How to get stuck in the Richtersveld

By Roxanne Reid
‘Knock, knock, anyone there?’ It was our last afternoon at the Tatasberg wilderness camp in the Northern Cape'sRichtersveldTransfrontier Park and a young woman with a toddler in her arms had come to askif we had a tow-rope. Her overconfident hubby had ventured into the riverbedwith a 2x4 and discovered how to get stuck in deepsand. We were about to find that no good deed goes unpunished. That this man had got stuck is a reminder that no one should take the Richtersveldlight...