# Kenya: Come Hell or High Water | Deadliest Journeys

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[00:53] From one country to another, gold is not always the same color.
[00:58] In Kenya, it has a pretty green shade.
[01:02] For the animals, that means food.
[01:07] For the inhabitants of the Rift Valley, it means a good salary at the end of the month.
[01:20] The rainy season has kicked off tea picking.
[01:28] We're happy because it's rained a lot.
[01:31] It's hard work, but at least we can feed out children.
[01:36] However, at my age, it's really hard to work every day.
[01:40] Alice collects 45 kilos of tea a day, seven hours a day, and hardly ever stops.
[01:48] For her, the break comes at the end of the day when she has to wait for the tea collector, and that's when the rain stops being her best friend.
[01:59] I hope it doesn't rain, so the truck can get here easily and collect the tea.
[02:07] Yes, in the Rift Valley, rain has two sides.
[02:10] It's both beneficial for crops and devastating for carriers.
[02:22] The previous day's showers soaked the track with water.
[02:27] I skidded!
[02:28] The track got really bad because of the rain.
[02:32] Not just here, but all over the valley.
[02:35] His truck is blocking the entire road, but when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.
[02:50] Now we're being delayed by bad roads.
[02:55] We need leaders who can walk.
[02:59] We elect our leaders and they go and live in Nairobi.
[03:04] They only come here when they're seeking reelection.
[03:07] It's a precarious situation.
[03:09] You have to go under the truck in order to cross over.
[03:15] Fortunately, in this agronomic area, there's everything you need to intervene quickly.
[03:23] Kenya's problem is dangerous roads.
[03:27] Nevertheless, this road is a major economic axis, but when it comes to infrastructure, the world's fourth-largest tea exporter is struggling to catch up.
[03:42] Kenya is one of the richest countries in Africa, and unlike the rest of the continent, its wealth doesn't come from minerals or oil but from agriculture, industry, and of course, tourism.
[03:55] Kenya was one of the very first African countries to develop safaris.
[04:03] However, outside the major tourist areas, the tarmac gives way to tracks.
[04:12] Go, go!
[04:17] Far from the cities, finding work is extremely complicated.
[04:22] Those neglected by the Kenyan miracle sometimes go off to try their luck in unimaginable places.
[04:36] Like this island shanty town.
[04:39] It has a reputation for making the brave rich, but on one condition: accept its hell!
[04:46] For others, it's global warming that has turned their lives upside down.
[04:55] There used to be a river here, but it's dried up because it doesn't rain anymore.
[05:00] I have to remove all the dirty water until I find clean water.
[05:08] Sometimes, we don't drink for four days.
[05:12] The weather has become totally unpredictable, drying out some regions while others are drowning in downpours with dramatic consequences for the population.
[05:27] The bridge disappeared a long time ago.
[05:30] Children used to be able to walk across to school without risk.
[05:35] The carefree days are over.
[05:36] I'm afraid of crocodiles.
[05:38] There are a lot of them in the lake.
[05:41] Regardless of monsters, the show must go on.
[05:45] Everyday life in Kenya demands courage.
[05:59] Despite being endangered by pollution and overfishing, Lake Victoria is still a cornucopia for millions of Kenyans.
[06:13] Adan is determined to have a share of the pie.
[06:17] The young man has hired a truck to transport the 100 kilos of fish from the Nile he has just bought, which he intends to sell at a handsome profit.
[06:29] It's a risky gamble, as his truck is not refrigerated and the temperature is over 35 degrees Celsius.
[06:37] Hey Masai, add more ice.
[06:41] There's not enough there.
[06:42] Go buy some more.
[06:45] The journey is long, as it's about eight or ten hours to reach the factory.
[06:50] If the fish is 100 kg, the ice should also be 100 kg.
[06:56] A lot of crises happen during the rainy season, so the cost of transport is very high because we have no accessible, good roads and transport.
[07:08] May God bless our journey.
[07:15] The 70 kilometers of winding road to Mbita is one of the most complicated in the region.
[07:24] Torrential rains have been saturating the land with water for weeks now.
[07:31] The 27-year-old is willing to face these difficulties for one reason: to build a future.
[07:39] My family was bankrupt.
[07:41] I wasn't able to pay my school fees.
[07:43] Here in my country, there's no free education.
[07:46] You have to pay for all the education.
[07:49] I have started my university education in 2019.
[07:52] Now I'm pursuing my bachelor's degree in commerce, accounting workshop.
[07:57] I want to continue my small business.
[08:00] That one of buying and selling fish.
[08:02] Buying from this place and selling to that place in the market.
[08:08] Adan hopes to put €200 net in his pocket.
[08:12] To do this, the fish has to be delivered in perfect condition.
[08:15] That's no easy task.
[08:25] We have a lot of problems with the road we're using.
[08:27] When transporting this fish from that place to the marketplace, you can lose a lot of fish.
[08:33] The ice will expire.
[08:35] The ice will become water.
[08:38] There's a lot of loss.
[08:41] There's a lot of business loss.
[08:46] You have to be very keen.
[08:50] If you're not careful enough, you'll just be inside the lake.
[09:00] You have to concentrate.
[09:02] However, sometimes that's not enough.
[09:20] We're going to sleep here the whole day.
[09:23] Oh, no.
[09:25] Even me, I'm bored.
[09:39] Even two days.
[09:42] The rain is coming again.
[09:44] You can sleep here.
[09:46] Spend even a week here.
[09:49] These kids aren't at the show, no.
[09:51] They're waiting patiently for the heat to work its magic.
[09:56] Thirty-five degrees outside and 45 degrees inside the skip promised to earn them a bit of money.
[10:06] You see?
[10:07] The ice melted.
[10:09] There's no way of knowing how long it's been since the fish have been ice free, but once the last piece has melted, the fish are in for a real treat.
[10:26] To avoid losing the product, I add ice to keep the fish fresh.
[10:31] Put more on the small fish.
[10:37] Now they have to get out of there quickly.
[10:41] The shovel is not enough, but with a few extra pairs of hands, they've got a chance.
[10:47] Adan pays them peanuts for their help, in the literal sense of the word.
[10:55] Let us try.
[11:09] Small arms, but big muscles.
[11:11] Peanuts are nice, but money is much better.
[11:14] Cleverly, the children surround the truck.
[11:20] If he wants to leave, Adan has to pay.
[11:25] We give them some money.
[11:27] Give them 40 cents for the shovel they lent us.
[11:31] I don't have 40 cents.
[11:33] I've given you everything.
[11:33] Come on, take this penny.
[11:38] Go on, start the truck.
[11:40] Bye and thank you.
[11:41] Yes, we'll be back.
[11:41] If we're still stuck, we'll call you.
[11:47] Adan and Bernard don't know it yet, but it's not the last time they'll have to open their wallet.
[12:02] Money may be easy to get out of a wallet, but the hardest part is getting coins and notes into it.
[12:11] At the height of the rainy season, the fishermen and the predators of Lake Victoria are looking to fill their bellies and pockets between showers.
[12:33] We're very lucky.
[12:34] It's very hard to fish at the moment.
[12:37] The weather is very bad.
[12:39] I thought we would leave with nothing, and in the end, we caught this big fish.
[12:45] Come on, let's go back to Migingo Island.
[12:50] An island that has nothing to do with this one and even less to do with that one.
[12:59] No, Migingo is like no other island in the world.
[13:08] It may not look like it, but for some people, this shantytown-shaped piece of land off the coast of Kenya is an El Dorado.
[13:21] Smaller than a football pitch, there are more than a thousand people crammed into these metal shelters, heated by the sun.
[13:33] Not just fishermen live here.
[13:35] Migingo is a micro town.
[13:39] Daniel has lived here for four years.
[13:46] This is the main street, the widest.
[13:48] Everyone goes through here.
[13:50] There's a passage here and another there, and that's it.
[13:55] There's another street, but smaller.
[14:02] In this alleyway, there are rooms to sleep in.
[14:08] Here's a hotel with several rooms.
[14:15] Julius works on a boat.
[14:16] He rents a room here, or rather an oven for €60 a month, a fortune.
[14:29] Sometimes we sleep in twos and sometimes in threes.
[14:32] When we can't go out to sea because of bad weather,
[14:35] I share my room with three people to save money.
[14:39] We don't have enough to rent somewhere bigger.
[14:41] Everything on the island is very expensive.
[14:44] We sleep like this: one here and one there.
[14:51] The third is in this direction.
[14:55] Of course, if I find another job, I won't hesitate to change.
[15:00] But I don't know anything else.
[15:02] I didn't study.
[15:04] That's why I'm still fishing.
[15:12] On the shanty island, there's of course, no running water, no toilets, and no electricity.
[15:21] An unsanitary rock where, despite everything, life settles in and clings on.
[15:36] Why are they all moving to this annex of purgatory?
[15:45] For one reason only: money.
[15:51] The Nile perch, a victim of pollution and overfishing, is starting to become scarce near the coast.
[15:59] This piece of rock is located in one of the richest fishing grounds on Lake Victoria.
[16:05] It allows fishermen to save fuel by avoiding the round trip to the mainland, 15 kilometers away.
[16:17] The two neighboring islands are viewed with envy but remain uninhabitable.
[16:22] One is protected by its legend.
[16:24] It is said to be occupied by demons.
[16:27] Only a few soldiers dare to sleep there.
[16:34] The other, ironically, would be too big to defend against the pirates.
[16:38] Who come at night to steal boat engines?
[16:44] Gathered together on Migingo, the fishermen have turned their island into an impregnable fortress, but one that's impossible to live in.
[16:58] Goods are constantly arriving from the continent to supply the small shops.
[17:05] The only consolation for the locals is that clothes and food imported from neighboring Uganda are much cheaper.
[17:14] Fishermen earn a better living, so they spend money to keep from getting depressed by this hard life.
[17:22] Daniel runs his small business thanks to solar panels.
[17:32] I do haircuts and phone charging.
[17:37] That's what I do here.
[17:40] I need to charge my phone.
[17:42] I need your battery.
[17:47] Daniel is the only barber on the island.
[17:49] With no competition, he earns a good living, or just about.
[17:56] Most of the houses on Migingo belonged to the first fishermen who colonized the island between 1991 and 2000.
[18:05] Inevitably, the price per square meter is commensurate with the lack of space.
[18:10] Before I worked on the coast, business wasn't going very well, so I came here.
[18:16] I didn't think I'd be here for long, but it's been a while now.
[18:21] The problem here is the rent, which is very high.
[18:28] For example, I pay 40 euros a week for my salon.
[18:32] It's very expensive.
[18:34] The other one opposite is 60 euros.
[18:38] Opposite is the pharmacy, certainly the most profitable business on the island.
[18:47] Kathy is not a doctor but has a nursing degree.
[18:53] There is no shortage of illnesses and she treats them as best she can.
[18:58] She has been sick and has been on drugs for two weeks, so she lost her appetite.
[19:07] This is to boost the appetite.
[19:14] It might be malaria or typhoid.
[19:17] We manage it like that with antibiotics and painkillers.
[19:22] All of Migingo depend on here for treatment.
[19:32] You'd think they'd run away, but instead there are more of them, attracted by miraculous catches.
[19:47] Julius sees disaster coming.
[19:56] Here you go.
[19:58] We're always well-received here.
[20:00] According to him, the island's waters are beginning to dry up, a victim of their reputation.
[20:07] When there are no fish, we fishermen go hungry.
[20:11] Some months, when we don't catch anything, we don't earn enough money to buy food.
[20:21] Before, the island was uninhabited because nobody imagined that its waters contained so many fish.
[20:28] Now that fishing is booming, it's become a much sought-after spot.
[20:36] It continues to attract people.
[20:41] For how long?
[20:45] Migingo is on the verge of asphyxiation.
[20:50] Like Lake Victoria, the human activity generated by Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya,
[20:58] Which share the waters, is gradually killing it off.
[21:03] Waste water, fertilizers, plastic, and intensive fishing are threatening biodiversity and fish stocks.
[21:11] Several million people depend on Lake Victoria, but it's not the only threat hanging over Kenya.
[21:22] Global warming is no legend.
[21:24] The sun is hitting certain regions hard.
[21:29] Come on, hurry up with your bags.
[21:31] We've got to leave!
[21:33] Hurry up, the road is bad.
[21:35] We're going to get stuck.
[21:37] David's taxi is as densely populated as the Migingo Island.
[21:48] Let's go to Gatamba.
[21:51] Twenty kilometers of dust and sweat await the travelers in the bush taxi or the matatu, as the Kenyans call it.
[22:01] We use the matatu to transport people who live in the bush.
[22:07] It's a good job for me.
[22:10] I'm bringing food to isolated villages,
[22:13] but the problem is the road.
[22:20] Nine euros for the trip,
[22:22] but at that price, customers have to roll up their sleeves.
[22:35] Bring these little stones to cover the holes.
[22:38] Put the stones here.
[22:42] We wedge stones under the wheels of the car to stop it from skidding.
[22:50] As a result of the shaking, everything must be secured.
[22:55] Check that the truck wheel is securely fastened.
[23:00] -Please fasten everything securely. -Your luggage is safe sir.
[23:06] We transport cabbage, sugar, flour, and this wheel for a truck.
[23:13] The wheel was damaged because of the bad road.
[23:17] Now come on everybody, push.
[23:18] Let's go.
[23:26] Come on, make more of an effort.
[23:40] The matatu moves slowly.
[23:43] Ten kilometers in two hours.
[23:47] Its sputtering engine struggles at the slightest obstacle.
[23:56] I've got a problem. The van can't go up this hill.
[23:59] We're too heavy, so to make it lighter, the passengers have to get out and walk.
[24:03] That way, my car could move.
[24:06] Above all, they have to push.
[24:12] Put a stone under the wheel.
[24:13] You don't want it to go backwards.
[24:18] The shepherds are amused by the situation.
[24:25] You have to admit that there's very little entertainment.
[24:32] In this sun scorched place,
[24:39] the drought is emptying the villages of the Turkana region.
[24:51] It's been three years since those clinging to their land
[24:54] have seen a single drop fall.
[25:06] I've lost 250 cows because of the drought. There's no more water.
[25:10] Sometimes you have to walk 20 kilometers to find water.
[25:17] We still manage to eat, but we often fall ill.
[25:21] Sometimes I can go four days without drinking.
[25:36] Before, there were goats and cows here
[25:42] and camels there.
[25:46] Over here were the houses with the women and children.
[25:56] When the drought came, the old man couldn't find any food.
[26:01] He lived alone, and with no one to help him,
[26:03] he died of hunger.
[26:05] He had nothing left.
[26:06] No water, food, or animals.
[26:15] For the poorest families, those who don't have the means to flee,
[26:20] day-to-day life is terrible.
[26:26] There are six of us living here, \and this is my oldest daughter.
[26:30] We're so hungry and thirsty.
[26:32] Yes, life is really hard.
[26:34] Look at her lips, they're dry.
[26:36] She hasn't eaten anything today.
[26:38] We have no more goats as they died of thirst.
[26:42] I had four.
[26:44] I also had cows, but a rival tribe stole them all from me.
[26:48] The situation has just become even more complicated
[26:51] with the arrival of her daughter's first child.
[26:54] The baby is asleep.
[26:56] Only three weeks old.
[27:02] Weakened by childbirth,
[27:04] her daughter can no longer help her mother with the water chores.
[27:08] I walk a 20-kilometer roundtrip to find water,
[27:11] which takes me about three hours.
[27:13] I do this every morning
[27:15] at the same time as fetching wood for the fire.
[27:18] When I come back, the children can have a drink of water.
[27:29] There used to be a river here, but it dried up as there's no rain.
[27:35] I have to walk further and dig more holes.
[27:41] Although the water has disappeared on the surface,
[27:44] there's still some under the crust of dried earth.
[27:48] Each family has its own hole.
[27:51] No one would dare come and steal their neighbors water.
[28:05] I have to remove all the dirty water until I find clean water.
[28:19] I don't know why the government doesn't come here to help us.
[28:24] Why?
[28:25] We're little people.
[28:27] I don't know what they do with their money.
[28:30] Only God protects us.
[28:32] The government doesn't care about us.
[28:37] Give us water and food.
[28:52] The shepherds still find a few watering holes.
[28:59] Water that's almost stagnant.
[29:03] That's barely drinkable for the animals,
[29:08] and yet…
[29:16] I drink this water as I have no choice.
[29:19] We all drink it together with the donkeys and dogs.
[29:23] We pray to God not to fall ill,
[29:25] but we also use the leaves of this tree to treat ourselves.
[29:30] It's medicine.
[29:32] It soothes our stomach and cleanses it of all impurities.
[29:37] You have to chew it like this.
[29:40] This is medicine.
[29:45] Drink dirty water or die of thirst.
[29:51] The choice is quickly made among the shepherds.
[29:59] On one side of the country, people are begging the heavens for rain.
[30:06] On the other, for the sun to rapidly dry out the soil.
[30:18] Adan and Bernard are among them.
[30:23] The track along Lake Victoria is still very wet.
[30:34] The two men have 100 kilograms of fish to deliver
[30:37] and very little ice to preserve it.
[30:44] It's always the same.
[30:45] Trouble never arrives at the right time.
[30:48] A descent, a climb, some mud, and the truck is off the road.
[31:03] We've got a big problem here.
[31:05] It's very bad, come and see.
[31:09] These are the kinds of challenges that we face in this business.
[31:12] There's a lot of problems. The road is impassable.
[31:16] This is our vehicle.
[31:17] Now we are at a very high risk.
[31:32] Just like the first time they got stuck in the mud,
[31:35] the village children quickly arrive,
[31:37] ready to jump at the chance to make a bit of money,
[31:40] and it didn't take long.
[31:42] No tractor available?
[31:44] No, there isn't any around in the area, which is why we need people to get us out.
[31:49] -How can the villagers help us? -They have to push from the back.
[31:52] Help us collect stones and gravel.
[31:55] We'll give you money for it.
[32:02] However, Adan finds that the children don't move fast enough,
[32:05] and above all, that some of them are unwilling to help
[32:08] and throw the stones anyway.
[32:15] I'll call the police!
[32:16] You need to collect more stones.
[32:19] I'll call the police and tell them you don't want to work.
[32:24] We need to put in gravel and stone.
[32:33] This time, the children's arms don't count for much
[32:35] against the 12 tons of steel.
[32:44] Adan and Bernard have no choice but to hire the parents,
[32:48] and that's going to cost a bit more.
[32:51] We're negotiating.
[32:52] They want 300 shillings each.
[32:55] It's so expensive.
[32:56] We're not negotiating with them to give them 5,000.
[33:04] The village chief speaks for everyone.
[33:06] Let's say we can deduct, then we inquire 300 for each,
[33:11] so if you can deduct, let it be two.
[33:13] Let me talk!
[33:16] You said 5,000.
[33:17] The total I wanted here is 6,000.
[33:33] We just want 250.
[33:34] Why do you deny us that?
[33:39] Fifty euros is a quarter of his profit,
[33:42] but when Adan sees the ice melting and his fish warming up,
[33:46] he has no choice.
[33:50] Come on, I'll give you €50.
[33:52] Now push my truck.
[34:01] Come on, you've got to push.
[34:03] It's time to get paid.
[34:05] Despite the hardship and the money that cost him,
[34:08] Adan is pragmatic.
[34:15] When you have a problem, it's somebody else's advantage.
[34:18] It's like that.
[34:20] That's the problem.
[34:23] Come on, you've got to push.
[34:27] Money doesn't work miracles,
[34:28] and the wheels remain hopelessly stuck in the ditch.
[34:36] The hundreds or so kilos of fish
[34:38] may well start to go off before the crew can get back on the road.
[34:48] In Kenya, the weather seems to have gone completely mad.
[34:56] There are more storms,
[34:58] and downpours flood everything in their path.
[35:06] The economy of the affected regions is slowing down.
[35:13] Four million Kenyans can no longer feed themselves properly.
[35:19] I struggle to use my motorbike even though it's my main source of income.
[35:26] It's a real challenge for traders to transport goods,
[35:30] and it's so important for feeding people.
[35:34] All this water washing away the soil and the villagers
[35:38] also has terrible health consequences.
[35:41] After the torrential rains come a whole host of diseases,
[35:45] such as bilharzia and malaria.
[35:50] These are not the only scourges.
[35:52] Flooding is partly due to the disappearance of the great forests.
[35:57] Without this green barrier to stop it, the water swells up in natural reservoirs,
[36:02] such as Lake Baringo.
[36:08] Since 2010, the water level has risen by 12 meters.
[36:16] Despite the stone dams,
[36:17] the luxury hotels are gradually being swallowed up
[36:20] by the lake.
[36:27] The suffering of those locals who made their living from tourism
[36:31] is threefold.
[36:34] Their jobs have disappeared.
[36:36] Their village, which was far from the shore,
[36:38] is now under attack from the waters
[36:41] and an animal straight out of a horror film.
[36:47] Check out the crocodile!
[36:50] A beautiful beast that easily reaches two meters in length.
[36:54] The children try to convince themselves
[36:56] that they're out of danger by keeping a safe distance.
[37:00] -I'm not afraid of them. -Why?
[37:03] They're used to us.
[37:05] Well, not really.
[37:06] Last year, five children were attacked on their way to school,
[37:10] and none survived.
[37:18] Since the waters have risen, the school has become an island.
[37:26] There are school boats,
[37:27] but not all families can afford to send their children across.
[37:49] George has made traditional canoes for his two sons.
[38:00] To make them, we looked for driftwood around the lake.
[38:05] Then I tied the branches together to make two canoes.
[38:12] The bridge disappeared a long time ago.
[38:15] Before, you could walk across to the school without risk,
[38:18] but the water has risen so much that people have had to flee,
[38:22] and the water has completely taken over.
[38:25] I'm scared of crocodiles.
[38:28] There are many here.
[38:52] The crossing takes 20 minutes,
[38:54] and although crocodiles rarely attack canoes,
[38:58] there is another danger that can capsize them.
[39:02] Contrary to popular belief,
[39:04] the hippopotamus is far from being a friendly animal.
[39:08] We make the journey every day.
[39:11] Last time, we came face to face with a hippopotamus.
[39:21] We had to take a long detour to avoid it.
[39:31] As for the teachers, they crossed the water on foot.
[39:36] Their meager salaries don't allow them to take the boat every day.
[39:44] Before, there was no water here.
[39:46] Nobody helps us, so we have to walk and swim.
[39:49] They take risks because they know the reptile's weakness.
[39:52] Its Achilles heel.
[39:56] If we see a crocodile, we shout loudly to scare it away.
[40:00] We also use pebbles to hit the water.
[40:02] That scares them away, so we can get across peacefully.
[40:05] Crocodiles do indeed have keen hearing.
[40:08] As to whether his technique works, that's another story.
[40:12] In any case, that day, the crossing was heroic
[40:15] for both the teachers and the two little paddlers.
[40:27] This morning, the majority of the 200 pupils answered the call.
[40:32] Good morning, teacher!
[40:35] -How are you? -I'm fine, thank you, teacher.
[40:40] Sometimes the classrooms remain empty.
[40:44] I'm happy because today I can start school on time at 8:20 a.m.
[40:49] This allows us to go a good job.
[40:55] For example, last week,
[40:57] there wasn't enough petrol for all the boats.
[41:01] It was really complicated.
[41:03] When we went to school, there were no pupils.
[41:06] It's very important for us to have a new bridge.
[41:11] I love you so much, Ebenezer.
[41:14] Ebenezer, you're so wonderful.
[41:18] I love you so much, Ebenezer.
[41:22] Ebenezer, you're so wonderful.
[41:26] The bridge won't be in place for a while yet,
[41:30] but one man thinks he's found the technique
[41:32] to appease the ferocious appetite of Lake Baringo crocodiles.
[41:49] Now, I'm going to feed them.
[41:53] Every afternoon, Aron feeds the crocodiles
[41:55] the leftover fish from the lake's fishermen.
[42:06] If I don't feed them, we're going to have problems.
[42:11] They can bite us.
[42:14] They like fresh meat.
[42:18] According to him, a crocodile with a full belly
[42:21] is a crocodile that is no longer looking for prey.
[42:24] Well, normally.
[42:27] We pray to God not to be attacked.
[42:31] In the space of four years, dozens of residents have disappeared.
[42:35] Swept away by the animal.
[42:39] Winnie survived miraculously.
[42:42] She was attacked in 2020.
[42:44] That day, I went to fetch water, and a crocodile attacked me.
[42:50] It dragged me under, and I tried to keep my hand above water.
[42:56] My husband saw my hands sticking out.
[43:00] He jumped in to save me, but the crocodile took us both.
[43:04] He screamed loudly,
[43:07] and people came to help us.
[43:13] Several people strangled the animal.
[43:14] I couldn't understand what was going on, but the people fought with the crocodile,
[43:20] and it finally let go of my leg.
[43:26] They started by eating the goats, then they ate the dogs.
[43:31] They love blood.
[43:32] It's really terrible.
[43:35] I can't go back to the water to fetch wood.
[43:40] I can't work anymore,
[43:44] so I stay at home and only my husband works to bring food,
[43:50] but sometimes he doesn't earn enough
[43:54] to buy us enough food.
[43:59] Until the water level drops,
[44:01] the crocodiles will remain the masters of Lake Baringo.
[44:04] Until the climate returns to its normal cycle,
[44:07] flooding and mud will continue to trap carriers like Adan.
[44:18] Come on, go!
[44:22] It cost him dearly.
[44:24] He had to promise €50 to persuade the man of the village
[44:27] to get him out of the ditch.
[44:34] After four hours of effort,
[44:37] the rear wheels finally returned to the track.
[44:48] -Where's Jacob? -I'm here.
[44:51] Let me count it. Even these people are seeing me.
[44:54] One, two, three,
[44:58] four, five, six.
[45:06] Adan's only obsession now is to save the 100 kilograms of fish he's carrying.
[45:11] If that's still possible.
[45:15] Now that we're good, we've got to move on.
[45:18] I'm praying to God that everything goes well, my God.
[45:29] It's okay now, we have to find ice.
[45:37] A further one-hour drive,
[45:38] and the village of Sindo appears to be their savior.
[45:46] This small fishing port is blessed
[45:48] with one of the few ice factories on Lake Victoria.
[46:02] Please sir, we want ice.
[46:06] This is the place where get some cold ice.
[46:20] How much do you want?
[46:22] One hundred kilograms?
[46:27] Adan and Bernard, the driver, fear the worst.
[46:38] -It's all melted, but it's fine. -The fish didn't suffer.
[46:43] You can see that it's still fresh.
[46:46] You know from the gills.
[46:50] The condition now is not good.
[46:53] -It's not good, but still fresh. -Still fresh, yes.
[46:58] The ice will preserve them for a little while longer,
[47:01] but now, at the slightest stop, Adan can kiss his investment goodbye.
[47:12] The local contractors are all corrupt, so they redesign the road badly.
[47:17] They keep the money for themselves.
[47:21] They build too fast and with poor quality materials.
[47:24] After three years,
[47:26] the road deteriorates and quickly becomes unusable.
[47:31] It took us nine hours to cover 70 kilometers,
[47:36] but now we're back on tarmac.
[47:41] We're relieved.
[47:43] Everything is fine.
[47:49] I'm so glad to see a road like this.
[47:57] The last few kilometers are just a formality.
[48:04] We battled bad roads and weather,
[48:06] and despite all that, we reached the fish processing plant.
[48:13] Ten hours on the road to earn €200
[48:16] minus the 50 he gave the villagers to get him out of the ditch.
[48:22] Adan is working to pay for his studies and have a good future.
[48:29] Kenya is booming.
[48:32] Tea cultivation, fishing, tourism.
[48:35] The country is developing, but it's still very unequal.
[48:46] It doesn't look like global warming is likely to do anything to help.