Eric Hill was competing on "The Bachelorette" for Andi Dorfman's love before his fatal paragliding accident in April. He was an accomplished daredevil who documented his travels and excursions on his site "The Global Odyssey." We saw in week two that he won the first one-on-one date with Dorfman, and now it is revealed that he wrote his parents a goodbye letter. So sad!
"Syria ended up being the scariest moment of my life hands down," he said. "My mouth always gets dry when I tell this story. Syria is by far the craziest war zone that we've ever been in."
"Because they actually target journalists and I was going in there as a journalist. We had to get across basically illegally. So, I crossed with a rebel fighter. We had a contact. It was a rebel fighter. He was what they call a fixer."
He then added, "Six days before we crossed the border, the city that we were in got shelled. And unfortunately it destroyed an entire neighborhood...The most powerful picture I've ever taken in my entire life came from that same day too."
The late Hill also explained how his group was stopped by militants. How scary!
"But I was used to all that. As crazy as it sounds I had seen that all day. But our fixer, you could just see him going pale. It looked like he was about to throw up and he goes, 'I'm sorry guys. Things are going to get very bad for you. They think you're spies,'" Hill stated.
"And I pull out my phone and write a text out to my parents saying goodbye and I love you and I'm not going to be able to say this in real life. But luckily the leader of the group wanted to see my camera and wanted to know why I was there. And I said I'm trying to show that no matter what happens to the Syrians here nothing can take away their happiness. He ended up throwing the camera back and he says, in Arabic, it gets translated very quick thankfully, 'Go back to Turkey.' So Syria is not a place I would take you."
He also revealed he would not live as dangerously if he had children.
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