Ex-Skandia CIO Clive Hale screeches into Mongolia

Currently in Mongolia, the industry veteran says he has fallen off his bike seven times since setting off on 4 June from London in a bid to raise £10,000 for SOS Children. "I've been 10,000 miles and had seven ‘offs', mostly in sand which is a nightmare on two wheels but blessedly soft to land in," he says. Hale, a senior investment consultant at Towry Law until last year, plans to travel through 20 countries during the trip, which is scheduled to end in New York on 26 September. Inspired by Ewan McGregor's motorcycle adventures with pal Charley Boorman in the BBC's Long Way Round,...