Thursday, January 21, 2010

Running Up Aconcagua

A 49 year old woman will attempt to run up Aconcagua. She left Monday for South America.

In the dozen years since brain surgery brought relief from debilitating epileptic seizures, Diane Van Deren has become one of the world’s top endurance runners. She regularly competes in long-distance tests of perseverance, 100 miles or more through wicked terrain and tortuous conditions. Van Deren plans a speed ascent of Aconcagua…It would be a 75-mile (120-kilometer) round trip with 18,000 feet in elevation gain. They think it can be done in less than 35 hours.”

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