A man, a continent, and the longest vertical line on Earth.
Charlie Engle has run across the Sahara. He's run seven of the world's deserts. He's run six days without sleep. He's been sober for over thirty years and he's written about every step of it in Running Man — the memoir that put him on the map for everyone who has ever had to start over.
In January 2027, he begins the most ambitious project of his life: moving under his own power from the floor of the Dead Sea — the lowest dry place on Earth — to the summit of Mount Everest. No vehicles. No assistance beyond what an expedition requires to survive. Running, walking, climbing. 30,443 feet of vertical gain spread across two continents and one human body.
Dead Reckoning is the community he's building to do it with him. Not as spectators. As people who have a hard thing of their own.
Charlie Engle
ULTRA RUNNER · MEMOIRIST · 30 YRS SOBER
Ultra-runner. Memoirist. Documentary subject ("Running the Sahara," produced by Matt Damon). Thirty years sober. The kind of person who, when the road ends, keeps walking. Author of Running Man.
