At the southern tip of Africa lies the Namib Desert, an unforgiving land once so laden with diamonds it created a rush that yielded over 5 million carats in 5 years. These champagne days of the early 1900s attracted an equestrian sports stud of high bred Trakehner, Hackneys and Shagya Arabs imported from Germany, England and Arabia. These and the abandoned war horses of the German and English troops of World War 1, are the ancestors of the wild horses of the Namib. That these highly pedigreed horses have survived the harsh climate of the desert is a testament to the indomitable spirit of the horse. Temperatures of up to 120F, no natural water supply, dry tumbleweed for fodder, and the predators of the African wild make survival here nothing short of a miracle.