Almost turned "the mountains into a morgue" this year...
Times Online story
The Original Mountain Marathon, founded in 1968, is regarded as one of the toughest endurance and navigation challenges in the world. Entrants in the point-to-point race, made up of pairs, choose their own routes through the valleys and mountains and have to use maps and a compass, rather than modern satellite navigational methods.
The website says: “Your first source of help is your partner and if you retire you are responsible for getting yourselves back to base. In these days of 24/7 contact and total support this is an event to test and indeed help develop teamwork and self-reliance.”
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I'm with Heather. That's effing crazy. Of course, reading the times article you updated with, it appears that mother nature agrees with our assessment.
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