Category Archives: Races

This summer, Run the Alps staff, guided, ambassadors, and friends will be trail running around the Alps, and we’ll share the untold stories about the races that don’t get the lavish media spotlight.

The year before the first edition of Tor, there was a “Zero Edition” with a grand total of four finishers. This wasn’t an official race. In fact, it was a trial run to prove the very concept.

We’ve compiled many of the questions we’ve received about UTMB® Week into this handy page, in hopes you might find it useful.

The Eiger Ultra race series based in Grindelwald, Switzerland announces- Eiger 250, an epic run around the Jungfrau-Aletsch World Natural Heritage site.

A week ago, I finished running Tor des Geants, the epic endurance trail race in the Italian Alps. “Running” might not be the ideal word, since all of us 711 starters spent most of our 4-6 days fast hiking, shuffling, walking, and basically finding any way possible to keep moving forward.

The Tor des Geants– a 330 km trail race with an incomprehensible 33,000 meters of vertical– takes place around the high cols and mountains above the Aosta Valley, Italy, each September. The week-long event has just wrapped up, and one thing that you can say about Tor is that there are always a few stories

Run the Alps Director of Sustainability Jen Stretton writes about her first trail race– the legendary Marathon du Mont-Blanc.

Run the Alps Ambassador and Black Diamond athlete Hillary Gerardi was the women’s winner at the Chamonix Marathon du Mont Blanc 90 km race.

The vertical kilometer ro rises exactly 1,000 meters from the center of Chamonix’s old town. We’ve pulled together our tips for running the route safely.

One of the more popular trail runs in Chamonix is also one of its more unusual ones –  the “Kilométre Vertical” or “KV” – “VK” in English.