First runners reach the finish in annual Death Valley ultramarathon

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, California: A little more than 24 hours after they began this year's Badwater 135, billed as the world's toughest foot race, the first few runners of an ultramarathon that goes through desolate Death Valley reached the finish line early on July 24.

Results available online on July 24 morning showed that this year, 37-year-old Shaun Burke, of Durango, Colorado, finished first in the me