Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Kokoda Track hike with his PNG counterpart James Marape gave him an appreciation of the sacrifices made by WWII soldiers.
| After seven hours of arduous walking through thick mud and rocky mountain terrain, the trekking prime ministers Anthony Albanese and James Marape arrived on Wednesday afternoon at the Isurava Memorial camping ground, concluding their historic two-day hike.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Papua New Guinean counterpart James Marape walk the Kokoda Track ahead of ANZAC Day.Mr Marape celebrated his 53rd birthday on Wednesday by stripping off his shirt and bathing in a clear running stream along the track and later with chocolate cake that had been delivered to the campsite by helicopter.
“It is almost impossible to conceive how you could engage in the kind of warfare they did in the kind of conditions they did,” he said.Mr Albanese said he could not think of a precedent where two world leaders spent as much time together as“This is such an important relationship for Australia and at times over the past 49 years it hasn’t been valued as much as it should have been,” he said.PNG Prime Minister James Marape celebrated his birthday with a post-trek swim.
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