Keegan Longueira (Born 1 April 1991) is a South African adventurer, Motivational speaker and Author. He currently resides in Witbank (eMalahleni) a coal mining town in the Province of Mpumalanga in South Africa. Keegan rose to prominence in 2015 after completing a solo bicycle expedition across Africa from Cairo to Cape Town. On March 2 he arrived at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town in a time of 59 Days, 8 hours and 30 minutes, and became the fastest man ever to cross the continent on Bicycle. The World Record was later confirmed by Guinness. Keegan for 4 years had done major expeditions within South Africa as training and build up to the World Record Attempt. He now speaks to churches, businesses and major companies about his expeditions and his lessons learnt on the road. Keegan uses his story to influence and touch lives and inspire people to live their dream, regardless of how far away it may seem when starting.
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Chapter 16: Passing Mount Kili, disaster in the Tanzanian mountain forests
After passing Kilimanjaro, Keegan for the first time is one day ahead of World Record Pace and the people back home are starting to get interested in the trip for the first time. The team is flooded with emails from newspapers and radio stations about the small town cyclist. Is it possible to break a world record? After all this, disaster strikes in Tanzania, with the only form of help behind him.