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Amakhala Foundation celebrates 10 years

Staff ReporterBy Staff ReporterOctober 25, 2019No Comments2 Mins Read
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By GEMMA RITCHIE

Local game reserve Amakhala and its non-profit conservation organisation the Amakhala Foundation celebrated 20 and 10 years respectively. A spellbinding talk by professional storyteller Rob Caski on Shackleton’s Incredible Journey marked the anniversaries.

Caski had the audience hanging onto his every word as he spoke about polar explorer Ernest Shackleton who with 28 men planned to trek across the Antarctic.

Before they were able to begin the journey, trouble befell them. Their ship was trapped in the ice of the Weddell sea forcing the men to abandon it and seek shelter on the remote beach of Elephant Island.

Between 1914 and 1916, the men struggled to survive on the desolate beach but not one man died. Help arrived when Shackleton and five of his crew made a daring plan to search for help by sailing one of the rescue boats to the whaling island of South Georgia – 1 280 km away from their current location.

The key to the survival of all the men was optimism and high morale. Their survival encapsulated Shackleton’s motto: “Through endurance, we prosper”.

Three of Shackleton’s team, unfortunately, died three months later after they signed up to serve in World War I.

 

One audience member remarked that you felt as if Caski was there because he described the events of the journey in such detail.

Dr Jennifer Gush, head of the Amakhala Foundation, told Grocott’s Mail that this was the first time the foundation had raised money through a speaker. Typically, funding for the Amakhala Foundation comes through a conservation fee charged to guests who stay at the commercial lodge.

The Foundation focuses on conservation education in the hope of bringing long-term protection to the environment.

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