The following links provide a one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about trekking Kokoda including videos to help you plan, prepare and physically train for your pilgrimage; television programs and media articles featuring our treks; interesting historical snapshots of Papua New Guinea; our philanthropy; and some of our initiatives to assist in the development of the Kokoda Trail as a world-class pilgrimage tourism destination.

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Our links to the Kokoda Trail were inspired by the service of VX 414563, Private Keith Charles Lynn, a New Guinea infantry veteran who was evacuated with scrub typhus and malaria – a lethal cocktail that he survived against the odds in 1943.

His son, Major Charlie Lynn, also saw active service in Vietnam; was assigned to the ANZUK force in Singapore; and later as an exchange instructor in airborne logistics with the US Army. During this assignment he successfully completed the Special Forces Military Freefall (HALO) Parachute Course and notched up 200 tactical jumps from as high as 20,000 feet – on oxygen – at night!

He is also a graduate of the Army Command and Staff College.

Prior to Charlie first trek in the lead up to the 50th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign there was no management structure in place and no mechanism for landowner communities to benefit from the few trekkers who passed by each year.

Over the next decade Charlie rediscovered some of the most significant battlesites which had been bypassed and reclaimed by the jungle. During this time he mapped the original wartime trails and published a 1:50,000 topographical map – the first of its kind since the War.

He was instrumental in establishing a PNG management authority to ensure local villagers received shared benefits from the emerging pilgrimage tourism industry.

Charlie’s company, Adventure Kokoda, has led more that 700 expeditions across the Kokoda Trail over the past 33 years – his trek leaders have a combined total of 160 years professional military experience – they have no equal as expedition leaders across the Kokoda Trail.

In 2015 Charlie was proudly inducted as an Officer of the Logohu by the PNG Government in their New Years’ Honours List, and in 2018 he was inducted as a Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to the NSW Parliament ‘for service to the bilateral relations between Papua New Guinea and Australia and especially in the development of the Kokoda Trail and its honoured place in the history of both nations’ over the past 25 years.‘

In 2018 he was inducted as a Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to the NSW Parliament.

Lest We Forget