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“There Must be Suffering”
When Martin Pugh and Jen Lewis agreed to hike the Fish River Canyon in southern Namibia under the direction of Kevin Walker, there were mixed, but mostly positive, feelings about what sort of experience this was going to be. Kevin, who had done the hike before but will freely admit…
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Preparations
Our months of preparation culminated in a final kit inspection (by Kevin) on the Wednesday night in Cape Town. Kit List After 24 hours mentally and physically preparing ourselves (in a 5 star hotel, on the golf course, at a Braai & in the vineyards of Cape Town’s Constantia) for…
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Day 1 of our ‘Adventure’
Everything changed overnight. A message came through from the advance party that the road just before the Namibian border had been washed away by a flash flood. It was like a divine warning.. that we ignored. There was a way around – via the coast – adding 400km and 4…
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Day 1 in the Fish
A lie in today – 6am. Well a 6am wake up for those of us who slept, unlike Martin who had drawn the short straw and ended up on the sofa for a second sleepless night on the trot. Tempers very short this morning. As we hung around waiting for…
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Day 2 – More Boulders & Sand
Jen looks quite smiley in that video. She was not smiley. She’d worked out in the middle of the night that at the pace they were going they were going to miss their flight home and had had a demi panic attack. Many more miserable nights stretched ahead and despair…
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Day 3 – Wind AND Rain
Another night survived. We were all up rather earlier this morning and Kevin, for a second morning, fed us with ProNutro, a soy & maize-based porridge alternative. It was a fake banana flavour and you made it up with hot water. This morning when we ‘tucked in’, it was especially…
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Day 4 – Light at the end of the tunnel
It was a chilly morning but everyone felt pretty cheerful – well… certainly in comparison to the 2 mornings before. Gavin produced some flapjacks & dried mango from his bag of tricks so we were saved from another day of ProNutro. We’d woken early as we knew we had to…
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Day 5 – staggering to the end
It had been an interesting night. We had a black-backed jackal right by our encampment making a hell of a noise and there were lots of other animals around. Kevin was very relieved that Jen was unconscious. There was a lot of nervous energy in the camp – feelings of…
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Reflections
Gavin “Fabulous. Pity my South African wildlife book didn’t have a section on waterborne bugs so I could have at least identified what was swimming about in my water.” High point – Watching the Milky Way through a sand-storm on the final night Low point – Water fleas in his…
Marsh Multinational Hiked the Fish River Canyon 