Pat Spain ingested toxic “foods”, made a name for himself in traditional Mongolian wrestling, and experienced the worst bathroom on Earth for this book.
Pat Spain ingested toxic “foods”, made a name for himself in traditional Mongolian wrestling, and experienced the worst bathroom on Earth for this book.
Adventure, Asia (general), Humor (general)
Pat Spain is not a very good dancer. Nor is he a person used to wearing bikini briefs, or wrestling in front of hundreds of nomads and an international TV audience. He is certainly not a person you would expect to find wearing said bikini briefs while dancing in front of said audience, but here we are: On the Hunt in the Gobi Desert. Pat and a National Geographic film crew are searching for the truth behind stories of the Mongolian Death Worm, and to crack this legend Pat will have to wrestle a giant while risking indecent exposure, brave the worlds’ most disgusting long-drop bathroom, eat and drink toxic 'delicacies', wrangle a very jumpy electric eel and testy spitting cobra, avoid the temptation to smuggle archeological artifacts and deal with bed-bug and camel-tick infestations while they traverse the least densely populated country in the world, Mongolia.
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Pat Spain is that rare thing; a rationalist who still embraces the possible and knows that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of. A grown-up who has lost none of the childhood wonder and curiosity that makes the world magical. A scientist who keeps an open mind and rejoices in the fact that absence of proof is not proof of absence. There is nobody I’d want to travel with more to explore the wild side of our literally extraordinary planet. Buckle up and prepare for adventures. ~ Harry Marshall, Chairman and Co-Founder of Icon Films
Pat is a natural storyteller onscreen, but this takes the stories we've seen to a whole new level. This is an incredibly immersive deep dive into the cultures and experiences of making a film that you won't be able to put down once you've started. ~ Rob Nelson, Biologist, Filmmaker
