Not one team completed the full planned course of The World Championship Adventure Race 2015 in Brazil. New Zealand team Seagate dominated the field of the world’s best competitors and were undoubtedly and deservedly the winners, but even they would… more
South African team Merrell continues to rile the dot watching audience of the Adventure Racing World Championship. The course has definitely turned out to be the most brutal yet, the winners now expected in at least one and a half… more
On Saturday at 13h00 Merrell set off well as expected at the start of the Adventure Racing World Championships. In this race with the paddling discipline dominating, by necessity, the 700km course in the wetland of the Pantanal, the team… more
South African team Merrell Adventure Addicts are in the Pantanal, at the very heart of South America for the very soul of Adventure Racing as they are about to compete in the World Championships 2015. The best teams in the… more
Prepping for the upcoming Adventure Racing World Champs in Brazil has involved a lot of admin. Not least figuring out how to get from one airport to another – in the same city! – in less than 6 hours. The… more
Brazil may invoke images of bikinis, beach volleyball, flip flops and football but when the race info pack states mandatory equipment to be carried is a machete with blade of at least 35cm, a distress signal flare, a pulley and… more
Hanno Smit reports: Reporting on an Expedition race, lasting a handful of days becomes parabolically more comprehensive to a point where technical details blur into emotional and psychological ebbs and flows. The journey, recalculated, translates to an experience of a… more
Footage of the Merrell Adventure Addicts competing in the 650km Australia XPD – 5-10 August 2015. Watch for the Sleepmonster. more
Computer screens the world over have gone deaf. Supporters following the last day of the epic World Series Adventure Racing event, XPD in Australia, have been shouting with excitement, elation, encouragement or despair at their respective teams represented by dots… more
Premier South African team Merrell Adventure Addicts is currently chasing down the Australian leaders, Peak Adventure in an epic 650 km non-stop, unsupported, multi-discipline race across the outback, rainforests, canyons, islands and oceans of Townsville, Queensland. Merrell had a tough… more
