Hello, I'm Aaron Hable of the Generation Why podcast, and I've been stranded on an island working with Jack

Luna from Dark Topic for months. His show like mine is true crime-based, but since he

kidnapped me from a cruise ship, tossing us both overboard at a crime event.

Aaron, what are you doing over there? Did you get that coconut phone working? I'd like to introduce you to our new podcast, Marooned, stories of the

catastropically lost. Here give me that thing if it's working. Let me do that my

way here. Marooned, Your life just might depend on it.

The Marathon of the Sands, Southern Morocco's grueling event, widely known as the Marathon to Saab, is considered

the most difficult foot race on Earth.

Held in the unforgiving Sahara Desert, this six-day race stretches 250 kilometers over shifting wind-blown

dunes, challenging the world's most persistent and durable competitors since 1986.

Contestants are expected to be self-sufficient and carry their own supplies.

Though medical support, tents, and rations of water

are provided at half a dozen designated checkpoints

spaced across an expanse of unforgiving desert

full of pitfalls.

This ultra marathon is tough enough on its own without something going wrong, and there is a lot

that can go wrong, jogging through a desert for a week.

Some drop out, some, unfortunately, drop dead.

And in 1994, one contestant, Moralrill Prosperi, seemed to drop off the face of the earth.

Welcome to Maroon.

Stories of the Catastrophically Lost.

I'm Jack Luna.

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