ENDURANCE SPORTS -- Former Spokane runner Delaney Nye of Seattle had his name drawn yesterday for a grand prize featuring a trip to a world of hurt -- to Nepal for the 2014 Everest Marathon.

Nye learned today that he is the winner of the Ultimate Trail Race Contest, sponsored by Trail Runner, Mammut and One World Trekking.  The huge prize package includes: 

• Roundtrip airfare to Kathmandu in May,
• 19 nights in Nepal including hotels and full-service tented camping in the Himalayas,
• Entry into the 2014 Everest Marathon,
• Trekking opportunities,
• A Mammut trail-running gear prize package and more.

Nye entered at the last minute after reading about the contest in a Trail Runner magazine he bought at Auntie's Bookstore last week. He was visiting Spokane to take care of his young niece while his sister, Adrian Rogers, was preparing for the birth of her second child. 

On Dec. 7, he finished 10th in the Death Valley Trail Marathon in 3:48:50.

Now he'll have to think a lot higher.

The Everest Marathon on May 29, 2014, is billed as the world's highest ultra extreme marathon. The race, which will start at elevation 17,600 feet at the base of the Khumbu Icefall, celebrates the anniversary of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, completed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.