His journey was featured in the National Geographic Society's 2006 award-winning documentary, God Grew Tired of Us (executive produced by Brad Pitt and narrated by Nicole Kidman).
Escaping to the jungle, Bior, along with the other Lost Boys, spent the next five years trekking more than 1,000 miles barefoot throughout Kenya and Ethiopia, seeking refuge from the genocide, disease, and starvation.
[1] In an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Panther described the hellish journey, "We were told to run east, through the desert, to Ethiopia," he says.
Panther went on to describe how his best friend had been killed by a lion and his young nephew did not survive the journey because his feet were torn up by the miles of walking, "We had to leave him in the desert," Bior says.
In 2001, assisted by Catholic Charities, Panther was relocated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania along with a number of other Lost Boys to start a new life in the United States.
As featured in the "Take Action" section of God Grew Tired of Us, Bior is intent upon building a school in his home village of Mareng.