4 Months ago…The blinding noise of the jungle surrounded us, mocking us, fear and anxiety flooded through me as the magnitude of our situation slowly sunk in. Going through the motions we both started to set up our hammocks, hanging them of monumental, towering trees that glared down on the pair of us. We were alone, [...]
"In a day of so many journeys to the Poles and summits of Mount Everest, what these lads have undertaken in the form of Expedition5 is a truly unique world first. They will battle some of the toughest environments on earth including unexplored jungles, deserts and polar environments, with absolutely no support. To cross the five [...]
After we made it into Tayan, we decided to leave our beloved vessel in favour of yomping the final 120k/130k to avoid negotiating the tides in the Kapuas delta, that and the salt water crocodile population was dramatically increasing the farther downstream we got. By this point we had yomped through the heart of Borneo, [...]
With food in our stomachs and the jungle nightmares behind us we set about our next move. Our aim was to buy a boat and utilise the huge rivers of Western Kalimantan, the Sungai Melawi and the Sungai Kapuas that flow down to Pontianak and out to the South China Sea. We set about the [...]
