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What Is The Environment In Kenneth Kamler's Surviving The Extremes

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Surviving the extremes is a book written by Kenneth Kamler which provides six examples of people going to six different environments which shows how amazing the human bodies are and what they can withstand. Chapter three “Desert the Marathon of the Sands” is about a Mauro Prosperi an Italian police man who was in the Sahara Desert competing in an Ultra-Marathon known as Marathon des Sables or Marathon of the Sands in 1994 which is a 160 mile race through the Moroccan Desert annually. The race consisted of 137 competitors each with their own personal microenvironment which has a purpose of protecting the person 's body from the outside environment and a backpack carrying basic supplies. On the fourth day of the race Prosperi was in 7th place
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