The Merrell Adventure Addicts have packed their bags with the warmest of everything and headed off to the very south of Chile, landing on Friday in Punta Arenas for the start of the Patagonia Expedition Race 2016. The organisers of what is labelled The Last Wild Race put out a message saying “This goes beyond […]

“The Patagonia race has always been that large shiny red apple in the fruit bowl that I was told not to eat. It is just too daunting to attempt. But it has always been the real challenge to me: to mess around in those freezing conditions that have never been much a part of my

If you want to go play in a place where people look at you blankly should you say ‘heatwave,’ Patagonia in the south of South America is a good choice. To be sure though, plan to go to the very south of the south, where you can almost sniff distant Antarctica. Source four drysuits, ice

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 not have managed to come in before the final cut off time of 169hours (7

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 days later than anticipated, and less than a third of teams possibly finishing the full

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 of four, including Graham Bird and Robyn Kime, has long been marked as the one

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 world are arriving and the best of those will win what is already predicted to

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 team flies into the busiest airport in South America and, with bike boxes, backpacks, lifejackets

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 3 carabiners, one gets the idea that participants in the upcoming Adventure Racing World Championships