With August being Women's Month, it's fitting that 15 schoolgirls will be testing their mental and physical endurance in an extreme event.
With August being Women's Month, it's fitting that 15 schoolgirls will be testing their mental and physical endurance in an extreme event.
Fifteen DSG pupils will be taking on the Fish-2-Fish Challenge to raise funds for the Holy Cross School and the DSG Foundation. The Challenge has become a tradition at the school – every year, girls take on a physical challenge to raise funds for a charity of their choice.
Past challenges have included swimming the English Channel, swimming from Robben Island to Bloubergstrand and cycling the length of the Garden Route.
This year, the girls will be taking on a new challenge. Over two weeks, they will journey from the Fish River, in Namibia, to the Fish River in the Eastern Cape.
The girls will hike the 90km Fish River Canyon and then cycle from Upington to Grahamstown. The girls will meet in Upington, on Monday.
On Tuesday they make their way to Hobas and start day one of the hike. They will then hike the Fish River Canyon, spending five nights in the Canyon.
Next Tuesday is day one of the cycle leg, covering a total of 111km from Upington to Kenhardt. On Monday 5 September, the team will cycle from Middleton to Grahamstown, covering more than 600km on their bicycles.
The 15 girls range in age from 16 to 18 and been training for the event, in addition to their many other school commitments. They've attended spinning classes at Rhodes University twice a week and have cycled on Sundays.
The school will provide the bicycles and most of the equipment for the trip and event organiser David Wright said Hi-Tec had sponsored hiking boots.
The Motion Shop had supplied cycling equipment. The girls have raised more than R100 000 and are hoping to raise more by the end of the challenge. Anyone interested in donating money towards the cause can contact Wright at 046 603 4300.
