Firstly a HUGE thanks to Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ Transglobe Expedition Trust who have just saved my bacon and funded us another £2,000. To Peter Bowring, Anton Bowring, Alan Britten, George Capon, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Simon Gault, Susannah Gault, Richard Jackson, Oliver Shepard, Kevin Traverse-Healy and everyone involved – thanks so much – it could not [...]

Nadia Nassif is Brazilian and translates all my blogs into Portuguese for the Brazilian section of the website. This week she wrote to me saying: `One thing that is happening here in Brazil is that people are getting very concerned about the Amazon because they are just devastating the forest to build farms. When you [...]

Arrived back in the jungle two days ago, Saturday, my feet are a lot better but not fully recovered but I knew that Ed and Cho would not be waiting long in Santa Rita. So I took the decision to take the 100-mile boat journey downstream to join them again, which turned out to be [...]

If you already know the situation, and just want to know how you can help – jump to the end. Background Between December 2007 and June 2008 Peruvian President Alan Garcia was granted special powers to pass laws relating to the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, without them having to be fully consulted. [...]

Sam’s feet caused him to take a break from the expedition on Monday and so Cho and I are walking without him at present. He wrote the following before he left: “Disappointing to say but I am having to self-evacuate, (not in the defecating sense), but from the jungle, Ed and Cho. The last week [...]

For those of you who are not following our Twitter (amazonwalkers), Sam has had some horrendous infected toes, bites and infected ears and has hired a boat to take him back to Tabatinga to recover and get some strong antibiotics inside him. All going well he should return on Friday having rested and will join [...]

As the narrow motorboat turned into the smaller Calderon tributary from the vast Solimoes (Amazon) the sudden immersion in lush green jungle gave me the same excited tingling in my stomach as if I had just kissed a girl that I’d liked for a long time. The tangled gallery forest sagged over the river’s edges, [...]

Belem do Solimoes is situated in the Evare 1 Indian Reserve in the Amazonas region of Brazil. Vilmar Luis Geraldo is the chief and he was keen to have people read about the situation in his community. The “Voice of the Amazon” project was set up to find out the perspective of the local Amazonian [...]