It wasn’t quite what they signed up for – and it was certainly a good deal warmer than expected. And while not one of them survived unscathed, it’s now become an experience they will not forget.
Particularly when they’re still finding sand in all the wrong places. Seven brave celebs spent months training for a 100-mile trip across an ice lake in Mongolia for Sport Relief, until coronavirus fears forced a change with a few days’ notice to a 100-mile expedition through Namibia’s desert.
That meant swapping flat terrain and temperatures of minus 35C for the blazing 40C sunshine and the world’s highest sand dunes.
Now ahead of a documentary tonight, three of the volunteers, Frankie Bridge, ex-EastEnder Sam Womack and BBC Breakfast’s Louise
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