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West Africa

West Africa is too often reduced to warnings and assumptions. My experiences there revealed a region with far more warmth, complexity and character than those outside it tend to imagine.

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Running a 160km Ultramarathon in the Mauritanian Sahara Desert
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Running a 160km Ultramarathon in the Mauritanian Sahara Desert

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Out of all of my failed “never again” claims in life, I genuinely believed that running an ultramarathon in the Sahara Desert was one that I’d hold to. Alas, long after my Marathon des Sables success in 2019, I was digging out my sand gaiters from the dusty storage room for the first edition of…

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