Adam Beard maintains that Wales should be history-creators on their visit through South Africa.

The situation is anything but favourable for last year's Guinness Six Nations champions across a three-Test series that starts on Saturday.

Ridges' level of trouble is expanded by the initial two games - in Pretoria and Bloemfontein - being at height.

Moreover, they have never beaten the Springboks in South Africa, losing each of the ten past Tests, with large numbers of those results total losses.

"It is going to be extreme, truly and intellectually," Wales lock Beard said.

"We are in a great space as a crew. We've prepared well and realize what is on the line here - to make our piece of history.

"It would be a magnificent inclination going out there and making that set of experiences.

"The young men are prepared, the young men are chomping at the bit to go, and we can hardly hold on to stall out into it."

Facial hair will probably be among various British and Irish Lions on last year's South Africa visit highlighting Wales' firing line-up.

That experience, yet in games away from plain view due to the Covid pandemic, will undoubtedly be helpful for Wales lead trainer Wayne Pivac.

Facial hair added: "It was the experience of going on the visit, meeting folks from various nations, learning off individuals.

"To get a Test match (appearance) was an incredible encounter.

"Taking a gander at South Africa, they are an actual major group that values the set-piece and being physical and direct.

"Those are the type of games that I appreciate, and I feel like it's the point at which I come up trumps, and I can utilize my places of contrast."

Pivac is expected to report his firing line-up on Thursday for Wales' most memorable conflict against the Springboks in South Africa starting around 2014.

Furthermore, there will probably be various changes from the side beaten 22-21 by Six Nations rivals Italy three months prior.

Three of that group - Johnny McNicholl, Uilisi Halaholo and Seb Davies - are not on the visit, but rather Pivac is helped by players like George North and Dan Lydiate being accessible following long-haul wounds.

The two players have been out of Test rugby for over a year, last highlighting in Wales tones during the 2021 Six Nations.

North looks set to begin at outside focus, while 34-year-old Lydiate could recover the number six shirt.

Somewhere else, full-back Liam Williams, scrum-half Tomos Williams and prop Tomas Francis are set for returns.

Furthermore, Pivac should choose whether to hold multiple times-covered Alun Wyn Jones in the subsequent column, with Beard and Will Rowlands likewise pushing hard for beginning spots.