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“When we got off the ship we took a Zodiac, one of those rubber boats like the Navy Seals use, to get to Antarctica. It wasn’t as cold as you might think, but we had a mixture of snow, sleet, rain and hail. At one point the wind blew me across the road in midstride. I was actually airborne.”Read More
I started thinking, ‘Seven.’ Seven races in seven continents. I think I can do that.”Read More
It began 20 years ago when Thom Gilligan, founder of the Chelsea-based Marathon Tours & Travel agency, started the Antarctica Marathon. After the race, a few runners approached Gilligan to say it was continent No. 7 for them.Read More
A handful of races boast a singular cachet among runners. The Boston Marathon is one. So too is the Badwater Ultramarathon, the 135-mile rite of summer that starts and ends at the lowest and highest points in the continental U.S, respectively. Others on the list include Athens, New York City and the Western States 100. But the Comrades Marathon, South Africa’s annual showcase of athletic endurance and national pride run between Durban and Pietermaritzburg, stands alone in both its accessibility for and enduring impact on the everyday runner.Read More
Also this year, he completed his fifth Antarctica marathon, becoming only the second runner to have run five marathons on all seven continents.Read More
Running the Boston Marathon was absolutely amazing—it's everything it’s cracked up to be. I ran it in 2010, and then again in 2011 and 2012. But while I had run a few marathons, my sister, Taylor, had another goal: to run on all seven continents. That's when we found the Antarctica Marathon—a race on an island right off the main continent called King George Island.Read More
The race's distance is a not uncommon 26.2 miles, but the location -- Antarctica -- is about as extreme as it gets.Read More
The race was finished, but the adventure wasn’t over. The Russian crew aboard the Vavilov and the staff of One Oceans Expeditions provided the group with a not-soon-to-be-forgotten experience around the Antarctic Peninsula and surrounding islands.Read More
Are you in a country where tipping is customary and required? Appreciated but not expected? Or virtually unheard of? The truth is, tipping rules vary by country, by region, and by scenario.Read More
“This place is beautiful, but it is simply the most inhospitable environment imaginable. It's like another planet in terms of its beauty and landscapes, but it's also like another planet in how quickly the environment turns on you."Read More
