The Bachelor Nick Cummins’ new jungle adventure

BACHELOR star and former Wallaby Nick ‘Honey Badger’ Cummins is heading for a different jungle after contending with 30 bachelorettes to take on an eight-day trek along the Kokoda Trail deep in the Papua New Guinea jungle.

Nick Cummins and James Brodie at Manly Oval ahead of their Kokoda Track walk.

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HE SURVIVED TV’s The Bachelor and now former Wallaby Nick Cummins is preparing to enter another jungle.

With the show still screening and reaching its climax, “The Honey Badger” and fellow Manly resident James Brodie are flying out on Monday morning to walk the Kokoda Track as part of a charity fundraiser.

Nick Cummins and fellow Bachelor contestant Cassandra Wood. Picture: Supplied

“We originally just wanted to do it but we thought we could help some other people,” said Brodie, owner of J-Train Athletic Performance at Brookvale.

“So we partnered with a charity called Grass Skirts Project, which empowers women and helps them with domestic violence issues in Papua New Guinea through sport.

“We’ll be on the track for eight days.”

Cummins and Brodie have already dispatched a container to PNG full of sporting equipment, shoes and clothes, which have been distributed to villages.

The big-hearted pair have also helped set up a gym in Hanuabada, a coastal village on the outskirts of Port Moresby, which they will visit on the last day of their trip.

A hiker leaves Nauro village along the Kokoda Trail. Picture: Getty

This is the second time Brodie, the Manly Marlins strength and conditioning guru, has walked the track.

But his build-up for this challenge has been very limited.

“I’ve done one practise walk of about two hours and that’s it,” he said. “And I think Nick is just as under-prepared as I am.”

Nick Cummins and James Brodie will be tackling the Kokoda Track.

But he said Cummins’ time on The Bachelor would be a boost.

“I think it absolutely helped his mental state and built his mental toughness to deal with all sorts of things,” Brodie said.

“If he can deal with 30 women I’m pretty sure walking through the jungle for eight days is going to be a walk in the park.”