Fourteen runners will start. Few will finish. This is the incredible true story of America's first mountain adventure race -- one that Hollywood would have been hard pressed to script. Fortunately, this didn't prevent a local historian and a Mount Vernon film maker from producing a documentary about an unbelievable race from Bellingham, WA to the top of Mount Baker and back that took place in 1911 and continued for two tumultuous years after an inaugural event that put America's "fourth corner" on the map. Racing Model T Fords, speeding locomotives, intrepid runners, and a cast of heroes and villains are just the start of this tale, as told by Todd Warger and Brian Young in Part 1 of "The Mountain Runners."
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction!
