Conquering the Atacama Crossing (Chile)

8:41, am, 31 March, San Bartolo: American Dean Karnazes was awarded the yellow jersey this morning for having won the first stage of the Atacama Crossing 2008.
All competitors departed this morning at 8 am for the second stage which will take them through frigid slot canyons and salt flats.
Stage 2  41.8km From the second campsite […]

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Stage 1: 41.4k(hours:minutes:seconds) 
Jocelyn: 08:38:46Stéphane:  06:12:13
Stéphane crossed the finish line in 19th place out of 69 listed competitors. Front-runner Jimmi Olsen of Denmark had to pulled out of the race due to injured tendons in his ankle.
Photos still not coming through from the official race site - but all competitors have crossed the finish line and are […]

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Chile is 12 hours behind Hong Kong (same time zone as USA East Coast time)…. and so they are on their way.
Stage one of the race began at 8am in Chile (8pm HK). Click here for a Google video flyover of the course. 
Stage 1: 41.4km
Starting on a salt flat at approximately 3000m competitors race over the […]

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The Sunbeam Children’s Village will be running a Read-athon with prizes provided by Deacons. This will run concurrently with the Crossing that was its inspiration. We will be posting photos here of the  Sunbeam Children’s Read-athon as it progresses! 

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The contestants gather in the driest spot in the world ….

You can follow the crossing here with any specific images and stats that we can find - or you can go directly to our source - the official website of Racing The Planet - and have a look around: 

http://www.4deserts.com/atacamacrossing/ 

To see the race results from […]

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Thank you Evonne Inn for your support to the Children of Sunbeam (300HK$). Awesome!

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After some missing zeros and my poor eye sight, Michael said that he meant he would donate 100 cents for every km I finish! Thankyou Michael please get your 25,000 cents ready for my collection! =D

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I am sponsored by my firm Deacons and at first I had doubts from not finishing the race or some whoopsie might happen but now it all seems worth the while because my Race Encounter was posted on What’s New? (an internal office update of what’s happening within the firm) and I received a lot of […]

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Its just a few days left till we go to Chile and I still haven’t got all my gear together! I guess I’ll have to do all my shopping tonight and with a hope that I don’t miss our any mandatory items!
I have my flight booked to leave on 24th changing flights in Auckland then […]

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Thankyou to Denise Tso (HK$800), Catherine Law (HK$300), Terence Tsai (HK$800 to Sunbeam & HK$400 to Joc’s equipment), Roz Hongsaranagon (HK$1000), thankyou guys, see you all over Easter!

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