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WORLD
THE
t happened in Mongolia. Kristina Manente ’09
crashed — physically, emotionally. Tired and cold,
Manente got sick in the middle of the Mongol Rally,
a charity motor vehicle rally that stretches 10,000 miles
from London, England to Ulan Ude, Russia.
“It’s adventure travel at its most insane because they
give you a starting line, some parties along the way,
if you can find them, and a finish line. That’s it,” said
by Michael J. Soloway
Manente, who also noted that the terrain in
Mongolia was awful and the roads nonexistent.
Manente and her team kept getting lost and
spent hours going in the wrong direction. “We
had to really make our own roads,” she said. “It
was rough going and we had already lost a day
going the wrong way. We ended up getting
stuck in the sand.”
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