Chelsea adventurer Ray Zahab\u0027s week ended with a flight to the Arctic where he\u0027ll begin a 10\u002Dday trek across Baffin Island in \u002D40 C temperatures and the near 24\u002Dhour darkness of the polar winter.
It began with him lying exhausted and nauseous in bed, his body buzzing from the cocktail of drugs after hours of chemotherapy at the Gatineau Cancer Clinic.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc.
“I fully accept that for the next six months, maybe a little longer after the last chemo treatment, I’m going to have to adapt my life to this thing I’m dealing with. I’m fully appreciative that I have, not a curable, but a very treatable form of lymphoma. I’m very appreciative of the fact that I’m not, to my knowledge, dying of anything.”Article content
“I went from learning how to be on the trails to racing on the trails to eventually getting into ultra-running,” he said. “When we ran across the Sahara, I really became fascinated by this concept of exploration,” Zahab said. “Seeing amazing places but also connecting with people. You learn so much because you are on an adventure — not just about yourself, but about the world.”Article content
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