Our Spirit Blog - Kokoda Track

One of the defining features of people stepping onto Kokoda isn’t weakness or lack of fitness it’s anticipatory load. Most arrive carrying stress or anxiety about what they’re about to face. Biologically, that shows up as elevated cortisol.

The Kokoda Track is not just a walk — it is a sustained physiological and psychological stress test.

Heat. Humidity. Elevation. Continuous load. Limited recovery.

And under those conditions, electrolyte balance becomes mission-critical

Since our earliest expeditions (30 years ago), we have quietly and consistently tracked participants before, during, and after their Kokoda experience.

Over more than 30 years on the Kokoda Track, and drawing on our formal qualifications as Exercise Physiologists, we have closely observed the physical, psychological, and metabolic demands placed on trekkers on the kokoda track

There are moments in life that stop you cold, moments so heavy that breathing feels like a betrayal to the one you’ve lost.

For one man, that moment came when his son took his own life.