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Yesterday, Canadian Leo Power crossed the finish line of the Tenzing\u2013Hillary Everest Marathon. Despite the thin air, rough terrain, changing temperatures and steep trails, Leo completed the high altitude race in 8 hours 23 minutes, 29 seconds. Congratulations to Leo!<\/p>\n

The race is held on the anniversary of the first summit of Everest by Tenzing and Hillary on May 29, 1953. It is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records<\/span> as the world\u2019s highest marathon beginning at Everest Base Camp 17,500ft\/5,333m and ending 26.2 miles \/ 42 km later in Namche 11,319ft\/3450m. Don\u2019t let the elevations fool you, this race is far from a downhill road race. Instead it is an up and down, winding trail on rocky, mountainous terrain. It\u2019s so challenging in fact, that it was named one of the World\u2019s 10 Insanely Hard Marathons: http:\/\/www.toptenz.net\/top-10-over-the-top-marathons.php<\/a><\/p>\n

And Leo wasn\u2019t the only successful Berg Adventures runner: Crossing the finish line with him was Berg Adventures talented cook, Jheta Rai.<\/p>\n

Read more about Leo\u2019s spectacular journey in his poetic dispatches here: http:\/\/www.bergadventures.com\/v3_cyber\/2011\/2011-05-13-everest-base-camp\/main.php<\/a><\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re a marathon hopeful or not, you can learn more about trekking to Everest Base Camp here: http:\/\/www.bergadventures.com\/v3_trips\/asia\/everest-basecamp-description.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Completing the Everest Marathon takes a lot of physical and mental strength and Leo Power of St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland rose to the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bergadventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bergadventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bergadventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergadventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergadventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergadventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergadventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bergadventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergadventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bergadventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}