
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.