A week into the most challenging solar-powered bike ride in the world, Sam Mitchell wasn't at all sure he'd make it.
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| Sam's bike in the red sand. |
The relentless waves of red sand dunes were threatening to break his body and spirit.
Too often there was not enough power, either from his batteries and electric motors or his pedalling, to tow his trailer with its array of solar panels, its load of water containers, his tools, a month's supply of food and all the rest, over a dune.
Sam, aged 21 at the time and from Victoria's Gippsland, was required, again and again, to dismount, unhook his trailer and drag it by hand over a sand ridge, driving his body to exhaustion.
Read the story by Tony Wright in today’s Melbourne Age - “Sam Mitchell, epic solar cyclist, is Geographic Society's young adventurer 2017.”
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