FRANCAISGuilde européenne du raid - History
1967-1979
-From 1970, France: Patrick Edel takes over the Guild and organizes car rallies to Kabul in 1972, Dakar in 1974, Rio de Janeiro in 1976 and Kathmandu in 1977. Philippe de Dieuleveult, a member of his staff, drives a truck up to the Christian sector in Lebanon during the civil war, and reaches fame as the master of ceremony of a TV show, before vanishing into the Zaire River in 1985 (most probably killed by Mobutu Sese Seko’s security forces). The Guild wants adventure to be useful and to contribute to development. Based upon its previous experiments in Asia, it gets heavily involved in Afghanistan.
