Tearful elderly man got his dream fulfilled after meeting a gorilla in the wild as.guides helped him into the jungle on a stretcher in Rwanda.
The tourist who can be only identified as Collin was carried through the dense forest right up until he met the primate.
The guide Cameron Scott who helped Collin fulfilled his dream called the experience ‘amazing’, ‘lucky’ and the ‘experience of a lifetime’.
The group, led by Royal Ngala Safaris founder Cameron Scott, was searching for the famous Hirwa gorilla family, known for having twins when found them in a clearing.
According to Scott, they were in that clearing because they had been chased there by a Silverback.
Collin was carefully lowered to the ground and had a rare face-to-face encounter with one of the grown up twins.
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Sharing the video on Instagram,. Scott said, ‘This was a first for me. Our group was searching for the famous Hirwa family, which means (lucky) in the local Kinyarwanda language.
‘Lucky because this family was blessed with twins that both survived to adulthood.
‘One of our group members, Collin, was unable to get up the mountain and was actually carried up in a stretcher bed by our amazing guides and porters to achieve his lifelong dream of encountering wild mountain gorillas in the wild.’