Kym McConnell

Competitor in extreme events for nearly twenty years, including numerous mountain marathons and ultramarathons. Kym has run an extreme marathon on every continent including ultra-distance races in the Himalayas, Amazon, Antarctica and Sahara. He has has also competed in various multi-disciplinary competitions including a 39th placing in the World Multisport Championships (a 243km run/cycle/kayak race which traverses the Southern Alps of New Zealand). Kym recently published his first book 'Tibet Overland', written following a 2000km mountain bike crossing of Tibet, for which the Dalai Lama kindly wrote the foreword. His second book, Extreme Running, which profiles 25 of the best foot races on the planet, will be published later this year.