"The team experienced visitations by dingoes, as well as disturbing several snakes during the hotter weather in the second half of the trip, and temperatures ranging from the mid thirties during the day to as low as minus 5 degrees at night."

Tim completed the first unsupported crossing of Australia's largest desert, the Great Victoria Desert (spanning an area of almost 350,000km²), in June 2001. The crossing is not only the longest unsupported Australian desert crossing but is also thought to be the longest unsupported journey undertaken in Australia by modern definition. The total distance of the expedition was 1,100km in 29 days.