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Jerry Guirguis interview Andrew Harper Monday 29th Mar 2010, Founder & Managing Director, Australian Desert Expeditions, Owner/Manager of Outback Camel Company, Live-to-air on 96.5FM - Egyptian radio show [Melbourne, English edition ].
6:15pm – Our 1st special guest tonight is Andrew Harper, walking 4,637 km across Australia's desert in 1999.
Hi & Welcome …,
1)The Great Walk" - 1999
a 229 day, 4637km journey across Australia's desert heart
Expedition summary:
· Coast to coast distance along the TOC - 3780 kilometres
· Total distance actually walked – 4637 kilometres
· Total days – 229
· Actual walking days – 187 with an average distance per day of 24.7 kilometres
· Greatest distance in one day – 49 kilometres
· Total number of days without seeing anyone – 84
· Weight loss – 19 kilograms
2) Outback Camel Company
explores the great deserts on contemporary expeditions
Our short treks ranges from 6 to 16 days, exploring the Great Victoria Desert in South Australia, the Gibson and Great Sandy Desert's in Western Australia and the Simpson Desert & Finke River in the Northern Territory. In western Queensland and the northeast of South Australia we operate treks that combine the desert dunes with the extensive waterholes of the Diamantina River and Eyre Creek. We vary our operating area and schedule from year to year depending on the seasonal conditions in each desert, and in 2010 will operate in the Simpson Desert.
Desert Treks & Expeditions
Established 1976
3) Australian Desert Expeditions [ Environmental Field Research
conducts scientific and ecological survey expeditions
accompanied with a selection of archaeologists, botanists, ecologists and/or historians
Established 2007
Registered Environmental Organisation
Jerry Guirguis
Presenter
96.5FM – Egyptian radio show
0400 718 817
studio : 03 9457 1718
CD copy of this interview can be requested by email to: [ Jerry.Guirguis@gmail.com ]
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