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Handsome rancher in his early fifties with silver hair, a short silver beard and blue eyes standing beside a small Mongolian horse on the vast green steppe at golden hour

I Entered the Longest Horse Race on Earth at 52 Years Old: 1,000 Kilometers Across Mongolia on 25 Half-Wild Horses. On Day Six, I Had to Choose Between Winning and a Stranger

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It’s called the hardest horse race in the world. Ten days, a thousand kilometers of Mongolian steppe, twenty-five different half-wild horses, and no roads. I’d spent my whole life on horseback in Nebraska, and I thought that was enough. By day three, I knew it wasn’t.

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Handsome rugged man in his mid forties with sun-streaked brown hair, a short beard and green eyes standing beside a bay mustang and a pack mule at a desert trailhead at golden hour

I Rode a Horse From Mexico to Canada. 2,650 Miles, Five Months, One Horse, One Mule and No Plan B. I Was 45, Single and Everybody Said I Was Running Away

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The Pacific Crest Trail runs from the Mexican border to Canada through deserts, snow and the highest mountains in California. A few hikers finish it every year. Almost nobody does it on horseback. I decided to try, with a mustang named Scout, a mule named Pancho and absolutely no idea what I was doing.

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