Records tumble at Rhino challenge
The second edition of the novel Southern Drakensberg assignment seeks to raise awareness and funds for the fight against the plight of both the Rhino and the Bearded Vulture.
RORY Scheffer and Holly Page celebrated World Rhino Day on Thursday by overcoming treacherous conditions and wind gusts of over 100 kilometres per hour to shatter the records for the Rhino Peak Challenge. The duo set new male and female Fastest Known Times (FKTs) for the 21 kilometre journey from Gooderson Drakensberg Gardens to the top of the iconic Rhino Peak and back.
As part of global World Rhino Day celebrations, the second edition of the novel Southern Drakensberg assignment seeks to raise awareness and funds for the fight against the plight of both the Rhino and the Bearded Vulture.
Scheffer and Lucky Miya met each other stride for stride for the majority of the encounter.
“This was definitely the shortest races I’ve done in the Berg but one of the tougher ones,” said Scheffer. “The sheer altitude gain in the first 10 kilometres was something quite different and the wind played a big part in things too.”
“It was a howling wind up the top that most people here had never experienced. It was beautiful though and definitely one of my favourite events,” he said.
He added the event will keep getting better and better.
“Yes we’re all here to go as quick as we can so that we can raise as much money as we can but everyone is a lot more relaxed than normal and the social side of things was great. None of us were really here to outdo each other and the fact that the FKT record was there to be broken was an incentive to push for a faster time in order for us to raise more money, not to try break the record as such.
