The inaugural Flashmen outing was the entry of two woeful Suzukis in the 2006 Mongol Rally from Hyde Park Corner to Ulaan Baatar. Extensive literary and visual records survive from this jounrey across seventeen countries, but as with the final expenses reconciliation between the four participants, these records are still awating administrative attention.
Journey No. 2 was a pleasant motoring holiday through northern Afghanistan in the winter of 2007. Starting in Kabul and taking in the Salang Pass on the way to Mazar-i-Sharif. Everyone managed to return safely though again, records are still being assembled for publication.
The third outing was a visit to Tibet in the northern summer of 2011, in an effort to reach the fabled and rather trickily accessed Great Bend or gorge of the Tsangpo, in the far east of Tibet. The gorge’s location just shy of India and role in the rather thorny issue of water politics meant this journey, in time honoured Flashmen tradition, met with what the insenstive might descibe as failure. Further, internet accessibility wobbles prevented updates as regularly as Flashmen’s vast readership of one might have liked, so these are still being produced.
Five non-hikers unprepared for Tibetan summer temperatures
Trip No 4 took up the middle of 2012 and involved dropping into Lahore, a trip along the Grand Trunk Road, some knocking about the North West Frontier, a riot at a polo game in the Hindu Kush, swinging into Swat for some relaxation and then out of Islamabad with beards none the worse for wear.
Planning currently afoot for Flashy V – the Altishahr.
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