Jockstrap pass: Been there, done that...(Motoring)

BYLINE: Peta Lee

I survived Jockstrap Pass. And before you fall about with mirth, know this: it's one of the toughest mountain passes on the Roof of Africa route, and I bet even the most hirsute among you would approach it as apprehensively as I did.

But with the help of the diesel-powered 3.0-litre Toyota Fortuner D-4D that I was driving, it was - well, not quite a breeze, but relatively painless.

The achievement was the cherry on the top of an odyssey that had taken me and some mates up Sani Pass (with bumper-to-bumper traffic at the start of the long weekend!), down Black Mountain on the other side, to Mokhotlong, to a quaint B&B run by a local …