Excessive marathon runner Russ Cook dinner accomplished his run throughout your complete size of Africa in Tunisia on Sunday after travelling by means of 16 international locations, with the 352-day odyssey together with being robbed at gunpoint and struggling meals poisoning.
Cook dinner began his journey final April at Africa’s most southerly level, the South African village of L’Agulhas, and proceeded up the continent’s west coast, operating a complete of over 16,000 kilometres.
“The primary individual ever to run your complete size of Africa. Mission full,” Cook dinner posted on social media platform X.
The 27-year-old handed by means of Namibia, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania and Algeria, earlier than arriving at Ras Angela on Sunday night.
The endurance athlete, who calls himself the “Hardest Geezer”, has additionally raised greater than half a hundreds of thousands kilos for charity alongside the way in which.
“The primary aim is to problem your self and do one thing unimaginable which is what ‘Hardest Geezer’ is all about,” Simon Klima of Givestar charity platform informed Reuters.
“Concurrently elevate some huge cash for some actually necessary causes, that is taking place on the Givestar platform, so we’re very privileged to have that occuring there.
“To date practically 600,000 kilos ($758,160.00) has been raised for 2 charities, Sandblast and the Working charity. Hopefully, going to hit one million kilos, Russ will hit one million kilos together with his fundraiser, that is the goal.”
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