A 26-year-old runner making an attempt to run your complete size of Africa, overlaying 360 marathons in 240 days (15,120 km), has had his journey halted in one in every of his last nations—Algeria. Russell Prepare dinner of Worthing, U.Ok., has encountered visa points crossing the border from Mauritania into Algeria, bringing his transcontinental journey to a pause.
Day 278 of working your complete size of Africa. Want your assist now greater than ever on this one. Recognize you all🫡 pic.twitter.com/AvQGt1Noi7
— Russ Prepare dinner (@hardestgeezer) January 23, 2024
Prepare dinner has been on the highway for 278 days, overlaying over 12,000 kilometres by way of 13 completely different nations. He started his journey on the most southern level of Africa in Cape Agulhas, South Africa, on April 22, with the aim last vacation spot being Tunisia’s most northerly level on the Mediterranean Sea.
His journey from South Africa to the Algerian border has not been clean crusing. Prepare dinner, often called the “Hardest Geezer” on social media, has confronted a number of visa problems, well being challenges, and was even robbed at gunpoint in Angola, the place his crew misplaced their cameras, telephones, money and passports. Initially planning to wrap up his journey from South to North Africa in 240 days, the crew is now 38 days over their projected end time, and compelled for an additional extension of the timeline.
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In an interview with the BBC, Prepare dinner stated, “If we don’t get the visas, it’s sport over. It’s the one choice we’ve acquired. There isn’t a different option to get to essentially the most northern tip of Africa [than through Algeria].”
Upon studying of the predicament, Tim Loughton, a neighborhood member of parliament for Prepare dinner’s hometown of Worthing, has been making an attempt to help him in acquiring an Algerian visa. Based on the BBC, Loughton has urged Prepare dinner and his crew to offer particulars for intervention by way of the Overseas Workplace and Algerian Embassy, additionally elevating the problem with the Algerian Ambassador within the U.Ok.
Congratulations to the Algerian handball workforce. I be a part of you in wishing all of them the most effective for the ultimate. Inshallah🇩🇿🫡
— Russ Prepare dinner (@hardestgeezer) January 25, 2024
Prepare dinner’s continental run has been nothing in need of unimaginable, elevating £145,000 (almost CAD $250,000) to assist youth homelessness with The Operating Charity to this point. As Prepare dinner now faces this last hurdle, his hope is that he receives the required assist wanted to achieve the northern shores of Tunisia and the Mediterranean Sea for a noble trigger.
