Wildlife and wild times in Langkawi, Malaysia

I have an aversion to risk: mentioning politics at a dinner party is as about brave as I’ll usually go. So when I found myself standing 50 metres up on a platform in a rainforest tree, with no steps or ladder, and was told to jump down to earth in what was described as ‘controlled free fall’, I was a tad nervous.

However, sliding down the vertical ziplin…