mountaineer

Innovation, ingenuity, adventure, enthusiasm – these are all words that describe Monde Sitole, and they are all attributes he brings to his Educational Strategies Foundation to get children learning in a meaningful way.

Sibusiso Vilane is the first African, and one of only a handful of people, to accomplish the Explorers Grand Slam – the Goliath Challenge. He is a walking, talking advertisement for perseverance and resilience, spreading the message that "we Africans can reach great heights" around the world.

Sibusiso Vilane is the first African, and one of only a handful of people, to accomplish the Explorers Grand Slam – the Goliath Challenge. He is a walking, talking advertisement for perseverance and resilience, spreading the message that "we Africans can reach great heights" around the world.

On 10 November 2007 adventurers Sibusiso Vilane and Alex Harris set out on an epic 60-day journey in an attempt to become the first South Africans to trek unassisted to the South Pole.

Evelina Tshabalala, Zuki Matamo and Nomawethu Nika from Mandela Park informal settlement in Cape Town are used to coping with hardship. That's why they're not daunted by their latest project: to climb the highest mountains on each of the seven continents and, in the process, become the first black women to conquer Everest.

Many people have stood looking down on Africa's plains from the top of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro. When South African Sean Wisedale summited Africa's highest peak, however, he became only the 79th climber of all time, and the first African, to have climbed the highest mountain on each of the seven continents.