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DESERT RUNNERS

By Jennifer STEINMAN

CARGO FILM & RELEASING - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2012

Imagine you’ve been dropped off in the middle of one of the largest, driest deserts in the World. Over the next six days you will have to run, jog, walk or crawl 155 miles through the incessant heat (up to 120 degrees), across soft sand and hard-packed gravel, over sand dunes multiple stories high a

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 85 mn
- Director(s)
- Jennifer STEINMAN
- Producer(s)
- Jennifer STEINMAN
- Synopsis
- Now imagine doing this not just once, but four times in one calendar year, through the four most treacherous deserts in the world: the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Gobi Desert in China, the Sahara in Egypt… and then, the final stage, a 150-mile footrace across the single most inhospitable landscape in the world: Antarctica. The race organizers have strategically chosen these four deserts because they are (respectively) the driest, windiest, hottest and coldest places on Earth.
  Any single race in RacingThePlanet’s 4Desert Ultramarathon Series is an extraordinary, life-threatening challenge– something we would only expect the most accomplished, elite athletes on the planet to try. But most of the courageous men and women who come from all over the world to compete in these Herculean events are not professional athletes at all, they’re ordinary people—people with families and day jobs and mortgage payments– people like you and me who have decided, for a variety of personal reasons, to take on this extreme physical challenge.
  Why do they do it? Are they crazy? Perhaps…