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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Nasty Monkey Bites! Sneezing At Tigers! Stiff Upper Lips! (Crikey!)

Profile of old-school explorer John Blashford-Snell.

. . . a few old-school explorers are still hacking their way through the brush, square-jawed envoys to the secret world - and Colonel John Blashford-Snell is the most vividly drawn of the lot. He is quite possibly the only expeditioner who has his gear tailored on Savile Row. Or to have hauled an 800-pound grand piano 350 miles through punishing jungle deep in Guyana as a publicity stunt to raise relief aid for the flood-beleaguered Wai-Wai village.

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