Oxford & Cambridge go to Brazil

It's with interest that i have come across the account of the 1956/7 Oxford & Cambridge expedition to South America.

The report has been typed up on a type writer and is in old fashioned purple ink. After some further digging I have discovered that there is also a British Pathe film of the expedition in Colour!

Some of the images shown in the film are quite simply amazing and its amazing to think that just 50 years ago there were still so many native tribes living with out human interference.

The account also refers to the lost city of El Dorado (Lost City of Gold) and Sir Walter Raleigh's explorations.

Of course the expedition naturally used Land Rovers, three this time and the going looks just as tough as when the 1955 team passed through Burma.

Another report goes into my Oxford and Cambridge archive

Amazing...

The Cost...

Our expedition budget comes to a grand total of £33331

To date we have raised £12000 by funding it ourselves.

Our £7000 petrol costs have kindly been sponsored by the Land Rover Series One Club http://www.lrsoc.com/ which takes our total funds raised up to £19000.

This leaves us with £14331 to raise (or to recieve goods in kind)

Due to this quite dramatic lack of funds we have decided to put the departure date back by two weeks. This means we need to raise (or recieve goods to the value of) £2500 per week. Yes it may seem alot but remember we have had no commercial help with this expedition (except for the vehicle restorations) and we have come this far so we are not giving up now.

We do not understand why sponsors are not interested in helping this epic trip depart and be completed but that is how it is so its down to us to self-fund it.

Please help us to reach our goal of £14k, if you want something in return please email us with your ideas.

The clock is really ticking now.