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Dr. Dave King, a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, will arrive in Antarctica next weekend and on March 9 will run in a marathon there, not fully knowing what to expect. In his line of work, figuring things out on the fly is as essential as knife and scalpel.Read More
Through a trip chartered by Marathon Tours & Travel, Mosey and her sister Rose will fly to Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 1. They plan to stay in Buenos Aires for a few days, and then fly to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego — the world’s southernmost city. From there, they will board a ship for Antarctica, passing through the Drake Passage (where the Atlantic and Pacific oceans meet).Read More
The trip, organized by Boston-based Marathon Tours & Travel, is not only a chance to encounter majestic whales and hundreds of inquisitive penguins up close, it also offers the opportunity to run a marathon in one of the world’s last unspoiled wildernesses.Read More
The Antarctica Marathon, one of the most extreme athletic competitions on Earth, celebrated the finish of the event’s first ever totally blind runner on March 9, announced Marathon Tours & Travel, the Boston-based race and expedition organizer. Thirteen base personnel representing Chile and China joined the field of 187 participants from 22 countries runners. Read More
“The motivation is really my fascination with the South Pole,” Wagner said in an interview with Runner’s World Newswire. “I can’t imagine what the seventh continent looks like so I have to go there to experience it.”Read More
But Vinecki, a tri-athlete and youth aerial skier, may have already put her toughest test behind her when she traveled to Antarctica, the world's driest, windiest, and iciest continent as part of a world marathon tour she developed to spread awareness and raise money for prostate cancer.Read More
The Antarctica Marathon and Half Marathon benefits Oceanites, a non-profit research group that measures the flora, fauna and wildlife and the impact of tourism on Antarctica. "Over the past three years, the event has raised nearly $150,000," Read More
When 14-year-old Winter Vinecki, an ace student at Stanford University’s online high school and two-time Ironkids national champion, crossed the finish line of the Antarctica Marathon on March 30, she became the youngest person to run 26.2 miles on the formidable continent.Read More
