The brave lads

The Swedish contribution to this year's Mongol Rally is one nine-to-fiver and five students from Malmö, Uppsala and Umeå though one at the moment is in exile in Boston USA, studying at Harvard University. In the summer of 2009 they will put the books aside and leave their secure and comfortable lives behind. Instead dusty desert roads and high mountains awaits. All participants are thoroughly evaluated and all of them posses attributes crucial for survival.

		Ulf Troeng - or Uffe as he is called, is an engineering student in Uppsala. He is also an orienteer and good with the map and compass, something that probably will come into use.
		Hannes Rutqvist– engineering student in Uppsala and soon-to-be trainee in Oslo. He's been driving a Fiat Uno his all life and knows how claustrophobia is cured.
		Johan Sundin– engineering student in Uppsala who handels a socket wrench like a Stradivarius and a weld like a... cucumber.
		Jakob Rutqvist– treehugger and political scientist who lives in Harvard-exile and hunts sponsorships in his extensive network.
		Henrik Petré – tourism student in Umeå who enjoys setbacks and can manage without food for three weeks.
		Andreas Haga – adventurer and factotum (possibly the only one that actually knows stuff about cars) who just recently has been climbing mountains in New Zealand and worked as a plumber in Australia.
		Patrik Sundlöf – Film producer, successful in Copenhagen, that saw his film rights for the rally evaporate. Patrik is only a passanger from UK to Iran.