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The space shots who fell out of the sky were Mike Rumble and Graham Field - and this was Graham’s 4,000th jump. Congratulations, man - that’s, like, one a day for more than ten years!

Mike Rumble Interview

  • Boundless Southern Africa Expedition - here
  • Kingsley Holgate - here

The Holgate family has completed a journey in open boats from Cape Town to Cairo, Alexandria and the mouth of the Nile, circumnavigated the globe by land along the Tropic of Capricorn, sailed landyachts around the rim of the Makgadikgadi pans in the Kalahari, followed the Zambezi and Congo Rivers in the footsteps of explorers Livingstone and Stanley, circumnavigated Lake Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake and Victoria Africa’s greatest, explored the Rufiji and the Rovuma, the Omo, Tugela and the Niger Rivers, spent a year on an expedition called African Rainbow sailing an old traditional Swahili dhow to the Somali border and back down to Ihla da Mozambique and now more recently, spent 448 days tracking the outside edge of Africa through 33 countries whilst supporting a One Net One Life malaria prevention campaign and other humanitarian initiatives.

Kingsley Holgate’s latest adventure is called the Boundless Southern Africa Expedition and it’s all about nature, community and culture, this time from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic, a journey through nine countries: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and seven Transfrontier Conservation Areas - /Ai-/Ais-Richtersveld Transfrontier Park, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Limpopo/Shashe Transfrontier Conservation Area, Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation and Resource Area and the Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area.

The objective is a single symbolic Land Rover journey to link 2 oceans, 9 countries, 30 national parks and nature reserves, 7 Transfrontier Conservation Areas and the communities that live within or alongside these conservation areas. These rural communities need to be part of, and see benefit from Conservation Tourism. The Boundless Southern Africa Expedition aims to entrench the Peace Parks Transfrontier Conservation vision initiated by Dr Anton Rupert and Madiba. The 120 day journey has the full support of the Peace Parks Foundation, the South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT) and the conservation and tourism bodies of the 9 SADC countries.

Miss South Africa and soccer star Lucas Radebe cut the ribbon and the convoy of Land Rovers lead by a mountain bike team left from the International Tourism Indaba this morning. Government ministers, tourism and conservation officials and sponsors will endorse a Scroll of Peace and Goodwill in support of Conservation to be carried and messaged across Southern Africa. This time the symbolic calabash was filled with Indian Ocean seawater and will be emptied in 120 days time into the Atlantic at the mouth of the Orange on the Namibian Sperrgebiet side.

As part of the expedition the family is planning to have conservation community days – there’ll be the presentation of box libraries to schools, environmental education, cultural events, the judging of a conservation themed Boundless Art Competition, a Boundless Soccer Challenge with a floating trophy and to a rural school adjacent to the Tembe Elephant Reserve (which is part of the South African / Mozambican Transfrontier Conservation Area),  Grindrod will be donating a permanent 40’ container library which will also serve as an environmental centre. Through the expedition’s Rite to Sight project the family will continue to distribute spectacles to the elderly poor sighted and facilitate cataract operations. The One Net One Life malaria prevention will form part of the community work that will take place in the Parque National da Limpopo, the recently proclaimed Transfrontier Conservation Area on the Mozambique side of the Kruger National Park.

It’s a 120 day expedition and an ongoing ‘Boundless’ project.

The Boundless Southern Africa Route will be mapped by Garmin / Garmap. In time other adventurers will add their comments, all of which will one day create one of the most exciting adventure routes in the world – This Tourism Week will keep you posted.

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