Dear friend´s. I live in Brazil and I was far from the Mad List for 8 years (I was on the www.idea2000.org). Now I´m finally back to the internet world and can tell you what´s up in the diabetic sport life in South America. We have a discussion list called Diabetes&Desportes (www.diabetesedesportes.com.br) and have more than 50 sporters in different places on Brazil (some from other country too), including a Death Valley ultramarathon finisher for 3 times, Monica Otero.
Some of us had, at the same time, a program called Bandera Al Cielo (www.diabesport.com), that has been doing mountaineering in 5.000m places and some marathon competition (like the Tetrathlon, in Argentina and the terrific Cruce de Los Andes 12x42km) crossing the Andes since Chile until Argentina (506 km). One Marathon for each member. The best (or worst) part goes by the 4.900m (!) and is hard and very beautiful to run there. We did it in 2008 february with 10 type 1, one type 2 and 1 invited with no diabetes (nobody is perfect...).
Now, in the last part of this program, we´ll go to the summit of Aconcagua (6.950m) with 6 diabetic, from Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil (we are three). I´ll tell you more in next post.
See you,
   Flávio.