Iain Martin
Three-day Taster of Switzerland’s Best Trail Running Only in a pandemic could a London double-decker bus sum up how I was feeling: “I Need Switzerland” was plastered in foot-high letters on its side. I love the mountains, and after a year and more of travel bans, I’ve been missing the…
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"Don’t worry…there’s less than a marathon to go now!” Even when you’re running an event like the South Downs Way 100 ultra-marathon, comments like this seem surreal. By then I’d been on my feet for over 18 hours and while the friendly race marshall was accurate enough, 22 miles seems…
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“Whop! Whop! Whop!” Was that the sound of the helicopter blades chopping through the air, or the sound of my heart pounding? Less than hour ago we were reading ourselves for ‘just’ another day of backcountry skiing in the vast Monterosa Freeride Paradise. But thanks to a break in the…
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Ski Touring in The Swiss Alps Could it be a wolf? It was too big to be a dog, and this deep into the woods we’d left all the dog-walkers behind anyway. I’d read about a wolf sighting in the French ski resort of Meribel - surely they could be…
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Ski Challenges You Need To Add To The List The Profeet Ski Lab team were chewing the fat over a beer or two the other night and the subject came up of the biggest and baddest ski challenges out there. Now you could choose a gentle ski holiday to La…
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