Dozens flew into join the support cast for the final leg on Russ Cook as he finished his gruelling challenge to run the length of Africa.
There was only one way to capture the magnitude of Russ Cook's monumental mission ending - running with the history maker. Dozens flew in from England and beyond to join the support cast for the final leg on the 352nd day and 16th country of this odyssey across Africa. They gathered by a petrol station in the tiny town of Ghezala in remote northern Tunisia in the fierce morning heat, waiting for the hero who captured their imaginations to arrive.
'You get one chance at life,' he told me. 'Go and have a stab at it.' And after checking he was going the right way, the 27-year-old was off into the Tunisian countryside. It was far smoother terrain than much of the trek around Africa's west coast that started at the continent's most southerly point near Cape Town last April. Maintaining strength and safety was a constant concern. In Angola, phones and passports stolen as he was robbed at gunpoint.
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