Heather Wallace to Official in Mongolian Horse Adventure the Gobi Desert Cup

August 7 2019

Heather Wallace, The Timid Rider, will be working for the second year as an official and photographer for the Gobi Desert Cup, 27 August - 6 September 2019 starting in the capital of Ulaanbaatar and traveling through the Gobi Desert.

Heather Wallace is the writer and photographer for the blog, The Timid Rider, which focuses on the struggling confidence of a returning adult equestrian. She is the award-winning author of non-fiction titles Confessions of a Timid Rider, which details her insights about being an anxiety-ridden but passionate equestrian and Girl Forward: A Tale of One Woman's Unlikely Adventure in Mongolia. This year she will again be attending this unique endurance ride as the photographer and official media guru. She looks forward to strengthening her relationship with the local nomads and to further draw attention to their dwindling lifestyle through her storytelling on social media, in photography, and as a producer on a documentary being filmed this year.

The Gobi Desert Cup is a multistage endurance race on Mongolian horses unlike any other equestrian adventure. Founded in 2016 by FEI 3* Endurance Rider, Camille Champagne, the Gobi Desert Cup is a multi-stage endurance ride and cultural experience through the Gobi Desert, riding trained and conditioned Mongolian horses every day for six days over a total of 480 kilometers.

This challenge is the only one of its kind to combine equestrian adventure and distance riding while positively supporting Mongolian nomadic culture and their horses before, during, and after the event. Combining the safety protocols and regulations of three international endurance organizations with semi-wild Mongolian horses, the event occurs over multiple terrains from dunes to rolling, verdant hills. Each of the 21 international riders will ride six horses in six days, testing their horsemanship, their endurance and their sense of adventure. Each horse is chosen specifically for their physical strength and quiet temper and trained specially for the race by our team of Mongolian herdsmen and veterinarians.

Heather is proud to be part of an organization dedicated to the awareness and sustainability of the last true horse culture through her work with the ride and its Non-Government Organization, the Mongolian Horse and Nomads Foundation and share their mission worldwide.

Please contact Heather Wallace, Media Coordinator at heather@timidrider.com for more information or follow her live updates on Facebook at www.facebook.com/gobidesertcup.