Roosevelt and some crew members, including his son set off on a journey to explore and come home with things to study. They began the journey December 9, 1909. The journey already started of bad when a man drowned because of the rapids, but they moved on and got over the roaring waters. As time went on they suffered from lack of food and monkeys became good food. All of the men were but by exotic insects or ran high fevers. At a point in time Roosevelt thought he was not going to make it because of a leg injury that got malaria and he told his men to go on but they refused to do so. The journey ended April 27, 1913. They made it through the River of Doubt and despite the terrible things they survived, they overcame and came home with tons of things to study.
