TX:GX Overland

A convoy can be beautifully equipped and still find itself waiting for paperwork, searching for fuel or deciding whether winter has closed the next stage. Expedition Overland’s Pan-American Trilogy gives those ordinary expedition problems a continent-sized setting. [...]

A Jeep reaches the end of the track. Beyond it is jungle, water and the possibility that the next few yards will take most of the day. For Mark Smith’s team, that was the problem standing between a continent-spanning ambition and a collection of vehicles stranded in the Darién. [...]

On a motorcycle, the weather reaches you before the destination does. So does the road surface. Long Way Round takes that exposure across Europe, Mongolia and Siberia, following two friends whose enthusiasm has to survive the practical cost of keeping moving. [...]

In 1966, Mike and Mal Leyland drove two Land Rovers from Steep Point to Cape Byron, crossing the Gibson and Simpson deserts. Wheels Across a Wilderness, dated by the National Film and Sound Archive to 1967, follows the expedition. Here is the story and how to watch it. [...]

Six men, two Series I Land Rovers, and a 1955 London-to-Singapore journey with no reliable road map. Explore the First Overland expedition, its film and Tim Slessor’s book. [...]

Seven people drove three Arctic Trucks-prepared Toyota Hilux pickups the length of Greenland’s ice sheet. Here’s who went, where they traveled, what failed and where to watch the film. [...]