This mountain range is big enough and complex enough to actually be a generator of new species. It's actually producing new diversity.

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By some miracle of the stars, everything came together and we were able to spend two weeks on the mountain. I'm still pinching myself that it could work.

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No logging permits are given to this area, there is no transport system _ not a single road.

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It really was like crossing some sort of time warp into a place that people hadn't been to.

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It has a fairyland quality. It's a spectacularly beautiful Garden of Eden.

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I know the Bush administration is talking about going back to the moon and going to Mars. But there are plenty of new things to look for right here, in our rain forests, in our oceans. There are whole worlds that are unknown to us.

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We had forgotten it even existed.

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They were as astounded as we were at how isolated it was. As far as they knew, neither of their clans had ever been to the area.

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The first bird we saw at our camp was a new species. Large mammals that have been hunted to near extinction elsewhere were here in abundance.

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