Anchor set! I yelled down to my climbing buddy Josh Gates, we were 13 hundred feet in the air, it was day three of a week long climb. My name is Rachel Williams, I'm 18 and Josh is 21, we have been friends for many years and I work for him on the TV show Destination Truth (DT). DT is in its third season and the show is going great but more on that later lets get back to the fun stuff shall we. We had reached a ledge where we could set the tent for the night and get some rest before we would have to move again, we started to unpack the backpacks when thing got a little wet, yep it started to rain and hard at that. It was Josh's turn to sleep in the tent and there was no way I was going to let him say no, but I do have to say this. Have you ever tried to sleep on a rock bed no longer then one of your butt cheeks? I did,thankfully the rock stayed warm from the sun of the days so I stayed somewhat warm and dry. The next morning I was awaken by a loud crash, thinking the ledge was giving way I check to make sure I still had my harness on. I did and it wasn't the ledge, so I looked over to see if it was Josh, nope he was fine too, so I risked the look down and noticed that just about an hour from where we were was the darkest storm clouds I had ever seen,
"Josh, I think you need to see this." I said pointing to the end of the ledge.
"hmmm.. what?" Josh looked over and saw the storm below, "ooo crap, we need to move."
So well we finish climbing the mountain, let me tell you how Josh and I met, we met at school, college really, we both went to Tufts Unvs. We meet in my freshmen year, Josh was a junior, we (freshmen) had to help the juniors with a final project for the both classes. Josh and I were paired after he choose out of a hat. From the first day we met we liked each other, we both loved traveling and adventure, we got an A plus on it and Josh was then the next year he was at the head of his senior class. The class work and time spent working on the project resulted in me and Jonah spending the night at each other's apartment, spending the night turned into paying rent together and by his senior year, Josh and I were sharing a room. That's when we found out that we both loved travel, and started traveling to all different places on our last spring break together.
We first head of the show Destination Truth when we were on the ground in Africa after spending a few months studying filming and documentary with collage, a guy by the name of Neil Harris (no not Neil Patrick Harris different), he worked for SYFY, the TV channel and company that we work for now. We were at the airport when Josh's phone rings,
"Yea this is Gates."
"Gates, hey it's Neil, where are you?
"African airport on our way home, what's up?" He turned to me and give a funny look.
"I might have a job for you and Rachel, come to the studio as soon as you land!"
"But Neil, we have been out there almost all summer and have not showered in days!"
"I don't care just hurry back!" He said and hung up.
