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80 Mzanzi Edge Expedition team members at the start of the final leg of their journey. 22 |
SEA RESCUE AUTUMN 2021
Most travelled man in Africa. In fact, we can add ‘humanitarian’ to the list too, because all of his expeditions use ‘adventure to improve and save lives’. Each expedition the Kingsley Holgate Foundation undertakes (many of them world firsts) supports one or all of the following causes: malaria prevention, provision of reading glasses, wildlife conservation, early childhood development, clean drinking water and, more recently, during Covid-19, hunger relief. The Mzansi Edge Expedition was an 80-day 14 000km journey tracking the outline of South Africa that took the team through eight provinces, around the border of landlocked Lesotho and along the coast. During their adventure, they canoed the Orange River, traversed the Diamond Coast of the Northern and Western Cape, made 30 river crossings, and visited 52 lighthouses,
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On Friday 5 December 2020, Kingsley Holgate and members of his Mzansi Edge Expedition team stopped off at Station 5 (Durban) at the start of the final leg of their 14 000km journey tracking the entire outline of South Africa. It was a day to remember. By Wendy Maritz
INGSLEY HOLGATE NEEDS LITTLE introduction. Adventurer. Explorer. Author.
