It's interesting how we can talk on such a specific subject me writing from Italy and you answering from (I guess) Australia. I get your point of view, but as an old school mountaineer I have my personal one. In my opinion self-sufficiency is one of the most important things of any adventure; of course "not get in trouble" is the first rule. In my…[Read more]

Thank you very much for the answer. So it seems that is probably more difficult than I thought. Just to make an approximative statistic, how many people (percentage out of all the trekkers) do the kokoda whitout a guide nor porter? In your kokoda experience did you encounter any one without guides nor porters?Just one thing I did not understand…[Read more]