Andrew Harper [ 4/Feb/19 ]

Post date: Feb 3, 2019 4:45:50 AM

96.5FM – Egyptian radio show with Jerry Guirguis, interviewing Andrew Harper, founder of Australian Desert Expeditions

speaking with us on 96.5FM – Egyptian Radio Show Melbourne, [ Monday 4 February 2019, Time 6:30pm ].

Andrew Harper, founder of Australian Desert Expeditions

A presentation by Expedition Leader Andrew Harper about exploring this vast wilderness with pack-Camels, where every step reveals an ancient landscape.

Find out how you can join our September Bare Sole Trek, or the Songlines &

Shared Journeys survey program with Australian Desert Expeditions and create your own desert story in 2019.

Australian Desert Expeditions, “Walking with Purpose”, Simpson Desert 2019

Info Night on 19 Feb 2019 at BoGong Equipment, 374 Little Bourke street Melbourne, 6pm – 7:30pm

https://vimeo.com/252265792 [ video 1:50 ]

https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/andrew-harper/

Hi and Welcome

Thank You

Jerry Guirguis

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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 1^st 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

www.capricornexpedition.com

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

www.camelexpeditions.com

www.cameltreks.com.au

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

www.desertexpeditions.org

Thank You

Jerry Guirguis