Expedition 5 are underway with their world record breaking attempt.
You can keep up to-date here with all events as they happen with Anthony and Louis as they traverse five of the world’s most challenging island environments.
29th December, 2016: Job Done
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 […]
Christmas Day: Down the Sungi we go!
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 […]
21 Dec, 2016 – Alone in the Jungle . . .
Alone in the jungle, our morale at its lowest ebb since we embarked on our journey we were faced with a brutal choice. Crack on into one of the last unexplored corners of the planet, […]
18 Dec, 2016 – A bridge too far . . .
After a fair well coffee with the legend Misrandi and his team it was once again back to the Ex5 duo. We had our sights firmly set on getting to Timbanganio. A place that had […]
01 Dec, 2016 – Through the back way . . .
Blog entry number 4.
Date: 1st December 2016.
Through the back way….
A while had passed since we last had the opportunity to send back a blog, and the adventure is well and truly underway!
We have been following […]
23 Nov, 2016 – Location: Muarahlawa > Sore feet . . . and the first white faces!
Location: Muarahlawa
Its been seven days since we started this expedition, after leaving behind the large built up areas on the east coast it immediately became apparent that the mapping we have is both out […]