THE #CodeClimber team completed their 9 Peaks on Sunday, July 16, in record time despite encountering extreme weather along the way.
As mentioned in last week’s Letaba Herald, they set off on their attempt last week Wednesday, July 12 from the base of the Iron Crown at midnight and from thereon took the 9 Peaks by the horns.
Also read: 9 Peaks Record up-and-running after Tuesday start at Iron Crown
The team consisting of Adrian Saffy, Alex Harris, Tian Liebenberg and Sean Disney were hit by horrible winds and rain while summiting their 7th peak, Kwaduma in the Eastern Cape, and also had to trudge through snow on their final peak, Seweweekspoort in the Western Cape. However, they did not let this halt their record attempt and still managed to set a new record of 4 days 15 hours and 58 minutes.
In case you were wondering how they might have pulled this off, you must know that this team includes two 7 Summit (The highest summit on all seven continents) climbers in Alex and Sean, Sean has climbed Mt. Everest twice (from the north and south sides), Tian is halfway through his 7 Summits and Adrian has completed all seven Expedition Africa 500km races, so this is no mean feat.
