Our fellow hikers
Shaen Adey is a professional photographer, writer, woodturner and bubbles drinker who lives on Eastlake Island in Marina da Gama, Cape Town. She’s been hiking all her life, inspired by her grandfather who was a conservationist in the Drakensberg. “His words of advice when I was a kid were: ‘Always remember, there’s no such thing as a short cut on a mountain.’ I totally agree with him, but I’ve ignored the second part, where he said: ‘And be home by dark.’ To me, there’s nothing more special than sleeping out under the stars.”
is our travel editor and lives in Vredehoek, Cape Town. He says he’s never fit enough at the start of a long hike. “But I’ve learnt that it’s not really necessary.
