Extreme Sports Athletes

He has also completed three Eco Challenges and three Raid Gauloises events, along with the Southern Traverse and Discovery Channel World Championships. He is the only person to have completed the Eco Challenge, the Raid Gauloises and the Hawaii Ironman in the same year.

Charlie came in first in the Gobi March (China, 2003) and second in the Atacama Crossing (Chile, 2004). He has also summited five mountains over 20,000 feet including Mt. McKinley in Alaska in 2002. Charlie is a certified white water guide and a PADI diver.

Prior to his days as an extreme athlete, Ray was a professional equestrian riding at both the national and world levels. Ray also competed in professional mountain biking.

Ray has competed in numerous extreme races winning 1st Place Yukon Arctic Ultra 2004, 1st Place Sahara Race, Egypt 2005, 1st Place Libyan Challenge 2006, 1st Place Gobi March Team 2006, 1st Place Jungle Marathon Team (with Charlie!), 3rd Place Trans 333, Niger 2004 and 8th place solo Jungle Marathon 2004.

In 96 years, only 50 SPIRIT AWARDS have been presented. Of those, only 7 have gone to athletes and Kevin is the only runner. This honor has literally made Kevin Lin a hero to the Taiwanese people.

In addition to holding many Taiwanese records, Kevin also placed 3rd in the 2006 The Last Desert 250k across Antarctica, 2nd in the 2005 Egyptian Sahara Race 250k, 1st in the 2004 The Atacama Desert Crossing Chile 250k, 2nd in the 2004 The Jungle Marathon-Amazon Jungle Brazil 200k and 2nd in the Gobi March-Northern China Gobi Desert.

Kevin was recently named as the 4 Deserts Champion for having the best overall placing in the 4 largest desert races in the world. His record is unmatched.