Explore

Explore hit the road in 1981 thanks to three travelling companions who had breathed travel, eaten travel and slept travel for as long as they could remember.

Among them Travers Cox, who left his homestead Down Under while still in his teens on the back of a rusty two-wheeler, and never looked back.

From the classic overlands to Kathmandu to ferrying Land Rovers across the Ubange on hand-built rafts, Travers and the two Dereks had a few stories to share back home. And a couple of ideas to work on as well.

Their blend of idealism and practical skills, and an unquenchable thirst for discovery soon translated into a very simple and successful formula: