03/03/2021
Ah Rival Peak. Tonight we come to our end. May it be as exciting and confusing as this adventure has been from the beginning.
My name is Mira and I'm from Hyderabad in South India
Ah Rival Peak. Tonight we come to our end. May it be as exciting and confusing as this adventure has been from the beginning.
All I will leave you with is this: the Earth is our home. We are connected to her and to her animals. We must all work together to save our beautiful planet. Do what you can to play your part. It will benefit us all in the long run.
The final day of Rival Peak. Such a surreal feeling this is. I wish I had words of wisdom, or one last perfect animal fact for you. But the truth is, all animal facts are perfect in their own way.
Ravens are beautiful creatures. Little known facts: sometimes they turn into stone, and then they turn into real birds! I am kidding, this is not something ravens commonly do, though it does appear to have happened today.
These possessions give us such intense glimpses into everything that brought us to this moment... and yet each one leaves more questions to be answered. Or not.
I wonder if perhaps we have gone far enough that it no longer matters the "why" of this happening, and instead we would be better to focus on the "what" to do now.
The ruins of a city on the mountain, and a thriving, impossible city within it. Perhaps Rival Peak has even more secrets than I do.
There you have it. That is the truth about who I am, where I am from, why I am here. Make what you will of it. My secret is in your hands now.
I have carried my secret with me long enough. Today, I must unburden myself of it. I deserve that... and so do my friends and competitors.
Rival Peak has been defined by chaos, and respite from chaos. The chaos defines the respite, without the chaos you do not realize what the respite is. But at the end of the day, Rival Peak has mostly been chaos.
Interesting to see how many stories and legends across cultures may all be connected.
Platypus. Some people think the plural is platypi. Some think it's platypuses. Most likely it is one platypus, two platypus, three platypus.
Money was never my #1 goal on coming on the show. The Host cannot make it my goal now. If he is afraid, that is probably a good thing. It must mean we're on to something.
Inola is a fascinating person. I appreciate her sharing her stories with us... I wonder how much of them were stolen by the show... and how much the show is stealing from them... or if, perhaps, there is more in the world than I realized...
Let me tell you something about this experience: I came here expecting one thing, and left with something different. You know what else is like that? Life.
The Host is threatening us. I do not appreciate being threatened by anyone. Much less a faceless man hiding behind machinery.
Ah my friends, my friends, here we are! The final week of Rival Peak! Can you believe it? I myself cannot, and yet, here it is, happening!
I think Jebediah is a very, very nice man. His strength of character reminds me of my husband Rahi, as well as his love for thinking deeply and carefully. I think it is nice to consider the world so thoughtfully and with such measured purpose. That is how we improve things - by truly knowing them.
Our final endangered animal of the week: the leatherback sea turtle. Most turtles are endangered since they have been hunted for their skin, meat, egg, shells - anything one can take from a turtle, one has! Climate change has also hurt their reproductive cycle. The leatherback sea turtle is the most endangered of all! We must protect them!
Have you heard of the vaquita? There are only about ten left, so tragically we are quite close to losing them forever and ever. They are often caught and drowned by gillnets, which is why we will lose them soon. It is quite sad, but a good reminder that we must act now to protect the Earth so we don't have more animals end up like our poor precious vaquita.
A brief discussion of theology with Antonio... all discussions of theology must be brief in comparison to the amount of time such ideas should be given, for we can think about them forever and ever and never know for certain! Sometimes it is hard to reconcile science and faith, but it depends on the science, and the faith.
I admire Jebediah's work ethic. He puts much effort into things, but he does not ask for attention or praise for it. He does a thing for its own sake, not for show. This is a rare quality amongst us, I think.
Have we talked about the wild dog? Hahaha this is what they call another misdirect; I know we have talked extensively about my beautiful dholes, the Indian wild dog I study in Bandipur National Park where I work. But there is also the African wild dog, also known as the painted dog or painted wolf - like my dholes, they have quite a few names!!! They also have quite a few friends - their packs range from between 10 and 40! That is quite a few!
I had what I believe they call "a bonding moment" with Karen. It is nice when you connect with someone with whom you may not otherwise connect! It seems she is more afraid than she shows. Perhaps we all are, in our own ways...
Have you ever heard of the saola, my friends?! I bet you have not! When they were discovered in 1992, they were the first new large mammal discovered in half a century! WOW! They are sometimes called the "Asian unicorn," since so little is known about these rarely-seen and very, very shy horned animal. Their names mean "spindle horns" in Vietnamese, from the land of their discovery!
Today's endangered animal: the orangutan! The orangutan is one of the four great apes, and I believe they are great indeed! They are very very smart animals who learn from each other and have strong social bonds. Their territory has been cut in more than HALF in the last twenty years along, mostly because of habitat loss due to the harvesting of palm oil for human consumption. Perhaps we should consume less palm oil and therefore less orangutans, no?
Ah yes, another tape from Project Telos. As a researcher, I know the importance of taking meticulous notes, be they voice recordings or journals... it seems that between Project Artemis and Project Telos, there have been plenty of both!
My friends, the blue whale is such a very beautiful creature, and the largest animal ever to exist - even bigger than the dinosaurs!!! And yet they do not eat very large things, but rather teeny tiny krill (in quite large amounts, as you may imagine!) They can live up to 100 years, but unfortunately we have hunted and killed many far before their time, and their population has dwindled.
As my goal is to raise awareness about how we must protect our planet and her animals, let's focus this week on some more endangered animals, shall we????
Ah, my friends! It is so very easy to get caught up in all the mysterious goings-on of Rival Peak that I forget to share with you facts about our beautiful animal friends, which is what I came here to do! I will try to do at least one a day this week.
This week it appears that Nasha is the one joining us in "Plan B" as the Host calls it... it will be interesting to see how she and her brother reconcile this...
You’re closer to the truth than ever. Keep digging, searching, asking. You can find the truth, Mira.
Dead mountaineers? Maybe they are a warning as well.
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