Eight long months after leaving his Aston Martin in Costa Rica, 90 North Managing Partner Philip and his son have announced their latest challenge “To The End Of The World”, as the next stage of their epic attempt to drive around the globe.
Having narrowly missed out on their target last year of driving from London’s Pall Mall to Panama, due to civil unrest closing the final border, the pair will return to San Jose, Costa Rica to collect their car, and attempt again to make the 500-mile drive to Panama City, including a crossing of the Hill of Death, the highest point on the Pan-American Highway at an altitude of 11,000 feet.
From Panama City the team will fly with their car across the Darien Gap into Colombia and commence a 6,600-mile adventure down the west coast of South America, across Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, finishing in Ushuaia, the most southerly point of the Americas.
Last year the Vantage World Tour covered more than 8,000 miles across eight countries, from the UK, through the US, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
The team are raising money for the charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (“CALM”), which fights suicide, the largest killer of men under 50 in the UK. Link: www.thecalmzone.net