This has been made more interesting as a result of recent political and offensive developments in various regions, which provide a potential route. Any route selected today would have to be flexible to take into account these abnormalities. While we expect the expedition to be exciting, we would be foolish to take unnecessary risks with the safety of the participating members of the team.

The likely route is to travel into India visiting Lucknow and Delhi before skirting round the northern fringes of the Great Indian Desert into Pakistan. The route through Pakistan follows a line south of the Afghan border and into Iran. We then travel the length of Iran following a line parallel to the Zagros Mountains, visiting Qom, Tehran and Tabriz before entering Turkey by its eastern border. Travelling west through Turkey the route takes us to Ankara and on to Istanbul. Travelling into Bulgaria, we head north to Rumania and Bucharest, into Hungary to Budapest, Austria, Germany and France to cross the Channel and into England.

The return journey will follow a similar line in reverse.