A 26-year-old runner trying to run the whole size of Africa, overlaying 360 marathons in 240 days (15,120 km), has had his journey halted in considered one of his last nations—Algeria. Russell Prepare dinner of Worthing, U.Okay., has encountered visa points crossing the border from Mauritania into Algeria, bringing his transcontinental journey to a pause.
Day 278 of working the whole size of Africa. Want your assist now greater than ever on this one. Respect you all🫡 pic.twitter.com/AvQGt1Noi7
— Russ Prepare dinner (@hardestgeezer) January 23, 2024
Prepare dinner has been on the street for 278 days, overlaying over 12,000 kilometres by 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, referred to as 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 one more extension of the timeline.
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In an interview with the BBC, Prepare dinner mentioned, “If we don’t get the visas, it’s sport over. It’s the one choice we’ve obtained. There is no such thing as a different method to get to probably 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. In accordance with the BBC, Loughton has urged Prepare dinner and his crew to offer particulars for intervention by the Overseas Workplace and Algerian Embassy, additionally elevating the problem with the Algerian Ambassador within the U.Okay.
Congratulations to the Algerian handball group. I be a part of you in wishing all of them the perfect for the ultimate. Inshallah🇩🇿🫡
— Russ Prepare dinner (@hardestgeezer) January 25, 2024
Prepare dinner’s continental run has been nothing wanting unimaginable, elevating £145,000 (practically CAD $250,000) to assist youth homelessness with The Operating Charity to date. As Prepare dinner now faces this last hurdle, his hope is that he receives the required assist wanted to succeed in the northern shores of Tunisia and the Mediterranean Sea for a noble trigger.
