We are the Adamastor team and we are going to participate in the Mongol Rally 2019, the craziest race in the world!
With our VW Polo 1.0 Steilheck of 1988 - the oldest member of the team - we leave Lisbon and hopefully arrive (safe and sound!) To Ulan Ude, Russia. It will be more than 15,000km, 15 countries, between mountains, deserts and war zones. No support or support route. No prizes at the finish line.
O Carro
What, then, do we seek from this experience? Live a great adventure and help Cool Earth!
Cool Earth - a UK-based international NGO that protects endangered tropical forests in order to combat global warming, protect ecosystems and provide jobs for the local population.
Our name, Adamastor, for those who do not know, is due to the mythical giant of Greco-Roman mythology, referred to by Luís de Camões in Os Lusíadas. In the form of a storm, he represented the forces of nature, threatening to ruin anyone who tried to bend the Cape of Good Hope and penetrate the Indian Ocean. So get ready! With this name and with our pioneering Portuguese spirit, nobody will stop us!
We will use all our travel, survival and mechanic skills and experience to complete the rally, but we need everyone's help to achieve our main goal: to raise 1000 pounds for charity!
The giant Adamastor thanks and gives back with a piece of our Portuguese culture:
Adamastor cruel! ... Of your fury
How many times I remember in horror!
The monster! How many times have you swallowed
From the proud East of the tamers!
It seems to me that he has betrayed
I am seeing Sepúlveda famous,
With the wife, and with the little children embraced
Which Mavorte with Venus and the Loves.
It seems to me that I see the sad husband,
Lost the tender offspring and the beautiful lady,
To the claws of the lions run furious.
Well you took revenge on us from afouto Range!
By our disasters you are famous:
Damn Adamastor! Damn fame!
