mountains and athleticism
This article was featured in Kiss The Snow magazine (spanish) 4 pairs of skis, leather boots and fifty degrees. “Not the height but the precipice is terrible,” said Frederich Nietzsche. Some people undoubtedly find pleasure in the terrible, and even make it a necessity to live. You can practice more or less absurd activities to look for…
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A good friend asked me recently to write an article about training for his magazine Kiss The Snow. I couldn’t really refuse because I owed one to him since a few years ago, when he was still a puppy and he blind followed what the elderly tell him, he came to my place in Chamonix…
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189 days is the time it took Nirmal Purja “Nims” and his team to climb the 14 principal summits above 8000 meters. Nims, a former Gorka soldier and UK navy special forces, was born near Dhaulagiri, and this was the first 8000m he summited in 2014. 5 years later he announced his Project Possible with…
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Since 2006 when I started racing in trail running as a complement for my ski mountaineering seasons my training and racing orientation were based more on quantity and diversification than quality. The main goal was to do complete seasons with good results in different kind of competitions, from skimo championships and cup and long distance…
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The term doping is widely used by organizations that regulate sporting competitions to explain the use of drugs or methods to enhance performance and/or is harmful to the athlete’s health and is considered unethical, and therefore prohibited, by most international sports organizations. PED’s (performance-enhancing drugs) are substances that are used to improve any form of activity performance…
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Uphill running performance is one of the easiest to evaluate, because it doesn’t involve much technique and reactivity as flat or downhill running, but it isn’t only about our “motor” and some other factors affect how fast we run the hills. Compared to flat running, uphill is characterized by a higher step frequency, increased internal…
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One of the big pain-in-the-ass when doing long alpine routes that involve long abseils and you’re going light is the weight and space that take ropes, specially if you need to do double rope long abseils. Until now the other options at carrying a second rope were mostly scary, abseiling from a fifi or a…
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In 2012 I climbed Innominata from Courmayeur and down to Chamonix in a single push. Since I belive that to do an activity we need to carry all the gear needed from the begining to the end and to be light one of the biggest concerns was the shoes. If I want the comfort and…
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Didier Delsalle has been on top of Everest. On May 14, 2005, he land with his helicopter on the 8,848 m (29,030 ft) summit of Mount Everest. He can say that he did reach the summit of Everest and he wouldn’t be lying, even if most part of us would disagree. But where is the…
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A few days ago, the american runner Jim Walmsley beat the long standing 50 miles World Record in 4:50:07 (he averaged 5:48 per mile and 3:36 per kilometer- here his impressive Strava). The previous 50-mile world best of 4:50:21 was set by South African legend Bruce Fordyce in 1983. Earlier this year he tap the trial’s qualifier…
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