Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.

There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information.

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth.

The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates.