Just a couple of guys…

Meet our team. Just two guys who like to get out and pretend that we know what we’re doing. At least were having a ball doing it !!

  • Expedition Leader:
    Mark has undertaken numerous adventures around the world to date. These include a three-month climbing expedition in the Karakorum Mountain Range of the Himalaya in Northern Pakistan in 1999, climbing the near 7,000m peak of Aconcagua in Argentina in 2003, an 18,000 mile five-month long motorcycle trip from London to Cape Town across Africa in 2005, the Three Peaks Challenge in the UK in 2007, he scaled the near 6,000m peak of Kilimanjaro in 2008, and in 2010 Mark and Jorik undertook a motorcycle trip around Spain and Portugal together.

    Mark has been riding motorcycles since the age of 15 and as a motorcycle enthusiast, currently owns a number of motorcycles of different genres. Mark’s extensive expedition experience, particularly with regards to his unsupported motorcycle trip across Africa, affords him the best skill set to coordinate and lead this expedition.


  • Trip Photographer:
    At the age of 18 he joined the South Africa Air Force where he got his start in photography. After the confines of military life, Jorik spent the next seven years travelling extensively around the world. He has lived in Israel, Australia, New Zealand and spent time with Mark in the mid to late 1990’s in London. He has travelled in the Middle East, Central America, Japan, and all over Europe. Jorik has been based in the United States for more than 20 years and currently lives in South Lake Tahoe. His two children, Leah and Ethan have both graduated from university and also live in the United States. Jorik has been a keen photographer and adventurer all of his adult life. Whilst his primary photography work is as a well respected wedding photographer, he has spent a lifetime being an action and travel photographer and as he is based in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with some of the most amazing ski and snowboarding locations in the United Sates. His action photography has been published in top snowboarding magazines around the world.

    Jorik has a lifelong love of motorcycles and having ridden motorcycles since the age of 15, he is an accomplished rider who currently owns a quiver of motorcycles.
    Ducati Monster, Harley Davidson, and a classic 1086 Honda VFR..

    This trip is very personal for Jorik as his son, Ethan was born with a congenital heart defect, and had to have three open-heart surgeries before his third birthday. Without the help of various programmes and agencies that supported Ethan and Jorik’s family, his early years would have been much harder than they were. This trip gives Jorik a chance to give something back and to ”shine a light” on the great work that others are doing