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British duo stranded in Botswana hike 70km in Birkenstocks surrounded by lions

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Pals Todd Benney, 24, and Henry Harrison, 23, got stranded in the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans in Botswana when their Land Rover sank - and they had to walk 70km through the bush. // The graduates, decided to celebrate graduating from the University of Bath by driving across Africa in a 1994 Land Rover Defender. Six weeks into the trip, they began their 70km drive over the salt flats, but the engine started to struggle before they drove off a bank. In the middle of nowhere, they tried to walk 30km towards a village for help, but when it got dark, they spotted animal tracks as they hiked back towards the car. They used what3words - an app which uses a unique combination of three words to pinpoint a 3m x 3m location - to locate the car again before filling up with water and walking back towards the village. After walking for 14 hours over two days and around 70km- with Henry in Birkenstocks- the friends arrived and were able to get help from the emergency services to recover... </div> <div class= Read Entire Article
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