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Kill Hill

19.05.2006

Stage 4 – Day 26: Just under a month since the first pairs of 18 international adventurers came together before a crowd of thousands in Bangkok’s Sanam Luang Park for the opening day of competitions on the Land Rover G4 Challenge, the same 18 paired up for the last time on the other side of the world in very different conditions.

Hundreds of miles from the nearest city, watched only by a handful of llama grazing on the Bolivian Altiplano, a 4444 metre escarpment nicknamed Kill Hill was the venue for the final team task in the 2006 Land Rover G4 Challenge.

It is the competitors' last chance to work in pairs before they go it alone on Friday’s Stage Final; itself the last opportunity for the 15 men and 3 women to make the top four positions - the ticket into Saturday’s grand finale; the Challenge Final.

Kill Hill – a straight race up a crumbling volcanic cliff – was the compulsory competition in a long day that had the adventurers fighting stress, fatigue, illness, injury and an ignorance of how well they have scored in this last week of the Challenge.

“There is no way of telling how we have done,� said Alina McMaster – one half of the all female pair with Eleonora Audra. “We have given 100% all the time and there is nothing more you can do.�

Their goal all week has been the fourth place held by France’s Jean-Baptiste Calais. Calais has been paired for Stage 4 with the third female entry – Claribett Vega of Costa Rica.

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