The Camel Trophy carried its mud-forged origins from Papua New Guinea to Zaire in 1983, and cemented what would become its golden (soggy) era. Between 1983 and 1989, the convoy tore, floated, and occasionally sank its way across Zaire, Brazil, Borneo, Australia, Madagascar and the Amazon.
What began as a marketing experiment had evolved into the world’s …
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