Greybeard of African Adventure, Kingsley Holgate, is all set for his next adventure, this time across equatorial East Africa.

The famously intrepid North Coast resident will follow in the footsteps of Scottish explorer Joseph Thompson’s 1882 expedition from Mombasa to Lake Victoria.

In land rovers and on foot, mixed in with a climb up Mt Kenya, Holgate and his team will cross the Maasai land while distributing mosquito nets to pregnant mothers and children under the age of five to aid the fight against malaria, as well as giving spectacles to the poor sighted as part of the Right to Sight project.

The Kingsley Holgate Foundation’s LifeStraw campaign, in which small filters are provided to communities in deep rural areas that have unsafe contaminated drinking water, also continues to save and improve lives and will be distributed as part of this latest expedition.

Holgate and his team will use original journals, maps, sketches and photographs to follow in the footsteps of the late explorer Thompson.