It sponsored the GreenTravel Tigers team, which filed online dispatches from the race. The team sponsored by Greenpeace was first across the finish line Monday morning, well ahead of squads financed by Deloitte Consulting and adidas sporting goods. The race, which began Dec. 1, officially ends Sunday . Teams that don't finish by then are removed from the course. This year's challenge was the fastest race ever.
Teams can receive a lifetime disqualification for breaking race rules on environmental impact.
Those rules include no washing within 300 feet of a water source, no campfires and no littering. McKay, who is also a founder and director of Clean Up the World, a global environmental group, organized a tree-planting project in the National Park near San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, to replace trees lost in forest fires. Team members and race staff planted 400 cypress trees Nov. 30 and a nursery is being built to eventually add 4,000 more. And it should do that without creating a bunch of new Waikikis and their huge tourist infrastructures. This isn't about luxury suites, it's about tents.