Together they raised more than £3,000 for a UK charity based in Tajikistan and contacted over 20 local and national businesses securing cash and in-kind donations from over 15 sponsors.
But what’s exactly is all this about? The Roof of the World Rally is a charity challenge that took Michele and his two friends, the writer Pierdomenico Baccalario and the photographer Walter Menegazzi, all the way through the Silk Road to Tajikistan (Central Asia) by car. They drove a ’93 Citroën all the way from Austria, through Russia and the coasts of the Caspian Sea, the Kazakh desert and the mythological cities of Uzbekistan to finally reach destination on the roof of the world in Tajikistan. The roads on the high Pamir mountains reach 4,700 metres in height and really tested their 15-year old Citroën!
