TX:GX Overland

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. [...]