“Unveiling Secrets: How Jess Phoenix’s ‘The Race’ Transforms the Meaning of Survival in an Unforgiving World”
As the warm light from inside the ger pushed back the waking nightmare I’d just come through, I begged Kevin for his satellite phone. I dialed my husband at our rented house in Australia, desperate to tell him I had survived something neither of us had anticipated when I entered the race almost a year before. Our talk steadied me enough to push the decision about whether to continue to the morning, reassured that whatever my choice was, it would be best made in the light of day. As I hung up, I saw Anthracite being led to the other horses to get his well-deserved dinner, and every emotion coalesced into overwhelming gratitude for that little coal-black spitfire of a horse who had saved both our lives.
