First sail-powered crossing in a homemade go-kart

Adventurer and former Zimbabwean commercial farmer Ben Freeth and his two young sons will attempt the first crossing of one of the world's largest saltpans in a homemade, kite-powered go-kart during in August to raise funds for the recently formed Mike Campbell Foundation.

The wooden craft will sail approximately 160km across the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans that are on the fringes of the Kalahari Desert in north-eastern Botswana and cover a vast area of more than 15,540 square kilometres.

Makgadikgadi is home to the second largest migration of zebra and wildebeest in the world, with up to 75,000 animals crossing their seasonal grasslands each year.

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