Kingsley Holgate’s New Adventure: The Great African Rift Valley Expedition

by Amanda on Oct 19th, 2011

Kingsley Holgate, “the most travelled man in Africa”, is setting out on a whole new humanitarian adventure: the Great African Rift Valley Expedition. Holgate and his team of adventurers will be navigating the greatest rupture on the Earth’s land surface, the Great Rift Valley, also the home of the giant mole rat.

Holgate and his team will be embarking on a 12-month, 9 chapter journey, beginning in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa through Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Malawi, and ending at its most southern point near Gorongoza in Mozambique.

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Visible from space, The Great African Rift Valley is the world’s largest surface “crack’ formed as a result of seismic activity of galactic proportions carved through the African continent nearly 20 million years ago. This fault line that ripped through Africa from Ethiopia’s Red Sea shore to Malawi and Mozambique, has segregated the plains of Kenya and other East Africa countries from the tropical rainforests and deserts of the rest of Africa. Rich in wildlife, cultural diversity and scenic splendour, the Great African Rift Valley forms one of the most fascinating areas on earth.

The Great Rift Valley cuts a swathe through Africa. Running south from the Lebanon for 6,500 kilometres to the Mozambique Channel, the Rift is the greatest rupture on the Earth’s land surface. It is the only geological feature that can be seen clearly from the Moon and its complex system of faults and escarpments has been evolving for some 40 million years.

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