A hike up an active volcano in Papua New Guinea exposes a sinister mystery. The hike up Mount Tavurvur began in the coolness of dawn, but the heat soon became …
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Andrew Benc
Andrew Benc
Andrew Benc is an English doctor who decided that life as a conventional medic in the National Health Service was not for him. On a whim, he went off to work in Jamaica and quickly found that working and living in a foreign country was a lot more interesting and fun than it was at home. Having set off, planning to travel for just a couple of years, he got hooked, and three decades and several continents later, he was still sleeping under mosquito nets and pleading with local taxi drivers to slow down.
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An extra passenger arrives during a flight over the Gabonese jungle. We took off with just me, the woman in labor, and the pilot in the small, hot, noisy helicopter. …