the nile river and come bake to england with there data and information about africa.