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

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

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?

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

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.