“Since that day I have often wondered exactly what it was I felt as I stared at the wild country that so soon I should be roaming. Vanne admitted afterward to have been secretly horrified by the steepness of the slopes and the impenetrable appearance of the valley forests. And David Anstey told me several months later that he had guessed I would be packed up and gone within six weeks. I remember feeling neither excitement nor trepidation but only a curious sense of detachment. What had I, the girl standing on the government launch in her jeans, to do with the girl who in a few days would be searching those very mountains for wild chimpanzees? Yet by the time I went to sleep that night the transformation had taken place.”