On Friday December 2nd 2011, Mainfreight Australia’s National Logistics Manager, René van Houtum finished a run of a lifetime – the Mt Everest Marathon. The Everest event is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest marathon in the world.
René has spent 6 months training for this race, although he admitted before leaving that “there is no way to prepare for the altitude that I will be experiencing, but I have trekked in these conditions before and believe I will be fine.”
To acclimatise naturally to the high altitude René joined other participants in a 17 day trek to the Mt Everest Base Camp, the starting place for the race.
The Everest marathon takes place on snow, ice, rocks and all other conceivable types of surface; René completed the 42km race in 7 hours and 46 minutes, relaying that “good work takes some time.”
René van Houtum has recently joined Mainfreight Australia as National Logistics Manager based in Melbourne, after having the opportunity to relocate from our European division the Wim Bosman group where he was Logistics Manager of the Belgium operations.
