Chest spasms and frostbite can’t stop Ryan and Ryno trailblazing to glory
Life-threatening chest spasms and frostbite did not stop South African trail runners Ryan Sandes and Ryno Griesel from setting a fastest known time along the 1‚406km Great Himalayan Trail on Sunday. The team‚ which set out on March 1‚ were four days faster than fellow South African Andrew Porter’s 28-day record‚ when they finished early on Sunday — after running the equivalent of an ultramarathon every day at high altitude over 24 days‚ 14 hours and 47 minutes. Porter — another outstanding South African trailrunner who holds the solo record for the 220km Drakensberg Grand Traverse — did the Great Himalayan Trail on his own. On Monday the team made the risky decision to keep running into the night after Griesel had rested for a few hours at a village tea house‚ recovering from chest spasms‚ hyperventilation and a temperature. Of their death-defying determination‚ filmmaker Dean Leslie said: "When Ryan and Ryno started the Great Himalaya Trail they knew it would be physically tough. B...
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