World record driving trek
NZPA-Reuter Halifax After surviving a Kenyan ambush, bribing Turkish border guards and fighting through Norwegian snowdrifts, two Canadians have set a world record by driving from Africa to the Arctic.
It took Ken Langley and Garry Sowerby 28 days to drive from a beach in South Africa to northern Norway in an odyssey recognised by the “Guinness Book of Records.”
The pair, already on the cover of this year’s edition
of the book for driving round the world in 74 days, drove through three continents and 20 countries in their Africa-Arctic trek.
Speaking to reporters by telephone, they said they had been shot at by bandits in Kenya. “The next time, we might not be so lucky,” said Langley, who vowed not to repeat the trip. They had’ to bribe border guards to get into Turkey in spite of having visas, and on the last leg of the journey needed ploughs to get through snowdrifts in Norway.
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Press, 7 May 1984, Page 14
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