1100km and 63 days: Crossing the length of Eastern Kazakhstan on horseback
ASTANA. KAZINFORM Jamie and Matt had been planning The Post Roads Expedition since returning from a climbing expedition to southern Kyrgyzstan in 2010.
Three years later, on August 6th 2013, they achieved their goal to cross the length of Eastern Kazakhstan on horseback. Together with their three horses it took them a total of sixty three days and one thousand one hundred kilometres, One Steppe Ahead webside reports.
On recounting the trip, Jamie Maddison described the expedition as "much, much harsher than anticipated, and within ten days we were thrust into a true desert landscape, with little water and grazing and long distances between these islands. Temperatures were rarely lower than 30C and peaked in the mid 40Cs. We had stretches where the only water available to us for several days was briny and the salt drove us half mad."
One Steppe Ahead expedition celebrates a century-old journey by the British explorer Sir Charles Howard-Bury through the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan to explore the Tien Shan Mountains: the ‘Mountains of Heaven'.
One Steppe Ahead is the Award winner for 2013, is supported by the team's patron, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, and Jamie and Matt have also received an award from the British-Kazakh Society for ‘The best individual contribution for furthering relations between the UK and Kazakhstan', in light of their efforts to retell this hundred-year-old story of British exploration in Central Asia.
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