Sometimes you manage to take a photograph just when something goes wrong. This time we missed it, but this Scout's face says it all after recovering from his near fall on the monkey bridge we built at Thriftwood.

A Scout from the 21st Medway takes his first tentative steps across a monkey bridge the Scouts built at Thriftwood Scout Campsite near Brentwood in Essex.

One of our Scouts attempts to clamber onto the monkey bridge we built during Summer Camp 2006.

This is a photograph of one of our Scouts carefully crossing a monkey bridge the Scouts built using their pioneering skills during Summer Camp 2006 at Thriftwood Scout Campsite.

One of our Scouts crosses the monkey bridge we built during Summer Camp 2006 at Thriftwood Scout Campsite in Essex.

One of our Scouts hanging upside down from the monkey bridge that he and his fellow Scouts have just built at Thriftwood.

Members of the 21st Medway Scout Troop take a moment for a photograph with the monkey bridge they've just constructed at Thriftwood Scout Campsite.

One of our Scouts boldly goes... The second, slightly larger, Scout tests the monkey bridge they've just built at Thriftwood Scout Campsite.

Okay, our Scouts have built a monkey bridge, but now it needs testing. Out of all the willing volunteers we thought it best to pick the smallest!

If you want to play on a Monkey Bridge, you've got to build it first! Two of our Scouts take up the pioneering challenge joing large poles togther with ropes using square, diagonal and sheer lashings and clove hitches.