Forty-six semi-feral horses blasted across the starting line, their hooves hitting Mongolian ground on the same path Genghis Khan blazed in the 13th century on the way to ultimately creating the ...

There is no mapped route and no path to follow. Participants are given coordinates to plug into a GPS device, and left to find their own way. On horseback. This is the concept behind the Mongol Derby, ...

When riding across the Mongolian steppe, one mistake can mean game over. This can be anything from losing a piece of kit to your horse stumbling in a marmot hole while navigating the vast stretches of ...

When Brandon Fiore met his future wife Lucy, a professional jockey, he "didn't know the back from the front of a horse". Fast forward six years, and the couple has just finished the world's toughest ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The Mongol Derby is the world’s longest horse race, where riders from around the globe make their way to Mongolia to ride over 600 miles on horseback over a 10 day span. One of ...

Siobhan Ryan is going to Mongolia to compete in a gruelling horse race taking place over 1000 kilometres. Photo: Jericho Rock-Archer / Stuff Prefer us on Google A journey across rugged, treeless ...