BACK IN SADDLE 40 YEARS LATER

Trio riding high after finally completing 17k-mile journey

- BY NEIL POORAN

THREE pals have reunited to complete their 17,000-mile American Cycling Expedition - 40 years later.

Craig Swan, Sophie Trafford and Rona Hulbert cycled from Punta Arenas in Chile to Anchorage in Alaska after they left Aberdeen University in 1985.

The trio had barely ridden bikes before they took on the exhausting charity challenge.

But an 800-mile stretch of their expedition in a remote part of Chilean Patagonia was impassable at the time.