It’s perhaps inevitable that when your age no longer appears as an option on a Series II speedometer, you begin to cast your mind back and review some of the adventures you have had. For Philip James Russell, 80 used to be a downhill and with a wind behind you point that was still a […]
Secret escape! The adventure began in Germany and extended through Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and Turkey before arriving in Georgia. We were travelling in our 2003 Mercedes-Benz G Wagen and the passengers comprised my wife, Kristin, our children, Julius and Luisa, our dog, Zeus, and myself, Benyamin, behind the wheel. For years, […]
After two years of preparation, we left the French Alps on April 18th, 2022, to start our “Next Meridian Expedition.” We, Mathilde and Nick, both 28 years old, left everything behind to travel the world in our 2012 Land Rover Defender 110 TD4 nicknamed Albatross. We moved full-time into our vehicle for a three-year journey […]
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It was during the four years from 1999 to 2003 that Tanja and Denis Katzer were caught in the spotlight on the adventurer and explorer stage, when they embarked upon their world record walk across Australia. A 7,000 km trek from South to North; West to East. Tanja and Denis filmed their caravan of camels […]
November was knocking at the door but it wasn’t the weather alone that motivated my friends and I to start planning our next tour to Africa—it had been 10 months since we were last there. It was raining outside as we drank Kölsch, the local beer, in a Cologne bar and channelled our thoughts toward […]
The 1955/56 Oxford & Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition—a milestone in overlanding history as inspirational today as it was 60 years ago. We scroll back to 1955, Tim Slessor was one of a six-man team who pioneered the longest overland trip ever undertaken by a vehicle—London to Singapore. A journey that would take six months and […]
I left Liverpool, England, with no real idea of what South America was actually like—but it was certainly on my bucket list. Arriving into Santiago, the taxi journey from the airport to Los Condes was an eye opener. I was surprised at how European the city felt, how modern it was. But the snow capped […]
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