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Welcome to our Team Website
We are 4 students who have decided to drive ten thousand miles from London to Mongolia next summer. In a one litre car. Like you do. We don't have any experience of doing this sort of thing, and none of us know much about cars (yet), but we're going to give it our all and hopefully raise lots of money for charity and get back home in one piece!
Why are we doing it?
Well like any good idea it was formed over drinks - quite a few drinks. When we realised it was for charity we decided we were actually going to participate. Dannys friend Alistair had successfully participated in the 2007 rally, so Danny bravely announced that he would be doing the Mongol Rally in the coming summer. Having nothing else planned for the summer we all decided to join him and get a load of money together for charity by travelling to the other side of the world. With the incentive to raise money for charity, the team, The Ugly Ducklings came together.Better known by its quirky acronym DUCK (Durham University Charities Kommittee) is the official organisation for charitable fundraising for the University of Durham and as we're all Durham University students we decided to name our team after our university's charity organisation.
Overview of the Challenge
London to Ulaanbaatar in a 20 year old crap car to raise money for Charity!!!!!!!
Drive half way around the globe
Over 10.000miles
Thousands of miles of no proper roads
Five mountain ranges
Two deserts
No support team
No GPS or decent maps
Did we mention black bears, wolves and mosquitoes?
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A few short stats...
At 08:31 on 01-09-2008 Danny said...
Roadkill List 1 blackbird 1 swift 1 cat Almost a Fox (twice) Almost a dog Almost multiple sheep Almost a cow Inumerate insects including : Locust, Butterfly, Huge beetle and five bumblebees 3 gerbils 1 rat 30 frogs And finally a drunken hitchhiker
Carkill 1 clutch 3 suspension coils Percy's ignition system 1 distrubutor 1 balded tyre 1 shredded tyre 1 nailed tyre 1 rivetted tyre 1 pig-ironed tyre 1 slashed tyre And to just to add to that we got three normal flats as well! 1 backrack 3 brake failures (especially painful down large hills) bull bars Radiator,chassis and axle of Scooby Spare tyre rack 1 side van door 1 dodgy driver's door 1 broken roof (mainly from jumping on it in celebration) Percy's boot (Oh Joe i wonder how that happened)
Near Carkills Near Death Moment Stats Lex - Total 3 including Bouncing Scoooby into oncoming lane. Danny - Total 5 including nearly toppling Scooby and driving down a one way street the wrong way Joe - Total 6, which were all pretty much on the same day in Tashkent and included a fantastic mud slide outside Volgograd Sam - Total ∞ - mainly horrendous overtaking but 5 others including crashing into a gravel wall after missing a perilous pebble and trying to take a huge truck head on in a game of chicken (he won as the...[Read More] |
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