"Our guides, Javier and Stalin, are clearing a path on the Shiripuno River for our 40-foot (12-meter) canoe—loaded with two weeks' worth of provisions and weighing nearly two tons—to go through.
"You can't make any progress going up or down the river without cutting through the capirona logs with a chain saw and sinking them. Over the course of four days we must have gone through this process 50 times."
—Contributing Editor Jim Thornton
