Past Expeditions
JoLt 2006 - India and Bhutan
It was an amazing sight - thirty-two people with a variety of disabilities and disadvantages, making their way up a Himalayan mountain under the unrelenting glare of the sun and at an altitude of three thousand and seven hundred metres, all supporting one another with immense determination and courage. Read more...
JoLt 2004 - New Zealand
Who would have thought that we could achieve so much in a month? Many of the twenty four apprehensive young people who met up at Heathrow on 10 July had never flown before or even left home, and none had experienced such a long journey: twenty three hours in total. Read more...
JoLt 2002 - Indochina
Where do you start to describe the Journey of a Lifetime to Indochina? With the nervous individuals who gathered at Heathrow airport on July 12th 2002, many of whom had never flown on a plane or left their homes for more than a few days? Read more...
JoLt 2000 - Chile
If the spirit of JoLt 2000 had to be illustrated in one photo still, it would perhaps best captured by a portrayal of six sledges being hauled just beneath a snowy precipice, metres from the plateau that marked their destination. Read more...
JoLt 1998
- Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Egypt
At dusk, in a gentle breeze and to the sound of the flapping sails of a felucca, a group of twenty four teenagers drifted silently down the Nile. The stillness was broken by the clear steady beat of a drum followed by laughter when one of the group started to sing. They were tired but happy, confident and excited. Read more...
JoLt 1996
- Texas through Central America to Venezuela
A group of teenagers relaxed on a coral island in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela. A few swam and snorkelled in the crystal clear waters; others soaked up the sun on a fine white sandy beach fringed with palm trees - a paradise that they had only ever dreamed about. Read more...
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1994 - Alaska Along the Route of the Goldrush
The icy cold water crashed over their heads. Their screams could be heard above the sound of the waves; but the screams were the sounds of excitement, exhilaration and happiness, tinged perhaps with some fear, as they white water rafted down the Denali River in Alaska. Read more...
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1992 - Along the Silk Road
The wind whipped up in sudden bursts, creating short but biting sand storms that filled their eyes and mouths with sand. They paused, trying to shield their faces from the stinging sand and to rest awhile before they continued their journey upward. Read more...
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1990 - Canada from Halifax to Vancouver
They held on tight as the water rushed up at them and as they were tossed from side to side: Exhilaration mixed with fear and finally a tremendous sense of achievement as they survived the fifteen foot waves. Read more...
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1990 - Zimbabwe and Botswana
The path was steep, narrow and rugged. She had journeyed slowly upwards, taking well over an hour to climb, painfully and slowly, up the Hill Complex at Great Zimbabwe. Would the narrowness of the last few feet defeat her? Handing her crutches to one of the others, she crawled on hands and knees to reach the top. Read more...
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1988 - Across South America
High in the Andes Mountains an unusual group of eighteen youngsters enjoyed a picnic lunch on a windswept plateau at the base of the volcano Cotopaxi. The sun was warm, the sky was clear and there were fine views of the snow-capped mountains of Ecuador. Read more...
JoLt 1986
- The Australian Outback
High above London's Heathrow Airport on 15th July, 1986 Quantas Flight QF82 had finally departed on the first leg of a twenty-seven hour flight to Adelaide, Australia. The “Journey of a Lifetime” had begun for eighteen disadvantaged young people. Read more...
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1984 - Siberia, Mongolia, China and Hong Kong
It is only several weeks after the end of the journey that one can stand back and objectively asses the value of taking a group of under privileged young people on a journey across Siberia and Mongolia to China and Hong Kong. Read more...
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