“As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while;… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Moroccan traffic isn't like normal traffic. It's armed combat, a war of wills, in which only the very bravest have a chance to survive.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience. (…) I… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.” — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
