Mt. Everest Challenge Marathon

I read this interesting article in Running Times.

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"At most races, when a mountain goat appears out of nowhere to cut in front of you, you get a little angry. But what if your day started with watching the sun rise over four of the five highest mountains in the world? And what if, in the hours since, those mountains have almost constantly been in view as you’ve run by armed border guards, up and down steep, rock-filled hills at just under 12,000 feet of altitude, past yaks, with new friends from other continents, down into a tropical forest as you eat boiled potatoes, all while chasing the race leaders, a Spaniard whose English improves in direct proportion to his consumption of Indian beer and an Irishman with only one operative calf? Well, then you can be only at the Mt. Everest Challenge Marathon. In that case, you chuckle, greet the goat and step aside until nature has run its course."