Tri-The Beloved Country 2011

“Mama, Dada is an adventurer, hey?” “Yes,” I agreed, proud of how articulate she was (my genes, clearly). “And what does Mama do?” I asked,...

Adventurer Kim Van Kets has written a book about her incredible trip around the perimeter of South Africa

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Tri the Beloved Country is over. 6 762km done in 148 days. The breakdown is 2 409km of running, 3 748km of cycling and 615km of paddling/kayaking...

So here we are 90km from home after nearly 5 months and 6700km on the Road! It felt completely surreal to cross the Great Fish River and to...

We are in the Eastern Cape and cannot believe we are into our final week. This time next week will be arriving at Nahoon Beach in east London...

A lot has happened since rounding Cape Point late in June! After battling the freezing rain and flu all the way to Cape Aghulus, things started...

Kim ran into Mossel bay on Sunday completing her 40km’s in a lot of pain. She has since been diagnosed with a severe stress fracture to her...

After almost 3 weeks of constant rain and cold together with our annoying colds and flu I am now totally over Cape winters (though by all...

Please remember that this can never be cast in stone because of all the unforeseen things that constantly happen. Wed 29 June – Gordon’s...

After a great rest day on Monday at the Protea Hotel Seapoint, we were blessed with one perfect winters day for the beautiful run via Camp’s Bay...

Its been quite a week! We had an amazing time in Vredendal with Pippa and Riekert Botha and friends from the Kalahari Augrabies Extreme Marathon...

We have just finished our rest day in Elands and are heading towards Cape Town. We arrive on a Sunday, rest day on Monday and will start in the...

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Since leaving Port Nolloth we have covered another 320km which means I have now gone over 5000km in total. I have loved being back on the beach,...

Team Kim is heading into serious no contact for a while so I thought i should quickly share some photos. View the new Gallery Pictures  ...

Its day 91 and hard to believe that the paddling leg of the expedition is over after 13 days and 615km. What an amazing experience it has been....

We have just returned from cycling a portage section around the lower gorge on the Orange River near Onseepkans which is just in from Pofadder....

It was completely surreal to ride into one of our favourite camping spots (Khamkirri) on the banks of the Orange River after a...