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Welcome to our Mongol Rally experience!

This year Mitch and Jeremy are taking on the Mongol Rally in the name of two charities; Cool Earth and Oxfam Australia. If you click the links it will take you to our donation pages. For some more information about them, click here

To learn more about our adventure, check out our About Us page, Facebook page, or check out some of our blogs!

About Us

You’re doing what!?

In July this year we will be challenging ourselves to drive some 16 000kms in a comically ill-equipped car in the name of charity. The event is called the Mongol Rally and it is run by a not-for-profit group called The Adventurists who have raised over £2 million since their inception.
We will start in London, England and hope to finish 7 weeks later in Ulan-Ude, Russia after passing through the capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar. The event has been running for 10 years and this year over 400 teams are participating.

Who are you people?!

We thought we’d write about each other to provide some accountability:

Jeremy is a rather short man with an affinity to saying “cool” words like “zany” and “roflmao” in normal conversation.
Unlike his use of hip words, he has a super-cool-not-nerdy job as a business analyst and trained as a chartered accountant. He honestly believes that mathematics is the true religion and says his prayers in front of a times table poster at night and practices Excel tricks at home after a hard days work using Excel; Jeremy also believes The Simpsons is an artistic masterpiece, a modern day equivalent to Michelangelo’s stonework.
He has a long term girlfriend who Mitchell hooked him up with because he knew if he didn’t, Jeremy could well be forever alone.
He grew up in Sydney, Australia and enjoys hurting himself playing Rugby against normal sized people. Jeremy loves to travel, and on the rare occasion he leaves his spreadsheet, he thinks the natural world is really quite beautiful and that he has been truly lucky for the opportunity to live a fortunate life, hence his support for Cool Earth and Oxfam.

 

Mitchell is by far the keenest individual you will ever meet. Whilst at times a bit much to handle, it means you are bound to have a story or two after hanging out with him.
Although trained as a doctor working in emergency medicine, his unquenchable zest for life has seen him pursue many interests, including music, travel and, or course, the occasional party with a beer or (twenty) two.
His openness to new experiences has Jeremy a little worried. Despite his track record, his sexuality is questionable, and although they may be sharing a tent, Jeremy has drawn the line at sharing a sleeping bag.
Through his work and travels, Mitchell has seen how living through conflict can create lifelong burden in a patient’s physical and mental health. Like Jeremy, he feels incredible privileged to have had the opportunity to be educated, live without fear and travel and would like to help others have what many of the fortunate take for granted.
Our team is called Genghis Carn

Blog

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The Afghan Files

You know it’s going to be a good story when it starts with “so we accidentally drove into Taliban controlled regions of Afghanistan. Twice. Then another two times intentionally.” We should probably back up and tell this one from the beginning. A few weeks ago we were in Dushanbe, Tajikistan about to start the Pamir …

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Dear Mum

Dear Mum, We are sorry we haven’t written, mums worldwide are on the edge of their seat waiting to hear of how many times ralliers have had a nice meal, in a nice safe hotel, somewhere similar to home. “Actually just come home”, mum says. “No.” So fans (read: mums, we know it’s just you), …

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Our Charities

We are supporting two important causes as we do the rally and we would appreciate you supporting them with any donation you can afford. Some more information about them can be found here.

Oxfam Australia

The Oxfam Australia charity we have chosen to support is the Syrian Refugee Crisis.

Over 12 million innocent Syrian civilians have been caught up in the conflict and an estimated 250 000 have lost their lives. These people need urgent assistance. As we are choosing to travel through much of the Middle East and Central Asia, we feel it is only fitting that we raise funds for a charity committed to helping those caught up in the conflict.

You can donate generously here

Cool Earth

Cool Earth work with local communities in Peru, The Congo and Papua New Guinea to conserve rainforests and keep them in the hands of the traditional custodians, not the loggers. So far they have saved 642 311 acres of forest protecting over 154 million trees and produced 48 billion litres of much needed water. Our journey will take us through thousands of kilometres of this incredible planet and we want to keep it beautiful through our support for this charity.

You can donate generously here