This story appears in the October 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was a five-hour drive from South Africa’s Kruger National Park, home of the world’s largest wild rhinoceros population, ...
“I was luckier in life than I ever deserved to be.” He was larger than life — a 6-foot-3, 230-pound athlete celebrated as one of the greatest legends of high school sports in Alexandria in the 1960s.