[bwb]

Nice picture :)

The nice thing about going with a group is that it comes with a support vehicle and water/food/bag carrying. Doing it on my own would be about 10x more intense in terms of prep, I think. I've watched a few biking videos where they started getting close to the edge on water and had to ask random houses they finally found.

[defrost]

If you like an epic trek, there's always horseback: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna20925119

[bwb]

Hah, I read his book, it is fantastic and worth a read -> https://www.amazon.com/Trail-Genghis-Khan-Journey-Through-eb...

It also makes my butt hurt just to think about.

[defrost]

There's footage / DVD from his trip also - up on youtube some is, IIRC :-)

Yeah, 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.

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2142721/

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShIfMP8rfg0