Alex Williams was born in 1957 in Melbourne, Australia. He had an unsurprising upbringing in the suburbs, living the standard Australian dream. At the age of 17, all of that changed when he was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Since then, he has lived in Brisbane, Saudi Arabia and India, working with the massive computers that power the financial world.
After being entranced by the exotic allure of life in the Middle East during a five-year stint in Saudi Arabia, an irresistible opportunity for an extreme adventure in the Moroccan Sahara presents itself. Coupled with the unexpected eruption of a volcano in Iceland, the stage is set for a non-stop, ...