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This July, Chris and Jason will embark on a mad dash across a quarter of the globe in the name of adventure, fishing and to raise a bucketload of money for charity. This is no Paris-Dakar, Gumball or sheep hearding up a mountain, Chris and Jason are driving unprepared, unskilled and unsupported from the
East End of
London to the
East End of the world, .
The single rule of this epic challenge: do it in a one-litre engined car, something which most people consider underpowered even to do the shopping in...
Yes, this is the Mongol Rally 2006 - meet your local team, Brokeback Mongolia. In 2001, two British student teachers in Prague blew their last Crowns on a Fiat 126 and decided to drive it as far East as possible before it died. And lo, the seeds for the Mongol Rally were sown. Five years and two rallies later it has become the most ridiculous and demanding of the banger rallies...
Reading this with a grin? Or maybe a grimace? We need your help! We have £1000 to raise for charity not to mention a further £3000 in costs and equipment - petrol, visas and yak repellent is not cheap! If you can spare a pound or two, want your business advertised on four wheels or maybe have some equipment lying around that we could use, stop reading and please donate now or contact us at brokebackmongolia@yahoo.co.uk .
Thanks,
Chris & Jason