mountains and athleticism
Running down is fun. Technical downhills are the funniest if you have a good technique, is like a dance with the elements. There’s no big secret, if you want to be a good downhill runner you need to train in the mountains, because is not about the strenght but about the feet and the vision.…
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“That’s super risky!” is what you will probably think watching Alex Honold free soloing El Capitan. But Alex disagrees. In this interview for National Geographic Alex says that what he does “is very high consequence, but I don’t think it’s particularly risky. The odds of me actually falling are very low.” We often put ourselves…
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It is 4 kind of activities we can do in the mountains; training, social, activities and tests. Yesterday was one of the last. If an activity is when you include different variables a test is when you isolate one of them to explore-it and push-it at your best. Here the variable was elevation and endurance.…
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Going fast to the mountains is not a contemporary activity. If we think that the innovations or tendencies of the lightweight practices in the mountains are recent we are very erroneous, because since the begining of climbing mountains or walking in the valleys, there was someone who wanted it do it quickly. For some time…
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South face of Mont Blanc is a great terrain for mountaineering, feeling far from Chamonix bussy routes and cable access, from Val Veny the 3000m of climb to the summit present something more adventurous, some more route searching and the feeling of being in a big mountain in alpine terrain. Since 2012 when I did…
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I was heading to Cervinia to have some fun training between Sierre Zinal and Troffeo Kima. I parked my van where I use to park and camp in Cervinia and in August 15 I climbed Matterhorn from Leone ridge went down Hörnli to Zermatt and back to Cervinia via Teodulo, during the tour many memories…
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I don’t remember when I heard for the first time about the Bob Graham Round, probably it was in 2007 or 2007 when racing in Zegama or Canazei with Rob Jebb or Ricky Lightfoot. Some years after I started to look into the history of running in the mountains and fell running was on the…
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26/7/2018 I have allways want to climb this iconic ridge, but thinking about all the rappeling has been keeping me out of it. This spring I have been training well in Norway and Then spending 2 weeks in tha Alps for racing, Emelie and I did Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa SkyMarathon (2 FKT for…
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8-9-10 june 2018, running-climbing arround Romsdalsfjord by the ridges. 168km – +-20.000m – max V. Self-supported (one village halfway) Gear: x-alpine shoes (change to sense ultra at village), socks (2), long teeshirt, shorts, skin pro 15 backpack, x-alp gloves, down jacket, hybrid pants,cutted 20cm iceaxe, 3 part poles, sunglasses, balaclava, 50m 5mm dynema rope, light harness, 1 safety carabinner,…
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In a sport where every week end we think it is a “World Championship” and the misunderstanding of the sport comes from the multiple races at same time we will try to make a map of the different formats and circuits. We can’t say it is unique Trailrunning world champion or best athlete, same as in…
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