ABU DHABI ADVENTURE CHALLENGE: Fun Facts


• More than 12 ambulances will be on stand-by during the six-day event, including mobile ambulance facilities mounted on army-code Humvee trucks, which can access even the most inhospitable of terrains.

• If you add up the combined distance travelled by all 144 athletes from Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge 2008, it would be the equivalent of flying around the world one and a quarter times.

• The athletes will burn up over 7,000 calories a day — three times that of the daily recommended rate for an average man.

• To keep calorie intake high, adventure racers eat a wide range of snacks including Bombay mix, dried bananas and potato powder, energy bars and salt packs.

• To stave off the effects of dehydration, adventure racers need to consume at least 10 litres of water a day. Based on this, in the 2008 event, athletes consumed more than 9,000 litres — the equivalent of 100 average sized bath tubs.

• Looking at a combined average, the teams will use 2.8km of rope, will take more than 17 million steps and make more than five million paddle strokes.