KAYAKING thousands of kilometres for charity in winter is hard enough.

Add a global pandemic and state border closures and you have a near-impossible mission.

But nothing has deterred 24-year-old Simon Welschen, who has set out to paddle his way from Jugiong, near Wagga Wagga, to Adelaide, along the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers.

The Belgian man is hoping to raise $10,000 for the Peter Cullen ...