Category: Mongolia

• Summer Solstice Snow in Mongolia? (or rather WILD WEATHER, the adventure continues

  Snow in the Gobi Desert in June. The whole city of Ulaanbaatar shut down, flights cancelled, runners stranded. The Gobi March 2024 hadn’t even started yet.

• Wild Jet Lag, Wild Company & Wild Horses

  Wild horses, wild weather, wild jet lag. Iris Derke’s first full day in Ulaanbaatar before the Gobi March 2024. On arriving somewhere so unlike anywhere you’ve been before.

• Arrived! And so did my gear

  Three flights, 36 hours of travel, and Iris Derke arrives in Mongolia for the Gobi March 2024. Her gear arrived too, which was not guaranteed. The beginning of a race…

• It’s time for some “awe”

  The Gobi Desert Race has been on Iris Derke’s bucket list for years. On finally saying yes to awe, scheduling adventure on purpose, and what happens when you stop waiting…

• Initial thoughts, take off!

  Music as transport, music as memory, music as permission to begin. Iris Derke on the playlist that launched her toward the Gobi Desert and the particular power of a song…