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Congratulations to the finishers of the 2017 Antarctica Half-Marathon!Read More
Marathon Tours & Travel held its 18th Antarctica Marathon & Half-Marathon on March 10 and 11, 2017. Top overall finishers were recently announced. Read More
Congratulations to all the finishers of the 2017 Antarctica Marathon!Read More
Dave Ventresca will be running his first marathon in honor of his wife My Luu. The 2017 Antarctica Marathon would have been My's seventh continent, which they registered for back in 2014. After losing his wife to a rare blood cancer in September 2015, he pressed forward to finish her quest along with her brother Sang Luu. Ventresca established the My Luu Memorial Fun and has successfully raised more than $26,000 in his efforts. Read More
Only Antarctica stands between her and completing seven marathons on seven continents, which she hopes to accomplish on March 10 or 11 on King George Island just north of the Antarctica Peninsula. Organized by Marathon Tours & Travel, the marathon provides a unique challenge for adventure athletes, all while protecting the island’s pristine environment. Plenty of people worldwide are eager to run the marathon that’s sold out through 2020.Read More
"My whole part of the mission is to inspire kiwi kids to get off the couch, stop using their iPads and PlayStations and get them out doing more fitness, and for them to get more active."Read More
Junior distance runner Quinn Gardiner-Hall is just weeks away from following in the footsteps of his heroes to the icy southern land. But at just 11 years old, the boy from Waiuku, south of Auckland, will be much younger when he goes to Antarctica than the adventurers Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir Peter Blake.Read More
Once they have ticked Antarctica off, the group will continue their quest to run a marathon on each of the seven continents and join their good mate Steele in the Seven Continents Club - one of world athletics' most challenging achievements.Read More
Mother Nature played an exceptionally fickle role at the 17th Antarctica Marathon and Half-Marathon held March 12 and 13, according to Marathon Tours & Travel, the Boston-based race and expedition organizer.Read More
