After 11 years of trial and error, hundreds of sand dunes and a backside full of thorns, Geoff Wilson has become the first man to cross the Simpson Desert on a wind-powered buggy.
It took the Queenslander 12 days to conquer the 600-kilometre trip across the desert, dragged along in a buggy attached to a kite.
"I was quite convinced … it would be an impossible desert to cross using wind power," he said.
