TWO POLES, FIVE CONTINENTS AND A FIST FULL OF GUTS

LAST month, 4X4 Australia joined rally champion and stunt driver Andrew Comrie-Picard at The Explorers Club (TEC) in New York City for the send-off of a round-the-world journey of epic scale, the Transglobal Car Expedition (TGCE).

- CHRIS COLLARD

Hopping out of his 6x6 Ford Super Duty F-350, fitted with 44-inch tyres no less, we headed through a pair of weathered iron doors on to hallowed ground. TEC is a place of legends, where a stroll through the membership archives reveals exploration icons such as Roald Amundsen, Robert Peary, Edmund P Hillary, and Neil Armstrong.