With just a few days to go to flying into Djibouti to start the expedition, the obvious concern is will the three expedition Landies and all the kit survive the Somali pirates as they get shipped around the Horn of Africa. The fight against escalating piracy is hotting up and British Prime Minister David Cameron has agreed that all British merchant vessels sailing around the coast of Somalia are to be allowed to carry armed guards. He said he wanted to make sure that more of the perpetrators of robbery on the high seas face justice – Hold thumbs!