This episode of The Course Reveal Podcast drops on race morning — which means that as you listen, the teams are already moving. Expedition Africa: Back to the Berg is an expedition-length adventure race set in and around the Drakensberg of South Africa — one of the most dramatic and unforgiving landscapes on the continent.

Race directors Franco Olivier and Damon De Boor join host Brian Gatens, along with commentary from adventure racing journalist and Expedition Africa veteran Adam Rose, to walk through what they’ve built before the final results are in. And what they’ve built will test everything. Navigation that punishes complacency. Rivers that demand respect. Mountain bike stages that go on long after your legs have stopped cooperating. A rogaine through terrain that looks the same in every direction at 2 AM. A dark zone that will separate the race winners from everyone else. And a final push into the Berg that ends on a via ferrata above one of the most spectacular views in African adventure racing.

Franco and Damon have spent over a year designing a course that is hard without being cruel, remote without being reckless, and beautiful in the way that only suffering in a remarkable place can be. The course is open. The teams are racing.

This is Expedition Africa: Back to the Berg.

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