A Dry Run

“The men and women ranging in age from 19 to 69 and hailing from 21 countries and 26 U.S. states were running amid daytime temperatures as high as 120 degrees.” First runners reach the finish in the annual Death Valley ultramarathon called the world’s toughest.

+ Conditions out there can get a little rough… Death Valley heat melts skin off a man’s feet after he lost his flip-flops in the dunes. “To make matters worse, the temperatures made the air too thin for a helicopter to fly in and help him.”