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In Quest Of: Ice marathon in Antarctica, the 7th continent
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The Blue Ice Runway on Union Glacier, Antarctica.
PHOTO: RAHUL VERGHESE
Rahul S. Verghese
Why would you think of running a marathon in minus 30 deg C weather, wind speeds of more than 48kmh and 1 per cent humidity? And then, how do you train for that in nice and tropical Singapore?
Sir Edmund Hillary, the late New Zealand mountaineer, famously said after climbing Mount Everest in 1953: “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”
