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A friend of mine worked for the organising company for a while but quit. No mandatory kit, no mandatory experience. In fact, that was their USP! She felt it was ridiculously irresponsible and couldn't continue working there.
Friends of friends took part in the race. A few of those died. It's really awful and based on what I've read, largely preventable. So many things went wrong with the organising and the rescue.
I've been in a race where someone died and we didn't realise until the next day that we'd run straight past his body - he fell off the trail and into a small lake and drowned - but this Gansu race is just insane, 20+ people, including the top 3... There's absolutely no sense of safety here, no idea what to do in an emergency and every race just wants to be harder/longer/etc than the others.
So sad for the families - many of whom only found out when they saw videos on social media of their relative's bodies. No official word from the local govt yet. Typical chinese local govt, but it makes a terrible situation even worse.
Lots of articles about it on social media here but all in Chinese...
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Terrible and really sad. No mention whether the race had any mandatory kit ☹️