In 1985 Tony Hunt and Jan Turner first proposed a new and ground breaking race; the Everest Marathon. This came to fruition in 1987 with the help of a lot of dedicated people and a bunch of lunatics who wanted to run it. After the 1989 Everest Marathon Jan went off on other adventures, returning to Nepal in 1991 to organise a new race; The Annapurna Triathlon (Which he designed and John Williams and Jack Maitland rationalised and Jane King administered and Ramesh Bhattachan made happen) They organised this race for 7 years until the organisers went their various ways. Jan had, whilst this was all going on, been able to create the Kathmandu Marathon which he organised for 2 years.

In 1995 on a course that Jan designed, Tony Hunt measured, Ramesh Bhattachan rationalised and with the support of Sir Ian Botham and Nike UK; twelve local runners proved that a run from Pokhara to Poon Hill and back was possible in less than 12 hours. The route normally would take an average trekker 5 days. The winner took 11 hours 55 minutes and 55 seconds. The Annapurna 100 was born; the World's toughest 100km race.

And then on the 10th of April 2010 came the first Everest Ultra, concieved by Jan Turner and organised by Ramesh Bhattachan and pioneered by 15 runners. Starting at Gorak Shep and finishing in Lukla. Starting at -5 degrees and finishing at 90 degrees it goes from a height of 18000 feet down to 8497 feet before climbing back to 9380 feet. Going from glacial moraines, ice, rock, precarious bridges to trekking paths, forests, river beds and rural farmland, this is surely the greatest race on the planet.

Results 2010

Position	Name	Time	Remarks
1	Sudip Kulung Rai	5 hours 14 min 30 secs	Local Porter
2	Bed Bahadur Sunuwar	5 hours 16 min 25 secs	Nepal Army
3	Aite Bahadur Tamang	5 hours 40 min 01 secs	Nepal Army
4	Raj Kumar Basnet	5 hours 41 min 07 secs	Nepal Army
5	Chhitij Kulung Rai	5 hours 47 min 05 secs	Local Porter
6	Upendra Sunuwar	7 hours 21 min 02 secs	Sindhuli
7	Bhim Bahadur Gurung	7 hours 35 min 06 secs	Dang
8	Sonam Tamang	7 hours 53 min 04 secs	Nepal Army
9	Gopal Magar	8 hours 06 min 09 secs	Namche
10	Raj Man Maharjan	8 hours 26 min 03 secs	Lalitpur
11	Narayan Acharya	8 hours 55 min 07 secs	Jumla
12	Basanta Rai	10 hours 32 min	Nepal Army
13	Shankar Shah	10 hours 32 min	Pokhara
14	Jan Turner	14 hours 55 min	UK
15	Yogendra Bhattachan	16 hours 30 min	Baglung Veteran
16	Ramesh Bhattachan	16 hours 30 min	Pokhara Veteran