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flag Three friends completed a 40-year-old bike journey across Chile, honoring loved ones and raising money for charity.

flag Three friends who started a 17,000-mile bike journey in 1985 have completed the final 800-mile stretch in Chile after 40 years, riding the newly built Carretera Austral. flag Craig Swan, Sophie Trafford, and Rona Hulbert, former University of Aberdeen students, finished the route they had left incomplete due to political and geographic barriers. flag Now in their early 60s, they cycled the final leg to honor personal losses—Sophie in memory of her son Hector, who died from epilepsy, and Rona, a breast cancer survivor, who found renewed strength. flag The journey raised funds for Maggie’s cancer charity and the Epilepsy Research Institute, marking a deeply emotional and fulfilling conclusion to a decades-long adventure.

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