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Con Anthony Conlon has ever been fascinated by the stories of the explorers and adventurers of yore: Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, James Cook, Ernest Shackleton, George Mallory, “the accustomed suspects,” says the Chennai-based entrepreneur, who remembers speechmaking each their biographies erstwhile helium was younger.
It is portion of the crushed helium decided to embark connected the Marathon des Sables, a legendary ultramarathon done the Moroccan Sahara, often called the toughest footrace connected Earth. “It was a small spot of wanting to spot what that benignant of acquisition would beryllium like, adjacent successful a precise tiny way,” says the 54-year-old Irishman, who has conscionable returned from the gruelling week-long race, which was held betwixt April 5 and 11 this year.
