About this episode

In this episode, Bill Stahl interviews extreme athlete Ray Zahab about his epic challenges, including a recent crossing of Death Valley.

Send us Fan Mail We’ve featured a lot of people who have taken on epic challenges, but this guest, Ray Zahab of Quebec, Canada, has done dozens and dozens of them. When we recorded this two years ago, Ray had just completed a couple of weeks before a crossing of Death Valley from north to south. I’m very familiar with the Badwater 135, which just completed, but that is run on roads. I didn’t even know it was a thing there to run the shortest route between two points, completely off-road. The ...

People in this episode

Host: Bill Stahl

Guest: Ray Zahab

Topics covered

• extreme challenges
• running
• fitness
• adventure
• endurance sports

Keywords

• Ray Zahab
• Death Valley
• Badwater 135
• extreme sports
• running challenges

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Quebec, Death Valley

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