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Benjamin King

Day 44 — No Good Deed (Extra post)

The gunshot rang out, echoing across the rainforest’s canopy. Streaks of colour exploded across the early evening sky as parrots, and…

Feb 24, 2023

Day 44 — No Good Deed (Extra post)

Feb 24, 2023

Benjamin King

Day 43 — The Curse of the Good Samaritan Pt 1

There was no Hollywood-style explosion, no mushroom cloud of flame, no thunderous boom of igniting fuel tanks. Yet there was something…

Feb 23, 2023

Day 43 — The Curse of the Good Samaritan Pt 1

Feb 23, 2023

Benjamin King

Day 36: Wonderful Things

The explosion of dust and dirt dies down. “We’re through!” somebody calls out. I stand back, surrounded by equally dirt-smeared and…

Feb 16, 2023

Day 36: Wonderful Things

Feb 16, 2023

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Day 29: Footsteps in the Dark

I am frozen in a moment. Seized by dread. I hold my breath. I will my very heartbeat to cease and relieve the deafening pounding in my…

Feb 9, 2023

Day 29: Footsteps in the Dark

Feb 9, 2023

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Day 22: Into the Underworld

The darkness is suffocating. Thick. Oozing. Like a living entity clamping down around me, squeezing the air from my lungs. It is everywhere…

Feb 2, 2023

Day 22: Into the Underworld

Feb 2, 2023

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Day 21: Decoding the Underworld

The sweltering heat drops to an odd, unexpected chill. The relentless sun fades into shadow. The craziness of basecamp slows to an eerie…

Feb 1, 2023

Day 21: Decoding the Underworld

Feb 1, 2023

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Day 20: Down to Work

An endless ocean of green stretches before me, broken only by the snaking meanders of the Orinoco’s tributaries, including the so-called…

Jan 31, 2023

Day 20: Down to Work

Jan 31, 2023

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Day 19: The Final Flight

The Huey swings low over the treetops, its downdraft blasting at the canopy of the Amazon rainforest. Sprawling for thousands of miles in…

Jan 30, 2023

Day 19: The Final Flight

Jan 30, 2023

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Day 18: The Devil’s Blood

Red mist plumes above the frothing cauldron as gallons of blood spew over the cliffs. The churning morass at the base of the cascade is…

Jan 29, 2023

Day 18: The Devil’s Blood

Jan 29, 2023

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Day 17: Between Heaven and Hell

A voice rasps in the dark. A low whisper, its words barely discernible, lost beneath the grinding of bones and the wailing screams of the…

Jan 28, 2023

Day 17: Between Heaven and Hell

Jan 28, 2023

Benjamin King

Benjamin King

I am an archaeologist working on the Sarisariñama Expedition on a table mountain in Venezuela, one of the most remote places on earth.

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