Q: After your stay with the Kombai you said that you acclimatised in around two weeks. How was it this time around?

Olly: Well I think it took me a little longer this time. Having lost 20kgs in the last trip, my preparations for this trip involved eating a lot of food and drinking a lot of beer – trying to put on as much weight as I could knowing it wouldn’t take long for the jungle slim-fast diet to kick in. So I suffered in the first few weeks perhaps more than I should have.

(Just for the record, I can categorically say that this is without doubt exactly the wrong thing to do when preparing for a journey involving such physical hardships and endurance – experts (Mark) tells me that getting fit is a better approach).

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