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Explorers Club brings you…A Walk in the Wild 2017
Explorers Club launches its first mini-Expedition..
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Marks on the Franschhoek Pass – this is why…
We noticed a lot of tyre action over the pass road this weekend. [vimeo 186454307 w=640 h=360] <p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/186454307″>Mad Mike Drifts BADBUL Around the Franschhoek Pass – Conquer The Cape</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user8998314″>fazalwahab</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
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Marathon des Sables Stage 4 update: Ash in camp
Message from Ash via Nick: ‘Well here I am on the afternoon after the long day. To say it was emotional is an understatement! It took me 26 hours to cover 82KM. I hit a serious wall at CP5 and slept at the CP for 2hours then I got up at 2.30 and set off…
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Marathon des Sable: Ash completes Stage 4!!
No words. Just fantastic!!! The big one leg is over, the double-length, through the Saharan night. She has just crossed the line. Awesome Ash. Well done!
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Marathon des Sables Stage 4: Update from Nick
No words from Ash herself today, this being the long stage. However the great news is she has just reached checkpoint 4 of 7. The distance she has travelled today in 12 hours is a little more than she has been doing in 9 or so hours so up to now, so she is taking…
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Stage 3: Marathon des Sables – update from Ash
Ash’s news from today: ‘I have made it through another day beautiful and hard today in equal measure. Massive dunes in the first section and then a very high jebel that we had to scramble up then flat very hot salt pans. For quite a way. Then more dunes and an amazing ancient castle on…
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Wild Swimming: the rage in Europe can take on proper meaning when you dip into the waters of the Okavango at Explorers Camp
You see books being published on the best wild swimming holes in rivers, lochs, estuaries and lakes in Europe. But nothing quite beats lolling in the clear cool waters of the Selinda spillway, fed by the Okavango, after a long walk through the bush. There may be more lurking under the water than a few…
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The Trigger – Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World To War. Tim Butcher talks at The Library, Franschhoek, on 11th September
Please find details on how to book tickets on the link below: Tim Butcher talk Sept 11, 2014
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Bring Back Choirboy races Mercedes down Franschhoek Pass
On a stormy winters day a daredevil on a skateboard races down the Franschhoek Pass against a Mercedes.
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Franschhoek families execute a safari
Five families. Ten adults (but could be classified otherwise) and thirteen children from Franschhoek decided to go on safari. South African, Dutch, Australian and Scottish. A cocktail recipe for disaster. The unfortunate hangover was for the neighbouring campers, that unbeknown to them, had to endure the onslaught of Franschhoek-on-tour. Your neighbours from the bottom-of-the-barrel; soused…
