I worked with Theo in Thailand near the end of my tour leading days, where my memory starts to blur (probably because of all that time at the corner bar...).

He came to tour leading via a classified ad in TNT magazine and a reference from his boss at a party tour company, a woman who'd watched him manage coachloads of drunk Brits across Europe and figured he'd be fine.

She was mostly right.

This episode covers eight years across Egypt, Jordan, China, Mongolia and Papua.

• A girl lost overnight in the Malaysian jungle, an army search, and how she's survived on one piece of advice he'd thrown out as she set off.
• A horse in Mongolia that sat down mid-ride, then stood up and bolted with his foot still in the stirrup. The broken ankle that followed, a five-hour drive to a town called Moron, and crutches handmade by l ...