A man, a continent, and the longest vertical line on Earth.
Charlie Engle ran 4,600 miles across the Sahara Desert — 111 consecutive days, two marathons a day, in heat that had no business allowing human beings. He's also run Badwater, the Gobi, the Amazon, and the Brazil 135. He's been sober for 34 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, at 63 years old, 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 · 34 YRS SOBER
Ultra-runner. Memoirist. Documentary subject ("Running the Sahara," produced by Matt Damon). Thirty-four years sober. The kind of person who, when the road ends, keeps walking. Author of Running Man.
