Ten days ago my machete snapped clean in half trying to cut through a fallen tree trunk on a jungle trail. The week before, Paddy broke two others. He bent the blade of the first one chopping through some branches on the logging track which were blocking the car. He […]
Exactly one month into a three-month long expedition in Borneo and we’ve still not started our fieldwork. And it’s all down to a collapsed bridge and an abandoned road. The moment we landed into Lahad Datu town, our final stopover before reaching the world-famous jungles of Danum Valley, our local […]