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coming up on "the whole story." >> this is just one enormous traffic jam of people through the jungle. [ speaking non-english ] >> good evening, welcome to "the whole story." i'm anderson cooper. starting tonight we are bringing you the best of cnn's storytelling from our reporters and anchors all over the world. it's one whole story, one whole hour every sunday at 8:00 p.m. tonight, we take you on a dangerous and difficult journey through the darien gap, the only land route connecting south america to central america. it's a 66-mile stretch of jungle between colombia and panama. so migrants hoping to get to the u.s. have to get through the darien gap first. that means trekking through rivers and mud and up steep mountainsides. along the way they face

exhaustion, disease, drowning and the very real risk of being robbed, assaulted, or even killed. so far this year, five times as many people have made this journey compared to the same period last year, and a record number of them are children. to see what they face, cnn's nick paton walsh and his team recently walked the entire route. some of the things he saw along the way are graphic and hard to watch. but we want you to see the reality of what's happening on the trek, a migrant trail to america. ♪ ♪ >> sometimes a dream sells you a nightmare first. and beauty is deepest in a place you may never get out of. and the need to keep moving is the only thing left to carry. a quarter of a million humans last year walked for four deadly

days through this, the darien gap. an untold number do not make it. a much, much bigger number do. and with every moment of success, resilience and even cost and suffering evermore come. the world maying on the move because of climate conflict and corruption, but here is where the most of them are on foot. these are the stories of people from just five days. an endless trail in the jungle of pain, hope, loss and grit. through the world's biggest hole in the fence. they gather under a glow glowering dusk. in the hope the dawn ahead is new of a promise and an

opportunity they have never known before. [ speaking non-english ] but it's not a prayer that decides who will make it. it's money. this is a large voluntary trafficking operation run by a drug cartel who control the routes and are the law in this part of the colombian border near panama. you pay to get here. you pay to overnight here. you pay to walk on. there are just over 800 people in this camp from haiti, venezuela, ecuador, even china and india. the pandemic turned the tough into the unlivable for manuel and his wife in venezuela.

we've changed people's names for their safety. [ speaking non-english ] >> reporter: at dawn, the first thing that strikes you is how few of them seem to grasp what's coming, gently packing crackers and tieing sneakers. the second thing that strikes you is how organized the cartel wanted to seem. they only walk when they're told

to. the stories here are many. but there is only one goal, america. and the dream is just that, a revery of hope, of conviction that they will be the ones to make it over danger, disease, dehydration, deportation about this number every day, every year, almost doubling. the darien gap is the only land corridor from south america where entry is easier to its north where it's not. there are no roads, only 66 miles of treacherous jungle from colombia to panama and onwards north. 3,000 miles to the u.s. border. we walked the entire route of the darien gap over five days in february to document the suffering of people milked for cash by cartels, unwanted by any country. what's startling is the sheer number of children on this trek as it begins on a route

sometimes adults don't even survive. >> reporter: we heard john's son coughing all last night. but, still, they set out. whatever is ahead, haiti's heat, hunger, and hellish chaos is at least at their backs. there are the older two, 58-year-old maria, a teacher from venezuela whose monthly salary of $16 can't feed anyone. so she and her daughter are headed to houston, hopefully to relatives. we've only been going a matter of hours and it just seems an endless series of river crossings, and the conditions are just constant water and pretty exhausting. manuel and tamara, like many

here, try to keep the kids going with treats. and then there are those whose jungle it is, the wildlife. one bite from this snake, and you may never leave. the walk is organized as that makes more money. in fact, the cartel gave us permission to be here as if to parade that. these discarded color-coded arm bands show which day and route people have paid for. the football shirts each numbered, charging to carry bags, even children uphill. but it doesn't always work out. wilson is separated from his parents. the porter raced off ahead .

nearly a thousand unaccompanied children were found on the route last year, the u.n. have said.

his cough is worse. he is now struggling to breathe at all. his fever peaking under the canopy. the first wave of exhaustion stumbles through the trees into this, the first camp for the first night under the canopy. they are still chainsawing their way into the forest here. cheap tents on freshly fallen trees. chi chilled gatorades for $4. nothing stops the money here tearing through nature in its way. the people are coming faster

than they can make space for them . the second dawn and the scale of the task ahead, the size of the crowd they are in these cramped spaces becomes clear. lines on the slopes.

the mist clings to the trees,

making the climb feel steeper still. some children embrace it all, bounding upwards playfully. even in their socks, when the mud starts claiming shoes. luva is looking worse still. his father too exhausted it

seems to intervene, and already at this point really out of choices but to go forward. others have come here with little but their will to move, propelled forward by knowing what is behind them.

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a any euphoria up here is completely misplaced. this isn't a short walk ahead. especially acute is ana's plight. she's 12, disabled, and gets epileptic convulsions. her mother natalia is the only one who can care for her, but it's so much harder up here. she later tells us she was told the descent was a matter of two hours, but it's not.

and literally meters from colombia, the ground turns. people, as they walk, just discarding their shoes. a real sense of the atmosphere now changing, we've crossed the border into panama, people clumping perhaps fearing for their own safety. this mud is just impossible. you can't get your feet out of it. this man, who didn't want to be named, now with nothing on his feet but his resolve. imagine where you've come from if you're willing to do this barefoot with a woolen sweater and plastic bags. pierce your feet or break an ankle, and this mud may be your grave.

the mother natalia has managed to find a haitian man to help her move her disabled daughter ana. so much of this route is insanely steep. and so many of the people who we've spoken to on the way are

complaining about how this was nothing like the easy route they were promised. understandably, it doesn't take long for the haitian volunteer to tire. ana might be having a fit or just tired, or both, or neither. this could be how she often gets, we just don't know. and without her mother way back behind her on the trail, nobody really knows what she needs. the haitian migrant begins cutting a stretcher, hoping others will come. but they all face the same problem. they can't move her without taking her further from her mother. so she is stuck waiting. but sometimes the jungle throws back a moment of life. and this day it's luven's turn, the little boy with the terrible cough and fever we met earlier has made a miraculous recovery overnight as if another life has been breathed into him.

sometimes the forest suddenly breaks, and you realize just how many of us there are here. even in these shallows, the scraps of us as a species are overwhelming. ling is from wuhan, among the growing chinese here, who is doesn't want to show his face, and learned about the gap from tiktok. >> hong kong and then thailand and then turkey and then ecuador and then colombia. many chinese come here because the chinese society is not very good for living. >> reporter: he's paused to rest his knee but also run out of

food already. talk on their third dawn out here turns to how much further there really is. jean pierre was told it would be a much shorter walk. ana, the disabled 12-year-old, has been reunited with her

mother. but they're again stuck and without food. she says they're only here as that same medicine became unaffordable in venezuela. just after dawn, they set out again. the canopy begins to feel like a shroud, entombing them, cutting them off from the future they push towards. nature's most beguiling way of saying, don't come here.

for so much of every day, you stare at your feet, your most vital asset here. hoping they'll land safely, especially in the opaque river where one loose footing could break an ankle. most migrants wear these rubber boots which fill with water curdling your feet. but manuel and tamara who we met on the first night have their eyes on the finish. this route is littered with obstacles, choke points, and lines. hours on their feet without the comfort of knowing you're at least moving, forever damp, striding, waiting. what's crazy is over the last hour we probably haven't traveled directly about a hundred yards. but this is just one enormous traffic jam of people through

the jungle. the sad fact is the more of them that do it, the more they slow each other down of bottlenecks like this, and the greater risk they put themselves at. time and time again, though, this ordeal summons something beautiful from people that mirrors nature here. a glue binding them to each other to help care sometimes for strangers of survival, survival together. it's the best of us, it doesn't care what passport you're carrying. but it cannot alter the pain.

it seemed almost impossible in the chaos two days ago.

but wilson has met up again with his parents. not in a miami swimming pool, though, just yet. exhaustion now decides everything. this camp, at first a handful of people, and then suddenly overflowing. he admits they're out of food. they gave it all away earlier, thinking this was a two-day hike. more urgently, she needs to soothe her mother, who's gripped her stick too hard to stay upright. her gloves no help. the pristine unbothered green hides a dark violent change that's been afoot here for years. these people have become the new

weight, the new traffic. the cartels move less drugs along these routes these days, we're told. these human packages pay to move themselves. nobody steals them, there are few arrests to be made, nothing to raid out here. and all the risks are taken by the packages themselves.

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each dawn is a little more desperate, especially day four. water, the stuff of life, can save but also poison. we use state-of-the-art filters on river water to keep healthy. but it's hard enough for us with all of this expensive gear to filter water and things. you wake up here and there are people burning the forest to live off it, drinking straight from the stream, eating, maybe the last crackers that they brought with them thinking that the journey was just a matter of a couple of days. it's really quite depressing. the fight to live here is not just against nature. this tent, we are told, was used

by thieves where they spent the night between picking their targets. it is a short walk from this, a major crossroads close to the end of the walk where migrants camp and key rivers meet. those who at times seemed unlikely to make it are pushing on. fueled by hearing the boats taking them to safety inside panama are a matter of hours away. even salvaging her stick from the water. yet, this is where stories of survival now merge with a darker past of death and violence, where our path still relatively new and clean used for only 12 days by the cartel meets a much older one. occasionally, people still emerge from this route, but it's mostly walked by the ghosts of those before. their clothes and plastic caught in the trees from when the rains took the rivers higher. now it is flat, silent, and

speaks of decay. the bodies here have traces of a past, but there's no burial, no name, no memory. no matter how busy it evidently got, people were left behind. fragments of lives abandoned or childhoods interrupted are cast aside. moments almost frozen in time. and the sound of the river giant yet calm, echoing. the people who pass us say they set out in a group of 400 from colombia. but something has changed. locals tell us the cartel is fracturing, and now this old route competes with the new to be the safest and fastest. it's clearly losing. this is likely a crime scene.

there are three bodies here in similar decay. little is certain, but it is unlikely they died of natural causes in the same place at about the same time. the first, that of a man lying facedown amid the routes on the pathway. the second is a woman on her back in the tent. the third body has a rope near her neck. she was found three weeks ago with her bra around her head, according to photographs. panamanian authorities were told about this three weeks earlier, but there is no indication they have been here. people just walk by, pass the cautionary tale nobody is heeding. it's just a reminder of the sickening violence that potentially faces migrants here every day. >> reporter: vultures float above. the bones will likely soon be picked clean.

the old route we are told by one survivor who didn't want to be identified is now preyed on by armed men in ski masks. it is his second bid to reach new jersey where his brother lives. on the first trip, masked men raped women in his group, he says. on this trip, they demanded $100 from each of them just days earlier. how do these men look? what were they wearing, what were they carrying? and what happens if you don't pay? that night, the tents are

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♪ this is the last leg, the last gasp, day five. like so much of the journey, the next step, the boats are just hours away. but is it two or seven? and it sometimes does feel like the whole world is on the move just here. i meet mohamed, a lebanese man who it turns outlived not far from me years ago when i lived in beirut. he's tried twice to get a u.s. visa to see his american wife in san antonio, and his children, who he says he's not seen for five years. >> if i want to die on the

street, i want to come, i don't care. i want to see my family. it's not easy. maybe you die on the street. >> reporter: but more often than you expect, that does not happen because of crowds like this. daniel from venezuela started walking ten days ago and has injured his ankle.

time and again, something pure shines . they've met minutes earlier, but are now unified in saving a stranger. carrying him through the rocks puts them at risk of injury, too.

truly, nobody seems to have been left behind. the disabled girl ana, who we last saw with her mother in a camp by the river, has also found help. his real name is sanchez, age 27 from a venezuelan/colombian border town. he's been carrying her for a day. there is something particularly awful about these last miles.

the sun is mercilessly hot. the river and the boats ahead are so much further than they would be when the river is higher. people drop from the heat. these last moments of the walk just strikes you how incredibly tough all these people are, and the sheer grit that they're showing to get this far. but also how incredibly unpleasant the places they must be fleeing from are to make them endure this kind of torture, to some degree, over many days. finally, through the haze of the parched rocks, they see it, and leaving the trek is yet another ordeal, another cost. a line again this time for $20 a head to pack into these boats. at least $300 is made on each boat. six boats always loading from dawn till 4:00 p.m. that's, again, a lot of money.

but also too many customers. there is a fight, someone cutting in line. this may be a medical rescue helicopter. that is the first that we've seen of the panamanian government since we've arrived. the boats barely float. like so much especially, the risk is relative about what you have gone through before. the jungle trek is 66 miles only. they have 3,000 more ahead to the u.s. border with mexico. ♪

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♪ ♪ a simple pause from pain they had hoped for, they are not going to get it. the same problems somehow emerge on the water. too many passengers to maximize

profit weighs the boat down in the low waters of dry season. they can only move when some get out. they barely notice the human skull sat on a log here. a pregnant woman gets a ride with us. her son also does what he can to help us keep afloat. panama's government isn't even using a spoon to try and lessen the flow of humanity to here. they just whisk them through, increasingly overwhelmed by the numbers. we dock in the first reception point in panama. they are then moved to the next stop, the camps. the panamanian authorities were keen to show us two facilities but declined to be interviewed for the report. the first was this. clean, new, with plumbing and power. but then they also took us here, to the gruesome limbo.

the wait in this camp is for the buses to neighboring costa rica. each seat costing $40. we are shown the showers, barely standing as they are. there's no drainage. all the water from the shower just runs out on the land back here. come see this. it's particularly disgusting. it's the washing area. it has human feces. there's no water coming out of the taps. we meet manuel and his wife, struling .

this is where dirt and their earlier exhaustion, perhaps, catch them .

some have started working here as cleaners to earn a seat on the bus. he has been here 15 days .

if you don't have money, you don't move. there are few tidy endings to these stories. many don't want to be found and end up surviving in servitude to a trafficking machine bigger and richer than they. we lost contact with many. we don't know if wilson made it to a miami swimming pool. it's sadly fitting their stories will soon be replaced with those of others, also enduriing agony even deportation. a cycle filled with new souls,