In reply to UKC/UKH Gear:
> Along with their local support team, the core crew of Leo Houlding, Anna Taylor, Waldo Etherington, Wilson Cutbirth, Matt Pycroft and Dan Howard have completed almost 100km of "jungle bashing" in a little over a week and are now established at basecamp . ..
> At one stage during that day, they set down their packs and left the trail to find the parachute loads. Four of the Amerindian locals on the team have spent over 20 days in the jungle cutting the trail.
That kind of thing seems like a complete throwback to the old-fashioned colonial idea of Magnificent Expeditioning: send the locals out to do the hard graft, with the plucky old Brits then bringing up the rear for the glory.
It would be more interesting if the team itself (or should I say, the 'core crew') had done the lot.
Post edited at 13:29