At the age of nineteen, Lara PriorPalmer discovered a website devoted to the worlds longest, toughest horse racean annual competition of endurance and skill that involves dozens of riders racing a series of twentyfive wild ponies across 1,000 kilometers of Mongolian grassland. On a whim, she decided to enter the race. As she boarded a plane to East Asia, she was utterly unprepared for what awaited her. Riders often spend years preparing to compete in the Mongol Derby, a course that recreates the horse messenger system developed by Genghis Khan. Many fail to finish. PriorPalmer had no formal training. She was driven by her own restlessness, stubbornness, and a lifelong love of horses. She raced for ten days through extreme heat and terrifying storms, catching a few hours of sleep where she could at the homes of nomadic families. Battling bouts of illness and dehydration, exhaustion and bruising falls, she decided she had nothing to lose. Each dawn she rode out again on a fresh horse, scrambling up mountains, swimming through rivers, crossing woodlands and wetlands, arid dunes and open steppe, as American television crews chased her in their jeeps.
Details e-book Rough Magic
🗸 Author(s): Lara Prior-Palmer
🗸 Title: Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
🗸 Rating : 4.2 from 5 stars (383 reviews)
🗸 Languange: English
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