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

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

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

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

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

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.