ep mountainside of the Virunga Mountains. Fossey, Sambeggar and the rest of the helpers unloaded the car and began the hours of walking necessary to reach their destination. Finally, they reached an opening in the woods where a small, worn down shack stood. They unpacked the bags of supplies and clothes and settled in. At first chance, Sambeggar and Fossey took off into the mountains in search of the gorillas. After five hours of walking, Fossey finally asked Sambeggar where he was taking them. Sambeggar told her that he was not a gorilla tracker, for he only tracked gazelle, antelope, and elephant. For six months, no gorilla had been seen by any of the men. Finally, after six months of seeing nothing, Sambeggar and Fossey found a group of gorillas nosing their ways through the thick underlay of the forest. As Fossey stares in amazement at the beautiful group of gorillas, the lead silver back spots them. He begins to charge at them. Fossey and Sambeggar retreat through the woods and escape the huge silver back. A few days passed and Fossey continued to see the gorillas. But, with the force of the civil war troops, Fossey is forced to move to the other side of the mountain range. Here, she located a different group of gorillas. She named the group, Number Four. She studied this group of gorillas for a long while, getting closer and closer to them on every visit. One day, Fossey got so close, that one of the gorillas actually came up and jumped over her. This triggered all but the huge silver back to get closer and closer to Fossey, realizing that she truly was harmless. Her basic technique was to mimic gorilla movement and instinct. The technique amazingly worked beyond belief. The first sign of poachers came one day when Fossey was taking her normal journey into the mountains and ran into numerous amounts of traps of all sorts. Fossey was furious to find the traps and destroyed every little bit of all she could find...
