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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…