HIGH IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
MOUNTAINS seem to have a special fascination for Land Rover Ambassador and Africa’s celebrity explorer Kingsley Holgate and his expedition crew. In 2016, I joined them for a hugely enjoyable journey that saw ten historic Series Is rattling and roaring through the mountain kingdom of Lesotho, in tribute to the end of the Defender range as we knew it back then.
Two years later, we met up again. This time in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal, as Kingsley and his team completed their transcontinental expedition from Cape Town to Kathmandu, which included traversing the highaltitude, snow-bound passes of Georgia and Armenia, and Pakistan’s Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountain ranges: a world-first journey for the latest Land Rover Discovery.
At the beginning of this year and BC (‘Before COVID-19’), the Greybeard of African adventurer was at it again, this time in his own backyard, with a goal of completing 100 of southern Africa’s toughest and highest mountain passes in just 30 days. Called ‘Riding
