Stories

How to organise a mountain adventure: the best equipment, route planning, nutrition.

The concept behind speed hiking, aka fastpacking is to move quickly: in a nutshell, to cover greater...

"I've been training on the treadmill for more than ten years and so far everyone's been taking the mick. Now they'd sell a relative to get one!"

After having covered more than 50,000 km on trails all over the world and having finished more than 110 ultratrail races in the last 15 years, I could probably, pretentiously,...

I have tried to condense 15 years and 9500 km of competitions into this short guide on how to deal with ultra running and ultra trail races of between 4 and 36 hours. I’ve...

It's nine o'clock at night, I've just come out of the office, I've got a pair of tattered All-Stars on my feet and I'm wearing a cotton T-shirt so heavy that it feels like lead. I keep looking...