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As the final teams bucked stiff headwinds on their last back-breaking paddle into Semporna, Mark Burnett sat at the finish line looking out to sea. Clearly, he is a man with much on his mind.
A top-rated television show, huge deals in the making, and yet there he was, without sleep for days and waiting at the finish line, greeting each and every team that managed to survive the physical and mental ordeal that is the Eco-Challenge Sabah 2000.
Wearing his trademark adventure hat and 11 days' worth of beard, which he won't shave until the last team crosses the line, he spoke about the Eco-Challenge, a remarkable event that has grown exponentially since the grass-roots days in Utah 1995.
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