Briton who ran length of Africa says Congo kidnapping was only time he mulled quitting

After running the length of Africa, British extreme athlete Russ Cook said he only considered quitting once during his near year-long odyssey — after he got kidnapped in the Congo by a gang armed with machetes. Cook's 16,000-kilometre route took him up the continent's west coast, battling sandstorms and blistering heat, injuries and food poisoning, and his team were even robbed at gunpoint in Angola.