Day 5 - Namib national park On the truck for 6:45 am drive 50 kilometres to national park ..... Drive to Dune45 which is 350 metres high ..... Annette was the first to reach the summit and I was second - many of the team didn't make it. Hard work but worth it .... Most returned to the base by the conventional route but at the suggestion of the wild Danish Viking both myself and Annette "skied" down the side face and returned to the truck to meet a welcome breakf...

Day 4 - The longest day Today we had to travel 650 kilometres, it would be the longest distance travelled in a single day - the weather would be "scorchio" and we had at least 10 hours driving, so an early start at 7:00 am The gods were on our side, the day was actually quite cool and the it rained - beautiful. But the Gods demand their payment and soon the rain made the dirt roads very slippy and we were drifting all over the place, until finally ..... Full ...