Hah, I read his book, it is fantastic and worth a read -> https://www.amazon.com/Trail-Genghis-Khan-Journey-Through-eb...
replyIt also makes my butt hurt just to think about.
There's footage / DVD from his trip also - up on youtube some is, IIRC :-)
replyYeah, sore bum, ouchies. That can be bypassed if you don't mind walking, don't mind camels, and don't mind being thought a bit girly:
* https://www.sidetracked.com/fieldjournal/crossing-australia-...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn_Davidson
Our family doesn't mind a long jolly, one of my favourites (that someone else did) was into the more restricted bits of Papua: Cannibals & Crampons (2001)
In 2001, two British ex army officers set out to climb the unscaled face of Mandela--a remote mountain rising 15,400 ft. above the jungles of New Guinea. This is the extraordinary story of their trek through some of the world's most unexplored terrain.