Team Arctic - Team Atacama
Team Arctic
Jen Segger
Jen hails from the outdoor playground of Squamish, BC. For the past twelve years she has been competing at the elite level in ultra running, adventure racing and mountain biking, choosing events and challenges that allow for travel paired with exploration.
Combing her passion for athletics and competition, Jen is an endurance coach to athletes of all ages and abilities around the world. She owns a high performance training facility in Squamish as well as an indoor cycling studio, both aimed at providing quality training opportunities and preparing people for their sports. Jen rounds out a busy schedule with trail running camps, guiding and joining her athletes at their races. She has obtained her dream job and can’t think of anything else that she’d rather be doing than helping other people achieve their own goals! Jen has been involved with i2P since 2008 and was apart of the first youth expedition in 2009.
Jen believes the key to happiness is loving what you do everyday. Life is too short to spend time with a low stoke factor. She encourages everyone to get out there and tackle life, making each day count.
Visit jensegger.com
Ray Zahab
In 2006/7, Ray and two other runners ran the entire width of the Sahara Desert-7500 kms (4600 miles) in 111 days with no rest days-and in the process learned of the seriousness of the water crisis in Africa. The run was documented in a film directed by Oscar winner James Moll and narrated by Matt Damon. Ray is the founder of impossible2Possible-an organization that aims to inspire and educate youth through adventure learning, inclusion and participation in expeditions. He has served as board member of Ryans Well Foundation and ONExONE Foundation. Ray has completed multiple expeditions to date including a 1,200km run length of Atacama Desert, 1,130km unsupported trek to Geographic South Pole, 2000km run across the Gobi Desert, 1000km across Patagonian Desert, 650km unsupported winter traverse of Lake Baikal in Siberia, and 12 i2P Youth Expeditions. He is a recent recipient of the Meritorious Service Cross of Canada. For more info visit RayZahab.com.
Stefano Gregoretti
Deserts mountains. Forests,dunes,treks... Uphill,downhill,never give up...run and run again. That's my dimension. That's my thirst for life. Limits? None
Born in Riccione in 1974. Very freil as a child and with a little scloiosis, I was forced by my mum to swim every day to better my health . My coach Marcello remembers me even now as a hopeless case!
From an early age I attended the ski slopes of the Dolomites practicing alpine skiing only later that he still prefer. Still living by the sea, the pool will be for a long time my sporting environment , more precisely, water polo, but never leaving the mountains for a long time, with friends or even alone with my dogs, going on long climbing or trekking is a fixture. In 2005 I approach triathlon, combining my thirst for challenging workouts and also competition .... and since then I have crossed continents, deserts and mountains to give vent to my thirst for life .... more without stopping...
Since then 2 place overall at the RTP Nepal 250 km running the Himalayan valley , 2 place at Grand2GRand Ultra running 275 km in Utah desert, 1 place overall Yukon Arctic Ultra running 160 km in frozen Canada, 1 place overall The Gobi March in Mongolia with RTP running 250 km in Gobi Desert
Team Atacama
Jen Segger
Jen hails from the outdoor playground of Squamish, BC. For the past twelve years she has been competing at the elite level in ultra running, adventure racing and mountain biking, choosing events and challenges that allow for travel paired with exploration.
Combing her passion for athletics and competition, Jen is an endurance coach to athletes of all ages and abilities around the world. She owns a high performance training facility in Squamish as well as an indoor cycling studio, both aimed at providing quality training opportunities and preparing people for their sports. Jen rounds out a busy schedule with trail running camps, guiding and joining her athletes at their races. She has obtained her dream job and can’t think of anything else that she’d rather be doing than helping other people achieve their own goals! Jen has been involved with i2P since 2008 and was apart of the first youth expedition in 2009.
Jen believes the key to happiness is loving what you do everyday. Life is too short to spend time with a low stoke factor. She encourages everyone to get out there and tackle life, making each day count.
Visit jensegger.com
Ray Zahab
In 2006/7, Ray and two other runners ran the entire width of the Sahara Desert-7500 kms (4600 miles) in 111 days with no rest days-and in the process learned of the seriousness of the water crisis in Africa. The run was documented in a film directed by Oscar winner James Moll and narrated by Matt Damon. Ray is the founder of impossible2Possible-an organization that aims to inspire and educate youth through adventure learning, inclusion and participation in expeditions. He has served as board member of Ryans Well Foundation and ONExONE Foundation. Ray has completed multiple expeditions to date including a 1,200km run length of Atacama Desert, 1,130km unsupported trek to Geographic South Pole, 2000km run across the Gobi Desert, 1000km across Patagonian Desert, 650km unsupported winter traverse of Lake Baikal in Siberia, and 12 i2P Youth Expeditions. He is a recent recipient of the Meritorious Service Cross of Canada. For more info visit RayZahab.com.
Stefano Gregoretti
Deserts mountains. Forests,dunes,treks... Uphill,downhill,never give up...run and run again. That's my dimension. That's my thirst for life. Limits? None
Born in Riccione in 1974. Very freil as a child and with a little scloiosis, I was forced by my mum to swim every day to better my health . My coach Marcello remembers me even now as a hopeless case!
From an early age I attended the ski slopes of the Dolomites practicing alpine skiing only later that he still prefer. Still living by the sea, the pool will be for a long time my sporting environment , more precisely, water polo, but never leaving the mountains for a long time, with friends or even alone with my dogs, going on long climbing or trekking is a fixture. In 2005 I approach triathlon, combining my thirst for challenging workouts and also competition .... and since then I have crossed continents, deserts and mountains to give vent to my thirst for life .... more without stopping...
Since then 2 place overall at the RTP Nepal 250 km running the Himalayan valley , 2 place at Grand2GRand Ultra running 275 km in Utah desert, 1 place overall Yukon Arctic Ultra running 160 km in frozen Canada, 1 place overall The Gobi March in Mongolia with RTP running 250 km in Gobi Desert
Bob Cox
A lifelong athlete, in 2007 Bob Cox discovered a passion for endurance endeavors. Since then he has been an active participant and logistical leader in numerous expeditions including running multiple legs of the Canada OnexOne, an unsupported trek across Baffin Island in Canada's Arctic, treks the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon as well as California's Lost Coast, running expeditions across the Northern Sahara in Tunisia, the mountains of Bolivia, the Thar Desert in India, the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, and the Grand Staircase in Utah. He’s accompanied Ray Zahab across the Atacama and Gobi Deserts and crossed South America from the Pacific Coast of Chile to the Atlantic in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An avid runner, Bob has achieved multiple top ten finishes at trail races including the highly competitive San Francisco 24 hour. He spent much of his youth surfing in the Pacific Ocean and from those experiences an appreciation for our planet was born. Bob earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science with an emphasis on Public Policy from California State University, Northridge. His appreciation for clean drinking water grew from his profession as potable and Recycled Water Cross Connection Specialist in California. In October 2007, Bob met Ray at a Livestrong event in Texas and from that moment he knew his life had changed. He is a dedicated father and the Co Founder/Executive Director of impossible2Possible.
Jon Golden
Jon Golden is a freelance photographer based in Charlottesville, Virginia. He studied at the University of Virginia and works locally and internationally. He is a founder of the Look3 / Festival of the Photograph. He was most recently published in Virginia Quarterly Review (Sustainable and the December 2012 issue of Italian Vanity Fair. He has lived in Sydney, Australia, and more recently Oslo, Norway. He has made photographs and videos around the globe with a particular interest in cold northern latitudes.
Chris Tran
Chris currently works for a video production/marketing company based in Indianapolis, IN. His passions are traveling and storytelling. He has shot video across the world including Malaysia, Dubai, and Peru. Chris had the privilege of being a part of the expedition team for Impossible2Possible: Bolivia. When he's not traveling Chris can be found either playing soccer or eating peanut butter like an addict. Warning: don't let the tattoos and piercings fool you... they are fake.
Cris Sievking
I have been involved in sports all my life beginning with snow ski, water ski, triathlon, tennis, racquetball, squash, mountain biking, archery, trekking, windsurfing, sailing and running roads, trails and mountains. I started running on April 1975 while living in Orlando Florida, doing road races since 1978 being the first one The Orlando Tangerine Bowl Half Marathon.
By accident I started running on mountains and trails in 1978 in the Chilean Andes while on vacations, since I was living in Florida USA I did not get a chance to run on hills during the year, but as soon as I got back to Chile I would go back to the climbs.
I have logged almost 70,000 kilometers uninterrupted since I started, I have done hundred of races being the most important, 4 times K42 Adventure Marathon in the Argentinean Patagonia, 2 times the Andes Crossing 100k from Argentina to Chile, Boston Marathon, 2 times the Easter Island marathon, 2 times the Lican-Ray Villarrica 70K, Valle Nevado 46k Climb, 52k Laguna de Aculeo, and 2 times the Atacama Crossing 250k self supported race.
Cris has provided logistics lead for all i2P Youth Expeditions in South America.
Brian Henderson
Brian is an environmental engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. A long time ago, Brian and Ray began training together for mountain biking and some local multi-sport adventure races. When Ray decided to start long distance running, Brian joined him as his training partner, and they have been running together ever since. Over the past decade or so, Brian has competed in several marathons and ultramarathons as well as the multi-day Transrockies Challenge mountain bike race. For Brian, competition is secondary to the joy of being outside with family and friends doing the activities he loves.