After a great relationship with the team that put together the Long Way Down expedition, we have now teamed up with them again for Charley Boorman's 'Ireland to Sydney... By Any Means'.

Charley Boorman's new project is called By Any Means. A trip from Wicklow in Ireland (Charley's home turf) to Sydney, using transport relevant to the regions he travels through. Explore was called upon by the By Any Means team (essentially the Long Way Down team, but with a new name) to help with the planning and logistics of this mammoth expedition.

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The Long Way Down trip, from John O'Groats to Cape Town took Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on an exciting motorcycle trip through some amazing scenery, putting them in touch with local people and cultures very alien to what they were used to. They also managed to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity as they went - which we thought was a pretty good effort.

Take a look at our Long Way Down pages for more information about our involvement

The guys ended the trip at 11.03am at The Fleet Steps at Mrs Macquairies Chair.

With choppers filming overhead and a crush of press and media to greet them down below at the end, they rode from Woolongong, a couple hours south of Sydney, with a convoy of around 250 bikes. Charley arrived with his daughter Kinvara on the back of his bike and did a live TV interview in the morning on Channel 9 News.
The three of them, Charley, Russ and Mungo were all in good spirits, if slightly weather beaten. The toughest challenge of all, said Charley, was the crossing from Indonesia to Aus, and one of the highlights was seeing Everest.