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  • Carts for Desert Expeditions

    Carts for Desert Expeditions

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    This is a brief guide to desert carts: wheeled trailers that you can fill with supplies and drag across a desert. Cars, camels and carts I like to think that there are three options for hauling large volumes of supplies across a deserts: cars, camels and carts. Vehicles are used frequently in deserts and camels,…

  • Two Teenagers Cross Stradbroke Island

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    From the hundreds of applications we received for our expedition grant last year, perhaps my favourite came from George Kefford. His idea was wonderfully simple: take a boat to a desert island off the coast of Australia and then walk across it. Apparently it’s the second largest sand island in the world and, apparently, no…

  • Proof That Anyone Can Cross a Desert

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    I started this blog six years ago to encourage people to go on adventures and help them where I can. People email me questions all the time. I write back to every single one but many never even reply to say thanks. So it was supremely gratifying to receive an email the other day from…

  • The Kit You Need to Cross a Desert (without breaking the bank)

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    I looked down at my smart phone then ahead at the dirt track illuminated by the headlights of our Mazda. ‘It should be on our left any time now’, I reported to Laura at the steering wheel. It was late Wednesday night in Oman and we were driving through a tiny village in the dark,…

  • New eBooks Launched

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    I’m very pleased to announce that I have launched a series of new ebooks today including: How To Cross A Desert How To Cycle Around The World How To Climb An Unclimbed Mountain How To Get To The North Pole [one_half] [/one_half] [one_half_last] [/one_half_last] They are based on chapters from my paperback ‘How to Get…

  • Why we love the desert

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    We both have a deep and abiding love of desert regions. There’s something about the harshness, the solitude, the quiet and the feeling of being in an endless, timeless land. They seem empty, until you realise the life scurrying about you, like you, fighting to survive. We’ve walked across deserts in Oman and Patagonia and…

  • God Bless America

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    No more family. No more familiar faces presenting us with plates of delicious food. No more spending our days on a couch, in a car or by the pool. No more bed, no more mattress. No more anyone. It was back to how it had been for so long. Just the two of us. Two…

  • List of the World’s Largest Deserts

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    Can’t decide what to do for your next expedition? Here’s a list of the eight largest desert’s on the planet taken from The Economist’s excellent World in Figures. What are the largest deserts? Sahara Desert* – Northern Africa – 8,600km² Arabian Desert – South-western Asia – 2,300km² Gobi Desert – Mongolia & China – 1,166km²…

  • Everything you ever needed to know about desert expeditions

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    Just a quick blog to draw attention to my newly published Desert Expedition Resources. I’ve collected all of the articles I’ve written about desert expeditions which cover, amongst other things: the definition of what actually constitutes a desert, daily water rations of famous desert explorers, which minerals you need to replace to avoid dehydration, a…

  • Expedition Travel Insurance

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    Complete listings of all the best travel insurance companies for expeditions and adventure. Including: cycle touring, mountaineering, climbing, Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland icecap. Updated February 2020 Expedition travel insurance is a topic about which I have received a lot of emails. People struggling to get cover for trips of a long duration, particularly cycling tours,…

  • Cycling across Arabia: a photo diary

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    Laura Moss
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    We cycled from Sharjah in the UAE, via Dubai, to Muscat in Oman.  Although cycling is very popular with expats, few cycle tourists make it to this part of the world and it’s a shame.  With wonderfully smooth roads (oil money put to good use), frequent cafes to rest at and plentiful opportunities for wild…

  • How To: Cross a Desert

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    This guide tells you how to complete a desert crossing. It examines different methods such as on foot, by car, with camels or dragging a cart. Difficulties, like dehydration, sun stroke and spiders, snakes and scorpions, are examined and costs are broken down, before first steps are given to get you started. This article is…