Gamkaskloof: a hidden heaven called The Hell

By Roxanne Reid
A one-legged flying doctor. A madman who lugs a car over the mountain to a place without roads. These are the kind of stories you’ll find among the silence and solitude at Gamkaskloof near Prince Albert in the Karoo, otherwise known as The Hell. Imagine it. A farmer living in an isolated valley gets seriously bitten while castrating his donkey. A one-legged doctor flies to the rescue in his Tiger Moth, landing without brakes on a makeshift strip, but the farmer resists gett...