If you are in Cornwall on Wednesday, and you have a bit of time on your hands and an eye for adventure, take a detour to Mullion school, on the Lizard Peninsula.

Lying at a latitude of exactly 50 degrees north, the school is the point from which the winners of InGear’s most ambitious competition yet will be departing at the start of an expedition that will see them circling the globe.

Called Team Latitude, the three-man expedition came up with an exciting plan to circumnavigate the world along that single line of latitude. They have received a Land Rover 110 Defender for the trip and a £10,000 grant, as well as sponsorship from the Royal Geographic Society and the Institute of British Geographers. Along the way they will observe and record how changes in climate affect people’s lives.

“The past few months have been frantic as we have gathered all our stuff together and planned the route,” says Spike Reid, one of the members. “Last week we had a huge party in London for friends and family – at the Old Explorer pub, which we thought was appropriate. Now we are concentrating on making sure everything is ready for the off.”

Reid, 25, will be in charge of communications and photography on the trip. David Smith, 27, will be responsible for liaising with embassies and is the cook, while Peter Lovell, 26, is the team mechanic.

The team will travel to Dover, then take the ferry across to Calais, where they will spend the first night camping before rising early to continue the drive east through Belgium, on into Poland and then Ukraine. “For me, the adventure will really begin when we leave the EU and head into eastern Europe, Kazakhstan and Mongolia,” says Reid. “But the whole thing – every last mile of it – is going to be the road trip of a lifetime.”