There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

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?

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

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