Emergency medical care students are put through their paces at Kenton-on-Sea yesterday. Their endurance test continues today. Picture: EUGENE COETZEE
A GRUELLING challenge continues today for Port Elizabeth students who embarked on a fatigue-inducing 48hour endurance challenge yesterday.
Twenty-three first-year bachelor of emergency medical care (B.EMC) students from NMMU are in the Port Alfred area today completing the two-day event.
Meticulously planned and executed by second-year EMC students, when The Herald joined the participants on the main beach at Kenton-on-Sea there was a definite sense of exhaustion among the students.
“This has already been a challenge,” first-year EMC student Nikita Werthmann, 23, said.
After already completing a 5km paddle and 3km walk with their boats, the students then set off on a 27km beach hike before a 9km paddle to where they were staying for the night.
-Devon Koen
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