Charlie, Author at Adventure Kokoda Blog

Kokoda Trail still a testing ground

Posted by Charlie | Oct 17, 2009 | NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, OUR MEDIA | 0

Despite the deaths Australians are drawn to take the challenge, writes Erik Jensen from the Sydney...

Consultants Killing Kokoda

Posted by Charlie | Oct 8, 2009 | KOKODA INITIATIVE, KOKODA TRACK AUTHORITY, NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, OUR MEDIA, OUR VIEWPOINT | 0

Kokoda has claimed more Australian lives this year than Afghanistan!During the last week two trekkers died on the Kokoda Trail, a couple more were evacuated by helicopter and fourteen went down with food poisoning. ...

EXCRUCIATING, gruelling, torturous, gut-wrenching

Posted by Charlie | Aug 26, 2009 | NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, OUR MEDIA | 0

by Sally McMillan – The Sunday Telegraph Sally McMillan from the Sunday Telegraph reports ‘Trekking the Kokoda Trail is all of the above – and more’.The cloying jungle seeps into you, radiating waves of...

The Kokoda Trail Villager

Posted by Charlie | May 18, 2009 | KOKODA INITIATIVE, KOKODA TRACK AUTHORITY, KOKODA TRAIL VILLAGERS, OUR VIEWPOINT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA | 13

First impressions of Koiari and Orokaiva villages along the Kokoda Trail give little hint of the complex relationships that exist within. The simple life of building, gardening, cooking, nurturing, teaching and healing is underpinned by the complexities of clan relationships and the influence of missionary pastors, traditional lululais’ and sorcerers.