Columbian hostages

[OwlHoot]

2004

What's the big deal with the jungle fear thing anyway, surely it's a piece of cake walking/rafting out of a wilderness teaming with food and water ...

Sorry TimberWolf, but assuming you weren't being ironic, that reply bears out Shaunbhoy's point.

The trouble is jungles normally are anything but teaming with food, especially during the day, and what little there is needs a lot of skill to catch and knowledge of what to avoid (most plants for example).

Also, there are no hard and fast rules for finding your way out. For example, following a stream downhill may end in a huge impassable waterfall or more likely it will peter out into a dangerous and equally impenetrable swamp.

Also, yomping through the jungle you'll be losing water and salt by the bucket load, and getting scratched to ribbons.

[TimberWolf]

Sorry TimberWolf, but assuming you weren't being ironic, that reply bears out Shaunbhoy's point.

The trouble is jungles normally are anything but teaming with food, especially during the day, and what little there is needs a lot of skill to catch and knowledge of what to avoid (most plants for example).

Also, there are no hard and fast rules for finding your way out. For example, following a stream downhill may end in a huge impassable waterfall or more likely it will peter out into a dangerous and equally impenetrable swamp.

Also, yomping through the jungle you'll be losing water and salt by the bucket load, and getting scratched to ribbons.

I imagine jungles contain more food than any other environment, but with a bit of luck eating won't be a big issue. You're unlikely have been transported to the camp by air, so a trail already exists that you can backtrack down 10x faster than a bunch of people hacking their through initially while towing a bunch of winging hostages; plus being chased speeds one up a bit. You could be back in the hotel by supper. I'm not sure of the percentages involved in reaching an impenetrable swamp versus safety, but following streams and rivers is the usual advice.

[shaunbhoy]

. You're unlikely have been transported to the camp by air

No, you will have been transported to the camp by people who know where they are going, where they have been, and how to survive in a jungle environment. If you imagine that tropical jungles are warm cosy places with ripe bunches of juicy edible fruit fairly bursting to land in your hungry lap, and tender succulent deer just waiting to be slaughtered by hand, then you better hope you never get kidnapped and marooned there. You could read up on the advice about how to survive there, however that might take some time. Alternatively, just do what most sensible people on the forum do and take a contrary stance to any of the gibberish that a shiny@rsed pencil-pusher like sasguru spouts and you won't go far wrong.
He failed the medical for the Girl Guides so he is hardly made of the stuff that survives jungle ordeals. Most wouldn't back him in a 3-round bout with Posh Spice!!

[TimberWolf]

No, you will have been transported to the camp by people who know where they are going, where they have been, and how to survive in a jungle environment. If you imagine that tropical jungles are warm cosy places with ripe bunches of juicy edible fruit fairly bursting to land in your hungry lap, and tender succulent deer just waiting to be slaughtered by hand, then you better hope you never get kidnapped and marooned there. You could read up on the advice about how to survive there, however that might take some time. Alternatively, just do what most sensible people on the forum do and take a contrary stance to any of the gibberish that a shiny@rsed pencil-pusher like sasguru spouts and you won't go far wrong.
He failed the medical for the Girl Guides so he is hardly made of the stuff that survives jungle ordeals. Most wouldn't back him in a 3-round bout with Posh Spice!!

Jungles aren't the places of death that you make them out to be IMO. I wouldn't want to be carrying other people out, but on my own it would have to be an improbably impenetrable and hostile place not to get out. It might even be good fun.