Moments: His GPS Broke Deep In the Zambezi

And how did you map the route out? Were you using GPS or anything like that?

I did have a GPS.

Most of the time I had just a big roadmap of Zambia and Mozambique and whatnot.

And I basically give myself like a weekly target.

Maybe I'll get from...

this town to that town within a week or that was an estimate.

I mean, it was very rare.

I couldn't get any defined maps that had, there was some old Russian maps I had a look at, but I would have had to carry Too many, you know, and I've had to carry so many maps if I wanted to get fine maps.

So I had a roadmap and I had a rough idea about getting from this point to that point.

And basically because there's a river, I followed the river and sort of had a rough idea what might be in between that point and that point.

I did have a GPS.

It didn't really serve much purpose.

It was a, I can't remember the name, E-TREX, Carmen E-TREX or something.

It didn't really serve much of a purpose.

It ended up breaking in the heat.

A lot of the things I had broke in the heat and basically by the end of the walk or even within a few weeks of the walk, I was relying on local people to sort of guide the way or show me the way or point out the way.

And that would be a daily process.

You know, like I say, the weekly process would be getting the map out, Saying, all right, I need to get to this point, to this point.

There's obviously several towns and cities on the river.

So if I've got a rough idea, I'm going to follow the river.

It's going to be a national park.

There might be, you know, some lodges there.

It might just be completely jungle.

It might be... very barren there might be some floods and I had a rough idea each time I looked at the map and I'd get out more than that you know I'd get out every day and have a look just for the sake of it but it was basically the rough idea on a map and I'd basically wing it in a way I suppose of getting from point A to point B several times obviously over space of 137 days but