![]() ![]() Preston unspools the history of the White City, the expedition and the journey itself in detail - sometimes in too much detail. Their intent was to map the city as well as explore and protect its rumored riches. ![]() They brought along a new piece of NASA-owned laser technology known as LIDAR or Light Detection and Ranging, which confirmed a sprawling metropolis inhabited around the same time as the Mayan civilization in modern-day Mexico. They faced floods, mountains, jaguars, deadly snakes, disease-carrying insects and other inherent challenges. In 2012, Preston joined a group of scientists, archaeologists, photographers and film producers who traveled to La Mosquitia, an unexplored and dangerous region of Central American jungle. For generations, indigenous people passed along stories of ancestors who fled there to escape Spanish invaders and that anyone who enters would get sick and die. ![]() This time, the subject matter is equally compelling - an ancient and sacred city in Honduras known as the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. ![]()
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