Question

summery of atacama desert runner by Rudraneil Sengupta ....please help it's urgent

Answer 1

In March last year, Sumanth Cidambi, CFO with a Hyderabad-based company, received an email from a friend that simply said “game for a run?” It also had a link to the website of possibly the world’s most challenging running event, the 4Deserts—a series of four 250km self-supported desert ultramarathons, each run over seven days, that include the Atacama in Chile, the Sahara in Egypt, the Gobi in China, and Antarctica.

Cidambi, who picked up running in 2005 after being diagnosed with diabetes, quickly found an aptitude and passion for the sport that went far beyond just health concerns. From struggling to finish even a kilometre in 2005, he was jostling with other competitors at the starting line of the Mumbai half-marathon in 2006. A full marathon in 2007 was a natural progression. Racing through almost the entire country of Chile on the driest, most brutal desert on the planet though was an exponential leap.

“I spent a couple of months thinking about it and researching the race,” says Cidambi, “and then in August 2010 I signed up for it as a 40th birthday gift to myself.”