Sailing Magazine
Volvo Ocean Race
Miss World, Rolene Strauss, climbs 30 metre mast
Miss World Rolene Strauss is used to being the focus of the photographer’s lens, she turned the camera on herself to capture the most amazing ‘selfie’ up the 100ft (30.3 metres) mast of a Volvo Ocean Race boat.
The challenge to shimmy up the mast turns many a strong guy into jelly, but the 22-year-old from Volkrust, South Africa, didn’t need asking twice when Race leaders, Dongfeng Race Team, challenged her to do the climb in Sanya, China.
Miss Strauss, who won her title in London last December, was hoisted up the mast – the equivalent height of six giraffes – in a matter of a couple of minutes and took a leisurely view of the harbour before coolly lowering herself down.
Dongfeng and the rest of the fleet, on a nine-month, 38,739-nautical mile offshore marathon race around the world, leave China on Sunday for Auckland in New Zealand for the fourth leg of nine.
