Kerry adventure junkie planning 12,000km solo bike tour through Africa

A self-styled adventure junkie will have to avoid bandits and lions and endure searing desert heat on an epic 12,000km solo bike tour through Africa.

Long distance cyclist, Tomas Mac an t-Saoir, 23, from Ballyferriter, in Co Kerry, hopes to set off for Egypt later this month to start his unsupported ride from Cairo in the north to Cape Town in the south to raise money for the Donal Walsh Live Life Foundation.