Leisure Wheels

THE MAP MAN

If there’s a road on a Slingsby map, Peter Slingsby has driven it. If there’s a hiking trail on his maps, he’s walked it. Today the Slingsby map collection numbers more than a dozen, with a few books thrown into the mix, too. This is a chap who has got around. We caught up with Peter at his home in Cape Town.

What car do you drive?

We’ve recently acquired a Honda BR-V which we like a lot. We don’t like to have something that can handle roads that are too rough because then we tend to research areas that people in ordinary

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