“The answer of course is,” wrote my mum, “the bigger picture.” She was commenting on my last blog referring to oil extraction from the rainforest. She’s right – but what is the “bigger picture”? The very biggest – as far as I can see – is that the Amazon is valuable and we need to [...]

A number of people have asked for further clarification of who makes up “we” at the moment. “Who is in your team Ed?” I’ve added biographies and photos of the three guides that have been walking with me for over 40 days now on the team page. That said, Alfonso and Andreas have just been [...]

Mark Barrowcliffe, the writer who’s been walking with me for the past week, flew out of Pucallpa today. It was brilliant to talk to him about English schools, sport and things that I’d almost forgotten existed. I think Mark enjoyed his time walking – apologies to him for outlining all the potential dangers immediately he [...]

It started just south of a sweaty jungle town called Bolognesi. “Pela cara!” someone shouted from the top of an over-loaded truck as we were walking down the logging track into the small town. Literally this means “He peals face” and so I assumed it was one of the many insults that people shout at [...]