A massive well done to Melanie Chisholm, Chelsee Healey, Greg James, Phillips Idowu, Dara O’Briain and Jack Dee for surviving Hell and High Water and going above and beyond for Comic Relief!
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Before setting off, the celebrities were briefed about the dangers of the local animals. They were told about hippos that chomp at boats to knock them over, and crocodiles that then line the shore, attacking rafters as they swim to safety. With the threat from wildlife growing greater by the day, and after Dara and Phillips’ drama earlier in the week, the guides have decided to take no chances and move the challengers out of their two-man kayaks to six-man rafts – safety in numbers.
The animals aren’t the only challenge the celebrities faced today, the team were under serious pressure to move quickly in order to reach Victoria Falls by sunset. The challengers have to be off the river by nightfall to help avoid attack from hippos – who kill an average of 3000 people a year on the Zambezi. But for six first-time kayakers racing against the clock, it’s not been easy. The team are even eating on the move to catch up on lost time and avoid being stuck on the river in the dark.
y. Exhausting – so so tired, we are all so almost over this week of hell and high water. One last big push tomorrow and we’ll be very happy campers.
