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COMPULSORY EQUIPMENT FOR PARTICIPANTS
The compulsory equipment and the personal belongings of each participant (food, survival equipment and kit, waist pouch...) should weight between 6,5kg and 15kg. This minimum/maximum weight does not include your daily water supply. Each participant will have to fulfil the above obligations during the administrative and technical checks in Morocco.

FOOD
Each entrant must provide his/her own food from 4th to 10th April inclusive. He/she must select the type of food best suited to his/her personal needs, health, weather conditions, weight and backpack conditions. We remind you that airlines strictly forbid the carrying of gas (for cooking) on board either as hand luggage or otherwise.
Each competitor must have 14000 k/calories, that is to say a minimum of 2000 k/calories per day, otherwise he/she will be penalised. Gas stoves are strictly forbidden.

GEAR
• Backpack or equivalent (best suited to each participant),
• Sleeping bag,
• Torch with spare batteries,
• 10 safety pins,
• Compass, with 1° or 2° precision
• Lighter
• Whistle
• Knife with metal blade,
• Tropical disinfectant,
• Anti-venom pump,
• Signalling mirror,
• One aluminium survival sheet.

SURVIVAL KIT
It is supplied by the organisation and will include the following:
• Distress flare,
• Salt tablets,
• Luminous signal stick (non-stop stage).

This kit will be supplied in Morocco after technical and administrative formalities.
The distress flare must be handed back to the organisation at the end of the event.


CALORIES
(Kcal.)
Summary of minimum calories present in technical controls in Morocco

DAY
NIGHT (Number of calories at the finish of each stage)

Technical Control
First day
Second day
Third day
Fourth day
Fifth day
Sixth day
Seventh day

14 000
12 000
10 000
8 000
6 000
4 000
2 000
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