Viewed by many as the toughest sporting challenge in the world, the Vendée Globe is a solo round-the-world yacht race beginning and ending in Les Sables-d’Olonne in the Vendée region of France. It takes yachters 24,000 nautical miles from Les Sables d’Olonne, down the Atlantic Ocean to the Cape of Good Hope, then clockwise around Antarctica, past Cape Horn and back again. It […]
