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The life of Geoff Hann (85) probably the world’s oldest tour leader, who died from a stroke in Baghdad’s Yarmouk Hospital in April was celebrated at a commemoration at London’s Abrar Foundation. For 50 years Hann took tourists to Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Kashmir… the list goes on. The overland trips started in the 1970s when Hann drove from London to India where his wife had gone to live in an ashram. He lost a wife and the world gained an adventurer who, through his company, Hann Overland (and later Hinterland Travel) organised hundreds of trips to the world’s trouble spots…