This is a documentary about the run from Bad Water to Whitney Portal. Actually at one time the event continued to the top of Mount Whitney, but that is no longer the case since the Park Service had some issues with that. I'm no admirer of people who engage in this type of event, but it is interesting that such an event even exists. On YouTube this video can be watched in segments beginning with the segment embedded below.
LINK: http://youtu.be/wO8brbHpJUY
ALT LINK: http://youtu.be/aiaWhJrMROo
Forty runners compete in the most grueling race on earth, the Badwater. The film documents the trials and tribulations of these athletes as they run 135 miles through Death Valley in July and explores the motivations behind this seemingly masochistic contest. A celebration of the perseverance of the human will beyond the limits of the human body.