Monthly Archives: April 2019
The Dragon’s Breath: Bailed DGT April 2019
Some background The Drakensberg Grand Traverse (or DGT for short) is nothing new. I don’t know who recorded the first variation of the route, but I believe it was at least 40 years ago. There have been many different variations in direction and line, but the concept is roughly that of following the border between […]
Doubling back
Back in 2016 I had a rather odd idea – to do two Drakensberg Grand Traverses back to back. On a cloudy Thursday in January 2017 this goal was completed. It had been the hardest hike I had ever done, and I decided to take 6 weeks off hiking to let everything recover from the […]
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