Competitors race across tough terrain in the Comeragh Mountains.
The Comeragh Mountain Challenge attracted 96 teams this year, including 22 from the UK, to take part in the event. The challenge demands not only a love of the outdoors, but strong survival skills, expert navigation and exceptional physical fitness.
It's an arduous mountaineering event that calls for map reading and survival skills, the ability to use a compass and a very high degree of physical fitness.
Each team, made up of two competitors, is issued with a detailed map of the Comeragh Mountains marked with a series of checkpoints that must be reached over the course of the event.
This year’s winners, Brendan Boland and Gerry Brady, covered an impressive 80 kilometres and climbed a total of 2,800 metres over the two-day challenge. They completed the second and final stage in a time of six hours, 46 minutes and 14 seconds.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 21 May 1996. The reporter is Colm Murray.
