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"A Solo Walk Across Africa"

There’s a significant difference between myself and most visitors to Africa: for purely practical reasons, right now I don’t actually wish to see a lion at all – especially without knowing if it’s hungry or not until it sinks its teeth into me.

Statistically the chances of getting eaten by a lion in Africa are pretty low. Yet someone has to get eaten once in a while for such statistics to exist. As I set out to cross the game reserve on foot, I have to remind myself that most accidents happen at home – though not, admittedly, accidents involving lions…

(Extract from 'Traversa' published by Duckworth)

The idea of crossing Africa on foot seemed already firmly established in many people's minds as some exceptionally difficult feat. And yet how many people had actually done it? I decided to walk every step of the way from one coast of Africa to the other, completely alone: no backup, no support team, no one to make arrangements for me, no one to carry my gear, no sponsors, no funding, no film crew, no journalists, no fuss, no cheering crowds, and no strings attached. Above all, it had to be on a one-way ticket: no safety nets, no get-out clauses and nothing to fall back on ...

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