The late Geoff Hann was a veteran overland traveller and adventurer who had explored the Middle East and Asia since the 1960s. His travels variously included being blown up by the Taliban, shot at by the Syrians and getting caught up in the Iranian Revolution. In the early boom years of overland-to-Asia expeditions during the 1970s he personally drove and led over 20 group departures from London to Kathmandu by road, many via Iraq, others through Afghanistan. More recently he led small groups to various parts of India, Tibet, China, Bangladesh, Central Asia, Iran and Iraq. During the Iran–Iraq conflict (1980–88) the tourist groups he took to Iraq were often the only travellers in the country. In October 2000, he renewed his archaeological/historical tours to Iraq. Hann died in Iraq in 2022 and is buried in Baghdad’s Christian Cemetery.