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Photo: Tommy Baynard
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No amount of physical training is adequate preparation for the Eco-Challenge.
Success requires guts, fitness, navigation skills, endurance and teamwork, including the ability to think creatively under extreme duress, minimal sleep and limited food.
It's a simple concept, really.
Take 304
incredible endurance athletes from all over the world,
put them into teams of four on a grueling, multi-discipline 320-mile racecourse in a remote, uncharted location, and turn them loose.
Passing through a series of checkpoints along the course, each team is allowed a map, compass and all the willpower they can muster.
There are no support crews and no designated resting periods. And if one person quits or is injured, the entire team is disqualified. Game over. Period.
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