Six films of early exploration introduced from the Royal Geographical Society by Duncan Carse 5: Trans-China Expedition (1931)
' If the heat does not kill you, the cold will', such was the warning given to the great Citroen Trans-China Expedition.
The explorers' ordeal is captured in outstanding action photography; vehicles teetering on mountain ledges, bogged down in snowdrifts, almost swept away in fierce torrents. Narrator PIERRE VALMEB
Sweltering in Persia, freezing in the Himalayas, battling through a civil war, this is a remarkable record of a 1931 expedition - which is, of its kind, a minor epic of exploration, (DAILY MAIL) Assistant producer DAWN A. SWERUNG Producer RICHARD ROBINSON