The rich diversity of the Australian outback offered Jason the opportunity of creating an online educational program to share with schoolchildren worldwide. After several months fundraising in a shopping mall in Cairns, he set off from the mouth of the Starcke River, just north of Cooktown, bound for Darwin via Alice Springs. The mode of transport was to be mountain bikes, and a team of teens, professional educators and like-spirited adventure seekers joined him for what turned out to be a 3.500-mile, 88-day off-road odyssey.

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