were, so they ask the royal geographical society of the heather representative, and they sent percy fawcett. fawcett quickly agreed saying it was his destiny and of the went to this area. for the next several years, he mapped rather an enormous amount of space and hopefully this can give you some sense of the area in which he was exploring. this traces various expeditions. over here is the livia. peru is up here and over here is brazil and this is just a vast territory. his first expedition, what they would do is take pack animals and come over the andes, often their pack animals with a falloff of the ravines. they would come from severe cold. they would go to 17,000 feet up and slowly descend deeper into the jungle. the first exhibition heading out from la paz went all the way up here. here is a picture of him from 1908. he was still a rather young man at the time. that was one of his early expeditions and there you can see him serving the jungle with his equipment. these exhibitions were really pretty extraordinary in their own rights. they were back in the areas where i mentioned before