A team of South African adventurers will be embarking on the journey of a lifetime as they set out to climb and paraglide from the top of the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. If successful, the team will be the first to paraglide from all seven peaks.
The 7Summits7Flights team of Pierre Carter, Marianne Schwankhart and Peter Friedman were prevented from climbing and then flying off Denali, Alaska, earlier this week.
Pierre Carter, Marianne Schwankhart and Peter Friedman left yesterday, Monday 7 June 2010, for Denali, the first of the seven mountains to conquer for their 7Summits7Flights initiative. This trio aims to climb to the summits of the highest mountains on each of the seven continents and to paraglide their descent from the summit.
With her successful ascent of Mt Everest this morning, Mandy Ramsden has become the first South African woman to bag all Seven Summits. According to the Adventure Consultants website, she topped out around 07h45 (Nepal time) on Saturday, 22 May 2010.
In the next few days Mandy Ramsden may be South Africa’s first women to summit the big Seven. Climbing with the New Zealand outfit, Adventure Consultants, she’s currently at Camp 2 and getting ready for a summit bid between 21 and 24 May.
So there’s this guy, Rob Forbes, who left the UK in October last year on an expedition to South Africa with the ultimate intention of watching England in the World Cup. Rob’s 20,000km adventure is a self-styled ‘triathlon’.
Everest season is well underway with some successful summits last week. A bunch of South Africans are sitting on the mountain, waiting for a more sustainable weather window to open before making their summit attempts.
After rowing 5500 kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean, in 76 days, solo rower Peter van Kets made landfall in Antigua on Monday, 22 March 2010. And this morning he landed in Jo’burg, en route to his home in East London.
Trail runners Wouna and Gerry le Roux are currently on a three-week unsupported endurace walk through the Klein Karoo from J-Bay to Yzerfontein. Now 14-days into their journey, they’re halfway through their expedition, named ‘Walking for Water’.
Ray Chaplin, who has been walking from Cape Town to Beit Bridge towing a trailer loaded with his kit and water, has just under 270km to go to Beit Bridge. He should be there by this time next week. Ray has made steady progress since he set off from Cape Town at New Year.
