extreme endurance events
Jan. 23rd, 2024 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twoelevensince some of y'all like this sort of thing:
Elfstedentocht: The famed, frozen race that may never return
It's 18 January 1963 and Leffert Oldenkamp is skating through the dark, freezing, foggy morning.
He has had next to no sleep, the temperature is a bone-chilling -18C, and the icy wind cuts through his clothes.
He is taking part in one of the toughest sporting tests there is - skating nearly 125 miles on uneven natural ice through the bleak, winter landscape of the Dutch province of Friesland.