River of doubt

After his election defeat in 1912 with his just-established third party, the Bull Moose Party, Theodore Roosevelt looked for a punishing physical challenge to take his mind off the loss. What he found was The River of Doubt, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. He made the trip with his son Kermit, and Brazil's most famous explorer, Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon. Facing an unbelievable series of hardships including loosing their canoes and supplies to rapids, enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks, Theodore Roosevelt changed the map of the Western Hemisphere forever. Three men died and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. Although he and his son survived his health was never the same.