
Tom Sheppard on the Nobility of Wilderness, Crossing the Sahara, and Overlanding the Deserts.
The Overland Journal Podcast
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The Importance of Expeditions
I think shifts from an overland adventure to an expedition once you've either incorporated some degree of scientific weight to the trip or you're providing some medical support. You're doing some greater good than just being like I do, which is I tend to most of the time just be an adventurer mucking about. But it's genuine these expeditions that you've done because they incorporated so many other things. Like for example, you worked with UNESCO on the cave art and the rock art. Yeah, that was after one of my trips to Libya,. It occurred to me that there were these cave paintings there all around the Jable Uenat - we used to call it NASA’s
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