"I'm the world's authority on rainbows," he told CNN in 2015He was a lifelong nature loverVasquez thrived in the California wilderness. "When you live alone like this, you connect to nature on a deeper level," he told CNN nearly five years ago. CNN caught up with Vasquez in 2015 , five years after the viral success of his double rainbow clip. The channel is a living record of his life, he told CNN in 2015. Paul Vasquez kept viewers up-to-date on his life in the mountains on YouTube up until his death.

Source: CNN May 11, 2020 15:33 UTC