Adventurists

Life is like a football pitch. There's two different halves, you have goals, and everyone around you always seems to be shouting.

The adventures put the tea-drinking into perspective, and vice versa. I'm currently sitting with a lovely cup of Earl Grey, wrapped up in a turtleneck sweater, but the reason why we enjoy that is because we've gone out there and felt the adrenaline coursing through our tired old legs. Tea is a wonderful thing but if you just sit at home and drink tea all the time, you've not spent your time on Earth very well.

We organise events that make for interesting stories and every team has to raise a minimum of £1000 cash for our partner charity, Cool Earth. There's definitely been times in the middle of the Mongolian desert where a cup of tea and a comfy armchair seem like a better option, but that's against the very spirit of adventure and perseverance.

Why on earth not - [email protected] for any and all enquiries. We'll be back with your stock rejection letter within a year.

Our mantra is 'The Festival of Slow' so that's not too far away, I imagine. Maybe we can start by strapping canal boats to tortoises or tortoises to canal boats? The tortoise who first successfully works out how to work canal locks is exempted from being ridden in future events

Katy - Probably the car that was dressed up like a rhino. They made it all the way to Mongolia. A rider on the Derby then broke his collarbone and had to be evacuated to Ulaanbataar - he was driven all the way there in a car dressed up like a rhino.

Joolz - The jousting Mongol Ralliers were very cool - they had lances. One guy got tasered after trying to stop his son being arrested. And the local YouTube personality who put a motorbike engine into a mobility scooter and drove that for the entire rally.

Kev - Being on the Rally and watching the Perseids meteor shower in Charyn Canyon in Kazakhstan being surrounded by camel spiders.

Back in 2004, whilst living in the Czech Republic, our glorious leader Mr. Tom bought a shitty old banger and decided to drive to the stupidest place he could think of - Mongolia. The next year, after having a riotous time trying to cross borders with no Visas and suchlike, he advertised the adventure and six cars set off to do the same challenge from England.

More and more bored, glorious maniacs heard about the Mongol Rally and began signing up, culminating in 2015's Rally having 666 participants. We think it's a rather fitting number.

We started the company to bring adventure into a world where the corners of the maps are all filled in. Where getting lost is almost impossible. We are honing the art-form of getting lost. And in the process we're saving the rainforests for the next generation, so that they have somewhere equally glorious to get lost in.