French engineer and adventurer with an extraordinary story of survival.

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What an amazing coincidence!


It is Emile Leray, a French engineer and adventurer with an extraordinary story of survival.

 On a solo trip to Morocco in 1993, the Citroën 2CV he was driving struck a large rock, damaging the chassis. Leray was stranded twenty miles from the nearest village.  He had only enough food and water to survive for ten days.  Worse still, he had no radio, no telephone, or spare tire.

 Poor Leray is facing death in the vast and cruel Sahara Desert.


Leray, astonishingly, did not give up. He decided to use his skills as an electrician and his mechanical knowledge to build a new vehicle that could get him out of the desert.

 The impromptu project, which took twelve days and eleven nights, used tools such as hammers, pliers, saws, and drills.

 Leray used his car's body as a shelter after removing the body. He then took three wheels from his car and attached them to a shortened frame, which he fixed with axles.

 Leray then converted the rear bumper into a seat and placed the engine in front of it.  He also added key fobs to the handlebars and rear wheel suspension. managed to ride it like a motorbike.

 True, the motorcycle was certainly not perfect, but it functioned well enough for him to ride across the desert.


He had to deal with sandstorms, heat waves, scorpions, snakes, and other wild animals on his journey, so it wasn't easy. He also had to struggle with hunger, thirst, fatigue, and loneliness.

 But one thing strengthened him: he focused on his goal of getting out of the hottest desert in the world.  Just that!

 Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow"


   Writer: Binod Kumar Simkhada
 binodkumarsimkhada315@gmail.com

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