Still standing!
After a long layoff and a number of projects that were cancelled due to Robert Twigger suffering eye trauma (not desert related), and undergoing three operations, which fortunately succeeded. Anyway- we are now back in business. We’re still standing! The big one this year is the complete re-enactment of the Rohlf’s expedition. With camels! By Egyptian desert standards this is a huge expedition. It’s planned for late December 2009/January 2010. The total length of time will be about 30-34 days. We will set off from Dakhla on Dec 27th across the bands of dunes to Regenfield and aim to arrive in Siwa, having crossed the entire sand sea, by Jan 30th. This is an absolute one-off journey. To our knowledge it has only been done on camel a couple of times since Rohlf’s expedition in 1874. So for anyone interested in camels this is the ultimate camel trip in the world! Right now we have only seven places for this expedition and obviously we want the right kind of people. You’ll need to be enthusiastic, good humored and able to walk or ride or walk/ride 25km a day every day with one rest day every seven days out. You’ll need to be able to raise sponsorship to pay for the trip (it won’t be cheap- around 3400 euros) or have enough money to pay for it yourself. If you want to apply send us an email.