Kimi Puntillo

A journalist who has covered professional sports, the Olympics and adventure marathons for U.S. newspapers, magazines, web sites and television. Kimi has completed 19 marathons and was the first woman to run a marathon on every continent in the world. A New York City native, she favours marathons set in exotic locales with a terrain challenge, including the Kilauea Wilderness Run in Hawaii with 14 miles of jagged lava rock, the Everest Marathon on trekking trails with a race start at an altitude of 17,500 feet, and the Great Wall Marathon where the entire course is on the Wall requiring scaling more than 60,000 steps. She looks forward to meeting some of the world's most prolific adventure marathoners, running on top of the world and learning more on how global warming is affecting the area.