Daily Blog 5 of 14… As my tweet reported in real time yesterday evening – Cho and I have been spat out of the jungle for the very last time. The day started mutely at 5am when I silently fanned the fire embers into life and boiled rice in the dark. As the gloom lifted [...]

Daily Blog 4 of 14… As we washed tonight in the brown sediment-laden river that was flowing inland with the rising tide, Cho mentioned we were still on “Kristina routine”. I laughed. Kristina, a journalist who left us three days ago, had been saved the horrors of bathing with two naked men – and Cho [...]

Daily Blog 3 of 14… Surreal doesn’t begin to describe the bizarre juxtaposition between crashing through the undergrowth in a concerted effort to make good ground and then doing a streamed video call with Cho to CNN in Atlanta. Of course its a comedy of errors behind the scenes. Finding a hole in the canopy [...]

Daily Blog 2 of 14… After initial disappointment that we’d not finished the jungle phase yesterday, Cho and I have settled into the challenge of speed walking through this green hell. There is nice rainforest – and there is nasty rainforest. We’re in the latter. It is a black sense of humour that is driving [...]

Daily Blog (1 of 14…) Well – let’s hope so anyway. My sloppy interpretation of Google Earth has left Cho and me four days short of the highway to Cameta with little food or batteries. If you look at the image below we are at “dick” (I was a bit frustrated at the time of [...]

With our anticipation building on Tuesday 27th I will start a daily blog that will run for the final fortnight. Thoughts, photos and sometimes videos of the surreal last fortnight of this mammoth adventure will be posted every day. You would have though you could just walk and arrive when you arrived wouldn’t you? But [...]

Our camera (stills and video) is broken. Replacement arriving from STV this week. Sunday was one of the worst days in two and a half years. We wanted to reach the River Jacunda – 11km from Saturday night’s camp with the dead cow in the stream. A logging track started us off in roughly in [...]

One month tomorrow we’ll be cartwheeling into the warm blue Atlantic Ocean. As long as everything continues to go to plan. More than ever before we seem to be able to ride out tough bits of jungle and maintain our humour. This far east in Brazil and I doubt any of the rainforest we walk [...]

Limiting ourselves to two days’ break in Portel was my aim this week. We needed to re-supply and administrate – but I wanted to be back in the trees quickly. I needn’t have worried – Cho and I sat restlessly in a cafe eating lunch today (day two of the rest) saying that we don’t [...]

It is being labeled as “the other oil spill”. This week the Economist published this article below about the problems surrounding palm oil production in Indonesia and Malasia… “EARLY on April 21st 2008, Greenpeace activists dressed as orang-utans stormed Unilever’s headquarters in London. Similar raids took place at the multinational’s facilities on Merseyside, in Rome [...]