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WILD FACES OF THE ANDES

Spanning more than 7500 kilometres north to south, the Andes is the longest mountain range in the world. Peaks thrusting up to 7 000 metres are more than just an imposing sight, they also have a tremendous impact on the South American climate.

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text: Alexandra Sailer photos: Sailer Images (Steffen and Alexandra Sailer) [Steffan and Alexandra Sailer, Metzingen, Germany, continue their travels by Land Rover around the world. We join them in the Australian rain forests –ed] To nature photographers like us, nothing compares with the vibrant colours and unique fauna and flora of the tropical rain forest. [...]

text & photos: Raymond Greaves [Raymond Greaves and his girlfriend Nereide left London in January for a six month drive to Cape Town, South Africa, in their 2004 Range Rover. Here’s the first part of his remarkable story. –ed.] Two years ago my work in investment banking took me to various power and renewable energy [...]

My affliction began gradually, and in retrospect at an age too young to be considered a mid-life crisis. First came BMX bikes, then mountain bikes, then rock-climbing, then kayaking—really, anything outdoors would do. I had a serious allergy to pavement.

Then, while driving back to college in 1994, I passed the Land Rover dealership in Santa Barbara and spotted a vehicle unlike any other, slowly revolving on a rotating display. Even from my fleeting vantage point on Highway 101, I could tell that it was overbuilt. Boxy in shape, it was not for everyone, but it was for me.

Over the next 13 years I graduated college, secured and quit my first real job, enrolled at medical school, moved to Oregon for my residency program, got married, and bought a house. But my disease was never in remission, only barely under control. I explored remote parts of Oregon from the saddle of a BMW 650GS dual sport bike. I found off-road motorbiking a solitary sport; I could not share it with friends, including my wife, Jessie. Then, in the summer of ’07, while riding the BMW down fire roads in the Mt. Hood National Forest, I passed a soft-top Defender. Inside sat a family, including a dog, whizzing by me with wide grins and waving hands. With visions of that boxy car from ’94 spinning through my mind, my disease resurfaced in a full-blown relapse.

text by Alexandra Sailer photos by Sailer Images (Steffen and Alexandra Sailer) [Steffen and Alexandra Sailer, Metzingen, Germany, travel around the world as nature photographers. They share the first legs of their travels in this article –ed.] Our Landy in sleeping mode. On the left hand side the shelfmade cabinet of lightweight and sturdy material, [...]

From Africa with Love text & photos: Richard Betts [Richard Betts travels the world as a SERE (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape) instructor for the US Marine Corps. He currently lives in Brunswick, ME, with Tanya, his wife, and Land Rovers, his mistresses –ed.] At age 18, I made the fateful decision to leave my middle [...]

text: Gustaf Kupetz photos: Ben Edmonson [Gustaf Kupetz was most recently the Gear and Field Specialist for Land Rover Lifestyle magazine. An avid off-roader, he headed for the Rockies last summer. Here’s his story –ed.] It’s been a personal goal to search out the quintessential overland trail. The perfect trail would have sufficient length and [...]

Vaughn Micciche, 26, resides in Baltimore, MD, and on his family’s farm in Stewartstown, PA. When he’s not riding bicycles, farming or straining his Land Rover, he works as a web and database consultant –ed. Text & photos: Vaughn Micciche So I bought a Land Rover. I am not sure why I pulled the trigger [...]

LT Sam May, USN, is currently stationed in Japan. He has completed several tours to Iraq and Africa with Army and Navy Special Operations Forces. A paramedic, climber, diver and linguist, he and his family have lived, worked, and traveled all over the world –ed. Text & photos: Sam May This isn’t a tall tale [...]