Everything that I write below is observational or second-hand information that has been told me in recent days. I have no agenda regarding the political situation in this area of Peru. I just want to pass through. Oz told me he is leaving the expedition this morning. “I am sorry,” he said looking at the [...]

Steve Backshall, a good friend of mine and presenter of BBC’s upcoming “Lost Land of the Jaguar”, has just had a nasty climbing accident in the Wye Valley and broke his back in two places. I told him he should stay away from those 2 places… Amazingly Steve looks like he won’t be paralysed and [...]

This section of the Apurimac has a dirty great road running beside it. “Dirty great” here being a relative term meaning one car-width dirt track. It means the pace has picked up from a handful of kilometres each day to thirty plus which is good. The river now runs through a gentle sided valley rather [...]

It is official – we are now in the jungle. We (the team) now consisting of Oz (from Peru, 24), who has been with me since the start; Luis (Peru, 25), a local man, strong as an ox, who has been walking with us for about eight days now; and me (England, 32 and feeling [...]

Hello Luke and Ed We are doing a project on the rain forest . Have you seen a capybara or a sloth yet? Ed: I can answer for Luke and me on this one because the answer is pretty straight forward… “No!” We are just coming out of the Andes section of our expedition and [...]

On Thursday morning I was in a bit of a mardy – that’s Leicester for bad mood. I was concerned that the re-supply parcel that was coming to Lima from London was too heavy and therefore too expensive. I insisted that Luke wrote an email to Diane, his fiancé’s mother asking her to only send [...]

I am part of the Francis Holland School Geography Club. We have been studying what you are doing. My question is… What is the hardest thing about doing this wonderful thing? Ed: If I´m honest at this stage the hardest thing has been getting on well with Luke and finding our feet with each other. [...]