For Amy Palmiero-Winters’s latest ultramarathon venture, the treacherous Marathon des Sables, her 13-year-old daughter wrote a note: “Good luck. I love you. Don’t die.” ...

The Marathon Des Sables was just one of the many challenges Amy Palmiero-Winters has faced through the years. By Hailey Middlebrook Published: May 24, 2019 12:11 PM EDT. Christopher Acord.

The Marathon des Sables in the Sahara Desert is an extreme example of this – a gruelling, 251km multi-stage race across inhospitable terrain in the blazing heat.

Gruelling: Competitors in the Marathon des Sables face 50C heat. AFP/Getty Images. The race is made up of six stages of up to 52 miles each over seven days in temperatures exceeding 50C.

In the Marathon Des Sables, she will be carrying everything she needs, apart from water and a tent, on her back, including food that provides a minimum of 2,000 calories each day.

Lam Pok-yin, Leung Hok-hin and Wu Man-hang are experienced trail runners and have competed in the Oxfam Trail Walker with Poon. But the multi-day Marathon des Sables (MDS) presents a host of new ...

Harry Hunter, aged 76 becomes the oldest Brit to run the infamous Marathon Des Sables. A Berkshire man has become the oldest Briton to run an ultra-marathon in the Sahara Desert. Harry Hunter, 76 ...

The four-legged competitor joined the notorious Marathon des Sables during the second stage of the 140.7 mile trek across the Sahara Desert in Morocco.

The recent Marathon des Sables’ attrition rate was like that of hit Netflix show Squid Game, said a Hong Kong teenager who took on the daunting six-day race in the Sahara Desert. The famed 250 ...