The company which had suffered the attack has gone out of business. The camps have 24-hour armed guard and the situation in Central Africa has eased somewhat. However, so intense is the experience of being in the middle of the Ugandan jungle that frankly all thoughts of guerillas were subsumed by thoughts of the big hairy version. But you have a 90 per cent chance of seeing gorillas,' said Gadi, our guide. We were escorted by three rangers and two rifle-toting members of the Uganda People's Defence Force.
Gorillas move quickly around the jungle, but our trackers had no compasses, no maps, and no paths.
And we had to follow them. First we had to get into the jungle, which meant climbing about 2,000 feet for two hours up a vertical path in the boiling heat. Fine for the trackers. Fine for the Disney director, a rangy individual who clearly used the corporate gym on a maniacally regular basis. Not so fine for the British journalists.