Chilly Ultra-Trail Drakensberg
The Ultra-Trail Drakensberg 2021 also took place this weekend after last year s event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The ultra-trail is a festival of trail running with events of 160km, 100km, 62km, 30km and 21km.
All events take place within the Southern area of the internationally renowned Maloti Drakensberg World Heritage Site and large swathes of this iconic wilderness are traversed.
The trail took place over three days.
The winner of this year s 160km run was Cape Town-born Ryan Sandes in a time of 22:30:38.
“My first 100 miler on home soil. Thank you Ultra-Trail Drakensberg for an epic experience. Having not slept last night I am a little short on words but flip that was rad. Local is lekker,” he wrote on Instagram.