Peter Ashton: A legacy written in trunk, limb and leaf
Friday, July 18, 2008 - 10:35
in Earth & Climate
They were in a bind, no doubt about it.Wearing little but cotton shorts, the four men huddled on a streambank deep in the Bornean rainforest. Water dripped from their soggy clothes, making muddy pools around their feet as they assessed the situation.They were surrounded by a forest so vast that it would take three days walking just to reach the nearest house. They had no food, no shoes, not even a knife.read more