Between the clouds was a daunting vista of compact jungle that seemed to be endless, smothering mountains and valleys in every direction. Conversation in the small aircraft had stilled within half an hour of take-off. It was too much effort above the noise of the groaning twin engines and the four passengers were left with their thoughts. ‘Broccoli,’ thought Venti at last. The cameraman had been struggling for ten minutes to find a word to describe the jungle canopy spreading as far as he could see. ‘Yeah, that’s it, as tightly packed as a head of fresh broccoli. If we go down we won’t be found for a hundred years.’ Similar thoughts flashed through the minds of two of the others, but not Sir Gavin Rutherford, BSc, University of Bristol, academic turned television celebrity. He leaned back, smoothed his silver moustache and closed his eyes, relaxed and confident. Edwina, the producer, distracted herself by flipping through a tattered magazine. In the two years she’d been travelling with the Planet Earth team she’d been through some hair-raising journeys to reach locations from the Mojave Desert to the Galapagos Islands, from the Indian subcontinent to the Surrey countryside.
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