FT266

After the Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) team’s 2008 adventures in the Caucasus Mountains in search of the Almasty (see FT246:46–52) it was time to plan our next cryptozoological expedition.

Team leader Adam Davis – as far as I know the only man in Britain with more cryptid hunts under his belt than me, and second to none as a field researcher – was in favour of a return to Sumatra to continue the search for the orang-pendek, the upright walking ape whose name means ‘short man’ in Indonesian. I’d searched for this elusive creature twice before (see 'In Search of Orang-Pendek' and 'The Orang-Pendek'), and Adam no less than four times, so between us we knew the territory as well as any Westerner could hope to.