This one-hour television special, produced for LivePlanet and aired on National Geographic Channel, chronicles a thirty-person expedition and three ultra-marathoners as they ran across the  Africa continent, which was part of the feature documentary, “Running the Sahara.“

The elite athletes are Charlie Engle from the United States,  and Kevin Lin from Taiwan and Ray Zahab from Canada. Their goal: run through the countries of Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya, and finish at the Red Sea in Egypt -- approximately two marathons per day, for eighty days, without a day off.

A  LivePlanet   
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 Allentown Productions   production
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 Director  &  Producer                           Michael Rosen
 Executive Producer                              Marc Joubert
Executive Producer                              Larry Tanz
 Executive Producer                              Keith Quinn
 Executive Producer                               James Moll
 Executive Producer                               Rick Eldridge
 Executive Producer                               Jim Van Eerden
 Director of Photography            Steven Miles
 Editor                                                                                Sean Basaman

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