FAMOUS Dorset explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell is taking a new expedition to a remote region of North Eastern Bolivia and adventurers are being sought for the mission.

The task is to provide aid to the indigenous people and study archaeological remains of an ancient settlement that may have been destroyed by a meteorite.

In 2007, a team from the Scientific Exploration Society explored a five mile-wide crater and using electronic equipment located the meteorite 3,000 metres underground.

The expedition will also give medical and dental aid to villages as well as digging wells and further investigating the strange double-nosed hunting dogs, originally found by the explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett in 1912.

No one believed his story until Colonel Blashford-Snell, from Motcombe, near Shaftesbury, and a team rediscovered the dogs in 2005. The people of Ojaki, the village nearest to the meteorite crater, are very musical and in 2007 the society team took them an organ from Milton Abbas Church.

The new expedition aims to do some repair work on the organ and provide a replacement violin for one of the children there who has become a talented violinist. The expedition involving eight people will be in Bolivia from August 25 to September 12.

People interested in joining up should email jbs@ses-explore.org or call Ann Gilby on 01747 854456.