Through the desert, the rainforest and the opium plantations in the footsteps of a forgotten tropical explorer

Morten Strøksnes wanted to show the world as it is and as it was. It took him 20 years. He calls the result “a life’s work”.

Running through the drug cartel’s marijuana plantations and opium fields. Heavy-legged through arid deserts and impassable mountain massifs. Through a dark and unforgiving jungle.

– I wanted to show the richness of the world and the endangered diversity of the world. Both culturally and naturally. I wanted to show what a wild and wonderful world we had, and in part we still have, says author and journalist Morten Strøksnes.