Why do people run around the Munga-Thirri Simpson Desert each year? | ABC Australia
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as posted by the channelCorrection: 2:04 Jake Smith, 100km Runner.
Seemingly endless sandy dunes and sprawling rocky gibber plains are one of the last places you’d want to be caught with nothing but your own two feet to get you out.
However, across two days in June each year, the breathtaking but inhospitable landscape 20km outside of Birdsville is crawling with over a hundred people keen to test their limits at one of Australia’s most remote running events.
The Simpson Desert Ultra is a trail-running event unlike any other, where runners tackle distances from 25km to 100km across a diverse, and often difficult range of Wangkangurru Yarluyandi country.
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