Carving a Camp out of Bamboo with the ESEE Expat Darien Machete

This piece is named after Central America’s southernmost tip—a no-man’s-land known as the Darien Gap. Reuben Bolieu and survival instructor Randall Collins put the blade to the test in the Georgia wilderness. Check out their handiwork.

An Overland Journey through Northern Peru

One day, you’re cruising through the 35 single-lane tunnels in Cañón del Pato (Duck Canyon). The next, you’re breathless from a high-altitude climb and searching for a way to fix a broken exhaust pipe in the bush.

Machete Review: CAS Iberia Chop House

“Generally speaking, I’m content with a 4- to 5-inch field knife when I go into the woods,” writes Tim Stetzer. “I’ll concede, though, that there are definitely some tasks that you can do faster or better with a big blade.”

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VIDEO: Joe Flowers on How To Survive the Amazon

Flowers has led bushcraft expeditions in the Amazonian forest near Leticia, which is near the borders among Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. There, you can meet people who actually make their livings doing bushcraft rather than just doing it as a hobby, he says.

Driving Mexico’s Pan-American Highway

When he set out to drive 40,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina, Dan Grec was completely unaware of 9 road hazards that would become daily occurrences for the next 18 months of his life. Here’s what happens when you pass the southernmost point of I-5.

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