Two intrepid Britons put their faith in Midland manufacturing in order to complete an epic journey around the globe.

Peter and Eileen Crichton have now concluded their expedition, having embarked on the adventure 11 years ago.

Their preferred mode of a transport has been a Solihull-built Land Rover Discovery – dubbed Rabia – with tyres supplied by Staffordshire-based Michelin.

The Crichtons began long distance travelling in their Land Rover in 1997 while based in the Middle East. Their passion ultimately took them around the world twice, covering a total of 150,000km during 23 months on the road.

Their first expedition was a single circuit of 42,000km circling the Northern Hemisphere by the longest land route possible and this six month passage through four continents left them hungry for more. The second circuit was a 99,000km jaunt in the Southern Hemisphere, plus a 50,000km trip through Africa.

Australia was the first southerly challenge with the couple planning to reach all eight extreme compass points around the continent’s 30,000km shoreline. This was only thwarted by the difficulty of reaching the most northwesterly point in the Kimberly region.

After Australia came South America where they followed the Inca trail through the Andes from its most southerly point in Chile some 8,000km north to the Colombian border, much of it at high altitude and through wild remote places on difficult tracks. At the northern limit they continued through Colombia and Venezuela before shipping to North West Africa.

In total the expedition covered 15,000km over three months and included a detour to drive up the volcanic ash slopes of Mount Cotopaxi in Ecuador to reach the snow line at 4,850 metres.

Finally the intrepid couple rolled into Africa.

Completing an anti-clockwise circle of the continent they drove off-road amid unpredictable seasonal weather which quickly changed a driveable route into a 4x4 test track. They drove to Cape Town through the Sahara and through the jungles of Cameroon, Gabon, Congo and Angola before following the Rift Valley from its southern limit in Mozambique and up through the Middle East to complete the circuit to their start point in the UK. In total, their African odyssey covered 49,782km.

Mr Crichton has now been signed up as a advocate for Michelin’s products, particularly its all terrain tyres – which he has tested to extreme.

“Throughout our travels the Michelin tyres performed flawlessly over every conceivable terrain that the world could throw at us,” he said. “Good tyres are a core aspect of reliable travel in the world’s remote and wild places. We were immensely relieved that we could rely entirely on the products supplied by Michelin UK,” he said.

The all terrain tyres are designed for 50/50 road/off-road usage and the Crichtons’ Global Discovery Expedition pushed them to the limit.

Incredibly, the 50,000km leg of the journey around the African continent was completed with just one puncture.