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In 2001, one of the worlds most accomplished climbers and adventurers, Jon Muir began a 2,500 kilometre odyssey to cross | dG1fX3J4SGRVVzZIOEU

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00:00G'day, I'm John Muir.

00:27I live in a log cabin at the foot of the mountains in southeastern Australia.

00:33I grew up near Sydney, where I first became obsessed with rock climbing and mountaineering.

00:39All I could think about was being in the mountains.

00:43I dropped out of school two years early because I wanted to climb Mount Everest.

00:49Eleven years later I fulfilled my boyhood dream and stood on the summit alone.

00:55And I said, yeah, it's John. And he said, where are you?

00:58And I said, I'm on the top. And he said, what?

01:01I said, I'm on the summit. And he said, you're on the summit?

01:04I said, yeah, I'm on the top.

01:10He's a remarkable rock climber. He's a very strong mountaineer.

01:15He's obviously very disciplined in mind.

01:18Not just focused, but kind of a rod of iron and discipline in his head.

01:24I've skied with John to both the North Pole and the South Pole.

01:28And I would describe him as a man with immense physical power, stamina and strength.

01:35He's incredibly calm in the face of adversity.

01:40We got out our defence equipment, which is flares and a gun.

01:44And once we had that organised, we then tried to scare it away.

01:49So when it sort of came in close, we went, boom!

01:53And it ran off.

01:56It's tempting to say he's a raving nutter.

02:00John's in a class of his own, I think.

02:03It's John here. Yeah, it is.

02:06And I'd just like to say it's outrageous up here on this plateau.

02:10And I've been in lots of outrageous places and this is up there with the best of them.

02:15He's done so much, and not just in the field of polar trekking,

02:18but also on the high mountains, on the oceans with sea kayaking, all sorts of things.

02:23And I think that makes him one of the most versatile adventurers on the face of the planet.

02:28I'm now about to set off on my greatest challenge in a very different part of the world.

02:34A solo and unsupported walk across the continent of Australia.

02:39I'll start my walk at Port Augusta

02:42and then head northward past the continent's two largest salt lakes.

02:46I then plan to cross Australia's three driest deserts.

02:50If all goes well, I'll follow the rivers north to Birktown,

02:542,500 kilometres or over 1,600 miles away.

02:59This is about the same distance as walking across Europe or the United States.

03:04But in traversing Australia, I'll cross just one sealed road

03:08and the population along my entire route is less than 100.

03:14I'm planning a lightweight expedition with just one cart, limited supplies

03:19and only one other team member, my Jack Russell, Seraphine.

03:25This trip has been 14 years in the planning.

03:28This will be my fourth attempt and Seraphine's second.

03:33The notion of setting out unsupported to cross Australia,

03:40when you say it at first, it seems like, oh, yeah, OK, well, that's OK.

03:44Then when you think about it a little more and realise that there is no support at all

03:51and he's completely got the notion of living off the land

03:56across desert after desert on his own

04:01it's pretty daunting.

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