Stuart Beverley

On 31 July 2022 Nick Holme took the first steps of a walking endurance event around Lake Kariba, the world’s largest man made lake by volume, situated on the Zambezi River. Anticipated to take two months to complete, the walk covers approximately 800km, through some of wild Africa’s rawest, most challenging and most beautiful terrain, in the Zambesia region of Southern Africa.The reason for this expedition is to raise awareness about the incredible link between the natural world and mental well being and how we need to conserve what’s left of our wild areas, not just for our physical health, but for our mental health as well. The healing power of Nature is incredible – a fact that is being recognised more and more by health professionals as a viable alternative to medical interventions in treating a wide range of mental health issues. The aim behind the walk is to highlight this fact to the rest of the world and to encourage more people to reconnect with the great outdoors for their own well being. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the fragility of conservation efforts throughout the world. Traditional funding through tourism has dropped dramatically and the people on the front line of conservation are suffering the consequences, with the lack of funding severely impacting the ability to maintain National Parks and Game Management Areas, as well as conduct anti-poaching patrols.Mental health issues have been on the increase for a number of years now, with people of all ages increasingly suffering from mental health problems due to the pressures of our modern day existence. The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly magnified those problems to the extent that mental health is fast becoming an expensive, major challenge for governments around the world to deal with.

On 31 July 2022 Nick Holme took the first steps of a walking endurance event
around Lake Kariba, the world’s largest man made lake by volume, situated on the
Zambezi River. Anticipated to take two months to complete, the walk covers
approximately 800km, through some of wild Africa’s rawest, most ...

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