Christer Klingspor

A recreational runner who has completed the Stockholm Marathon twice and trains several days a week. Christer, 50, has worked as a hospital nurse for some 30 years, more recently in pre-hospital ambulance care and now in the hemodialysis treatment unit. He read an article in Runner's World magazine about the North Pole Marathon and immediately felt the urge to participate. Christer has always dreamed of the wildernes, "not a hot jungle in Borneo but the wilderness of the North". A deserted winter wasteland and an open sky appeals to him and he believes that running in such surroundings is a good way to experience them. The father of five is also a song writer and plays electric guitar in a blues rock band. The band practices every Sunday evening and it´s the highlight of the week for him.