"They will certainly need all that training, because this is aninhospitableplace in winter - and don't forget plenty of armies in the past have come unstuck in Afghanistan, " he said.
But it becomes clear, in conversation with photographer Justin, that we have committed ourselves to a trip across the world to drive a car nobody has ever heard of, in a place miles from anywhere, across aninhospitable national park, on the basis of a website and several late-night emails.