Every morning I wake with the sun – this is just before seven in Brazil. I click my stiff neck from side to side and reach for my malaria tablets. These get swigged down with iodinated water that is hanging in a bottle above my head. As we are usually in the middle of no-where [...]

July 23 (Bloomberg) — Nike Inc., the largest athletic shoemaker, will boycott leather from Brazil’s Amazon region after the environmental group Greenpeace said cattle-rearing was helping destroy the world’s biggest tropical rainforest. The Beaverton, Oregon-based sportswear company issued an “Amazon Leather Policy” and said late yesterday it will insist suppliers are able to trace the [...]

We’re better, much better, Cho and I, and have had some solid days walking. Nothing fingered as the particular culprit for our former lassitude, we just walked some shorter days, ate as much as we could, and tried to relax into the walking. The final comment in my last blog about the lady who asked [...]

Taking Sam out gave Cho and I a break. So why is it that we are weaker than we have ever been? It’s a serious question that we don’t have an answer for. Cho, being South American and therefore not expressing his weaknesses as readily as me, has also admitted he doesn’t know what is [...]

Sam flew out on Tuesday and should be back at home by now. Cho and I are readjusting to the changed dynamics of being two again. I’ve started translating some twitters from Cho and allowing his thoughts to be heard. Cho and I accompanied Sam out of the jungle – partly to see him off [...]

Emily was the anthropologist living with the Ashaninkas on the River Ene who I met when I was walking through Peru. She has just sent me this sad news… Hi Ed, In December the CARE, the organisation the oversees the Ashaninkas, discovered that the Peruvian national and regional governments, along with the Brazilian govt, have [...]

I’m sitting in the leaf litter on the jungle floor with a laptop and a satellite phone pointing through a clearing in the canopy. Its early morning its going to be a hot day, we have 12km to walk today which means around 16km in actuality. A few moments ago I was just checking my [...]