South African Biker Andrew Russell became the first man to travel from Cairo to Cape Town on a motorcycle in just seven days, according to IOL. This was Russell’s third crack at the 11,000 km journey and he believes his record was helped by factors like a new land border crossing between Egypt and Sudan, as well as the fact that only 250 km of the journey is on untarred road. His trip started in Cairo on 2 January. Challenges came at him in the form of breakdowns, animal collisions, and near misses with traffic.