Almost one 12 months after he began, traversing deserts, mountains and rainforest across 16 nations, Russ Cook – extra broadly referred to as the Hardest Geezer – has accomplished his problem to run your complete size of Africa.
The process of masking the space, equating to greater than 385 marathons, was initially deliberate to finish by Christmas.
Instead 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 situations on his route north from South Africa to Tunisia’s Mediterranean coast.
Cook and his workforce have been robbed at gunpoint, confronted irritating border delays and acquired police escorts alongside the way in which. He has struggled on via sickness, damage and unforgiving terrain.
But, on Sunday, joined for his closing marathon by folks he has impressed and celebrated on social media the place his achievement has been documented, Cook and his workforce’s epic journey got here to an finish.
He claims to be the primary individual to have ever run the complete size of the continent and has thus far raised greater than £600,000 for his chosen charities in finishing the exceptional endurance feat – nicely over midway to the £1m goal he set.
This is the story of his previous 12 months.
