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Speaker Russell McGilton

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‘Congratulations,’ grinned Dr Chawla. ‘You are having the malaria.’
‘Oh…is this cerebral malaria? You know the one that goes to your brain then kills you?’
‘Oh, no, no, no…at least, not yet.’

And so begins Russell McGilton adventure as he attempts to cycle from Bombay to Beijing by bicycle in the hope of writing a book about his cycling odyssey.

Inspired by a life changing event and the taste for good ol’ adventure, Russell would not only battle the reoccurring malarial fevers but would unwittingly cycle near a nuclear test site, be chased by packs of wild dogs in the dead of night, run up trees to escape charging rhinos, get caught a little too near to Afghanistan during September 11 and lastly, have a stack with a yak.

Overcoming these adversities, Russell managed to complete the trip in 10 months and to successfully have his dream of having the book published (Yakety Yak: Bombay to Beijing by Bicycle Penguin Group) while a one man show of the trip Bombay to Beijing by Bicycle won the George Fairfax Playwright Competition 2003. Russell was also featured in the Melbourne Writers’ Festival 2004 and has appeared on Red Symons’s 774 radio program, 2UE Sydney and with Russell Gilbert on Radio SEN 1116.

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