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May 8, 2009 · In February, 2007, Charlie and teammates Ray Zahab and Kevin Lin became the first people in history to run across the entire Sahara Desert, covering over 4,300 miles in what became a 111...
Oct 17, 2008 · Running the Sahara: Directed by James Moll. With Matt Damon, Charlie Engle, Kevin Lin, Ray Zahab. Three men attempt to become the first humans to run coast to coast across the Sahara Desert.
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- Documentary, Sport
- James Moll
- 2008-10-17
Running time. 102 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Running the Sahara is a 2007 documentary feature film that chronicles Ray Zahab, Charlie Engle, and Kevin Lin 's attempt to run across the entire Sahara Desert. They traveled a total of 6920 kilometers, reaching the Red Sea on February 20, 2007.
- English
- James Moll
- 2007
The contacts he had developed in the entertainment industry from working on Extreme Makeover helped Engle get director James Moll to film a documentary of a 2007 run across the Sahara Desert. The Sahara run covered over 4,300 miles in 111 days.
Running the Sahara. November 2006 to February 2007. When I decided to run across the Sahara Desert with Ray Zahab and Kevin Lin, I knew it would be a life changing expedition. But I could never have known that, in many ways, my life would be defined by this run and the film about the journey.
Sep 25, 2016 · But his athletic zenith is an unprecedented, absolutely astonishing 111-day, 4,500-mile run across the Sahara Desert — a feat chronicled in the Matt Damon narrated documentary entitled Running the Sahara. Life was pretty good. Then came quite possibly the most bizarre and improbable challenge Charlie could ever imagine facing.
