Tag: Mongolia

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

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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