Getaway

10 SECONDS OF COURAGE

Don't look down. All you need is 10 seconds of courage… just be brave for 10 seconds.’ I was tightly harnessed to a zip line, facing a 425m high-speed hurtle across Zimbabwe's Batoka Gorge, 120m above the churning Zambezi waters and wondering if it was possible to backtrack onto the platform, de-harness and lie down on the grass without anyone noticing.

On a week-long whirlwind press trip around the Kaza region, I 

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