The seaside town of Swakopmund, where the Namib desert falls into the sea, has become southern Africa's dune-boarding capital. You're driven out to the foot of a mountain-sized sand dune, given a large oblong sheet of hardboard, some furniture polish, a pair of heavy industrial gloves, and some welding goggles, and next minute you're flying almost vertically downward.
Steeper ones are much faster.
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