It's been a few years now since I first heard of Mark Beaumont. It was 2007, and he was attempting to break the World Record for cycling solo around the world. As a former pupil of the High School of Dundee, his journey was being shadowed and blogged by his former geography teacher Val Vannet, and when she was unable to do a few weeks while on holiday I took over and tracked Mark through SE Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Mark ended up smashing the world record. I created a powerful assembly piece to fund raise, and put some of the pictures from the trip to the Rush track 'Ghost Rider'...Since then Mark has had a lot of amazing adventures, and has travelled the world. He cycled from N to S through the Americas: climbing Denali and Aconcagua as well...
His most recent challenge was a solo cycle from Cairo to Cape Town: 10 000km through Africa - although as I pointed out, it was downhill most of the way as he was heading south...
Earlier this week, Mark completed the journey, and once again smashed the record: taking 42 days when the previous record was 59...
Expect a book and search through the tweets and website for more details on this trip. It's an interesting way in to finding out about the diversity of landscape in Africa.
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