British adventurer, Colonel John Blashford-Snell, is seeking team members for his expedition next summer to Mongolia. The 81-year-old is organising a trip to the Altai mountain range in Mongolia in July to deliver medical support to indigenous villagers, explore hidden cave complexes and survey endangered species. His team in Mongolia will be tracking the endangered Saiga antelope. Their scientific research will be undertaken for the National University of Mongolia.

The octogenarian explorer was raised in Jersey, one of the British Channel Islands. He is keen that the Jersey flag be raised in the Mongolian Altai.

 ‘If any Jersey people are interested, they should get in touch very soon because we shall have 23 on the team and already we have 12 people who have signed up,’ said Colonel Blashford-Snell, who founded the Scientific Exploration Society in 1969. ‘Anyone whose interests lie in the fields of botany, archaeology, zoology and community aid is welcome to put their name forward, but you must be able to ride a horse.’

Much of Mongolia is relatively unknown and unexplored. It’s the size of Europe with a population of just three million.