Northern Cape
ExpertRichtersveld Transfrontier Park 4×4 Trail — Sendelingsdrift to Helskloof Pass via the Orange River Canyon Desert
South Africa's harshest desert. No shortcuts.
Difficulty: Expert
Level 4
Botswana
ExpertSavanna Game Track — Moremi Game Reserve Northern Corridor via Xakanaxa Lagoon and Chief’s Island Boundary
Lion country, deep sand, hippo bridges.
British Columbia
ExpertTlell River to Cape Fife — Haida Gwaii East Coast Wilderness Track via Naikoon Provincial Park
North Pacific beach driving on Haida territory.
Canada
ExpertContwoyto Winter Road — Yellowknife to Ekati Diamond Mine via the Arctic Barren Lands Ice Road
Eight weeks. Frozen lakes. No road otherwise.
KwaZulu-Natal
ExpertLesotho Sani Pass to Mokhotlong — Roof of Africa Eastern High Road via Sehonghong River Valley
Past the pub, into the real Lesotho.
Northern Cape
ExpertRichtersveld Transfrontier Wilderness Track — Sendelingsdrift to Port Nolloth via the Orange River Canyon Desert
South Africa's mountain desert — earn every kilometer.
Kunene Region
ExpertSkeleton Coast Wilderness — Möwe Bay to Kunene River Mouth via the Far Northern Namib Shore
Shipwrecks, seals, and zero margin for error.
Kenya
ExpertMarsabit to Moyale — Northern Kenya Desert Highway via the Chalbi Desert Edge
Two hundred clicks of lava and no mercy.
Gilgit-Baltistan
ExpertDeosai Plains High Crossing — Skardu to Astore via Sheosar Lake and Bara Pani Ford
4,100 metres of brown bear plateau and no safety net.
Idaho
ExpertMagruder Corridor Road — Darby to Elk City via the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Divide (Full Traverse)
100 miles of wilderness road with nowhere to bail out.