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Since the 1968 Olympics, men and women from Kenya and Ethiopia have dominated the 26.2-mile marathon.
Ethiopia’s iconic runner Haile Gebrselassie said “Anything is possible”.
Running indeed paved the road for many African runners to a better life. A combination of a poor childhood, walking many miles to school, lack of perspective, their genes, and strong mentality made many Africans dream and put in the effort to become a champion.
In many African countries basic needs such as clean water and adequate health care are hard to get. Wars and internal conflicts complicates any attempt to improve national health.
Run across Africa - Steven Crompton
Jan 17, 2020
Africa
Mar 19, 2020
Africa
After spending 3 months volunteering in Uganda Steve witnessed levels of child poverty. The sight of children dying at the side of the road and not being able to help was devastating. One day at a project called Amari Uganda changed his life forever. Steve prepared to run 4000km across Africa in January 2020 to raise money for homeless children. Donations would build Amari Uganda a long term home with enough land to farm food for the children. Founders Martin and JB, ex Homeless children themselves, are now both adults fighting to save the lives of children off the streets....
Dead Sea to Everest 5.8 - part 1 - Charlie Engle
Aug 28, 2019
Lake Assal, Djibouti
Sep 25, 2019
Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
THE 5.8 ADVENTURERSFewer than 500 people have summited all Seven Summits and no one has achieved Charlie Engle and André Kajlich´s goal:To be the first athletes to trek from the lowest point to the highest summit on every continent. While it’s over 4,500 miles from the lowest place on our planet, the shore of the Dead Sea, to its highest peak on Mount Everest, these iconic ends of the earth are separated by a mere 5.8 vertical miles. THE 5.8 GLOBAL ADVENTURE SERIES!It was the first big push of the Brazil 135, a 135-mile ultramarathon that includes 33,000 feet of...
Running Africa - Brendan Rendall
Jun 3, 2018
Namibia
Aug 26, 2018
Mozambique
Coast-to-coast: Namibia to Mozambique 4000 Km “With this Africa run I would say about halfway I started to just feel I wasgetting fitter and fitter, but obviously with these challenges the physical and how much you really want it: to get up every day to cover almost a marathon in 35-degree heat, your feet are blistered, you’re witnessing extreme poverty, you’re sleeping in a tent.” Nutrition and hydration“One of the hardest things was finishing in the heat. The water that had been in the truck was warm, and having the same sort of dish day-in day-out is really tough, so eating became...
Run for Love 2018 - Nick Lawson
Feb 14, 2018
Cape Agulhas, South Africa
May 23, 2019
Ras Enjela, Tunisia
In February 2018 Nick started his journey to spread a message of global unity and love. Since then he’s been running barefoot from South Africa to Tunisia, while bonding and connecting with people he meets. During the year people from all over the world have come to run and cycle with him, and each person raised money for a different charity: “I arrived in Africa on December 26th, 2017. My “plan” was to spend some time in Kenya and then go to South Africa and on February 13, 2018, start running a marathon a day, barefoot, through 23 countries in...
The 20 Degrees South Run - Jonathan O'Hanlon
Jun 21, 2015
Torra Bay, Namibia
Sep 18, 2015
Xai Xai, Mozambique
It is not possible to encapsulate in only a few words the full story of this run across the continent of Africa.There is the 7 year period and planning leading up to the run, the event itself, the 4 countries that were traversed with the many sights and people encountered, the runners and the support team, and the aftermath. On June 12, 2008, the dream was born to do something extreme to raise the world’s awareness of elephant conservation and water sustainability. The idea was to do something remarkable and crazy to attract attention to this cause, which resulted in...
Running the Sahara
Nov 2, 2006
St. Louis, Senegal
Feb 20, 2007
Cairo, Egypt
In 2007 three men ran 72 kilometers a day across the Sahara for 111 consecutive days. “When I decided to run across the Sahara Desert with Ray Zahab and Kevin Lin, I knew it would be a life changing expedition. But I could never have known that, in many ways, my life would be defined by this run and the film about the journey,” says expedition leader Charlie Engle. While running more than 4,500 miles across Africa was a difficult physical challenge, we were buoyed daily by enlightening encounters that opened our eyes to the people and the culture of...
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Dead Sea to Everest 5.8 - part 1 - Charlie Engle
Aug 28, 2019
Lake Assal, Djibouti
Sep 25, 2019
Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
THE 5.8 ADVENTURERSFewer than 500 people have summited all Seven Summits and no one has achieved Charlie Engle and André Kajlich´s goal:To be the first athletes to trek from the lowest point to the highest summit on every continent. While it’s over 4,500 miles from the lowest place on our planet, the shore of the Dead Sea, to its highest peak on Mount Everest, these iconic ends of the earth are separated by a mere 5.8 vertical miles. THE 5.8 GLOBAL ADVENTURE SERIES!It was the first big push of the Brazil 135, a 135-mile ultramarathon that includes 33,000 feet of...
Running Africa - Brendan Rendall
Jun 3, 2018
Namibia
Aug 26, 2018
Mozambique
Coast-to-coast: Namibia to Mozambique 4000 Km “With this Africa run I would say about halfway I started to just feel I wasgetting fitter and fitter, but obviously with these challenges the physical and how much you really want it: to get up every day to cover almost a marathon in 35-degree heat, your feet are blistered, you’re witnessing extreme poverty, you’re sleeping in a tent.” Nutrition and hydration“One of the hardest things was finishing in the heat. The water that had been in the truck was warm, and having the same sort of dish day-in day-out is really tough, so eating became...
Run for Love 2018 - Nick Lawson
Feb 14, 2018
Cape Agulhas, South Africa
May 23, 2019
Ras Enjela, Tunisia
In February 2018 Nick started his journey to spread a message of global unity and love. Since then he’s been running barefoot from South Africa to Tunisia, while bonding and connecting with people he meets. During the year people from all over the world have come to run and cycle with him, and each person raised money for a different charity: “I arrived in Africa on December 26th, 2017. My “plan” was to spend some time in Kenya and then go to South Africa and on February 13, 2018, start running a marathon a day, barefoot, through 23 countries in...
The 20 Degrees South Run - Jonathan O'Hanlon
Jun 21, 2015
Torra Bay, Namibia
Sep 18, 2015
Xai Xai, Mozambique
It is not possible to encapsulate in only a few words the full story of this run across the continent of Africa.There is the 7 year period and planning leading up to the run, the event itself, the 4 countries that were traversed with the many sights and people encountered, the runners and the support team, and the aftermath. On June 12, 2008, the dream was born to do something extreme to raise the world’s awareness of elephant conservation and water sustainability. The idea was to do something remarkable and crazy to attract attention to this cause, which resulted in...
Running the Sahara
Nov 2, 2006
St. Louis, Senegal
Feb 20, 2007
Cairo, Egypt
In 2007 three men ran 72 kilometers a day across the Sahara for 111 consecutive days. “When I decided to run across the Sahara Desert with Ray Zahab and Kevin Lin, I knew it would be a life changing expedition. But I could never have known that, in many ways, my life would be defined by this run and the film about the journey,” says expedition leader Charlie Engle. While running more than 4,500 miles across Africa was a difficult physical challenge, we were buoyed daily by enlightening encounters that opened our eyes to the people and the culture of...
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