Location: Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Total Days Run: 263. Total Miles Run 3,626 miles. The rains have come. This is something we have been worrying about since we started planning the expedition nearly two years ago! Weather has never stopped us running before: we’ve run through howling wind, snow, blistering heat and torrential …
La Ubicación Santa Cruz de la Sierra de Bolivia. Días en total: 263, Kms en total: 5,835 Llegaron las lluvias. Esto es algo que nos ha estado preocupando desde hace casi dos años, cuando comenzamos a planear la expedición. Las condiciones climáticas nunca nos han detenido: hemos corrido en medio de vientos huracanados, nieve, calor …
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¡Compra tus boletos AHORA para tener la oportunidad de ganar una de estas obras en acrílico, de Katherine! Ambas obras, la rana de la selva tropical y el tucán, están montadas profesionalmente. La fecha límite es el 30 de junio de 2013.
Buy Your Tickets NOW! for a Chance to Win one of these original acylic paintings by Katharine! Both the rainforest frog and keel-billed toucan have been professionally mounted. Closing Date 30 June 2013. E-tickets equivalent of £5. The person who buys the most tickets WINS and can choose which painting they would like. The person whose …
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We’re sitting in the office of Armonía (our Bolivian bird & wildlife charity). We’re tapping articles, uploading photos, compiling school presentations and catching up on all the tasks we dream about doing as we run. We always plan to achieve so much after the daily 20 mile slog, but after finding a home for the …
British Adventure Ecologists Katharine and David Lowrie ask whether there is an alternative to this silent massacre…… Two thousand and eight hundred miles; the equivalent of running between Lands End and John O’Groats three times! This is the distance my husband and I have now run through the continent of South America. And nearly every …
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On Monday we arrived Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. A city of over 1.7 million people. It’s the biggest city of the expedition so far. And during the course of the 21 day run from the Argentinian border of Yacuiba to this sprawling city in the skirts of the Amazon basin, we are convinced …
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Uno de nuestras favoritas cosas del día de correr: Corriendo con alumnos quienes conocer por la ruta: haciendo charlas de la carrera y la naturaleza; conociendo alumnos, maestros y directoras y aprendiendo mas de los países donde corremos…
One of our favourite parts of the running day: Running with school children whom we meet along the road; giving presentations about the run and the natural world; meeting with the students, teachers and head teachers and learning more about the countries we´re running through..