Run around Australia - Andre Jones
THE PLAN“An ordinary bloke that still continues doing the extraordinary – having successfully completed my 3,700km solo run from Melbourne to Darwin, I’m now expanding...
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576 Peaks in a Year - FKT - Philip Carcia
Aug 23, 2018
White Mountains, NH, USA
Jul 7, 2019
White Mountains, NH, USA
Philip Carcia hiked all of New Hampshire’s 4,000-foot peaks every month for a year. To complete it, one must summit all 48 peaks higher than 4,000 feet on the Appalachian Mountain Club’s White Mountains list 12 times in a year (completing each set of 48 once per calendar month). That adds up to 576 total peak summits in a year, and over 2,700 miles of hiking, with more than one million feet of elevation gain. The vast majority of those who complete the project take years, often decades. Prior to Philip’s attempt, only 84 people had ever done it, and...
2nd Death Valley Expedition - Ray Zahab, Will Laughlin
Jul 6, 2019
Death Valley, CA, USA
Jul 7, 2019
Death Valley, CA, USA
In 2019 Ray Zahab and Will Laughlin traversed Death Valley National Park (DVNP) together for the 2nd time. In summer 2011 Ray Zahab and Will Laughlin traversed Death Valley National Park (DVNP) off-road, through intense heat every terrain imaginable. It took them 4,5 days to cross the roughly 250km, with limited crew access at road crossings. A tough expedition. This time they decided on ‘attempting to transect’ Death Valley from West to East, which would mean crossing both the Panamint Mountain and Amargosa Mountain Ranges, and cross Death Valley. They started on the western side of the park at Surprise...
Eurocross for a Cause - Ralph Mesquita
Jul 7, 2017
Eiby, Norway
Sep 14, 2017
Tarifa, Spain
In Summer 2017 25-year old Belgian-Brazilian ultrarunner Ralph Mesquite ran across Europe to raise awareness about the health problems associated with obesity worldwide and to increase European unity.His grandmother died of obese related complications when Ralph was 16, and during his study Physiotherapy Ralph learned there was still a long way to go to beat the disease. One in three children between the ages of six and nine in the European Union are now classified as overweight or obese. Ralph’s charity of choice, The European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO), has called on the EU to act now...
