Mountains of the moon

In this film mountains of the moon The Europeans Richard and John faced many hardships.They were going to explore Africa a place where (white) lightskined people were never seen and evrybody else was black. So basicly the first hardships they faced were them being from somewhere else and being so different. One of them had a beetle crawl in their ear. They werent 100 % shure were they were going. They lost the compass. They didnt have a large supply of water and they could not speak or understand the africans language without translations being made.