Karoline Hanks will soon turn Chapman’s Peak into her own Everest Challenge as she attempts to tackle Chappies a whopping fourteen times to support a community project bettering and beautifying Noordhoek!
Cape Town, South Africa (22 April 2025) — Karoline Hanks is bringing Everest to Cape Town—at least, in essence. While the intrepid local certainly won’t be importing the snow-topped marvel Southward anytime soon (especially not in this economy), she will be emulating the challenge of summiting Everest’s magnificent height (8,849m) in the pursuit of a better and more beautiful Noordhoek.
To turn her time on Chappies into an occasion worthy of a flag on Mount Everest, Karoline is planning to ascend and descend the peak a whopping fourteen times this July.
This effort is the ossification of her love for Project Noordhoeked—a non-profit community project founded by Karoline.
The project serves both individuals and the community, supporting employment while keeping Noordhoek green, tidy, and gorgeous.
The team that make up Project Noordhoeked care for the area in all sorts of ways; including building boardwalks and infrastructure like benches out of eco bricks (and maintaining them); landscaping gardens at Noordhoek Beach, maintaining Kakapo (the famed wire whale), clearing invasive plant species, collecting litter and managing an ever-expanding compost centre with waste from the local eateries.
Karoline’s Chappies’ moment, then, is a bold commitment to funding the project’s future endeavours and its longevity.
In a statement shared as part of her crowdfunding campaing, Karoline shared:
“I intend raising funds to ensure the continuity of our project, and in focusing attention on clearing the ever-growing Rooikrans forest on the slopes of Chapman’s Peak, which is where the Everesting Challenge is to be attempted.”
Though the summits are still months away, support for the effort has already begun. You can contribute to the Everesting Challenge, here.
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