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The Revenant did have an advisor on set, listed deep in the credits, some chap called Mors Kochanski.

In reply to requests for photographs of the pack size, this is the pole bed from the last photograph of original post (green rectangle), the Jungle chair, and the EDC hammock next to a 1lt canteen for size comparison. EDC in the hand, with leatherman charge for reference (as i have...

Finding well designed high quality equipment that will survive the rigors of prolonged and repeated expeditionary work is not easy, finding anything manufactured in the UK is exceptionally difficult; to even entertain the idea that there exists within these shores a place where a talented...

sorry those should have been embedded not links, fixed now

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yes, a wragler's viper. Beheaded before I picked it up of course, the penan kill any found close to human habitation

how can you hate the jungle! its wonderful

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Jamri's fire pistons are now available to buy online!: http://www.sepuh-crafts.com/ Jamri has become ill in recent years which has prevented him working in his fields, but thanks to sepuh-crafts buying his firepistons he is able to continue making a living. Sepuh-crafts helps support...

Jamri's fire pistons are now available online!: http://www.sepuh-crafts.com/ Jamri has become ill in recent years which has prevented him working in his fields, but thanks to sepuh-crafts buying his firepistons he is able to continue making a living

Already gone, I do miss it though The Penan appear to admire a good display of facial hair, one of the men asked me how many years it had taken me to grow my beard and stared at me with utter disbelief when I said 3 months. Children did run in terror though!

:) I'd appreciate that, prehapes I can talk you into visiting the jungle whilst I'm there

For those that have asked about the jungle chair setup in the photo, it was sewn up for me by Mat at UKhammocks Its a very lightweight material (packs down small enough to fit easily into a trouser pocket) with a cordura lined sleeve at one end, you just need to cut suitible poles to set it up...

Sure is, looks like an interesting trip, I'll be keeping an eye on your progress with an mind meeting you there if I can

I'm still alive I've just been busy with lots of different projects and loafing about in remote places, so I've not stuck my head in here for quite a while. That would be one of the aforementioned projects, though its suffering from my complete lack of computer competence and my not...

Hi Spike sorry for the delay in replying, I've been working in Borneo Congrats on getting the niva, I have the full workshop manuals here in english if you need them will you be taking it on expedition? we drove our Samurai to Morrocco and over the atlas mountains, in rcommend it, or prehapes...

a spectacular old film of jungle bridge building on a massive scale, from the language I think this was filmed in the Congo region. http://www.wimp.com/bridgebuilding/

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Well, there is the popular African solution to not having shoes: but if its cold or your a bushcraft purist, you cant do better than the famous McPherson 'instant squirrel moccasin': as shown in John and Geri McPhersons book "Primitive Wilderness Skills, Applied and Advanced" which I...

yes exactly, hence why I'm asking if anyone coming down for the week or resides near by who knows how to fly these things and would be willing to give me the benefit of their experience (N.B. not bought off ebay, but found in a distant land)