Explorer: The Last Tepui

source: Explorer: The Last Tepui

I get Bruce is almost 80 and he's holding you back but HOLY MOLY that guy is in tremendous physical shape and no way will that Mark idiot be in the same shape even fifteen years from now. I tried to blame the editing but he was the only one that came across that way and as a disabled individual who was once very active I identify with Bruce the way he gave 100% effort. Instead of being supportive Mark nearly ruined the whole documentary with his ableist and agist attitude. Never stopping to realize how REMARKABLE it is for someone like Bruce to do that. I wanted him to fall off the cliff and be chronically injured tbh. Nat Geo, next time you do an expedition like this, leave the jerks at home. They don't deserve 15 minutes. Bruce, you and Fuco and Alex and the rest deserve more than 15. Kudos to you. You kick butt, Bruce.

The overall idea was very intriguing, but quickly dissolved as you realize the main goal is truly unattainable. As the viewer, it felt like they only completed the documentary because they had put so much effort up to that point. We learn very little at all about the species discovered on this expedition and we are left with a very broad concern for the area. The final disappoint was the climbing portion. They recruited one of the most well known climbers, Alex Honnold, but we learn very little about the climbing and only hear him speak a few times throughout the hour. Overall, I really wanted to like this documentary, but everything just felt rushed and finished before it started.

This was a quick, exciting, and entertaining documentary filled with beautiful scenery and lots of jungle trekking. I could probably watch Alex Honnold climb anything at this point but I would have loved to see more of the Tepui.

The scenery is great and when it comes to climbing I got a bit of what I expected. The rest is quite strange and feels faked. If the real goal was to bring an old guy on a mountain, they failed. Especially because they never answered the question why they simply don't use a helicopter... Moreover they talk most of the time as if they just started to hike and never developed any plan. - We need to get to the wall and then we will decide how to get him up the mountain. - Why guys? Why? The whole journey seemed stupid from the beginning. You want to tell me for real, that you guys planed to pull this 70 year old man 600 meters up the wall so he could watch down on the valley? How did you plan to get him down from there? After that they got a drawing of a frog, my 10year old could draw, as an excuse for their tour to continue. They want to show how important it is to preserve nature. While doing so, they cut their path trough the jungle mostlikely killing lots and lots of animals. They show how beautiful the mountain is and use bolts they drill into the wall? Everything seems so faked. At one time Alex is allowed to play the monkey and impress with his skills. After that they tell us that it was necessary to open the route but why on earth is the camera man then on the side of the route Alex is climbing to and films with a perspective that lets you assume he just used a simpler route? At the and they just lost interest because it was harder to find an animal than expected and went back don't mentioning the frog again. Instead they took the first tadpole they found and called their expedition a success. It felt the whole time as if they want to show the beauty of nature just as an excuse. They actually wanted to climb that wall and needed someone to finance it. It could have been a good movie if they had just put more effort into it. So it feels improvised and inflated.

... but absolutely forgetting... no, downrightely pushing away the actual theme: nature and LIFE preserving, including climate change, the way of nutrition the humanity and all the problems of overuse/overstretch the ressources... and so on... That's pitty, giving away the chance to remember us what we should do to give our children a planet that's not 'fu**ed up' from our greed! Popcorn and Hamburger watching, no thinker, nothing changer, only the usual Hollywoodish deflection/distraction, ... 'till the next bag of Popcorns, nothing changing than just making the audience a few ounces FATTER and even dumber... poor humanity...

I found this show interesting and inspiring. Could they have gone into further detail and fleshed things out a bit more? Yes. Would I recommend this to somebody on a rainy Saturday? Sure.

Beautifully shot, but disappointing outcome. I am both a climber and nature lover, but this doc didn't really satisfy either of those interests. They supposedly collected new species, but where was the elaboration? They got the FA of this cliff, but we only see one brief clip of Alex climbing. To viewers it also seemed like they failed at both of their goals; not getting Bruce up the tepui, and giving up finding new wildlife after what seemed like only a couple hours. They settled for a tadpole, but we never learn anything about this creature and they didn't bother discuss anything about the other flora or fauna on the tepui.

One of the most interesting and visual documentary i have seen, it's a really good documentary about modern day explorers which includes a 80 year old biologist and my big favourite Alex! Definitely recommend do see it.

Interesting documentary, worth a watch though. Despite its slow start this documentary very quickly becomes immersive and exciting for viewers. If you have Disney + and you are a documentary fanatic, it's worth a watch.