21 runners dead after extreme weather hits Chinese ultramarathon

Boston ^ | 5/23/21 | Alexandra Stevenson and Cao Li

[Libloather]

Covid? At least ya can't blame global warming for this one.

[kiryandil]

“don’t pet the bison” alert

[PGR88]

its an ultra-ultra-marathon

[Az Joe]

Sum Ting Wong

[Tax-chick]

Oh, that’s very sad.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

R.I.P.

[Recompennation]

Climb it change¿

[Mariner]

They stopped running and succumbed to hypothermia.

[Atticus]

Reminds me of the many people who have died from hypothermia climbing Mt. Washington on what began as a pleasant, sunny day and deteriorated rapidly.

[humblegunner]

men’s marathon for hearing-impaired runners at China’s 2019 National Paralympic Games

He never heard it coming.

[Sacajaweau]

Awful and certainly shouldn’t have happened. No camps along the route?

[Salvavida]

"It was seen as a way to promote tourism in the area, which is in one of China’s poorest provinces."

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That might backfire.

[volunbeer]

Proof that China has fewer lawyers than the US.....

[voicereason]

Sound like the Barkley Marathons.

[cloudmountain]

Covid? At least ya can't blame global warming for this one.

Since this is coming out of the Chinese press I believe almost nothing of this.
If anything the death count is WAY, WAY too small.

But who knows, maybe the marathon is an invention.

[cloudmountain]

Sound like the Barkley Marathons.

Lol.

[dgbrown]

This is why I don’t run.

[Romulus]

I did the presidential traverse over three warm, sunny, dry days in July. It was tough. I can’t imagine how dangerous it must be in the wet and cold.

[bigbob]

Yeah, because getting caught in a sudden weather change and intentionally provoking a dangerous animal are exactly the same, right?

[Nateman]

Bang Ding Ow!