...brought to you by the first-ever Mazda CX3. Tonight on Sunday, breaking the law for the sake of her daughter. (SCREAMS, HOLLERS) I have no regrets what I did for my child. Toni-Marie ` mother of five. You got your daughter back? Yeah, I got her back. Yeah. She's fronting up and coming clean. Still, you would've been breaking the law, wouldn't you? Absolutely. It was scary. So do you legally allow your child to die or do you illegally risk something like this, so contested, so misunderstood? Now she wants to help the sick and the desperate get legal. Of course you always hold... hold... You always hold out hope for something to help. Kevin has agreed to reveal why he did what he did. Why exactly did you start the website? What Kevin Bollaert did is called revenge porn. I'm not really that shy. I'm very open-minded. No filter. It's a reality faced by hundreds of women and teenagers. But now its victims are fighting back. This is another way a woman can look. She can just be happy and just exist in her body without selling anything. And... 'Go to Bolivia,' they told me. 'Go and have a little mountain-bike ride.' The downhill ride to end all downhill rides. What they didn't tell me was the road they want me to ride is called the 'death road'. Whoa! Captions by Anne Langford. Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Copyright Able 2015 Kia ora. I'm Miriama Kamo. How far would you go to save your child? Would you break the law? Well, a Hawke's Bay mother did. Driven by desperation, she gave her little girl cannabis extract to combat thousands of epileptic seizures that threatened her child's life. Cannabis oil is a class B drug, but this mother has decided to step forward on camera, on Sunday, for the first time and 'fess up. Why? Because now she wants to do it legally by getting NZers on medical trials for an effective treatment that she says has been much maligned. Here's Ian Sinclair. For more than two years, this mother has lived in the shadows because she admits she broke the law to save her daughter. How much life expectancy did the doctors give your daughter? They didn't know, but, um, months. Maybe a few years. This is how we saw her before, covertly showing how to prepare medical cannabis. Today, Toni Matich, mother of five, has decided it's time to come clean. I'm not doing anything illegal any more. In fact, I have no regrets for what I did for my child. She's had the best quality of life she's ever had through her illness and up to that two years. Fifi! Fifi. Hey, you. So, Fifi helps you, does she? Yes. Monique, her daughter, suffers life-threatening brain damage from an extreme form of epilepsy. Hey, Fifi. I love you. Essentially, Monique is more like an 8- to 10-year-old in developmental age level when compared to being 17, almost 18. So for her it's hard. Sit! Very good. To protect Monique's privacy, we've agreed not to show her face today. But as photos show, Monique was born blessed. She was a dial-a-baby. That's what you'd call a baby that was really good. A dial-a-baby. She slept, you know, overnight. Within eight weeks, she was fantastic. All that changed one day when Monique was just eight months old. We were driving into Wellington to go to the zoo, and I had a look in my rear-vision mirror and she was having a seizure. Her eyes were rolled back to their whites and she was convulsing. The diagnosis? Dravet syndrome. It's a rare epileptic syndrome. Um, largely medication-resistant. There were hundreds of seizures a day. Sometimes thousands. Sometimes thousands a day?! > Yep. Well, was there any let-up for you, then? Uh... Day? Night? No. I mean, you'd start a medication, but then you'd see new seizures come along. You'd see side effects from the medications. (GASPS) What are you doing?! You know, um, one of them ` schizophrenic-type behaviour, so violent, extremely violent. You have a lay-down. (SHOUTS, YELLS LOUDLY) Then at 14, came a fateful diagnosis. That doctor basically said,' There is nothing that you can do. You've exhausted every possible treatment. 'If she was to... have a severe seizure and pass away in her sleep, that would be very kind.' But... On the web, she heard about the success of cannabis oil with Dravet syndrome in America. I found a parent in the United States, and he was having great success in treating his son with, um, cannabis oil ` specially prepared for him medically, and, um, you know, he was having huge reductions in seizures. Medicinal cannabis, legal in 22 US states, but illegal here. Still, you would have been breaking the law, wouldn't you? Absolutely. It was scary. So do you legally allow your child to die or do you illegally risk something like this, so contested, so misunderstood, um...? Yeah. This is not the party drug for smoking. To be effective against seizures, she says, it must be a non-hallucinogenic oil. You were a mother of five. How did you know how to do it? I left school, um, early sixth form and went on to study science and technology. After that, I went on and studied certificate in horticulture. You're a scientist? Yeah. She was shown the right scientific method. Someone else made it in their kitchen, but, yeah, I oversaw that. Vital was the quiet advice from professionals. Yeah. Botanists, chemists, um, pharmacologists. So these were professional, law-abiding people who obviously sympathised with you. Yeah. Here in NZ and overseas. Toni says the results were spectacular. She's talking. So she's starting to talk, and then you started to see this personality that you hadn't seen for the last 14 years. Um, she was cheeky. She could crack a joke. The secret, she says, is CBD, or cannabidiol, a non-hallucinogenic compound found in cannabis. American studies indicate CBD is effective against seizures. You got your daughter back. > Yeah. I got her back. Yeah. It was great. Um, it wasn't a cure. We had a 50% reduction in seizures, um, but it was a better quality of life for her. All went well for two years, then another blow. The person who was, um, actually testing the oil under the radar, lost their job, and, uh, I just couldn't risk continuing to create that oil. And with the loss of the cannabis oil, came more seizures, more brain damage. Yeah. She's having hundreds of seizures a day. And that's where Toni's other four children step in. Ellie, how many seizures have you seen over the last two minutes? Uh, over 40 already. Over 40 already? > Yeah. OK. > She needs some medicine. She needs some medicine? OK. > Let's get that drawn up. Ellie monitors Monique's seizures. It should be like this now. Then all the family chips in. They're fantastic children ` compassionate, um, well-liked for that reason. And good role models. Love you. Bye. Love you, Elva. Bye-bye. > Love you, Elva. Love you too. With the kids at school, Toni is hatching a new, this time legal, strategy to get Kiwis a cannabis treatment. Her inspiration? Trials underway overseas to treat kids with cannabis, rich in CBD. There you go. That's tasty. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could access it here or research it or create our own trials and people could get a quality of life or a reduction in their illness like my child had? Next up, are Kiwis desperate for CBD falling prey to false hope. Yeah. Of course. You're... (CRIES) You always hold out hope. And who sold it to them? Would you agree your credibility is pretty important to you because you've done jail for fraud in Australia? Yeah. 4 Dave Griffin is battling cancer. Of course, you hold... hold... (CRIES) You always hold out hope for something to help you. Dave has cancer in the brain and spine, and he's running out of options. Basically told me that they couldn't get it out. It was too intermingled with the nervous system. He hoped this man, Greg Flavell, might be able to help him. You get on the hemp path, you'll never get off. (LAUGHS) A New Plymouth company promoting industrial hemp for construction and animal feed. It's also been marketing hemp oil as effective against cancer and labelling some bottles as containing CBD. Well, of course, yeah. You hear such good reports of, um, cannabinoid oils that, uh, have the power and possibility to shrink tumours and, you know, help with cancer patients. And nobody knows the CBD issue better than Toni Matich. It's illegal. Um, it's a class B drug. Everything's coming together quite nicely... Which is why she's campaigning for proper controlled, legal trials in NZ. I want people to have safe and legal access to it. People like Dave. < What did Greg tell you on the phone when you rang him? I explained my condition to him, and, um, I said I was prepared to try this CBD oil to see if it's going to help. And, um, he said, 'Oh, good on ya.' Dave said he bought three bottles of Greg Flavell's oil for his cancer. How much did they cost? The first bottle cost me $60. The second two bottles, they had a rapid price increase of up to... they were $99.50 per bottle. Yeah. It's a bit of a price increase over a week. In one week? (LAUGHS) Yeah. What Dave didn't know was that Greg Flavell has a past. Convicted of fraud in Australia in 2005, he was sentenced to four and a half years' jail for fleecing investors of more than $1 million in life savings. Hello. How are ya going? Oh, gidday, Greg. Hi. Hi. Ian Sinclair from Television NZ. 'Time to talk to Greg Flavell.' We're doing a story on hemp oil. (LAUGHS RAUCOUSLY) Good on ya. Yeah. 'We wanted to interview him about the claim that his hemp oil had CBD in it.' Here's one ` hemp. CBD marked on the top there. That's one of yours? 100ml? Yep. It's one of yours sold as containing CBD. That's what we had. Yeah. Is it perfectly legal? > Yes. 'But the Ministry of Health told us hemp is not allowed to be sold as CBD 'because that's an illegal drug.' Dave bought the oil through Bin Inn in Waitara. Bin Inn says it didn't know that CBD was illegal. We approached one of the owners of Bin Inn here at Waitara, and she confirmed they had been selling Greg Flavell CBD hemp oil in good faith, but only after he had assured them it had been tested at Massey University. This Greg Flavell denies. No, that's not correct at all. It's only the` You know, I'm getting a lot of hearsay coming backwards and forwards. That's why we came to see you. Yeah. We get a lot of hearsay. And that's not the case. No. No university in this country has tested this stuff. Would you agree your credibility is pretty important to you > because you've done jail for fraud in Australia? > Yeah. So you'd agree it's pretty important that you clear your name with us. > I've told everybody this. There's nobody on this planet, basically, in the hemp field, that doesn't know this. But can you understand, though, why this doesn't look particularly good that you say there's so little CBD in it that it's barely traceable, you go and mark it up like that ` CBD in large letters ` knowing that people do raise their hopes that they'll get a cure or treatment? Yeah. Possibly. And you've raised the price from $60 to $90. Is that moral? > No. No. OK. So what do you call it, then? > Not right. You agree that you've done the wrong thing? > I agree. I haven't done the right thing. I agree that what I've done was very temporary, and I decided, 'You know what, I'm not doing this any more.' Nice. Thanks, sweet. It's all left Dave worried. I can't reach that one. What sort of oil did he really buy and how effective was it? Sometimes you just feel like curling up in a corner and dying. Yeah. It sort of dashes your hopes... altogether. Yeah. I mean, if it was made legal maybe all these problems wouldn't occur. What does this tell you about the importance of what you're trying to do? It tells me that we need this regulated, and, uh, there needs to be some open discussion about it within the government and the medical society so that vulnerable people are protected. I love the colour. As if raising five kids wasn't enough, Toni has also created a lobby group to push for trials of medicinal cannabis here, called United In Compassion. Can you do it? > Yeah. Yeah. We've got an amazing group of people behind us at United In Compassion. Um, you know, my trustees come from all walks of life. Every person involved with us, even from the horticulturalists through to the R & D team ` they all have a personal reason. You've walked all the way up so you can see that villa? And then there's her inspiration ` Monique. Will it be quick enough for her? I can't` I can't say. Will it be quick enough for everybody else who wants access as well? It won't be. But this is a start. It's taking the positive and the negatives from what's happening overseas and it's saying, 'Let's get our foot in the door here in NZ. 'Let's remove the stigma from cannabis,' and, um, if they want the research and they want the trials, then let's do them. And then let's see how we can go from there. Associate health minister Peter Dunne confirms he has met with Toni Matich and is sympathetic to her campaign for medicinal cannabis trials here. He says Medsafe officials will be working closely with her organisation, United In Compassion, as it draws up the proposals for the project. We have more information on Toni's organisation on our Facebook page and website. Later, it's all down, down, downhill. The 'death road' from La Paz. There are drops here of up to 600m straight down. Whoa! Terrifying. That's later in the show. But next up, she's changing the way the world sees her on the internet after tangling with one of the most hated men on the planet. Maybe he's just a bad man. What would you say to him? Have fun in jail. I have been overwhelmed by the reaction. This is another way that a woman can look. She can be happy and just exist in her body without selling anything. Just, like, being. Welcome back. If you did an internet search for Emma Holten's name three years ago, you could easily find a picture of her at age 17, naked. It was posted online without her consent, and she could never make it go away. It's a trend called revenge porn, and now it has lead to an even more frightening development ` non-consensual pornography; that's stolen photos and material hacked and acquired without permission. It is an extremely damaging reality faced by many other women and teenagers whose photos have been stolen and published without their consent. Tonight the first person to be convicted of a revenge-porn crime gives a jailhouse interview. And, Emma, his young victim, tells PJ Madam how she's changed the way the world sees her on the internet. Do you know Kevin Bollaert? Yes, I do. Were you on his site? Yeah. So what does that name mean to you? (SIGHS) He's just a person that I don't understand. Maybe he's just a bad man. What would you say to him? Have fun in jail. This is one of the most hated men on the planet. Kevin Bollaert is serving 18 years' jail for inflicting a lifetime of pain on thousands of women. COMPUTERISED VOICE: Press one. You may start the conversation now. Hello. Hi, Kevin. My name is PJ. Hi. How are you? He's already made his mark on this world. Why? Why this? Do you know why I'm here? Um, to do an interview. Do you know what about? My charges. Can you tell me a bit about them? Um, I got charged with extortion and identity theft. But what exactly was it that you did? I created a website called You Got Posted. On the website, people could post images of other people, usually nude or provocative images, with their name and location and links to social media profiles. You Got Posted was a website dedicated to humiliating women, publishing intimate images that had been leaked by hackers and jilted lovers, all for a new disturbing trend known as revenge porn. Emma, what else was published about you? My address, my phone number, the names of my family, my entire Facebook friend lists, the place where I study, all the places that I have worked, the place where I kick-boxed. Every single identifying information about me, including pictures of where I lived previous on Google Street View and where I lived at that point on Google Street View. Emma Holten is from Denmark. She is 24, beautiful, stylish, educated. If I google your name, what would I find? As of this moment, I'm not completely sure. It kind of changes. But I think you would find on picture search, if you slide down just a little, you will find a picture of me 17 years old, naked, shared online without my consent. Seven years ago when Emma was a teenager in a happy relationship, she let her boyfriend take intimate photos of her. I just remembered seeing those pictures and thinking, 'You know, I can be attractive 'and I can be a desirable person and I can be a sexual person, and it can be fine and completely harmless.' < What did you think would happen to the photos? I didn't think about that at all. I could never have imagined that my rights could be taken away from me like that. Then in October 2011, Emma woke one morning to find her email had been hacked. Those intimate photos were stolen and uploaded to the internet. I was just so shocked that this could happen to me; that what comes up when you google Emma Holten was not my choice any more. It had been taken away from me. I was so jealous of my friends where you could just, you know, date a guy and not having to think about, 'When do I tell him that I'm publicly sexually shamed on a global scale every day?' It's just not enough for these people to look at the pictures and know that I was humiliated, they also had to write me personally. 'Do your parents know that you're a slut?' 'Did you get fired because of this?' 'Send me more nudes or I'll send the ones I have to your boss.' Couldn't you see the hurt or the humiliation? When you're not face-to-face with the person and it's just text that you're reading, it's not the same. You don't realise the impact or the distress that somebody is really feeling. I'm not really that shy. I'm very open-minded. No filter. I'd say I'm pretty confident. Confidence is something Amy Cornes has in spades. She is 21 and a uni student. In June this year, Amy was one of more than 400 women from Adelaide who had photos hacked and leaked online. If you send a naked photo of yourself to one person, you're not agreeing for it to be put on the internet for everyone to see. Amy is from football royalty. Dad, Graham, is a former AFL player and coach. Mum, Nicole, a lawyer who once harboured political ambitions. Her brothers, Chad and Kane, were premiership players at Port Adelaide. I think the Cornes name is sort of an Adelaide household name. Which makes what happened to her even more distressing. Two and a half years ago, Amy was on holidays with girlfriends. She was 18. They took photos of each other everywhere, including a few revealing moments like this in the pool and another in the shower. I'm clearly naked but the most you can see is my bum. But the holiday album was uploaded by girlfriends to Facebook. As soon as Amy noticed the partially naked photos, she had them removed. How long was it online for? I think it only would have been about 15 minutes. Amy barely gave it another thought. Then in June this year, she was sent a link to a US website and a folder called Adelaide Nudes. Someone, somewhere, had collected hundreds of intimate images and was publishing them with full names next to each photo. Amy's private photos from that holiday were there for the world to see. Were you worried about embarrassing the family? I was worried about what my family would think. I didn't really care what anyone else thought. As a mother, what were your thoughts? Protecting your child because you've raised them. You spend your whole life trying to keep them safe, and, you know, that was a violation of her privacy. She didn't agree to put them out there, and that's what really concerned me. Obviously you're concerned but I just had this old-fashioned view that if you don't take the photograph, nobody can grab it or exploit it. Did you think about the hurt that you'd caused? Um, I guess a couple of times I did realise. Like, 'Man, I should probably quit doing this. 'It's probably a bad idea.' So, yeah, there was a few times I was, like, thinking about shutting the website down. But you didn't? No, I never did. In the past two and a half years, we have helped over 3000 victims. I have received emails from all over the world. This morning I had one from Taiwan, all over the UK, Brazil, Australia. I've had quite a few from Australia, in fact, so it's all over the world. Ann-Marie Chiarini is a counsellor and advocate for revenge-porn victims. What kind of state are these women in when they're reaching out to you? It's crisis. They're in absolute crisis 'cause these women will be shamed for being sexual. These women will be ostracised for expressing sexuality, and these women will be blamed. They will be told that they have made poor judgements. So the revenge porn as a weapon is extraordinarily powerful. How many websites exist? There are over 3000. Ann-Marie has a powerful reason why she does this and why she wants to help. You're a mother of two. You're an English professor. How did a smart woman like you get involved in this? I'm a victim. Sorry. I haven't got emotional about this in a while. Oh, for crying out loud. I hate this. Sorry! Five years ago after a break-up, an ex-partner leaked more than 100 private and personal photos of Ann-Marie, even sending the link to her employer and parents. And there I was. There was my full name, the town where I live, the college and campus where I teach and a solicitation for sex. So Ann-Marie decided to track down the men who owned these sites. One name kept emerging from victims ` Kevin Bollaert. He is one sick pup. He knew that by hosting the site, women would want this down. They would want this to end. They would not want these pictures up there. Kevin Bollaert not only created the You Got Posted website, humiliating women, he also launched another site, Change My Reputation, offering the very same victims the chance to have the photos removed for a price. I've worked with victims who have paid $1000, $3000, $7000 to these sites to get their pictures down because they would pay the money, and then a day later, they'd be back up, and then they'd pay more money, and three days later, they'd be back up, and then they'd pay even more. He knew this and he exploited it. The master of exploitation. In April this year, Kevin Bollaert was sentenced to 18 years in prison. This kingpin of revenge porn was left in tears. What if Kevin said he was sorry? I wouldn't believe it. I don't think that he is capable of being sorry or of being remorseful. He's sorry he got caught. Next, Emma and Amy fight back, making sure they wrestle back the control away from the online predators who steal and manipulate images of innocent women. I get contacted by a lot of parents who say they show these pictures to their teenage daughters and say, 'This is another way a woman can look. She can be happy 'and just exist in her body without selling anything, or without wanting to be desired in any sort of way. 'Just, like, being.' 4 This is the George Bailey Prison in San Diego. This maximum security jail is home to 1600 men, all serving hard time. One of its newest inmates is a 28-year-old man named Kevin Bollaert. He's the first person ever to be convicted of charges relating to a revenge site. Prison authorities have granted Sunday Night extraordinary access. Kevin has agreed to reveal why he did what he did. Why exactly did you start the website? Yeah. It was mostly for, um, freedom of speech, First Amendment. < Freedom of speech? Yeah. But this is without anyone's consent, though. These images were obtained without the women wanting them to be posted. Um... Well, some of the images are actually of people wanting themselves to be exposed, like exhibitionists; some people on the website. Not every single photograph was actually unconsenual. Kevin. Kevin, this was a revenge porn site, wasn't it? Partially, yes. Partially it was used for revenge porn. Some people posted pictures that... of women that maybe didn't want to be exposed on the website. Sure. Do you realise the damage you did to these women? Yeah. I understand that a lot of people were hurt a lot by the website, especially when I saw them testify in court. Um, I didn't really... I thought it was more of, like, a joke than damaging people's lives to that extent, you know? Why? Why did you think it was a joke? Well, you see, like, on the media, all the other celebrities that get their sex tapes exposed and naked images leaked, it's more, like, not a big deal. It doesn't seem like that big of a deal, I guess. < When did you realise that it was a big deal? When I was sitting in court and all the girls were testifying against me and crying. I guess that's when I realised it was... it was really harmful. How bad did you feel? Um... Pretty bad. Bad enough to almost cry, yeah. You were crying. Well, yeah. I was at sentencing, I was. We've spoken to a girl ` you don't know her ` her name's Emma. A photo of hers was posted on your website, and she wrote to you asking to take it down. You never got back to her. What would you like to say to Emma? Um, Emma, I'm sorry for making the website and I wish I never had done that. Um, that's pretty much it. I'll grant him that maybe he's just an ignorant idiot. But either way, he still ignored requests to have things removed, and still ridiculed, publicly, his victims; even published some of the letters asking, pleading, to have things removed. For three years, Emma was left feeling humiliated and violated. But this is where her story takes an unexpected turn. Because in September last year, Emma did something so surprising, so remarkable, it would give her the power back. I had this idea of taking new naked pictures that were not sexual or at least didn't have a sexual intention. Let's try it. If you can put both legs up. Yeah. Perfect. I wanted to focus on consent and I wanted to focus on choice. We wanted it to be... That's perfect. ...the way a woman might see herself in everyday life ` brushing her teeth, reading a book, getting dressed in the morning. And when I took the pictures, it kind of became very clear to me that I was right. That consent does matter. 'Cause I don't mind people seeing my breasts, but I want to make the choice. Emma then posted the pictures online ` 10 photos intent on showing her as a person, not an object, a woman who is beautiful, not humiliated. Almost instantly, Emma changed the conversation about her and began a campaign about the importance of consent. What's the reaction been? I have been overwhelmed by the reaction. I get contacted by a lot of parents who say that they show these pictures to their teenage daughters and say this is another way that a woman can look. She can be happy and just exist in her body without selling anything or without wanting to be desired in any sort of way. Just, like, being. And they say that getting a hold of pictures like that is not too easy. Like Emma, Amy also took control of the situation, taking the photos that had been stolen from her and putting them online for everyone to see. I couldn't stand knowing that someone was out there thinking that they'd hurt or embarrassed me, 'cause they didn't. And I wanted everyone to know that I was fine. So I took that one, put, like, a little peach emoji over my bum, put it on Facebook. Basically, I was, like, 'Thanks for everyone who's expressed concern about my being on Adelaide Nudes. 'This is basically it.' I was very impressed with the way she handled herself when it happened. Because she could have either have been crushed by it or she could have gained strength from it. And she chose to gain strength from it. It was puzzling as to... how did that happen? How could that happen? But she explained it and she was on the front foot. She was confident and, you know, aggressive about it. I did like that. She fought back. Yeah. She fought back. It was good. Before, when people recognized me, it was for something maybe I didn't want. And now it's for something I'm proud of and I've chosen myself. And just that in itself is just such a huge change for me. Knowing that there are other girls around the world who take the power back, like I did, is awesome. Because this could really change things. Got two sets of naked photos now on the internet. Yes. What's the difference? The difference is that I've consented to one of them and I did not consent to the other one. And if there is no consent, there's only violation. There's nothing else. < So consent is key. That is all there is. It's very simple. I'm sorry for what I did and hopefully everyone will forgive me and I can start over again. And I will never make the same mistakes. Um, I just want to do good things with my life now instead of hurt people. Thank you for speaking with us. You're welcome. This message will get out. Thank you. You're welcome. Bye. Love that those girls changed the conversation about them. So empowering. In America, more than half the states have now made it illegal to post intimate images online without consent. Coming up, one bike, one road, one reporter, and arguably, one death wish. What they didn't tell me was the road they wanted me to ride is called the 'death road'. The reason they call it that is because between 200 to 300 people die each year travelling along this road. PEOPLE SCREAM r Welcome back. It's called the 'death road' for a very good reason. Every year, people lose their lives on it. It's one of the deadliest downhill stretches of road on the planet. And Denham Hitchcock was asked to go there, to Bolivia, for a wee mountain-bike ride. THUNDER RUMBLES 'Go to Bolivia,' they told me. 'Go on. Have a little mountain-bike ride.' What they didn't tell me was the road they want me to ride is called the 'death road'. The reason they call it that is because between 200 to 300 people die each year travelling along this road. The reason? That's the reason. There are drops here of up to 600m, straight down. The road itself, well, it runs from the top of La Paz, Bolivia, down to the Amazon rainforest. 4600m. That's twice as high as Australia's highest peak, down to the rainforest. So what you're saying is, 'Stop talking about it and get biking.' All right. Ooh, that's a long way down. Not only am I flying down the 'death road'... Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's not a bad speed. ...but you couldn't get any hills,... Shit. ...it couldn't get any harder... (LAUGHS) It's pouring down rain and there's cloud coverage. THUNDER RUMBLES Ooh, just what you need. Ooh. This tiny track was carved into the Andes in the 1930s. A more modern, safer road has been built, but the road is much longer. Whoa! So is the journey. This ancient, deadly path is still the first choice for those in a hurry,... HORN TOOTS ...or an increasing number of thrill seekers willing to test their skill and their courage. That was close. Way too close. Oh man. Hoo-hoo-hoo! Oh dear. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Well, you really need to concentrate. Yeah, I don't think these are optimal mountain-bike conditions. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh! That was close. THUNDER CRACKS Rain in my eyes. Mud in my face. (LAUGHS) Cruising down the 'death road'. The pace. Come on! It regularly gives way to gravity. PEOPLE SCREAM But worst of all, your fellow drivers. This is the reason they call it the most dangerous road in the world. There are plenty of these crosses lined along the edges. There's one here. Two beside it. Another six or seven just over there. It's kinda a reminder as you hurtle down the hill that, uh, not everyone stays away from the edge. And that includes those on mountain bikes. More than 18 cyclists have been killed in the last few years. That should have made me more careful. Whoa! Oh, death road. The nearest hospital is six hours' drive. Rescue teams, rescue choppers do not exist. So there's relief when the road finally widens out and the last checkpoint appears. Finito, death road. I survived. Yes! Oh, my heart was in my mouth. That's an assignment I would have no interest in. Next week, a story our team has been chasing for 30 years ` the extraordinary confessions of the French diver who placed the bombs that sank the Rainbow Warrior, killing one of its crew. EXPLOSION 30 years ago I was here in Paris... It renames her as Dominique Prieur. ...to look at why French politicians thought it was OK to blow up the Rainbow Warrior. This month Sunday is back to talk to the man who actually planted the bombs. We'll bring you our exclusive meeting with that French secret agent next week. And now that's our show for tonight. 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