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Andrés Lledó will start his next challenge on Friday, February 24, when he will be giving the ICE Ultra a 230-kilometer race in Swedish Lapland, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Lledó will face this new sport challenge divided into five stages, after completing in 2016 the challenge 'The Path of the Conquerors', by the hand of its sponsor, the company Jimbofresh, and the City of Cartagena, through the Department of Sports Collaborates with the Cartagena sportsman.

During the race, participants will travel through pine forests accompanied by frozen lakes and snow-capped mountains in the Swedish Lapland, in the Arctic Circle, which is Europe's last wilderness and the heart of the continent's only indigenous people, The Sami people.

In this scenario ICE Ultra, a multistage race in self-sufficiency of equipment and food that is disputed in the Swedish region of Jokkmokk.

This region covers an area of ​​19,477 square kilometers, occupying almost double that of the Region of Murcia, with a population of only 5,060 inhabitants.

The icy temperatures expected during the race will be between -5º and -20º during the day and between -10º and -30º during the night, so that freezing of hands and legs will be the greatest risk that Lledó , Who must do much of the route using snowshoes in the feet to cross the large areas of soft snow that await you on the trail.

During the race, Athletes will coexist with the local fauna, where the popular reindeer, but also bears, wolves and lynxes stand out.

In addition, the riders will spend long periods of time in the dark, following a route marked by the headlight.

Being a race in self-sufficiency, each runner must carry all the safety equipment, utensils and food that can be used during the five stages of the race, as well as with a minimum of 1.5 liters of water.

The organization will establish control points along the route where only water will be provided to the runners.

In turn, the athletes will be able to recover forces every night in an improvised camp composed of bonfires to enter in heat and traditional huts of the indigenous towns of the zone destined to rest.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena