[Leica] Under the radar: Das Auto & zwei Stück Leica

[w.j.markerink at a1.nl (w.j.markerink at a1.nl)]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18910560
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23 July 2012 Last updated at 23:57 GMT

Gunther Holtorf's 23-year road trip

Back in 1989, as the Berlin Wall fell, Gunther Holtorf and his wife  
Christine set out on what was meant to be an 18-month tour of Africa  
in their Mercedes Benz G Wagen. Now, with more than 800,000km (500,000  
miles) on the clock, Gunther is still going.

The German former airline executive has travelled the equivalent of 20  
times around the planet in the vehicle - which he calls Otto. He says  
he has never had a serious breakdown. Recently in Vietnam,  
Canadian-born photographer David Lemke joined Gunther on one section  
of his epic journey.

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All images subject to copyright. Photography by Gunther Holtorf and  
David Lemke.

Music by Fat Boy Slim, Tom Cochrane and KPM Music.

Slideshow production by Paul Kerley and Kate McGeown. Publication date  
24 July 2012.

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David Lemke photographer
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Most remarkable (automotive-)travel fact is that he managed to enter  
North-Korea by car as well....only Saoudi-Arabia is likewise  
impossible to enter on private wheels (though Jim Rogers did manage  
that....but I guess that's also as much leverage you can excert, at  
the highest possible political/business level).


NB: there is another, similar epic story/journey of decade-long  
travelling; the Swiss couple Schmid, in a TLC FJ60 (at a maddening  
overloaded 4000kg), but much less under the radar:

http://www.weltrekordreise.ch/




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