Overland stats/risk assessment
Does anyone know if there has been any effort to comprehensively collect stats on overland moto, or RTW riders?
I was pondering the quandary of travel in west africa at the moment, with the threat of kidnapping and violence in general. This guy ran down the numbers to put travel in west africa in context even with the current troubles:
Travel in the Sahel: how safe are tourists in Northwest Africa? | The Rough Guide to West Africa
People (family, non-travelers) are constantly saying how crazy and dangerous this thing is, but my feeling has always been that if proper precautions are taken then the risks are not terribly high. Overlanders are more likely, IMO to have problems with accidents or health related than kidnap/violence. But because those are "high consequence" events that make international news, they get focus because of the fears.
I don't know if Grant reads these, or whether he has thought on doing something like this on the HUBB, but a survey on what problems people had, and where, might result in a truly useful tool for risk assessment.
Charlie
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