THE LAST BATCH OF PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE INDIAN EXPEDITION... FOR NOW

Shireng R Marak, a two-thumbed village elder,

who heard the mande-barung's cry and was chased into a cave by it.

A swarm of yellow butterflies near the jungle stream at Imangri


A simulacrum of a huge footprint in limestone near a stream some miles from Imangri,
not to be confused with the real thing.

A dead white-lipped tree viper we found in the jungle.

Jon fishing for a Tarantula in a hole in the wall outside our lodge.

JONATHAN MCGOWAN WRITES...

We asked Jonathan McGowan why he was so keen to go to India on the forthcoming expedition.

Apart from a life-long ambition to visit that particular part of the world, I have always had the ambition to hunt for evidence of the large human like apes of the wilderness areas, whether they are Hominids, or Gigantopithecus or something else, and if they exist, that would not only be fantastic it would mean that the animal is possibly the most adaptable animal on earth being able survive from our possible ancestry to the present day. If any of us conjures up scientific evidence then that would be a prelude to maybe science's most challenging project.

My hope is that in one way or another the team will find evidence enough to put the CFZ on the map of utter scientific respect.