When rescuers discovered him the next morning he was barefoot and broken, with catastrophic frostbite to his hands and feet. “Otherwise it doesn’t happen.”Post-surgery, Zanda promised the Italian media he would soon be back on his feet. “The prosthesis don’t worry Roberto,” Caria says. “He is not angry with anyone.”Zanda does not blame the Yukon Ultra’s German race organizer, Robert Pollhammer, for what happened in February. “They were custom made,” Caria says, “by an Italian company that makes shoes for astronauts.”• Email: joconnor@nationalpost.com | Twitter: oconnorwrites

Source: National Post May 23, 2018 19:18 UTC