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Journey into unknown

‘Midway along the journey of our life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood.” In 1991 Brummie Adam Nevill went camping in Wales.

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It wasn’t a success. With his mates he decided to not stay on a site but go “off-piste” into deciduous woodland. But when they got there they realised there wasn’t a there. Just trees and neck-high bracken, nowhere you could pitch a tent.