On Monday's May 26 episode of the "Bachelorette" viewers watched as the late Eric Hill landed the first one-on-one date with Andi Dorfman. During their time together, Hill opened up about traveling around the world, E! News reports.
Hill died last month following a paragliding accident in Utah. At the time of his death, he had already been eliminated from the dating show. During the episode, Hill told the Atlanta native that he fell in love with traveling after hearing about his father's hiking trips. Hill documented his journeys around the world on a blog called The Global Odyssey.
On the show, he told Dorfman about a particularly scary incident in Syria.
"Syria ended up being the scariest moment of my life hands down. My mouth always gets dry when I tell this story. Syria is by far the craziest war zone that we've ever been in," Hill said. "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. 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."
Hill went on to say that he and his group was found by two militants when they stopped for food. The militants were carrying grenades and rifles.
"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 told Dorfman. "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."
Luckily, the leader of the group asked to see Hill's camera and wanted to know why he was there.
"I said I'm trying to show that no matter what happens to the Syrians here nothing can take away their happiness," he said.
The leader gave the camera back but told Hill and his group they needed to leave and go back to Turkey.
"So Syria is not a place I would take you," Hill added.
