It’s 2am when Mike shakes me awake, ‘Ian, you’re up’. I roll out of the bunk and pull on a windproof and a lifejacket before climbing up into the cockpit. Mike briefs me in a hushed voice; ‘all quiet, no traffic, wind’s swung round to the south which means that we’re off course – but [...]
In front of me the river is making it’s way over a small waterfall and behind me I can hear the girls carrying on in the kitchen as they prepare lunch. I am sitting next to a 1:50,000 scale relief model of the Maliau Basin Conservation area which is to be my home environment for [...]
My meeting with Prof Ho is documented at Arkitrek under the post of his name. Another fascinating thing for me about Prof. Ho is that he was a member of the 1964 Mt Kinabalu East Expedition during which Prof. E J H Corner of Cambridge University made the third ascent of Kotal’s Route to the [...]
When I first met Prof Ho Coy Choke he was hunched over his plate clumsily shoveling rice into his mouth. He spoke in a loud abrupt tone without looking up. Once his meal was finished he straightened up, slid a pair of heavy rimmed glasses onto his nose and transferred his attention to me. I [...]
‘Ripe Hairy Red Fruit’ introduces several subjects and questions that have been cropping up over the last two years: Imbak Canyon, Maliau Basin and Danum Valley conservation areas The ‘economic value’ of rainforest conservation Forest rehabilitation and management On the Arkitrek itself we had an architectural design brief to work to but [...]
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