The latest and finest photos filed by the Mongol Rally 2012 teams. Follow their updates on the Live Tracking Map here. 

If journeying over mountains, deserts in an intentionally unsuitable car is what does it for you, have a perve over these shots fresh from the teams on the road. There's a man on a highway in his pants (Adventurists pants no less), a lady selling wooly camels, a 50 hour boat trip, a lake that is now a desert and other highlights from the mighty Mongol Rally.

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The Dukes of Hessen, taking a breather in Kazakhstan

Hard Yak taking the bypass through Armenia

TEAMujin enjoying a spot of mountain climbing

Team Casa Nostra setting up camp for the night

Team Forever Young in a very lumpy bit of Russia - heading for some steep roads by the look of things.

Racking up a few countries

It's not all mountains and sunsets of course, other teams have been charting life on the road, including some nifty hand drawn cartography, some tow rope action and an ingenius use for oven gloves that we can guarantee 100% you will not have thought of before but will be very impressed by.

Here's some of the sites you'll miss if you book onto a 10 day temple tour around Eurasia instead of a proper adventure.

Nice melons, Team Only Fools & Horsepower

Team Casa Nostra, the Aral Sea, Kazakhstan

The three things you can find anywhere in the world: a cold coca-cola, a warm beer and a lady willing to flog you useless but charming crafts, The Men Who Stare at Camels, Turkmenistan

Injection Family taking on the thrilling Caspian Sea crossing, a jam-packed 50 hours of high-adrenaline waiting around that many teams became familiar with last week

Injection Family, taking on another challenge in patience that many ralliers will face

The Adventourists being made aware of the main hazards they are going to face for the next few thousand miles

3 pandas walk into a restaurant in Kazakhstan...

The Fire Fairies, being towed all the way through the centre of Batumi, Georgia

Team Khannonball Run having a Bonny and Clyde moment in Kazakhstan with the equivalent of $21.79

Taches Sans Frontieres heading into the unknown

When it started heating up in the midday sun, the Dukes of Hessen were glad they had thought of all eventualities and packed everything they could ever possibly need in the middle of the Kazakh desert...

... except a map.

It'll Do a Trip, Kazakhstan. Adventurists pants: they make everyone look sexy don't you think?

Only Fools & Horsepower

As the teams get closer to the finish line and further away from home, we wish to say one more thing, courtesy of Team Ambulance to Mongolia, from somewhere in the depths of Georgia: