<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f742587a-7640-4705-ad1b-fc374f478a9c/50BD8969-5D78-4B75-A13F-54B7F1B43D3F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,25361224-3102,00.html" href="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,25361224-3102,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.news.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,25361224-3102,00.html"><H1>Kite adventurers take to Sahara Desert for charity</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,25361224-3102,00.html"><STRONG>ADVENTURE and philanthropy are two of Gold Coast vet Geoff Wilson's passions, and he is combining both by harnessing the power of the wind.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,25361224-3102,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.news.com.au/img/A2697819-02B7-4031-BECF-328F2C25917C" alt="Geoff Wilson" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,25361224-3102,00.html"><P><DIV>He and three fellow adventurers will this year attempt the first wind-driven crossing of the Sahara Desert ... in kite buggies.</DIV><BR />Dr Wilson and buggy partner Garth Freeman were yesterday in training on the sands of South Stradbroke Island for the 2500km, seven-week odyssey, which will take them across some of the world's harshest terrain. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,25361224-3102,00.html"><P><DIV>The Sahara's searing winds are expected to power them about 200km a day on their "Mad Way South" challenge in a bid to raise $100,000 to help free Asian child sex slaves.</DIV><BR />Dr Wilson, who has sailed 25,000km with his family in a 15m sloop, ridden a bike across the Egyptian Sahara and helped treat disaster-ravaged Indonesians after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, came up with the offbeat kite buggy challenge last year after getting into kite surfing. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/50BD8969-5D78-4B75-A13F-54B7F1B43D3F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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