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PLANNING YOUR FIRST EXPEDITION

Your first expedition can challenge you physically, mentally and culturally. Wild Earth Ambassador Ben Southall gives some tips on how to plan for success.

eading out on your first self-planned expedition is a massively rewarding, ridiculously exciting affair, but it can be highly stressful if you get the basics wrong. My first major expedition (a year driving an old Land Rover around Africa), didn’t just happen: It took years of research, training and planning to even get to

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