Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The guy is quite amazing. What else would you take but (film) Leicas? :-) It would have been great to see some of his shots. Peter On 02/05/2013 20:39, w.j.markerink at a1.nl wrote: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18910560 > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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. > > Continue reading the main story > 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. > > Related: > > David Lemke photographer > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > 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/ > > > > > -- > Bye, > > Willem-Jan Markerink > > The desire to understand > is sometimes far less intelligent than > the inability to understand > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig