The Marathon des Sables is considered the most challenging footrace in the world. It’s a 155 mile run over 6 days through the Sahara Desert in Morocco.
Back in 1994, former Olympic athlete from Italy, Mauro Prosperi, signed up for the grueling 6 day marathon. But on the fourth day after an 8 hour sandstorm Prosperi was left with very few supplies and no sense of direction.
Prosperi was also short on water, so he resorted to bottling his urine and drinking it. A few days later he stumbled upon a Muslim shrine and found a colony of bats hiding in its rocky shade.
Prosperi, who was starving and dehydrated, caught 20 of the bats and ate them raw.
He later stumbled across an oasis and was able to replenish his water supply.
It would take Prosperi nine days to finally come across a group of tribal women and they were able to contact police and a rescue crew. He was 186 miles off track, and had crossed into Algeria.
Prosperi was taken to hospital where he was treated for starvation and dehydration, he’d lost almost 35 pounds since the start of the marathon.
It’s taken him years to recover and two years before his body was able to accept solid food, but this year Prosperi signed up and completed the Marathon des Sables.
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