Anyone else remember this?
A man dressed as Darth Vader ran a mile in Death Valley's lethal heat.
Jon Rice dresses up each year as Darth Vader and attempts to sprint a mile in Death Valley, in some of the hottest temperatures on the planet.
www.businessinsider.com
A man dressed as Darth Vader ran a mile at full pelt in California's Death Valley on Sunday, undertaking an eccentric annual tradition in some of the hottest temperatures on the planet right now.
New Mexico-based Jon Rice, 52, has done this for the last 13 years, sprinting a mile in what he calls the "Darth Valley Challenge."
This year, amid global heatwaves, temperatures soared to 128 degrees Fahrenheit as Rice costumed up.
Incredibly, this wasn't as hot as some previous runs he undertook. But even that heat is tough "when you're trying to breathe through a plastic mask with some poorly-drilled airholes," he told Insider.