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Not an easy run in the desert
Mayuko Okabe's 4 Deserts experience has presented its challenges
Unconventional Beauty
The sights of Antarctica
From the Alps to Antarctica
Emanuele Gallo was at home in the snow of Antarctica
Faces of the Antarctic Dream
Meet the crew of the Antarctic Dream
A Politician Amid Penguins
Guy Evans reflects on his Last Desert experience
A Force of Nature
Time to speak to Ryan Sandes - 4 Deserts Champion
The Resident Perspective
Meet expedition leader Rodrigo Tapia
White Wonderland
Competitors discuss what it's like racing in Antarctica
More than just a race
Helen Carter retraces her father's footsteps
Team Lleida Extrem
Beat this for a training programme!
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  • Post-Race
    Saturday, 27 November 2010, Post-Race Update: After a grueling two and a half day crossing of a very rough Drake Passage, the awards...
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  • Stage 4
    Tuesday, 23 November 2010, Stage 4 Update: Ryan Sandes achieved 4 Deserts history as the first competitor to ever win every single race...
  • Stage 3
    Monday, 22 November 2010, Stage 3 Update: Deception Island is a setting of absolute extremes, a still-active volcano charges beneath the frozen,...
  • Stage 2
    Sunday, 21 November 2010, Stage 2 Update: Stage 2 was aborted at 11:30 after 9 km due to an incoming storm, which brought...
  • Stage 1
    Saturday, 20 November 2010, Stage 1 Update: After a delay of six hours The Last Desert (Antarctica) 2010 finally got underway at...
  • Pre-Race
    Friday 19 November 2010: Pre-Race Update (Part 3) Competitors awoke to calmer seas today. After breakfast there was an hour-long pre-race briefing covering...
Top 10 Endurance Competitions
   June 14, 2010
This year's 24 Hours of Le Mans saw automaker Audi finish in first, second, and third place. TIME looks at other notable tests of human stamina. Re...

Time Magazine: The Long March
   July 31, 2008
Believing that the world was in danger of becoming "a homogenous mass," marathon runner Mary K. Gadams set up an adventure company in 1996.

Nothing but heat and dust, pain and glory
   March 21, 2010
A Dumfries doctor and novice athlete on how she overcame disaster to be first female across the line in gruelling race.

Laurie Brophy - Age Is No Barrier
   February 24, 2010
BBC News feature on Laurie Brophy, the oldest competitor at the Atacama Crossing 2010

ESPN Feature Sahara Race
   November 18, 2009
ESPN talks to Sahara Race competitor George Chmiel about his experience and his fundraising.

120 degrees + 150 miles - toilet = fun (CNN International)
   May 14, 2009
CNN feature on RacingThePlanet in Namibia.

Amazing Races of 2008 (ABC News)
   October 1, 2008
ABC News, one of America's leading news channels names the Sahara Race 2008 one of the "Amazing Races of 2008."

Dean Karnazes, desert term
   December 7, 2008
Dean Karnazes has just won the world's toughest endurance event: four desert runs totalling 1,000km.

Mad Dogs and Americans (The Wall Street Journal Magazine)
   December 6, 2008
Who runs 155 miles across the Sahara?

Desert High by Lauren Keane (Washington Post)
   August 31, 2008
For ultra-athlete Frank Fumich, running a marathon is routine. That's why he set out to finish six of them -- in five days -- across the driest landsc...

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ANTARCTICA

Antarctica is the great last desert - a polar region with little precipitation, no lakes and no rivers. It is, in fact, the driest continent on Earth where visitors can witness vast landscapes of snow, ice, mountains, volcanoes and ocean.

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COMPETITORS

  • 00h m0.   Antunez, Vincent M.
  • 00h m0.   Baron, Gary M.
  • 00h m0.   Bertin, Cecile
  • 00h m0.   Chartres, Annabell L.
  • 00h m0.   Edwards, Fergus
  • 00h m0.   Gaston, Tara
  • 00h m0.   Gaston, James
  • 00h m0.   Hernandez San Juan, Nahila
  • 00h m0.   Hines, Bez
  • 00h m0.   Iwase, Kenichi
  • 00h m0.   Kabasawa, Hidechika
  • 00h m0.   Kedami, Ali
  • 00h m0.   MURAKAMI, Kumi
  • 00h m0.   Pethigal, James
  • 00h m0.   Seiji, Shishido
  • 00h m0.   Smith, Scott
  • 00h m0.   Southgate, Simon P.
  • 00h m0.   Terto, Jacqueline
  • 00h m0.   Tomada, Pat
  • 00h m0.   Van Der Walt, Charl
  • 00h m0.   Wang, Richard Y. L.
  • 00h m0.   Suckling, Colin
  • 00h m0.   Suckling, Sandy
  • 00h m0.   Yoshihiro, Sato
  • 00h m0.   Damci, Taner
  • 00h m0.   Iida, Mie
  • 00h m0.   Travers, Hamish E.
  • 00h m0.   Flammersfeld, Anne-Marie
  • 00h m0.   Sexton, Peter
  • 00h m0.   Stanmore, Leonard D.
  • 00h m0.   Kakade, Michelle
  • 00h m0.   Barnard, David B.
  • 00h m0.   Bull, Bradley
  • 00h m0.   Romero Parra, Josep Maria
  • 00h m0.   Baker, Jess
  • 00h m0.   Schwebel, Ron
  • 00h m0.   Brehe, Michael
  • 00h m0.   Donovan, Greg R.
  • 00h m0.   Donovan, Matthew G.
  • 00h m0.   Raymond, Jonathan J.
  • 00h m0.   Stevenson, Mark

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