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Raffaele de Leon - Winner of the 2008 Youth Award

Raffaele won our Youth Award for his proposed one-man expedition to China. Having arrived at Hong Kong, during the unrest that preceded the Beijing Olympics, he was denied a visa. Undaunted, he decided to visit, instead, North Vietnam and North Pakistan on a succession of hired motor bikes, a crash helmet and very, very little luggage.

Having returned safely to these shores, Raffaele is now studying Biochemistry at Exeter, College, Oxford.