Indeed so. If you’re over 18, possess a passport, have a healthy disregard for personal safety, and like your adventure served piping hot on the finest platter, you’re very welcome to join the fray.

Once you sign up, you’ll get access to the Adventure Handbook – think of it as a sacred text. Here you’ll find a team chat group with Adventurists from all over the globe. Expect an inebriating cocktail of light banter and bad planning. We also run the odd team gathering, which you’ll be welcome to join.

You can indeed fly solo if you like. Plenty of past Adventurists have taken on the world alone with only their questionable mode of transport and an overflowing feeling of heroicness. If you’re the lone-wolf type, grab your steed of choice and crack on. If you’d rather not, but couldn’t convince any of your mates to join in the stupidity, you can find like-minded souls on our Facebook group. And if that still doesn’t work, just tag along with other teams in a convoy of chaos. With pre-adventure meetups and training, by the time you hit the start line, you’ll have a whole gang of fellow misfits by your side.

Our adventures come with a generous helping of danger by default, but being a woman doesn’t particularly make it any riskier. Plenty of women have thrown themselves headfirst into the chaos and emerged covered in the dust of glory and sporting an enormous grin. Of course, you might have a different experience in some places – so, as we say to everyone ahead of an adventure, do your homework and brush up with a bit of research on where you’re going. But the bottom line is, if you’re up for the mayhem, your gender won’t be your downfall.

No. We’re strict about this. Our adventures are unsupported. You’ll have plenty of time to test your vehicle, meet your fellow Adventurists, and ask all your burning questions at the pre-adventure briefing. But once you roll across the start line, you’re on your own, which is exactly how it’s meant to be. We’ve seen plenty a nervous wreck teeter on the start line, seconds away from a code brown, only for them to roar across the finish line with a pristine bumhole, a victorious swagger, and a grin that says, “I’ve been slapped in the chops by the wet fish of chaos, and I’d queue up for another faceful right now.” Along the way, you and your fellow Adventurists will forge the kind of attachment that only unsupported shared chaos, or a long stint in prison can create. Your well-earned tales of triumph at the end will be copious, and they will be ridiculous.

No, none of our adventures are races. In fact, we’d commend you if you did it really slowly and got hopelessly lost. The more of a pickle you get into, the better your stories at the finish line. It’s not a competition – unless you’re competing to see who can rack up the most notches on the bedpost of misadventure.

We mostly advise you to bring your wits and a spare pair of pants. On some of the adventures, we give you a (very) basic tool kit that’ll do the job in a pinch if you break down. But if you want to pretend to feel useful then packing a roll of duct tape, some cable ties and a handful of spanners wouldn’t hurt. Since you’ll be lugging your gear the whole way, we don’t suggest packing a massive bag of tools, or indeed, too many clothes. We provide info on stuff to bring in the Adventure Handbook, which you’ll get once you sign up. It’s not about being prepared – it’s more about surviving the lack of preparation.

We prefer using out of date maps and asking locals to point us vaguely in the right direction. But due to the stubborn march of modernity, most teams now bring along a smartphone, so they can post their tales of adventure online while figuring out where they are. Not many teams use a standalone GPS device. Unless you intend to take your slightly untrustworthy steed somewhere very remote, you don’t really need one. If you really must take one, you need to check the law – certain satellite enabled devices are very illegal in some countries and can get you in serious trouble at the airport. We’ve had teams imprisoned because of them. Once you sign up to the adventure, you’ll get access to our tracking app, which connects to your phone’s GPS and shows your location on a map for the world to see – even if you choose not to know. All in all – it’s entirely up to you but winging will most certainly lead to more adventure.

We get it – sometimes life likes to get its jollies by lobbing spanners of annoyance in your works. If that happens to you, and you have to bail on your adventure, we have a cancellation policy that covers a full refund for 28 days before dropping off as the adventure looms. You can check out our cancellation policy here. If you want extra cover, there are insurance policies out there that can cover you for your entry fee if the worst happens and you have to unexpectedly pull out.

Yep. We suggest you pack as lightly as possible. You really don’t need much. The less you bring, the fewer regrets you’ll have when you’re dragging it up mountains or across a desert.

Yes, you’ll definitely need travel insurance that covers you for the adventure. Some standard policies might not cover you, so make sure your insurer knows exactly what you’re getting into. And remember – these aren’t races, which is an important detail for some insurers. Get the right cover, so you can take on the unknown without the looming threat of paperwork nightmares and fine-print hell. You don’t want to be having to sell all your worldly possessions, or a kidney, if something goes wrong.