Foreign Legion: They have one month to travel the 600km of the Deep Mission

00:00 The border between French Guiana and Brazil is one of the most inaccessible imaginable. It extends over one hundred and thirty kilometers in the middle of the jungle between the Maroni and Oyapock rivers, the markers that mark it are engulfed by vegetation in a few days...
2:29 In this section, 19 nationalities, 30 men from Europe, Asia and Africa
8:21 Canoe stuck in the torrent, from there, they will no longer know the dry
17:28 From here on they will only have their legs and shoulders
25:20 Meal break, combat ration
34:16 Camp
38:37 Day 12, walking tired in the jungle
46:23 Day 15, Refueling
No one has ever set foot there, nor carried out the slightest check. Based in Cayenne who are responsible for marking the French presence on this path of the impossible. Thirty men leave for these hostile lands. A mission of about twenty days, by canoe or on foot, to clear the markers marking the border of their gangue of vegetation.
Packages of more than thirty kilos for each of the men, because you have to take everything with you, from the chainsaw to the explosives. A hellish jungle in which it is often necessary to cut the passage with machete blows.
In some places, we are happy when we have progressed five hundred meters during the day.
"It's so dense, specifies Berthout, that it is impossible to send a helicopter to recover a sick or injured person".