Underdogs unite: JVC cameras document 10,000 mile UK-Mongolia rally—with regular cars!

Underdogs unite: JVC cameras document 10,000 mile UK-Mongolia rally—with regular cars!: "Everybody loves to root for an underdog. In the action camera world, mainstream brands like JVC and Sony are in a titanic battle with the well-entrenched GoPro brand, which for years has had the market pretty-much to itself. For auto racing fans, no less epic a battle has just commenced: the Mongol Rally, a thrilling 10,000 mile race that pits the underdogs of the vehicular world against the worst Mother Nature has to offer -- and JVC's Adixxion-branded action cameras are going along for the ride!

The rulebook for the Mongol Rally couldn't be much shorter, and yet a the same time couldn't place much greater a demand on its contestants. Drive a regular road car with an engine below 1.2 liters (or a motorcycle below 125cc) from the starting line at Dover Castle in the UK to a finish almost a third of the way around the planet in Mongolia. (Sükhbaatar Square, in the center of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, to be precise.) And once you get there? Sell your car or bike, and donate the proceeds th a Mongolian charity."

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Tulsa man to run across Mongolia in support of country's orphans | Tulsa World

Tulsa man to run across Mongolia in support of country's orphans | Tulsa World: "A Tulsa man plans to run the entire length of Mongolia - 1,500 miles - to raise awareness about the plight of orphans there and money to help them.

Brian Hunter, 39, left Tulsa on Monday and will begin his run next week from the Russian border in the far western corner of Mongolia to the eastern border with China.

His wife and two young children will accompany him in a support vehicle.

The family will camp each night on the 60-day expedition.

Hunter will run 30 miles a day - more than a marathon - six days a week, and will take one day of rest.

"When I first heard about Mongolia, it was about two guys who were riding motorcycles around the world," he said at his south Tulsa home.
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