A man has cycled across Africa 1,756 miles, evading wild elephants and snakes along the route of his marathon challenge.
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| Matthew Myerscough |
From Cardiff, Matthew Myerscough kicked off the coast-to-coast challenge in Beira, Mozambique, on 2 April, and reached his destination of Swakopmund in Namibia in twenty-eight (28) days.
Myerscough is a 37-year old civil engineer. He covered between 50 and 124 miles a day, saying, “It’s definitely been very challenging physically”.
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| Matthew Myerscough |
Crossing an enormous section of the Kalahari Desert in one day, with nowhere to buy a drink was an exceedingly demanding part of the trip, during which he raised money for charity.
“Doing it by myself has been fantastic and rewarding… but when you have the lows… you’ve got to pick yourself up and there’s no one else to do that,” he said.
Photos: Matthew Myerscough via BBC
