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Have you not seen them before? I'd have thought you have.
the lack of gears/singlespeed is an attempt to shed weight from the fatbike in order to make it a lots easier to carry the bicycle if necessity, and most especially on the raft without overloading it.
secondly, they're riding on the coast, so they don't need a huge range of gear, just the right gearing/range to be able to go through the murkiest of the murk, nor need brakes (some are riding without) as they're hardly going to blast down the singletrack at high speed, less maintenance needed as the coast aren't the kindest to the bike.
This is what I understood when reading about it last year.