If you’re off on a short trip, chances are you won’t need to wash your clothes en route, but when I’ve been trekking for weeks, my belongings start smelling a little ripe. Once, I took a full bar of ...

View of a Cook Islander woman sitting cross-legged at the edge of a river, beating clothes on a rock. She is wearing a floral sarong skirt, white shirt and straw boater hat. Gravel lines the river, ...