This is the 8th Mongol Derby, featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest and toughest horse race. The 2016 race features 20 men and 21 women from 13 countries riding 1000km across Mongolia on semi-wild horses.
As well as serious riders from the worlds of eventing, show-jumping, endurance, racing, dressage, polo and rodeo, the 2016 line-up includes a family team, cancer survivors and those who have learned to ride specifically to take part. Some are in it to win it and some are in just because they can. Some are even coming back to finish it having not done so the first time around.