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Lesotho Crossing

It is 1:25pm on Friday 6 March 2020. Four of us have just completed the final 40km of our 250km adventure through central Lesotho.

This was a dream we've had since 2015, when we visited the fairytale Mountain Kingdom for the first time.

But, a couple of hours later, we are hit with the news of COVID-19, stock markets crashing around the world, and devastating fires in Cape Town.

Christiaan and Landie Greyling (professional trail runners, running coaches, parents, and industrial engineer and chartered accountant respectively) had the vision to run across the Mountain

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