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Fremont’s Jojy Michael (top left), seen here in Les Houches, France, linked up with some college friends to hike 100 miles of ...
Altra have combined their signature zero-drop approach with a maximalist high-stack carbon running shoe. Is it a match made ...
The 4-hour and 54-minute record set by French alpinist Benjamin Vedrines for the Chamonix-Mont Blanc ascent and descent didn’t last particularly long — just seven days, to be exact. On 31 May, Italy's ...
Apparently, it's Fastest Known Time (FKT) season in the French Alps. Just days after Élise Poncet set the women's ski FKT on Mont Blanc, Benjamin Vedrines has set a new men's ski FKT on the peak ...
Apparently, it's Fastest Known Time (FKT) season in the French Alps. Just days after Élise Poncet set the women's ski FKT on Mont Blanc, Benjamin Vedrines has set a new men's ski FKT on the peak.
French Mountaineer Benjamin Vedrines Sets New Mont Blanc Speed Climb Record Vedrines' effort to reach the 4,809 metre peak from Chamonix and then return to the resort was three minutes faster than ...
In pursuing an FKT on Mont Blanc, she could leverage her complete suite of skills as an endurance athlete and alpinist. “It was really a way to mix these two things,” she said. And thanks to the ...
Stadler has completed the delivery of the first of seven metre-gauge trains to Switzerland’s Transports de Martigny et Regions (TMR) and the French state railway SNCF. The Beh 4/8 trains are set to ...
Climbing Mont Blanc set Jack off on his extreme adventure challege (Image: Jack Harrison / SWNS) Since tackling Mont Blanc Jack has also been to the Artic Circle and done cross-country skiing in ...
The Altra Mont Blanc Carbon is a zero-drop trail shoe with a Carbitex carbon plate that serves a dual purpose as a stone guard and stability feature. It has a sticky Vibram Megagrip outsole and ...
Elite mountaineers Leo Billon and Amaury Fouillade recently climbed such a peak and discovered a new route on the Pointe Raphaël Borgis, 12,083 feet (3,683m), in the Mont Blanc area above the ...