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- A total of 22 nationalities will be taking part
- The youngest competitor is 21 years old and the oldest is 73 years old
- The largest contingent of competitors is from the United
States followed by the United Kingdom
- The largest contingent of competitors from Asia hails
from Korea with fourteen
- Eighty percent of the competitors are male and twenty
percent female
- The average age of competitors is slightly more than 40
years of age
- Competitors and staff will consume 13,000 liters of Dasani
water provided by The Coca Cola Company
- Twenty One competitors will qualify for The Last Desert™
in Antarctica if they successfully cross the finish line
on October 1st.
- The Sahara Desert is the largest non-polar desert in the world
- The Western Desert of Egypt covers a total area of 2.8
million sq km and is bordered by Libya in the west, Sudan
in the south and the Mediterranean in the north
- There are only five isolated oases in this vast expanse
of desert
- Farafra Oasis is the smallest oasis in the Western Desert
- The largest excavation of mummies was made in a 6sq km
area around Bahariya in the late 1990s
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