Motorcycle journalist Alastair Walker packed his tent and joined the 2001 Paris-Dakar Rally press plane.
It featured BMW vs KTM in a bitter war of attrition to the flag; crashes, dubious rule changes, l.
This is a look behind the scenes of one of the great car, truck and motorcycle races.
Follow his adventure as he sleeps rough on desert airstrips, goes slightly mad on anti-malaria drugs, almost freezes to death in the Atlas mountains, and argues with heavily armed men over the price of water.
Motorcycle journalist Alastair Walker packed his tent and joined the 2001 Paris-Dakar Rally press plane