Elephant Charge

The 2023 Pictures are available to view and save! We loved reminiscing on a great weekend in the bush raising much needed funds for conservation. A huge thank you to and his team for the epic pictures 🙌🙌

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Check out the pictures and tag us in any more social media from the day. We're already looking forward to seeing you all again in 2024 🙌✨

Elephant Charge 2023 Photo collection by GarethVid Media

Amazing work from BirdWatch Zambia🙌🙌🙌

- amazing work ZCP!

Thank you for being there 🙏🙏🙏

🏆️Tsetse Lines🏆️⁠

The Tsetse Lines are two straight lines on the course between checkpoints and teams battle it out to get the shortest distance on these lines. The lines this year were extremely tough resulting in a hugely challenging feat by all those who completed them, with some major obstacles in the way. Well done!

Tsetse Line 1 - Omnia to Country Choice
1. The Carnivores
2. The Camel
3. Autoworld
4. Quinn + Tonik
5. Guns & Roses

Tsetse Line 2 - Sun Sweet to Funswe Community Conservancy
1. The Camel
2. Sausage Tree
3. The Green Mambas
4. The Biking Baboons
5. The Bombshells

Who run the world?

A huge thank you to all those who came to the Elephant Charge Results Night last night ! It was such a wonderful evening and great to showcase some of the incredible work that is supported by the funds raised by our dedicated chargers!

We are already looking forward to making 2024 even bigger and better for you. ⚡️

🏆️Bike Teams🏆️⁠

The bikes had a wild time out on the course this last weekend, with some serious endurance and adrenaline! Well done to both teams taking home a win each and being only metres apart in the Shortest distance!! 🏍️⚡️

Net Distance:
1. Dirt Misfits: -17.57km
2. Biking Baboons: 17.19km

Shortest Distance:
1. Biking Baboons: 28.84km
2. Dirt Misfits: 29km

🏆️Silky Cup - Shortest Distance Ladies Team🏆️⁠
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The two ladies teams this year showed us once again how it is done! These women absolutely smashed the course 💪🏽 inspiring female elephant chargers everywhere!
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Huge Congratulations to The Bombshells - Elephant Charge Team for retaining the Silky Cup once again, finishing the course in 37.56km and coming an incredible 4th overall ⚡️
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A massive shout out to the Duchesses , who finished the course in 39.76km but just made it home 8 mins fashionably late…

🏆️Net Distance🏆️⁠
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An outstanding performance from Team Autoworld both on the course and off the course with their fundraising earned them the Net Distance title this year! A huge congrats and thank you for your efforts for conservation in Zambia. ⁠
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Net Distance Top 5⁠
1. Autoworld Limited : -214.96km
2. Skytrails, Ltd. : -93.61km
3. Popcorn 1: -55km
4. Popcorn 3: -50.89km
5. Lilayi Lodge BSI Steel: -50.47km

🏆️Shortest Distance🏆️⁠

With the course being as tough as it was, we saw a shift in some of the usual podium spots to newer teams this year! Congrats to the awesome Popcorn 1 !

Shortest Distance Top 5⁠
1. Team Popcorn 1
2. Green Mambas Mudpackers 4 x 4 Offroad Centre Zambia
3. Sausage Tree
4. The Bombshells - Elephant Charge Team
5. Team Popcorn 3
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Well done all!

🏆Most Sponsorship Raised🏆

A huge congrats to the winners of the pledge category - Team Autoworld for their incredible efforts with their fundraising! The funds raised from the Elephant Charge go directly into meaningful and impactful conservation education organisations across Zambia.

Top 5 in this Category
1. Autoworld Limited - $25,350
2. Skytrails, Ltd. - $13,200
3. Almost There - $11,500
4. Team 64 - $10,769
5. Jointly Lilayi/BSI and The Carnivores - $10,000 each!

Thank you for your EPIC contribution to Conservation in Zambia 🐘🚗✨

Thank you for being there to showcase the important work you do, that the Charge supports!

A massive thank you to The Bright Future Project for keeping the Charge so wonderfully clean, and for ensuring all our waste was recycled. We appreciate your hard work every year 🙏💜♻️

The Elephant Charge results night will take place on the 14th October at The Zambean Coffee Co. in Leopard's Hill!

Join us as we celebrate the incredible achievements of the 2023 charge and learn more about the huge impact of funds raised!

Please do RSVP with numbers of your party - the more the merrier 🏆⚡️🏍️🏃🚗

Has anyone else got post charge blues?

Or are you all just happy to have had a shower and a full night's sleep 😅

Thank you to the course setting team for finding gems like this, right on Lusaka's doorstep. Making us all appreciate our beautiful country 🇿🇲

Teams rolling in, runners and chargers all in one piece after a tough course! Onto the prize giving and the results shortly...

Thank you to all who made today as epic as it was!

Fuchs Elephant Charge 2023 from the air! ⚡️🚗🐘🏍️

Thank you Skytrails, Ltd. For the aerial support 🚁

FUCHS our naming sponsor! Thank you!

Thank you Mars for being on stand by for any emergencies!

IT'S CHARGE DAY!

The HQ is stirring, and the faint roar of charge cars is in the distance. The pledges are still rolling in and now we can't wait for the excitement to unfold!

Keep your eyes on the socials today for live updates!

Thank you Kept Cool for keeping us cool (ish) on this very hot weekend in the bush!

The first ever Elephant Charge trail runners! These brave souls are taking on the course tomorrow on FOOT! Badass.

Thank you for being the inaugural runners! We hope it will be a long and epic journey ahead for this new category.

Marshall's briefing is underway at HQ, safety first!

HQ hidden in the hills ⚡️🏃🏍️🚗🐘

You can watch our fundraising pledges come in live! https://elephantcharge.org/pledges/

Link also in our bio

The Elephant Charge has raised $1,652,979 in total for Zambian conservation projects since we started. Help us get to $2m!!

are on site and fitting all the vehicles! We are all go here at HQ ⚡️⚡️⚡️ ready for an EPIC charge tomorrow with LOADS of funds raised

We are here! Thank you to for manning the gate.

K100 per vehicle that enters this gate will go straight to the community surrounding the Charge site to say a huge thank you for hosting us.

The scene is set, time to get some admin done and before we know it, it will be CHARGE TIME ⚡️🚗🏍️🏃🐘

IT'S CHARGE WEEKEND! WOOOOP!

We would like to start off the weekend's social media with a special shout out to our Queen, Angela, who has made the Elephant Charge possible. Not forgetting the support of the excellent committee, the incredible Charge Crew and all our sponsors. We would simply not be able to raise funds and put on an epic event without you.

WE APPRECIATE YOU!!

Thank you Country Choice Chicken for sponsoring a checkpoint again this year, and for contributing to conservation education in Zambia! We appreciate you!