Tasmanian Wilderness Expedition 2004 30 days 2 Air-Drops River Crossings No Walking Tracks 300km Untouched Coastline Chris Bray & Jasper Timm	Continually under construction. Lecture at Australian Geographic's HQ, Sydney. Tues 13th July, we were the guest speakers for the night as part of the Australian Geographic Societies 'Great Lecture' series. We presented a 1.5hr talk / slideshow on our journey to a paying public at AG's lecture theatre. It was very well received, and to top the night off, we were invited to sign Australian Geographic’s "Explorers Wall" - add our signature and pic of us signing the wall along side those of Dick Smith, Don & Margie McIntyre, Joe Simpson (‘Touching the void'), Antarctic explorers and other famous names. Young Adventurer Of the Year we were flown down and presented with the prestigious award from the Australian Geographic Society, in a ceremony at Federation Square in Melbourne, 9th June 2004. We both received a gold medallion. The Manly Daily, a Northern Sydney newspaper (the largest suburban daily newspaper in the world), published this news article entitled 'Adventurers on trek for gold', on Thurs 11th June 2004 detailing our 'Young Adventurer of the Year' award, illustrated with a photograph from our hike. Please click above thumbnail to enlarge article. The Northern Beaches Weekender, a weekly Northern Sydney magazine, published this news story on our 'Young Adventurer of the Year' award. Date published 24/06/04. Please click above thumbnail to enlarge article. Press Release given out to media in regard to our taking out the Australian Geographic Societies 'Young Adventurer of the Year' award. Please click above thumbnail to view an html version of the document. ABC Radio Tasmania & Victoria Statewide did a live interview with us over the phone just hours after being presented with the prestigious Australian Geographic Societies 'Young Adventurer of the Year Award'. The interview was over the phone with David Illiffe at 3:40 pm. Please click the ABC logo to download the interview as an MP3 audio file. The Northern Beaches Weekender, also published a 2-page full colour spread on our adventure, and also placed our photo on the cover. The story consists mostly of hike diary excerpts and photographs. This issue came out on Thursday 13th May 2004. Please click above thumbnail to enlarge the cover of this magazine. Please click above thumbnail to enlarge article. The Manly Daily, also published a large 2-page spread on our adventure on Saturday 8th May 2004, illustrated with photographs from our hike. Please click above thumbnail to enlarge article. Before we left, the Manly Daily also published an article on our proposed hike on Wednesday 17th December 2003, illustrated with a photo we took on a previous Tasmanian hike to the Overland Track. Please click above thumbnail to enlarge article. Australian Geographic Presentation - On Tuesday 13th July 2004, Chris Bray & Jasper Timm are presenting a one hour lecture / slideshow on this adventure, hosted by Australian Geographic Society at their Terrey Hills Headquarters. Tickets are $15, with all proceeds going to Australian Geographic Society to help support other adventures in the future. Please call 1300 555 176 for bookings and further information. Please click above thumbnail to enlarge relevant part of Australian Geographic Newsletter. Please click above thumbnail to enlarge insert from Northern Beaches Weekender, detailing our presentation.