In the wild, it is confined to the water above a limestone shelf 4 metres long and 2 wide in the Devils Hole, a curious desert pond in Nevada, near Death Valley.
The first time I tried to run the Badwater Ultramarathon, which is a 135-mile race across Death Valley in the middle of summer, I became extremely dehydrated and I threw my electrolytes out of balance.
These huge rocks some of which weigh a hundred pounds sit on the floor of a desert in California called Death Valley, which is surrounded by mountains.
57 degrees is the highest temperature recorded in the US taken in Death Valley, while 71 degrees is the highest surface temperature ever measured anywhere on our planet, taken inside of Iran.