Around Lake Malawi For Pangolins
When we sat in the plane on our way back from Malawi – sunburned, scratched, spent – Xavier turned to me and asked, “How would you answer if someone asked you how Around Lake Malawi was?”
Neither of us had an answer. We’ve since been asked this question a hundred times, and still don’t.
A SEED IS PLANTED
The idea to run around the ninth biggest lake in the world came to us in different ways. I watched a TV programme years ago, about Levison Wood walking the full distance of the Nile River. I was inspired and realised that I’ve never heard about anyone running around one of the big lakes on our continent.
What followed was endless hours of research, staring at the blue strip of Lake Malawi thinking “How cool would it be to run around that thing?!”
Xavier had read about a
