Nearly one 12 months after he began, traversing deserts, mountains and rainforest throughout 16 nations, Russ Prepare dinner – extra broadly generally known as the Hardest Geezer – has accomplished his problem to run your complete size of Africa.
The duty of masking the space, equating to greater than 385 marathons, was initially deliberate to finish by Christmas.
As an alternative the 16,300km journey – greater than 10,000 miles – has taken 352 days and compelled the red-headed 27-year-old from Worthing to beat quite a few dramatic twists, life-threatening conditions and unforgiving circumstances on his route north from South Africa to Tunisia’s Mediterranean coast.
Prepare dinner and his workforce had been robbed at gunpoint, confronted irritating border delays and obtained police escorts alongside the best way. He has struggled on by means of sickness, damage and unforgiving terrain.
However, on Sunday, joined for his last marathon by folks he has impressed and celebrated on social media the place his achievement has been documented, Prepare dinner and his workforce’s epic journey got here to an finish.
He claims to be the primary particular person to have ever run the complete size of the continent and has to date raised greater than £650,000 for his chosen charities in finishing the exceptional endurance feat – nicely over midway to the £1m goal he set.
That is the story of his previous 12 months.