In a world that shrinks by the day, where air travel can whisk you from your home and safely deposit you anywhere on earth in a matter of hours, where going travelling has come to mean nothing more than a package holiday for middle-class teenagers and where you can buy a travel guide to the most remote of corners, what room is there for people who want some real adventure?

Fear not, the solution has arrived. The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash across a quarter of the earth's surface in cars that most people consider underpowered for doing the shopping. They have no entourage of support vehicles, no professional 'fixers', there is no carefully marked course, there are no professional drivers, fast cars, or even good cars. It's just you, your pants-mobile and thousands of miles of adventure.

Not only do they provide the world's most extreme car challenge, you get to save the world at the same time. The Mongol rally is a charity event raising money for some fantastic organisations. For further details see: www.mongolrally.co.uk

And, that's not all! They have self-modified amphibious Land Rover 110s and intend to 'drive' the watery bits! Brilliant!