The Marathon des Sables, often regarded as the toughest footrace on Earth, is a 160-mile ultramarathon spread across six days in the Sahara Desert. “You have varying stage lengths and varying ...

This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by ...

V iewed from space, the western edge of the Sahara Desert looks like another world. Its abundance of red-tinged sand turns ...

Sarah Dawson, of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, joined a group of 20 people to endure blistering conditions during the 100km (62 ...

A woman who ran an ultra-marathon in the Sahara desert admits she did not realise the "crazy, brutal race" would be as tough as it proved to be. Mother-of-two Andrea Millar, from Nantwich ...

The British army’s most senior soldier underwent heat acclimation training at a university to prepare for an ultramarathon across the Sahara Desert. Sgt Maj Paul Carney completed the Marathon ...

Killarney’s Brian Foley is enjoying well-earned rest and recuperation this week after he completed the epic ‘Marathon Des Sables’ - a gruelling six-day-long 250km ultra marathon across the ...

Credit: Daniel Hendle A man from Jersey has completed the equivalent of two full marathons over two days in the Sahara desert. Daniel Hendle, 26, has been training for the last six months in ...

Satellite images reveal ample water filling desert lakes that are usually bone dry for years at a time Heavy rains that drenched portions of the Sahara Desert this past summer filled lakes in ...