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Team Eco-Internet/Reebok wins the 1996 Eco-Challenge

Team Eco-Internet/Reebok won the 1996 Eco-Challenge, arriving at the finish line early Saturday morning. Behind them, Team Hewlett-Packard and Team Hi-Tec Adventure were still battling for second place, and more than a dozen teams are still on the course. As of Saturday afternoon, the order of the remaining teams was unavailable.

From a field of seventy five-person teams, only fourteen were able to complete the entire 300 mile adventure race. Eighty percent were forced to withdraw for a wide variety of reasons ranging from lost gear and ailing team members to failing to reach a checkpoint before a cutoff time. With an arduous course including glaciers and whitewater, safety was a paramount consideration for officials.